Quote of the Day
"Americans, indeed all freemen,
remember that in the final choice,
a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden
as a prisoner's chains."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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PICSMountaineers testify to warming's effectScientists get last say in climate studyIndia steps up protection for rare Asiatic lionsCold weather chills spring ritualsExperts open dolphin 'chat line' in Fla.OdditiesNo Such Thing as a Free LunchPranksters Glue Doors Shut at California High SchoolDad Wants Insurance Company to Foot the Bill for Daughter's Wayward BehaviorPilot Has Obscenity-Riddled Lavatory Outburst'Church for Men' Opens to Combat BoredomSchool district investigates porn billOther News of NoteOff to the Races (The America's Cup)
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VideoDollar advances on strong jobs dataWall Street rises with bid for ChryslerNikkei ends flat before U.S. job dataOil falls after Iran releases BritonsWD-40 shares rise 4.4 pct after resultsCaution could stall economic growthAOL launches search ad service with GoogleAFL-CIO to target Verizon over CEO payFirms poised to end Sainsbury bid: sourceVonage wins temporary reprieve in Verizon caseElectronic Arts to buy stake in The9: reportAFP, Google News settle lawsuit over Google NewsAP World News102-year-old Calif. woman hits hole-in-1Tough day leaves Tiger 1 shot off leadMan ends 9-week, 3,272-mile Amazon swimKevin Spacey takes on Eugene O'NeillRetailers explore movie download optionsMilitary.comThe New Warfighter's ForumUse Your GI Bill RightThe Battlestar Galactica StoryCENTCOM: News ReleasesIRAQI ARMY CALLS IN AIR STRIKE TO ENGAGE MILITIA MENTWO DETAINED FROM MOSQUE IN MUSAYYIBTRANSLATOR JOINS ARMY WITH PASSION FOR PEACESTATEMENT FROM MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE-IRAQ CONDEMNING THE KILLING OF JOURNALISTSVBIED CELL LEADER KILLED, EIGHT OTHERS CAPTURED IN RAIDSMILITARY DOCTORS TREAT AFGHAN WAR’S SMALLEST CASUALTIESDETAINEE DIES AT CAMP CROPPERUSJFCOMUSJFCOM supports intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance conference -
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StoryIN IRAQInspection Team Reduces Truck BreakdownsCivilian Carpenters Lend Soldiers a Helping HandSecurity, Reconstruction Efforts Improving General Petraeus Visits Revitalized Dora MarketTwo-Man Team Helps Troops CommunicateIN AFGHANISTAN Female Medics Take Forward Mission to HeartAfghan Government, Coalition Aid Flood VictimsU.S., Coalition Servicemembers Climb 'The Ghar'Female Aviators Pilot into Strong CareerIN DJIBOUTISoldiers Keep Promise, Check on Injured GirlPostal Specialists Deal With Limited SpaceSecurity Company Stands Watch in Djibouti WeatherAfghanistanBost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul QandaharGermanyAnsbach Aschaffenburg Berlin Berlin-Tempelhof Berlin/Schonefeld BremerhavenDarmstadt Frankfurt Frankfurt/Main Freiburg/Breisgau GarmischGarmisch-Partenkirchen Geilenkirchen Gelnhausen Giessen KitzingenHanau Am Main Heidelberg Mainz Mannheim Nurnberg Stuttgart TrierWiesbaden WurzburgGitmoGuamAgana Agana Heights Agat Andersen AFB Asan BarrigadaIraqAl Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al KutAn Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall KayfJapanKadena Air Base Okinawa Tokyo YokohamaToday in History1195 - Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isaäk II as Byzantine emperor
1341 - Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome
1378 - Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI
1455 - Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III
1500 - Battle at Novara - King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza
1716 - Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia & marries Czar Peter the Great's niece
1759 - British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India
1783 - Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim
1789 - House of Representives 1st meeting
1801 - Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews
1832 - Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro
1848 - 1st battle at Gioto Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians; Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro
1861 - US mint at Dahlonega GA seized by confederacy
1862 - John D. Lynde, patents aerosol dispenser
1864 - of Mansfield, Federals routed by General Richard Taylor
1865 - General Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia
1869 - American Museum of Natural History opens (New York, NY)
1879 - Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers; Milk is sold in glass bottles for 1st time
1893 - The Critic reports that the ice cream soda is our national drink
1898 - Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese
1904 - Great Britain & France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter
1908 - Lord Herbert Henry Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British Prime Minister
1912 - Steamers collide in the Nile, drowning 200
1913 - 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified; Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing)
1914 - US & Colombia sign a treaty concerning the Panamá Canal Zone
1916 - Norway approves active & passive female suffrage
1933 - Manchester Guardian warns of unknown Nazi terror
1935 - Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
1939 - King Zog I of Albania, flees
1940 - Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
1945 - Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi General Christiansen flees Netherlands
1946 - League of Nations assembles for last time
1947 - Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) observed
1952 - President Harry Truman seizes the steel mills to prevent a strike
1953 - Dag Hammarskjöld chosen as Secretary-General of UN
1956 - 6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Island SC; M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon
1960 - Netherlands & Germany sign accord concerning war casualties
1961 - British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236
1962 - Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France
1964 - Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
1966 - OAO 1, the 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, is launched; Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of communist party
1968 - New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect; Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms
1970 - Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court
1977 - Israel premier Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1979 - People's Republic of China joins IOC
1985 - Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix
1986 - Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, CA
1988 - Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, 52, was defrocked by the Assemblies of God following the disclosure of his involvement with a prostitute. (Swaggart was ordered to stay off TV for a year, but returned after only three months.)
