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April 3, 2026: Friday Before Easter: -- Religion: The History Of Religion: Abrahamic Religions: Christianity: Lent (Latin: Quadragesima, "Fortieth"): Holy Week (Holy And Great Week, Passion Week): Good Friday (Holy Friday, Great Friday, Great And Holy Friday, Friday Of The Passion Of The Lord): The Tenebrae Service, Day Three: The Paschal Triduum (Easter Triduum, Holy Triduum, The Three Days), Day Two: -- According to the gospels, on this day, the seventh day of Holy Week in Eastern Christianity -- following after Lazarus Saturday, Palm Sunday. Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday, Holy Wednesday and Maundy Thursday -- and the sixth day of Holy Week in Western Christianity, after Palm Sunday, Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday, Holy Wednesday and Maundy Thursday-- marks the third and final day of The Paschal Triduum, the period of three days that recalls the Passion, Crucifixion, Death, burial, and Resurrection of Jesus, as portrayed in the canonical Gospels, which began with the liturgy on the evening of Maundy Thursday, reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil of Holy Saturday, and closes with evening prayer on Easter Sunday. In Western Christianity many churches of various denominations observe the third and final day of The Tenebrae Service, held during the three days preceding Easter Day and characterized by a gradual extinguishing of candles and the strepitus or "loud noise" in the total darkness at the end of the service. Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary (Golgotha). Members of many Christian denominations, including the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist, Oriental Orthodox, United Protestant and some Reformed traditions (including certain Continental Reformed, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches), observe Good Friday with fasting and church services. In many Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and Methodist churches, The Service Of The Great Three Hours' Agony is held from noon until 3 p.m. -- the hours the Bible records The The Crucifixion Darkness, the darkness covering the land until Jesus' death on the cross. In the Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican traditions of Christianity, the Stations of the Cross are prayed in the evening of Good Friday, as with other Fridays of Lent. Communicants of the Moravian Church have a Good Friday tradition of cleaning gravestones in Moravian cemeteries. The Service Of The Great Three Hours' Agony (The Three Hours' Agony, The Tre Ore, The Great Three Hours, The Three Hours' Devotion) commemorates the three hours of Christ's hanging at the cross. The Jesuit priest Alphonsus Messia (died 1732) is said to have devised this devotion in Lima, Peru. It was introduced to Rome around 1788 and spread around the world to many Christian denominations. In 1815, Pope Pius VII decreed a plenary indulgence to those who practise this devotion on Good Friday. The Crucifixion Darkness is described in the synoptic gospels, an event in which the sky becomes dark in daytime during the crucifixion of Jesus for roughly three hours. Most ancient and medieval Christian writers treated this as a miracle, and believed it to be one of the few episodes from the New Testament which were confirmed by non-Christian sources. Modern scholars have found references by early historians to accounts of this event outside the New Testament, although no copies of the referenced accounts survive. In his Apologeticus, Christian apologist Tertullian in AD 197 considered this not an eclipse but an omen, which is recorded in Roman archives. In his apologetic work Contra Celsum, the third-century Christian scholar Origen offered two natural explanations for the darkness: that it might have been the eclipse described by Phlegon of Tralles in his Chronicle or that it might have been clouds. In his Chronicle of Theophanes the fifth-century chronicler George Syncellus quotes the History of the World of Sextus Julius Africanus as stating that a world eclipse and an earthquake in Judea had been reported by the Greek 1st century historian Thallus in his Histories. Modern scholarship, noting the way in which similar accounts were associated in ancient times with the deaths of notable figures, sees the phenomenon as a literary invention that attempts to convey a sense of the power of Jesus in the face of death. Scholars have also noted the ways in which this episode appears to draw on accounts of darkness from the Old Testament. The Stations Of The Cross (The Way Of The Cross, The Way Of Sorrows, Via Crucis) are a series of images depicting Jesus Christ on the day of his crucifixion and accompanying prayers. The stations grew out of imitations of the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, which is a traditional processional route symbolising the path Jesus walked to Mount Calvary. The objective of the stations is to help the Christian faithful to make a spiritual pilgrimage through contemplation of the Passion of Christ. It has become one of the most popular devotions and the stations can be found in many Western Christian churches, including those in the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist traditions. Commonly, a series of 14 images will be arranged in numbered order along a path, along which worshippers -- individually or in a procession -- move in order, stopping at each station to say prayers and engage in reflections associated with that station. These devotions are most common during Lent, especially on Good Friday, and reflect a spirit of reparation for the sufferings and insults that Jesus endured during his passion. As a physical devotion involving standing, kneeling and genuflections, the Stations of the Cross are tied with the Christian themes of repentance and mortification of the flesh. The style, form, and placement of the stations vary widely. The typical stations are small plaques with reliefs or paintings placed around a church nave. Modern minimalist stations can be simple crosses with a numeral in the centre. Occasionally, the faithful might say the stations of the cross without there being any image, such as when the pope leads the stations of the cross around the Colosseum in Rome on Good Friday. The three-day Tenebrae Service (Tenebrae: Latin for 'Darkness") is characterized by a gradual extinguishing of candles, and the strepitus or "loud noise" in the total darkness at the end of the service. Tenebrae was originally a celebration of matins (also called mattins, a canonical hour [fixed times of prayer at regular intervals] in Christian liturgy, originally sung during the darkness of early morning between midnight and dawn) and lauds (a canonical hour, one of the major hours, usually held after matins, in the early morning hours between 3:00:00 and 5:59:59) of the last three days of Holy Week (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday) in the evening of the previous day (Holy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday) to the accompaniment of special ceremonies that included the display of lighted candles on a special triangular candelabra. Modern celebrations called Tenebrae may be of quite different content and structure, based for example on the Seven Last Words (the last seven sentences Jesus uttered before his death) or readings of the Passion Of Jesus (the short final period before the death of Jesus). 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for the hand of a milk maiden in Tinsley Green, two young suitors engaged in a contest of marbles to decide who would win her fair hand. Ever since, the game of marbles has morphed into an annual championship that, even after several centuries, still takes place in Tinsley Green, England. Now teams from other parts of the world travel to England to participate in the game. The first British Marbles Championship was held in Tinsley Green, England in 1588. Legend has it that two men, Giles and Hodge, vying for the hand of a milk maiden called Joan, decided to compete against each other in 'all known sports.' After competing in various sports over the course of one week, the game of marbles was chosen as the final contest to decide the winner. Giles won the game. By the 1700s, a marbles tournament was being held every year in Tinsley Green. Around the year 1900, the game suffered a loss of popularity but was eventually revived in 1932. The name was eventually changed from 'British Marbles Championship' to the 'British and World Marbles Championship' in 1938. Also known as 'Ringer' or 'Ring Taw', the game is played with 49 marbles inside a ring. Two opposing teams made up of six players each take turns using larger marbles called 'shooters' to knock other marbles out of the ring. The team that successfully knocks out the highest number of marbles is the winner! Until 1962, clay marbles were used but this changed as glass marbles came into use. Today, the marbles tournament is still held at Tinsley Green, England. For a long time, only British teams participated and won, but in 1992, the TennKy Sharpshooters from Tennessee and Kentucky, U.S. became the first overseas team to win the trophy. Ever since, teams from Australia, Belgium, France, Estonia, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Wales, and the U.S. travel to participate. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/wonderama-dual-layer-dvd-bob-mcallister-1960s70s-tv-kid196070.html

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April 3: World Party Day (P-Day): -- It's all about enjoying yourself on your terms today! Throw on some tunes, bring out the refreshments, hang out with friends, or just relax in your own element. We love a good time - celebrate however you choose, just as long as you do your party your way. This day is about bringing, spreading, and embracing joy. On April 3, we encourage you to stay indoors and create a celebration that fits your personality and your unique style. The inspiration for World Party Day stems from a novel entitled, "Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel" written by American author, Vanna Bonta. Published in 1995, the novel ends with - spoiler alert - a big party. Actually, it ends with a synchronized worldwide celebration that takes place on April 3. In real life, groups of people found each other sharing the same goals of peace and the want to utilize human intelligence and resources toward global humanitarian progress. Bringing together people in the name of social change, it became a worldwide phenomenon involving millions of people, corporations, and organizations working together to contribute positively to the future of the earth and humanity. The day itself isn't associated with any religious or political connections, meaning anyone is able to join in on the celebrations. After all, partying itself is a "universal human right to fun, peace, and life." All you really need to do to join in is to party. It's a tough job, but someones gotta do it, in the name of tradition. You can party with a group of strangers, some of your best friends, your pets, your significant other, or your reflection - as long as you do you, you're doing it right. No need to RSVP here. The entire world has been formally invited to love, create, dance, and party for nearly 25 years. This holiday is literally meant to showcase joy all around the world, a sentiment that is depicted in Bonta's novel. In the words of "Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel" itself, "The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/manners-and-etiquette-films-2-dvd-se2.html

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April 3: World Aquatic Animal Day: -- Because (most) humans do not actually live underwater, it is easy to forget the vast array and variety of aquatic animals that populate the oceans, seas, lakes, and other bodies of water on our planet! Aquatic animals may be vertebrates or invertebrates. They may breathe air or extract oxygen through gills or the skin. And they may live in either freshwater or saltwater. But no matter what their differences are, one thing is for sure-aquatic animals deserve to be noticed and appreciated! World Aquatic Animal Day is centered around humans taking the time to learn about and acknowledge the importance of all of these creatures who make their homes in the water. Founded in 2020, World Aquatic Animal Day was created by folks over at Animal Law Clinic at the Lewis & Clark Law School (Portland, Oregon, USA) who wanted to bring attention to the importance of aquatic animals to our societies and ecosystems. Widely used around the world, aquatic animals are often at risk due to the interactions humans have directly with the animals, or indirectly through the corruption of their habitats. In addition to 'fish', the category of aquatic animals includes a variety of other creatures, such as mollusks, crustaceans, aquatic birds, starfish, corals, aquatic insects, amphibians, marine mammals, reptiles, and more. The idea for World Aquatic Animal Day is to raise global awareness so that humans all over the world would band together to create policies, laws, education, and outreach that will help to protect these valuable animals. The hope is to elevate the status of these creatures so that people are more likely to take an active role in learning about and acting on behalf of them. Different ideas for protecting these animals continue to be featured, from plastic pollution to climate change issues. Many organizations throughout the world participated in the first World Aquatic Animal Day in 2020, including Canada, Chile, Australia, South Africa, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Croatia, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and more. The hope is that many more will join in for future days in the coming years. The more people who get involved, the better! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/top-secret-us-navy-dolphins-declassified-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

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April 3: American Circus Day: -- An annual celebration of the anniversary of the first circus performance in the U.S., which took place on April 3, 1793. Organized by British equestrian John Bill Ricketts, the open-air arena packed hundreds of spectators who ate up the performances, including President George Washington himself. Since its 18th century beginning, the circus grew in leaps and bounds, with various showmen bringing in innovations and acts. By the 19th century, American circuses were touring Europe, and Queen Victoria herself was treated to showy performances. The modern circus was birthed in England by Philip Astley, who opened a riding school in 1793. During the day, he taught riding lessons but in the afternoon, he performed tricks and other circus elements. One of Astley's students happened to train a young Scotsman known as John Bill Ricketts, who then traveled to the U.S. On April 3, Ricketts debuted his circus performance in Philadelphia. Featuring a trick rider, an acrobat, a rope-walker, a clown, a boy equestrian, and Ricketts himself, the circus was held in a roofless arena that could seat 800 people. In 1825, Joshuah Purdy Brown revolutionized the circus scene, introducing canvas tents in place of wooden arenas, making it possible to have traveling circuses rather than stationary ones. He also became the first to add an elephant and other exotic animals to circus performances. In the mid-nineteenth century, acrobats such as tight-rope dancers became the center of attention, replacing the previously popular equestrians. In 1871, the legendary Phineas Taylor Barnum aka P.T Barnum entered the circus scene. In partnership with William Cameron Coup, he formed P.T Barnum's Museum, Menagerie & Circus, which included all kinds of animal and human oddities, traveling from one American city to another. Later, after Barnum had merged with James Bailey to form the Barnum and Bailey Circus, he also formed another merger with the Ringling Brothers, who were popular during the late nineteenth century. This circus grew such that it began attracting an audience of about 10,000 spectators. The circus represented the Gilded Age of America's capitalism and industrialism. It soon became the country's number one family entertainment, people flocking from near and far to feast their senses on the lavish entertainment. The "Greatest Show on Earth", Barnum & Bailey's Circus, unfortunately, closed in 2017. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/barnum39s-big-top-dvd-p-t-barnum-and-his-circuses-dvd-mp4-394.html

