Wow -- a busy day in history:

[MrScalia]

April 14: Good Friday in Western Christianity, Vaisakhi in India (2006); Pohela Baishakh in Bangladesh.

* 1865 - John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln with a Deringer pistol at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

* 1931 - King Alfonso XIII left Spain. The Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed by a provisional government led by Niceto Alcalá-Zamora.

* 1956 - The use of the 2″ Quadruplex videotape was first demonstrated in public.

* 1970 - An oxygen tank aboard the NASA spacecraft Apollo 13 exploded.

* 2003 - The completion of the Human Genome Project was announced.

 

[pepperman]

Interesting facts, are you into history?

 

[MrScalia]

not really , stole it from someone else on http://www.beastieboys.com
great group of ppl on it.
Just not thing to do today at dad office. I;m going to have him show me how to give insurance quotes soon. maybe I could hook some member up (but only here
in CA)

 

[Conti94]

Crazy how so many significant parts in history can land on one day.