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Today, April 29, 2026

April 29: National Shrimp Scampi Day: -- Shrimp scampi has different meanings around the world. In the U.S. "shrimp scampi" is the "menu name" for shrimp in Italian-American cuisine. Shrimp Scampi is the culmination of the culinary arts, bringing together rich creamy butter, delicious garlic, tangy lemon juice, and the subtle flavors of the best white wines, usually served with pasta, but also with bread or rice, or sometimes as just the shrimp alone. Is it any wonder that there's an entire day dedicated to this perfect combination of ingredients? A day dedicated to the celebration of culinary perfection hardly needs a reason. While the basic ingredients listed above are the most commonly understood to be involved in scampi, it turns out there's actually quite a number of different varieties depending on where in the world you are. How did this come to pass? Well, it's quite simple actually, it all comes down to what, precisely, scampi is. Scampi, as it turns out, is the name given to Nephrops Norvegicus, otherwise known as the Norway lobster. But in the US it's also the common name for shrimp when served as part of Italian-American food in the states. British Scampi appears to be served as a form of fish-and-chips, with the Nephrops Norvegicus being served battered and fried. Ultimately though, we think we'd have to argue that the American Scampi is the superior form. When it includes shrimp, garlic, butter, and wine, how could you possibly go wrong? In the May 27, 1947 episode of the Fibber McGee And Molly radio show, McGee cooks "Shrimps McGee", which is essentially a traditional shirmp scampi recipe with his grandmother's personally preferred seasonings and measures added to it! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/fibber-mcgee-and-molly-mp3-dvd-complete-radio-serie3.html

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April 29: Poem In Your Pocket Day: -- Celebrated every year to encourage people across the United States to express themselves through poetry. The holiday began in 2002 when the Office of the Mayor in New York City, in collaboration with the city's Departments of Cultural Affairs and Education, announced their intent to deem this day Poem in Your Pocket Day. Individuals are encouraged to write their own poetry, perform their own work, or create their own art inspired by poetry. The aim, of course, is to remind people of their participation in the living art of poetry. Poetry goes back to the days before humans knew how to pen down words. The first poems are believed to have been spoken words, and passed down through oral tradition. The earliest poetry exists in the form of hymns and chants. Most of the oldest surviving poetry is religious, such as prayers or stories about religiously significant events; other surviving poetry recounts historical events, instructions for activities, and even declarations of love. Historians today hold that the earliest instances of written poetry suggest the existence of older oral traditions. Poetry sprung up across the globe at several points in time. In Africa, for example, the art dates back to prehistoric times, when people wrote poetry in the river valleys of the Nile and Niger as well as the Volta River. Some of the earliest poetry in the region is from the "Pyramid Texts" written as early as the 25th century B.C. The first-ever speculative fiction poem is believed to be the "Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor," which was composed in Hieratic around 2500 B.C. Other scholars believe that "The Epic of Gilgamesh" is the oldest composition of this kind. Aside from these two, other poems counted among the oldest are the Greek "Iliad" and "Odyssey," along with the Sanskrit "Mahabharata" and "Ramayana." "Mahabharata" has been considered the longest poem ever written. The nature of poetry has evolved over the years, and many structural traditions and literary movements have come and gone. Today, poetry exists in many forms, from song lyrics to stanzas of freeform, postmodern poems. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/walt-whitman-dvd-biography-poetry-documentary.html

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April 29: International Dance Day: -- April 29, 1727: #BOTD: #HBD! Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and ballet master, generally considered the creator of ballet d'action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century and of what we consider modern ballet (d. October 19, 1810) is #born at an unknown location in France. The birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre is now observed as International Dance Day, a global celebration of dance created by the Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute (ITI), the main partner for the performing arts of UNESCO, that strives to encourage participation and education in dance through events and festivals held on the date all over the world. His first professional appearances occurred as a youth in Paris at the Opera-Comique, at Fontainebleau, in Berlin before Frederick II and his brother Prince Henry of Prussia, in Dresden and Strasburg. In 1747 he moved to Strasbourg, where he remained until 1750 before moving to Lyon. In 1751, he composed his first great work, Les Fetes Chinoises for Marseilles. The work was revived in Paris in 1754 to great acclaim. In 1755, he was invited by Garrick to London, where he remained for two years. Between 1758 and 1760 he produced several ballets at Lyon, and published his Lettres sur la danse et les ballets. It is from this period that the revolution in the art of the ballet for which Noverre was responsible can be dated. Prior to Noverre, ballets were large spectacles that focused mainly on elaborate costumes and scenery and not on the physical and emotional expression of the dancers. He was next engaged by Duke Karl Eugen of Wurttemberg, and later Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, until 1774. In 1776, he was appointed maitre des ballets of the Paris Opera at the request of Queen Marie Antoinette. He returned to Vienna in Spring of 1776 to stage ballets there, but in June 1776 he returned again to Paris. He regained this post until the French Revolution reduced him to poverty. He died on 19 October 1810 at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Noverre's friends included Voltaire, Mozart, Frederick the Great and David Garrick (who called him "the Shakespeare of the dance"). The ballets of which he was most proud were his La Toilette de Venus, Les Jalousies du serail, L'Amour corsaire and Le Jaloux sans rival. Besides the Lettres sur la danse, Noverre wrote Observations sur la construction d'une nouvelle salle de l'Opera (1781); Lettres sur Garrick ecrites a Voltaire (1801); and Lettre a un artiste sur les fetes publiques (1801). Jean-Georges Noverre #died at Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the western suburbs of Paris, the French Revolution having reduced him to poverty, aged 83. He is buried at Saint Stephen's Church, Strasbourg, France. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-ballet-russe-a-la-the-paris-opera-ballet-dvd-serge-diaghilev.html

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April 29: National Zipper Day: -- Are we full of zip today! We take many things in life for granted and the humble zipper is one of them. Have you ever paused to reflect on how zippers play a huge role in our daily lives? Zippers come in apparel, purses, boots, etc. and are incredibly useful. While the first occurrence of National Zipper Day remains uncertain, there is actually quite an extensive history behind this device that has a whole day dedicated to it. It is believed that Elias Howe may have invented the first zipper and got a patent for what he called the "Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure" in the 1800s. However, neither did he market his product nor did he get any recognition for it. In that same period, a "clasp locker" was introduced at the Chicago World's Fair to fasten shoes. While it somewhat resembled Howe's creation, it wasn't the same and lost steam quickly. However, the company that manufactured it, the Universal Fastener Company, continued to be fully operational nonetheless. A Swedish-American electrical engineer employed at Universal Fastener, Gideon Sundback, is credited with designing the modern zipper. He got the first patent for a "Hookless Fastener" on April 29, 1913, which was later developed into the "Separable Fastener". It took a while to become popular as it was mostly a shoe fastener in the beginning after which the military started using the device during World War 1 for flying suits. Some manufacturers even used the device on tobacco pouches. Nevertheless, it was precisely a decade after this device received its first patent, that it would actually be called the 'zipper'. The term was coined by B.F. Goodrich in 1923 because of the sound it made. National Zipper Day helps to put the humble zipper back in the spotlight, even if just for one day! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/rusty-warren-comedy-album-megaset-mp3-cd-audio-download-usb-driv3.html

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April 29: Duke Ellington Day: -- April 29, 1899: #BOTD: #HBD! Duke Ellington, American composer, pianist, bandleader and Prince Hall Freemason (d. May 24, 1974) is #born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington, D.C.. He led a jazz orchestra from 1923 until his death, in a career spanning over fifty years. Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onward, and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. In the 1930s, his orchestra toured in Europe. Though widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a liberating principle, and referred to his music as part of the more general category of American Music, rather than to a musical genre such as jazz. Some of the musicians who were members of Ellington's orchestra, such as: saxophonists Johnny Hodges, Ben Webster and Paul Gonzalves; trumpeters Cootie Williams and Ray Nance; clarinetist Barney Bigard, drummers Bobby Durham and Sonny Greer; trombonist Juan Tizol; singers Al Hibbler and Herb Jeffries, and more are considered to be among the best players in jazz. Ellington melded them into the best-known orchestral unit in the history of jazz. Some members stayed with the orchestra for several decades. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington wrote more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, with many of his works having become standards. Ellington also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, for example Juan Tizol's "Caravan", and "Perdido", which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz. After 1941, Ellington collaborated with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his writing and arranging companion. With Strayhorn, he composed many extended compositions, or suites, as well as additional short pieces. Following an appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, in July 1956, Ellington and his orchestra enjoyed a major career revival and embarked on world tours. Ellington recorded for most American record companies of his era, performed in several films, scoring several, and composed stage musicals. Due to his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and thanks to his eloquence and charisma, Ellington is generally considered to have elevated the perception of jazz to an art form on a par with other more traditional musical genres. His reputation continued to rise after he died of complications from lung cancer and pneumonia a few weeks after his 75th birthday. At his funeral, attended by over 12,000 people at the Cathedral of St. John The Divine, Ella Fitzgerald summed up the occasion: "It's a very sad day. A genius has passed." He is interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx, New York City. He was awarded a special posthumous Pulitzer Prize for music in 1999. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/a-duke-named-ellington-dvd-complete-2-part-tv-serie2.html

