Thursday, April 29, 2004

What happened? Curtesy of JWR

[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]

On this day in …

* 1813, rubber is patented

* 1852, the first edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus appears

* 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau
concentration camp; that same day, Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun
and designated Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor.

* 1961, ABC's "Wide World of Sports debuts

* 1974, President Nixon promises to release edited tapes made in
White House

* 1994, Israel and PLO sign economic accord

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