This Day In History （请勿跟贴，谢谢！）

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April 29


1913:
Zipper patented.

Swedish Canadian Gideon Sundback received a U.S. patent this day in 1913 for the modern “hookless” zipper, which improved on the clasp locker exhibited by Whitcomb Judson at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

1992:
Riots erupted in Los Angeles in response to the verdict of a highly publicized trial of four white Los Angeles police officers who were acquitted of charges related to the 1991 beating of Rodney King, a black motorist who had resisted arrest.

1945:
The U.S. Seventh Army liberated tens of thousands of inmates at the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany.

1936:
Orchestral conductor Zubin Mehta was born in Bombay (Mumbai), India.

1916:
About 10,000 British troops surrendered to Ottoman Turks at Al-Kūt, Iraq, following a five-month siege during World War I.

1899:
American composer, bandleader, and pianist Duke Ellington, among the most significant figures in jazz history, was born.

1429:
French national heroine Joan of Arc and her troops entered the besieged city of Orléans during the Hundred Years' War.

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April 30


1789:
George Washington inaugurated.

George Washington, the first president of the United States, was inaugurated this day in 1789 in Federal Hall in New York City, addressing his constituency on “the proceedings of a new and free government.”

1980:
Queen Beatrix ascended the throne of The Netherlands.

1975:
The South Vietnamese capital of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) fell to North Vietnamese troops during the Vietnam War.

1945:
German dictator Adolf Hitler and his wife committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin.

1939:
The National Broadcasting Company made the first public television broadcast in the United States, at the New York World's Fair.

1900:
American railroad engineer Casey Jones, later made famous in song, died in a train wreck.

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May 1


1889:
May Day founded.

On this day in 1889, May Day—traditionally a celebration of the return of spring, marked by dancing around a Maypole—was first observed as a labour holiday, designated as such by the International Socialist Congress.

2004:
The European Union was enlarged to include the new member states of Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

1961:
The first major airplane hijacking within the United States occurred when a man forced a commercial airliner en route from Miami to Key West, Florida, to detour to Cuba.

1898:
The Battle of Manila Bay ended in the defeat of the Spanish Pacific fleet by the U.S. Navy, resulting in the fall of the Philippines and contributing to the final U.S. victory in the Spanish-American War.

1851:
The Great Exhibition of 1851 opened in London in the Crystal Palace, which was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton.

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May 2


1939:
Lou Gehrig's 2,130-game streak ended.

On this day in 1939, New York Yankee great Lou Gehrig, the “Iron Horse” of American baseball, ended his streak of consecutive games played (2,130), setting a record that stood until 1995, when it was broken by Cal Ripken, Jr.

1935:
The peasants of Luzon, Philippines, rose up in arms against oppressive land tenancy laws.

1892:
Manfred, Freiherr (baron) von Richthofen (the “Red Baron”), Germany's top aviator and leading ace in World War I, was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland).

1889:
Menilek II of Ethiopia signed the Treaty of Wichale with Italy, granting it territory in northern Ethiopia in exchange for money and weaponry.

1803:
The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France at a rate of less than three cents per acre for 828,000 square miles (2,144,520 square km), which soon proved to be a tremendous bargain.

1519:
Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci died in Cloux, France.

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May 3


1979:
Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of Britain.

On this day in 1979, Margaret Thatcher of the Conservative Party was elected British prime minister, becoming the first woman in Europe to hold that post and later the longest continuously serving British premier since 1827.

1996:
At the first formal review of the 1980 Geneva Convention on Inhumane Weapons, the signatories agreed to curtail the use of land mines over the next decade.

1937:
American author Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for her enormously popular novel Gone with the Wind, which was made into an Academy Award-winning motion picture two years later.

1903:
American singer, actor, and songwriter Bing Crosby was born in Tacoma, Wash.

1815:
The Congress Kingdom of Poland was created by the Congress of Vienna as part of the political settlement at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

1494:
European explorer Christopher Columbus encountered the island of Jamaica, which he named Santiago.

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May 4，2008 ~ May 3，2009





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