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April 29, 1429: The Crisis Of The Late Middle Ages: The Anglo-French Wars: The Hundred Years' War (French: Guerre de Cent Ans [1337-1453]): The Battle Of Agincourt: The Siege Of Orleans: -- Joan Of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege Of Orleans. The Siege Of Orleans (October 12, 1428 - May 8, 1429) was the watershed of the Hundred Years' War between France and England. It was the French royal army's first major military victory to follow the crushing defeat at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, and also the first while Joan Of Arc was with the army. At a time when the military situation for the French seemed increasingly bleak, this important victory proved a decisive turning point in the war. The siege took place at the pinnacle of English power during the later stages of the war. The city held strategic and symbolic significance to both sides of the conflict. The consensus among contemporaries was that the English regent, John of Lancaster, would have succeeded in realizing Henry V's dream of conquering all of France if Orleans fell. For half a year the English and their French allies appeared to be winning but the siege collapsed nine days after Joan's arrival. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/joan-of-arc-documentary-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

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April 29 [O.S. April 17], 1818: #BOTD: #HBD! Alexander II Of Russia, Emperor Of Russia, King Of Poland and Grand Duke Of Finland from March 2, 1855 until his assassination, whose most significant reforms as emperor was the emancipation of Russia's serfs in 1861, for which he is known as Alexander The Liberator, his tolerant policies towards the Jews, reorganizing the judicial system, setting up elected local judges, abolishing corporal punishment, promoting local self-government through the Zemstvo system of local government set up during the Emancipation Reform Of 1861 (The Edict of Emancipation), imposing universal military service, ending some privileges of the nobility, and promoting university education (d. March 13 [O.S. March 1], 1881) is #Aleksandr Nikolayevich in Moscow Kremlin, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire. Ruling with a tolerant liberal policy since he became Tsar in March 2, 1855, Alexander adopted a somewhat more conservative stance until his death after an assassination attempt in 1866. Alexander was also notable for his foreign policy, which was mainly pacifist, supportive of the United States, and opposite of Great Britain. Alexander backed the Union during the American Civil War and sent warships to New York Harbor and San Francisco Bay ostensibly to deter attacks by the Confederate Navy and sold Alaska to the United States in 1867, fearing the remote colony would fall into British hands if there were another war. He sought peace, moved away from bellicose France when Napoleon III fell in 1871, and in 1872 joined with Germany and Austria in the League of the Three Emperors that stabilized the European situation. Despite his otherwise pacifist foreign policy, he fought a brief war with the Ottoman Empire in 1877-78, leading to the independence of the Bulgarian, Montenegrin, Romanian and Serbian states, and pursued further expansion into the Far East, leading to the founding of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok; the Caucasus, approving plans leading to the Circassian genocide; and Turkestan. Although disappointed by the results of the Congress of Berlin in 1878, Alexander abided by that agreement. Among his greatest domestic challenges was an uprising in Poland in 1863, to which he responded by stripping that land of its separate constitution and incorporating it directly into Russia. Alexander was proposing additional parliamentary reforms to counter the rise of nascent revolutionary and anarchistic movements when he was assassinated in 1881. Alexander II Of Russia died when he is assassinated near The Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia when a bomb is thrown at him while returning to the palace from Saint Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Manege (Michael Manege) riding academy while traveling in a closed carriage. Alexander was carried by sleigh to the Winter Palace to his study, where almost the same day twenty years earlier, he had signed the Emancipation Edict freeing the serfs. Alexander was bleeding to death, with his legs torn away, his stomach ripped open, and his face mutilated. Members of the Romanov family came rushing to the scene. The dying emperor was given Communion and Last Rites. When the attending physician, Sergey Botkin, was asked how long it would be, he replied, "Up to fifteen minutes. At 3:30 that day, the standard of Alexander II (his personal flag) was lowered for the last time. A temporary shrine was erected on the site of the attack while plans and fundraising for a more permanent memorial were undertaken. The permanent memorial took the form of The Church Of The Savior On Blood. Construction began in 1883 under Alexander III, and was completed in 1907 under Nicholas II. An elaborate shrine, in the form of a ciborium, was constructed at the end of the church opposite the altar, on the exact place of Alexander's assassination. It is embellished with topaz, lazurite, and other semi-precious stones, making a striking contrast with the simple cobblestones of the old road, which are exposed in the floor of the shrine. He is buried at Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. The assassination was planned by the Executive Committee of Narodnaya Volya (Russian: "People's Will"), a late 19th-century revolutionary socialist political organization which conducted assassinations of government officials in an attempt to overthrow the autocratic Tsarist system, in an operation chiefly planned by Andrei Zhelyabov and orchestrated by his wife, Sophia Perovskaya, a group of plotters known collectively as The Pervomartovtsy (Russian: "Those Of March 1"). Of the four assassins, two of them actually committed the deed; one assassin, Nikolai Rysakov, threw a bomb which damaged the carriage, prompting the Tsar to disembark; then a second assassin, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, threw a bomb that fatally wounded Alexander II. The Pervomartovtsy accomplices - Zhelyabov, Perovskaya, Nikolai Kibalchich, Hesya Helfman, Timofei Mikhailov, Nikolai Rysakov - were tried by The Special Tribunal Of The Ruling Senate on March 26-29, 1881 and sentenced to death by hanging. On April 3, 1881, five Pervomartovtsy were hanged (except for Helfman, whose execution had been postponed due to her pregnancy. Her execution was later replaced with katorga (forced penal labor) for an indefinite period of time; she nevertheless died of a post-natal complication in prison). The remaining conpirators were tried at The Trial Of The 20, often referred to as The Mikhailov Trial, named after the lead defendant, Alexander Mikhailov, on February 9-15, 1882. There is no dispute about whether the 20 were guilty; all of them admitted their roles in carrying out or abetting terrorist acts, and with one exception, argued that they were justified. At the conclusion of the trial held, ten of the defendants were sentenced to death. They included two women - Lebedeva, and Yakimova, who was pregnant. Three others were sentenced to hard labour for life; three - Terentyeva, Trigoni and Zlapolsky - were sentenced to 20 years hard labour; Fridenson to ten years and Lustig to four years hard labour. The death sentences invoked a reaction in Russia, and abroad. The French novelist Victor Hugo, who was particularly distressed by the prospect that two women were to be hanged, as had already happened to Perovskaya, wrote an impassioned letter to the new Tsar, Alexander III, pleading: "In the darkness, I cry for mercy." Leo Tolstoy also wrote to Alexander III in March 1881, pleading for clemency, and warning: "If you do not forgive, but execute the criminals, you will have uprooted three or four individuals from among hundreds and, evil begetting evil, 30 or 40 more will grow up in place of these three or four." He sent the letter to the Chief Procurator of the Holy Synod, Konstantin Pobedonostsev asking him to pass it on to the Tsar, but Pobedonostsev, who wanted to see the revolutionaries executed, held on to it until after Perovskaya and four others had been hanged. Most of the death sentences passed at the trial were commuted to life imprisonment after an international outcry. Alexander II had previously survived several attempts on his life, including the attempts by Dmitry Karakozov and Alexander Soloviev, the attempt to dynamite the imperial train in Zaporizhzhia, and the bombing of the Winter Palace in February 1880. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/peter-ustinov39s-russia-dvds-complete-6-part-tv-series-2-d3962.html

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April 29, 1862: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Lower Seaboard Theater Of The American Civil War: Battles Of The Lower Seaboard Theater Of The American Civil War: New Orleans In The American Civil War: The Capture Of New Orleans: -- New Orleans is captured by Union forces under Navy Flag Officer David Farragut. On April 25, forces under Union Admiral David Farragut had demanded the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana. The prompt surrender of the city saved it from serious damage, so it remains notably well-preserved today. New Orleans, Louisiana was the largest city in the South, providing military supplies and thousands of troops for the Confederate States Army. Its location near the mouth of the Mississippi made it a prime target for the Union, both for controlling the huge waterway and crippling the Confederacy's vital cotton exports. In April 1862, the West Gulf Blockading Squadron under Captain David Farragut shelled the two substantial forts guarding each of the river-banks, and forced a gap in the defensive boom placed between them. After running the last of the Confederate batteries, they took the surrender of the forts, and soon afterwards the city itself, without further action. The new military governor, Major General Benjamin Butler, proved effective in enforcing civic order, though his methods aroused protest everywhere. One citizen was hanged for tearing down the US flag, and any woman insulting a Federal soldier would be treated as a prostitute. Looting by troops was also rife, though apparently not with Butler's approval. He was eventually replaced by Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, who somewhat improved relations between troops and citizens, but military occupation had to continue well after the war. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-divided-union-american-civil-war-tv-series-3-dual-layer-dvd3.html

