Rooster "Crowing"
"Okeydoke"
April 8…
1652: Cape Town in South Africa is founded by Jan van Riebeeck as a supply post for the Dutch East India Company.
1893, Mary Pickford, American actor and motion-picture producer, who is traditionally regarded as the most popular performer in film history. She was known as “America's Sweetheart.”
1974: In Atlanta, Georgia, baseball great Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run, breaking the record previously held by Babe Ruth.
1990: Ryan White, the U.S. teenager whose battle with AIDS promoted public understanding of the disease, dies at 18.
1992: Yasir Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), survives a plane crash in the Sahara Desert; the plane's three crew members perished.
Hank Aaron: Hammerin' back at racism
By Larry Schwartz
Special to ESPN.com
http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00006764.html
Alphabetically and arithmetically, what could be finer than having "Aaron, Hank" as the first name listed in The Baseball Encyclopedia? The book's leadoff man is better recognized as the cleanup hitter who holds the Cadillac of baseball records: His 755 home runs are the most by a major leaguer.
1967 CRAIN CARROLL O. MEMPHIS TN RADIO CONTACT LOST
1967 GALVIN RONALD E. RIVER FOREST IL
1967 PAWLISH GEORGE F. LAS ANIMAS CO RADIO CONTACT LOST
1971 ANSHUS RICHARD C. MINNEAPOLIS MN 03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE AND WELL 98
1971 GRANTHAM ROBERT E. LOS ANGELES CA
1971 HALE JOHN D. BRANDENBURG KY
1971 PRATHER PHILLIP D. ARMARILLO TX 03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG DECEASED 11/20
April 9...
1682, French explorer Robert La Salle reached the Mississippi River.
1898, Paul Robeson, singer, actor, athlete, and civil rights activist
1903, Gregory Pincus, biologist
1939, singer Marian Anderson performed a concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after she was denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
1940, during World War II, Germany invaded Denmark and Norway.
1942, American and Philippine defenders on Bataan capitulated to Japanese forces; the surrender was followed by the notorious "Bataan Death March," which claimed nearly 10,000 lives.
1947, a series of tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas claimed 169 lives.
1959, NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton
1963, British statesman Winston Churchill was made an honorary U.S. citizen.
1968, Slain American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., is buried in Atlanta, Georgia.
1970, Paul McCartney announces the official breakup of the Beatles.
1965 FEGAN RONALD J. BROCKPORT NY CRASH AT SEA AFTER COMBAT
1965 MURPHY TERENCE M. NEW YORK NY CRASH AT SEA AFTER COMBAT
1967 SCHWORER RONALD P. LAS VEGAS NV
1968 LAWSON KARL W. TERRE HAUTE IN
1970 BUSHNELL BRIAN L. TUALITON OR "DOWN AT SEA, NO SURV OBS"
1970 HORCHAR ANDREW A. INDIANA PA "DOWN AT SEA, NO SURV OBS"
1970 KNIGHT LARRY C. WILBURTON OK "DOWN AT SEA, NO SURV OBS"
1970 PFAFFMANN CHARLES B. KILLINGSWORTH CT "DOWN AT SEA, NO SURV OBS"
The Miami Herald
DiMarco leads as rain hits Masters again
BY JEFF SHAIN
jshain@herald.com
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Chris DiMarco birdied his first hole upon returning to Augusta National this morning, ensuring he would remain atop the leaderboard once the first round of the Masters was completed.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11347084.htm
This is necessary because the government no longer has the money for police protection and have no desire for gun control.
Macho law expands use of deadly force
OUR OPINION: IRRESPONSIBLE BILL: KILL OR BE KILLED LEGISLATION
The Protection of Persons and Property bill passed by the Legislature Tuesday is an example of what passes for governance in our state when too many lawmakers read from the same page in the Book of Political Cowardice.
In this case, the page that was copied into law was written by the National Rifle Association. Lawmakers see it as a winning hand because it has the appearance of being ''tough on crime.'' So the bill passed overwhelmingly in both houses, including with the support of some lawmakers who obviously know better. Gov. Jeb Bush has promised to sign it.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11340635.htm
The New York Times
Warnings Aside, Some Still Want Their Painkillers
MIAMI, April 8 - Bextra was Burt Wolfson's wonder drug. So the news that it was coming off the market amid new safety concerns made him panic.
Mr. Wolfson, a physical therapist who suffers chronic knee, hip and shoulder pain, was not fearing the adverse effects of the medication so much as life without it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/health/09pain.html?hp&ex=1113105600&en=570b65c54f4b5547&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Fear and Violence Accompany a Deadly Virus Across Angola
LUANDA, Angola, April 8 - The death toll in Angola from an epidemic caused by an Ebola-like virus rose to 174 Friday as aid workers in one northern provincial town reported that terrified people had attacked them and that a number of health workers had fled out of fear of catching the disease.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/health/09angola.html?hp&ex=1113105600&en=2f8e4bf4da78e258&ei=5094&partner=homepage
At 15, Dreaming Big Dreams: Oh, to Be a Scholar
MEXICALI, Mexico
ALICIA ÁLVAREZ lives two miles from the American border and light-years from the American dream.
Growing up in Mexicali has made her a realist at 15. She has no taste for romances and soap operas. Harry Potter stories and a horror movie at the mall are as far away as fictions take her from her city's heat and dust.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/international/americas/09mexico.html?hp
Terrorist Attacks on Reactor Pools
A report just released by the National Academy of Sciences bears two disturbing revelations. The cooling pools for nuclear waste at some reactor sites may be far more vulnerable to a devastating attack by terrorists than federal regulators are willing to admit. And the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is operating in a hermetically sealed cocoon that makes it difficult for anyone - even the academy, armed with a Congressional mandate - to tell whether the public is adequately protected.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/opinion/09sat1.html
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