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| horizon180 |
 Posted: Apr 13, 2006 9:32 am |
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SMILY
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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Location: Manchester, UK
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As we all know, the 13th of April is the Channel Ai-nniversary.
I was wondering what other great events happened on the 13th of April, so I thought I'd take a look.
Gooooooooooogle! 
April 13th in History
1598: Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots Countdown to the revolution starts
1829: The British Parliament passed the Catholic Emancipation Act, granting freedom of religion
1849: Hungarian Republic proclaimed
1865: Sherman's march through Georgia begins Southerners start promising that the South will rise again
1912: The British Royal Flying Corps (RAF) was created by Royal Charter
1919: The massacre at Amritsar in India. British troops open fire on an unarmed civilian public gathering
1943: FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial
1960: France becomes the 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara And atom here, an atom there
1964: Sydney Poitier becomes the first black man to win an Oscar. (Best Actor - 'The Lillies Of The Field')
1970: The American spacecraft Apollo 13, enroute to the Moon, has an onboard explosion
1997: Tiger Woods wins his first Masters
2005: Channel-Ai goes online! 
April 13th birthdays
1519: Catherine de Medicis, Queen consort of Henry II of France
1570: Guy Fawkes, english rebel
1743: Thomas Jefferson, Former American President
1852: F.W Woolworth, US founder of the 'Woolworth' stores
1902: Philippe de Rothschild, French industrialist
1906: Samuel Beckett, French author
1909: Eudora Welty, American writer
1963: Gary Kasparov, Russian world champion chess player
If anyone can find more, feel free to add on 
(Compiled from Google hits for "13th April")
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| Evil_tomba |
| Posted: Apr 13, 2006 9:45 am |
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上塩タン焼680円
Joined: 18 May 2005
Posts: 357
Location: Toronto, Canada
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this is taken from wikipedia
Events
1055 - Victor II is consecrated pope
1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1180 - Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter
1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople
1250 - The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured.
1598 - Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots
1742 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland
1829 - The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics
1849 - Hungary becomes a republic
1861 - American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to rebel forces.
1873 - Colfax Massacre
1883 - Alferd Packer is convicted of murder
1902 - James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming
1919 - The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
1919 - Amritsar massacre: British and Gurkha troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India
1921 - Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party.
1939 - In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British.
1941 - Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed
1943 - World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners-of-war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre was announced in Germany, driving a wedge between the Western Allies, the Polish government-in-exile in London, and the Soviet Union.
1943 - The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC, on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
1945 - German troops massacre more than 1000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany. The atrocity is discovered two days later by American forces.
1970 - An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew into deadly peril. The explosion occurred on April 14th in several time zones.
1972 - The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
1974 - Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the USA's first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
1975 - An attack by Phalangists on a Palestinian bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon marks the beginning of a 15 year civil war.
1983 - Harold Washington is elected as the first African-American mayor in Chicago's history
1984 - Pete Rose becomes the first player in National League history to collect 4,000 hits
1985 - Enver Hoxha is succeeded by Ramiz Alia as the leader of Albania
1986 - Jack Nicklaus wins his sixth Masters Tournament
1987 - Portugal and China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999
1990 - The Soviet Union admits to committing the Katyn Massacre
1993 - Baseball: Lee Smith passes Jeff Reardon for first on the all-time saves list with his 358th save in a 9-7 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers
1997 - Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win golf's Masters Tournament
2002 - The Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002 ends. President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela returns.
2003 - Mike Weir becomes first Canadian and first leftie to win the golf Masters Tournament
Holidays and Observances
First day of Thai New Year
First day of Cambodian New Year
The Feast Day of St. Martin the Confessor in the Greek Orthodox Church. |
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| Saaya |
| Posted: Apr 13, 2006 9:56 am |
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金魚花火
Joined: 28 Dec 2005
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This is a very interesting topic, Horizon180! Here's some other stuff that I found on April 13th on Google....
The Thai New Year "Songkran"
Celebrated every year on April 13 to April 15. It is also celebrated in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar (Burma). Sri Lanka also celebrates a similar festival called Sinhalese and Tamil new year on the same dates.
The Chinese Water Splashing Festival
Everyone splashes water on each other as a form of celebration. And while it is traditionally the Dai people who are involved in the soakings, anyone in the streets at the time of the festival is fair game. |
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| Lainay |
| Posted: Apr 13, 2006 4:28 pm |
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ハイパーガル
Joined: 21 May 2005
Posts: 641
Location: USA
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Wow, hahaha! So many great things on this day, though I must say that the birth of Channel-Ai is EASILY the best.
AND WOO THOMAS JEFFERSON IS LOVE. |
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| kikubelle |
| Posted: Apr 13, 2006 6:06 pm |
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ユメクイ
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
Posts: 1026
Location: Toronto, Canada + Lalaland~
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Thank god today isn't friday the 13th hahaXD
but its really interesting to see what happened on April 13th
some of them are quite interesting
but the truth being that the history is kinda of no interest to me XD
but we should not neglect it...
because if we don't know it then it will repeat itself! |
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| horizon180 |
| Posted: Apr 13, 2006 7:47 pm |
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SMILY
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
Posts: 495
Location: Manchester, UK
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chinese water splashing festival eh? that sounds a lot like the indian festival "Holi" [pronounced:Ho-Lee] which is the festival of colour. it celebrates the first day of spring and usually full of all the people spreading colour. colourful clothes, colourful foods, over the years, people started putting coloured powder on people (made of vegetable extracts, very herbal) and then to wash off that colour you need water, so eventually it became the "drench people in water" day, which is pretty much what holi is now, throw colour and splash water on people. usually celebrated around vernal equinox or the new moon around march april, because the indian calendar is lunar. but yeah, sorry, random fact, i think this year holi was about a month ago.
but yeah, didn't even think about looking on wiki, wow that's a detailed list, nice one Evil_tomba.
and yes, Lainay, you are right, the birth of channel-ai is the best off them all imo, because like kikubelle, i'm no history buff either. but knowing is better than not knowing, so yeah, 13th april, seems like an important date in world history.
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| R_Hikki |
| Posted: Apr 13, 2006 10:47 pm |
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大好きだよ。
Joined: 02 Jan 2006
Posts: 244
Location: Canada
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Jason V. only kills on friday the13th's. But he decided to do the job early and strike on a thursday the 13th, to take good friday off.
Then Jason met Freddy....
To be continued.... |
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