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• ...that the complex flavor of hoja santa (pictured) has been variously compared to eucalyptus, licorice, sassafras, anise, nutmeg, mint, tarragon and black pepper?
• ...that Burning Bright by John Steinbeck was an attempt at a new form of literature, the "play-novelette"— but both the play and novel were savaged by the critics and Steinbeck never wrote for the theatre again?
• ...that while the center of gravity for a set of points is located at the spot from which the sum of the squares of distances to all the points is minimized, the geometric median is the spot from which the sum of distances is minimized?
• ...that although a response to the 1885 Endicott Board recommendations for the coastal defense of San Francisco, the batteries at Fort Miley were not completed until 1902?
• ...that Flocabulary is an educational New York City-based project that uses hip hop music to teach SAT-level vocabulary?
• ...that the Althing of Iceland confirmed Thorlac Thornalli as a saint over 700 years before the Catholic Church did?

• Students protest outside the British embassy in Tehran, Iran (flag pictured) in response to the ongoing dispute over captured Royal Navy personnel.
• Michael Phelps breaks five world records in swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships; seven other records are broken as well.
• Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks receives the first sentence from the Guantanamo military commission, and the first conviction in a U.S. war crimes trial since World War II.
• Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi is declared the winner of the presidential election in Mauritania.
• The Liberal Party under Premier Jean Charest loses 28 seats in the National Assembly and forms the first minority government in Quebec in 129 years.

April 2: Passover begins at sunset (Judaism, 2007); Malvinas Day in Argentina.

• 1792 - By the Coinage Act, the United States Mint was founded and the U.S. currency was decimalised.
• 1801 - British forces led by Horatio Nelson defeated the Dano-Norwegian fleet in the Battle of Copenhagen.
• 1956 - As the World Turns premiered on U.S. television as the first half-hour serial drama.
• 1982 - Argentine special forces invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War.
• 1992 - John Gotti (pictured), the crime boss of the Gambino crime family, was convicted of racketeering, murder, conspiracy to commit murder, loansharking, obstruction of justice, illegal gambling and tax evasion.

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