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On This Day:
Monday April 27, 2009
This is the 117th day of the year, with 248 days remaining in 2009.
Fact of the Day: Morse Code
There are actually two codes called "Morse Code," though Samuel F.B.
Morse invented only one (during the 1830s) - which was for telegraphy. The
second one, a variant that proved simpler and more precise than the original,
the International Morse Code (or Continental Morse Code), was devised in 1851
and it is the one with which we are familiar. In both, dots, dashes, and spaces
represent the alphabet, numerals, and punctuation marks. Except for some minor
changes in 1938, the International Morse Code has stayed the same and is still
used for certain types of radiotelegraphy, like amateur radio.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Zita, St. Machalus, St. Floribert of LiÈge, St. Asicus,
St. Anthimus of Nicomedia, and Saints Castor and Stephen.
Sierra Leone: Independence Day.
South Africa: Freedom Day.
Yugoslavia: National Day (formation of Yugoslav federation in 1992,
consisting of Serbia and Montenegro).
Slovenia: Insurrection Day.
Togo: Independence Day (1960, from France).
Events
1773 - The British Parliament passed the Tea Act, a bill designed to save
the East India Company and grant it a monopoly on the American tea trade.
1805 - After marching 500 miles from Egypt, a small force of U.S. Marines
and Berber mercenaries entered Derna, Tripoli, captured it and deposed Yusuf
Karamanli, the ruling pasha.
1861 - West Virginia seceded from Virginia after Virginia seceded from
the Union.
1865 - Just after the Civil War ended, the Sultana, a steam-powered
riverboat, exploded and burned, killing more than 1400 passengers -- mostly
former Union POWs.
1880 - Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid.
1961 - Sierra Leone became an independent republic within the British
Commonwealth.
1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1992 - Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
2005 - The Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
2006 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade
Center in New York City.
Births
1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, English feminist author.
1791 - Samuel F.B. Morse, American, telegraph inventor.
1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States of America
(1869-1877).
1896 - Rogers Hornsby, American baseball great.
1896 - Wallace Hume Carothers, American chemist who developed nylon.
1900 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist, creator of Woody Woodpecker.
1932 - Casey Kasem (born Kemal Amin Kasem), American disc jockey.
1939 - Judy Carne (born Joyce Botterill), British actress and comedian.
1984 - Patrick Stump (born Patrick Martin Stumph), American musician.
Deaths
1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet.
1965 - Edward R. Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow), American journalist.
1988 - David Scarboro, British actor.
1998 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer.
2002 - Ruth Handler, American, creator of the Barbie doll and Mattel
company co-founder.
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