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April 3: Pony Express Day: -- An annual observance that celebrates the first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, which began on April 3, 1860. The innovative founders and brave riders who made up the Pony Express, quick delivery, and mail service of the early 1860s began when there were no message delivery and postal services as we know today to link the far west - and most especially, the new state of California - with the rest of the United States. Thanks to its dogged riders and diligent staff, the Pony Express revolutionized the speedy delivery of messages and packages. The mail service ultimately spurred the creation of catalogs and enabled people to purchase products which are delivered by horse. The Pony Express was a mail service that specialized in the delivery of mail, newspapers, and other packages through horse-mounted riders. This revolutionary mail delivery service operated between California and Missouri for 18 months - from April 3, 1860, until October 24, 1861, when its operations were shut down. The Pony Express was established following California's population explosion and newfound prominence due to the Gold Rush. The massive influx of prospectors, investors, and businessmen to California necessitated the existence of a fast route to deliver mail and other communications to the Pacific Coast. The Pony Express was founded by three businessmen - Alexander Majors, William Russell, and William B. Waddell - who were already freight and drayage tycoons. Officially known as Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company, the Pony Express - at the peak of its operations employed 6,000 men, and had 75,000 oxen, warehouses, and thousands of wagons. The company became the West's most direct means of east-west communication before the establishment of the transcontinental telegraph. During its 18-month operation, the Pony Express reduced the time for conveying messages to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to about ten days - offering great financial importance to the U.S. The Pony Express preferred to employ young, light, and resilient riders, as the owners believed that lighter riders would enable the horses to run faster and carry more cargo. While the average coast-to-coast trip on horseback took ten days, the trip that delivered Lincoln's Inaugural Address actually took less time - just seven days and 17 hours! Sadly, the Pony Express struggled financially and folded in 18 months, when the faster transcontinental telegraph service was established. It pioneered the establishment of a unified transcontinental system of communications that could operate around the year. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/complete-lone-ranger-old-time-radio-shows-dual-layer-mp3-dv3.html

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April 3: Don't Go To Work Unless It's Fun Day: -- Though the origins of the holiday are largely unknown, the idea is to stay away from work if it won't be fun. But if work is going to be fun, don't miss it for anything! In the U.S., there is no legislation mandating paid annual leave for employees. However, the Family Medical Leave Act (F.M.L.A.) was passed in 1993, granting employees unpaid leave to recover from serious illnesses, care for a new child, or care for immediate family members who are sick. Although the origins of Don't Go to Work Unless it's Fun Day are unknown, the idea is to stay away from work if it won't be fun. In the U.S., the average company provides employees with about 10 to 20 days of leave per year. Interestingly, all the way back in 1910, President William Howard Taft tried to revolutionize the system. He suggested that every American employee needed around two to three months of vacation annually "in order to continue his work next year with the energy and effectiveness which it ought to have." However, Congress never enacted the law. In other European countries like Sweden and Germany, legislations were passed requiring employers to provide employees with a mandatory seven weeks of paid vacation per year. In 1993, the Family Medical Leave Act (F.M.L.A.) was passed in the U.S., guaranteeing workers a minimum of 12 weeks of unpaid leave to recover from serious illnesses, care for a new child, or care for immediate family members who are sick. In 2009, Congress attempted to pass "The Paid Vacation Act," which required that employers provide a minimum of one week of paid annual leave to employees. Unfortunately, this attempt proved unsuccessful. Ever since, the only major shift in the culture of paid leave began in 2013, with a few states mandating a minimum number of paid sick days every year. These states are Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New York, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. According to a report released in 2011, 57% of American employees had at least two weeks of vacation that they hadn't used by the end of the year. Some might attribute this to the fact that the U.S. labor market is highly competitive but the bottom line is that taking leaves is important for the overall productivity and health of the workforce. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hollywood-the-golden-years-the-rko-story-dvd-set-2-disc2.html

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April 3: Independent Artist Day: -- An annual recognition of the valuable contributions of independent artists to the art community and supports their work by presenting it to millions of people worldwide. Whether you are a graphic designer, painter, first-timer, or just a connoisseur of contemporary art, today's the day to appreciate artists and the role of art in social, economic, and cultural spheres. Often, the best types of art are works that haven't been discovered or recognized yet. While many artists get their lucky breaks, others struggle to showcase their art to the right audience. Then, there are art lovers who hunt for art that resonates with their style. Today is about the needs of the artist and the art lover, and it brings the two together. Great art can be discovered anywhere and everywhere, and the internet is a fantastic means for talented individuals around the world to unleash their potential and make their art accessible to the right customers. Today not only empowers the artists but the customers as well because it showcases unique talent and represents the freshest global trends. Customers get the most exclusive, fresh designs, and independent artists get their breakthroughs. A win-win for all! At the core of it all, Independent Artist Day is all about art; discovering, promoting, and, most importantly, supporting creative expression. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/art-documentaries-and-films-dvd-mp4-video-download-usb-flash-driv4.html

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April 3: National Film Score Day: -- An annual honoring that recognizes the talented composers who have elevated the attraction of a movie. These film scores mesmerize audiences long after the end credits have rolled and contribute immensely to the movie's popularity. The day recognizes the contributions of the talented composers who created these immortal film scores. Film scores are usually music without vocals. Imagine yourself in a movie auditorium watching an action thriller. As the movie opens and characters and scenes fill the screen, you hear a rising cadence that sets the movie's mood. Slowly, the music notes reach a crescendo and fill you with anticipation. The auditorium gets draped in amazement at the scenes playing out on the screen accompanied by the lilting music. The movie is now beginning to bind you in a spell. The movie's musical accompaniment that often marks the beginning and key happenings is called the film score. Take the example of any iconic and classic movie, and chances are that the movie has a memorable film score. Imagine a "James Bond" or "Harry Potter" movie without their legendary soundtracks! These movies won't feel the same without their arresting scores. The film score elevates and accentuates the film's aura and keeps you glued to the screen. Jeffrey D. Kern, from Movie Scores and More Radio, an internet radio station famous for playing movie soundtracks, created National Film Score Day to celebrate and highlight these iconic scores and their talented composers. But why did he choose April 3? Miklos Rozsa, the legendary composer, recorded the musical score for the amazing movie "The Jungle Book." United Artists released Alexander Korda's film on April 3, 1942. The soundtrack and the movie both saw phenomenal success. Subsequently, the score was recorded as a soundtrack with narration and released separately to a rousing reception from music and movie lovers. National Film Score Day commemorates the release of "The Jungle Book" to mark the first time film scores acquired importance. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/after-the-fox-dvd-1966-peter-sellers-victor-matur1966.html

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April 3: Fan Dance Day: -- Japanese Fan Dancing is an ancient tradition that dates back to 600 B.C. This practice was initially used to keep the aristocracy cool. Over time, the majestic dance evolved into a tool for storytelling and entertainment. The dances are characterized by brightly colored kimonos and handheld fans, bold makeup, graceful movements, and sweeping gestures. Performances usually have live traditional music and are enjoyed by people from all over the world. Fan dancing isn't just dance- it tells a story through slow, deliberate poses and movements. Fan Dance Day was created to celebrate this art form and its rich tradition. The earliest record of fan dancing in Japan dates back to the reign of Emperor Jimmu. Fan Dancing was an honor reserved for the nobility and was hardly ever performed outside the royal court. This popular dance morphed over the centuries and became essential to celebrations such as marriage ceremonies and coronations. In ancient times, fans were used as indicators of one's social status. The use of 'hinoku' (Japanese cypress) to decorate fans was regulated according to the social rank of the owner. In some instances, Japanese craftsmen made fans from sandalwood, ivory, and mother-of-pearl for those in high society. These days, Japanese fans represent friendship or loyalty and are exchanged as signs of good fortune. Traditional Japanese fans are made from paper, feathers, or cloth. These days, most fans are made from paper and are hand-painted and folded. All fans have a paper pivot attachment that makes the fan easily openable with just a wrist flick. The attachment also allows the user to fold and twirl the fan as they dance. Traditional fan dancing continues in Japan in modern times. It is now accessible to everyone, not just those in power. Hand-painted paper fans, live music, and the playing of a shamisen (a three-stringed instrument) continue to be the key features of the performances. Fan dances are also performed to Western audiences without traditional elements. Instead, the movements are faster with more intense choreography. The dances are done to recorded music rather than live performances. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/japan-a-cherry-blossom-by-many-other-names-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

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April 3: The Pharaohs' Golden Parade: -- An annual commemoration of the Egyptian government's 2021 ambitious project to transport 22 royal mummies, all Pharaohs and Queens of the New Kingdom, from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to their new home at the National Museum Of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat. It was a means to encourage tourism in Egypt again. The planning for this grand event took several years, with experts from various fields working together to create a spectacle that would honor Egypt's ancient rulers and celebrate the country's rich ancient heritage. The event was meticulously designed to capture the grandeur and majesty of the pharaohs' era. It included elaborate golden carriages, special lighting, and choreographed performances, all reflecting the splendor of ancient Egypt. Experts in history, culture, and logistics collaborated to ensure that every aspect of the parade was perfect. This historic event not only honored the legacy of Egypt's pharaohs but also showcased the country's connection between its ancient past with the present. This event was broadcast live through the country's major television channels, and was also covered by some major international news agencies. The concert was led by the United Philharmonic Orchestra with Egyptian Conductor Nader Abbassi, and music by Egyptian composer Hesham Nazih. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/romer39s-egypt-dvd-set-complete-tv-series-2-di392.html

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April 3: Armenian Appreciation Day: -- A day that pays tribute to Armenians in celebrating history and culture and recognizes the community's struggle for inclusion. The Armenians have for centuries lived between larger, warring powers and as minorities within larger states. Most Armenians do not live in Armenia but are scattered across the globe. Despite geographic distances and having absorbed numerous influences from diverse and often dominating cultures, the Armenians have maintained a distinct culture. They take pride in their language, religious faith, and beautiful, mountainous homeland. Ancient Armenia suffered constant foreign interference and finally lost its autonomy in the 14th century. Over the centuries, Ottoman and Persian conquerors ruled the region and threatened the very existence of the Armenians. Russia annexed Eastern Armenia during the 19th century, while western Armenia remained under Ottoman rule. On May 28, 1918, the region of Armenia that had previously been a part of the Russian Empire proclaimed its independence. However, in 1920, Soviet Russia and Turkey employed force to invade. From 1894 to 1897, the Armenians were brutally killed in the Hamidian massacres. Sultan Abdul Hamid II was responsible for ordering the killings. About 100,000 to 300,000 fatalities and an estimated 50,000 children were orphaned. During World War I, the Ottoman Empire orchestrated the systematic destruction of the Armenians and their identity. They committed mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert. Armenian women and children were subjected to forced Islamization. Between 1915 and 1916, Talaat Pasha, an Ottoman politician, ordered that Armenian women, children, and elderly or infirm people be sent on death marches through the Syrian Desert. An estimated 800,000 to 1.2 million people went through this horrific treatment. The Armenian genocide destroyed more than two millennia of Armenian civilization. However, the Turkish government defends the deportation of Armenians as a legitimate action and denies that it was genocide. Despite these troubles, the Armenians are a proud and prosperous people today. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-armenian-genocide-documentary-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

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April 3, 1865: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater Of The American Civil War: The Third Battle Of Petersburg (The Breakthrough At Petersburg, The Fall Of Petersburg): The Fall Of Richmond: -- The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, as well as the city of Petersburg, falls when Richmond surrenders to Union forces after the withdrawal of Gen. Robert E. Lee's troops. The day before, Confederate defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forced the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia. Confederate Gen. A. P. Hill wass killed in the battle. Union General Horatio Wright's breakthrough had severed the South Side Railroad near Petersburg, giving access to the Union Army had access to the Appomattox River and were free to cross the next day to threaten Lee's communications on the north side of the river. At 3:00 p.m. on April 2, Lee gave the orders for the retreat from Richmond and Petersburg, to begin at 8:00 p.m. Routes of withdrawal, including designation of bridges to cross to the north side of the Appomattox River, were drawn up by Colonel Thomas M.R. Talcott. Artillery preceded infantry. Wagon trains were to move on separate roads. Most trains and troops crossed to the north side of the Appomattox River by the railroad or railroad bridges. Amelia Court House was the designated assembly point for Lee's Army. Most of the army moved west on the north side of the Appomattox River but most of Anderson's command, including Pickett's and Bushrod Johnson's divisions and Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry moved on the south side of the river. Before the withdrawal, the Confederates disabled all heavy artillery but took about 200 light artillery pieces with them along with over 1,000 wagons. By 11:00 p.m., Jefferson Davis, most of his cabinet, such records, boxes and baggage as could be carried and all the gold in the Confederate treasury left Richmond on a Richmond & Danville Railroad train headed for Danville, Virginia. Generals Meade and Grant set up temporary headquarters along the Boydton Plank Road at Bank's house just north of the VI Corps breakthrough. Grant wrote to his wife on the night of April 2: :I am now writing from far inside of what was the rebel fortifications this morning but what are ours now. They are exceedingly strong and I wonder at the sucsess of our troops carrying them by storm. But they did it and without any great loss. Altogether this has been one of the greatest victories of the war. Greatest because it is over what the rebels have always regarded as their most invincable [sic] Army and the one used for the defence of their capital. We may have some more hard work but I hope not." In preparation for a final assault on the Confederate lines and presumed capture of the city, Grant ordered a "furious bombardment" to begin at 5:00 a.m. the next day to be followed by an assault at 6:00 a.m. At 3:00 a.m., however, the Union commanders found out that Lee had abandoned his entrenchments, making a further assault on the Richmond and Petersburg lines unnecessary. Grant also wanted Sheridan to push the Fifth Corps and his cavalry north of the Appomattox as quickly as possible on April 3. The Confederate capital of Richmond, now unprotected by Lee's army, fell to Union forces along with Petersburg on April 3, 1865. Between 10:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m., General Grant met with President Lincoln at the residence of Thomas Wallace, president of the Petersburg branch of the Exchange Bank of Virginia and a former Whig politician who had been acquainted with Lincoln in earlier years. When the meeting concluded about 90 minutes later, Lincoln started his return to City Point and Grant moved west to catch up with his army in pursuit of the Army of Northern Virginia. The retreat that led to the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 9, 1865 had begun. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/robert-e-lee-documentaries-dvd.html