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April 29, 1863: #BOTD: William Randolph Hearst, American businessman, newspaper publisher, and politician known for developing the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications (d. August 14, 1951) is #born in San Francisco to George Hearst, a millionaire mining engineer, owner of gold and other mines through his corporation, and his much younger wife Phoebe Apperson Hearst, from a small town in Missouri. The elder Hearst later entered politics. He served as a U.S. Senator, first appointed for a brief period in 1886 and was then elected later that year. He served from 1887 to his death in 1891. In 1887, William Randolph Hearst Sr. dropped out of Harvard to take control of the failing San Francisco Examiner which his father had purchased. He saved the Examiner, then went to New York and bought the New York Morning Journal to compete with Joseph Pulitzer, and fought a bitter circulation war with Pulitzer's New York World that sold papers by giant headlines over lurid stories featuring crime, corruption, graphics, sex, and innuendo. Hearst' sensational style of "yellow journalism" sold unprecedented numbers of newspapers and included promoting a war with Cuba in 1897-98. He expanded into other cities and into magazine publishing, acquiring a chain of nearly 30 newspaers papers in major American cities at its peak. He later expanded to magazines, creating the largest newspaper and magazine business in the world, and into books and films. He also served in Congress and nearly became mayor of New York City. William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills at the age of 88. He is interred in the Hearst family mausoleum at the Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California, which his parents had established. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hollywood-without-makeup-dvd-film-star-home-movies.html

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April 29, 1901: #BOTD: Emperor Showa, commonly known in English-speaking countries by his personal name Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death (d. January 7, 1989) is #born Hirohito Yamato in Tokyo's Aoyama Palace during the reign of his grandfather, Emperor Meiji, the first son of 21-year-old Crown prince Yoshihito (the future Emperor Taisho) and 16-year-old Crown Princess Sadako (the future Empress Teimei). In Japan, he is now referred to primarily by his posthumous name, Emperor Showa. The word Showa is the name of the era that corresponded with the Emperor's reign, and was made the Emperor's own name upon his death. The name Hirohito means "abundant benevolence". At the start of his reign, Japan was already one of the great powers - the ninth-largest economy in the world, the third-largest naval power, and one of the four permanent members of the council of the League Of Nations. He was the head of state under the Constitution of the Empire Of Japan during Japan's imperial expansion, militarization, and involvement in World War II, while the country was led by militarist Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. Following the dropping of two atomic bombs by the U.S., he made a radio address urging his people to stop fighting. After Japan's surrender, he remained as the symbolic head of state in Japan' new parliamentary government, and he was not prosecuted for war crimes as many other leading government figures were, and his degree of involvement in wartime decisions remains controversial. In 1946, he renounced his divinity and then pursued his interest in marine biology, becoming a recognized authority in the subject. During the post-war period, he became the symbol of the new state under the post-war constitution and Japan's recovery, and by the end of his reign, Japan had emerged as the world's second largest economy. Hirohito died at the age of 87 at Fukiage Palace, Japan at 6:33 AM of duodenal cancer. At the time of his death he was both the longest-lived and longest-reigning historical Japanese emperor, as well as the longest-reigning monarch in the world at that time. Hirohito's state funeral was held on February 24 at Shinjuku Gyo-en, a large park and garden in Shinjuku and Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan that was originally a residence of the Naito family in the Edo period, then became a garden under the management of Japan Imperial Household Agency, now a national park under the jurisdiction of the Ministry Of The Environment, where he was buried near his parents, Emperor Taisho and Empress Teimei, at the Musashi Imperial Graveyard in Hachioji, Tokyo. The Emperor was succeeded by his son, the Emperor Akihito, whose enthronement ceremony was held on November 12. 1990. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hirohito-documentaries-dvd.html

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April 29, 1916: 20th Century Revolutions: Irish Nationalism: The Irish Revolutionary Period: 20th Century Rebellions: The Easter Rising (Irish: Eiri Amach Na Casca) (The Easter Rebellion): -- After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end. On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic. The Easter Rising, also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was heavily engaged in the First World War. It was the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798, and the first armed action of the Irish revolutionary period. Organised by a seven-man Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising lasted for six days. Members of the Irish Volunteers, led by schoolmaster and Irish language activist Patrick Pearse, joined by the smaller Irish Citizen Army of James Connolly and 200 women of Cumann na mBan (The Women's Council), seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed an Irish Republic. The British Army brought in thousands of reinforcements as well as artillery and a gunboat. There was fierce street fighting on the routes into the city centre, where the rebels put up stiff resistance, slowing the British advance and inflicting heavy casualties. Elsewhere in Dublin, the fighting mainly consisted of sniping and long-range gun battles. The main rebel positions were gradually surrounded and bombarded with artillery. There were isolated actions in other parts of Ireland, with attacks on the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks at Ashbourne, County Meath, County Cork and in County Galway, and the seizure of the town of Enniscorthy, County Wexford. Germany had sent a shipment of arms to the rebels, but the British had intercepted it just before the Rising began. Volunteer leader Eoin MacNeill had then issued a countermand in a bid to halt the Rising, which greatly reduced the number of rebels who mobilised. With much greater numbers and heavier weapons, the British Army suppressed the Rising. Pearse agreed to an unconditional surrender on Saturday 29 April, although sporadic fighting continued until Sunday, when word reached the other rebel positions. After the surrender the country remained under martial law. About 3,500 people were taken prisoner by the British, many of whom had played no part in the Rising, and 1,800 of them were sent to internment camps or prisons in Britain. Most of the leaders of the Rising were executed following courts-martial. The Rising brought physical force republicanism back to the forefront of Irish politics, which for nearly 50 years had been dominated by constitutional nationalism. It, and the British reaction to it, led to increased popular support for Irish independence. In December 1918, republicans, represented by the reconstituted Sinn Fein party, won a landslide victory in the general election to the British Parliament. They did not take their seats, but instead convened the First Dail and declared the independence of the Irish Republic. That declaration, and the Soloheadbeg ambush, when members of the Irish Volunteers (or Irish Republican Army, IRA) ambushed Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) officers who were escorting a consignment of explosives at Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary, an action the volunteers took on their own initiative and had not sought authorization for, started the Irish War of Independence. 485 people were killed in the Easter Rising. About 54% were civilians, 30% were British military and police, and 16% were Irish rebels. More than 2,600 were wounded. Many of the civilians were killed as a result of the British using artillery and heavy machine guns, or mistaking civilians for rebels. Others were caught in the crossfire in a crowded city. The shelling and the fires it caused left parts of inner city Dublin in ruins. 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 29, 1919: #BOTD: #HBD! Alla Rakha, Indian tabla player, frequent accompanist of sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar, largely responsible for introducing Tabla to western audiences (d. February 3, 2000) is #born Alla Rakha Khan Qureshi in Ghagwal, Jammu Province, Kingdom Of Jammu And Kashmir, British Raj (now in Jammu and Kashmir, India) into a family of Muslim Dogras, an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group living primarily in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and neighbouring Pakistan, although most of the Dogra clan around them were Hindus. Ustad (Or ostaz or Ustadam, Islamic honorific meaning "Master Musician" Alla Rakha Qureshi specialised in Hindustani classical music. When he and Ravi Shankar played at The 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, they received a prolonged standing ovation to an audience that was floored by the produndity of their musicianship. Alla Rakha died aged 80 at his Simla House residence on Nepean Sea Road in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, following a heart attack, which he suffered on learning of the death of his daughter, Razia, the previous evening during cataract surgery. His burial details are unknown. In his obituary, The New York Times called him "the most important tabla drummer of his generation" who "used his skill to invigorate every musician who shared the stage with him." Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee also issued a formal statement regretting his loss. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/it-was-20-years-ago-today-1967-and-sgt-pepp201967.html

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April 29, 1922: #BOTD: #HBD! Toots Thielemans, Belgian and American jazz harmonica player, guitarist, whistler and composer, credited with making the harmonica an accepted instrument in jazz and becoming thereby Jazz's preeminent jazz harmonica player (d. August 22, 2016) is #born Jean-Baptiste Frederic Isidor in Brussels, Belgium. Baron Thielemans' first professional performances were with Benny Goodman's band when they toured Europe in 1949 and 1950. Thielemans emigrated to the U.S. in 1951, becoming a citizen in 1957. From 1953 to 1959 he played with George Shearing, and then led his own groups on tours in the U.S. and Europe. In 1961 he recorded and performed live one of his own compositions, "Bluesette", which featured him playing guitar and whistling. In the 1970s and 1980s, he continued touring and recording, appearing with musicians such as Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Werner, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Elis Regina and Paquito D'Rivera. Among the film soundtracks that Thielemans recorded are The Pawnbroker (1964), Midnight Cowboy (1969), The Getaway (1972), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Sugarland Express (1974) and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). His harmonica theme song for the popular Sesame Street TV show was heard for 40 years. He often performed and recorded with Quincy Jones, who once called him "one of the greatest musicians of our time." In 2009 he was designated a Jazz Master by The National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor for a jazz musician in the United States. Thielemans received a joint honorary doctorate from the Universite libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. In 2001, he was raised into the Belgian nobility by King Albert II and created Baron Thielemans for life, this in recognition of his contribution to music. Herewith, he chose the motto Be yourself, no more no less. Toots Thielemans died in Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium at the age of 94. After the announcement, the Netherlands-based jazz and pop orchestra Metropole Orkest, along with American musician Quincy Jones, performed at London's Royal Albert Hall in Thielemans' honor. Another concert was performed at the Grand-Place, Brussels. Thielemans was buried on August 2, 2016 in La Hulpe, just outside Brussels. Pianist Kenny Werner read a personal message from U.S. President Barack Obama for his widow, Huguette. It read: "Dear Huguette. I was deeply saddened when I heard about your husband's passing. I hope that shared memories will soften your suffering. Lift faith from the support of friends and family. Know that you will be in my thoughts for the next days. May Toots' music lead you and offer you consolation. I'm sure it will do this for all of us." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/television-1988-tv-documentary-series-8-shows-4-dual-laye198884.html

