April 30 Wikipedia featured article

The Franklin half dollar coin was struck by the United States Mint from 1948 to 1963. It pictures Founding Father Benjamin Franklin on the obverse, with the Liberty Bell and a small eagle on the reverse. Produced in 90 percent silver with a reeded edge, the coin was struck at the Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco mints. Mint director Nellie Tayloe Ross had long admired Franklin, and asked the Mint's chief engraver, John Sinnock, to...

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On this day: April 30

April 30: Holy Saturday (Eastern Christianity, 2016); National Persian Gulf Day in Iran; Consumer Protection Day in Thailand William McIntosh 1598 – King Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, granting freedom of religion to the Huguenots. 1825 - Creek chief William McIntosh (pictured) was executed by being stabbed in the heart for having signed a treating ceding much of remaining Creek lands to the United States. 1943 – Second World...

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April 29 Wikipedia featured article

Lightning is a fictional character from Square Enix's Final Fantasy series. She first appeared as a playable character and protagonist in the role-playing video game Final Fantasy XIII, and reappeared as a supporting character in Final Fantasy XIII-2 and as the sole playable character in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. She was created by Motomu Toriyama, the director and scenario writer of XIII, and designed by Tetsuya Nomura, a regular character artist for the series. Their idea was to create a strong female protagonist who was adept at...

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On this day: April 29

April 29: Good Friday (Eastern Christianity, 2016); Shōwa Day in Japan Replica of HMS Endeavour 1587 – Anglo-Spanish War: In the Bay of Cádiz, Francis Drake led the first of several naval raids on the Spanish Armada that destroyed so many ships that Philip II of Spain had to delay his plans to invade England for over a year. 1770 – British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour (replica pictured), the first European ship to land in...

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April 28 Wikipedia featured article

HMS Bounty (reconstruction) On 28 April 1789, a mutiny on HMS Bounty in the south Pacific was led by Fletcher Christian. Bounty had left England in 1787 on a mission to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti. During a five-month layover there, many of the men were in relationships with native Polynesians. Lieutenant William Bligh handed out increasingly harsh punishments and abuse, especially to Christian, and morale plummeted. After three weeks...

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On this day: April 28

April 28: International Workers' Memorial Day; Maundy Thursday (Eastern Christianity, 2016) Aurora Quezon 1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese monk, expounded Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the first time and declared it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism. 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé was released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing...

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On this day: April 27

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April 27 Wikipedia featured article

Menkauhor Kaiu was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Old Kingdom period, the seventh ruler of the Fifth Dynasty in the 25th or 24th century BC. He ruled for possibly eight or nine years, following king Nyuserre Ini, and was succeeded by Djedkare Isesi. Although Menkauhor is well attested by historical sources, few artefacts from his reign have survived; less is known about him than about most Fifth Dynasty pharaohs, and no offspring of his have...

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April 26 Wikipedia featured article

Alex Chilton Big Star was an American power pop band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1971 by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, and Andy Hummel. The group broke up in 1974, but reorganized with a new line-up nearly 20 years later. In its first era, the band's musical style drew on the vocal harmonies of The Beatles, as well as the swaggering rhythms of The Rolling Stones and the jangling guitars of The Byrds. To the resulting power pop,...

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On this day: April 26

April 26: World Intellectual Property Day; Feast day of Our Lady of Good Counsel (Roman Catholic Church) Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 1478 – In a conspiracy to replace the Medici family as rulers of the Florentine Republic, the Pazzi family attacked Lorenzo de' Medici and killed his brother Giuliano during High Mass at the Florence Duomo. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington rode forty miles through the night...

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April 25 Wikipedia featured article

Japanese dead at Kaiapit The Battle of Kaiapit was fought in 1943 between Australian and Japanese forces in New Guinea during the Finisterre Range campaign of World War II. Following landings at Nadzab and at Lae, the Allies attempted to exploit their success with an advance into the upper Markham Valley, starting with Kaiapit (pictured). The Australian 2/6th Independent Company flew in to the valley from Port Moresby in 13 USAAF C-47 Dakotas,...

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On this day: April 25

April 25: Red Hat Society Day; Feast day of Mark the Evangelist (Christianity); Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand (1915); Liberation Day in Italy; Elbe Day in Russia and the United States (1945) The double helix structure of DNA 775 – Forces of the Abbasid Caliphate crushed those of rebelling Armenian princes in the Battle of Bagrevand 1644 – The Ming dynasty of China fell when the Chongzhen Emperor committed suicide during a peasant rebellion...

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April 24 Wikipedia featured article

The Pillar in 1831 Nelson's Pillar was a large granite column capped by a statue of Horatio Nelson, erected in the centre of O'Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland in 1809. It was severely damaged by explosives in March 1966 and demolished a week later. The monument was erected after the euphoria following Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It proved a popular tourist attraction but provoked aesthetic and political controversy, and...

