This Day in History......

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On March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by Gustave Eiffel, the tower’s designer, and attended by French Prime Minister Pierre Tirard, a handful of other dignitaries, and 200 construction workers.

 

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April 2,
1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain as the first known European to reach Florida

 

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April 3, 1860

Pony Express debuts

• Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. Ten days later, on April 13, the westbound rider and mail packet completed the approximately 1,800-mile journey and arrived in Sacramento, beating the eastbound packet’s arrival in St. Joseph by two days and setting a new standard for speedy mail delivery.
  

 

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on this day on 2015 I sorted 2000 packages per minute to break a world record at my hub .

 

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April 3, 1860

Pony Express debuts

• Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. Ten days later, on April 13, the westbound rider and mail packet completed the approximately 1,800-mile journey and arrived in Sacramento, beating the eastbound packet’s arrival in St. Joseph by two days and setting a new standard for speedy mail delivery.

@rod ran the first leg , Does any one know how hard he had it !!!

 

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@rod ran the first leg , Does any one know how hard he had it !!!

Back then we washed our horses every night. The company took pride in their equipment.

 

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Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

 

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April 5
1722 Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island

 

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April 6,
1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I.

 

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April 7
1954 US President Dwight D. Eisenhower in news conference is first to voice fear of a "domino-effect" of communism in Indo-China.

 

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April 8
On this day in 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714 homers.

 

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April 8
On this day in 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714 homers.

Hank Aaron ,,,, still ,,, the all time
Home Run King !!!
Not Barry Bonds !!!!

 

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April 9
2012 "The Lion King" becomes highest grossing Broadway show after overtaking "The Phantom of the Opera".

 

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On April 10, 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by philanthropist and diplomat Henry Bergh, 54.

 

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April 11,
On this day in 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba.

 

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April 12, 1954 Bill Haley and the Comets record "Rock Around Clock".

 

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On this day in 1997, 21-year-old Tiger Woods wins the prestigious Masters Tournament by a record 12 strokes in Augusta, Georgia. It was Woods’ first victory in one of golf’s four major championships–the U.S. Open, the British Open, the PGA Championship, and the Masters–and the greatest performance by a professional golfer in more than a century.

 

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On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.

 

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April 15,
1912 RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 people

 

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April 16,
1929 NY Yankees become 1st team to wear uniform numbers.