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Events from History on April 04

1964 : "Anyone Can Whistle" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 9 performances
1968 : "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 perfs
1971 : "Follies" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 524 performances
1996 : "Inherit the Wind" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 45 performances
1991 : "Lucifer's Child" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 28 performances
1990 : "Marshall Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV
1929 : "New Moon" musical opens in London
1914 : "Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in LA
1982 : 11th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sally Little
1993 : 12th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Texas Tech beats OH State 84-82
1975 : 130, killed as USAF plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashes
1929 : 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held
1972 : 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
1958 : 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
1983 : 45th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC State beats Houston 54-52
1988 : 50th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beat Oklahoma 83-79
1994 : 56th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Ark Razorbacks beats Duke 76-72
1976 : 5th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Judy Rankin
1993 : 5th Seniors Golf Tradition: Tom Shaw
1983 : 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched
1948 : 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a
1081 : Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne
1967 : Amsterdam Marines chase out "nozems" of Central Station
1997 : Anaheim Ducks clinch their 1st-ever playoff berth
1930 : Andrew Sandham makes Test Cricket 1st triple century
1896 : Announcement of Gold in Yukon
1737 : Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor
1968 : Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
1920 : Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem
1912 : Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia
1900 : Assassination attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII
1655 : Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbarian pirates
1918 : Battle of Somme, ends
1862 : Battle of Yorktown begins
1997 : Braves officially open Turner Field against Cubs
1900 : British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet
1955 : British govt signs military treaty with Iraq
1944 : British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia
1828 : Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)
1902 : Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million
1912 : Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet
1588 : Christian IV succeeds Frederik II as king of Denmark
1850 : City of Los Angeles incorporated
1818 : Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars
1947 : Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect
1994 : Cubs Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes, hit 3 HRs in 1993 hits 3 HRs on opening
1558 : Czar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders
1994 : Day vs Mets starter Dwight Gooden
1944 : De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists
1660 : Declaration of Breda
1969 : Denton Cooley gets 1st temporary artificial heart
1950 : Dirk Stikker becomes chairman of OES
1997 : DMSP Titan 2 launched
1987 : Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts
1967 : Dutch De Young govt forms
1951 : Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Juan & Eva Per¢n in Buenos Aires
1905 : Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000
1988 : Eddie Hill becomes 1st to race a ¬ mile in under 5 seconds
1660 : English king Charles II ends Decl of Breda (freedom of religion)
1686 : English king James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence
1956 : Enid Bagnold's "Chalk Garden," premieres in London
1958 : EugŠne Ionesco's "Tueur sans Gages" premieres in Darmstadt
1939 : Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
1959 : Fed of Mali, consisting of Senegal & French Sudan (dissolved 1960)
1970 : Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson
1918 : Food riot in Amsterdam
1581 : Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of world
1581 : Francis Drake becomes knight
1992 : Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees beat NY Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad
1932 : George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good," premieres in NYC
1941 : German troops conquer Banghazi
1990 : Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident
1926 : Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president
1974 : Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
1957 : Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris
1981 : Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)
1996 : Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Austin TX on KJFK 98.9 FM
1911 : Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP
1945 : Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
1541 : Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st superior-general of Jesuits
1949 : Israel & Jordan sign armistice agreement
1992 : John Tesh (Entertainment Tonight) marries actress Connie Selleca
1992 : Jury deliberations begin in Noriega case
1953 : KFDA TV channel 10 in Amarillo, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1687 : King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church
1994 : KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed
1994 : LA Dodger Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment
1947 : Largest group of sunspots on record
1994 : Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706
1988 : Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV
1865 : Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse
1930 : Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149)
1971 : Marine clay under houses liquefies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Quebec)
1967 : Marines chase "Nozems" out of Amsterdam Central Station
1552 : Mauritius van Saksen begins alliance with Karel Anikita Stroganov
1988 : Mets set Opening Day record with 6 HRs
1984 : Michael Frayn's "Benefactors" premieres in London
1994 : Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications
1949 : North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Wash DC)
1989 : NY Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th
1859 : Opera "Dinorah" is produced (Paris)
1960 : Oscar awarded to Neth director Bert Haanstra
1966 : Pirate Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland
1960 : Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center
1940 : R Rodgers/Lorenz Hart's "Higher & Higher," premieres in NYC
1948 : race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie
1716 : Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar
1992 : Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania
1990 : Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody
1960 : Senegal declares independence from France
1864 : Skirmish at Elkin's Ford (Little Missouri River), Arkansas
1899 : South Africa all out 35 vs England (Trott 4-19, Haigh 6-11)
1975 : Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes
1997 : STS 83 (Columbia 22), launches
1887 : Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)
1994 : Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery
1985 : Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
1460 : University of Basle in Swizerland forms
1947 : UN's International Civil Aviation Organization forms
1862 : US begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond
1933 : US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of NJ, 73 die
1945 : US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany
1916 : US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I
1945 : US tanks/infantry conquer Bielefeld
1975 : USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155
1625 : Viceroy Frederik Henry marries Amalia countess von Solms-Braunfels
1932 : Vitamin C 1st isolated, CC King, Univ of Pittsburgh
1922 : WAAB (Baton Rouge La) becomes 1st US radio station with "W" calls
1984 : Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary
1949 : WKRC TV channel 12 in Cincinnati, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1993 : Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, Hulk Hogan pins Yokozuna
2003 : Coalition Parties takes Basra into control - moving towards Baghdad.
2003 : 14 Iraqis dies in the cluster bomb attacks.

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