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There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 - France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br><br>1947 - Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square.<br><br>1954 - United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later.<br><br>1956 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda.<br><br>1960 - Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains.<br><br>1967 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </del>- Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years.<br><br>1972 - Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon.<br><br>1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.<br><br>1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault is empty.<br><br>1987 - Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people.<br><br>1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.<br><br>1990 - Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food, metal and industrial parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence.<br><br>1991 - Soviet hard-liners launch <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a petition drive </del> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr.org.vn</del>] for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.<br><br>1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.<br><br>1994 - Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde in the heaviest assault of a three-week offensive.<br><br>1995 - Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal.<br><br>1996 - Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce.<br><br>1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.<br><br>1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.<br><br>2001 - Leaders at the 34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power last year and mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass.<br><br>2002 - Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland, kill 14 people and wound 55 others.<br><br>2005 - A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://edition.cnn.com/search/?text=</del>discovered <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">discovered] </del>earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Today is Thursday, April 21, the 112th day of 2014. There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 - France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br><br>1947 - Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square.<br><br>1954 - United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later.<br><br>1956 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda.<br><br>1960 - Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains.<br><br>1967 - Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years.<br><br>1972 - Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon.<br><br>1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.<br><br>1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Data.Gov.uk/data/search?q=Geraldo%20Rivera </ins>Geraldo Rivera<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>. Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault is empty.<br><br>1987 - Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people.<br><br>1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.<br><br>1990 - Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food, metal and industrial parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence.<br><br>1991 - Soviet hard-liners launch  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">du lịch Bắc Kinh</ins>] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a petition drive </ins>for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.<br><br>1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.<br><br>1994 - Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde in the heaviest assault of a three-week offensive.<br><br>1995 - Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal.<br><br>1996 - Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce.<br><br>1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.<br><br>1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.<br><br>2001 - Leaders at the 34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power last year and mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass.<br><br>2002 - Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland, kill 14 people and wound 55 others.<br><br>2005 - A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://Www.Ehow.com/search.html?s=final%20step </ins>final step<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </ins>Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td></tr>
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There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">du</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] the first U.S. vice president</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1856 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1918 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, </del>is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">shot down and killed over </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Canada</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1928 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact </del>by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">most </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the world's countries</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1947 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Crown Prince Frederik </del>is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark </del>by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">thousands of Danes on parliament square</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1954 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later.<</del>br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br>1956 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Egypt</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1960 - Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1967 - Army officers led by Col</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The junta rules the country for seven years.<br><br>1972 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1975 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">South Vietnam</del>'s President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.<br><br>1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault is empty.<br><br>1987 - Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people.<br><br>1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.<br><br>1990 - Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food, metal and industrial parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence.<br><br>1991 - Soviet hard-liners launch a petition drive <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.<br><br>1993 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole </del>for <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.</del><br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1994 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the heaviest assault of a three-week offensive</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1995 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br</del>><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1996 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Rebels </del>in a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce.<br</del>><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1997 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">handover </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">British colony </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">China on July 1</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1998 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and says it will pay surviving women</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2001 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Leaders at the 34-nation Americas summit debate whether </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power last year and mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass.</del><br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2002 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting </del>for <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a separate homeland</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">kill 14 people </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wound 55 others</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2005 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at a mine in </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">final step </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2007 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mock elections</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2008 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pakistan orders </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">release </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">custody in return for an agreement from his group </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle  [http://www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr.org.vn/cam</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">U.S.-led invasion </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Afghanistan </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2001</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2009 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">European researchers say they not only found </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">smallest planet ever, Gliese </del>5810 e<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered </del>earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.Europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=province%20Kosovo </del>province Kosovo<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Today is Thursday, April 21, the 112th day of 2014. There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the first U</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">S</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vice president</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1856 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Australia adopts eight</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hour working day.