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On this day: April 24

April 24: Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day; Republic Day in The Gambia (1970) Thutmose III 1479 BC – Thutmose III (statue pictured) became the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, although during the first 22 years of the reign he was co-regent with his aunt, Hatshepsut. 1704 – The first issue of The Boston News-Letter, the first continuously published newspaper in British North America, was published. 1916 – Irish republicans...

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On this day: April 23

April 23: Saint George's Day in various countries Edmund Ironside 1016 – Edmund Ironside (pictured) became King of England, reigning for only seven months before the country was conquered by Cnut the Great. 1516 – The most well-known version of the Reinheitsgebot, the German Beer Purity Law was adopted across the entirety of Bavaria. 1918 – First World War: The British Royal Navy conducted a raid on the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge. 1951...

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April 23 Wikipedia featured article

Stanley Price Weir (23 April 1866 – 14 November 1944) was a public servant and Australian Army officer. He was awarded the Volunteer Officers' Decoration in 1908, and appointed a justice of the peace in 1914. During World War I, he commanded the 10th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force during the landing at Anzac Cove and the Gallipoli Campaign against the Ottoman Turks, and during the battles of Pozières and Mouquet Farm in France....

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April 22 Wikipedia featured article

Box art Gravity Bone is a freeware first-person adventure video game developed by Brendon Chung through his studio, Blendo Games, and released on August 28, 2008. The game employs a modified version of id Software's id Tech 2 engine—originally used for Quake 2—and incorporates music originally performed by Xavier Cugat for films by director Wong Kar-wai. Four incarnations of the game were produced during its one-year development; the first featured...

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On this day: April 22

April 22: Earth Day; Fast of the Firstborn begins at dawn and Passover begins at sunset (Judaism, 2016) "The Old Gate", Tsinghua University 1622 – An Anglo-Persian force combined to take over the Portuguese garrison at Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf. 1889 – Over 50,000 people rushed to claim a piece of the available two million acres (8,000 km2) in the Unassigned Lands, the present-day US state of Oklahoma, entirely founding the brand-new...

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April 21 Wikipedia featured article

Replicas of the "Twin Sisters", cannons used in the Battle of San Jacinto The Runaway Scrape was the 1836 escape of Texas residents from the encroaching Mexican Army of Operations under the command of Antonio López de Santa Anna during the Texas Revolution. Civilian evacuations began on the Gulf Coast in January after the vanguard of the Mexican army crossed the Rio Grande to quell the insurrection of American colonists and Tejanos (Mexicans...

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On this day: April 21

April 21: Fast of the Firstborn begins at dawn (Judaism, 2016) Henry VIII of England 900 – A debt was pardoned by the Datu of Tondo on the island of Luzon, as inscribed on the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, the earliest known written document found in the Philippines. 1509 – Henry VIII (pictured) became King of England, following the death of his father Henry VII, eventually becoming a significant figure in the history of the English monarchy. 1863...

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April 20 Wikipedia featured article

Hurricane Florence The 1994 Atlantic hurricane season produced only seven named tropical cyclones and three hurricanes, and was the only Atlantic hurricane season of the 1990s with no major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale). Tropical activity lasted from Alberto's formation on June 30 to Gordon's weakening on November 21. Tropical Storm Alberto produced significant rainfall and flooding in...

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On this day: April 20

April 20: Ridván begins at sunset (Bahá'í Faith); 4/20 (cannabis culture) Pope Leo XIII 1657 – Anglo-Spanish War: An English fleet under Admiral Robert Blake attacked a Spanish treasure fleet at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Spanish Canary Islands. 1828 – French explorer René Caillié became the first confirmed non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, for which he later received a 10,000-franc prize from the Société de géographie. 1884 – Pope Leo XIII (pictured)...

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April 19 Wikipedia featured article

Male Sphodromantis viridis The mantises are an order of insects containing over 2,400 species and about 430 genera in 15 families. The largest family is the Mantidae. Distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats, mantids have triangular heads with bulging eyes supported on flexible necks, and elongated bodies with or without wings. All mantises have greatly enlarged forelegs adapted for catching and gripping prey; their stationary...

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On this day: April 19

April 19: Feast of Saint Alphege (Western Christianity) Nazi troops round up Warsaw Ghetto residents 797 – Byzantine emperor Constantine VI was captured, blinded, and imprisoned by the supporters of his mother Irene. 1713 – With no living male heirs, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issued the Pragmatic Sanction to ensure one of his daughters would inherit the Habsburg lands. 1861 – American Civil War: The first bloodshed of the war took place...

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