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April 3, 1882: #DOTD: Jesse James, American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla, leader of the James-Younger Gang and Wild West legend (b. September 5, 1847) #dies when he is shot in the back of the head and killed by Robert Ford, a member of his own crime gang. Following the American Civil War, Jesse and his brother Frank formed a group of outlaws, robbing banks, trains, stagecoaches and stores, known as the James-Younger Gang. In 1882, the governor of Missouri offered a 10K USD reward for their capture, dead or alive. Robert Ford, a member of the gang, shot 34-year-old Jesse in the back of the head and claimed the reward. Jesse James was born Jesse Woodson James in Centerville, Missouri. He was raised in the "Little Dixie" area of western Missouri, where James and his family maintained strong Southern sympathies. He and his brother Frank James joined pro-Confederate guerrillas known as "bushwhackers" operating in Missouri and Kansas during the American Civil War. As guerrilla followers of the pro-Confederate irregular forces of William Quantrill and "Bloody Bill" Anderson, they were accused of participating in atrocities against Union soldiers and civilian abolitionists that the James brothers were known to have been present at, including the Centralia Massacre, an incident in which twenty-four unarmed Union soldiers were captured and executed in Centralia, Missouri on September 27, 1864, led by guerrilla leader William T. Anderson. After the war, as members of various gangs of outlaws, Jesse and Frank robbed banks, stagecoaches, and trains across the Midwest, gaining national fame and often popular sympathy despite the brutality of their crimes. The James brothers were most active as members of their own gang from about 1866 until 1876, when as a result of their attempted robbery of a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, several members of the gang were captured or killed. They continued in crime for several years afterward, recruiting new members, but came under increasing pressure from law enforcement seeking to bring them to justice. On April 3, 1882, Jesse James was shot and killed by Robert Ford, a new recruit to the gang who hoped to collect a reward on James' head. Already a celebrity in life, James became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death. Despite popular portrayals of James as an embodiment of Robin Hood, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, there is no evidence that he and his gang shared any loot from their robberies. Scholars and historians have characterized James as one of many criminals inspired by the regional insurgencies of ex-Confederates following the Civil War, rather than as a manifestation of alleged economic justice or of frontier lawlessness. James continues to be one of the most iconic figures from the era, and his life has been dramatized and memorialized numerous times. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/jesse-james-amp-the-jamesyounger-gang-dvd-mp4-download-usb-flash-driv4.html

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April 3, 1888: #DOTD: #RIP: Crime: Crime In The United Kingdom: Murder: Serial Murders: The Whitechapel Murders (The Jack The Ripper Murders, The Leather Apron Murders): -- The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women by "Jack The Ripper" committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London occurs with the murder of Emma Elizabeth Smith. On Tuesday 3 April 1888, following the Easter Monday bank holiday, prostitute Emma Elizabeth Smith was assaulted and robbed at the junction of Osborn Street and Brick Lane, Whitechapel, in the early hours of the morning. Although injured, she survived the attack and managed to walk back to her lodging house at 18 George Street, Spitalfields. She told the deputy keeper, Mary Russell, that she had been attacked by two or three men, one of them a youth. Mrs Russell took Smith to the London Hospital, where medical examination revealed that a blunt object had been inserted into her vagina, rupturing her peritoneum. She developed peritonitis and died at 9 am on 4 April 1888. The inquest was conducted on 7 April by the coroner for East Middlesex, Wynne Edwin Baxter, who also conducted inquests on six of the later victims. The local inspector of the Metropolitan Police, Edmund Reid of H Division Whitechapel, investigated the attack but the culprits were never caught. Walter Dew, a detective constable stationed with H Division, later wrote that he thought Smith was the first victim of Jack The Ripper, but his colleagues suspected it was the work of a criminal gang. Smith claimed that she was attacked by a group of men, but either refused to or could not describe them. Prostitutes were often managed by gangs, and Smith could have been attacked by her pimps as a punishment for disobeying them, or as part of their intimidation. She may not have identified her attackers because she feared reprisal, and her murder is unlikely to be connected with the later killings. Emma Elizabeth Smith is buried at The City Of London Cemetery in London, England. The Whitechapel Murders were committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London between April 3, 1888 and February 13, 1891. A number of the victims -- Emma Elizabeth Smith, Martha Tabram, Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly, Rose Mylett, Alice McKenzie, Frances Coles, and an unidentified woman -- were prostitutes. The Metropolitan Police, City of London Police, and private organisations such as the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee were involved in the search for the killer or killers. Despite extensive inquiries and several arrests, the culprit or culprits evaded identification and capture. The murders drew attention to the poor living conditions in the East End slums, which were subsequently improved. The enduring mystery of who committed the crimes has captured public imagination to the present day. Jack The Ripper is the best-known name for a supposed unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. In both the criminal case files and contemporary journalistic accounts, the killer was called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron. Attacks ascribed to Jack The Ripper typically involved female prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of the East End of London whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that their killer had some anatomical or surgical knowledge. Rumours that the murders were connected intensified in September and October 1888, and letters were received by media outlets and Scotland Yard from a writer or writers purporting to be the murderer. The name "Jack The Ripper" originated in a letter written by someone claiming to be the murderer that was disseminated in the media. The letter is widely believed to have been a hoax and may have been written by journalists in an attempt to heighten interest in the story and increase their newspapers' circulation. The "From Hell" letter received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee came with half of a preserved human kidney, purportedly taken from one of the victims. The public came increasingly to believe in a single serial killer known as "Jack The Ripper", mainly because of the extraordinarily brutal nature of the murders, and because of media treatment of the events. Extensive newspaper coverage bestowed widespread and enduring international notoriety on the Ripper, and the legend solidified. A police investigation into a series of eleven brutal killings in Whitechapel up to 1891 was unable to connect all the killings conclusively to the murders of 1888. Five victims-Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly-are known as the "canonical five" and their murders between 31 August and 9 November 1888 are often considered the most likely to be linked. The murders were never solved, and the legends surrounding them became a combination of genuine historical research, folklore, and pseudohistory. The term "ripperology" was coined to describe the study and analysis of the Ripper cases. There are now over one hundred hypotheses about the Ripper's identity, and the murders have inspired many works of fiction. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/timewatch-shadow-of-jack-the-ripper-dvd.html

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April 3, 1893: #BOTD: #HBD! Leslie Howard, English stage and film actor, author, journalist, director, producer and likely secret spy (d. June 1, 1943) is #Leslie Howard Steiner to a British mother, Lilian (nee Blumberg), and a Hungarian-Jewish father, Ferdinand Steiner, in Upper Norwood, London. His younger brother was actor Arthur Howard. Lilian had been raised as a Christian, but she was of partial Jewish ancestry; her paternal grandfather Ludwig Blumberg, a Jewish merchant originally from East Prussia, had married into the English upper-middle classes. Leslie Howard wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Howard was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s. He is probably best remembered for playing Ashley Wilkes in Gone With The Wind (1939). Howard had movie roles in many other notable films, including: Berkeley Square (1933), Of Human Bondage (1934), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), The Petrified Forest (1936), Pygmalion (1938), Intermezzo (1939), "Pimpernel" Smith (1941) and The First of the Few (1942). He received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Berkeley Square and Pygmalion. Howard's Second World War activities included acting and filmmaking. He was active in anti-German propaganda and rumoured to have been involved with British or Allied Intelligence, sparking conspiracy theories regarding the June 1, 1943 shooting down of BOAC Flight 777 on which Leslie Howard was a passenger over the Bay Of Biscay by German Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88s, killing Howard and leading to speculation that this aerial intercept was either an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, or a deliberate attack on Howard, as retribution both for the successful anti-German films Howard produced during the war, and because he was suspected of working for Allied intelligence services. Spanish author Jose Rey-Ximena claims that Howard had just been to a secret meeting with General Franco, allegedly on a special mission for Winston Churchill, who wanted to get a secret message to the Spanish dictator. "Thanks to him, at least in theory, Spain was persuaded to stay out of the war." Howard used his contacts with a former lover, Conchita Montenegro, to get through to Franco and deliver the message, the writer said. Montenegro, a Spanish actor once dubbed the Spanish Greta Garbo, told Rey-Ximena the full story of Howard's visit to Madrid shortly before her death at the age of 95 in 2007. Montenegro allegedly had an affair with Howard, whom she met while shooting Never the Twain Shall Meet in 1931. She later married Ricardo Gimenez-Arnau, who was in charge of foreign relations for the far-right Falangist party, which backed Franco's military uprising against the Republican government. It was through her husband's family, whose members occupied several posts under Franco, that Howard managed to see Spain's ruler, the actor said. Montenegro told Rey-Ximena that Howard's interview with Franco was supposedly about whether he would take the role of Columbus in a Spanish film. Franco was interested in cinema. The arrival in Madrid of a Hollywood star, at a time when Spain's rightwing dictatorship meant the country was widely shunned, caused a stir. Howard enraged British officials in Madrid, however, by refusing to attend many events organised for him. This, Montenegro said, was because he was preparing to meet Franco behind the back of the British ambassador. Howard left Madrid in June 1943 for Lisbon, and then boarded a DC-3 passenger airliner bound for London. The plane was intercepted off Spain by German fighters and went down in the Atlantic, killing all on board. A rumour later circulated that the Germans thought Churchill himself was on board. Howard's manager, who also died in the crash, was said to resemble the British war leader. Rey-Ximena said Howard's secret went down with the plane: "He has never been recognised either as a spy or as a hero." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/pimpernel-smith-dvd-leslie-howard-world-war-ii.html

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April 3, 1895: Sexuality: Homosexuality: Sodomy (Buggery): Libel: Criminal Libel: Defamatory Libel: The Trials Of Oscar Wilde: Wilde v Queensberry: -- The trial in the libel case brought by Irish author, poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900) against John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (July 20, 1844 - January 31, 1900) for criminal libel begins, eventually resulting in Wilde's imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, English poet and journalist Lord Alfred Douglas (October 22, 1870 - March 20, 1945). John Sholto Douglas, Marquess of Queensberry was a British nobleman remembered for his atheism, his outspoken views, his brutish manner, and for lending his name to the "Queensberry Rules" that form the basis of modern boxing, in addition to his role in the downfall of Oscar Wilde. The libel trial unearthed evidence about Wilde's homosexuality that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with men. After two more trials he was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison, he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in 1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On his release, he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad Of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. Wilde's lover Lord Douglas, to whom the phrase "The love that dare not speak its name" has been misattributed, would himself be jailed for libelling Winston Churchill over claims of World War I misconduct. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-celts-dvd-set-tv-series-all-6-shows-celtic-history-3-dis63.html

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April 3, 1898: #BOTD: #HBD! George Jessel, American illustrated song "model", actor, singer, songwriter, comedian and film producer (d. May 23, 1981) is #born George Albert Jessel to a Jewish couple, Joseph and Charlotte "Lottie" (nee Schwarz) Jessel, on 118th Street in Harlem, New York City. Also known as Georgie Jessel, he was famous in his lifetime as a multitalented comedic entertainer, achieving a level of recognition that transcended his limited roles in movies. He was widely known by his nickname, the "Toastmaster General of the United States," for his frequent role as the master of ceremonies at political and entertainment gatherings. Jessel originated the title role in the stage production of The Jazz Singer. An illustrated song is a type of performance art and was a popular form of entertainment in the early 20th century in the United States. Live performers (usually both a pianist and a vocalist) and music recordings were both used by different venues (vaudeville houses first and later in nickelodeons) to accompany still images projected from glass slides. This allowed the images to be painted in color by hand. A single song was usually accompanied by 12 to 16 different images that sequentially "illustrated" the lyrics. Projection booths used either stereopticons with two projectors or machines that combined projection of both slides and moving pictures. Illustrated songs often preceded silent films and/or took place during reel changes, but some venues relied principally on illustrated songs alone. At least ten thousand small theaters nationwide featured illustrated songs. Illustrated songs were seen as a valuable promotional tool for marketing sheet music. Audience participation was encouraged, and repeat performances also helped encourage sheet music sales Several film stars began their careers as models who illustrated lyrics through a series of song slides, including George Jessel, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, Alice Joyce, Florence Lawrence, and Norma Talmadge. During a TV special filmed in Hollywood at the Pantages Theatre premiere of A Star Is Born on September 29, 1954, Jessel stated: "I think that I ought to tell the folks that it was I who named Judy Garland, Judy Garland. Not that it would have made any difference - you couldn't have hid[den] that great talent if you'd called her "Tel Aviv Windsor Shell", you know, but her name when I first met her was Frances Gumm and it wasn't the kind of a name that so sensitive a great actress like that should have". George Jessel died of a heart attack at the University Of California At Los Angeles Medical Center at the age of 83. He is interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/george-jessel-bedtime-stories-for-grownups-comedy-lp-mp3-c3.html

