NS April 5th, 2007

• 1792 George Washington casts 1st presidential veto
• 1803 1st performance of Beethoven’s 2nd Symphony in D
• 1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
• 1887 Anne Sullivan teaches “water” to Helen Keller
• 1902 Soccer match riot between Scotland & England kills 25
• 1939 Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory
• 1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
• 1964 1st driverless trains run on the London Underground
• 1971 Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy
• 1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
• 1974 Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)
• 1987 Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullman
• 1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity
• 1993 Crowd of 73,293 watches New York Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 9-1
• 1996 Marlon Brando makes anti-semitic remarks about hollywood on Larry King
• 2063 Earth’s 1st contact by extra-terrestrials (Vulcan); according to Star Trek
  

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