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Old 04-17-2016, 01:45 PM   #15
Gravdigr
The Un-Tuckian
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
April 17, 1397

Chaucer tells The Canterbury Tales for the first time.

1524

Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.

1861

Virginia votes to secede.

1897

The Aurora, Texas, UFO incident

1937

Daffy Duck makes his first appearance, in "Porky's Duck Hunt".

1961

Bay of Pigs invasion

1969

Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.

1970

The best friend I've ever had was born.

Apollo 13 returns, safely, to Earth.

2013

An explosion at a fertilizer warehouse in West, Texas kills 15, wounds 160.



Births

Alexander Cartwright-1820; J.P.Morgan-1837; Thornton Wilder-1897; Nicolas Nabokov-1903; William Holden-1918; Harry Reasoner-1923; Don Kirshner-1934; Paul Thomas-1947; Rowdy Roddy Piper-1954; Sean Bean-1959; Boomer Esiason-1961; Maynard James Keenan-1964; John-1970; Ruffian (race horse)-1982; Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice)-1974

Deaths

Benjamin Franklin-1790; George Jennings (invented the flush toilet, God bless him)-1882; Eddie Cochran-1960; Felix Pappalardi-1983; Dick Shawn-1987; Linda McCartney-1998; Kitty Carlisle-2007
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