Subject: Poor Gabriel's Almanac -- Apr 07
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 05:00:25 GMT

Interesting things that happened April 7:

Birthdays on this date ...
  In 1506 St. Francis Xavier, missionary
  In 1770 William Wordsworth (in England), poet
  In 1860 W. K. Kellogg, founded a cereal company
  In 1897 Walter Winchell, columnist
  In 1908 Percy Faith, musician, conductor
  In 1915 Billie Holiday, blues singer
  In 1920 Ravi Shankar, sitar player
  In 1928 James Garner, actor (Maverick movies and series, etc.)
  In 1931 Daniel Ellsberg, who's psychiatrist had a famous office
  In 1932 Mark Russell, satirist
  In 1938 Jerry Brown, Linda Ronstadt's boyfriend, California governor
  In 1939 Francis Ford Coppola, director
  In 1939 David Frost, pundit
  In 1949 John Oates
  In 1951 Janis Ian, singer (trials and tribulations of being at seventeen)

Events worth noting ...
  In 0030 Scholars' calculate this as the date that Jesus of Nazareth was
          crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem.
  In 1862 Union forces under Grant defeat the Confederates at Shiloh, Tenn.
  In 1862 Island No. 10 falls after long siege.
  In 1927 Using phone lines TV was sent from Washington DC to New York City.
  In 1931 Seals Stadium opens.
  In 1933 Prohibition ends, Utah(!) 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
  In 1948 World Health Organization is established.
  In 1953 First jet transatlantic non-stop flight (west to east).
  In 1959 First astronauts - selection announced by NASA.
  In 1959 Radar first bounced off sun, Stanford California.
  In 1964 IBM announces System/360.
  In 1966 United States recovers a H-bomb that it lost off the coast
          of Spain.  (whoops!)
  In 1977 Consumer Product Safety Commission bans "TRIS" flame-retardant.
  In 1979 Islander's Mike Bossy scores four goals against the Flyers.
  In 1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis.
  In 1982 Penguins 1-Isles 8 - Preliminary- Isles hold 1-0 lead.
  In 1983 Caps 4-Isles 2 - Patrick Div Semi Finals- series tied 1-1.
  In 1983 Challenger crew perform a spacewalk - first by US in 9 years.

And remember ...
  America's Heartland Development Month
  Cancer Control Month
  Math Education Month
 
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