Monday, April 1
- Buchanan is in the Washington, D.C., area today.
- Dole is vacationing in Florida.
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Prussian Prime Minister Prince Otto Leopold von Bismarck, known as the "Iron Chancellor", was born on this day in 1815.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1939, the Spanish Civil War ended when the Franco government was officially recognized by the United States.
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Tuesday, April 2
- Kansas Caucus
- Buchanan is in the Washington area.
- Dole is on vacation in Florida.
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Danish poet and storyteller Hans Christian Andersen was born on this day in 1805.
- - French writer Emile Zola was born on this day in 1840.
- - German painter Max Ernst, the founder of the ³Dadaist² movement, was born on this day in 1891.
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Wednesday, April 3
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Writer Washington Irving, author of "Rip Van Winkle", was born on this day in 1783.
- - Actor Marlon Brando was born on this day in 1924.
- - Actress and singer Doris Day was born on this day in 1924.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1882, outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back and killed by a member of his own gang for a $5,000 reward.
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Thursday, April 4
- Famous Birthdays:
- -German-born inventor and electrical engineer Sir Walter Siemens was born on this day in 1823.
- -American poet and writer Maya Angelou, author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", was born on this day in 1928.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
- - On this day in 1979, Pakistan's President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed.
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Friday, April 5
- Famous Birthdays:
- - English philosopher Thomas Hobbes was born on this day in 1588
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1794, French revolutionary leader Georges Jacques Danton was executed at the guillotine.
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Saturday, April 6
- Famous Birthdays:
- - American illusionist Harry Houdini was born on this day in 1874.
- - Composer Andre Previn was born in Berlin on this day in 1929.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1830, Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery founded the Mormom church.
- - On this day in 1896, the first olympic games began in Athens.
- - On this day in 1909, American explorer Robert Edwin Peary became the first person to reach the North Pole.
- - On this day in 1917, the United States declared war on Germany in the first world war.
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Sunday, April 7
- Famous Birthdays:
- - American journalist and columnist Walter Winchell was born in New York City on this day in 1879.
- - Jazz singer Billie Holiday, known as "Lady Day', was born on this day in 1915.
- - Director Francis Ford Coppola was born in Detroit on this day 1939.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1862, the Union army won the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War.
- - On this day in 1945, U.S. aircraft sunk the Japanese battleship Yamato during the World War II.
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Monday, April 8
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Elizabeth "Betty" Ford, wife of 38th president Gerald Ford, was born in Chicago on this day in 1918.
- - American actress Mary Pickford, who became one of the world's richest women, was born on this day in 1893.
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Tuesday, April 9
- The Doles departs from Bal Harbour, FL, for Charlotte, NC, where they will attend a homecoming victory party. They leave for Washington later that evening.
- Famous Birthdays:
- - American singer and actor Paul Robeson was born on this day in 1898.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1939, Black American singer Marian Anderson sang in an open-air concert in Washington, DC, after having been denied the use of the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall.
- - On this day in 1865, the Civil War ended at 1:30 p.m. with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant. More than 500,000 men died in the four-year war.
- - On this day in 1917, Canadian troops began their assault on Vimy Ridge in France, and went on to capture it the next day.
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Wednesday, April 10
- Dole is in Hershey, PA, for the day.
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Newspaper proprietor Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the Pulitzer Prizes, was born on this day in 1847.
- - Frances Perkins, who became the first female member of a U.S. presidential cabinet when she served as Secretary of Labor under Franklin Roosevelt was born on this day in 1880.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1912, the Titanic embarked on her maiden voyage.
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Thursday, April 11
- Dole is in Memphis, TN; and Dallas, TX.
- Buchanan is attending a rally in St. Louis, MO.
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Eleventh Supreme Court chief justice Charles Evans Hughes was born on this day in 1862.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1968, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was passed exactly one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- - On this day in 1970, Apollo 13 launched, but the planned moon landing was subsequently cancelled after the oxygen tank ruptured.
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Friday, April 12
- Dole is in Dallas, San Antonio and Houston, TX.
- Hillary Clinton is in Santa Cruz, San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space when he orbited Earth in the vehicle Vostok, launched by the former Soviet Union.
- - On this day in 1955, the Salk Vaccine, developed by American Dr. Jonas Salk to prevent Polio, was declared safe and effective.
- - On this day in 1981, the Space Shuttle Columbia had its first flight.
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Saturday, April 13
- Hillary Clinton is in Los Angeles, CA.
- Bob Dole is in Des Moines, IA.
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Thomas Jefferson, the third U.S. president and the drafter of the Declaration of Independence, was born on this day in 1743.
- - Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, who won the 1969 Nobel Prize for literature, was born in Dublin on this day in 1906.
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Sunday, April 14
- President Clinton leaves for South Korea via Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska.
- President Clinton arrives in Cheju-do, South Korea, and later in the day, departs for Tokyo.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1986, American war planes bombed Lybia upon orders from President Ronald Reagan.
- - On this day in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
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Monday, April 15
- This is the day that Americans must file their income
taxes.
- Bob Dole is in Philadelphia, Havertown and Pittsburgh, PA.
- President Clinton is in Tokyo, Japan.
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Italian artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci was born on this day in 1452.
- - American novelist Henry James was born on this day in 1843.
