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Sunday, 01 April 2007 |
- A London-Paris telephone connection was opened (1891)
 - The impressionist painter Gauguin left France for Tahiti, where he created luminous prolific canvases (1891)
- The world's 7 wealthiest nations agreed to $24 billion in aid for former USSR (1992)
And in 1973, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held a press conference to announce the formation of a new country called Nutopia. Not for April Fools day but ahead of the release of the Mind Games LP that included a written description of the country and its laws and a track called Nutopian International Anthem containing only silence. (Click read more for the DECLARATION OF NUTOPIA...) |
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Friday, 30 March 2007 |
- The Eiffel Tower officially opened (300 meters) commemorating the French Revolution (1889)
- Albert Einstein lectured on his new theory of relativity, New York (1921)
- Britain & France agreed to support Poland if it was invaded by Germany (1939)
- The US Congress passed the Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe (1948)
- Albania held first multi-party election in 50 years (1991)
And, on this day in 1967, two months before Are You Experienced was released, Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire for the first time. His band the Experience was on tour in the UK and Europe when Hendrix ascended to a new level with his stage persona. |
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Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
- The 15th Amendment passed in the US, guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race (1870) - It would be fifty more years until women were granted the same right.
- Albert Einstein announced his revised Unified Field Theory (1953)
- Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers sold for a record $39.7 million / £22.5M (1987) - The painter had not sold a single canvas in his lifetime.
And, in 1967, the cover was photographed for the Beatles' masterpiece, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. British 'pop' artist Peter Blake and his wife were hired by art director Robert Fraser to create the famous collage of more than 70 lifesize cut-out figures of Beatle heroes, including Edgar Allen Poe, Fred Astaire, Carl Jung, Lenny Bruce, Dylan Thomas, Karl Marx, H.G. Wells, Laurel and Hardy, Lewis Caroll, Tony Curtis, one-time Beatle bassist, Stuart Sutcliffe, and -- at George's request -- a number of Indian gurus. Read more about the photo shoot by Michael Cooper, the non-clues to Paul-is-Dead, and how the flower delivery boy wanted to help and was given a task, as well as dozens of other tantalizing details involved in the making of this historic cover at Wikipedia. |
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Wednesday, 28 March 2007 |
- Beethoven debuted as a pianist at the age 24 in Vienna (1795)
- The Republic of Switzerland was established (1798)
- The Knights of Columbus was founded by a Catholic priest to encourage benevolence and racial tolerance among its members (1882)
- Turkey (a nation of Muslims) officially recognized Israel (1949)
- Vietnam began celebrating Veterans' Day (1973)
- Beatles records officially went on sale in the Soviet Union (1986)
- Serbs & Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia (1994)
 And, in 1867, the U.S. Congress commissioned the Lincoln Memorial statue. Originally it was conceived as a monument to Union victory and the abolition of slavery, and would have placed Lincoln atop a tower made up of grateful freedmen as well as abolitionists, and Union generals. When Congress approved a memorial in 1911, an entirely different set of values dictated the project. Lincoln represented union, not victory. Its frieze would feature the names of every state, north and south. The winning architect Charles McKim, argued that every effort should be made to make the man transcend his worldly origins. |
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
 In Paris, the Louvre opened to the public (1794)- The state of New York abolished slavery (1799)
- The U.S. Salvation Army officially launched (1885)
- A Democratic constitution went into effect in Ecuador (1929)
- 12th Easter Seal Telethon raised $19.5M (1982)
And, on this day in 1944, a Swedish housewife in her mid-thirties, Astrid Lindgren, sprained her ankle so bad that she was confined to bed and finally put pen to paper transcribing the bedtime stories she'd been telling her 10-year-old daughter for years. Pippi Longstocking, whose character became a "new role model and a cradle for female assertiveness" has been translated into more than 60 languages from Arabic to Zulu. |
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