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On this day in history.

 
1943
Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered

1929
Cleveland becomes first MLB team to play with numbers on back of jerseys

1943
Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered
 
 
1945 British forces liberate the first concentration camp at Belsen.

British actor Dirk Bogarde talks about his experiences after entering the recently liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
He served as an intelligence officer with the 21st Army Group from the Normandy Landings.

 
1947. The Royal Navy desstroyed the Heligoland Naval base entirely and remove it as a fleet base location for Germany. This resulted in one of the biggest single non-nuclear detonations in history.

 
 
TDIH for April 19th

1775
American Revolution begins at Battle of Lexington

1809
Thomas Jefferson sells indentured servant to newly elected President James Madison

1824
Lord Byron dies in Greece

1861
First blood in the Civil War

1863
Union Colonel Abel Streight's raid into Alabama and Georgia begins

1897
First Boston Marathon held

1897
Airship Sighting (near Yates Center, Kansas USA)

1919
Discussion of Italian claims begins at Paris peace conference

1934
Alleged Loch Ness Monster Sighting (Loch Ness, Scotland)

1943
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins

1947
President Truman inaugurates White House bowling alley

1956
Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco marry

1971
Vietnam Veterans Against the War demonstrate

1989
Central Park jogger attack shocks New York City

1989
Chinese students protest at Tiananmen Square

1993
Waco Siege ends; Branch Davidian compound burns

1995
Oklahoma City bombing
 
 
 
So Hitler's birthday went unnoticed?

And the discount I got at my weed shop because it was 4/20?

Both are rhetorical.
 
In Canadian history:

1918: German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, while chasing novice Canadian pilot Roy Brown of Carleton Place, Ontario, a flight leader in the 209th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. Either Brown or Australian ground fire struck the Red Baron, victor over 80 Allied planes. The tail of von Richthofen’s plane is on display at Toronto’s Royal Canadian Military Institute.
 
TDIH for April 22nd

1876
First National League baseball game played

1883
Major tornado event (Beauregard, Mississippi USA)

1886
Seduction is made illegal in Ohio

1889
The Oklahoma land rush begins

1915
Germans introduce poison gas

1915
Second Battle of Ypres begins

1945
Hitler admits defeat

1954
Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating U.S. Army

1957
John Irvin Kennedy plays for Phillies, fully integrating National League

1970
The first Earth Day

1978
The Blues Brothers make their world premiere on Saturday Night Live

1989
Chinese students protest at Tiananmen Square

1992
Sewers explode in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing hundreds

1994
Former President Richard Nixon dies

1997
Peruvian President Fujimori orders assault on Japanese ambassador's home

2004
Pat Tillman killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan
 
Blue Mountain said:
In Canadian history:

1918: German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, while chasing novice Canadian pilot Roy Brown of Carleton Place, Ontario, a flight leader in the 209th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. Either Brown or Australian ground fire struck the Red Baron, victor over 80 Allied planes. The tail of von Richthofen’s plane is on display at Toronto’s Royal Canadian Military Institute.
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He was shot down by by Edwin Benbow in March the previous year but managed to make an emergency landing.
 
Blue Mountain said:
In Canadian history:

1918: German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, while chasing novice Canadian pilot Roy Brown of Carleton Place, Ontario, a flight leader in the 209th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps.
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Roy Brown wasn't the novice pilot. The novice was Wilfred May, who ended the war with fifteen victories.

Also, the RFC had already ceased to exist. 209 squadron was part of the newly created Royal Air Force.

Blue Mountain said:
Either Brown or Australian ground fire struck the Red Baron, victor over 80 Allied planes. The tail of von Richthofen’s plane is on display at Toronto’s Royal Canadian Military Institute.
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It was most likely ground fire.
 
 
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