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April 3, 1904: #BOTD: #HBD! Iron Eyes Cody, Italian-American actor and stuntman who portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films, who famously played a Native American shedding a tear about litter in one of the country's most well-known television public service announcements, "Keep America Beautiful" (d. January 4, 1999) is #born Espera Oscar de Corti in Kaplan, Louisiana, the second son of Francesca Salpietra from Sicily and her husband Antonio de Corti from southern Italy; in 1996, Cody's half-sister said in a story by The Times-Picayune in New Orleans that he was of Italian ancestry, but Cody, who by this time wore his Hollywood costumes in daily life, denied it. Cody began acting in the early 1930s. He worked in film and television until his death. Cody claimed his father was Cherokee (and his mother Cree), also naming several different tribes, and frequently changing his claimed place of birth. To those unfamiliar with Indigenous American or First Nations cultures and people, he apparently gave the appearance of living "as if" he were Native American, fulfilling the stereotypical expectations by wearing his film wardrobe as daily clothing - including braided wig, fringed leathers and beaded moccasins - at least when photographers were visiting, and in other ways continuing to play the same Hollywood-scripted roles off-screen as well as on. A close friend of Walt Disney, Cody appeared in a Disney studio serial titled The First Americans, and in episodes of The Mountain Man, Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone. He also appeared in a 1968 episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood featuring Native American dancers. Cody was widely seen as the "Crying Indian" in the "Keep America Beautiful" public service announcements (PSA) in the early 1970s.The environmental commercial showed Cody dressed as a Native American, shedding a tear after trash is thrown from the window of a car and it lands at his feet. The announcer, William Conrad, says: "People start pollution; people can stop it.". The Joni Mitchell song "Lakota," from the 1988 album, Chalk Mark in a Rainstorm, features Cody's chanting. In 1936, Cody married Bertha Parker. She was active in excavations during the late 1920s and early 1930s before becoming an assistant in archaeology at the Southwest Museum. They adopted two children said to be of Dakota-Maricopa origin, Robert Tree Cody and Arthur. The couple remained married until Bertha's death in 1978. Bertha "Birdie" Parker Pallan was the first Native American female archaeologist, of Abenaki and Seneca descent. Her father, Arthur C. Parker, was an archaeologist and the first president of the Society for American Archaeology. As a child, she assisted her father in his excavations. In 1914 she relocated with her mother to Los Angeles to work in Hollywood films. Bertha and her mother also performed with Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus as part of a "Pocahontas" show during her teenage years. In 1925 she moved to Nevada to work on an archaeological site for the Southwest Museum, directed by Mark Raymond Harrington. She eventually got a steady job as archaeologist and ethnologist for the Southwest Museum .In 1936, she married the actor Iron Eyes Cody. Bertha and Iron Eyes were central figures in the success of the Los Angeles Indian Center, a gathering place for urban Indians relocated to Los Angeles. Bertha Parker Pallan died in 1978, aged 71. Her gravestone simply reads "Mrs. Iron Eyes Cody". Iron Eyes Codey died at the age of 94 from mesothelioma at home in Los Angeles, aged_94. Before death, he had written this comment, inspired by an old Native American prayer: "Make me ready to stand before you with clean and straight eyes. When life fades, as the fading sunset, may our spirits stand before you without shame." He is buried in The Hollywood Forever cemetery in Hollywood, California. #IronEyesCody #EsperaOscarDeCorti #Movies #Film #MotionPictures #Hollywood #ClassicalHollywoodCinema #ClassicalHollywoodNarrative #ClassicHollywoodCinema #GoldenAgeOfHollywood #OldHollywood #SilverScreen #AmericanIndians #NativeAmericans #Stuntmen #CryingIndian #KeepAmericaBeautiful #PeopleStartPollutionPeopleCanStopIt #BerthaParkerPallan #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/native-north-american-indian-history-documentaries-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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April 3, 1912: #DOTD: #RIP: Calbraith Perry Rodgers, American aviation pioneer who made the first transcontinental airplane flight across the U.S. from September 17, 1911 to November 5, 1911, with dozens of stops both intentional and accidental (b. January 12, 1879) #dies while making an exhibition flight over Long Beach, California. He flew into a flock of birds, causing the plane to crash into the ocean. His neck was broken and his thorax damaged by the engine of the airplane. He died a few moments later, a few hundred feet from where the he and his aircraft, the Vin Fiz, ended their transcontinental flight. The aircraft he flew in his last flight was the spare Model B he had carried in the special train during the transcontinental flight, rather than the Vin Fiz. The Vin Fiz itself was later given to the Smithsonian Institution by Calbraith's widow, Mabel Rodgers, and is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum. According to contemporary records, his was the 127th airplane fatality since aviation began, and he was the 22nd American aviator to die in an accident. He was also the first pilot who fatally crashed as a result of a bird strike. Rodgers was interred at Allegheny Cemetery in his hometown of Pittsburgh. He was born Calbraith Perry Rodgers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Calbraith Perry Rodgers and Maria Chambers Rodgers. Among his ancestors, Rodgers had Commodores John Rodgers, who was his paternal grandfather, Oliver Hazard Perry, his maternal great-grandfather, and Matthew Calbraith Perry, his great-grand uncle. He was also a cousin to John Rodgers, a naval aviation pioneer known for setting the record of longest non-stop flight by seaplane of 1992 miles (3206 km) on an attempt to fly from San Francisco to Honolulu in 1925. Calbraith Perry Rodgers's transcontinental feat made him a national celebrity, but he was killed in a crash a few months later at an exhibition in California. He began his transcontental fight by taking off from Sheepshead Bay, New York, on September 17. 1911 and flew a distance of 3,417 miles. The feat made him a national celebrity, but he was killed in a crash a few months later at an exhibition in California, close to where he had landed during his transatlantic flight. In 1885, Rodgers contracted scarlet fever, which left him deaf in one ear and hearing impaired in the other, which effectively barred him from following the family tradition of naval service. He received his education first at home and then at the Mercersburg Academy. In 1902, Rodgers joined his mother and sister in New York City. He became a member of the New York Yacht Club, and besides boating he rode motorcycles and drove cars. In 1906 he married Mabel Avis Graves; they had no children. The Rodgers resided in Havre de Grace, Maryland. In June 1911, Rodgers visited his cousin John, a naval aviator, who since March was studying at the Wright Company factory and attending flying school in Dayton, Ohio. Rodgers became interested in aviation. He received 90 minutes of flying lessons from Orville Wright, and purchased a Wright Flyer with John. On August 7, 1911, he took his official flying examination at Huffman Prairie and became the 49th aviator licensed to fly by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. He was one of the first civilians to purchase an airplane. Instead of flying home, Rodgers entered the 1911 Chicago International Aviation Meet, where he competed with the leading aviators of the time. He set several records, including the duration record, and won 11,285 USD in prize money. On October 10, 1910, publisher William Randolph Hearst offered the Hearst prize, 50K USD to the first aviator to fly coast to coast, in either direction, in less than 30 days from start to finish. Rodgers persuaded J. Ogden Armour, of Armour and Company, to sponsor the flight, and in return he named the plane, a Wright Model EX, after Armour's grape soft drink Vin Fiz. A special train of three cars, including sleeper, diner, and shop-on-wheels full of spare parts, was assembled to follow Rodgers, who planned to fly above the railroad tracks. Rodgers left from Sheepshead Bay, New York, on September 17, 1911, at 4:30 pm. He reached Chicago, the only required stop, on October 8, 1911. His arrival to Chicago attracted national attention. To avoid the Rocky Mountains, he took a southerly route, flying through the Midwest until reaching Texas. He turned west after passing San Antonio. On November 5, 1911, he landed at Tournament Park in Pasadena, California, at 4:04 pm in front of 20,000 people, missing the prize deadline by 19 days. He left Pasadena on November 12, but crashed at Compton. After the Vin Fiz was repaired, on December 10, 1911, he reached Long Beach, California, flew over the Pacific, landed on a beach and taxied the plane into the Pacific Ocean. About 50,000 people came to witness the completion of the first transcontinental east-west flight. Rodgers had carried the first transcontinental U.S. Mail pouch. The trip required 70 stops and endured countless crashes and aircraft malfunctions. Rodgers paid 70 USD a week to the Wright brothers' technician, Charlie Taylor, who followed the Vin Fiz by train and performed necessary maintenance or repairs. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/frontiers-of-flight-aviation-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-download-us4.html

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April 3, 1912: #BOTD: Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek left-wing politician, physician, Olympic track and field athlete, and member of the faculty of the School of Medicine at the University of Athens, resistance fighter against Axis rule during World War II and later a prominent anti-war activist (d. May 26, 1963) is #born April 3, 1912 in the village of Kerasitsa in the district of Tegea (Arcadia, the Peloponnese). Grigoris Lambrakis was fatally clubbed in an assassination attempt on May 22, 1964 and died five days later on May 27, 1964, aged 51. Shortly after he had delivered the keynote speech at an anti-war meeting in Thessaloniki, two far-right extremists, Emannouel Emannouilides and Spyros Gotzamanis, driving a three-wheeled vehicle, struck Lambrakis with a club over the head in plain view of a large number of people and (allegedly) some police officers. He suffered brain injuries and died in the hospital five days later. The two men were arrested because of the reaction of a by-stander (Manolis Hatziapostolou, nicknamed Tiger) who jumped on their vehicle and fought with them. The day after his death, his funeral in Athens became a massive demonstration. More than 500,000 people rallied to protest against the right-wing government and the Royal Court of King Paul, seen by many to support the activities of the right-wing extremists. Lambrakis remained in the hearts of the Greek people as a national symbol of democracy, representing the struggle against political repression, Royal Court scandal, and international dependence. After the fall of the military dictatorship of The Greek Junta (The Regime Of The Colonels) in 1974, numerous places, including a football stadium in Kallithea and streets and squares throughout the country, have been named in honor of Grigoris Lambrakis. The events surrounding his assassination inspired the film Z, a 1969 Algerian-French epic political thriller by Costa-Gavras, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos that presents a thinly fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Lambrakis, and the film captures the outrage about the military dictatorship that ruled Greece at the time of its making. (Sell Z (1969) Greek Generals Coup Of 1967) On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/z-1969-dvd-yves-montand-irene-papas-jeanlouis-trintig1969.html

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April 3, 1922: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Soviet Union (The Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR): The History Of The Soviet Union: The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union: General Secretaries Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union: Stalinism: -- Pursuant to Vladimir Lenin's nomination at the 11th Congress Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union held from March 27 to April 2, 1922 in Moscow, Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union on April 3, despite concerns expressed that adopting this new post on top of his other political positions would overstretch his workload and give him too much power. Lenin appointed Stalin to the position because it was advantageous to Lenin to have a key ally in this crucial post. This position would ultimately result in Stalin's becoming the supreme leader of the USSR, and was the de facto beginning of his authoritarian regime of Stalinism, his means of governing and the so-called Marxist-Leninist policies he implemented through that governing from the date of his becoming General Secretary until his death on March 5, 1953. The General Secretary Of The Central Committee Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union was an office of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) that by the late 1920s had evolved into the most powerful of the Central Committee's various secretaries. With a few exceptions, from 1929 until the union's dissolution the holder of the office was the de facto leader of the Soviet Union, because the post controlled both the CPSU and the Soviet government. Joseph Stalin elevated the office to overall command of the Communist Party and by extension the whole Soviet Union. Nikita Khrushchev renamed the post First Secretary in 1953; the change was reverted in 1966. The office grew out of less powerful secretarial positions within the party: Technical Secretary (1917-1918), Chairman of the Secretariat (1918-1919), and Responsible Secretary (1919-1922) (when Lenin was leader of the party of Bolsheviks). The last de facto General Secretary was Mikhail Gorbachev, a post he held from March 11 1985 to August 24 1991; Vladimir Ivashko held the office from August 24 to August 29, 1991, when the Party was politically impotent was banned on the last day of his office. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/stalin-1990-tv-series-plus-bonus-wwii-culpability-mp4-video-download-dvd.html

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April 3, 1922: #BOTD: #HBD! Doris Day, American actress, singer, animal welfare activist and beauty (d. May 13, 2019) is #born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff in Cincinnati, Ohio. Doris Day began her career as a big band singer in 1939, and her popularity increased with her first hit recording "Sentimental Journey" (1945). After leaving Les Brown and His Band of Renown to embark on a solo career, she recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967, which made her one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century. Day's film career began with the 1948 film Romance on the High Seas, and its success sparked her twenty-year career as a motion picture actress. She starred in a series of successful films, including musicals, comedies, and dramas. She played the title role in Calamity Jane (1953), and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James Stewart. Her most successful films were the "pioneering" bedroom comedies she made co-starring Rock Hudson and James Garner, such as Pillow Talk (1959) and Move Over, Darling (1963), respectively. She also co-starred in films with such leading men as Clark Gable, Cary Grant, David Niven, and Rod Taylor. After her final film in 1968, she went on to star in the CBS sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968-73). She was usually one of the top ten singers between 1951 and 1966. As an actress, she became the biggest female film star in the early 1960s, and ranked sixth among the box office performers by 2012. In 2011, she released her 29th studio album, My Heart, which became a UK Top 10 album featuring new material. Among her awards, Day has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 1960, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and in 1989 was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom by President George W. Bush followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/doris-day-a-sentimental-journey-dvd.html

