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April 18: National Exercise Day: -- A day
to encourage everyone to participate in physical activities.
Exercise enhances our general health by giving us more energy,
making us feel better, and even extending our lives by years.
Regular physical activity and exercise have several health
benefits that are impossible to overlook. Everyone, regardless of
age, gender, or physical ability, benefits from exercise.
Unfortunately, despite how important exercising is, only a few
individuals are dedicated to it. National Exercise Day is a day to
encourage and motivate people to exercise, with the aim that it
will be the start of a new habit for everyone. Ancient Greece is
the most well-known figure in fitness history, yet general fitness
is thought to have played a part in virtually every significant
civilization throughout history. The history of fitness and
exercise in all of its incarnations has been prevalent over time
and place, from the early birth of yoga in ancient India to the
intense mob football sports of medieval Europe. Yoga is the
earliest type of exercise that has been documented, dating back to
3300 B.C. in India. This mind-body discipline has taken on many
different shapes since its origin. Though spiritual and/or mental
health has dominated the history of yoga, other varieties, such as
Hatha yoga, have also stressed physical well-being. Since ancient
times, people have understood that exercise has several health
benefits. It is exercise alone that supports the spirits and keeps
the mind in strength, observed Marcus Cicero, a Roman politician,
and lawyer, in 65 B.C. Later in history, during the Early Middle
Ages, Northern European Germanic peoples saw exercise as a means
of survival. Jerry Morris headed a team that discovered the link
between exercise and physical health in 1949 and published a
report on it in 1953. Dr. Morris discovered that men of similar
occupations and social classes had significantly different rates
of heart attacks depending on the amount of exercise they
received. Bus drivers had a job that required a lot of sitting, so
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Today, April 28, 2026
April 18: The International Day For
Monuments And Sites: -- A day that raises awareness of cultural
heritage diversity, the vulnerability of sites and monuments, and
the measures needed to maintain and conserve them. Every year, the
International Council of Monuments and Sites (I.C.O.M.O.S.) sets a
theme for initiatives organized by its members, national and
international committees, and anyone else interested in
commemorating this day. The organization invites participants to
focus on contentious and complex narratives about cultural
heritage, to encourage the development of new discourses based on
a respectful and inclusive approach. Addressing erroneous or
contentious historical interpretations appears to be critical to
preserving our heritage, given that the deterioration or
extinction of any cultural property, as stated by the UNESCO 1954
and 1972 treaties, causes harm to mankind as a whole. The
International Day for Monuments and Sites was developed by
I.C.O.M.O.S. in 1982 and was later adopted by UNESCO during its
22nd General Conference. I.C.O.M.O.S. suggests a theme for
activities to be arranged by its members, I.C.O.M.O.S. National
and International Scientific Committees, Working Groups, and
partners, as well as anybody else who wants to participate in
commemorating the day. Cultural heritage conservation necessitates
both a critical evaluation of the past and a commitment to the
future. In recent years, debates concerning the deletion and
erasure of some narratives, as well as the prioritization of
certain stories over others, have heated up. As a result, dealing
with contentious history necessitates lengthy discussions to avoid
skewed perspectives and interpretations of the past. "The
deterioration or extinction of any item of cultural or natural
heritage represents a damaging impoverishment of the legacy of all
nations of the world," according to the World Heritage
Convention in 1972. However, there are still disparities in the
recognition, interpretation, and, ultimately, conservation of
various cultural manifestations. The first International Day for
Monuments and Sites, on the other hand, took place in 2001 with
the theme "Save Our Historic Villages." Organizations
such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization support the day (UNESCO). There are a variety of
activities taken on all across the world on this day. This
comprises a variety of activities, as well as conferences and
excursions to historical places and monuments. For the
uninitiated, a heritage site is essentially a culturally
significant location. It protects a society's or group's
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Today, April 28, 2026
April 18: World Amateur Radio Day: --
World Amateur Radio Day (WARD) is an opportunity to celebrate the
many accomplishments and contributions of amateur radio to the
communications technology revolution which has dramatically
impacted the daily life of virtually everyone on the planet. Many
of these technologies and techniques started as experiments, not
by governments or commercial enterprises, but by radio amateurs.
WARD 2021 commemorates the 96th anniversary of the International
Amateur Radio Union's founding in 1925, where amateurs first met
in Paris to band together to give voice to these early
experimenters to national governments and international bodies
representing all radio amateurs. The almost universal adoption of
mobile technology created ever increasing demand on a finite
resource, the radio spectrum. Access to useable spectrum is the
fundamental base on which amateur radio was built and continues to
be developed. As a result, amateur radio is very different than
decades ago. Embracing new technologies and techniques has greatly
expanded what amateur radio is and opened further possibilities as
to what it could be. The proliferation of technology also means
that the ongoing experimentation and innovation in electronics,
radio frequency technique and radio wave propagation is no longer
only the traditional realm of the radio amateur but also includes
university research satellites, the "maker" community,
and other non-commercial experimenters: citizen scientists.
Looking ahead, this ongoing evolution of the telecommunications
ecosystem makes it clear that the national Member Societies of the
IARU and IARU itself must also continuously change and adapt. A
century later, the future possibilities are as exciting as ever.
Celebrate World Amateur Radio Day. The pandemic and more localized
natural disasters continue to demonstrate the value of ordinary
citizens as technically skilled contributors to society. The
original social network is robust. Expose someone new to amateur
radio (properly distanced), get on the air and contact the many
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Today, April 28, 2026
April 18: There Is No News Day: -- April
18, 1930: The History Of Broadcasting: The History Of Radio
Broadcasting: -- The British Broadcasting Corporation announces
that "there is no news" in their evening report. The
British Broadcasting Company broadcast its first radio bulletin
from radio station 2LO on November 14, 1922. Wishing to avoid
competition, newspaper publishers persuaded the government to ban
the BBC from broadcasting news before 7 PM, and to force it to use
wire service copy instead of reporting on its own. On Easter
weekend, April 18, 1930, this reliance on newspaper wire services
left the radio news service with no information to report after
saying "There is no news today". Piano music was played
instead. The BBC gradually gained the right to edit the copy and,
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Today, April 28, 2026
April 18: National Columnists' Day: -- A
day to honor all newspaper columnists and their contributions to
the truth in black and white. On this date in 1945, Pulitzer
Prize-winning war correspondent, Ernie Pyle, died while on
assignment in Okinawa, Japan. The National Society of Newspaper
Columnists, which was founded in 1977, sponsors and promotes
National Columnists' Day annually on April 18 in his honor.
Columnists have the ability to inspire a plethora of emotions that
often result in action. What many may not realize is that it is
their intent. If their readers are not moved by their column, they
have not done their job. With their own flavor of humor or satire,
some columnists lighten the mood or play a role. Others strictly
provide us with a different perspective, hard facts and solid
research. Whatever their style or approach, each columnist's hard
work connects them to the world. Well-known columnists have
certainly inspired ire and laughter at many a breakfast table.
They poke fun and holes at political leaders while commenting on
today's gossip. Depending on their area of expertise, they may
also share a little bit of gossip. Whether it's about fashion,
movies, politics, sports, business or family matters, columnists
like Walter Winchell, Molly Ivins, Maureen Dowd, William Safire,
Dave Barry and Ernie Pyle engaged readers with their wit and
insight. Columnists spur debate and cause us to consider our
positions. To observe National Columnists Day, celebrate by
acknowledging all the people who do the research and write the
columns that we rely on reading each day. Share your favorite
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Today, April 28, 2026
April 18, 1775: The Age Of Enlightenment
(The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The
Atlantic Revolutions: The American Enlightenment: The American
Revolution: The American Revolutionary War: The Battles Of
Lexington and Concord: The Midnight Ride (Paul Revere's Midnight
Ride, The Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere, William Dawes's Midnight
Ride, The Midnight Ride Of William Dawes): -- Paul Revere And
William Dawes ride their horses out of Boston about 10 p.m. to
warn patriots at Lexington and Concord of the approaching British.
