>On April 29, 1992, deadly rioting that claimed 54 lives and caused $1 billion in damage erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.
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>On April 28, 1947, a six-man expedition sailed from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia.
>On April 27, 1947, "Babe Ruth Day" at Yankee Stadium was held to honor the ailing baseball star.
>On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire in the No. 4 reactor sent radioactivity into the atmosphere; at least 31 Soviets died immediately.
>On April 25, 1945, United States and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, in central Europe, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany.
On April 25, 1908, Edward R. Murrow, the influential American radio and television broadcaster during the industry’s early years, was born. Following his death on April 27, 1965, his obituary appeared in The Times.
>On April 24, 1898, Spain declared war on the United States after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
>On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.
On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Conn.
>On April 20, 1999 two students went on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killing 12 students and one teacher before taking their own lives.
I had a feeling this was going to be the on this day for today. It seems April is a bad month, a month that a lot of evil things happen. This is one teachers comments about this tragedy.
The Turner Report
>~ QUOTATION OF THE DAY ~
“I didn’t buy the horse for business or to make a profit. You do not sell dreams.”
– ZOLTAN MIKOCZY, the owner of Overdose, a 4-year-old thoroughbred that is becoming a Hungarian national hero.
Hungary’s Spirits Are Back Up, on a Horse
~ ON THIS DAY ~
On April 20, 1971, the United States Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.
On April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany who led his country into World War II and was responsible for persecuting millions of Jews , was born.
Belleza
just a (transplanted) city girl 