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April 3, 1924: #BOTD: #HBD! Sergeant Roza Shanina, the brilliant, beautiful and deadly Soviet sniper during World War II who was credited with fifty-nine confirmed kills, including twelve soldiers during the Battle of Vilnius (d. January 28, 1945) is #born Roza Georgiyevna Shanina in the Russian village of Edma, Ustyansky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union to Anna Alexeyevna Shanina, a kolkhoz (collective farm) milkmaid, and Georgiy (Yegor) Mikhailovich Shanin, a logger who had been disabled by a wound received during World War I. Roza was reportedly named after the German Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, had biological six siblings, and three orphan siblings. She was herself killed in an heroic attempt to shield the severely wounded commander of an artillery unit during the East Prussian Offensive. Roza Georgiyevna Shanina volunteered for the military after the death of her brother in 1941 and chose to be a marksman on the front line. Praised for her shooting accuracy, Shanina was capable of precisely hitting enemy personnel and making doublets (two target hits by two rounds fired in quick succession). In 1944, a Canadian newspaper described Shanina as "the unseen terror of East Prussia". She became the first servicewoman of the 3rd Belorussian Front to receive the Order of Glory. Shanina's bravery received praise already during her lifetime, but conflicted with the Soviet policy of sparing snipers from heavy battles. Shanina enjoyed writing and would often send letters to her home village and to her friends in Arkhangelsk. She started writing a combat diary; though diaries were strictly prohibited in the Soviet military, there were exceptions, such as The Front Diary of Izrael Kukuyev and The Chronicle of War of Muzagit Hayrutdinov. To preserve military secrecy, Shanina termed the killed and wounded "blacks" and "reds" respectively in her diary. Shanina kept the diary from October 6, 1944 to January 24, 1945. Roza Shanina died when she was killed in an heroic attempt to shield the severely wounded commander of an artillery unit during the East Prussian Offensive. She is buried in The Mass Grave Of Soviet Soldiers in Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. After Shanina's death, her combat diary, consisting of three thick notebooks, was kept by the war correspondent Pyotr Molchanov for twenty years in Kiev. An abridged version was published in the magazine Yunost in 1965, and the diary was transferred to the Regional Museum of Arkhangelsk Oblast. Several of Shanina's letters and some data from her sniper log have also been published. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-unknown-war-complete-tv-series-soviet-union-wwii-10-dvd-s10.html

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April 3, 1924: #BOTD: #HBD! Marlon Brando, American actor and director (d. July 1, 2004) is #born Marlon Brando Jr. in Omaha, Nebraska. With a career spanning 60 years, Marlon Brando is well-regarded for his cultural influence on 20th-century film. Brando's Academy Award-winning performances include that of Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954) and Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972). Brando was an activist for many causes, notably the civil rights movement and various Native American movements. He is credited with helping to popularize the Stanislavski system of acting, having studied with Stella Adler in the 1940s. He is often regarded as one of the first actors to bring Method Acting (built from the Stanislavski system) to mainstream audiences. He initially gained acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for reprising the role of Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire, a role that he originated successfully on Broadway. He received further praise for his performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, and his portrayal of the rebellious motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One proved to be a lasting image in popular culture. Brando received Academy Award nominations for playing Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (1952); Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; and Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara (1957), an adaptation of James Michener's 1954 novel. Brando was included in a list of Top Ten Money Making Stars three times in the 1950s, coming in tenth in 1954, sixth in 1955, and fourth in 1958. The 1960s saw Brando's career take a downturn. He directed and starred in the cult western film One-Eyed Jacks, a critical and commercial flop, after which he delivered a series of box-office failures, beginning with the 1962 film adaptation of the novel Mutiny on the Bounty. After 10 years, during which he did not appear in a successful film, he won his second Academy Award for playing Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, a role critics consider among his greatest. The Godfather was then one of the most commercially successful films of all time. With that and his Oscar-nominated performance in Last Tango in Paris, Brando re-established himself in the ranks of top box-office stars, placing sixth and tenth in the Money Making Stars poll in 1972 and 1973, respectively. Brando took a four-year hiatus before appearing in The Missouri Breaks (1976). After this, he was content with being a highly paid character actor in cameo roles, such as in Superman (1978) and The Formula (1980), before taking a nine-year break from motion pictures. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Brando was paid a record 3.7M USD (15M USD in 2019) and 11.75% of the gross profits for 13 days' work on Superman. He finished out the 1970s with his controversial performance as Colonel Kurtz in another Coppola film, Apocalypse Now, a box-office hit for which he was highly paid and which helped finance his career layoff during the 1980s. Brando was ranked by the American Film Institute as the fourth-greatest movie star among male movie stars whose screen debuts occurred in or before 1950. He was one of six professional actors, along with Charlie Chaplin, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Lucille Ball, Frank Sinatra, and Marilyn Monroe, named in 1999 by Time magazine as one of its 100 Most Important People of the Century. In this list, Time also designated Brando as the "Actor of the Century". Marlon Brando died of respiratory failure from pulmonary fibrosis (scarred lungs) with congestive heart failure at the UCLA Medical Center, aged 80. Brando was cremated, and his ashes were put in with those of his lifelong friend Wally Cox and another longtime friend, One-Eyed Jacks, costar Sam Gilman. They were then scattered partly in Tahiti and partly in Death Valley. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/desiree-1954-dvd-marlon-brando-as-napoleon-jean-sim1954.html

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April 3, 1926: #BOTD: #HBD! Gus Grissom, World War II and Korean War veteran, United States Air Force colonel, fighter pilot, test pilot, mechanical engineer and NASA Astronaut Corps member, Mercury Seven astronaut selected by National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) as to among the first group Americans in outer space as part of Project Mercury, the second American to fly in space in 1961, the second American to fly in space twice, preceded only by Joe Walker with his sub-orbital X-15 flights. astronaut for Projects Gemini Apollo, recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with an oak leaf cluster, two NASA Distinguished Service Medals, and, posthumously, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor (d. January 27, 1967) is #born Virgil Ivan Grissom in the small town of Mitchell, Indiana. During World War II, Grissom enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet. After his discharge from military service, Grissom enrolled at Purdue University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering in 1950. He reenlisted in the U.S. Air Force, earning his pilot's wings in 1951, and flew 100 combat missions during the Korean War. After returning to the United States, Grissom was reassigned to work as a flight instructor at Bryan Air Force Base in Texas. He attended the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology for a year, earning a bachelor's degree in aeromechanics, and received his test pilot training at Edwards Air Force Base in California before his assignment as a test pilot at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Selected as one of the Mercury Seven astronauts, Grissom was the pilot of Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7), the second American suborbital flight, on July 21, 1961. At the end of the flight, the capsule's hatch blew off prematurely after it landed in the Atlantic Ocean. Grissom was picked up by recovery helicopters, but the blown hatch caused the craft to fill with water and sink. His next flight was in the Project Gemini program as command pilot for Gemini 3 (Molly Brown), which was a successful three-orbit mission on March 23, 1965. Grissom, commander of AS-204 (Apollo 1), died along with his fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee on January 27, 1967, during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Kennedy, Florida. Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee are buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, where The Apollo 1 Monument is located honoring all three astronauts killed in The Apollo 1 Disaster; Ed White is buried at The United States Military Academy Post Cemetery at West Point, New York. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/ap1tronpad34.html

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April 3, 1936: Crime: Crimes Of The Century: Kidnappings: The Lindbergh Kidnapping: -- #DOTD: Bruno Richard Hauptmann, German-born carpenter who was convicted of "The Crime Of The Century", the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh (b. November 26, 1899 #dies by execution for the crime in the electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison. Reporters present said he made no statement. His spiritual advisor said that Hauptmann told him, before being taken from his cell, "Ich bin absolut unschuldig an den Verbrechen, die man mir zur Last legt" ("I am absolutely innocent of the crimes I am accused of"). Hauptmann's widow Anna had his body cremated; the location of ashes are unknown. Two Lutheran pastors conducted a private memorial service in German. A crowd of some 2,000 gathered outside. Hauptmann's wife Anna Hauptmann likewise proclaimed her husband's innocence to his death. In 1982, Anna Hauptmann, then 82 years old, sued the State of New Jersey, various former police officers, the Hearst newspapers that had published pre-trial articles insisting on Hauptmann's guilt, and former prosecutor David T. Wilentz (then 86 years olf) for over 100M USD in wrongful-death damages, claiming that newly discovered documents proved misconduct by the prosecution and the manufacture of evidence by government agents, all of whom were biased against Hauptmann because he happened to be of German ethnicity. In 1983, the United States Supreme Court refused her request that the federal judge considering the case should be disqualified because of judicial bias, and in 1984, the judge dismissed her claims. On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was abducted from his home in Highfields, New Jersey, United States. On May 12, his body was discovered in the woods nearby. In September 1934, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested for the crime. After a trial that lasted from January 2 to February 13, 1935, he was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Despite his conviction, he continued to profess his innocence, but all appeals failed and he was executed in the electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison on April 3, 1936. Newspaper writer H. L. Mencken called the kidnapping and trial "the biggest story since the Resurrection." Legal scholars have referred to the trial as one of the "trials of the century". The crime spurred Congress to pass the Federal Kidnapping Act, commonly called the "Lindbergh Law", which made transporting a kidnapping victim across state lines a federal crime. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/kidnapped-reliving-the-lindbergh-case-dvd-baby-kidnapping.html

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April 3, 1944: The American Civil Rights Movement: Black Suffrage (Black Political Franchise, Black Franchise, Black Right To Vote, Black Active Suffrage): The History Of The United States: The Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS): Smith v. Allwright: -- The U.S. Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in the Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944) case that African Americans cannot be barred from voting in the Texas Democratic primaries in a landmark decision with regard to voting rights and, by extension, racial desegregation. The decision overturned the Texas state law that authorized parties to set their internal rules, including the use of white primaries. The court ruled that it was unconstitutional for the state to delegate its authority over elections to parties in order to allow discrimination to be practiced. This ruling affected all other states where the party used the white primary rule. The Democratic Party had effectively excluded minority voter participation by this means, another device for legal disenfranchisement of blacks across the South beginning in the late 19th century. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/black-civil-rights-films-africanamerican-history-dvd.html

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April 3, 1946: #DOTD: Masaharu Homma, Japanese Lieutenant General, commander of the Imperial Japanese 14th Army which invaded the Philippines, fought the Battle Of Bataan and perpetrated the Bataan Death March (b. November 27, 1887) #dies of execution by firing squad in the Philippines as a war criminal. Homma had been convicted of war crimes relating to the war crimes of troops under his direct command. He was born Homma Masaharu on Sado Island, in the Sea of Japan off Niigata Prefecture. Homma had a deep respect for, and some understanding of, the West, having spent eight years as a military attache in the United Kingdom. In 1917, he was attached to the East Lancashire Regiment, and in 1918, served with the British Expeditionary Force in France, being awarded the Military Cross. From 1930 to 1932, Homma was again sent as a military attache to the United Kingdom, where his proficiency in the English language was useful. With the start of the Pacific War, Homma was named commander of the 43,110-man IJA 14th Army and tasked with the invasion of the Philippines. He ordered his troops to treat the Filipinos not as enemies but as friends, and respect their customs and religion. In one instance, on his approach to Manila, Homma stopped his columns and ordered the men to clean up and tighten formations, believing that unkempt soldiers are more likely to loot and rape. His approach towards Filipino civilians earned him the enmity of his superior, General Count Hisaichi Terauchi, commander of the Southern Army, who sent adverse reports about Homma to Tokyo from his headquarters in Saigon. Also, subversion was growing within Homma's command by a small group of insubordinates, under the influence of Colonel Masanobu Tsuji. In Homma's name, they sent out secret orders against his policies, including ordering the execution of Filipino Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos and attempted execution of former Speaker of the House of Representatives Manuel Roxas, which Homma found out about in time to stop. Homma failed to give credence to the possibility that a retreat into the Bataan Peninsula by Filipino-American forces might succeed in upsetting the Japanese timetable. By the time he recognized his mistake, his best infantry division had been replaced by a poorly trained reserve brigade, greatly weakening his assault force. Rather than waste his men in furious frontal assaults, he tried to outmaneuver the American forces. This brought criticism from superiors, who believed he had been "contaminated" by Western ideas about conserving the lives of his men. Worried about the stalled offensive in Luzon, Hirohito pressed Army Chief of Staff Hajime Sugiyama twice in January 1942 to increase troop strength and launch a quick knockout on Bataan.Following these orders, Sugiyama put pressure on Homma to renew his attacks. The resulting Battle Of Bataan, commencing in January 1942, was one of the most intense in the campaign. Following Japanese victory in April, at least 60,000 Allied prisoners of war were marched 60 miles (100 km) to a prisoner-of-war camp. Due to ill treatment and abuse from Japanese soldiers, at least 5,500 Allied soldiers died during the march. Homma became known as the Beast of Bataan among Allied soldiers. Despite Japanese victory in the Battle Of Bataan, the deteriorating relationship between Homma and Sugiyama led to the removal of Homma from command shortly after the fall of Corregidor, and he was thereafter commander of the 14th Army in name only. The New York Times erroneously reported prior to the fall of Bataan that Homma was replaced by General Yamashita, and that Homma had committed suicide. The Imperial General Headquarters regarded Homma as not aggressive enough in war (resulting in the high cost and long delay in securing the American and Filipino forces' surrender), and too lenient with the Filipino people in peace, and he was subsequently forced into retirement in August 1943. Homma retired from the military and lived in semiseclusion in Japan until the end of the war. After the surrender of Japan, in mid-September 1945, the American occupation authorities arrested Homma and extradited him to the Philippines, where he was tried by an American tribunal on 48 counts of violating international rules of war relating to the atrocities committed by troops under his command during the Bataan Death March. Homma was arraigned on December 19, 1945, and the trial was held at the High Commissioner's Residence, Manila, between January 3 and February 11, 1946. A team of six lawyers, none of whom had experience in criminal law, was appointed to defend Homma. During his defense, Homma claimed that he was so preoccupied with the plans for the Corregidor assault that he had forgotten about the prisoners' treatment, believing that his officers were properly handling the matter. He claimed that he did not learn of the atrocity until after the war, though his headquarters were only 500 feet (150 m) from the route of the march, stating in court, "I came to know for the first time in the court of [the] atrocities, and I am ashamed of myself should these atrocities have happened." Robert Pelz, a member of Homma's defense team, noted in his diary, "I truly believe [Homma] had no idea of the things that occurred. While it is unclear, according to historian Kevin C. Murphy, whether Homma ordered the atrocities that occurred during the march, his lack of administrative expertise, and his inability to adequately delegate authority and control his men, helped to enable the atrocities. On February 11, 1946, Homma was convicted of all counts and sentenced "to be shot to death with musketry", which is considered to be more honorable than a sentence of death by hanging. Homma's wife visited Douglas MacArthur to urge a careful review of her husband's case. MacArthur affirmed the tribunal's sentence, and Homma was executed by firing squad by American forces on April 3, 1946, in Los Banos, Laguna, a few kilometers from the former internment camp at the University of the Philippines Los Banos. Various claims and charges have been lodged that Homma's trial was unfair or biased and that his trial and execution served primarily to avenge Homma's defeat of General MacArthur's forces. Homma's chief defense counsel, John H. Skeen Jr., stated that it was a "highly irregular trial, conducted in an atmosphere that left no doubt as to what the ultimate outcome would be". American General Arthur Trudeau, a member of the five-member tribunal that condemned Homma, said in a 1971 interview "There's no question but that some men who were either weak or wounded were shot or bayoneted on this Death March. The question is how many echelons of command up is a person responsible to the point where you should condemn him for murder or crime, and that is what General Homma was accused of ... We need to cogitate about our wisdom in condemning General Homma to death. I must admit I was not much in favor of it. In fact, I opposed it but I could only oppose it to a point that allowed him to be shot as a soldier and not hanged ... I thought he was an outstanding soldier." General Douglas MacArthur had a differing conclusion and wrote in his review of the case: "If this defendant does not deserve his judicial fate, none in jurisdictional history ever did. There can be no greater, more heinous, or more dangerous crime than the mass destruction, under guise of military authority or military necessity, of helpless men incapable of further contribution to war effort. A failure of law process to punish such acts of criminal enormity would threaten the very fabric of world society." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-march-of-time-dvd-set-all-3-tv-series-19334631933467.html