Between 9 and 10 p.m., Joseph Warren told Revere and William Dawes
that the king's troops were about to embark in boats from Boston
bound for Cambridge and the road to Lexington and Concord in order
to engage in the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Warren's
intelligence suggested that the most likely objectives of the
regulars' movements later that night would be the capture of Adams
and Hancock. They did not worry about the possibility of regulars
marching to Concord, since the supplies at Concord were safe, but
they did think their leaders in Lexington were unaware of the
potential danger that night. Revere and Dawes were sent out to
warn them and to alert colonial militias in nearby towns. In the
days before April 18, Revere had instructed Robert Newman, the
sexton of the North Church, to send a signal by lantern to alert
colonists in Charlestown as to the movements of the troops when
the information became known. In what is well known today by the
phrase "one if by land, two if by sea", one lantern in
the steeple would signal the army's choice of the land route while
two lanterns would signal the route "by water" across
the Charles River (the movements would ultimately take the water
route, and therefore two lanterns were placed in the steeple).
Revere first gave instructions to send the signal to Charlestown.
He then crossed the Charles River by rowboat, slipping past the
British warship HMS Somerset at anchor. Crossings were banned at
that hour, but Revere safely landed in Charlestown and rode to
Lexington, avoiding a British patrol and later warning almost
every house along the route. The Charlestown colonists dispatched
additional riders to the north. Riding through present-day
Somerville, Medford, and Arlington, Revere warned patriots along
his route, many of whom set out on horseback to deliver warnings
of their own. By the end of the night there were probably as many
as 40 riders throughout Middlesex County carrying the news of the
army's advance. Revere did not shout the phrase later attributed
to him ("The British are coming!"): his mission depended
on secrecy, the countryside was filled with British army patrols,
and most of the Massachusetts colonists (who were predominantly
English in ethnic origin) still considered themselves British.
Revere's warning, according to eyewitness accounts of the ride and
Revere's own descriptions, was "The Regulars are coming out."
Revere arrived in Lexington around midnight, with Dawes arriving
about a half-hour later. They met with Samuel Adams and John
Hancock, who were spending the night with Hancock's relatives (in
what is now called the Hancock-Clarke House), and they spent a
great deal of time discussing plans of action upon receiving the
news. They believed that the forces leaving the city were too
large for the sole task of arresting two men and that Concord was
the main target. The Lexington men dispatched riders to the
surrounding towns, and Revere and Dawes continued along the road
to Concord accompanied by Samuel Prescott, a doctor who happened
to be in Lexington "returning from a lady friend's house at
the awkward hour of 1 a.m.". Revere, Dawes, and Prescott were
detained by a British Army patrol in Lincoln at a roadblock on the
way to Concord.[41] Prescott jumped his horse over a wall and
escaped into the woods; he eventually reached Concord. Dawes also
escaped, though he fell off his horse not long after and did not
complete the ride. Revere was captured and questioned by the
British soldiers at gunpoint. He told them of the army's movement
from Boston, and that British army troops would be in some danger
if they approached Lexington, because of the large number of
hostile militia gathered there. He and other captives taken by the
patrol were still escorted east toward Lexington, until about a
half mile from Lexington they heard a gunshot. The British major
demanded Revere explain the gunfire, and Revere replied it was a
signal to "alarm the country". As the group drew closer
to Lexington, the town bell began to clang rapidly, upon which one
of the captives proclaimed to the British soldiers "The
bell's a'ringing! The town's alarmed, and you're all dead men!".
The British soldiers gathered and decided not to press further
towards Lexington but instead to free the prisoners and head back
to warn their commanders. The British confiscated Revere's horse
and rode off to warn the approaching army column. Revere walked to
Rev. Jonas Clarke's house, where Hancock and Adams were staying.
As the battle on Lexington Green unfolded, Revere assisted Hancock
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Today, April 28, 2026
April 18: Russian Days Of Military
Honour: Victory Over The Teutonic Knights In The Battle On The Ice
(The Battle Of Lake Peipus [German: Schlacht Auf Dem Peipussee;
Russian: Bitva Na Chudskom Ozere): -- Celebrates the final victory
of the Russian forces of the Republic of Novgorod, led by Prince
Alexander Nevsky, who rebuffed an invasion attempt by the crusader
army led by the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Knights that was
fought on April 5, 1242. The battle is notable for having been
fought largely on the frozen lake, and this gave the battle its
name. The battle was a significant defeat sustained by the
crusaders during the Northern Crusades, which were directed
against pagans and Eastern Orthodox Christians rather than Muslims
in the Holy Land. The Crusaders' defeat in the battle marked the
end of their campaigns against the Orthodox Novgorod Republic and
other Slavic territories for the next century. The event was
glorified in Sergei Eisenstein's historical drama film Alexander
Nevsky, released in 1938, which created a popular image of the
battle often mistaken for the real events. Sergei Prokofiev turned
his score for the film into a concert cantata of the same title,
with "The Battle on the Ice" being its longest movement.
The Days Of Military Honour are special memorable dates in the
Russian Armed Forces dedicated to the most outstanding victories
won by Russia. Some of these dates are state holidays but the
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Today, April 28, 2026
April 18, 1857: #BOTD: #HBD! Clarence
Darrow, American lawyer, author, leading member of the American
Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist
economic reform (d. March 13, 1938) is #born Clarence Seward
Darrow in the small town of Farmdale, Ohio. Clarence Darrow
defended high-profile clients in many famous trials of the early
20th century, including Eugene V. Debs, the leader of the American
Railway Union, who was prosecuted by the federal government for
leading the Pullman Strike of 1894; teenage thrill killers Leopold
and Loeb for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks
(1924); teacher John T. Scopes in the Scopes "Monkey"
Trial (1925), in which he opposed statesman and orator William
Jennings Bryan; and Ossian Sweet in a racially-charged case
involving armed self-defense of Sweet's newly purchased home in a
white neighborhood against a mob trying to force him out (1926).
Called a "sophisticated country lawyer", Darrow's wit
and eloquence made him one of the most prominent attorneys and
civil libertarians in the nation. He is buried at Oak Woods
Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois. Clarence Darrow died at his home,
in Chicago, Illinois, of pulmonary heart disease, aged 80. He is
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Today, April 28, 2026
April 18, 1906: Natural Disasters:
Natural Disasters In The United States: Earthquakes (Quakes,
Tremors, Temblors): The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (The Great
San Francisco Earthquake): -- The deadliest earthquake in the
history of the United States occurs at 05:12 Pacific Standard Time
on a Wednesday morning when the coast of Northern California was
struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of
7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).
High-intensity shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to
the Salinas Valley, an agricultural region to the south of the San
Francisco Bay Area. Devastating fires from overturned wood stoves
and broken gas pipes soon broke out in the city and lasted for
several days. As a result, up to 3,000 people died and over 80% of
the city of San Francisco was destroyed. The events are remembered
as one of the worst and deadliest earthquakes in the history of
the United States. The death toll remains the greatest loss of
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Today, April 28, 2026
April 18, 1915: The European Civil War:
World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World
War I): The Western Front Of World War I: Air Warfare Of World War
I: -- Roland Garros, French pioneering aviator and fighter pilot
during World War I and early days of aviation, glides to a landing
on the German side of the lines during World War I, after his fuel
line clogged or his aircraft was hit by ground fire. Garros failed
to destroy his aircraft completely before being taken prisoner:
most significantly, the gun and armoured propeller remained
intact. It was reported that after examining the plane, German
aircraft engineers, led by Fokker, designed the improved
interrupter gear system. In fact the work on Fokker's system had
been going for at least six months before Garros's aircraft fell
into their hands. In the early stages of the air war in World War
I the problem of mounting a forward-firing machine gun on combat
aircraft was considered by several people. As a reconnaissance
pilot with the Escadrille MS26, Garros visited the Morane-Saulnier
Works in December 1914. Saulnier's work on metal deflector wedges
attached to propeller blades was taken forward by Garros; he
eventually had a workable installation fitted to his
Morane-Saulnier Type L aircraft. The Aero Club of America awarded
him a medal for this invention three years later. Garros achieved
the first ever shooting-down of an aircraft by a fighter firing
through a tractor propeller, on April 1, 1915; two more victories
over German aircraft were achieved on April 15 and 18. With the
advent of Fokker's interrupter gear, the tables were turned on the
Allies, with Fokker's planes shooting down many Allied aircraft,
leading to what became known as the Fokker Scourge. After almost
three years in captivity in various German POW camps, Garros
managed to escape on February 14 1918 together with fellow aviator
lieutenant Anselme Marchal. Via the Netherlands they made it to
London, England and from there back to France where he rejoined
the French army. He settled into Escadrille 26 to pilot a SPAD,
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Today, April 28, 2026
April 18, 1923: Grand Openings: Sport
Stadium Openings: -- The original Yankee Stadium, "The House
That Ruth Built", opens in the Bronx, New York City. It was
the home ballpark of the New York Yankees, the city's American
League franchise, from 1923 to 1973 and then from 1976 to 2008.
