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Wednesday April 22, 2009
This is the 112th day of the year, with 253 days remaining in 2009.
Fact of the Day: Daffodil
The daffodil's name is a variant of the obsolete affodill, from Latin
asphodelus and Greek asphodelos. The daffodil is of the genus Narcissus and was
first written about in English in 1548, though back then it referred to both
the white daffodil and yellow daffodil. The term, which took an unexplained
initial "d" somewhere along the line, now refers only to the yellow Narcissus
pseudo-Narcissus, which has a long, trumpet-shaped central corona (outgrowth of
the corolla). This flower is also playfully called the daffadilly.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Theodore of Sykeon, St. Opportuna, St. Agipatus I,
pope, St. Leonides of Alexandria, and Saints Epipodius and Alexander.
Brazil: Discovery of Brazil Day.
Oklahoma Day.
United States: Earth Day.
Events
1500 - Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral landed on the coast of Brazil
and claimed it for Portugal.
1509 - Henry VIII ascended the throne of England following the death of
his father, Henry VII.
1662 - King Charles II granted a charter to the Royal Society of
London, which became an important scientific organization.
1838 - The first steamship to cross the Atlantic, the British ship
Sirius, arrived at New York; it made the crossing in 18 days.
1864 - Congress authorized the use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on
U.S. coins.
1889 - The Oklahoma Land Rush began at noon; thousands of homesteaders
staked claims.
1898 - The first action of the Spanish-American War was the USS
Nashville capturing a Spanish merchant ship off Key West, Florida.
1914 - Babe Ruth made his professional pitching debut, playing for the
Baltimore Orioles.
1915 - In World War I, the Germans shocked the world with their use of
lethal chlorine gas in combat against French troops in Belgium.
1954 - The televised Senate Army-McCarthy hearings began.
1970 - The first Earth Day was observed.
1976 - Barbara Walters became the first female nightly news anchor on
network television.
1993 - The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated in Washington,
D.C. to honor the victims of Nazi extermination.
1994 - Norwegian explorer Borge Ousland became the first person to make
the trip to the North Pole alone.
1999 - NATO warplanes struck directly against Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic, destroying his luxurious mansion.
2000 - The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
2005 - In a federal court, Zacarias Moussaoui pled guilty to conspiring
with the Sept. 11 hijackers to kill Americans.
Births
1451 - Queen Isabella I, sponsor of Christopher Columbus's journeys.
1707 - Henry Fielding, English novelist.
1724 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher.
1870 - Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian leader of the Bolshevik
Revolution, first head of the Soviet State.
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born American novelist and critic.
1904 - J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist, inventor of atomic
bomb.
1925 - Aaron Spelling, American Emmy Award-winning executive producer.
1937 - Jack Nicholson (Rose), American Academy Award-winning actor.
1944 - Steve Fossett, American investment banker, aviator, and
adventurer.
1950 - Peter Frampton, English musician.
1964 - Chris Makepeace, Canadian film and television actor.
Deaths
1908 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British statesman who served as Prime
Minister.
1984 - Ansel Adams, American photographer.
1994 - Richard Nixon, the only American president to have resigned.
1996 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist.
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