- - American jazz singer Bessie Smith was born on this day in 1894.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1912, the luxury liner Titanic sank, and more than 1500 lives were lost.
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Tuesday, April 16
- Dole is expected to spend the day in his Senate office.
- Famous Birthdays:
- - American aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright was born on this day in 1867.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1862, Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia.
- - On this day in 1972, the Apollo 16 began its 11-day mission.
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Wednesday, April 17
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev was born on this day in 1894.
- - American playwright, novelist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thornton Wilder was born on this day 1897.
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Thursday, April 18
- President Clinton leaves Tokyo for St. Petersburg.
- Famous Birthdays:
- - American lawyer Clarence Darrow, famed for his defense of John Scopes in the 'monkey trial' concerning the teaching of evolution in a public school, was born on this day in 1857.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1755, Paul Revere made his famous ride between Lexington and Concord to warn American patriots of the approaching British troops.
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Friday, April 19
- President Clinton leaves St. Petersburg for Moscow.
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, wife of 20th U.S. President James Garfield, was born on this day in 1832.
- - American statesman Roger Sherman, member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independance, was born on this day in 1721.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1775, the first battle of the American War of In dependance began at Lexington, Massachusetts.
- - On this day in 1933, the 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended as fire destroyed the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in; dozens of people, including David Koresh, were killed.
- - On this day in 1995, a bomb exploded in the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring 850 others.
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Saturday, April 20
- President Clinton is in Moscow for the day.
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Sunday, April 21
- President Clinton leaves Moscow for Andrews Air Force Base.
- Famous Birthdays:
- - English novelist Charlotte Bronte was born on this day in 1816.
- - American naturalist, explorer, conservationist and author John Muir, who encouraged the establishment of national parks, was born on this day in 1838.
- - David Boren, former Democratic senator from Oklahoma, was born on this day in 1941.
- - Queen Elizabeth II was born on this day in 1926.
- On This Day In History:
- - This day marks the founding of Rome in 753 B.C.
- - On this day in 1918, German fighter pilot ace Baron von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, was shot down and killed.
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Monday, April 22
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Russian socialist and revolutionary leader Nikalai Lenin was born on this day in 1870.
- - German philosopher Immanuel Kant was born on this day in 1804.
- - American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, known as the father of the atomic bomb, was born on this day 1904.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1970, Earth Day was first observed.
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Tuesday, April 23
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Fifteenth U.S. President James Buchanan was born on this day in 1858.
- - Former child star Shirley Temple Black, who later became an ambassador, was born on this day in 1928.
- - English poet and playwright William Shakespeare was born on this day in 1564.
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Wednesday, April 24
- Famous Birthdays:
- - American poet, novelist, essayist and critic Robert Penn Warren was born on this day in 1905.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1792, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, a young French engineer officer stationed at Strasbourgh, began composing the words and music of what was to become the French national anthem "La Marseillaise".
- - On this day in 1800, Congress approved the establishment of the Library of Congress.
- - On this day in 1916, "the Easter Rebellion" organized by Sinn Fein (the Irish nationalist movement) began on Easter Monday in Dublin.
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Thursday, April 25
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Former Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, who was appointed by President Eisenhower, was born on this day in 1956.
- - American broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow, who was called "the most important broadcaster of our time," was born on this day in 1908.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1507, German geographer and mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller published his book, "Cosmographiae Introductio," in which he named America "Amerige" in honor of discoverer Amerigo Vespucci.
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Friday, April 26
- Famous Birthdays:
- - American painter John James Audubon, who illustrated all known species of North American birds in his ten-volume "Bids of America," was born on this day in 1785.
- - Adolph Hitler's close friend and personal secretary Rudolph Hess, who was sentenced to life imprisonment at Spandau Prison in Berlin for war crimes, was born on this day in 1894.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1937, the Basque town of Guernica in Spain was attacked by German-made airplanes; the attack inspired Pablo Picasso mural "Guernica".
- - On this day in 1986, an explosion occurred in the Ukranian reactor Chernobyl, and became the world's worst nuclear reactor accident.
- - On this day in 1865, American actor John Wilkes Booth, who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln on April 14, was himself shot dead.
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Saturday, April 27
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Eighteenth U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, nicknamed "unconditional surrender Grant," was born on this day in 1822.
- - Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was born on this day in about 1480.
- - American seismologist Charles Richter, after whom the scale for measuring earthquake intensity is named, was born on thsi day in 1900.
- - Writer and lecturer Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was born on this day in 1927.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1865, American actor John Wilkes Booth, who assasinated Abraham Lincoln in April 14, was shot dead after being cornered in a burning building.
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Sunday, April 28
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Monday, April 29
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Oliver Elsworth, third chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born on this day in 1745.
- - American newspaper editor and publisher William Randolph Hearst was born on this day in 1863.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1945, the German army in Italy surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.
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Tuesday, April 30
- Bob Dole will be speaking in Washington, D.C., today.
- Famous Birthdays:
- - Mary Scott Harrison, second wife of 23rd U.S. President Benjamin Harrison, was born on this day in 1858.
- On This Day In History:
- - On this day in 1789, George Washington was inaugurated as the first U.S. president under the new Constitution.
- - On this day in 1812, Louisiana became the 18th state admitted to the union.
- - On this day in 1945, German dictator Adolph Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun are believed to have committed suicide in Berlin.
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