The stadium hosted 6,581 Yankees regular season home games during
its 85-year history. It was also the home of the New York Giants
National Football League (NFL) team from 1956 through the first
part of the 1973-74 NFL season. The stadium's nickname, "The
House That Ruth Built", is derived from Babe Ruth, the
baseball superstar whose prime years coincided with the stadium's
opening and the beginning of the Yankees' winning history. It has
often been referred to as "The Cathedral of Baseball".
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Today, April 28, 2026
April 18, 1942: World War II: The Pacific
War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater, The
Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
Aviation: Military Aviation: Air Warfare Of World War II: Air
Warfare Of The Pacific War: Air Raids On Japan: The Bombing Of
Tokyo (Japanese: Tokyodaikushu): The Doolittle Raid (Doolittle's
Raid, The Tokyo Raid): -- The first air raid on mainland Japan
during World War II occurred as Gen. Jimmy Doolittle led a
squadron of B-25 bombers taking off from the carrier Hornet to
bomb Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya. The Doolittle Raid, also
known as the Tokyo Raid, on Saturday, April 18, 1942, was an air
raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other
places on the island of Honshu during World War II, the first air
operation to strike the Japanese Home Islands. It demonstrated
that Japan proper was vulnerable to American air attack, served as
retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and provided
an important boost to American morale. The raid was planned and
led by Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle of the
United States Army Air Forces. Sixteen B-25B Mitchell medium
bombers were launched without fighter escort from the U.S. Navy's
aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) deep in the Western Pacific
Ocean, each with a crew of five men. The plan called for them to
bomb military targets in Japan, and to continue westward to land
in China, as landing a medium bomber on Hornet was impossible.
Fifteen aircraft reached China, but all crashed, while the 16th
landed at Vladivostok in the Soviet Union. All but three of the 80
crew members initially survived the mission. Eight airmen were
captured by the Japanese Army in China; three of those were later
executed. The B-25 that landed in the Soviet Union was
confiscated, with its crew interned for more than a year before
being allowed to "escape" via Soviet-occupied Iran.
Fourteen complete crews, except for one crewman who was killed in
action, returned either to the United States or to American
forces. After the raid, the Imperial Japanese Army conducted a
massive sweep through the eastern coastal provinces of China, in
an operation now known as the Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign, searching
for the surviving American airmen and inflicting retribution on
the Chinese who aided them, in an effort to prevent this part of
China from being used again for an attack on Japan. The raid
caused negligible material damage to Japan, but it achieved its
goal of raising American morale and casting doubt in Japan on the
ability of its military leaders to defend their home islands. It
also contributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's decision to attack
Midway Island in the Central Pacific, an attack that turned into a
decisive strategic defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) by
the U.S. Navy in the Battle of Midway. Doolittle, who initially
believed that the loss of all his aircraft would lead to his
court-martial, received the Medal Of Honor and was promoted two
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Today, April 28, 2026
April 18, 1943: World War II: The Pacific
War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater, The
Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of
World War II: The South West Pacific Area (SWPA): Operation
Cartwheel: The Solomon Islands Campaign: The New Guinea Campaign:
The Bougainville Campaign: Operation Vengeance: -- #DOTD: #RIP:
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, military chief and top strategist of the
Japanese navy, who masterminded their successful Pearl Harbor
attack of December 7th 1941 and was defeated in their failed
attack on Midway Island in early June of 1942, a defeat which
turned the course of the war against Japan, just as and when he
warned that the tide of the war would turn against Japan (b. April
4, 1884) #dies when his aircraft is premeditatively ambushed and
shot down by American P-38 fighter planes over Bougainville
Island, Territory of New Guinea, one year to the day after The
Doolittle Raid, the first air raid on mainland Japan during World
War II. His remains were cremated; after his ashes were returned
to Japan, he received one of the largest state funerals since that
of the esteemed Admiral Togo. Half of his ashes are interred at
Tokyo, Japan's Tama Cemetery, the largest municipal cemetery in
Japan, and the other half of his ashes were returned to his
hometown, Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, where they are interred at
the Chokoji Temple Cemetery. He was born Yamamoto Isoroku in
Nagaoko, Honshu, Japan. He was adamantly against his country
attacking the United States to begin with, having been a Harvard
alumnus and accounting as his greatest hero Abraham Lincoln, but
once the Emperor sided with Yamamoto's enemy General Tojo in
support of an attack against America and Great Britain, he
declared "I am the sword of my Emperor" and devoted
himself to planning, organizing, directing and controlling the
Pearl Harbor attack plans, as well as its many subsidiary
operations against the US and UK. He was killed on April 18, 1943,
after Americans intercepted and decoded radio reports of his
whereabouts - radio signals which may have been broadcast with the
complicity of Yamamoto's enemies in order to bring attention to
them - and then dispatched planes as part of Operation Vengeance
to shoot his plane down. The pilot who got credit for the
shoot-down, Capt. Thomas George Lanphier, Jr., asserted he did so
when he simply cleared his guns during a head-on approach of
Yamamoto's plane, and to his surprise, Yamamoto's plane caught
fire and began to go down. Lanphier conducted follow-up attacks on
Yamamoto's crippled plane, and watched it dive in flames into the
jungle from low altitude. While maintaining pride in his
accomplisment, he came in later life to became a great admirer of
the Admiral, while understanding first-hand the tragedy of the
necessity to have to fight and kill him instead of his enemies.
Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Grand Admiral, Marshal Admiral of the
Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), Commander-In-Chief of the Combined
Fleet during World War II until he was killed, military chief and
top strategist of the Japanese navy, who masterminded their
successful Pearl Harbor attack of December 7th 1941 and was
defeated in their failed attack on Midway Island in early June of
1942, a defeat which turned the course of the war against Japan,
just as and when he warned that the tide of the war would turn
against Japan, was born Isoroku Takano in Nagaoko, Honshu. He was
adamantly against his country attacking the United States to begin
with, having been a Harvard alumnus and accounting as his greatest
hero Abraham Lincoln, but once the Emperor sided with Yamamoto's
enemy General Tojo in support of an attack against America and
Great Britain, he declared "I am the sword of my Emperor"
and devoted himself to planning, organizing, directing and
controlling the Pearl Harbor attack plans, as well as its many
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April 18, 1947: The History Of Sports:
The History Of Sports In The United States: The History Of
Baseball: The History Of Baseball In The United States: The
History Of Major League Baseball: The Baseball Color Line (The
Color Line, The Color Barrier): Jackie Robinson's Breaking Of The
Baseball Color Line: -- Jackie Robinson breaks baseball's color
line as Roosevelt Stadium hosts the Jersey City Giants' season
opener against the Montreal Royals, marking the professional debut
of the Royals' Jackie Robinson and the first time the color
barrier had been broken in a game between two minor league clubs.
