sábado, 30 de abril de 2011

On This Day: April 30

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On April 30, 1975, the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces.
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On April 30, 1902, Theodore Schultz, the American economist who won a Nobel Prize for his important studies of the human factor in the workplace, was born. Following his death on February 26, 1998, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1789	George Washington took office in New York as the first president of the United States.
1803	The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.
1812	Louisiana became the 18th state.
1859	The novel "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens was first published in serial form in a literary magazine.
1900	Hawaii was organized as a U.S. territory.
1900	John Luther "Casey" Jones, a train engineer for the Illinois Central Railroad, died in a wreck near Vaughan, Miss., after staying at the controls in an effort to save the passengers. (The event was immortalized in song.)
1939	The New York World's Fair opened.
1970	President Richard Nixon announced the United States was sending troops into Cambodia.
1975	The South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces.
1993	Top-ranked women's tennis player Monica Seles was stabbed in the back by a man who ran onto the court during a match in Hamburg, Germany.
1997	ABC aired the "coming out" episode of the sitcom "Ellen," in which the title character, played by Ellen DeGeneres, admitted she is a lesbian.
2001	Chandra Levy, a federal government intern, went missing in Washington, D.C. (Her remains were found more than a year later in a city park.)
2003	Mahmoud Abbas took office as the first Palestinian prime minister. International mediators presented Israeli and Palestinian leaders with a "road map" to peace.
2005	Missing Georgia woman Jennifer Wilbanks, the so-called "runaway bride," turned up in Albuquerque, N.M.
2009	Chrysler filed for bankruptcy protection.
2009	British forces exited Iraq.

Current Birthdays

Actress Dianna Agron ("Glee") turns 25 years old today.

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Country singer-musician Willie Nelson turns 78 years old today.

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1926	Cloris Leachman, Actress ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Phyllis"), turns 85
1938	Gary Collins, Talk show host, turns 73
1940	Burt Young, Actor, turns 71
1943	Bobby Vee, Singer, turns 68
1953	Merrill Osmond, Singer (The Osmonds), turns 58
1954	Jane Campion, Director ("The Piano"), turns 57
1959	Stephen Harper, Prime minister of Canada, turns 52
1961	Isiah Thomas, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 50
1965	Adrian Pasdar, Actor ("Heroes"), turns 46
1973	Akon, R&B singer, turns 38
1975	Johnny Galecki, Actor ("The Big Bang Theory"), turns 36
1981	Kunal Nayyar, Actor ("Big Bang Theory"), turns 30
1982	Kirsten Dunst, Actress, turns 29

Historic Birthdays

Theodore Schultz4/30/1902 - 2/26/1998American economist, Nobel Prize 1979.Go to obituary »

68	St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle 4/30/1651 - 4/7/1719 French philanthropist and founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
87	David Thompson 4/30/1770 - 2/10/1857 English explorer and fur trader in western Canada and the United States
82	Eugen Bleuler 4/30/1857 - 7/15/1939 Swiss psychiatrist; pioneered study of schizophrenics
86	John Crowe Ransom 4/30/1888 - 7/4/1974 American poet and critic
53	Joachim von Ribbentrop 4/30/1893 - 10/16/1946 German foreign minister under the Nazi regime (1933-45)
84	Simon Kuznets 4/30/1901 - 7/8/1985 Russian-born American Nobel Prize-winning economist and statistician
82	Eve Arden 4/30/1908 - 11/12/1990 American radio and television actress
82	Vermont Royster 4/30/1914 - 7/22/1996 American journalist and editor of The Wall Street Journal
83	Robert Shaw 4/30/1916 - 1/25/1999 American choral and orchestra conductor
78	Franz Lehar 4/30/1870 - 10/24/1948 Hungarian composer; wrote "The Merry Widow"