<br><br>1898 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">United States recognizes independence of Cuba</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1918 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1928 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It </ins>is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">later signed as </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Kellogg-Briand Pact by most </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the world's countries</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1947 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark </ins>by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">thousands </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Danes on parliament square</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1954 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which </ins>is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">overrun </ins>by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Vietnamese forces three weeks later</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1956 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda.<br><</ins>br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1960 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1967  [http://www</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] - Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1972 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon.<br><br>1975 - South Vietnam</ins>'s President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.<br><br>1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault is empty.<br><br>1987 - Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people.<br><br>1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.<br><br>1990 - Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food, metal and industrial parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence.<br><br>1991 - Soviet hard-liners launch a petition drive <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.</ins><br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1993 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Supreme Court </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">La Paz, Bolivia,  [http://www.vtr.org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam-nang-du</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.<br</ins>><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1994 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the heaviest assault of </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">three-week offensive.<br</ins>><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1995 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">future </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1996 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1997 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for the handover of the British colony </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">China on July 1.</ins><br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1998 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan </ins>for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">women held as sex slaves during World War II</ins>, and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">says it will pay surviving women</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2001 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Leaders at </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bertrand Aristide to power last year and mired </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">another political morass</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2002 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bombings </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">kill 14 people and wound 55 others</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2005 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at a mine in </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">heart </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the poorest nation in the Americas</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>2007 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">absolute monarchy </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the secluded Himalayan country</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2008 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pakistan orders </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese </ins>5810 e<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, but also realize that a neighboring planet [http://edition.cnn.com/search/?text=discovered discovered] </ins>earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td></tr>
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There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 - France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br><br>1947 - Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square.<br><br>1954 - United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later.<br><br>1956 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda.<br><br>1960 - Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains.<br><br>1967 - Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years.<br><br>1972 - Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon.<br><br>1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.<br><br>1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault is empty.<br><br>1987 - Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people.<br><br>1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.<br><br>1990 - Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food, metal and industrial parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence.<br><br>1991 - Soviet hard-liners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.techandtrends.com/?s=troubles </del>troubles<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</del>.<br><br>1993 - The Supreme Court in La <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.<br><br>1994 - Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde in the heaviest assault of a three-week offensive.<br><br>1995 - Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal.<br><br>1996 - <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] </del>Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce.<br><br>1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.<br><br>1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.<br><br>2001 - Leaders at the 34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power last year and mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass.<br><br>2002 - Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland, kill 14 people and wound 55 others.<br><br>2005 - A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Today is Thursday, April 21, the 112th day of 2014. There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 - France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br><br>1947 - Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square.<br><br>1954 - United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later.<br><br>1956 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda.<br><br>1960 - Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains.<br><br>1967 - Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years.<br><br>1972 - Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon.<br><br>1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.<br><br>1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault is empty.<br><br>1987 - Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people.<br><br>1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.<br><br>1990 - Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food, metal and industrial parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence.<br><br>1991 - Soviet hard-liners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.<br><br>1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.<br><br>1994 - Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde in the heaviest assault of a three-week offensive.<br><br>1995 - Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal.<br><br>1996 - Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce.<br><br>1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.<br><br>1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.<br><br>2001 - Leaders at the 34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power last year and mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass.<br><br>2002 - Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland, kill 14 people and wound 55 others.<br><br>2005 - A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </ins>the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.Europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=province%20Kosovo </ins>province Kosovo<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td></tr>
</table>Victoria13Uhttp://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Thursday_April_21&diff=22319&oldid=prevKevinKem41846559 at 22:23, 17 July 20182018-07-17T22:23:43Z<p></p>