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April 29, 1928: #BOTD: #HBD! Carl Gardner, African American singer, best known as the foremost member and founder of The Coasters (d. June 12, 2011) is #born Carl Edward Gardner in Tyler, Texas. As a singer, his first major career success came with The Robins, a rhythm and blues group that had a big hit in 1955, "Smokey Joe's Cafe" written by the songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. After leaving that group, in 1956 Gardner formed the Coasters with the Robins' bass singer Bobby Nunn, Leon Hughes and Billy Guy, at the behest of the songwriting/producing team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and had a two-sided hit in 1957, "Young Blood" (on which Gardner sang lead) and "Searchin'". With new members Cornel Gunter and Will "Dub" Jones, the Coasters went on to produce several enduring classics of 1950s rock and roll music including "Yakety Yak", "Charlie Brown", and "Poison Ivy". Together with the other members of the Coasters - Cornell Gunter, Billy Guy and Will "Dub" Jones - Gardner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Gardner's son, Carl Jr., officially joined the Coasters in late 2005, after Gardner semi-retired, although Carl Jr. had been touring with them since at least 1998. His father officially made him a member to carry on his group as the lead singer. In 1993, shortly after moving with wife Veta to Port St. Lucie, Florida, Gardner sought treatment for a nosebleed. He was ultimately diagnosed by an ENT specialist with a cancerous tumor of the nasopharynx "the size of a grapefruit", and was told chances of survival were slim. Nevertheless after enduring weeks of radiation therapy, the cancer went into remission never to recur. Despite some change in the sonority of his voice he continued to perform with the Coasters as lead singer. Carl Gardner, Sr. died after suffering with congestive heart failure and vascular dementia aged 83 in Port St. Lucie, Florida. He is buried in Fernhill Memorial Gardens And Mausoleum in Stuart, Florida. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-14-aretha-temptations-kinks-d14.html

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April 29, 1936: #BOTD: #HBD! Zubin Mehta, Indian bassist and conductor of Western and Eastern classical music is #born onto a Parsi family in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India (now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India), during the British Raj. He was the music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and is Conductor Emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mehta's father was the founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra, and Mehta received his early musical education from him. When he was 18, he enrolled in the Vienna state music academy, from which he graduated after three years with a diploma as a conductor. He began winning international competitions and conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic at age 21. Beginning in the 1960s, Mehta gained experience by substituting for celebrated maestros throughout the world. Mehta was music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1967 and of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1962 to 1978, the youngest music director ever for any major North American orchestra. In 1969, he was appointed Music Adviser to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1981 he became its Music Director for Life. From 1978 to 1991, Mehta was music director of the New York Philharmonic. Since 1985, he has also been chief conductor of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Italy. He is an honorary citizen of both Florence and Tel Aviv and was made an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera in 1997 and of the Bavarian State Opera in 2006. The title of Honorary Conductor was bestowed on him by numerous orchestras throughout the world. More recently, Mehta made several tours with the Bavarian State Opera and kept up a busy schedule of guest conducting appearances. In December 2006, he received the Kennedy Center Honor and in October 2008 he was honored by the Japanese Imperial Family with the Praemium Imperiale. In 2016, Mehta was appointed Honorary Conductor of the Teatro San Carlo, Naples. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/new-york-city-history-videos-3-dvd-se3.html

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April 29, 1938: #BOTD: #HBD! Klaus Voormann, German artist, bass player, and record producer who designed artwork for many bands including the Beatles, Harry Nilsson, the Bee Gees, Wet Wet Wet and Turbonegro is #born Klaus Otto Wilhelm Voormann in Berlin, German Reich (now Germany). Voormann's most notable work as a producer was his work with the band Trio, including their worldwide hit "Da Da Da". As a musician, Voormann is best known for being the bassist for Manfred Mann from 1966 to 1969, and for performing as a session musician on a host of recordings, including "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon, Lou Reed's Transformer album, and on many recordings of the former members of the Beatles. Voormann's association with The Beatles dates back to their time in Hamburg in the early 1960s. He lived in the band's London flat with George Harrison and Ringo Starr after John Lennon and Paul McCartney moved out to live with their respective partners, and designed the cover of their album Revolver, for which he won a Grammy Award. Following the band's split, rumours circulated of the formation of a group named the Ladders, consisting of Lennon, Harrison, Starr and Voormann. This failed to materialise; however, all four would-be Ladders (plus Billy Preston) performed on the Starr track "I'm the Greatest", and Voormann did play on solo albums by Lennon, Harrison and Starr, as well as briefly being a member of the Plastic Ono Band. In the 1990s, he designed the artwork for The Beatles Anthology albums. In 2009, Voormann released his debut solo album A Sideman's Journey, which featured many notable musicians, including the two surviving members of the Beatles, performing as 'Voormann and Friends'. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/alternative-revolver-beatles-mp3-cd-audio-download-usb-flash-driv3.html

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April 29, 1945: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of World War II: The Italian Campaign Of World War II (The Liberation Of Italy): The Surrender Of Caserta (Italian: Resa Di Caserta (The Surrender Of German And Italian Fascist Forces In Italy): -- The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies. The day prior, April 28, 1945, twenty three years of Fascist rule in Italy abruptly ended as Italian partisans summarily execute Benito Mussolini. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/crusade-in-europe-2-dual-layer-dvds-tv-series-eisenhowe2.html

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April 29, 1945: History Of The Jews In Germany: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Holocaust (Shoah): The Holocaust In Germany: Dachau Concentration Camp: -- Units of the United States 3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Felix L. Sparks, liberate Dachau Concentration Camp by entering the camp over a side wall. At about the same time, Brigadier General Henning Linden led the 222nd Infantry Regiment of the 42nd (Rainbow) Infantry Division soldiers including his aide, Lieutenant William Cowling, to accept the formal surrender of the camp from German Lieutenant Heinrich Wicker at an entrance between the camp and the compound for the SS garrison. Linden was traveling with Marguerite Higgins and other reporters; as a result, Linden's detachment generated international headlines by accepting the surrender of the camp. More than 30,000 Jews and political prisoners were freed, and since 1945 adherents of the 42nd and 45th Division versions of events have argued over which unit was the first to liberate Dachau. The creation of Dachau Concentration Camp was ordered created on March 20, 1933 by Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, as Chief of Police of Munich, and he appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant. Dachau concentration camp was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners. It is located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory northeast of the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany. Its purpose was enlarged to include forced labor, and eventually, the imprisonment of Jews, German and Austrian criminals, and eventually foreign nationals from countries that Germany occupied or invaded. The Dachau camp system grew to include nearly 100 sub-camps, which were mostly work camps or Arbeitskommandos, and were located throughout southern Germany and Austria. The camps were liberated by U.S. forces on 29 April 1945. Prisoners lived in constant fear of brutal treatment and terror detention including standing cells, floggings, the so-called tree or pole hanging, and standing at attention for extremely long periods. There were 32,000 documented deaths at the camp, and thousands that are undocumented. Approximately 10,000 of the 30,000 prisoners were sick at the time of liberation. In the postwar years the Dachau facility served to hold SS soldiers awaiting trial. After 1948, it held ethnic Germans who had been expelled from eastern Europe and were awaiting resettlement, and also was used for a time as a United States military base during the occupation. It was finally closed in 1960. There are several religious memorials within the Memorial Site, which is open to the public. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-old-time-radio-history-megaset-dual-layer-mp3-dv3.html

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April 29, 1945: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Eastern Front Of World War II: The Great Patriotic War (The German-Soviet War): The Battle Of Berlin (The Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation, The Fall Of Berlin): The Fuhrerbunker (The Fuehrerbunker): -- Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Doenitz as his successor; Hitler and Braun supposedly both commit suicide the following day. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/eva-braun-hitler39s-mistress-dvd-color-film-of-hitler39s-house3939.html