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April 3, 1948: Korea: The History Of Korea: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Korean Conflict: The Division Of Korea: The Jeju Uprising (The Jeju April 3 Incident): -- In South Korea's Jeju Province of Jeju Island, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, and last until May 1949. A year prior to its start, residents of Jeju had begun protesting elections scheduled by the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea (UNTCOK) to be held in the United States-occupied half of Korea, which they believed would entrench the division of the country. A general strike was later organised by the Workers' Party of South Korea (WPSK) from February to March 1948. The WPSK launched an insurgency in April 1948, attacking police and Northwest Youth League members stationed on Jeju who had been mobilized to suppress the protests by force. The First Republic of Korea under President Syngman Rhee escalated the suppression of the uprising from August 1948, declaring martial law in November and beginning an "eradication campaign" against rebel forces in the rural areas of Jeju in March 1949, defeating them within two months. Many rebel veterans and suspected sympathizers were later killed upon the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, and the existence of the Jeju uprising was officially censored and repressed in South Korea for several decades. The Jeju uprising was notable for its extreme violence; between 14,000 and 30,000 people (10 percent of Jeju's population) were killed, and 40,000 fled to Japan. Atrocities and war crimes were committed by both sides, but historians have noted that the methods used by the South Korean government to suppress protesters and rebels were especially cruel, with violence against civilians by pro-government forces contributing to the Yeosu-Suncheon rebellion in South Jeolla during the conflict. Some historians and scholars, including military historian Allan R. Millett, regard the Jeju uprising as the true beginning of the Korean War. In 2006, almost 60 years after the Jeju uprising, the South Korean government apologized for its role in the killings and promised reparations. In 2019, the South Korean police and defense ministry apologized for the first time over the massacres. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/korea-the-unknown-war-dvd-complete-6-part-tv-series-3-dis63.html

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April 3, 1948: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Marshall Plan (The European Recovery Program): -- President Harry S. Truman signs the European Recovery Program, better known as the Marshall Plan, to stop the spread of Communism and restore the economic life of European countries devastated by World War II. Over four years, the program distributed 12B USD to the nations of Western Europe. The program was first proposed by Secretary Of State George C. Marshall during a historic speech at Harvard University on June 5, 1947. The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over 13B USD (nearly 110B USD in 2016) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The plan was in operation for four years beginning on April 3, 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-torn regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, improve European prosperity, and prevent the spread of Communism. The Marshall Plan required a lessening of interstate barriers, a dropping of many regulations, and encouraged an increase in productivity, trade union membership, as well as the adoption of modern business procedures. The Marshall Plan aid was divided amongst the participant states roughly on a per capita basis. A larger amount was given to the major industrial powers, as the prevailing opinion was that their resuscitation was essential for general European revival. Somewhat more aid per capita was also directed towards the Allied nations, with less for those that had been part of the Axis or remained neutral. The largest recipient of Marshall Plan money was the United Kingdom (receiving about 26% of the total), followed by France (18%) and West Germany (11%). Some eighteen European countries received Plan benefits. Although offered participation, the Soviet Union refused Plan benefits, and also blocked benefits to Eastern Bloc countries, such as Hungary and Poland. The United States provided similar aid programs in Asia, but they were not part of the Marshall Plan. However, its role in the rapid recovery has been debated. Most reject the idea that it alone miraculously revived Europe, since the evidence shows that a general recovery was already under way. The Marshall Plan's accounting reflects that aid accounted for less than 3% of the combined national income of the recipient countries between 1948 and 1951, which means an increase in GDP growth of only 0.3%. After World War II, in 1947, industrialist Lewis H. Brown wrote at the request of General Lucius D. Clay, A Report on Germany, which served as a detailed recommendation for the reconstruction of post-war Germany, and served as a basis for the Marshall Plan. The initiative was named after United States Secretary Of State George Marshall. The plan had bipartisan support in Washington, where the Republicans controlled Congress and the Democrats controlled the White House with Harry S. Truman as President. The Plan was largely the creation of State Department officials, especially William L. Clayton and George F. Kennan, with help from the Brookings Institution, as requested by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Marshall spoke of an urgent need to help the European recovery in his address at Harvard University in June 1947. The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to aid in the economic recovery of nations after WWII and to reduce the influence of Communist parties within them. To combat the effects of the Marshall Plan, the USSR developed its own economic plan, known as the Molotov Plan, in spite of the fact that large amounts of resources from the Eastern Bloc countries to the USSR were paid as reparations, for countries participating in the Axis Power during the war. The phrase "equivalent of the Marshall Plan" is often used to describe a proposed large-scale economic rescue program. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/after-the-war-the-marshall-plan-dvd.html

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April 3, 1961: #BOTD: #HBD! Eddie Murphy, African American actor, comedian, singer and filmmaker, is #born Edward Regan Murphy in Brooklyn, New York City, and is raised in the borough's Bushwick neighborhood. He rose to fame on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which he was a regular cast member from 1980 to 1984. Murphy has also worked as a stand-up comedian and is ranked No. 10 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. Murphy has received a Grammy Award and Emmy Award and was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2015 and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2023. Murphy has received Golden Globe Award nominations for his performances in 48 Hrs. (1982), the Beverly Hills Cop series (1984-present), Trading Places (1983), The Nutty Professor (1996), and Dolemite Is My Name (2019). He has also won numerous awards for his work on the fantasy comedy film Dr. Dolittle (1998) and its 2001 sequel. In 2007, Murphy won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of soul singer James "Thunder" Early in the musical film Dreamgirls.Murphy has worked as a voice actor, including roles playing Mushu in Disney's Mulan (1998), Thurgood Stubbs in the sitcom The PJs (1999-2001), and Donkey in DreamWorks Animation's Shrek series (2001-2010). He won the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in a Feature Production for the latter. In some films he plays multiple roles in addition to his main character; this is intended as a tribute to one of his idols, Peter Sellers. He has played multiple roles in Coming to America (1988), Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), the Nutty Professor films, Bowfinger (1999), The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002), Norbit (2007), and Meet Dave (2008). He's recently starred in the comedy films Tower Heist (2011), Dolemite Is My Name (2019), Coming 2 America (2021), and You People (2023). In 2020, he won his first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for hosting Saturday Night Live. Murphy's films have grossed over 3.8B USD (6.5B USD adjusted) in the United States and Canada box office, and over 6.7B USD worldwide. In 2015, his films made him the sixth-highest grossing actor in the United States. As a singer, Murphy has released three studio albums, including How Could It Be (1985), So Happy (1989), and Love's Alright (1993). He is also known for singing the hit song "Party All the Time" in 1985. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/mo39-funny-black-comedy-in-america-dvd-video-downlo39.html

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April 3, 1963: The American Civil Rights Movement: Anti-Black Racism In The United States: The Birmingham Campaign (The Birmingham Movement, The Birmingham Confrontation): -- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) begins a campaign of nonviolent direct action led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, Fred Shuttlesworth and others in order to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama, a campaign that lasted until May 10, 1964 and culminated in widely publicized confrontations between young black students and white civic authorities, eventually forcing the Birmingham municipal government to change the city's discrimination laws. In the early 1960s, Birmingham was one of the most racially divided cities in the United States, enforced both legally and culturally. Black citizens faced legal and economic disparities, and violent retribution when they attempted to draw attention to their problems. Martin Luther King Jr. called it the most segregated city in the country. Protests in Birmingham began with a boycott led by Shuttlesworth meant to pressure business leaders to open employment to people of all races, and end segregation in public facilities, restaurants, schools, and stores. When local business and governmental leaders resisted the boycott, the SCLC agreed to assist. Organizer Wyatt Tee Walker joined Birmingham activist Shuttlesworth and began what they called Project C, a series of sit-ins and marches intended to provoke mass arrests. When the campaign ran low on adult volunteers, James Bevel thought of the idea of having students become the main demonstrators in the Birmingham campaign. He then trained and directed high school, college, and elementary school students in nonviolence, and asked them to participate in the demonstrations by taking a peaceful walk 50 at a time from the 16th Street Baptist Church to City Hall in order to talk to the mayor about segregation. This resulted in over a thousand arrests, and, as the jails and holding areas filled with arrested students, the Birmingham Police Department, at the direction of the city Commissioner of Public Safety, Eugene "Bull" Connor, used high-pressure water hoses and police attack dogs on the children and adult bystanders. Not all of the bystanders were peaceful, despite the avowed intentions of SCLC to hold a completely nonviolent walk, but the students held to the nonviolent premise. Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC drew both criticism and praise for allowing children to participate and put themselves in harm's way. The Birmingham campaign was a model of nonviolent direct action protest and, through the media, drew the world's attention to racial segregation in the South. It burnished King's reputation, ousted Connor from his job, forced desegregation in Birmingham, and directly paved the way for the Civil Rights Act Of 1964 which prohibited racial discrimination in hiring practices and public services throughout the United States. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/king-a-filmed-record--montgomery-to-memphis-dvd.html

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April 3, 1964: The American Civil Rights Movement: Black Power: The Black Power Movement (Black Liberation Movement): The Counterculture Of The 1960s: Malcolm X: Speeches By Malcolm X: The Ballot Or The Bullet: -- Malcolm X delivers for the first of two times a speech at the Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio which he entitled The Ballot Or The Bullet, advising African Americans to judiciously exercise their right to vote, but cautioning that if the government continued to prevent African Americans from attaining full equality, it might be necessary for them to take up arms. He would deliver the speech for a second time on April 12th 1964 at the King Solomon Baptist Church, in Detroit, Michigan, of which audio recordings were made. The Ballot Or The Bullet was ranked 7th in the top 100 American speeches of the 20th century by 137 leading scholars of American public address. The Ballot Or The Bullet speech served several purposes at a critical point in Malcolm X's life: it was part of his effort to distance himself from the Nation Of Islam (NOI), and it was intended to reach out to moderate civil rights leaders. At the same time, the speech indicated that Malcolm still supported Black nationalism and self-defense and thus had not made a complete break with his past. The Ballot Or The Bullet also marked a notable shift in Malcolm X's rhetoric, as he presented previously undiscussed ways of looking at the relationship between blacks and whites. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/malcolm-x-mp3-dvd-speeches-amp-broadcasts-23-ho323.html

