28 Apr 07 - Saturday
1758 James Monroe Westmoreland VA, 5th US President
(1817-25, Democratic Republican)
1917 Robert Anderson New York NY, writer (Tea & Sympathy,
Never Sang for My Father)
1926 Harper Lee author (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1937 Saddam Hussein [At-Takriti] President of Iraq (1979- )
1941 Ann-Margret Valsjobya Sweden, actress (Bye Bye Birdie, Tommy)
1950 Jay Leno New Rochelle, comedian/talk show host (Tonight Show)
1958 Kathy Willets nymphomaniac (1991 Florida Sex Scandal)
0585 War between Lydia & Media ended by solar eclipse
1521 Treaty of Worms Emperor Charles names his brother Ferdinand
Arch duke of Netherlands-Austria
1635 Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office
1881 Robert W Ollinger US warden/last victim of Billy the Kid, dies
1914 W H Carrier patents air conditioner
1923 Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup)
1932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
1942 "WWII" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats
1945 Benito Mussolini Fascist leader (Italy), captured, tried, & shot
1945 Claretta Petacci mistress of Mussolini, executed
1952 WWII Pacific peace treaty takes effect
1956 Last French troop leave Vietnam
1965 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title
1975 John Lennon appears on "Tonight" & Ringo on "Smothers Brothers"
1975 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon
1977 Christopher Boyce convicted for selling US secrets to the Russians
1980 Tommy Caldwell rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies
1988 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
1989 Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
1989 Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie
1991 Ken Curtis actor (Festus-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
1994 Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer & wife Rosario plead guilty to spying
Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
Benito Mussolini
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