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April 29, 1946: The Aftermath Of The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The International Military Tribunal For The Far East (IMTFE, The Tokyo Trials, The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal): -- The IMTFE convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East. IMTFE was a military trial convened to try the leaders of the Empire Of Japan for "Class A" crimes, which were reserved for those who participated in a joint conspiracy to start and wage war. Twenty-eight Japanese military and political leaders were charged with waging aggressive war and with responsibility for conventional war crimes. More than 5,700 lower-ranking personnel were charged with conventional war crimes in separate trials convened by Australia, China, France, the Netherlands, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and the United States. The charges covered a wide range of crimes including prisoner abuse, rape, sexual slavery, torture, ill-treatment of labourers, execution without trial and inhumane medical experiments. China held 13 tribunals, resulting in 504 convictions and 149 executions. The Japanese Emperor Hirohito and all members of The Imperial Family, such as career officer Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, were not prosecuted for involvement in any of the three categories of crimes. Herbert Bix explained, "The Truman Administration and General MacArthur both believed the occupation reforms would be implemented smoothly if they used Hirohito to legitimise their changes". As many as 50 suspects, such as Nobusuke Kishi, who later became Prime Minister, and Yoshisuke Aikawa, head of Nissan, were charged but released in 1947 and 1948. Shiro Ishii received immunity in exchange for data gathered from his experiments on live prisoners. The lone dissenting judge arguing to exonerate all arrested suspects was Indian jurist Radhabinod Pal. The tribunal was adjourned on November 12, 1948. 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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( #JCKaelin here: I had some funny times with Tommy James during the filming of the charity video "We Got The Love", produced by Vinnie Fusco in New Jersey during the mid 1980s (where I also hung out with Felix Cavaliere of The Rascals and an (obnoxious) Al Aronowitz). I accidentally spilled a cola soft drink on the hood of someone's car, and as I hurriedly wiped it off so as not to damage the paint job (pouring cola on a car's paint as a hooligan prank was a "thing" in those days), he walked by with his pretty girlfriend tucked under his arm (he's very tall, and she fit right in), he laughed and said "I won't tell anyone if you won't!" :D ) ========= April 29, 1947: #BOTD: #HBD! Tommy James, also known as Tommy Tadger, American singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer, is #born Thomas Gregory Jackson in Dayton, Ohio. Tommy James is widely known as leader of the 1960s rock band Tommy James and the Shondells, who became famous for their Hit Songs "Hanky Panky", "I Think We're Alone Now", "Mony Mony", "Crimson And Clover" and "Draggin' The Line", all released on the Roulette Records label. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-golden-age-of-rock-39n39-roll-dvd-complete-tv-series-5-39395.html

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April 29, 1967: The History Of Sports: The History Of Sports In The United States: The History Of Boxing: The History Of Heavyweight Boxing: 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): Opposition To United States Involvement In The Vietnam War: Clay v. United States: -- After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Boxer Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title. On April 28, Ali appeared in Houston for his scheduled induction into the U.S. Armed Forces, but he refused three times to step forward when his name was called. An officer warned him that he was committing a felony punishable by five years in prison and a fine of 10K USD. Once more, Ali refused to budge when his name was called, and he was arrested. Later that same day, the New York State Athletic Commission suspended his boxing license and stripped him of his title. Other boxing commissions followed suit, and Ali's boxing license was revoked in every state. Ali would not be able to obtain a license to box in any state for over three years. At the trial on June 20, 1967, the jury found Ali guilty after only 21 minutes of deliberation. After a Court of Appeals upheld the conviction, the case was reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971. Ali remained free in the years between the Appellate Court decision and the Supreme Court ruling. As public opinion began turning people against the war and the Civil Rights Movement continued to gather momentum, Ali became a popular speaker at colleges and universities across the country; this itinerary was rare if not unprecedented for a prizefighter. At Howard University, for example, he gave his popular "Black Is Best" speech to 4,000 cheering students and community intellectuals, after he was invited to speak by sociology professor Nathan Hare on behalf of the Black Power Committee, a student protest group. On June 28, 1971, the Supreme Court Of The United States in Clay v. United States overturned Ali's conviction by a unanimous 8-0 decision (Justice Thurgood Marshall recused himself, as he had been the U.S. Solicitor General at the time of Ali's conviction). The decision was not based on, nor did it address, the merits of Ali's claims per se; rather, the Court held that since the appeal board gave no reason for the denial of a conscientious objector exemption to Ali, and that it was therefore impossible to determine which of the three basic tests for conscientious objector status offered in the Justice Department's brief that the appeal board relied on, Ali's conviction must be reversed. Ali did not fight from March 1967 to October 1970 - from the ages of 25 to almost 29, some of his potentially most promising athletic years - as his case worked its way through the appeals process. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/muhammad-ali--dvd-2-discs-documentaries-and-entire-fight2.html

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April 29, 1968: Premieres: Theatre Premieres: Musical Premieres: United States Musical Premieres: Broadway Premieres: -- The controversial musical "Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical", a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement. Hair is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot. The work reflects the creators' observations of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, and several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. The musical's profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, its treatment of sexuality, its irreverence for the American flag, and its nude scene caused much comment and controversy. The work broke new ground in musical theatre by defining the genre of "rock musical", using a racially integrated cast, and inviting the audience onstage for a "Be-In" finale. Hair tells the story of the "tribe", a group of politically active, long-haired hippies of the "Age of Aquarius" living a bohemian life in New York City and fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War. Claude, his good friend Berger, their roommate Sheila and their friends struggle to balance their young lives, loves and the sexual revolution, with their rebellion against the war and their conservative parents and society. Ultimately, Claude must decide whether to resist the draft as his friends have done, or to serve in Vietnam, compromising his pacifist principles and risking his life. After an off-Broadway debut on October 17, 1967, at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and a run at the Cheetah nightclub from December 1967 through January 1968, the show opened on Broadway in April 1968 and ran for 1,750 performances. Simultaneous productions in cities across the United States and Europe followed shortly thereafter, including a successful London production that ran for 1,997 performances. Since then, numerous productions have been staged around the world, spawning dozens of recordings of the musical, including the 3 million-selling original Broadway cast recording. Some of the songs from its score became Top 10 hits, and a feature film adaptation was released in 1979. A Broadway revival opened in 2009, earning strong reviews and winning the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Revival of a Musical. In 2008, Time wrote, "Today Hair seems, if anything, more daring than ever." 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 29, 1970: 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): The Cambodian Civil War: The Cambodian Campaign (The Cambodian Incursion, The Cambodian Liberation): -- United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong. The day prior, April 28, 1970, President Richard Nixon formally authorized American combat troops to attack communist sanctuaries in Cambodia. Amid protests at home demanding an immediate pullout of American forces in Vietnam, Nixon implemented a strategy of replacing American troops with Vietnamese troops, known as "Vietnamization". He soon instituted phased U.S. troop withdrawals, but authorized incursions into Laos, in part to interrupt the Ho Chi Minh Trail, used to supply North Vietnamese forces, that passed through Laos and Cambodia. On April 28, 1970, Nixon ordered that US troops invade Cambodia to attack and destroy the communist sanctuaries belonging to the Cambodian Khmer Rouge communist forces to cease their operations in aiding Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces. Nixon formally announced the ground invasion of Cambodia to the American public on April 30, 1970. His responses to protesters included an impromptu, early morning meeting with them at the Lincoln Memorial on May 9, 1970. Nixon's campaign promise to curb the war, contrasted with the escalated bombing, led to claims that Nixon had a "credibility gap" on the issue. It is estimated that between 50,000 and 150,000 people were killed during the bombing of Cambodia between 1970 and 1973. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/unauthorized-biography-richard-nixon-dvd-documentary.html

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April 29, 1975: 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): The 1975 Spring Offensive {Vietnamese: Chien Dich Mua Xuan 1975; officially The General Offensive And Uprising Of Spring 1975 (Vietnamese: Tong Tien Cong Va Noi Day Mua Xuan 1975)}: The Battle Of Xuan Loc (Vietnamese: Tran Xuan Loc) (The Fall Of Saigaon, The Fall Of South Vietnam): Operation Frequent Wind ("I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas"): -- Armed Forces Radio Saigon broadcasts "The temperature in Saigon is 105 degrees and rising.", then plays Bing Crosby's "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas.". With this coded message, US involvement in the Vietnam War comes to end as it ceases to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon by fixed-wing aircraft and begins Operation Frequent Wind, the helicopter evacuation of US personnel, at-risk Vietnamese and foreign journalists begins, before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. The evacuation was the largest helicopter evacuation in history. In preparation for the evacuation, the American Embassy had distributed a 15-page booklet called SAFE, short for "Standard Instruction and Advice to Civilians in an Emergency." The booklet included a map of Saigon pinpointing "assembly areas where a helicopter will pick you up." There was an insert page which read: "Note evacuational signal. Do not disclose to other personnel. When the evacuation is ordered, the code will be read out on Armed Forces Radio. The code is: The temperature in Saigon is 105 degrees and rising. This will be followed by the playing of I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas.". Japanese journalists, concerned that they would not recognize the tune, had to get someone to sing it to them. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/chopper-wars-vietnam-war-amp-airmobile-helicopters-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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April 29, 1997: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: Arms Control: Chemical Weapons Arms Control: The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) (The Convention On The Prohibition Of The Development, Production, Stockpiling And Use Of Chemical Weapons And On Their Destruction): -- The Chemical Weapons Convention Of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories. The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), officially the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, is an arms control treaty administered by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an intergovernmental organization based in The Hague, The Netherlands. The treaty entered into force on 29 April 1997, and prohibits the large-scale use, development, production, stockpiling and transfer of chemical weapons and their precursors, except for very limited purposes (research, medical, pharmaceutical or protective). The main obligation of member states under the convention is to effect this prohibition, as well as the destruction of all current chemical weapons. All destruction activities must take place under OPCW verification. As of August 2022, 193 states have become parties to the CWC and accept its obligations. Israel has signed but not ratified the agreement, while three other UN member states (Egypt, North Korea and South Sudan) have neither signed nor acceded to the treaty. Most recently, the State of Palestine deposited its instrument of accession to the CWC on 17 May 2018. In September 2013, Syria acceded to the convention as part of an agreement for the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons. As of February 2021, 98.39% of the world's declared chemical weapons stockpiles had been destroyed. The convention has provisions for systematic evaluation of chemical production facilities, as well as for investigations of allegations of use and production of chemical weapons based on the intelligence of other state parties. Some chemicals which have been used extensively in warfare but have numerous large-scale industrial uses (such as phosgene) are highly regulated; however, certain notable exceptions exist. Chlorine gas is highly toxic, but being a pure element and widely used for peaceful purposes, is not officially listed as a chemical weapon. Certain state-powers (e.g. the Assad regime of Syria) continue to regularly manufacture and implement such chemicals in combat munitions. Although these chemicals are not specifically listed as controlled by the CWC, the use of any toxic chemical as a weapon (when used to produce fatalities solely or mainly through its toxic action) is in-and-of itself forbidden by the treaty. Other chemicals, such as white phosphorus, are highly toxic but are legal under the CWC when they are used by military forces for reasons other than their toxicity. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-poisoned-winds-of-the-cold-war-chemical-weapons-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

