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Funny Little Bunnies – Easter Cartoon
“Funny Little Bunnies is a great Walt Disney Easter cartoon from the Silly Symphony series.”
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Easter Bunny Is Banned Because It Is Offensive
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Albert Einstein
“As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene…. No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.”
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Today In The Past
Events
1084 – Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV
1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 – Queen Isabella of Castilia & Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews
1504 – France & Spain signs ceasefire
1521 – Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus
1651 – Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru
1657 – English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown
1745 – Jews are expelled from Prague
1822 – The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
1850 – US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
1854 – Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to US
1861 – Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans
1862 – Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
1863 – Battle of Grand Gulf MS & Dinwiddie Court House VA
1865 – Battle of Boydton, VA (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H)
1865 – Gen Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg
1866 – The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
1870 – 1st black to vote in US (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy NJ)
1877 – The family with samurai antecedents who responded to the Saigo army in Ōita Nakatsu rebels.
1880 – 1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, IN)
1889 – 300m Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution)
1900 – Brig-General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands
1917 – US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M & renames them Virgin Islands
1918 – 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect
1923 – 1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hrs
1923 – French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
1930 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years.
1933 – Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
1939 – Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
1944 – Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars
1945 – US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa
1948 – Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
1949 – Newfoundland becomes Canada’s 10th province
1951 – US tanks exceed 38° of latitude in Korea
1953 – Department of Health, Education & Welfare established
1954 – US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo, established
1954 – USSR offers to join NATO
1958 – US Navy forms atomic sub division
1959 – Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India
1965 – US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam
1966 – 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in NYC
1967 – 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
1968 – Pirate Radio Station Pegaus (NZ) begins transmitting
1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).
1971 – William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre
1973 – Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12 round split decision
1975 – John Wooden’s final game, UCLA, wins 10th NCAA championship in 12 yrs
1976 – NJ Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator
1979 – The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
1980 – President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
1982 – Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil
1982 – Rock group Doobie Brothers split up
1986 – English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead
1988 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for “Beloved”
1990 – Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws
1991 – Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix Az
1994 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
1997 – Pioneer 10, ends its mission
2004 – In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.
2007 – In Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million people take part in the first Earth Hour.
Births
250 – Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (d. 306)
1360 – Philippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal (d. 1415)
1499 – Pius IV, [Gianangelo de’ Medici], Italian lawyer/pope (1559-65)
1504 – Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh guru (d. 1552)
1519 – Henry II, King of France (1547-59)
1536 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (d. 1565)
1596 – René Descartes, France, philosopher (he thought, therefore he was)
1675 – Benedict XIV, [Prospero L Lambertini], Italy, Pope (1740-58)
1730 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (d. 1783)
1732 – Franz Joseph Haydn, Vienna Austria, prominent composer of the classical period (The Creation/Die Schopfung)
1777 – Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (d. 1859)
1778 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858)
1811 – Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner)
1831 – Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist
1835 – John La Farge, US painter
1837 – Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA
1837 – Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1839 – Nikolay Przhevalsky, naturalist, explorer of east central Asia (OS)
