Almanac for April 12th

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Bummer April 12th

April 12, 1204: Christian Crusaders turn on the Christian capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, in three days of looting and burning. The rampage destroys the Library of Constantinople and other priceless works of art and ancient artifacts.

April 12, 1945: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, vacationing at his home in Warm Springs, Georgia, tells his staff “I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.” These will be his last words, as Roosevelt slumps forward in his wheelchair and dies shortly afterward from a cerebral hemorrhage. The 32nd POTUS is the 7th U.S. president to die in office, and the 4th of these to die of natural causes.

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Almanac for April 11th

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Beatles Trivia
April 11, 1964: The Beatles have 14 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart hits, including “Can’t Buy Me Love” at #1 and “Twist & Shout” at #2. 

Bummer April 11th

April 11, 1965: In what becomes known as the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, severe weather and six confirmed tornados kill 266 people in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.

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Almanac for April 10th

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Bummer April 10th

April 10, 1931: Lebanese-American novelist Kahlil Gibran dies at age 48 of cirrhosis and tuberculosis.

April 10, 1945: Gloria Dickson dies of asphyxia along with her pet dog. The 27-year-old film and stage actor is sleeping in a second-floor bedroom when an unextinguished cigarette sets a chair on the first floor on fire. Dickson awakens and is apparently attempting to escape her burning house via the bathroom window when she and the dog are overtaken by smoke and fumes.

April 10, 1962: Stu Sutcliffe, the 21-year-old Scottish musician and original Beatles bass player, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. This internal injury, a ruptured aneurysm, may have been related to a head injury Sutcliffe suffered in 1961 as a result of a street fight in which John Lennon also suffered minor injuries.

April 10, 2003: When the United States invades the Iraqi capital of Baghdad to depose Saddam Hussein, officials at the Iraqi National Library and Archives fear that its archives of papers related to Hussein and his Ba’athist Party will incriminate them. They hire local people, many of them poor and likely motivated by the money, to loot and set fire to the library. These acts destroy about 60% of the archives and 25% of the library materials, including one of the oldest known copies of the Koran.

April 10, 2016: Fireworks stored for an upcoming celebration inside Puttingal Temple in Kerala, India, cause an explosion and subsequent fire that kills 111 people and injures more than 300 others, some of them severely burned.

Almanac for April 9th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 9th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-9-The-Battle-of-George-Washingtons-Big-Fat-Q5Q01DFYEB

Let us never forget the Battle of George Washington's Big Fat Head. Even though it definitely did not happen in real life.

April 9, 1925 El Dorado (Arkansas) Daily News

Beatles Trivia

April 9, 1965: The Beatles release “Ticket to Ride” as a single.

April 9, 1969: Bob Dylan releases his Nashville Skyline album, featuring Johnny Cash on “Girl From the North Country.” On the same day, Bruce McBroom photographs the Beatles in their second-to-last photo shoot as a group.

Bummer April 9th

April 9, 1945: Nazis execute Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer by hanging at Flossenbürg concentration camp.

© Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons

April 9, 2009: Los Angeles Angels at Anaheim pitcher Nick Adenhart is killed, along with the driver and two other passengers in an SUV, when a drunk driver runs a red light and strikes the SUV, propelling it into a telephone phone. Adenhart is 22 years old. The drunk driver is convicted and sentenced to 51 years to life in prison.

April 9, 2016: New Orleans Saints football player William Raymond Smith III, age 34, is shot and killed in a road rage incident by a driver who has rear-ended Smith’s Mercedes SUV. Smith’s wife Racquel is injured in the incident. 

April 9, 2017: 45 Egyptian (Coptic) Christians are killed in two coordinated bombings of Palm Sunday church services carried out by Islamist terrorists.

 

April 9, 2021: Earl Simmons, a.k.a. rapper DMX, dies of multiple organ failure. He has been in a persistent vegetative state since April 2nd, when he suffered a cocaine-induced heart attack. He had essentially died on the 2nd, but after half an hour of resuscitation attempts, he survived for another week on life support in a semi-comatose state. 

The Park County (WY) Herald, April 7, 1926

Almanac for April 8th

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Beatles Trivia
April 8, 1963: John and Cynthia Lennon’s son John Charles Julian Lennon is born in Liverpool, U.K.

Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Betty Ford Quotes

Bummer April 8th

April 8, 1994, South Bend: On my last real day of spring break, I woke up rather late in the morning, then had some leftover Taco Bell for breakfast. I took Maggie the dog for a walk without incident, which was a shame because I was hoping there would be incident. 

When I got back I turned on MTV and involuntarily learned that Kurt Cobain had been found dead at his home in Seattle. Very sad, not only that he left behind a wife and a very young daughter but also that Nirvana only had time to record four albums.

April 8, 1997: 49-year-old singer/songwriter Laura Nyro dies of ovarian cancer. Nyro’s mother Gilda Mirsky Nigro had also died of ovarian cancer at the age of 49.

Almanac for April 7th

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Bummer April 7th

April 7, 1498: King Charles VIII of France, age 27, dies of head trauma after accidentally striking his head against the lintel of a door.

This 16th-century depiction of Charles VIII by an unknown artist is in the public domain.

April 7, 1994: Members of the Rwandan Patriotic Front militia begin the massacre of Tutsi civilians, a minority group, in Kigali, Rwanda. The killing will continue for about 100 days, until the 15th of July. Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana is among those killed.

April 7, 2021: Phillip Matthew Adams, who retired from the U.S. National Football League (NFL) in 2016, arrives at the Rock Hill, South Carolina, home of Robert and Barbara Lesslie. Robert is a physician. Adams shoots and kills six people at the home: Robert and Barbara, their 5- and 9-year-old grandchildren Noah and Adah, and two air conditioning technicians working at the house, James Lewis and Robert Shook. Adams then barricades himself inside the home, leading to a standoff with police. When police enter the home on April 8th, they find that Adams has taken his own life.

On autopsy, Adams, who was 32 years old and had no prior criminal record, is found to have amphetamines and kratom in his system. He also has pathology consisted with a severe case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition associated with concussion and other football-related head injuries. Although it can only be diagnosed at autopsy, CTE is associated with mood and behavioral changes including increased aggression.

Almanac for April 6th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 6th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-6-Black-Francis-U7U11D6Y6G

Bummer April 6th

April 6, 1968: A gas leak combined with gunpowder stored inside a sporting goods store cause a double explosion in Richmond, Indiana. The explosions kill 41 people and injure 150 more. The youngest person to die in the explosions is eight years old.

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