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Today, April 29, 2026
April 29, 1980: #DOTD: #RIP: Alfred Hitchcock, English-American film director, producer and screenwriter (b. August 13, 1899) #dies of kidney failure in his Bel Air home, aged 80. Donald Spoto, one of Hitchcock's biographers, wrote that Hitchcock had declined to see a priest, but according to Jesuit priest Mark Henninger, he and another priest, Tom Sullivan, celebrated Mass at the filmmaker's home, and Sullivan heard his confession. Hitchcock was survived by his wife and daughter. His funeral was held at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Beverly Hills on April 30, after which his body was cremated. His remains were scattered over the Pacific Ocean on May 10, 1980. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE was born Alfred Joseph Hitchcock in Leytonstone, London. He is one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema. Known as the "Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing of the television anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1965). His films garnered a total of 46 Oscar nominations and 6 wins. Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph-cable company. He made his directorial debut with the British-German silent film The Pleasure Garden (1925). His first successful film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film, Blackmail, was the first British "talkie". Two of his 1930s thrillers, The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938), are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century. By 1939, Hitchcock was a filmmaker of international importance, and film producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood. A string of successful films followed, including Rebecca (1940), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Suspicion (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and Notorious (1946). Rebecca won the Academy Award for Best Picture, although Hitchcock himself was only nominated as Best Director; he was also nominated for Lifeboat (1944) and Spellbound (1945), although he never won the Best Director Academy Award. The "Hitchcockian" style includes the use of camera movement to mimic a person's gaze, thereby turning viewers into voyeurs, and framing shots to maximise anxiety and fear. The film critic Robin Wood wrote that the meaning of a Hitchcock film "is there in the method, in the progression from shot to shot. A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole." After a brief lull of commercial success in the late 1940s, Hitchcock returned to form with Strangers on a Train (1951) and Dial M For Murder (1954). By 1960 Hitchcock had directed four films often ranked among the greatest of all time: Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), and Psycho (1960), the first and last of these garnering him Best Director nominations. In 2012, Vertigo replaced Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made based on its world-wide poll of hundreds of film critics. By 2018 eight of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his personal favourite, Shadow of a Doubt (1943). He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 1971, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979 and was knighted in December that year, four months before he died. https://store.earthstation1.com/clive-james39-fame-in-the-20th-century-tv-series-dvd-set-mp4-usb-39204.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Making Sense Of The Sixties TV Series DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, April 29, 2026
April 29, 2008: #DOTD: #RIP: Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, scientist and academic, the first person to isolate, synthesize, ingest, name and learn of the psychedelic effects of both LSD and the principal psychedelic mushroom compounds psilocybin and psilocin (b. January 11, 1906) #dies at the age of 102 from a heart attack in Burg im Leimental, Switzerland. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. Albert Hofmann was born in Baden, Switzerland. Albert Hofmann authored more than 100 scientific articles and numerous books, including LSD: Mein Sorgenkind (LSD: My Problem Child). In 2007, he shared first place with Tim Berners-Lee in a list of the 100 greatest living geniuses, published by The Daily Telegraph newspaper. On April 16, 1943, he accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD he synthesized from lysergic acid, a chemical from the fungus ergot. Hofmann joined the pharmaceutical-chemical department of Sandoz Laboratories, located in Basel, as a co-worker with professor Arthur Stoll, founder and director of the pharmaceutical department. He began studying the medicinal plant squill and the fungus ergot as part of a program to purify and synthesize active constituents for use as pharmaceuticals. His main contribution was to elucidate the chemical structure of the common nucleus of Scilla glycosides (an active principle of Mediterranean squill). While researching lysergic acid derivatives, Hofmann first synthesized LSD on November 16, 1938. The main intention of the synthesis was to obtain a respiratory and circulatory stimulant (an analeptic). It was set aside for five years, until April 16, 1943, when Hofmann decided to take a second look at it. While re-synthesizing LSD, he accidentally absorbed a small amount of the drug and discovered its powerful effects. He described what he felt as being "...affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicated-like condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After about two hours this condition faded away." Three days later, on what is now commemorated as "Bicycle Day" Hofmann ingested 0.25 milligrams (250 micrograms) of the substance on April 19, 1943. Between one and two hours later, Hofmann experienced slow and gradual changes in his perception. He asked his laboratory assistant to escort him home. As was customary in Basel, they made the journey by bicycle. On the way, Hofmann's condition rapidly deteriorated as he struggled with feelings of anxiety, alternating in his beliefs that the next-door neighbor was a malevolent witch, that he was going insane, and that the LSD had poisoned him. When the house doctor arrived, however, he could detect no physical abnormalities, save for a pair of widely dilated pupils. Hofmann was reassured, and soon his terror began to give way to a sense of good fortune and enjoyment, as he later wrote: "... Little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux ..." The events of this first LSD trip, now known as "Bicycle Day", after the bicycle ride home, proved to Hofmann that he had indeed made a significant discovery: a psychoactive substance with extraordinary potency, capable of causing significant shifts of consciousness in incredibly low doses. (The term trip was first coined by US Army scientists during the 1950s when they were experimenting with LSD.) Hofmann foresaw the drug as a powerful psychiatric tool; because of its intense and introspective nature, he could not imagine anyone using it recreationally. LSD was sold as a medication for research purposes under the trade-name Delysid beginning in the 1950s; it ceased selling it in the 1960s. After World War II English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond began using LSD as a form of psychedelic psychotherapy. In 1956, seeking a name for the experience induced by LSD, Osmond contacted Aldous Huxley, a personal acquaintance and a fellow advocate for the therapeutic use of the substance. Huxley coined the term "phanerothyme," from the Greek terms for "manifest" and "spirit". In a letter to Osmond, he wrote "To make this mundane world sublime, Take half a gram of phanerothyme", to which Osmond responded "To fathom Hell or soar angelic, Just take a pinch of psychedelic". It was on this term that Osmond eventually settled -- combining the ancient greek words psych (soul, mind) and delein (to manifest), with the meaning "mind manifesting" -- because it was "clear, euphonious and uncontaminated by other associations." In the 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) believed that the drug might be useful for mind control, so they tested it on people, some without their knowledge, in a program called MKUltra. Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, is a hallucinogenic drug. Effects typically include altered thoughts, feelings, and awareness of one's surroundings. Many users see or hear things that do not exist. Dilated pupils, increased blood pressure, and increased body temperature are typical. Effects typically begin within half an hour and can last for up to 12 hours. It is used mainly as a recreational drug and as an entheogen (consciousness-altering drug) for spiritual reasons. LSD does not appear to be addictive, although tolerance may occur with use of increasing doses. Adverse psychiatric reactions are possible, such as anxiety, paranoia, and delusions. Distressing flashbacks might occur in spite of no further use, a condition called hallucinogen persisting perception disorder. Death is very rare as a result of LSD, though it occasionally occurs in accidents. The effects of LSD are believed to occur as a result of alterations in the serotonin system. As little as 20 micrograms can produce an effect. In pure form, LSD is clear or white in color, has no smell, and is crystalline. It breaks down with exposure to ultraviolet light. About 10 percent of people in the United States have used LSD at some point in their lives as of 2017, while 0.7 percent have used it in the last year. It was most popular in the 1960s to 1980s. LSD is typically either swallowed or held under the tongue. It is most often sold on blotter paper and less commonly as tablets or in gelatin squares. There is no known treatment for addiction, if it occurs. LSD was listed as a schedule 1 controlled substance by the United Nations in 1971. It currently has no approved medical use. In Europe, as of 2011, the typical cost of a dose was between 4.50 - 25 Euros. https://store.earthstation1.com/making-sense-of-the-sixties-tv-documentary-series-6-hour-episode6.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Documentaries Set DVD, MP4, USB Drive
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April 29, 1986: Nuclear And Radioactive Disasters: Nuclear Disasters In The Soviet Union: Nuclear Disasters In The Ukraine: Nuclear Disasters In Belarus: The Chernobyl Disaster: -- American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant. Because of defective intelligence based on satellite imagery, it was also thought that the third Reactor had also suffered a dire accident. The Chernobyl Disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl Accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred between April 25-26, 1986 in the No. 4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the now-abandoned town of Pripyat, in northern Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, approximately 104 km (65 mi) north of Kiev. The event occurred during a late-night safety test which simulated a station blackout power failure, in the course of which safety systems were intentionally turned off. A combination of inherent reactor design flaws and the reactor operators arranging the core in a manner contrary to the checklist for the test, eventually resulted in uncontrolled reaction conditions. Water flashed into steam, generating a destructive steam explosion and a subsequent open-air graphite fire. This fire produced considerable updrafts for about nine days. These lofted plumes of fission products into the atmosphere. The estimated radioactive inventory that was released during this very hot fire phase approximately equaled in magnitude the airborne fission products released in the initial destructive explosion. This radioactive material precipitated onto parts of the western USSR and Europe. During the accident, steam-blast effects caused two deaths within the facility; one immediately after the explosion, and the other, compounded by a lethal dose of radiation. Over the coming days and weeks, 134 servicemen were hospitalized with acute radiation symptoms, of which 28 firemen and employees died in the days-to-months afterward from the effects of acute radiation syndrome (ARS). In addition, approximately fourteen radiation induced cancer deaths among this group of 134 hospitalized survivors were to follow within the next ten years. Among the wider population, an excess of 15 childhood thyroid cancer deaths were documented as of 2011. It will take further time and investigation to definitively determine the elevated relative risk of cancer among the surviving employees, those that were initially hospitalized with ARS and the population at large. The Chernobyl Accident is considered the most disastrous nuclear power plant accident in history, both in terms of cost and casualties. It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents classified as a level 7 event (the maximum classification) on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011. The struggle to safeguard against scenarios which were perceived as having the potential for greater catastrophe, together with later decontamination efforts of the surroundings, ultimately involved over 500,000 workers and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles. The remains of the No. 4 reactor building were enclosed in a large cover which was named The Object Shelter, often known as The Sarcophagus. The purpose of the structure was to reduce the spread of the remaining radioactive dust and debris from the wreckage and the protection of the wreckage from further weathering. The sarcophagus was finished in December 1986 at a time when what was left of the reactor was entering the cold shut-down phase. The enclosure was not intended as a radiation shield, but was built quickly as occupational safety for the crews of the other undamaged reactors at the power station, with No.3 continuing to produce electricity up into 2000. The accident motivated safety upgrades on all remaining Soviet-designed reactors in the RBMK (Chernobyl No. 4) family, of which eleven continued to power electric grids as of 2013. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-the-documentaries-dvd-2-disc2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Firing Line Special: The Kennedy-Macmillan Relationship DVD, MP4, USB
Today, April 29, 2026
April 29, 2006: #DOTD: #RIP: John Kenneth Galbraith, also known as Ken Galbraith, esteemed and influential Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and activist Democrat who served in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, public intellectual whose books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s (b. October 15, 1908) #dies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of natural causes at the age of 97, after a two-week stay in a hospital. He is interred at Indian Hill Cemetery in Middletown, Connecticut. John Kenneth Galbraith OC was born in Iona Station, Ontario, Canada to Canadians of Scottish descent, Sarah Catherine (Kendall) and Archibald "Archie" Galbraith. His political activism, literary output and outspokenness brought him wide fame during his lifetime. Galbraith was one of the few to receive both the World War II Medal Of Freedom (1946) and the Presidential Medal Of Freedom (2000) for his public service and contributions to science. He also served as United States Ambassador to India under the Kennedy administration. As an economist he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member and stayed with Harvard University for half a century as a professor of economics. He was a prolific author and wrote four dozen books, including several novels, and published more than a thousand articles and essays on various subjects. Among his works was a trilogy on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967). Some of his work has been criticized by economists Milton Friedman, Paul Krugman, Robert Solow, and Thomas Sowell. https://store.earthstation1.com/firing-line-special-the-kennedymacmillan-relationship-dvd-mp4-usbht4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Captain Video & Space Patrol Classic TV Kid Shows DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, April 29, 2026
April 29, 1953: The History Of Broadcasting: The History Of Television Broadcasting: Television Broadcasting Firsts: -- The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV. 3D television (3DTV) is television that conveys depth perception to the viewer by employing techniques such as stereoscopic display, multi-view display, 2D-plus-depth, or any other form of 3D display. Most modern 3D television sets use an active shutter 3D system or a polarized 3D system, and some are autostereoscopic without the need of glasses. As of 2017, most 3D TV sets and services are no longer available from manufacturers. https://store.earthstation1.com/captain-video-dvd-and-space-patrol-tv-shows-old-time-television.html

