Good Friday Morning! (Today in 1242 - 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris; 1520 - France & England sign treaty of Scotland; 1523 - Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union; 1536 - Mexico begins its inquisition; 1639 - Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill; 1654 - Queen Christina of Sweden resigns & converts to Catholicism; 1664 - New Amsterdam renamed New York; 1683 - The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the worlds first university museum; 1772 - Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago; 1813 - US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ontario); 1816 - 10 snowfall in New England, year without a summer (Mount Tambora); 1844 - Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA) forms in London; 1850 - Levi Strauss make his 1st pair of blue jeans; 1859 - Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day); 1861 - Lincolns cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers; 1882 - Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC; 1889 - Great Fire in Seattle destroys 25 downtown blocks; 1892 - Chicago South Side Elevated Railroad opens (1st 3.6 miles); 1896 - Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo leave NY harbor to row across Atlantic; their 55 day record for rowing was not broken for 114 year; 1912 - The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century; 1914 - 1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway); 1916 - Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage; 1925 - Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp (Iacocca is 8 months old); 1932 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold; 1933 - 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ); 1933 - US Employment Service created; 1936 - Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ; 1942 - 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray); 1944 - Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion; 1944 - Operation Neptune, D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France; 1944 - Alaska Airlines commences operations; 1946 - Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV; 1955 - Bill Haley & Comets Rock Around the Clock hits #1; 1960 - Roy Orbison releases Only the Lonely; 1960 - Steve Allen Show last airs on NBC-TV; 1962 - Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record Besame Mucho with Peter Best on drums; 1964 - Beatles arrive in Netherlands; 1966 - NFL & AFL announce their merger; 1966 - Stokely Carmichael launches Black Power movement; 1968 - Senator Robert Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night; 1969 - Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner said he must sell his stake in a bar; 1971 - Ed Sullivan Show last broadcasts on CBS-TV; 1971 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in NYC; 1972 - David Bowie releases Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust; 1977 - Washington Post reports US has developed neutron bomb; 1977 - Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic & Concert for United Way; 1977 - Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws; 1981 - Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial; 1983 - Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland; 1985 - Body of Nazi concentration camp doctor Dr Josef Mengele located & exhumed; 1988 - 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant; 1988 - George H W Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II to Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989); 1991 - NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992; 1999 - At the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate in the largest jailbreak in Brazilian history, marking the 10th escape for the three-year-old facility. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed; 2002 - Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb; 2005 - The United States Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich; 2012 - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs; 2012 - The Solar Impulse completes the worlds first intercontinental flight powered by the sun).
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