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There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 - France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br><br>1947 - Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square.<br><br>1954 - United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later.<br><br>1956 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda.<br><br>1960 - Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains.<br><br>1967 - Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years.<br><br>1972 - Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon.<br><br>1975 - South <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Vietnam%27s%20President </del>Vietnam's President<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.<br><br>1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>and a sign, the vault is empty.<br><br>1987 - Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people.<br><br>1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.<br><br>1990 - Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food, metal and industrial parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence.<br><br>1991 - Soviet hard-liners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.<br><br>1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.<br><br>1994 - Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde in the heaviest assault of a three-week offensive.<br><br>1995 - Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal.<br><br>1996 - Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce.<br><br>1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.<br><br>1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.<br><br>2001 - Leaders at the 34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power last year and mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass.<br><br>2002 - Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </del>a separate homeland, kill 14 people and wound 55 others.<br><br>2005 - A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>- Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Today is Thursday, April 21, the 112th day of 2014. There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 - France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br><br>1947 - Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square.<br><br>1954 - United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later.<br><br>1956 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda.<br><br>1960 - Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains.<br><br>1967 - Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years.<br><br>1972 - Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon.<br><br>1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.<br><br>1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault is empty.<br><br>1987 - Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people.<br><br>1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.<br><br>1990 - Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food, metal and industrial parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence.<br><br>1991 - Soviet hard-liners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.techandtrends.com/?s=troubles </ins>troubles<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>.<br><br>1993 - The Supreme Court in La <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.<br><br>1994 - Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde in the heaviest assault of a three-week offensive.<br><br>1995 - Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal.<br><br>1996 - <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] </ins>Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce.<br><br>1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.<br><br>1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.<br><br>2001 - Leaders at the 34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power last year and mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass.<br><br>2002 - Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland, kill 14 people and wound 55 others.<br><br>2005 - A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td></tr>
</table>KevinKem41846559http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Thursday_April_21&diff=22116&oldid=prevIrmaKeeler7441 at 13:09, 17 July 20182018-07-17T13:09:06Z<p></p>
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There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 - France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br><br>1947 - Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square.<br><br>1954 - United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later.<br><br>1956 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda.<br><br>1960 - Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains.<br><br>1967 - Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years.<br><br>1972 - Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon.<br><br>1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.<br><br>1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault is empty.<br><br>1987 - Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people.<br><br>1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </del>human rights, march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.<br><br>1990 - Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food, metal and industrial parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence.<br><br>1991 - Soviet hard-liners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.<br><br>1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.<br><br>1994 - Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde in the heaviest assault of a three-week offensive.<br><br>1995 - Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>to try to link the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal.<br><br>1996 - Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce.<br><br>1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.<br><br>1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.<br><br>2001 - Leaders at the 34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power last year and mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass.<br><br>2002 - Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland, kill 14 people and wound 55 others.<br><br>2005 - A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.Thefreedictionary.com/prevent%20tens </del>prevent tens<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Today is Thursday, April 21, the 112th day of 2014. There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 - France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br><br>1947 - Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square.<br><br>1954 - United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later.<br><br>1956 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda.<br><br>1960 - Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains.<br><br>1967 - Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years.<br><br>1972 - Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon.<br><br>1975 - South <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Vietnam%27s%20President </ins>Vietnam's President<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.<br><br>1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>and a sign, the vault is empty.<br><br>1987 - Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people.<br><br>1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.<br><br>1990 - Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food, metal and industrial parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence.<br><br>1991 - Soviet hard-liners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.<br><br>1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.<br><br>1994 - Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde in the heaviest assault of a three-week offensive.<br><br>1995 - Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal.<br><br>1996 - Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce.<br><br>1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.<br><br>1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.<br><br>2001 - Leaders at the 34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power last year and mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass.<br><br>2002 - Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </ins>a separate homeland, kill 14 people and wound 55 others.<br><br>2005 - A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </ins>- Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td></tr>
</table>IrmaKeeler7441http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Thursday_April_21&diff=22030&oldid=prevKimberlyRussell at 08:12, 17 July 20182018-07-17T08:12:05Z<p></p>
