Did you know that on this day in 1836 Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver? Or that it was on this day in 1866 miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull, human remains that supposedly indicated that man,mastodons, and elephants had co-existed?
And on this day in 1932 Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident, in 1951 the first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1964 in the fight Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston, Ali took the title, in 1986 during the People Power Revolution, President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines‘ first woman president and in 1991 the Warsaw Pact declared is disbanded.
Some birthdays you may want to remember on this day are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (1841-1919), Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher and educator (1861-1925), Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (1873-1921), Zeppo Marx, American actor (1901-1979), Anthony Burgess, English author (1917-1993), Sally Jessy Raphaël, American talk show host (1935), George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles) (1943-2001) and Carrot Top, American comedian (1965).
Need a reason to raise a glass of bubbly on this beautiful spring Saturday? Why not look into the celebration of National Day (Kuwait), Kitano Baika-sai or “Plum Blossom Festival” (Kitano Tenman-gu Shrine, Kyoto) or Soviet Occupation Day (Georgia)?
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