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1789 | The U.S. House of Representatives held its first full meeting in New York City; Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first speaker. |
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1853 | Cincinnati, Ohio, became the first U.S. city to pay its firefighters a regular salary. |
1873 | Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff was born in Russia. |
1918 | Britain's Royal Air Force was established. |
1933 | Nazi Germany began persecuting Jews with a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses. |
1960 | The first weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral. |
1970 | President Richard Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and TV. |
1984 | Singer Marvin Gaye, 44, was shot to death by his father. |
1987 | In his first major speech on the epidemic, President Ronald Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, "We've declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1." |
1999 | A New Jersey man was arrested and charged with originating the "Melissa" e-mail virus, which infected more than 1 million computers worldwide. |
2001 | Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested on corruption charges after a 26-hour armed standoff with police at his Belgrade villa. |
2003 | American troops rescued Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch from a hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, where she had been held prisoner since her unit was ambushed nine days earlier. |
2008 | The Pentagon made public a legal memo dated March 14, 2003, that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that President George W. Bush's wartime authority trumped any international ban on torture. |
2009 | Benjamin Netanyahu took office as Israel's prime minister for a second time. |
1928 | Jane Powell, Actress, turns 83 |
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1932 | Debbie Reynolds, Actress, turns 79 |
1938 | Ali MacGraw, Actress, turns 73 |
1939 | Rudolph Isley, R&B singer (The Isley Brothers), turns 72 |
1939 | Phil Niekro, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 72 |
1947 | David Eisenhower, Grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, turns 64 |
1949 | Gil Scott-Heron, Jazz keyboardist, turns 62 |
1950 | Samuel Alito, Supreme Court justice, turns 61 |
1952 | Annette O'Toole, Actress, turns 59 |
1953 | Barry Sonnenfeld, Director, turns 58 |
1971 | Method Man, Rapper, turns 40 |
1973 | Rachel Maddow, Broadcast journalist, turns 38 |
1982 | Sam Huntington, Actor, turns 29 |
79 | William Harvey 4/1/1578 - 6/3/1657 English physician; developed theory of blood circulation |
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61 | Jean-Etienne Portalis 4/1/1746 - 8/25/1807 French lawyer; helped draft Napoleonic Code |
83 | Otto von Bismarck 4/1/1815 - 7/30/1898 German statesman; first chancellor of German Empire (1871-90) |
58 | Jorge Isaacs 4/1/1837 - 4/17/1895 Colombian poet and novelist |
59 | Edwin Austin Abbey 4/1/1852 - 8/1/1911 American-English painter and illustrator |
50 | Edmond Rostand 4/1/1868 - 12/2/1918 French dramatist; wrote "Cyrano de Bergerac" |
69 | Sergey Rachmaninoff 4/1/1873 - 3/28/1943 Russian composer and piano virtuoso |
56 | Edgar Wallace 4/1/1875 - 2/10/1932 English novelist, playwright, and journalist |
47 | Lon Chaney 4/1/1883 - 8/26/1930 American silent film actor |
60 | Whittaker Chambers 4/1/1901 - 7/9/1961 American journalist; accuser in the Alger Hiss case |
El caparazón: Escuela 2.0, Motiva, UIMP, Macc, Ingeniería cultural, Nueva cultura digital durante los próximos días |
Posted: 01 Apr 2011 02:54 AM PDT Como en otras ocasiones, os dejo información acerca de algunos de los eventos abiertos, con posibilidad de inscripción y/o asistencia en los que estaré durante las dos próximas semanas. Nos vemos si os animáis a asistir. -6 de Abril, Oviedo, MOTIVA 2011, XIV jornadas de diseño:
-8 de Abril, La Coruña, en el marco de Expocoruña 2011:
-7 de Abril, Valencia-Ciclo Nueva Cultura Digital de Fundación telefónica Se trata de una serie de conferencias por España. Os dejo descripción, que veréis que va en la línea habitual del blog:
-12 de Abril, Sevilla estaré impartiendo una conferencia en la jornada Wikileaks y el periodismo del siglo XXI que organizan como curso de primavera desde la UIMP (Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo) -13 de Abril en Zaragoza estaré durante la conferencia inaugural del II congreso Escuela 2.0
-14 de Abril en Tenerife en el Macc (Mercado Atlántico de Creación Contemporánea)
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