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There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 - France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br><br>1947 - Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>1954 - United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later.<br><br>1956 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda.<br><br>1960 - Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains.<br><br>1967 - Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years.<br><br>1972 - Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon.<br><br>1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.<br><br>1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault is empty.<br><br>1987 - Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people.<br><br>1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.<br><br>1990 - Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food, metal and industrial parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence.<br><br>1991 - Soviet hard-liners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.<br><br>1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.<br><br>1994 - Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde in the heaviest assault of a three-week offensive.<br><br>1995 - Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel's reported <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.search.com/search?q=nuclear%20arsenal </del>nuclear arsenal<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</del>.<br><br>1996 - Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce.<br><br>1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.<br><br>1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.<br><br>2001 - Leaders at the 34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.alexa.com/search?q=Jean-Bertrand&r=topsites_index&p=bigtop </del>Jean-Bertrand<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>Aristide to power last year and mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass.<br><br>2002 - Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland, kill 14 people and wound 55 others.<br><br>2005 - A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Today is Thursday, April 21, the 112th day of 2014. There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 - France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br><br>1947 - Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square.<br><br>1954 - United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later.<br><br>1956 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda.<br><br>1960 - Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains.<br><br>1967 - Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years.<br><br>1972 - Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon.<br><br>1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.<br><br>1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault is empty.<br><br>1987 - Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people.<br><br>1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] </ins>human rights, march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.<br><br>1990 - Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food, metal and industrial parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence.<br><br>1991 - Soviet hard-liners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.<br><br>1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.<br><br>1994 - Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde in the heaviest assault of a three-week offensive.<br><br>1995 - Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>to try to link the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal.<br><br>1996 - Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce.<br><br>1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.<br><br>1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.<br><br>2001 - Leaders at the 34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power last year and mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass.<br><br>2002 - Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland, kill 14 people and wound 55 others.<br><br>2005 - A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.Thefreedictionary.com/prevent%20tens </ins>prevent tens<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td></tr>
</table>KimberlyRussellhttp://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Thursday_April_21&diff=22017&oldid=prevCalebStine86116 at 07:15, 17 July 20182018-07-17T07:15:54Z<p></p>
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There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 - France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br><br>1947 - Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1954 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later.<br><br>1956 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1960 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Brasilia</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1967 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Army officers led by Col</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years.<br</del>><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br>1972 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon</del>.<br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br>1975 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1977 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<</del>br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br>1980 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">but she is disqualified when [http://Www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Cbsnews.com/search/?q=officials%20discover officials discover] she jumped into </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1986 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Except for a few bottles and a sign, </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vault is empty</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1987 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Colombo</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 </del>people<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.<br><br>1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">China</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1990 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Moscow expands its energy embargo </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Lithuania to include shipments of food</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr.org.vn/cam</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html vtr.org.vn] </del>metal and industrial <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr.org.vn/cam</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence.<</del>br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1991 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Soviet hard-liners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">impose a national state of emergency </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.<br</del>><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1993 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Supreme Court </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.<</del>br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br>1994 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bosnian Serb artillery bombards </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Muslim enclave </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Gorazde in </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">heaviest assault </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a three-week offensive</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1995 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal.<br><br>1996 - Rebels in a military complex </del>in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce.<br><br>1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.<br><br>1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.<br><br>2001 - Leaders at the 34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Jean-</del>Bertrand Aristide to power last year and mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass.<br><br>2002 - Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland, kill 14 people and wound 55 others.<br><br>2005 - A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>2012 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">But global finance officials send </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2013 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">landmark agreement </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:</del><br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">England (1926--); Elaine May, U</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">S. entertainer-writer (1932-</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943</del>--<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947</del>--<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949</del>--<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">); James McAvoy, actor (1979</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-);  [http://www.</del>vtr.org.vn<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">/cam</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang-du</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">lich</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bac</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">kinh</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">5-ngay</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Today is Thursday, April 21, the 112th day of 2014. There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 - France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br><br>1947 - Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bac</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] 1954 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">United States flies French battalion to Indochina </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">defend Dien Bien Phu</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1956 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br</ins>><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1960 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains</ins>.<br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br>1967 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1972 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon.<br><</ins>br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1975 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">musical "Annie" opens on Broadway</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1980 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mile (1</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">6 kilometers) from </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">finish</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1986 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Soldiers attack rebel camp </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Philippines</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and 41 </ins>people <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles and a sign</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the vault is empty</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1987 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">killing as many as 150 people</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1989 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1990 - Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food, </ins>metal and industrial <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1991 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Soviet hard</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">liners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><</ins>br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1993 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">violating the constitution.