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April 29, 1970: Premieres: Film Premieres: French Film Premieres: -- The Confession (French: L'aveu), a 1970 French-Italian film directed by Costa-Gavras starring Yves Montand and Simone Signoret premieres in France. It is based on the true story of the Czechoslovak communist committed leftist Artur London, a defendant in the Slansky Trial, the 1952 antisemitic show trial against fourteen Communist Party Of Czechoslovakia members known as the so-called Anti-Trotskyite Trials. Gavras did not intend the film as an anti-communist film but as a plea against totalitarianism and particularly Stalinism. Yves Montand lost more than 15 kilograms (33 lb) to play his role. Montand had been shaken by the 1956 events in Hungary and later said of the film: "There was in what I inflicted upon myself [for this role] something of an act of expiation." https://store.earthstation1.com/the-confession-aka-l39aveu-dvd-1970-yves-montand-simone-si391970.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Nixon White House Tapes Watergate Scandal MP3 CDROM Download USB Drive
Today, April 29, 2026
April 29, 1974: Political Scandals Of The United States: Richard Nixon: The Presidency Of Richard Nixon: The Watergate Scandal: The Nixon White House Tapes: -- United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal. The Nixon White House tapes are audio recordings of conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Nixon administration officials, Nixon family members, and White House staff, produced between 1971 and 1973. In February 1971, a sound-activated taping system was installed in the Oval Office, including in Nixon's Oval Office desk, using Sony TC-800B open-reel tape recorders to capture audio transmitted by telephone taps and concealed microphones. The system was expanded to include other rooms within the White House and Camp David. The system was turned off on July 18, 1973, two days after it became public knowledge as a result of the Senate Watergate Committee hearings. Nixon was not the first president to record his White House conversations; the practice was initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. The tapes' existence came to light during the Watergate scandal of 1973 and 1974, when the system was mentioned during the televised testimony of White House aide Alexander Butterfield before the Senate Watergate Committee. Nixon's refusal of a congressional subpoena to release the tapes constituted an article of impeachment against Nixon, and led to his subsequent resignation on August 9, 1974. On August 19, 2013, the Nixon Library and the National Archives and Records Administration released the final 340 hours of the tapes that cover the period from April 9 through July 12, 1973. https://store.earthstation1.com/nixon-watergate-tapes-mp3-cd-with-pdf-transcript3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Women's Rights Women's Suffrage The Women's Movement MP4 Download DVD
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April 29, 2025: #DOTD: David Horowitz, former far-left activist turned far-right and Islamophobic activist, founder and president of the right-wing David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC); cofounder of Students For Academic Freedom, a counter-jihad movement designated as a hate group by The Southern Poverty Law Center; eventual editor of the DHFC's website frontpage magazine and director of Discover The Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left (b. January 10, 1939) #dies from cancer at his home in Parker, Colorado at the age of 86. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. David Horowitz was born David Joel Horowitz in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens, a borough of New York City, Horowitz was the son of Jewish high school teachers Phil and Blanche Horowitz. His father taught English and his mother taught stenography. His mother's family emigrated from Imperial Russia in the mid-19th century, and his father's family left Russia in 1905 during a time of anti-Jewish pogroms. Horowitz's paternal grandfather lived in Mozir, a city in modern Belarus, prior to leaving for the U.S. In 1940, the family moved to the Long Island City section of Queens. During years of labor organizing and the Great Depression, Phil and Blanche Horowitz were long-standing members of the Communist Party of the United States of America and strong supporters of Joseph Stalin. They left the party after Nikita Khrushchev published his report in 1956 about Stalin's crimes and his terrorism against the Soviet population. Horowitz received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1959, majoring in English, and a master's degree in English literature at University of California, Berkeley in 1961. Horowitz wrote several books with author Peter Collier, including four on prominent 20th-century American families. He and Collier collaborated on books about cultural criticism. Horowitz worked as a columnist for Salon. From 1956 to 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left. He later rejected progressive ideas and became a defender of neoconservatism. Horowitz recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey. https://store.earthstation1.com/women39s-suffrage-amp-the-women39s-movement-dvd-mp4-usb-39394.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Movie Life Of George: George Harrison's HandMade Films DVD MP4 USB
Today, April 29, 2026
April 29, 2014: #DOTD: #RIP Bob Hoskins, English actor, singer and director (b. October 26, 1942) #dies of pneumonia on April 29, 2014 at the age of 71. He had retired from acting in 2012 owing to Parkinson's disease, with which he had been diagnosed the previous year. Hoskins is buried in Highgate Cemetery in London. Bob Hoskins was born Robert William Hoskins in Bury St Edmunds, a historic market, cathedral town and civil parish in Suffolk, England. His work included lead roles in films and television series such as Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Long Good Friday (1980), Mona Lisa (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Mermaids (1990), and Super Mario Bros. (1993), and supporting performances in Brazil (1985), Hook (1991), Nixon (1995), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005), A Christmas Carol (2009), Made in Dagenham (2010), and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012). He also directed two feature films: The Raggedy Rawney (1988) and Rainbow (1996). Hoskins received the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival, the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama for his role in Mona Lisa. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same role. In 2009, he won an International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his appearance on the BBC One drama The Street. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-movie-life-of-george-handmade-films-dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Unknown War: The Great Patriotic War Series WWII USSR DVD MP4 USB
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April 29, 1933: #BOTD: #HBD! Rod McKuen, American singer, songwriter, actor and one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s (d. January 29, 2015) is #born Rodney Marvin McKuen in a Salvation Army hostel in Oakland, California. Throughout his career, McKuen produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned two Academy Award nominations and one Pulitzer nomination for his music compositions. McKuen's translations and adaptations of the songs of Jacques Brel were instrumental in bringing the Belgian songwriter to prominence in the English-speaking world. His poetry deals with themes of love, the natural world and spirituality. McKuen's songs sold over 100 million recordings worldwide, and 60 million books of his poetry were sold as well, according to the Associated Press. McKuen refused to identify as gay, straight, or bisexual, but once explained his sexuality saying, "I can't imagine choosing one sex over the other, that's just too limiting. I can't even honestly say I have a preference." He was active in the LGBT rights movement, and as early as the 1950s, was a key member of the San Francisco chapter of the Mattachine Society, one of the nation's earliest LGBT advocacy organizations. Despite his popular appeal, McKuen's work was never taken seriously by critics or academics. Michael Baers observed in Gale Research's St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture that "through the years his books have drawn uniformly unkind reviews. In fact, criticism of his poetry is uniformly vituperative. Rod McKuen never knew his biological father who had left his mother. Sexually and physically abused by relatives, raised by his mother and stepfather, who was a violent alcoholic, McKuen ran away from home at the age of 11. He drifted along the West Coast, supporting himself as a ranch hand, surveyor, railroad worker, lumberjack, rodeo cowboy, stuntman, and radio disk jockey, always sending money home to his mother. To compensate for his lack of formal education, McKuen began keeping a journal, which resulted in his first poetry and song lyrics. After dropping out of Oakland Technical High School prior to graduating in 1951, McKuen worked as a newspaper columnist and propaganda script writer during the Korean War. He settled in San Francisco, where he read his poetry in clubs alongside Beat poets like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. He began performing as a folk singer at the famed Purple Onion. Over time, he began incorporating his own songs into his act. Rod McKuen died of respiratory arrest, a result of pneumonia, at a hospital in Beverly Hills, California, aged 81. He is buried at Westwood Memorial Park in Westwood, Los Angeles County, California. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-unknown-war-complete-tv-series-soviet-union-wwii-10-dvd-s10.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: France: Conquest To Liberation In WWII DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, April 29, 2026
April 29, 1944: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): Resistance During World War II: World War II Resistance Movements: The French Resistance (French: La Resistance): -- British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to be a liaison between London and the local maquis group. Nancy Wake, also known as "Madame Fiocca" and "Nancy Fiocca, codenamed "Helene" (British Special Operations Executive [SOE]), "Andree" (French Resistance/SOE Identity) and "The White Mouse" (Gestapo in France), New Zealand-English nurse, journalist, captain and spy who served in the French Resistance and later as an agent of the SOE during World War II, post-war intelligence officer in the British Air Ministry, a courier and leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance who later joined the escape network of Captain Ian Garrow, the Gestapo's most wanted person in 1943 with a 5-million-franc price on her head, one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen (August 30, 1912 - August 7, 2011) was born Nancy Grace Augusta Wake in Roseneath, Wellington, New Zealand, the youngest of six children. Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC (Order of Australia), GM (George Medal, UK) was Maori through her great-grandmother Pourewa, believed to be of the Ngati Mahanga Iwi, who was reportedly one of the first Maori women to marry a European. Wake was living in Marseille with her French industrialist husband, Henri Fiocca, when the war broke out. After the fall of France to Nazi Germany in 1940, Wake became a courier for the Pat O'Leary escape network led by Ian Garrow and, later, Albert Guerisse. As a member of the escape network, she helped Allied airmen evade capture by the Germans and escape to neutral Spain. In 1943, when the Germans became aware of her, she escaped to Spain and continued on to the United Kingdom. Her husband was captured and executed. After reaching Britain, Wake joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE) under the code name "Helene". On April 29-30, 1944 as a member of a three-person SOE team code-named "Freelance", Wake parachuted into the Allier department of occupied France to liaise between the SOE and several Maquis groups in the Auvergne region, which were loosely overseen by Emile Coulaudon (code name "Gaspard"). She participated in a battle between the Maquis and a large German force in June 1944. In the aftermath of the battle, she claimed to have bicycled 500 kilometers to send a situation report to SOE in London. Wake was a recipient of the George Medal from the United Kingdom, the Medal Of Freedom from the United States, the Legion of Honor from France, and medals from Australia and New Zealand. In 1985, she published her autobiography, The White Mouse, the title derived from what the Germans called her. Nancy Wake died aged 98 at Kingston Hospital after being admitted with a chest infection. She had requested that her ashes be scattered at Montlucon in central France. Her ashes were scattered near the village of Verneix, which is near Montlucon, on March 11, 2013. Her obituary was included in (and inspired the title for) The Socialite Who Killed A Nazi With Her Bare Hands: And 144 Other Fascinating People Who Died This Year, a collection of New York Times obituaries published in 2012. The official historian of the SOE, M.R.D. Foot, said that "her irrepressible, infectious, high spirits were a joy to everyone who worked with her." https://store.earthstation1.com/france-conquest-to-liberation-occupied-and-vichy-wwii.html