1840 – John Herbert Kelly, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1847 – Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)
1854 – Dugald Clerk, inventor (2-stroke motorcycle engine)
1855 – Alfred E. Hunt, founder of Alcoa (d. 1899)
1868 – Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist
1872 – Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet)
1878 – Jack Johnson,1st black heavyweight boxing champ (1908-1915)
1884 – Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)
1890 – William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1912 – Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter
1914 – Octavio Paz, Mexico, writer/diplomat (Salamandra, Topoemas)
1915 – Henry Morgan, NYC, comedian/TV panelist (I’ve Got a Secret, Arena)
1915 – Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese military man (d. 1997)
1922 – Patrick J G McGee, North Ireland, actor (Clockwork Orange)
1922 – Richard Kiley, Chicago, actor (Man of La Mancha, Endless Love)
1924 – Leo Buscaglia, LA California, “Dr Hug”, psycholigist (Love)
1926 – John Fowles, England, novelist (Collector, French Leiutenent’s Woman)
1927 – William Daniels, Bkln NY, actor (Dr Mark Craig-St Elsewhere, 1776)
1928 – Gordie Howe, Floral Sask, NHL right wing (Detroit Redwings)
1929 – Liz Claiborne, Brussels Belgium, American fashion designer, entrepreneur and founder of Liz Claiborne Inc (d. 2007)
1932 – John Jakes, Chicago, writer (Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters)
1935 – Herb Alpert, bandleader/trumpeteer (Tijuana Brass)/CEO (A & M)
1935 – Judith Rossner, US, writer (August)
1935 – Richard Chamberlain, Beverly Hills California, actor (Dr Kildare)
1942 – Michael Savage, American talk radio host and commentator
1943 – Christopher Walken, Astoria Queens, actor (Deer Hunter, Brainstorm)
1946 – Al Nichol, Winston Salem NC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Turtles)
1946 – Gabe Kaplan, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Welcome Back Kotter)
1947 – Al Goodman, rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
1948 – Albert Gore Jr, Wash DC, (Sen-D-Tenn, 1985-92)/45th US VP (1993- )
1948 – Mick Ralphs, rocker
1948 – Rhea Perlman, Brooklyn, actress (Zena-Taxi, Carla-Cheers)
1948 – Thijs van Leer, Dutch singer/flutist (Focus, Introspection)
1950 – Richard Hughes, rocker (Johnny Winter Band)
1951 – Ed Marinaro, NYC, actor (Joe-Hill St Blues, Sonny-Laverne & Shirley)
1953 – Greg Martin, Louisville Ky, singer (Ky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1953 – Sean Hopper, California, rock keyboardist (Huey Lewis & The News)
1955 – Angus Young, Glascow Scotland, rock guitarist (AC/DC-Highway to Hell)
1957 – Mary Cadorette, East Hartford Ct, actress (Vicky-3’s a Crowd)
1961 – Ron Brown, LA California, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1964 – Erik Turner, Omaha Nebraska, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1965 – Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (d. 2006)
1966 – Natalie Gosselin, Levis Quebec, 52kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1971 – Ewan McGregor, Perth Scotland, Scottish actor (Trainspotting)
1972 – John Godina, Fort Sill Oklahoma, shot putter/discus thrower (Oly-silver-96)
1972 – Kelly O’Leary, Halifax Nova Scotia, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1974 – Carol Ann Plante, actress (Sara Henderson-Harry & the Hendersons)
1980 – Jenny Smith, Western Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1987 – “Baby M” born to a surrogate mother, awarded to her dad William Stern
1987 – Humpy Koneru, Indian chess grandmaster
Deaths
1074 – Regency Yorimichi Fujiwara of Japan (b. 992)
1340 – Ivan I of Moscow, Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1288)
1389 – Everhard Tserclaes, sheriff of Brussels, murdered
1547 – Francis I, King of France (b. 1494)
1567 – Philip, the Generous, count of Hessen, dies at 62
1578 – Juan de Escobedo, sec of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered
1621 – Philip III, King of Spain (1598-1621), dies at 42
1631 – John Donne, Metaphysical poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1727 – Isaac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84
1850 – John Calhoun, dies at 68
1855 – Charlotte Bronte, English author (Jane Eyre), dies at 38
1901 – John Stainer, composer, dies at 60
1913 – John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel Corp), dies at 75
1931 – Knute Rockne, football player/coach, dies in a plane crash at 43
1944 – Mineichi Koga, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
1945 – Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63
1945 – Maurice Rose, 1st US general in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45
1970 – Semjon Timoshenko, Russ marshal/inspector-general (WW II), dies at 75
1978 – Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899)
1986 – Harry Ritz, comedian/actor (Ritz Brothers), dies at 79
1986 – O’Kelly Isley, US, singer (Isley Brothers), dies of heart attack at 48
1991 – John Carter, US jazz clarinetist (Roots & folklore), dies
1993 – Brandon Lee, US actor (Crow)/son of Bruce Lee, accidentally shot at 28
1995 – Selena, Mexican Grammy winning singer, killed by a fan at 24
1996 – Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer, dies at 91
1998 – Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924)
2005 – Frank Perdue, American poultry farmer (b. 1920)
2005 – Terri Schiavo, American figure in right to die case (b. 1963)
2006 – Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1931 or 1932)
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