<br</ins>><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1994 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the heaviest assault of a three-week offensive.<br><</ins>br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1995 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">future </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to a dismantling </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Israel's reported [http://www.search.com/search?q=nuclear%20arsenal nuclear arsenal]</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1996 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Rebels in </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">military complex </ins>in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce.<br><br>1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.<br><br>1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.<br><br>2001 - Leaders at the 34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.alexa.com/search?q=Jean-</ins>Bertrand<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&r=topsites_index&p=bigtop Jean-Bertrand] </ins>Aristide to power last year and mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass.<br><br>2002 - Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland, kill 14 people and wound 55 others.<br><br>2005 - A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">5-ngay-4-dem</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] they quickly evacuated, some with little more than </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">credit card and the clothes on their backs</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2012 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">badly needed boost </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.</ins><br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2013 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang-du</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">lich</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bac</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">kinh</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">5</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ngay</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dem.html </ins>vtr.org.vn<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] Bronte, English novelist (1816</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">born actor (1915</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926</ins>--<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932</ins>--<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); </ins>Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td></tr>
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There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">du-lich</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html du lịch Bắc Kinh] Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron</del>, is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1928 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br</del>><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1947 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes </del>on <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">parliament square</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1954 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which is overrun </del>by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Vietnamese forces three weeks later</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1956 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1960 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1967  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html vtr.org.vn] </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">country for seven years.<br><br>1972 - Two U</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">S</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Moon.</del><br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1975 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">names successor </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><</del>br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1977 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1980 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1986 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Except for a few bottles </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a sign, the vault is empty</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1987 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><</del>br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1989 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thousands of students, shouting </del>for <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">democracy </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">human rights, march from campuses </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1990 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">metal and industrial parts</del>, in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">effort to get </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">republic to revoke declaration of independence</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1991 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Soviet hard-liners launch </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.<</del>br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1993 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1994 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde </del>in the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">heaviest assault of </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">three-week offensive</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1995 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">future </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1996 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1997 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">handover of the British colony </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">China on July 1.<br><br>1998 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">South Korea drops efforts </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">says it will pay surviving women</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2001 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Leaders at </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power last year </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2002 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland, kill 14 </del>people <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and wound 55 others.<br><br>2005 - A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at </del>a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://edition.Cnn.com/search/?text=</del>platform <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">platform] </del>in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Michael Franti, U</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">S</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">singer</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">rapper (1966</del>--<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</del>.<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] </del>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Today is Thursday, April 21, the 112th day of 2014. There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br><br>1947 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1954 - United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">which </ins>is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1956 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br</ins>><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1960 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch </ins>on <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the central high plains</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1967 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Army officers led </ins>by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1972 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1975 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1980 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when [http://Www</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Cbsnews</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com/search/?q=officials%20discover officials discover] she jumped into </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.</ins><br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1986 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault is empty.<</ins>br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br>1987 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1989 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1990 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn] metal </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">industrial  [http://www.vtr.org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn/cam-nang</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence.<</ins>br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1991 - Soviet hard</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">liners launch a petition drive </ins>for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">take President Mikhail Gorbachev </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1993 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Supreme Court in La Paz</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bolivia</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">constitution</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1994 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde in the heaviest assault of </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">three-week offensive.<</ins>br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1995 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">link the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1996 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out </ins>in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">capital to police </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">truce</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1997 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">handover </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">British colony </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">China on July 1</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1998 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and says it will pay surviving women</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2001 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Leaders at </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">34-nation Americas summit debate whether </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bertrand Aristide </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">power last year </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2002 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bombings in </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland, kill 14 people </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wound 55 others</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2005 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A blast kills at least 51 </ins>people <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at </ins>a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr.org</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vn</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--)</ins>.<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td></tr>
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There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Briand Pact by most of the world's countries</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1947 - Crown Prince Frederik </del>is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Danes on parliament square</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1954 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which </del>is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1956 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1960 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Brasilia</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1967 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1972 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon</del>.<br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br>1975 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.<br><br>[http://www.vtr.org</del>.vn<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">/cam</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] 1977 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes [http://sportsrants</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com/?s=martial%20law martial law] on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">force  [http://www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr.org.vn/cam</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">vtr</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org.vn/cam</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except </del>for <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a few bottles </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a sign</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the vault is empty</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1987 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">rush hour near main bus station in Colombo</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Sri Lanka</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">killing as many as 150 people</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1989 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Thousands of students, shouting </del>for <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">democracy </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">human rights, march from campuses </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1990 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">metal and industrial parts</del>, in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1991 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Soviet hard-liners launch a petition drive for </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.<</del>br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br>1993 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">constitution</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1994 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde </del>in the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">heaviest assault of </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">three-week offensive</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1995 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">future </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1996 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1997 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">handover of the British colony </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">China on July 1.<br><br>1998 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">South Korea drops efforts </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">says it will pay surviving women</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2001 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Leaders at </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power last year </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass</del>.<br><br><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2002 </del>- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland, kill 14 </del>people <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and wound 55 others.<br><br>2005 - A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at </del>a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Today is Thursday, April 21, the 112th day of 2014. There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang-du</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html du lịch Bắc Kinh] Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, </ins>is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Canada</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1928 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It </ins>is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1947 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1954 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">United States flies French battalion to Indochina </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">defend Dien Bien Phu</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1956 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1960 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains</ins>.<br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br>1967  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org</ins>.vn<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1972 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1977 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force </ins>his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault is empty</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1987 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br><br>1989 - Thousands of students, shouting </ins>for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">democracy </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">human rights</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1990 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Moscow expands its energy embargo </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Lithuania to include shipments of food</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">metal and industrial parts</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1991 - Soviet hard</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">liners launch a petition drive </ins>for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">take President Mikhail Gorbachev </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1993 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Supreme Court in La Paz</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bolivia</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1994 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde in the heaviest assault of </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">three-week offensive.