Pitching against Robinson was Warren Sandel who had played against
him when they both lived in California. During Robinson's first at
bat, the Jersey City catcher, Dick Bouknight, demanded that Sandel
throw at Robinson, but Sandel refused. Although Sandel induced
Robinson to ground out at his first at bat, Robinson ended up with
four hits in his five trips to the plate; his first hit was a
three-run home run in the game's third inning. He also scored four
runs, drove in three, and stole two bases in the Royals' 14-1
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Today, April 28, 2026
April 18, 1949: Irish Nationalism: The
Republic Of Ireland Act 1948: -- Ireland leaves the British
Commonwealth and becomes the Republic Of Ireland when The Republic
Of Ireland Act 1948, signed into law on December 21, 1948, comes
into force on Easter Monday, the 33rd anniversary of the beginning
of the Easter Rising, also known as the Easter Rebellion, the
armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 24-29,
1916. The Republic Of Ireland Act 1948 (No. 22 of 1948) is an Act
of the Oireachtas, the bicameral parliament of Ireland also known
as The Oireachtas Eireann (Irish Gaelic: "The Assembly Of
Freemen Of Ireland"), which declared that Ireland may be
officially described as the Republic Of Ireland, and vested in the
President of Ireland the power to exercise the executive authority
of the state in its external relations, on the advice of the
Government of Ireland. The Act ended the remaining statutory role
of the British monarchy in relation to the state, by repealing the
1936 External Relations Act, which had vested in George VI and his
successors those functions which the Act now transferred to the
President. On September 16, 1953 Eamon de Valera, prominent
statesman and political leader in 20th-century Ireland, met
Churchill for the first and only time, at 10 Downing Street, he
surprised the UK Prime Minister Churchill by claiming that if he
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April 18, 1949: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Presidency Of Harry S. Truman: The
Revolt Of The Admirals: -- The keel for the aircraft carrier USS
United States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and
Shipbuilding. However, construction is canceled five days later,
resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals in opposition of its
cancellation. The USS United States (CVA-58) was to be the lead
ship of a new design of aircraft carrier. On 29 July 1948,
President Harry Truman approved construction of five
"supercarriers", for which funds had been provided in
the Naval Appropriations Act of 1949. The keel of the first of the
five planned postwar carriers was laid down on 18 April 1949 at
Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. The program was canceled,
United States was not completed, and the other four planned
carriers were never built. Looking to cut the military budget and
accepting without question the Air Force argument on nuclear
deterrence by means of large, long-range bombers, Secretary Of
Defense Louis A. Johnson announced the cancellation of
construction of United States, on April 23, 1949. Secretary of the
Navy John Sullivan immediately resigned, and Congress held an
inquiry into the manner and wisdom of Johnson's decision. In the
subsequent "Revolt of the Admirals" the Navy was unable
to advance its case that large carriers would be essential to
national defense. Soon after Johnson and Francis P. Matthews, the
man he advanced to be the new Secretary of the Navy, set about
punishing those officers that let their opposition be known. Navy
Admiral Louis Denfeld was forced to resign as Chief of Naval
Operations, and a number of other admirals and lesser ranks were
punished. The invasion of South Korea six months later resulted in
an immediate need for a strong naval presence, and Matthews
position as Secretary of the Navy and Johnson's position as
Secretary Of Defense crumbled, both ultimately resigning. The Navy
soon found a means to carry nuclear weapons at sea, placed aboard
the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1950. Thus the
question of which service would have primary responsibility for
strategic nuclear strikes was not answered with Johnson's
cancellation of USS United States. The Cold War incident known as
the "Revolt of the Admirals" involved a number of
retired and active-duty United States Navy admirals who publicly
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April 18, 1953: #BOTD: #HBD! George
Knapp, American journalist, news anchor, talk radio host and
Ufologiest, is born in Woodbury, New Jersey. Much of the work of
George T. Knapp (middle name not disclosed) has focused on the
paranormal, particularly UFOs. Knapp is noted for bringing to
prominence in 1989 Bob Lazar, mechanical engineer who worked on
recovered extraterrestrial aircraft at Area 51 and S4. Knapp is
also known for his work as a television presenter and
investigative journalist on non-paranormal subjects, for which he
has been recognized with Edward R. Murrow Awards, Peabody Awards,
and Pacific Southwest Regional Emmy Awards. A longtime fixture in
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April 18, 1953: #BOTD: #HBD! Rick
Moranis, Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer,
musician, and songwriter is #born Frederick Allan Moranis into a
Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario, Canada., where h went to
elementary school with fellow Jewish student Geddy Lee, frontman
of the rock band Rush. Rick Moranis came to prominence in the
sketch comedy series Second City Television (SCTV) in the 1980s
and later appeared in several Hollywood films, including Strange
Brew (1983), Ghostbusters (1984), Little Shop of Horrors (1986),
Spaceballs (1987), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989, and its 1992
and 1997 sequels), Parenthood (1989), My Blue Heaven (1990), and
The Flintstones (1994). In 1997, Moranis began a long hiatus from
acting to raise his children as a widowed father. He has not
appeared in a live-action film since, although he has provided
voice-over work for a few animated films, notably Disney's Brother
Bear (2003). He has also released comedy albums and made
appearances at fan conventions. In 2020, after a hiatus of nearly
23 years from live-action films to dedicate his time to raising
his two children as a widower, Moranis signed to appear in a new
sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, called Shrunk. That same year,
On October 1 at approximately 7:30 am ET, Moranis was the victim
of a sucker-punch on Central Park West in New York City, in the
vicinity of West 70th St, Manhattan. He suffered minor injuries to
his head, back, and hip. He reported the incident to the New York
Police Department (NYPD) who posted security footage from the
attack. The perpetrator, a mentally ill and homeless 37 year-old
ex-con named Marquis Ventura, was arrested in New York City on
November 14, 2020, and plead guilty to the crime, as well as six
other charges in connection with four other unprovoked attacks, on
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April 18, 1955: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Non-Aligned Movement: South-South
Cooperation (SSC): Third-Worldism: The Asian-African Conference
(Indonesian: Konferensi Asia-Afrika) (The Afro-Asian Conference,
The Bandung Conference): -- Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung,
Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference, also known as
the Afro-Asian Conference. It was a meeting of Asian and African
states, most of which were newly independent, which took place on
April 18-24, 1955. The countries that participated at the Bandung
Conference represented nearly one-quarter of the Earth's land
surface and a total population of 1.5 billion people, roughly 54%
of the Earth's population at the time. The conference was
organized by Indonesia, Burma, Pakistan, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and
India and was coordinated by Ruslan Abdulgani, secretary general
of the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The conference's
stated aims were to promote Afro-Asian economic and cultural
cooperation and to oppose colonialism or neocolonialism by any
nation. The conference was an important step toward the
Non-Aligned Movement. Malcolm X cited this conference as a
template for and model of black nationalism in his 1963 "Message
To The Grass Roots" speech, a speech which was highly
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Today, April 28, 2026
April 18, 1961: Cuba: The History Of
Cuba: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cuban Cold
War: The Cuban Revolution: The Consolidation Of The Cuban
Revolution (Cuba Under Fidel Castro): The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
(Spanish: Invasion De Bahia De Cochinos, Invasion De Playa Giron,
Batalla De Playa Giron): The Bay Of Pigs Invasion D+1: -- A
U.S.-backed attempt to overthrow Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba
continues a day after about 1,400 anti-Castro exiles invaded the
island's southern coast along the Bay Of Pigs. By April 20, they
were overrun by 20,000 Cuban soldiers and jailed. Trained and
guided by the U.S., the exiles had expected support from U.S.