1990 - King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties; Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die
1993 - STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1994 - Japan's premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns; Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases
1997 - STS 83 (Columbia 22), lands
Birthdays 0563BC - Gautama Buddha (as celebrated in Japan-Kambutsue)
1460 - Ponce de León San Tervas de Campos, Spanish conqueror/explorer, searched for fountain of youth, found Florida
1605 - Philip IV, King of Spain & Portugal (1621-65)
1642 - Gerard Callenbach, Dutch Admiral
1655 - Louis Willem I Margrave (Baden-Baden)
1726 - Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence)
1775 - Adam A. earl von Neipperg, Austrian General/Napoleon's wife Marie lover
1818 - Christaan IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
1828 - George Baird Hodge, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1832 - Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian fieldmarshal
1875 - Albert I von Saksen-Coburg, King of Belgium (1909-34)
1898 - Achiel H. Acker, Belgian Premier (1945-46, 1954-58)
1904 - John R. Hicks, British economist (Nobel 1972)
1905 - Helen B. M. Fennell Joseph, anti-apartheid writer (Side by Side); Pierre Wigny, Belgian minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61) [or 4/18]
1908 - Neil Lawson, British high court judge
1909 - William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist
1911 - Melvin Calvin, US chemist (photosynthesis, Nobel 1961)
1912 - Josef Gabcík, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter (attacked Heydrich)
1919 - [Douglas] Ian Smith, Premier of Rhodesia
1921 - Betty [Bloomer] Ford, First Lady (1975-76)/namesake for Betty Ford Clinic
1935 - Albert G. Bustamante (Representative-TX)
1937 - Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter (New York Times)
1943 - Tony Banks English politician (Labour Party)
1944 - Anthony Farrar, Hockley military historian
1945 - Ian White, Member of European Parliament for Bristol
1947 - Thomas D. Delay (Representative-TX)
Passings0217 - Caracalla [Marcus Aurelius Antoniius], Roman emperor (198-217), murdered at 29
1143 - John II Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1118-43), dies in an accident
1364 - Jan II the Good, King of France (1350-64), dies at 44
1492 - Lorenzo I de' Medici "il Magnifico," ruler of Florence (1469-92)
1498 - Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), beheaded at 27
1697 - Niels Juel, Danish Admiral (Oland, Moen, Kjögebocht), dies at 67
1861 - Elisha G. Otis, US elevator builder (Otis), dies at 50
1897 - Heinrich von Stephan, UK politician
1902 - Sipyagain, Russian minister of interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated
1919 - Roland baron Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, dies at 70
1943 - Paul Colin, Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed
1947 - Henry Ford, US industrialist (Ford cars)
1969 - Denton Cooley, got 1st fully artificial heart, dies at 48
1981 - Omar Bradley, last US 5-star General, (Normandy) dies in New York at 88
1987 - Francis C. Denebrink, US Naval officer (WWI, WWII, Korea) dies at 90
1990 - Ryan White, hemophiliac AIDS sufferer, dies at 18 - The Ryan White Foundation was founded later in 1991 by Jeanne White and Phil Donahue
Reported Missing in Action1962
Groom, George E.,
US Army SF (MO); released May, 1962
Gabriel, James, Jr.,
US Army SF (HI); remains recovered April, 1962
Marchand, Wayne Ellsworth,
US Army SF (NE); remains recovered April, 1968
Quinn, Francis,
US Army (NY); released May, 1962
1970Bellendorf, Dieter,
Civilian - NBC (Germany); (sp Ballendorf?)
Gensluckner, Georg,
Civilian (Austria)
Yieng, Ung Ling,
Civilian (Cambodia);
1972Ray, Johnnie L.,
US Army (OK); released by PRG February, 1973
Wanat, George K., Jr.,
US Army (CN); released by PRG February, 1973
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Bowing his head, Spc. Daniel Speers, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, receives a benediction after a sunrise Easter service at Forward Operating Base Warhorse in Baqubah, Iraq, April 8. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Ben Fox, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Public Affairs) 
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