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This Day in History: April
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At 5:13 a.m., an earthquake estimated at close to 8.0 on the Richter scale strikes San Francisco, California, killing hundreds of people as it topples numerous buildings. The quake was caused by a slip of the San Andreas Fault over a segment about 27...5 miles long, and shock waves could be felt from southern Oregon down to Los Angeles. (1:00)
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September 12, 2012 at 02:40 PM
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On this day in 1860, the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. Ten days later, on April 13, the westbound rider and mail packet completed the approxi...mately 1,800-mile journey and arrived in Sacramento, beating the eastbound packet's arrival in St. Joseph by two days and setting a new standard for speedy mail delivery. (1:00)
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September 12, 2012 at 12:34 AM
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On this day in with the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13, a U.S. lunar spacecraft that suffered a severe malfunction on its journey to the moon, safely returns to Earth. Also on this day in 1969 U.S. backed Cuban exiles in a mission to overthrow C...uban leader Fidel Castro. (1:00)
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September 12, 2012 at 02:34 PM
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On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had bee...n segregated for more than 50 years. Exactly 50 years later, on April 15, 1997, Robinson's groundbreaking career was honored and his uniform number, 42, was retired from Major League Baseball by Commissioner Bud Selig in a ceremony attended by over 50,000 fans at New York City's Shea Stadium. Robinson's was the first-ever number retired by all teams in the league. (1:00)
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September 12, 2012 at 02:28 PM
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On this day in 1994, Rwandan armed forces kill 10 Belgian peacekeeping officers in a successful effort to discourage international intervention in the genocide that had begun only hours earlier. In approximately three months, the Hutu extremists who ...controlled Rwanda brutally murdered an estimated 500,000 to 1 million innocent civilian Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the worst episode of ethnic genocide since World War II. (1:00)
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September 12, 2012 at 01:01 AM
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On this day in 2005, John Paul II, history's most well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century, dies at his home in the Vatican. Six days later, two million people packed Vatican City for his funeral, said ...to be the biggest funeral in history. (1:00)
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September 12, 2012 at 12:28 AM
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At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War. Forced to abandon the Confederate capital of Richmond, blocked from joining the surv...iving Confederate force in North Carolina, and harassed constantly by Union cavalry, Lee had no other option.(1:00)
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September 12, 2012 at 11:56 AM
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On this day in 1925 F Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel The Great Gatsby is published. Also on this day in 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by philanthropist and diplomat He...nry Bergh, 54. (1:00)
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September 12, 2012 at 12:01 PM
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On this day in 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. (1:00)
September 12, 2012 at 12:06 PM
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On this day in 1700, English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools' Day by playing practical jokes on each other. Also on this day in 1789, the U.S. House of Representatives met for the very first time in New York. (1:00)
September 12, 2012 at 12:25 AM
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