military aircraft and help from anti-Castro insurgents on the
island. Instead, the invasion failed disastrously due to a series
of mishaps in what became known as the Bay Of Pigs Fiasco, and the
exiles had to fend for themselves without support. The failed
invasion heightened Cold War tensions between Cuba's political
ally, Soviet Russia, and the fledgling administration of President
John F. Kennedy. The following year, the Russians installed
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April 18, 1969: Aviation: The History Of
Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Aircraft Service
Entries: -- The first production version of the Harrier Jump Jet,
the Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1, officially enters service with
the RAF as the Harrier Conversion Unit at RAF Wittering receives
its first aircraft. The Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1/GR.3 and the
AV-8A Harrier were the first generation of the Harrier series, and
were the first operational close-support and reconnaissance attack
aircraft that had vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL)
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April 18, 1983: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Iran-Israel Proxy Conflict: The
Arab Cold War: The Lebanese Civil War: The 1983 United States
Embassy Bombing In Beirut: -- A suicide bombing at the American
embassay in Beirut, Lebanon kills 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and
14 visitors and passers-by. The victims were mostly embassy and
CIA staff members, but also included several US soldiers and one
US Marine Security Guard. It was the deadliest attack on a US
diplomatic mission up to that time, and was considered the
beginning of Islamist attacks on US targets. The attack came in
the wake of an intervention in the Lebanese Civil War by the
United States and other Western countries, who had sought to
restore order and central government authority. A pro-Iranian
group calling itself the Islamic Jihad Organization took
responsibility for the bombing in a telephone call to a news
office immediately after the blast. The anonymous caller said,
"This is part of the Iranian Revolution's campaign against
imperialist targets throughout the world. We shall keep striking
at any crusader presence in Lebanon, including the international
forces." The group had earlier taken responsibility for a
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April 18, 1988: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Iran-Iraq War: Iran-United States
Relations: Naval Battles Of The Iran-Iraq War Involving The United
States: Operation Praying Mantis: -- The United States launches an
attack against Iranian naval forces within Iranian territorial
waters in the largest naval battle since World War II in
retaliation for the Iranian naval mining of the Persian Gulf
during the Iran-Iraq War and the subsequent damage to the American
guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts which was suffered
while deployed as part of Operation Earnest Will convoy missions
in which U.S. warships escorted reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers to
protect them from Iranian attacks. The Iranian losses in the
battle were were the sinkings of 1 frigate, 1 gunboat and 3
speedboats; 1 frigate crippled; 2 oil platforms destroyed, and 1
fighter plane damaged, and 56 killed. The Americans lost 1
helicopter, and 2 killed. This battle marked the U.S. Navy's first
exchange of anti-ship missiles with opposing ships and the only
occasion since World War II on which the US Navy sank a major
surface combatant. The attack by the U.S. helped pressure Iran to
agree to a ceasefire with Iraq later that summer, ending the
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Today, April 28, 2026
April 18: National Lydia Day: --
Depending on the sound and name meaning you are looking for, Lydia
is an appealing option. The name's ancient Greco-Roman and
Biblical background give it a touch of old-world history and
charm. Characters like Lydia Fox from the cartoon "Arthur,"
Lydia Dracula from "Hotel Transylvania," and Lydia
Hillard from the Robin Williams classic "Mrs. Doubtfire"
popularized the name that is still widely used today. Although it
arrived in the 1700s, Lydia has been a consistent choice for a
girl's name throughout the 2010s, a testament to its timeless
quality. Lydia is a feminine first name derived from the Greek
'Ludia,' meaning 'beautiful one' or 'noble one.' It's also a
Biblical name and a reference to Lydia of 'Thyatira,' a merchant
in the city of Thyatira and a character in the New Testament's
"Acts of the Apostles." Lydia was the first European
convert of Saint Paul. She housed Paul and Silas when they got
released from prison. After Lydia and her family were baptized,
Paul and his associates established the church in Philippi. Having
played such a role, she is part of the fabric of Christian
feminist theology. We have Lydia Baxter to thank for many popular
Sunday school hymns, such as "The Gate Ajar For Me,"
written three years before her death in 1874. Despite being
bedridden and the victim of severe pain due to disability, Baxter
dedicated her life to composing hymns for the Baptist Church,
which she joined shortly after marrying her husband, John C.
Baxter. Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak, also known as 'Lilya,' was a
Soviet fighter pilot during World War II. She flew 66 combat
missions and had between five and 12 solo victories. Litvyak was
the first female pilot to shoot down enemy planes and the first of
two female pilots to earn the rank of fighter ace. Litvyak holds
the record for the most significant number of kills by any female
fighter pilot. She met her end when German air units killed her in
action near Orel in the Battle of Kursk. Litvyak was 21 years old.
Lydia Masterkova (Lidiya Masterkova), (c. 1927 - May 12, 2008),
Soviet-born French painter, part of the non-conformist underground
art Lianozovo Group, a diverse group of artists and poets who
fought steadfastly and uncompromisingly for creative freedom, was
strongly influenced by Abstract Expressionism, which she was
exposed to at the exhibition of foreign artists held during the
World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow (1957).Her work
resides in numerous museums and private collections, including the
Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Zimmerli Art Museum of the
campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and the
Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, which held a retrospective of her
work in 2006.
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Today, April 28, 2026April 18: National Animal Crackers Day:
-- Who among us can resist the temptation to indulge in a handful
of the iconic treats of our childhood? Animal crackers are
arguably one of the best-recognized food products on the planet
today. Who knew that the little menagerie of zoo and circus
creatures that delighted us as children would later become one of
our fondest childhood memories and a simple guilty pleasure for us
as adults? Animal crackers have been part of American childhood
memories since the late 1800s when they were first imported from
England where animal crackers were invented. When recipes for the
popular animal-shaped biscuits made their way to America,
independent bakers began baking up herds of the animals to meet
growing demand. The stampede of animal crackers out of grocery
cracker barrels into American shopping baskets was well underway
when Stauffer's Biscuit Company began commercially producing their
original recipe circus crackers in 1871. Stauffer's unique baking
process created a slightly sweet, crispy, cracker-like biscuit
that dominated the growing animal cracker category for years.
Then, in 1902, the big competition arrived that transformed the
animal cracker industry forever. Although not first to market with
animal crackers in America, when the National Biscuit Company,
Nabisco, introduced their brand of animal crackers packaged in
small boxes that looked like P.T. Barnum circus train cars, they
quickly became the most popular brand of animal crackers in
America. Their ingenious circus-train-themed packages were
initially sold as Christmas tree ornaments. The colorful boxes
sporting exotic animals in circus train cars with a string for
hanging on the tree were an immediate hit with children who begged
for boxes of animals to carry around by a string. When all the
animals in a box had been devoured, children filled the circus car
boxes with childhood treasures, creating an unexpected shelf life
extension and bonus marketing for the Barnum's Animals brand. But
not all animal crackers are created equal, and despite the
popularity and fast ascension of Nabisco's Barnum's Animals to the
iconic childhood cookie, many people still preferred the original
Stauffer's Animal Crackers recipe. The difference in texture and
flavor between the two brands is distinctive, and there remains a
continued strong market for both brands of animal crackers to this
day. Stauffer's Biscuit Company still produces Original Animal
Crackers using the original 1871 recipe. Their strategy has been
to produce a consistently crisp, layered dough cracker that is
more like a traditional English biscuit, and less sweet than a
cookie. Nabisco still produces its colorful, wild animal-themed,
small-carton packaging that appeals to young children. Nabisco's
animal crackers are a little sweeter and softer in texture than a
cracker or biscuit. Some animal cracker aficionados would argue
that Nabisco's Barnum's Animal Crackers are actually animal
cookies, not crackers. Nabisco changed the name of their product
from Barnum's Animals to Barnum's Animal Crackers in 1948, a move
probably not necessary to remain the category leader as is
evidenced by the product's fast rise to fame and continued appeal
to children. Whether you prefer the crispy biscuit-like crackers
or the sweeter, softer cookie-like variety, on National Animal
Crackers Day, we're of the notion that the more animals in the
parade, the merrier. We're not sure exactly when animal crackers
were first commemorated with their own special date on the
calendar, but on National Animal Crackers Day we are all-in and
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Today, April 28, 2026April 18: National Velociraptor Awareness
Day: -- It's time to bust out your dino-mite puns -- like, What
would you call a sleeping dinosaur? A dino-snore!. Celebrated
annually, National Velociraptor Awareness Day pays homage to
favorite prehistoric creatures: velociraptors. It's a fun day of
education. So, the day might not involve the heart-stopping
excitement of dodging giant predators. Still, it is certainly a
fun learning opportunity for all. Velociraptors were remarkably
different from the fanciful minds of Hollywood moviemakers. They
roamed about 75 to 71 million years ago during the late Cretaceous
period. These dinosaurs were quite unlike the giants you have
likely watched on the silver screen. Rather, they were more like
large turkeys in size (but that would be so much less scary to
movie-goers!). Velociraptors measured only 6.5' (2 meters) in
length and had a stance of under 2' high (.6 meters) at the hip.
They had feathers, making them look more like birds than reptiles.