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April 29, 1917: #BOTD: #HBD! Celeste Holm, American singer and actress of stage, film and television (d. July 15, 2012) is #born in Manhattan, New York City. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and was Oscar nominated for her roles in Come to the Stable (1949) and All About Eve (1950). She originated the role of Ado Annie in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! (1943). She was also a huge supporter of the United Nations' UNICEF fund, for which she donated both time and money. Celeste Holm died a heart attack at her Central Park West apartment, aged 95. Her remains were cremated, and her ashes were given to her husband Frank Basile. https://store.earthstation1.com/eleanor-roosevelt-dvd-perspective-on-greatness-biography.html

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April 29, 1945: #BOTD: #HBD! Tammi Terrell, African American singer, songwriter and beauty, widely known as a star singer for Motown Records during the 1960s, notably for a series of duets with singer Marvin Gaye (d. March 16, 1970) is #born Thomasina Winifred Montgomery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Terrell's career began as a teenager, first recording for Scepter/Wand Records, before spending nearly 9 months as a member of James Brown's Revue, recording for Brown's Try Me label. After a period attending college, Terrell recorded briefly for Checker Records, before signing with Motown in 1965. With Gaye, Terrell scored seven Top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" and "You're All I Need to Get By". Terrell's career was interrupted when she collapsed into Gaye's arms as the two performed at a concert at Hampden-Sydney College on October 14, 1967, with Terrell later being diagnosed with a brain tumor. She had eight unsuccessful surgeries before succumbing to the illnes on March 16, 1970, when Tammi Terrell died at the age of 24 of brain cancer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Terrell's funeral was held at the Janes Methodist Church in Philadelphia. At the funeral, Gaye delivered a final eulogy while "You're All I Need to Get By" was playing. According to Terrell's fiance Dr. Ernest "Ernie" Garrett, who knew Gaye, her mother angrily barred everyone at Motown from her funeral, except for Gaye, whom she felt was Terrell's closest friend. Tammi Terrell is buried at Mount Lawn Cemetery in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania. Gaye never fully got over Terrell's death, according to several biographers who have stated that Terrell's death led Gaye to depression and drug abuse. In addition, Gaye's classic album What's Going On, an introspective, low-key work which dealt with mature themes released in 1971, was in part a reaction to Terrell's death. https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-amp-roll-an-unruly-history-10-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-104.html