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