Feathers? Yes. That's confirmed by the discovery of quill knobs on
a fossil found in Mongolia in 2007. The name 'velociraptor' made
its way into our vocabularies in 1924. Henry Fairfield Osborn,
then president of the American Museum of Natural History, created
this name. It comes from the Latin words 'velox' (swift) and
'raptor' (plunderer). The name perfectly described these
fast-moving dinosaurs. National Velociraptor Awareness Day's
history closely links to their popular culture acclaim. This is
mainly due to their famous appearance in Steven Spielberg's
Jurassic Park movies from the early 1990s. These films made
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Today, April 28, 2026April 18: International Juggler's Day: --
This day honors the art of juggling and its many accomplished
practitioners. If you're looking for a way to have fun with
various things, you might consider learning how to juggle them.
Toss juggling is the most well-known kind of juggling. Juggling
may be done with one or more hands, and one can do it with one or
several items at a time. Many jugglers refer to the things they
juggle as 'props.' Props like balls, clubs, and rings are quite
prevalent. Knives, flaming torches, and chainsaws are some of the
most dramatic props used by jugglers. The first known
representation of juggling was discovered in the Beni-Hassan tombs
of the ancient Egyptian civilization's Middle Dynasty. Inside one
of the crypt's murals, depictions of lady jugglers were found amid
acrobats and dancers. The artwork was created around 2000 B.C.
After the Beni-Hassan tombs, there is a 1500-year hiatus until
evidence of juggling returns in Greek art. Juggling gradually
regained legitimacy when the Middle Ages ended. Pierre Gringoire
(1475-1538) was renowned as the "King of Jugglers," a
title that did not seem to be disparaging. In 1528, the Emperor of
Hindustan reported a troupe of jugglers performing with wooden
rings in his chronicle. In the same year, Christoph Weiditz
depicted jugglers among the Aztecs of Mexico. The brothers Mooty
and Medua Samme initially debuted in Europe about 1820. These two
Indian performers used Chinese devil sticks and oriental ball
manipulation. They were so popular that "Far East" acts
quickly became the rage. There was a lot of misunderstanding
between American and Asian Indians. Many Europeans contributed to
the confusion by claiming to be from China, Japan, or India. Carl
Rappo, a German performer who described himself as an Indian and
did exotic maneuvers and feats of strength with iron balls, was
one such artist. The Burmese Moung-Toon, who worked only with his
feet and got "excellent praise across Europe," was one
of the real Asian entertainers. In 1870, the first authentic
Japanese troupe arrived in the West, led by juggler Awata
Katsnoshin, who practiced traditional Japanese ball and stick
play, from which contemporary ball manipulation originated. The
International Jugglers' Association (IJA) founded International
Jugglers Day in the mid-1980s.
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Today, April 28, 2026April 18: National Poem In Your Pocket
Day: -- During National Poetry Month in April, National Poem In
Your Pocket Day shares the way poetry brings joy by simply
carrying one in your pocket. When you share the poem, you'll bring
joy to others. There are so many different styles of poetry. This
day, however, places no restrictions on the rhyme, rhythm,
syllables, or length. The goal is to share a poem. You may
scribble it on a receipt or recite one while waiting in line. Add
a poem to the back of an envelope on outgoing mail. Don't be
surprised if you discover a poem tucked into a book. You might
even find one jotted down on the side of your coffee cop on the
tag of your teabag. Poems come in so many different sizes, they
can be squeezed onto a square of the calendar or jotted on the
side of a pencil. We're sure they'll bring surprise and joy no
matter where you find them. It's the perfect day to share your
poem on Social Media using #PoemInYouPocketDay or #PocketPoem!
This observance has been celebrated as part of National Poetry
Month since 2002. The Office Of The New York Mayor, along with the
New York City Departments of Cultural Affairs and Education,
initiated the annual city-wide Poem In Your Pocket Day. The
Academy of American Poets took Poem In Your Pocket Day national in
2008. A narrative poem tells a story. Notable narrative poets
include William Shakespeare, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edgar Allan
Poe, Robert Browning, and John Keats. A poetry slam is a poetry
writing and performance competition. Individuals and teams write
poems and perform them before an audience. Performances can be
emotional, humorous, and powerful and often leave a memorable
impression on the performer and the audience.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WABC
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Today, April 28, 2026April 18: National Lineman Appreciation
Day (Linemen Appreciation Day): -- Not every holiday's lucky
enough to have a classic pop song attached to it. But that's
exactly how things turned out for National Lineman Appreciation
Day. "I am a lineman for the county | And I drive the main
road | Searchin' in the sun for another overload". Those are
the lyrics of Jimmy Webb wrote in the 1968 hit song "Wichita
Lineman" which Glen Campbell recorded later that year.
"Rolling Stone" magazine ranked it at number 195 on a
list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. The song celebrates
all the Linemen and Linewomen who work on utility lines, both
power and telephone - keeping the current and communications
flowing to our homes and businesses. It's a dangerous job, and
after 2012's Hurricane Sandy, the 113th Congress passed a bill
designating April 18 as National Lineman Appreciation Day. The
bill became law in 2013. Every day there are men and women who
enter extreme peril to protect our lives, and bring us all the
conveniences of modern living. They dangle dozens to hundreds of
feet above the ground on precarious harnesses, dancing between
snakelike wires that, if improperly handled, can easily erase
their lives in a massive jolt of electricity while simultaneously
blacking out entire sections of the city. National Lineman
Appreciation Day celebrates those men and women who put their
lives at risk to keep the power flowing through our communities.
Linemen have existed for as long as electricity has been a
standard part of modern living. Without them there would be no
power lines carrying electricity to our homes and businesses,
keeping the lights on and the furnaces going, and ensuring that we
have the warm glow of the TV to curl up around as the night creeps
in. Linemen are often called to do their jobs in the most
dangerous of conditions and facing the worst weather the world has
to offer. After all, we rarely lose power on a windless sunny day!
Of course, even the best of conditions leaves them handling wires
that carry thousands of volts of electricity pushing thousands of
Amps (that's the stuff that kills you) every day. But when the
chips are down and Mother Nature is doing her worst, these are the
people who will be out there restoring power, setting up emergency
systems to carry us through, and putting life back in order when
the storms have finally passed. There are 115,000 linemen in the
US alone, which puts the fact that 67,000 of them responded to
Superstorm Sandy into perspective.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Wonderama TV Kid Show Series Sonny Fox Bob McAllister DVD, MP4,
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Today, April 28, 2026April 18, 2025: Friday Before Easter
Sunday: -- World Marbles Day: Observed every year on Good Friday,
this day commemorates the first British Marbles Championship that
took place in England in 1588. Competing 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.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: War
Reporters: Armed Conflict News Reporters DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, April 28, 2026April 18, 1945: #DOTD: #RIP: Ernie Pyle,
American journalist, war correspondent and soldier, Pulitzer Prize
recipient (b. August 3, 1900) #dies when the jeep he was traveling
in on the recently captured small island of Ie Shima (now known as
Iejima) northwest of Okinawa came under fire from a Japanese
machine gun during the Battle Of Okinawa, the very last pitched
battle of World War Two. At the time of his death he was among the
best-known American war correspondents. A machine-gun bullet had
entered Pyle's left temple just under his helmet, killing him
instantly. Pyle was buried wearing his helmet, among other battle
casualties on Ie Shima, between an infantry private and a combat
engineer. He is now interred in The National Memorial Cemetery Of
The Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. In tribute to their friend, the
men of the 77th Infantry Division erected a monument that still
stands at the site of his death. Its inscription reads: "At
this spot the 77th Infantry Division lost a buddy, Ernie Pyle, 18
April 1945." Echoing the sentiment of the men serving in the
Pacific theater, General Eisenhower said: "The GIs in Europe
-- and that means all of us -- have lost one of our best and most
understanding friends." Ernie Pyle was born Ernest Taylor
Pyle in Dana, Indiana. As a roving correspondent for the
Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, he earned wide acclaim for his
accounts of ordinary people in rural America, and later, of
ordinary American soldiers during World War II. His syndicated
column ran in more than 300 newspapers nationwide. From 1935
through 1941 he traveled throughout the United States, writing
about rural towns and their inhabitants. After the U.S. entered
World War II, he lent the same distinctive, folksy style to his
wartime reports, first from the home front, and later from the
European and Pacific theatres. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944
for his spare, poignant accounts of "dogface" infantry
soldiers from a first-person perspective, and for his reports of
the bombing of London in 1940 and later war reports from Africa,
Sicily, Italy and France. "No man in this war has so well
told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting
men wanted it told", wrote Harry Truman. "He deserves
the gratitude of all his countrymen."
