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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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