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Selected anniversaries

April 9: Easter Monday in Christianity (2007); Day of Valor in the Philippines.

• 193 - Septimius Severus was proclaimed Roman Emperor.
• 1865 - Battle of Appomattox Courthouse: Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War.
• 1917 - World War I: The Canadian Corps began the first wave of attacks in the Battle of Vimy Ridge, advancing behind a creeping barrage known as the 'Vimy Glide'.
• 1959 - NASA announced the selection of the Mercury Seven (pictured), the first astronauts in Project Mercury.
• 1989 - April 9 tragedy: An anti-Soviet demonstration in Tbilisi, Georgia was quashed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and thousands of injured.

Recent days: April 8 – April 7 – April 6

In the news

• Two passengers remain unaccounted for after the Greek cruise ship M/S Sea Diamond (pictured) runs aground off Santorini in the Aegean Sea and sinks.
• The Royal Navy personnel accused of trespassing into Iranian waters return to the United Kingdom after a two-week detention.
• TGV POS trainset number 4402 sets a new world speed record for railed vehicles at 574.8 km/h (357 mph) during test runs conducted in Champagne, France.
• Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolves the parliament and calls for an early parliamentary election, a move denounced by the parliament as unconstitutional.
• A tsunami triggered by an earthquake strikes the Solomon Islands, killing at least 20, destroying around 900 homes and leaving thousands homeless.

Did you know...

From Wikipedia's newest articles:

• ...that a view from the Plaza Mayor (pictured) in Trinidad, Cuba, is featured on the 25 centavo convertible peso coin?
• ...that the Century apartments is one of the first residential buildings to be built in the Art Deco style, causing it to stand out from its Beaux-Arts neighbors on Central Park West?
• ...that despite plagiarizing a Chinese-French-Latin dictionary ordered by Napoleon, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes went on to become a member of the French Academy of Sciences?
• ...that convicted American felon Matthew Cox was so bold in committing over $15 million of mortgage fraud that he allegedly even took out a mortgage under the name of The Simpsons character "C. Montgomery Burns"?
• ...that The Wordless Book was invented by the London Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon and employs religious symbolism and color psychology in evangelism?
• ...that the Bangladeshi filmmaker Alamgir Kabir was imprisoned by Ayub Khan for being a leftist?

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