On This Day (April 9)

**MSFixR** · 04-08-2008, 08:34 PM

1682 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
1794 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute born. (d. 1881)
1865 – Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union troops led by Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.
1917 – World War I: The Canadian Corps began the first wave of attacks at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in Vimy, France.
1919 - J. Presper Eckert, American computer pioneer born. (d. 1995) (Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly he invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), presented the first course in computing topics (the Moore School Lectures), founded the first commercial computer company (the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation), and designed the first commercial computer in the U.S., the UNIVAC, which incorporated Eckert's invention of the mercury delay line memory.)
1926 - Hugh Hefner, American editor and publisher, founder of Playboy born.
1932 - Cheeta, chimpanzee actor born. (Cheeta is a male chimpanzee noted for appearing in numerous movies and television shows, most famously many Hollywood Tarzan films of the 1930s and 1940s, in which he portrayed a fictional chimp of the same name.)

Cheeta
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces defeated Allied troops at the Battle of Bataan on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines before beginning to forcibly transfer more than 90,000 prisoners of war to prison camps in the Bataan Death March.
1959 – NASA announced the selection of the Mercury Seven, the first astronauts in Project Mercury.
1989 – An anti-Soviet demonstration in Tbilisi, Georgia was quashed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injured.

Picture of the Day

Notre Dame de Paris at night. Known simply as Notre Dame in English, this is a Gothic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in Paris, France, with its main entrance to the west. It is still used as a Roman Catholic cathedral and is the seat of the Archbishop of Paris. Notre Dame de Paris is widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture. It was restored and saved from destruction by Viollet-le-Duc, one of France's most famous architects. Notre Dame translates as "Our Lady" from French.

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MSFixR Science Boy Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Dante's Inferno, Circle 4 Posts: 8,501 My Profile	On This Day (April 9) 1682 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana. 1794 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute born. (d. 1881) 1865 – Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union troops led by Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. 1917 – World War I: The Canadian Corps began the first wave of attacks at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in Vimy, France. 1919 - J. Presper Eckert, American computer pioneer born. (d. 1995) (Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly he invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), presented the first course in computing topics (the Moore School Lectures), founded the first commercial computer company (the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation), and designed the first commercial computer in the U.S., the UNIVAC, which incorporated Eckert's invention of the mercury delay line memory.) 1926 - Hugh Hefner, American editor and publisher, founder of Playboy born. 1932 - Cheeta, chimpanzee actor born. (Cheeta is a male chimpanzee noted for appearing in numerous movies and television shows, most famously many Hollywood Tarzan films of the 1930s and 1940s, in which he portrayed a fictional chimp of the same name.) Cheeta 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces defeated Allied troops at the Battle of Bataan on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines before beginning to forcibly transfer more than 90,000 prisoners of war to prison camps in the Bataan Death March. 1959 – NASA announced the selection of the Mercury Seven, the first astronauts in Project Mercury. 1989 – An anti-Soviet demonstration in Tbilisi, Georgia was quashed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injured. Picture of the Day Notre Dame de Paris at night. Known simply as Notre Dame in English, this is a Gothic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in Paris, France, with its main entrance to the west. It is still used as a Roman Catholic cathedral and is the seat of the Archbishop of Paris. Notre Dame de Paris is widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture. It was restored and saved from destruction by Viollet-le-Duc, one of France's most famous architects. Notre Dame translates as "Our Lady" from French.

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