04-15-2006, 06:50 AM
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April 15th
1452 ~ Birthday of Leonardo da Vinci.
1707 ~ Birthday of Leonhard Euler, Mathematician.
1802 ~ William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy come across a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring him to write I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1912 ~ The RMS Titanic sank.
1924 ~ Birthday of Sir Neville Marriner, Conductor.
1924 ~ Rand McNally published its first road atlas.
1955 ~ The first McDonald's restaurant opened in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1980 ~ Death of Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher & Writer.
1994 ~ Representatives of 124 countries signed the Marrakesh Agreements revised the GATT with the WTO.
1998 ~ Death of Pol Pot, Cambodian Dictator.
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