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: X Minus
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Today, April 28, 2026April 18, 2018: #DOTD: #RIP: George
Lefferts, American writer, producer, playwright, poet, and
director of radio and television dramas, motion pictures, radio
dramas, and socially conscious documentaries whose original plays
and films for television won Emmy Awards three times and Golden
Globes twice (b. June 18, 1921) #dies in Leonia, New Jersey on
April 18, 2018, at the age of 96. George Lefferts was born George
Leffertzin Paterson, New Jersey. He was raised in Paterson and
graduated from Eastside High School, where he worked on the school
paper. During World War II, he served in He served in the United
States Army Intelligence and Medical Corps, enlisting at the age
of 20. He was a glider pilot and deep water sailor. A frequent
writer of original scripts and short stories for the science
fiction radio programs Dimension X and X Minus One, he went on to
be executive producer and writer of the Smithsonian Institution
Specials for David Wolper Productions, executive producer for
Time-Life, NBC, ABC and CBS. Lefferts worked as a columnist for
The New York Observer and was twice winner of First Place, the New
England Press Association Award for Best Weekly Newspaper Column
in America (1983 and 1984). He wrote and produced the anti-ageist
film The Living End, of which Variety wrote "the writing by
George Lefferts was so pure it was well nigh perfect." With
Alfred Hitchcock and William Shatner he created and wrote Tactic
the first television program to openly deal with cancer. He also
created, produced and wrote NBC Specials for Women, a
groundbreaking series for Women's Liberation featuring
anthropologist Margaret Mead; the program won the Emmy Award
(1967) and the Golden Globe Award (1968). His original play The
Loneliness of the Armadillo was presented by the Banyan Theater in
Sarasota, Florida and two new plays The Boat and The Party Store
were presented at the HBO Theater in New York in 2013. Lefferts
completed the script and lyrics of a full-scale opera The Amadou
Cantata, based on the infamous Amadou Diallo trial of four NYPD
officers. Lefferts also created and wrote the comedy series Rocky
Fortune starring Frank Sinatra, and the NBC documentary Bravo,
Picasso! featuring Pablo Picasso, Yves Montand, and Jacqueline
Kennedy. Lefferts was producer of the Emmy-winning daytime series,
Ryan's Hope during its early weeks, and executive producer and
writer of the ABC medical drama, Breaking Point which aired during
the 1963-1964 television season. Episodes were directed by Sydney
Pollack and featured Robert Redford, John Cassavetes, Hume Cronyn,
Jessica Tandy and Lillian Gish. Lefferts was co-creator and writer
of Family Album, U.S.A., "a soap opera designed to teach
English as a Second Language", distributed by Macmillan
Publishers in 58 countries. Lefferts taught screenwriting at Johns
Hopkins and Rutgers Universities. He was a member of the American
Medical Writers Association. As a writer and producer for The
Network for Continuing Medical Education, he was credited for many
"cutting-edge medical films," including Doctor
Barnhard's Heart Transplant [NBC], Pain-Where It Hurts Most [NBC],
What Price Health, with Senator Ted Kennedy [NBC], and Acupuncture
Anesthesia in Red China [NBC].
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Albert
Einstein: How I See The World DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, April 28, 2026April 18, 1955: #DOTD: #RIP: Albert
Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist who developed the
theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics
(alongside quantum mechanics) (b. March 14, 1879) #dies early in
the morning in Princeton Hospital at the age of 76 of internal
bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm,
which had previously been reinforced surgically by Rudolph Nissen
in 1948. He took the draft of a speech he was preparing for a
television appearance commemorating the state of Israel's seventh
anniversary with him to the hospital, but he did not live to
complete it. Einstein refused surgery, saying, "I want to go
when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have
done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."
During the autopsy, the pathologist of Princeton Hospital, Thomas
Stoltz Harvey, removed Einstein's brain for preservation without
the permission of his family, in the hope that the neuroscience of
the future would be able to discover what made Einstein so
intelligent. Einstein's remains were cremated in Trenton, New
Jersey, and his ashes were scattered at an undisclosed location.
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, German Empire. His birthday is
now celebrated as Genius Day, as his intellectual achievements and
originality have made the word "Einstein" synonymous
with "genius". He was visiting the United States when
Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, and being Jewish,
he did not go back to there, where he had been a professor at the
Berlin Academy of Sciences. He settled instead in the United
States, becoming an American citizen in 1940. In addition to his
other achievements, Albert Einstein's work is also known for its
influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known by the
general public for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2
(which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation").
He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services
to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the
law of the photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the
evolution of quantum theory. He was visiting the United States
when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 and-being Jewish-did not
go back to Germany, where he had been a professor at the Berlin
Academy of Sciences. He settled in the United States, becoming an
American citizen in 1940. On the eve of World War II, he endorsed
a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt alerting him to the
potential development of "extremely powerful bombs of a new
type" and recommending that the U.S. begin similar research.
This eventually led to what would become the Manhattan Project.
Einstein supported defending the Allied forces, but generally
denounced the idea of using the newly discovered nuclear fission
as a weapon. Later, with the British philosopher Bertrand Russell,
he signed the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which highlighted the
danger of nuclear weapons. He was affiliated with the Institute
for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, until his death in
1955. Einstein published more than 300 scientific papers along
with over 150 non-scientific works.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Rock &
Roll An Unruly History 10 Part TV Series MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, April 28, 2026April 18, 2024: #DOTD: #RIP: Dickey
Betts, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as
cofounder and longtime member of The Allman Brothers Band (b.
December 12, 1943) #dies of cancer and chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease at his home in Osprey, Florida, aged 80. He is
buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, Georgia. Betts was born in
West Palm Beach, Florida and raised in Bradenton. He grew up in a
musical family listening to traditional bluegrass, country music
and Western swing. He started playing ukulele at the age of five
and, as his hands got bigger, moved on to mandolin, banjo, and
guitar. By the age of sixteen Betts was feeling the need for
something "a little faster", and played in a series of
rock bands on the Florida circuit, up the East Coast and into the
Midwest. In 1967 he formed the Second Coming in Florida with Berry
Oakley. According to its composer, Rick Derringer, the group
called the Jokers referenced in "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo"
was one of Betts's early groups of that name. Dickey Betts was
central to the group's greatest commercial success in the
mid-1970s, and was the writer and vocalist on the Allmans' hit
single "Ramblin' Man", the Allmans' highest-charting
single, and wrote the song "Jessica", inspired by his
young daughter Jessica. The Allman Brothers Band broke up and
re-formed twice, always with Betts in the lineup, until he left
the band in 2000. Starting in 1974, Betts also fronted his own
bands, performing concerts and recording records. He released
albums as Dickey Betts and Great Southern, the Dickey Betts Band,
and under his own name.d
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Triumph
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Today, April 28, 2026April 18, 1521: The History Of
Christianity: The Reformation (The Protestant Reformation, The
European Reformation): The Diet Of Worms Of 1521: -- The trial of
Martin Luther over his teachings begins its second day during the
assembly of the Diet Of Worms. After initially being intimidated
on the first day of the trial, he asked for time to reflect before
answering, and was given a stay of one day; when he returned for
the second day of the trial, he refused to recant his teachings,
despite the risk of excommunication. The Diet Of Worms Of 1521
(German: Reichstag Zu Worms, "Parliament Of Worms") was
an imperial diet (a formal deliberative assembly) of the Holy
Roman Empire (modern Germany) called by Emperor Charles V and
conducted in the Imperial Free City of Worms. Martin Luther was
summoned to the Diet in order to renounce or reaffirm his views in
response to a Papal bull of Pope Leo X. In answer to questioning,
he defended these views and refused to recant them. At the end of
the Diet, the Emperor issued the Edict of Worms (Wormser Edikt), a
decree which condemned Luther as "a notorious heretic"
and banned citizens of the Empire from propagating his ideas.