<br><</ins>br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1995 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">link the future of </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1996 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out </ins>in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">capital to police </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">truce</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1997 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">handover </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">British colony </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">China on July 1</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1998 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and says it will pay surviving women</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2001 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Leaders at </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">34-nation Americas summit debate whether </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean</ins>-<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bertrand Aristide </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">power last year </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2002 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bombings in </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland, kill 14 people </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wound 55 others</ins>.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2005 </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A blast kills at least 51 </ins>people <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at </ins>a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the final step in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://edition.Cnn.com/search/?text=</ins>platform <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">platform] </ins>in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm từ Hà Nội] </ins>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td></tr>
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There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </del>Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 - France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br><br>1947 - Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square.<br><br>1954 - United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later.<br><br>1956 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda.<br><br>1960 - Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains.<br><br>1967 - Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years.<br><br>1972 - Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon.<br><br>1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.<br><br>1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes martial law on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault is empty.<br><br>1987 - Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists explode powerful bomb at height of rush hour near main bus station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing as many as 150 people.<br><br>1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.<br><br>1990 - Moscow expands its energy embargo of Lithuania to include shipments of food, metal and industrial parts, in effort to get the republic to revoke declaration of independence.<br><br>1991 - Soviet hard-liners launch a petition drive for a Parliament session to impose a national state of emergency and take President Mikhail Gorbachev to task over worsening ethnic and economic troubles.<br><br>1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.<br><br>1994 - Bosnian Serb artillery bombards the Muslim enclave of Gorazde in the heaviest assault of a three-week offensive.<br><br>1995 - Iran lines up with Egypt and Syria to try to link the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to a dismantling of Israel's reported nuclear arsenal.<br><br>1996 - Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the capital to police a truce.<br><br>1997 - The first Chinese Army soldiers march into Hong Kong in preparation for the handover of the British colony to China on July 1.<br><br>1998 - South Korea drops efforts to get compensation from Japan for women held as sex slaves during World War II, and says it will pay surviving women.<br><br>2001 - Leaders at the 34-nation Americas summit debate whether to criticize Haitian elections that restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power last year and mired the hemisphere's poorest and most unstable nation in another political morass.<br><br>2002 - Bombings in the southern Philippines, where Muslim rebel groups are fighting for a separate homeland, kill 14 people and wound 55 others.<br><br>2005 - A blast kills at least 51 people as it rips through an explosives manufacturing plant at a mine in the heart of Zambia's copper belt.<br><br>2006 - Haitians vote in a legislative election billed as the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.twitpic.com/tag/final%20step </del>final step<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </del>in the often-delayed process to bring back democracy to the poorest nation in the Americas.<br><br>2007 - Thousands of Bhutanese practice for democracy in mock elections, lining up at polling stations to select dummy political parties in the latest step <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </del>toward shedding nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.<br><br>2008 - Pakistan orders the release of pro-Taliban leader Sufi Muhammad from six years in custody in return for an agreement from his group to renounce violence. Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. But global finance officials send a strong message that struggling governments must speed reforms.<br><br>2013 - Serbia's ruling parties pledge to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.<br><br>Today's Birthdays:<br><br>Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (1816-1855); Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (1915-2001); Queen Elizabeth II of England (1926--); Elaine May, U.S. entertainer-writer (1932--); Omotoso Kole, Nigerian writer (1943--); Iggy Pop, English punk singer (1947--); Patti LuPone, U.S. actress/singer (1949--); James McAvoy, actor (1979--); Michael Franti, U.S. singer/rapper (1966--).<br><br>Thought For Today:<br><br>I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it - Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist (1869-1944).<br><br>Advertisement</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Today is Thursday, April 21, the 112th day of 2014. There are 255 days left in the year.<br><br>Highlights in history on this date:<br><br>1526 - Babur, an Uzbek prince, defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at the Battle of Panipat north of Delhi, leading to Mughal rule over India.<br><br>1572 - Britain and France sign defensive treaty.<br><br>1649 - The Maryland assembly passes the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians.<br><br>1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first U.S. vice president.<br><br>1856 - Australia adopts eight-hour working day.<br><br>1898 - United States recognizes independence of Cuba.<br><br>1918 - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Capt. Arthur Roy Brown of Canada.<br><br>1928 - France's Aristide Briand submits his draft treaty for outlawing war. It is later signed as the Kellogg-Briand Pact by most of the world's countries.<br><br>1947 - Crown Prince Frederik is acclaimed King Frederik IX of Denmark by thousands of Danes on parliament square.<br><br>1954 - United States flies French battalion to Indochina to defend Dien Bien Phu, which is overrun by Vietnamese forces three weeks later.<br><br>1956 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance at Jedda.<br><br>1960 - Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, a modern city built from scratch on the central high plains.<br><br>1967 - Army officers led by Col. Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece. The junta rules the country for seven years.<br><br>1972 - Two U.S. Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon.<br><br>1975 - South Vietnam's President Nguyen van Thieu resigns, denounces United States as untrustworthy, and names successor to seek negotiations with Communist forces sweeping across country.<br><br><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </ins>1977 - Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto assumes emergency powers and imposes <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://sportsrants.com/?s=martial%20law </ins>martial law<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] </ins>on three major cities in crackdown on opponents trying to force <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] </ins>his resignation; the musical "Annie" opens on Broadway.<br><br>1980 - Rosie Ruiz is the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, but she is disqualified when officials discover she jumped into the race about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the finish.<br><br>1986 - Soldiers attack rebel camp in Philippines, and 41 people are killed; a vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel linked to Al Capone is opened during <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] </ins>a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. 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Muhammad had sent thousands to battle the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.<br><br>2009 - European researchers say they not only found the smallest planet ever, Gliese 5810 e, but also realize that a neighboring planet discovered earlier, Gliese 581 d, was in the prime habital zone for potential life.<br><br>2010 - An explosion rocks a BP offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and eventually leading to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.<br><br>2011 - Japan seals off a wide area around a radiation-spewing nuclear power plant to prevent tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly evacuated, some with little more than a credit card and the clothes on their backs.<br><br>2012 - An infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars will give the International Monetary Fund a badly needed boost to tackle Europe's prolonged debt crisis. 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