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April 3, 1966: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Missions To The Moon: Space Probes: Lunar Space Probes: The Soviet Space Program: The Luna Programme (Pejorative: The Lunik Program): Outer Space Firsts: Luna 10 (Pejorative: Lunik 10, Lunik X): -- The lunar probe Luna 10 (Lunik 10), the first artificial satellite of the Moon, enters lunar orbit, and completes its first orbit 3 hours later (on April 4 Moscow time). Luna 10 was launched by the Soviet Union on March 31, 1966 at 10:48:00 GMT from Site 31/6 at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Molniya-M 8K78M rocket. It was thereafter launched towards the Moon from an Earth-orbiting platform later that day, and the spacecraft entered lunar orbit on April 3, 1966, completing its first orbit 3 hours later (on April 4 Moscow time). Luna 10 was battery powered and operated for 460 lunar orbits and 219 active data transmissions before radio signals were discontinued on May 30, 1966. Luna 10 (E-6S series) or Lunik 10 was the tenth of the Soviet Union's Luna programme spacecraft launched to the Moon. Luna 10 conducted extensive research in lunar orbit, gathering important data on the strength of the Moon's magnetic field, its radiation belts, and the nature of lunar rocks (which were found to be comparable to terrestrial basalt rocks), cosmic radiation, and micrometeoroid density. Perhaps its most important finding was the first evidence of mass concentrations called "mascons" -- areas of high density below the mare basins that distort lunar orbital trajectories. Their discovery has usually been credited to the American Lunar Orbiter series. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/to-the-moon-the-story-in-sound-complete-6-album-set-mp3-63.html

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April 3, 1967: Psychology Experiments: Nazism: The Third Wave (The Third Wave Experiment): -- California high school history teacher Ron Jones begins a social movement experiment he created in order to to explain to his students how the German civilian population could accept the actions of the Nazi regime during the Second World War, an experiment known as The Third Wave Experiment. While he taught his students about Nazi Germany during his "Contemporary World History" class, Jones found it difficult to explain how the German people could accept the actions of the Nazis, and decided to create a social movement as a demonstration of the appeal of fascism. Over the course of five days, Jones - a member of the SDS, Cubberley United Student Movement sponsor and Black Panthers supporter - conducted a series of exercises in his classroom emphasizing discipline and community, intended to model certain characteristics of the Nazi movement. As the movement grew outside his class and began to number in the hundreds, Jones began to feel that the movement had spiraled out of control. He convinced the students to attend a rally where he claimed that the classroom project was part of a nationwide movement, and that the announcement of a Third Wave presidential candidate would be televised. Upon their arrival, the students were presented with a blank channel. Jones told his students of the true nature of the movement as an experiment in fascism, and presented to them a short film discussing the actions of Nazi Germany. The events of the experiment were adapted into a 1981 US TV special, The Wave. This formed the basis for the Young Adult novelization of the same name by Todd Strasser, who conducted the story of the Third Wave into a modern time period, who used the pen name Morton Rhue in Europe. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-wave-dvd-afterschool-special.html

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April 3, 1968: The American Civil Rights Movement: Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Segregation: Racial Segregation: Civil Rights Protests: Civil Rights Protests In The United States: Labor Union Disputes (Trade Union Disputes): Strikes (Strike Actions, Labor Strikes, Labour Strikes): Sanitation Strikes: The Memphis Sanitation Strike (The Memphis Sanitation Strike Of 1968): I've Been To The Mountaintop: -- Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his last speech, popularly entited the "I've Been To The Mountaintop" speech, at the Mason Temple (Church Of God In Christ Headquarters) in Memphis, Tennessee, a Christian international sanctuary and central headquarters of the Church Of God In Christ, the largest African American Pentecostal group in the world; he would be assassinated the next day. The speech primarily concerned The Memphis Sanitation Strike by Memphis Department Of Public Works employees whom King had come to Memphis to support, who were demanding higher wages, time and a half overtime, dues check-off (employer withholding of union dues from the employees' pay and their remitting that amount to the union), safety measures, and pay for the rainy days when they were told to go home. King called for unity, economic actions, boycotts, and nonviolent protest, while challenging the United States to live up to its ideals. At the end of the speech, he discussed the possibility of an untimely death, which possibility was realized at 6:01 p.m. CST the following evening. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/1968-dvd-cbs-news-special-report-10-years-later-harry-re196810.html

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April 3, 1969: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The Resistance War Against America): Vietnamization: -- United States Secretary Of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort. Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops". Brought on by the Viet Cong's Tet Offensive, the policy referred to U.S. combat troops specifically in the ground combat role, but did not reject combat by the U.S. Air Force, as well as the support to South Vietnam, consistent with the policies of U.S. foreign military assistance organizations. U.S. citizens' mistrust of their government that had begun after the offensive worsened with the release of news about U.S. soldiers massacring civilians at My Lai (1968), the invasion of Cambodia (1970), and the leaking of the Pentagon Papers (1971). At a January 28, 1969, meeting of the National Security Council, General Andrew Goodpaster, deputy to General Creighton Abrams and commander of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, stated that the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) had been steadily improving, and the point at which the war could be "de-Americanized" was close. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird agreed with the point, but not with the language: "What we need is a term like 'Vietnamizing' to put the emphasis on the right issues." Nixon immediately liked Laird's word. Vietnamization fit into the broader detente policy of the Nixon administration, in which the United States no longer regarded its fundamental strategy as the containment of communism but as a cooperative world order, in which Nixon and his chief adviser Henry Kissinger were focused on the broader constellation of forces and the bigger world powers. Nixon had ordered Kissinger to negotiate diplomatic policies with Soviet statesman Anatoly Dobrynin. Nixon also opened high-level contact with China. U.S. relations with the Soviet Union and China were of higher priority than South Vietnam. Nixon said Vietnamization had two components. The first was "strengthening the armed force of the South Vietnamese in numbers, equipment, leadership and combat skills", while the second was "the extension of the pacification program [i.e. military aid to civilians] in South Vietnam." To achieve the first goal, U.S. helicopters would fly in support; however, helicopter operations were too much part of ground operations to involve U.S. personnel. Thus, ARVN candidates were enrolled in U.S. helicopter schools to take over the operations. As observed by Lieutenant General Dave Palmer, to qualify an ARVN candidate for U.S. helicopter school, he first needed to learn English; this, in addition to the months-long training and practice in the field, made adding new capabilities to the ARVN take at least two years. Palmer did not disagree that the first component, given time and resources, was achievable. However: "Pacification, the second component, presented the real challenge...it was benevolent government action in areas where the government should always have been benevolently active...doing both was necessary if Vietnamization were to work." The policy of Vietnamization, despite its successful execution, was ultimately a failure as the improved ARVN forces and the reduced American and allied component were unable to prevent the fall of Saigon and the subsequent merger of the north and south, to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/vietnam-the-10000-day-war-4-dual-layer-dvds-all-13-10000413.html

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April 3, 1981: The History Of The Computer: The History Of The Computer Industry: The History Of Portable Computers: The Osborne 1: -- The first successful portable computer, The Osborne 1, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco by the Osborne Computer Corporation. It weighed 24.5 lb, cost 1,795 USD, and runs the CP/M 2.2 operating system. It is powered from a wall socket, as it has no on-board battery, but it is still classed as a portable device since it can be hand-carried when the keyboard is closed. The computer shipped with a large bundle of software that was almost equivalent in value to the machine itself, a practice adopted by other CP/M computer vendors. Competitors quickly appeared, such as the Kaypro II. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-machine-that-changed-the-world-the-computer-dvd-mp4-downloa4.html

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April 3, 1991: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War I): The Aftermath Of The Gulf War: The 1991 Iraqi Uprisings (The 1991 Iraqi Civil War): The Iraqi-Kurdish Conflict: -- In the aftermath of the Iraqi defeat in the First Gulf War, the Iraqi army massacres Kurds in Northern Iraq. At the end of the Persian Gulf War. United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 gave birth to a safe haven following international concern for the safety of Kurdish refugees. The U.S. and the Coalition established a No Fly Zone over a large part of northern Iraq, however, it left out Sulaymaniyah, Kirkuk and other important Kurdish populated regions. After ousting the Peshmerga from Kirkuk on March 29, the government tanks rolled into Dahuk and Irbil on March 30, Zakho on April 1, and Sulaymaniyah, the last important town held by the rebels, on April 3. The advance of government forces was halted at Kore, a narrow valley near the ruins of Qaladiza, where a successful defense was held by the Kurds led by Massoud Barzani. According to the United States Department of State and the Foreign Affairs group of the Parliament of Australia, Iranian rebel organization People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI, also known as MEK), sheltered in Iraq by Saddam Hussein, assisted the Republican Guard in brutally suppressing the uprisings. Maryam Rajavi has been reported by former PMOI members as having said, "Take the Kurds under your tanks, and save your bullets for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards." On April 5, the government announced "the complete crushing of acts of sedition, sabotage and rioting in all towns of Iraq." On that same day, the United Nations Security Council approved Resolution 688 condemning the Iraqi government's oppression of the Kurds and requiring Iraq to respect the human rights of its citizens. Bloody clashes between Iraqi forces and Kurdish troops continued and, after an uneasy and shaky balance of power was reached, the Iraqi government fully withdrew its military and other personnel from the region in October 1991 allowing Iraqi Kurdistan to function de facto independently. The region was to be ruled by the two principal Kurdish parties; the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). The region also has its own flag and national anthem. At the same time, Iraq imposed an economic blockade over the region, reducing its oil and food supplies. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/after-the-war-with-bill-moyers-gulf-war-i-aftermath-dvd-mp4-downloa4.html

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April 3: National Find A Rainbow Day: -- Perhaps one of the more interesting and yet lesser-known holidays is an event that is affectionately known as Find A Rainbow Day. As the reader may have already guessed, this celebration occurs during the month of April each year -after all, the early spring is known for its fair share of these beautifully stunning phenomena of refracted light! Of course, finding a rainbow is not as easy as it may sound but, if a person is lucky enough to find themselves outside just after a rainstorm in early April, it may just be possible to catch a quick glimpse and even take a snapshot of one of these wonderful natural events. With some extra luck, it may even be possible to spot a double rainbow! So, in this case, it appears that there are indeed times when a bit of rain is not necessarily a bad thing! The science behind rainbows was recorded in 1693. This is when scientists realized that rainbows are caused by light from the sun bending in such a way from the raindrops that it causes a rainbow. Throughout human history, rainbows have often been a sign of hope and wellness. And, of course, many people know the legend that if one is ever able to find the bottom of the rainbow, they might also find a leprechaun's pot of gold waiting for them! This legend originates from Ireland and stories of leprechauns have been around since as far back as the 8th century. While finding the bottom of a rainbow might not actually be possible in terms of science, it's still a fun legend and story for kids, as well as adults who are kids-at-heart. And a great way to celebrate Find A Rainbow Day! https://store.earthstation1.com/wjsv-radio-mp3-cd-entire-broadcast-day-sep-3211939.html

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April 3: National Tweed Day: -- While there is a supposed "controversy" whether National Tweed Day, observed on this date, is celebrated because of either Boss Tweed's birthday or in celebration of the tweed material, it's clear the former gave rise to the selection of this date to celebrate the latter. Tweed is a rough, woollen fabric, of a soft, open, flexible texture. It resembles homespun or cheviot, a woolen fabric made originally from the wool of Cheviot sheep and now also made from other types of wool or from blends of wool and man-made fibers in plain or various twill weaves. Unlike cheviot, tweed is more closely woven. It is usually woven with a plain weave, twill or herringbone structure. Colour effects in the yarn may be obtained by mixing dyed wool before it is spun. Tweeds are an icon of traditional Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and English clothing, being desirable for informal outerwear, due to the material being moisture-resistant and durable. Tweeds are made to withstand harsh climates[3] and are commonly worn for outdoor activities such as shooting and hunting, in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. In Ireland, tweed manufacturing is now most associated with County Donegal but originally covered the whole country.[4] In Scotland, tweed manufacturing is most associated with the Isle of Harris in the Hebrides. https://store.earthstation1.com/fibber-mcgee-and-molly-mp3-dvd-complete-radio-serie3.html

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April 3: National Tweed Day: -- April 3, 1823: #BOTD: William M. "Boss" Tweed, American lawyer, politician and Tammany Hall Boss (d. April 12, 1878) is #born in New York City. From 1851 to 1871, his 'Tweed Ring' of political corruption looted millions from New York City, bringing the city to the verge of bankruptcy. Methods included padding city bills by 85 percent and writing checks to non-existent persons and companies. His power was broken after a series of critical editorial cartoons by Thomas Nast were published in Harper's Weekly magazine. Tweed was arrested and convicted on charges of larceny and forgery. He died of severe pneumonia in the Ludlow Street Jail in New York City, aged 55. He is buried in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. Mayor Smith Ely would not allow the flag at City Hall to be flown at half staff. While there is a supposed "controversy" whether National Tweed Day, observed on this date, is celebrated because of either Boss Tweed's birthday or in celebration of the tweed material, it's clear the former gave rise to the selection of this date to celebrate the latter. https://store.earthstation1.com/remember-when-page-one-dvd-journalism-history-dick-cavett.html