Although the Protestant Reformation is usually considered to have
begun in 1517, the edict signals the first overt schism. The diet
was conducted from January 28 to May 25, 1521 at the Heylshof
Garden, with the Emperor presiding. Other imperial diets had taken
place at Worms in the years 829, 926, 1076, 1122, 1495, and 1545,
but unless plainly qualified, the term "Diet Of Worms"
usually refers to the assembly of 1521.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: World
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Today, April 28, 2026April 18, 1958: #DOTD: Maurice Gamelin,
senior French Army general, best known for his unsuccessful
command (until 17 May 1940) of the French military during The
Battle Of France (May 10 - June 22, 1940) in World War II and his
steadfast defence of the republican model of government at a time
when Communists on the left and Royalists and Fascists on the
right were openly advocating regime change in France (b. September
20, 1872) #dies in Paris, France of natural causesat the age of
85. He is buried at The Cimetiere de Passy in Paris. Maurice
Gamelin was born Maurice Gustave Gamelin in Paris, France. From an
early age Gamelin showed potential as a soldier, growing up in a
generation seeking revenge on Germany for the annexation of
Alsace-Lorraine at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. As
Commander-In-Chief of the French Armed Forces at the start of
World War II, Gamelin was viewed as a man with significant
intellectual ability. He was respected, even in Germany, for his
intelligence and "subtle mind", though he was viewed by
some German generals as stiff and predictable. Despite this, and
his competent service in World War I, his command of the French
armies during the critical days of May 1940 proved to be
disastrous. Historian and journalist William L. Shirer presented
the view that Gamelin used World War I methods to fight World War
II, but with less vigor and slower response. Gamelin served with
distinction under Joseph Joffre in World War I. He is often
credited with being responsible for devising the outline of the
French counter-attack in 1914 which led to victory during the
First Battle of the Marne. In 1933 Gamelin rose to command the
French Army and oversaw a modernisation and mechanisation
programme, including the completion of the Maginot Line defences.
Edouard Daladier supported Gamelin throughout his career, owing to
Gamelin's refusal to allow politics to play a part in military
planning and promotion, and his commitment to republican values.
After the Fall of France, Gamelin was succeeded as General d'armee
by Maxime Weygand, a post he had held immediately before Gamelin.
The Vichy regime tried Gamelin for treason along with other
important political and military figures of the Third Republic
(Edouard Daladier, Guy La Chambre, Leon Blum, and Robert Jacomet)
in The Riom Trial. Gamelin refused to answer the charges against
him, instead maintaining silence, and the entire proceeding
collapsed. Imprisoned by the Vichy regime in Fort du Portalet in
the Pyrenees, he was later deported by the Germans to the Itter
Castle in North Tyrol with a few other French high officials. He
was freed from the castle after the Battle for Castle Itter. After
the war, he published his memoirs, titled Servir (meaning "to
serve").
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: France:
Conquest To Liberation In WWII DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, April 28, 2026April 18, 1942: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Battle Of France (The Western Campaign [German:
Westfeldzug], The French Campaign [German: Frankreichfeldzug;
French: Campagne De France], The Fall Of France: Vichy France (The
French State): -- Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of The
French State, more commonly known as Vichy France. Pierre
Jean-Marie Laval during the time of the Third Republic served as
Prime Minister of France from January 27, 1931 to February 20,
1932, and a second time from June 7, 1935 to January 24, 1936.
Laval began his career as a socialist, but over time drifted far
to the right. Following France's defeat and armistice with Germany
in 1940, he served in prominent roles in Philippe Petain's Vichy
Regime, first as the vice-president of the Council of Ministers
from July 11, 1940 to December 13, 1940, and later as the head of
government from April 18, 1942 to August 20, 1944. After the
liberation of France in 1944, Laval was arrested by the French
government under General Charles de Gaulle. In what was widely
regarded as a flawed trial, Laval was found guilty of high
treason, and after a thwarted suicide attempt, he was executed by
firing squad. His manifold political activities left a complicated
and controversial legacy, resulting in more than a dozen
conflicting biographies of him.
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Portraits Of Power: Gamal Abdel Nasser DVD, Video Download, USB
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Today, April 28, 2026April 18, 1954: Egyptian History: Modern
Egyptian History: Gamal Abdel Nasser's Seizure Of Power: -- Gamal
Abdel Nasser officially assumes the office of Prime Minister and
thereby seizing power in Egypt, having already been made premier
of Egypt on February 25 by the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC)
whom Nasser effectively led. Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel
and politician, was the second President of Egypt, serving from
1956 until his death. Nasser led the 1952 overthrow of the
monarchy and introduced far-reaching land reforms the following
year. Following a 1954 attempt on his life by a Muslim Brotherhood
member, he cracked down on the organization, put President
Muhammad Naguib under house arrest, and assumed executive office,
officially becoming president in June 1956. Nasser' popularity in
Egypt and the Arab world skyrocketed after his nationalization of
the Suez Canal and his political victory in the subsequent Suez
Crisis. Calls for pan-Arab unity under his leadership increased,
culminating with the formation of the United Arab Republic with
Syria (1958-1961). In 1962, Nasser began a series of major
socialist measures and modernization reforms in Egypt. Despite
setbacks to his pan-Arabist cause, by 1963 Nasser' supporters
gained power in several Arab countries, but he became embroiled in
the North Yemen Civil War. He began his second presidential term
in March 1965 after his political opponents were banned from
running. Following Egypt' defeat by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day
War, Nasser resigned, but he returned to office after popular
demonstrations called for his reinstatement. By 1968, Nasser had
appointed himself prime minister, launched the War of Attrition to
regain lost territory, began a process of depoliticizing the
military, and issued a set of political liberalization reforms.
After the conclusion of the 1970 Arab League summit, Nasser
suffered a heart attack and died. His funeral in Cairo drew five
million mourners and an outpouring of grief across the Arab world.
Nasser remains an iconic figure in the Arab world, particularly
for his strides towards social justice and Arab unity,
modernization policies, and anti-imperialist efforts. His
presidency also encouraged and coincided with an Egyptian cultural
boom, and launched large industrial projects, including the Aswan
Dam and Helwan City. Nasser' detractors criticize his
authoritarianism, his human rights violations and his dominance of
military over civil institutions, establishing a pattern of
military and dictatorial rule in Egypt.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV
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Today, April 28, 2026April 18, 2012: #DOTD: #RIP: Dick Clark,
American radio and television host and producer, film actor, game
show host, founder of Dick Clark Productions and a cultural icon
who remains best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1957 to
1988, host of the game show Pyramid and Dick Clark's New Year's
Rockin' Eve, which transmitted Times Square's New Year's Eve
celebrations for many years (b. November 30, 1929) #dies of a
heart attack at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, aged 82,
shortly after undergoing a transurethral resection procedure to
treat an enlarged prostate. After his estate obtained the
necessary environmental permits, he was cremated on April 20, and
his ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean. Dick Clark was
born Richard Wagstaff Clark in Bronxville, New York, and raised in
neighboring Mount Vernon. As host of American Bandstand, Clark
introduced rock & roll to many Americans. The show gave many
new music artists their first exposure to national audiences,
including Iggy Pop, Ike & Tina Turner, Smokey Robinson and the
Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Talking Heads, Simon &
Garfunkel and Madonna. Episodes he hosted were among the first in
which blacks and whites performed on the same stage, and likewise
among the first in which the live studio audience sat without
racial segregation. Singer Paul Anka claimed that Bandstand was
responsible for creating a "youth culture". Due to his
perennially youthful appearance and his largely teenaged audience
of American Bandstand, Clark was often referred to as "America's
oldest teenager" or "the world's oldest teenager".
In his off-stage roles, Clark served as Chief Executive Officer of
Dick Clark Productions (a financial interest in which he sold off
in his later years). He also founded the American Bandstand Diner,
a restaurant chain modeled after the Hard Rock Cafe. In 1973, he
created and produced the annual American Music Awards show,
similar to the Grammy Awards. Clark suffered a stroke in December
2004. With speech ability impaired, Clark returned to his New
Year's Rockin' Eve show a year later on December 31, 2005.
Subsequently, he appeared at the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in
2006, and every New Year's Rockin' Eve show through the December
31, 2011 episode. He died on April 18, 2012, of a heart attack, at
the age of 82, following prostate surgery.
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