April 9th - A Date in History

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April the Nineth - a Date in History. Scunner moves to Calis and.....

GENERAL

1991 Date of Microsoft MS DOS 5.0

1970 Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles

1969 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)

1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., buried in Atlanta

1967 1st Boeing 737 rolls out

1950 Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance

1940 Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WW II, Denmark surrenders

1928 Turkey passes separation of church and state

1914 "World, the Flesh and the Devil," 1st colour film, shown in London

1912 Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland for New York

1838 National Galley opens in London
 
1770 Capt James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)

1483 Edward I (12) succeeds Edward IV as king of England
 
715 Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope

BIRTHDAYS
1957 Severiano Ballesteros, born in Spain, golfer, British Open 1979, 84, 88

1946 Alan Knott, great English cricket wicketkeeper, 1967-81

1941 Hannah Gordon, actress, Oh Alfie

1926 Hugh Hefner, born in Chicagp, magazine publisher, Playboy

1926 Lord Fitt, MP, Belfast Ireland

1919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor, 1st electronic computer-ENIAC

1835 Leopold II, King of Belgians, 1865-1909

1806 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer

1649 James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, horrible person son of English king Charles II
      
1634 Albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau

DEATHS

1991 Maurice Binder, title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73

1959 Frank Lloyd Wright, U.S. architect (Guggenheim Museum New York), dies at 89

1904 Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68), dies at 73

1747 Lord Lovat, English jacobiet, dies

1747 Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England

1483 Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83) dies at 38

1024 Benedict VIII, [Theophylactus van Tusculum], Pope (1012-24), dies

715 Constantine I, Greek/Syrian Pope (708-15), dies

PS If any of the above facts are not 100 % correct, take it up with someone else