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April 3, 1996: #DOTD: #RIP: Carl Stokes, African American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Seychelles (b. 1927) #dies of cancer of the esophagus at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland Ohio while serving as Ambassador to the Seychelles, aged 68. His funeral was held at Cleveland Music Hall, presided over by the Rev. Otis Moss. The funeral was carried on WERE radio. Stokes was buried at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. Carl Stokes was a member of the Democratic party who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967, and taking office on January 1, 1968, he was the first black elected mayor of a major U.S. city. Stokes was born Carl Burton Stokes in Cleveland, the son of Louise (Stone) and Charles Stokes, a laundryman who died when Carl was three years old. He and his brother, politician Louis Stokes, were raised by their mother in Cleveland's first federally funded housing project for the poor, Outhwaite Homes. Although a good student, Stokes dropped out of high school in 1944, worked briefly at Thompson Products (later TRW), then joined the U.S. Army at age 18. After his discharge in 1946, Stokes returned to Cleveland and earned his high school diploma in 1947. He then attended several colleges before earning his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1954. He graduated from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1956 and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1957. While studying law he was a probation officer. For four years, he served as assistant prosecutor and became partner in the law firm of Stokes, Stokes, continuing that practice into his political career; it was successful after one year. Elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1962, he served three terms. Stokes worked hard to even out legislative districts. Then, Ohio had uneven representation among its Congressional and General Assembly districts. By the late 1960s, he was able to carve out a district that could elect him to Congress, but deferred to his brother Louis Stokes who represented Cleveland in the US House of Representatives for three decades. Stokes narrowly lost a bid for mayor of Cleveland in 1965. His victory two years later drew national attention, as he was the first black mayor of one of the ten biggest cities in the United States. Able to mobilize both black and white voters, Stokes defeated Seth Taft, the grandson of former President William Howard Taft, with a 50.5% margin. At the time of his election, Cleveland was a majority white city with a 37% black population. A crucial part of his support came from businessmen living outside the city limits of Cleveland, especially Squire, Sanders and Dempsey lawyers Ralph Besse and Elmer Lindseth who were directors and officers of the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company and wanted Stokes to rein in the City's Municipal Electric and Light Plant. Stokes tried to rein in the city's municipal utility but was thwarted by city councilmen whose wards took advantage of the cheaper product. After his election, Stokes said, "I can find no more fitting way to end this appeal, by saying to all of you, in a more serious and in the most meaningful way that I can, that truly never before have I ever known to the extent that I know tonight, the full meaning of the words, 'God Bless America', thanks a lot." As mayor, Stokes opened city hall jobs to blacks and women. He was known as a strong administrator, and is remembered for his vision and motivation. Stokes feuded with City Council and the Police Department for most of his tenure. He also initiated Cleveland: Now!, a public and private funding program aimed at the revitalization of Cleveland neighborhoods. Stokes pulled through and was reelected in 1969. He also led the effort to restore Cleveland's Cuyahoga River in the aftermath of the river fire of June 1969 that brought national attention to the issue of industrial pollution in Cleveland. After his mayoral administration, Stokes lectured to colleges around the country. In 1972, he became the first black anchorman in New York City when he took a job with television station WNBC-TV. While at WNBC New York, Stokes won a New York State Regional Emmy for excellence in craft, for a piece about the opening of the Paul Robeson play, starring James Earl Jones on Broadway. After accusing NBC of failing to promote him to a national brief, he returned to Cleveland in 1980 and began serving as general legal counsel for the United Auto Workers. From 1983 to 1994, he served as municipal judge in Cleveland. President Bill Clinton then appointed him U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Seychelles. Stokes was awarded 12 honorary degrees, numerous civic awards, and represented the United States on numerous goodwill trips abroad by request of the White House. In 1970, the National League of Cities voted him its first black president-elect. The US Federal Courthouse Tower in downtown Cleveland, completed in 2002, was named the Carl B. Stokes Federal Court House Building. There are many other buildings, monuments and a street named for his memory within the City of Cleveland including the CMHA Carl Stokes Center, Stokes Boulevard, and the eponymous Carl Stokes Brigade club. Members of the Brigade celebrate his birthday every year at Lakeview Cemetery with gravesite services. In November 2006, the Western Reserve Historical Society opened an exhibit entitled Carl and Louis Stokes: from Projects to Politics. Focusing on the brothers' early life at the Outhwaite projects, service in World War II, and eventual rise to politics, the exhibit ran until September 2008. In Timothy Crouse's seminal non-fiction book The Boys on the Bus detailing the 1972 United States presidential election, Crouse reported that in a conversation with future The New York Times national correspondent Jim Naughton, Naughton said of Stokes: "When I was in Cleveland and I was a young political reporter...there was a state representative named Carl Stokes who came along. Black. A man of immense charm. Seemed to me to represent what was right, what was the future. I thought he would make one helluva mayor. And my news stories may have reflected that, and I'm sure my columns did. And that may or may not have helped him get elected. And as soon as he got elected, he turned around and shat on all the people who had worked their asses off for him. He was just a bastard. He had terminal ego. And that convinced me you should never place your trust in a politician. And I think that was a very valuable object lesson." https://store.earthstation1.com/eyes-on-the-prize-ii-dvd-set-4-discs-complete-2nd-seri42.html

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April 3, 1942: World War II: The Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The Philippines Campaign (1941-1942) (The Battle Of The Philippines, The Fall Of The Philippines): The Battle Of Bataan (The Fall Of Bataan): -- Japanese forces begin a final assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. The Battle Of Bataan (January 7, - April 9, 1942) represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II. In January 1942, forces of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy invaded Luzon along with several islands in the Philippine Archipelago after the bombing of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. The commander-in-chief of all Filipino and U.S. forces in the islands, General Douglas MacArthur, consolidated all of his Luzon-based units on the Bataan Peninsula to fight against the Japanese invaders. By this time, the Japanese controlled nearly all of Southeast Asia. The Bataan peninsula and the island of Corregidor were the only remaining Allied strongholds in the region. Despite a lack of supplies, Filipino and American forces managed to fight the Japanese for three months, engaging them initially in a fighting retreat southward. As the combined Filipino and American forces made a last stand, the delay cost the Japanese valuable time and prevented immediate victory across the Pacific. The surrender at Bataan, with 76,000 soldiers surrendering in the Philippines altogether, was the largest in American and Filipino military histories, and was the largest United States surrender since the American Civil War's Battle of Harper's Ferry. Soon afterwards, Filipino and U.S. prisoners of war were forced into the Bataan Death March. https://store.earthstation1.com/heroes-still-the-bataan-death-march-dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Information Please Radio Quiz Show MP3 DVD, Audio Download, USB Drive
Today, April 3,2026
April 3, 1957: #DOTD: #RIP: Ned Sparks, Canadian-American character actor of the American stage and screen (b. November 19, 1883) #dies in Victorville, California, on April 3, 1957, from the effects of an intestinal blockage, aged 73. He is buried at Victor Valley Memorial Park cemetery in Victorville, San Bernardino County, California. Ned Sparks was born Edward Arthur Sparkman in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He was known for his deadpan expression and comically nasal, monotone delivery. https://store.earthstation1.com/complete-information-please-quiz-show-old-time-radio-mp3-dv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Dark Journey 1937 WWI Spy Film Conrad Veidt Vivien Leigh DVD, MP4, USB
Today, April 3,2026
April 3, 1943: #DOTD: #RIP: Conrad Veidt, German-American actor, director, and producer (b. January 22, 1893) #dies of a massive heart attack while playing golf at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles with singer Arthur Fields and his personal physician, Dr. Bergman, who pronounced him dead on the scene, aged 50. Conrad Veidt was born Hans Walter Conrad Veidt in his parents' home at Tieckstrasse 39 in Berlin, German Empire. Conrad Veidt was best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Man Who Laughs (1928), and, after being forced to migrate to Britain by the rise of Nazism in Germany, his English-speaking roles in Dark Journey (1937), The Thief of Bagdad (1940), and, in Hollywood, Casablanca (1942), in which he appeared as Major Strasser. After a successful career in German silent film, where he was one of the best-paid stars of Ufa, he left Germany in 1933 with his new Jewish wife after the Nazis came to power. They settled in Britain, where he participated in a number of films before emigrating to the United States around 1941. https://store.earthstation1.com/dark-journey-1937-dvd-conrad-veidt-vivien-leigh-wwi-espio1937.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Pinky Lee Classic TV Kid Shows Collection MP4 Download Or DVD
Today, April 3,2026
April 3, 1993: #DOTD: #RIP: Pinky Lee, American burlesque comedian and host of the children's television program The Pinky Lee Show in the early 1950s (b. May 2, 1907) #dies of a heart attack in Mission Viejo, California, aged 85. His interment was at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery. Pinky Lee was born Pincus Leff into a Jewish family in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Lee worked as a comic of the "baggy pants" variety on stage, becoming an expert at the slapstick, comic dancing and rapid-fire jokes of the burlesque style. During the 1940s, he was heard on Drene Time and other radio programs. Easily recognized by his trademark lisp and high-energy antics, his signature costume was a loud plaid suit with baggy checkered pants and an undersized hat. During his routines, whenever anybody irritated him (which happened frequently) he would unleash his catchphrase: "Oooooh! You make me so mad!". In 1950, he had his own 30-minute primetime variety television series on NBC, The Pinky Lee Show, featuring vaudevillians and burlesque comics. In 1951-52 he starred with Vivian Blaine in a 15-minute sitcom, Those Two. He returned in 1954 with The Pinky Lee Show, sponsored by Tootsie Roll. An Emmy-nominated afternoon children's program that spawned later imitators such as Pee-Wee's Playhouse, it was followed each day by the popular Howdy Doody Show. Lee opened each show with his trademark theme song, "Yoo Hoo, It's Me!". In 1955, Lee collapsed on camera due to an infection. His normal antics were so energetic that apparently the cameraman and the show's director assumed the fall an ad lib part of his performance. The "Peanut Gallery", an audience usually composed almost entirely of pre-adolescent children who were coached by a staff member, continued their enthusiastic cheering and applause from the on-stage bleachers. After as much as ten seconds of writhing by the stricken Lee, the camera abruptly panned to the still-cheering audience. The following afternoons Pinky Lee was not present. This effectively ended his leading role on the show, which continued without him until 1956. Rumors that he had died of a heart attack, prompted by the incident, persisted for decades. Occasionally, newspaper items mentioned the "late" Lee-even though he was performing at a dinner theater in the same city as one of the reporting newspapers. The incident also spawned rumors that Lee had been institutionalized after going insane on live television. In 1957, Lee hosted The Gumby Show, the original appearance of that claymation character. In 1964, Lee attempted a return to kids' TV, hosting a local children's comedy program on KABC-TV in Los Angeles. This series was nationally syndicated for the 1964-65 TV seasons, but the program fell prey to creative interference from the show's producers and station management. Lee fought the interference, but his efforts were for naught. The Pinky Lee Kids TV Show went off the air after one season. In later years, Lee worked as a teacher and appeared in regional musical theater productions. https://store.earthstation1.com/pinky-lee-dvd-classic-tv-kid-shows.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Crime Inc.: The True Story Of The Mafia TV Series DVD, MP4, USB Stick
Today, April 3,2026
April 3, 1971: #DOTD: Joseph Valachi, American gangster in the Genovese crime family who is notable as the first member of the Italian-American Mafia to acknowledge its existence publicly (b. September 22, 1904) #dies of a heart attack while he was serving his sentence for heroin trafficking at the Federal Correctional Institution, La Tuna, in Anthony, Texas. He was buried four days later at The Gate Of Heaven Cemetery in Lewiston, New York. He was born Joseph Michael Valachi in the East Harlem area of New York City, United States, to Domenico Villacci and Maria Michela Casale. His parents were impoverished Italian immigrants from Cervinara, in the region of Campania. His father was a violent alcoholic, and Valachi later blamed his background for his having turned to organized crime. Joe Valachi is credited with popularization of the term "Cosa Nostra" (Sicilian: "Our Thing"). He was convicted of drug trafficking in 1959, and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. While he and Genovese family boss Vito Genovese were in prison together, he murdered an inmate he thought to be a hitman sent by Genovese in 1962, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He subsequently became a government witness, and in 1963, Valachi testified before a U.S. Senate committee, known as the Valachi hearings. Valachi disclosed previously unknown information about the Italian-American Mafia including its structure, operations, rituals and membership. His testimony was the first major violation of omerta, the mafia's code of silence, and the first concrete evidence that the Italian-American Mafia existed to federal authorities and the general public. The trial also exposed the hierarchy of the American Mafia, including the Five Families and The Commission. https://store.earthstation1.com/crime-inc-the-true-story-of-the-mafia-dvd-set-2-disc2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, April 3,2026
April 3, 1990: #DOTD: #RIP: Sarah Vaughan, African American jazz singer and beauty (b. March 27, 1924) #dies of lung cancer caused by heavy smoking in Hidden Hills, California aged 66 while watching the movie Laker Girls, a television movie featuring her adopted daughter, Deborah Lois Atkins, known professionally as Paris Vaughan. Her funeral was held at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. Following the ceremony, a horse-drawn carriage transported her body to Glendale Cemetery, Bloomfield. Sarah Vaughan was born Sarah Lois Vaughan in Newark, New Jersey. She has been described by music critic Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century." Nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One", Vaughan was a four-time Grammy Award winner, including a "Lifetime Achievement Award". The National Endowment for the Arts bestowed upon her its "highest honor in jazz", the NEA Jazz Masters Award, in 1989. https://store.earthstation1.com/sarah-vaughan-the-divine-one-dvd.html