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SUNDAY jj MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
SATURDAY
MUSS
PAST AND PRESENT
Daylight Saving Time ★ 1961, Eddie Murphy,
begins Hempstead, NY
★ 1928,
Maya Angelou,
St. Louis, MO
★ 1805, Hans
Christian
Anderson,
Denmark
1968, Martin Luther
King Jr. is assassinated
in Memphis,TN
1957,The Fiat enters
the American market.
1951, Five-star
General Douglas
MacArthur is
removed by
President Truman
from command of
UN Forces in Korea.
★ 1847,
Joseph Pulitzer,
Hungary
★ 1957,
Henry Cornell
9
10
11
Opening: Black &
White starring
Brooke Shields,
Robert Downey Jr.,
Bijou Phillips,
Ben Stiller, Power,
and Raekwon
5
Tartan Day
1917, President
Woodrow Wilson
declares war on
Germany
1909, North Pole
discovered by
Robert E. Peary and
Matthew A. Henson
61
★ 1971,
Shannen Doherty,
Memphis,TN
★ 1743,
Thomas Jefferson,
Goochland,VA
★ 1947, David
Letterman,
Indianapolis, IN
1945, Franklin D.
Roosevelt died.
Harry S.Truman
became president.
World Health Day
★ 1915,
Billie Holiday,
Baltimore, MD
Opening: Return to Me
starring Minnie Driver
and David Duchovney
★ 1968,
Patricia Arquette,
Chicago, IL
1973, Pablo Picasso
dies at his home near
Mougins, France
at age 91
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Opening: 28 Days
starring Sandra Bullock
andViggo Mortensen
★ 1977,
Sarah Michelle Gellar,
New York, NY
1865, President
Abraham Lincoln
assassinated.
1912,Titanic strikes an
iceberg in the Atlantic
and sinks. „ .
Income taxes due
1947,
Jackie Robinson plays
his first game for the
Brooklyn Dodgers,
becoming the first
black player in
American major
leagues.
★ 1452,
Leonardo Da Vinci,
Italy 1C
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★ 1889,
Charlie Chaplin,
England
★ 1947,
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,
New York, NY
★ 1967,
Liz Phair, New
Haven, CT
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Easter 23 ★ 1942,
Barbara Streisand,
1954, Hank Aaron hits Brooklyn, NY
his first home run.
★ 1564,
William
Shakespeare, England
30 Millennium March
on Washington for
Equality,Washington, D.C.
(202) 467-8100 or
www.mmow.org
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1934,The first laun
dromat opens in Fort
Worth, Texas
1775, Paul Revere
took his famous mid
night ride to tell
Massachusetts
Minutemen,“The
British are coming!”
1906, San Francisco
earthquake kills
approximately 700
people. -jg
★ I940.AI Pacino,
New York, NY
★ 1918,
Ella Fitzgerald,
Newport News,VA
Passover
1913,The Webb Bill is
passed in California,
disallowing Japanese to
own land.
1995, terrorist bomb
destroys the Federal
Building in Oklahoma
City, killing 168 and
injuring 500.
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★ I 969,
Renee Zellweger,
Katy.TX
1986,The world's
worst nuclear
reactor accident
occurs at the
Chernobyl nuclear
power plant causing
an estimated 8,000
deaths.
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Good Friday
Earth Day
§
Opening: The Virgin
Suicides starring
James Wood,
Kathleen Turner,
Kirsten Dunst, and
Josh Hartnett
1910, Mark Twain
dies at age 75 in
Redding, CT
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★ 1937,
Jack Nicholson,
Neptune, NJ
Openings:
27
Time Code starring
Salma Hayek
Where the Heart Is
starring Natalie Portman
1967, Muhammad Ali is
stripped of his
heavyweight boxing title
after refusing to enter
the armed forces on
religious grounds.
★ 1970,
Uma Thurman,
Boston, MA
★ 1958,
Michelle Pfeiffer,
Santa Ana, CA
★ 1954,
Jerry Seinfeld,
Brooklyn, NY
I9I 3,The zipper is
patented by
Gideon Sindback 29
★ = Birthday