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17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising.

1869 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.

1970 – Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.

1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook”.

1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins – In Czechoslovakia a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).

1857 – Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (d. 1932)

i never thought to search for my birthday on wikipedia and i learned some things i didn’t know before. cool goal.

It does not seem that April 26th has been a very good day, historically speaking (with one arguable exception, ahem):

Events
1478 – The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de’ Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.
1607 – English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1802 – A general amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allowed all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture to make peace with the various factions of the Ancien Regime that would ultimately consolidate his own rule.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln’s assassin, in a barn in Virginia. Booth is shot dead by cavalryman Boston Corbett.
1986 – In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes, creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

Birthdays
121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
570 – Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi’a sect. Other sources suggest April 20.
1564 (baptized) – William Shakespeare, English writer (d. 1616)
1711 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1776)
1917 – I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
1933 – Carol Burnett, American comedian
1963 – Jet Li, Chinese martial artist

Deaths
1970 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911)
1984 – Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)
1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)

Holiday or Observance
World Intellectual Property Day (since 2001).

Events
1.1946 – Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
2.1979 – In Pennsylvania, a pump in the reactor cooling system fails at Three Mile Island, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown.
3.1990 – President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.

Births
1.1956 – April Margera, Bam Margera’s mother
2.1970 – Vince Vaughn, American actor

Death
1.1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States

Holiday or Observance
1.Slovakia, Czech Republic – Teachers’ Day.

events

1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, where he will formulate the theory of evolution.

1932 – Radio City Music Hall opens.

1979 – The Soviet Union seizes control of Afghanistan and Babrak Karmal replaces overthrown and executed President Hafizullah Amin.

births/death

1822 – Louis Pasteur, French scientist

1901 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer

2005 – William Doody, Canadian politician

holiday/observance

R.C. Saints – John the Apostle and Evangelist

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Events:
1. 1803 – Louisiana Purchase completed at a ceremony in New Orleans
2. 1984 – The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines.
3. 1999 – Vermont’s Supreme Court rules that homosexual couples are entitled to same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples.

Birthdays:
1. 1838 – Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (d. 1926)
2. 1966 – Chris Robinson, American Singer (Black Crowes)
Death:
1. 1812 – Sacagawea, Shoshone guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Holiday:
1. The first All Faiths Day was celebrated in 2003 in Canandaigua, New York

1. Go to Wikipedia.

2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).

3. List three events that happened on your birthday.

4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.

5. One holiday or observance (if any).