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Today in History for 13th April 2014

Historical Events

1923 - Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships

1926 - At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout

1992 - Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood

1997 - 48th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Carlos Perez (Mon)/Darren Holmes

1997 - Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets and Oakland A's vs Yankees in NY

2008 - 72nd Golf Masters Championship: Trevor Immelman wins, shooting a 280

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Famous Birthdays

1802 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)

1847 - Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Neth East-Indies)

1900 - Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)

1926 - John Spencer-Churchill, 11th duke of Marlborough, English large landowner

1972 - Jeroen Thesseling, pop bassist (Pestilence, Spheres)

1980 - Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress

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Famous Deaths

1942 - Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58

1966 - Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi politician (b. 1921)

1984 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician (b. 1911)

1994 - P J Engels, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 70

1997 - Ann Craft, researcher/writer, dies at 53

2009 - Bruce Snyder, American football coach (b. 1940)

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Approximately 8% of all rams…

Approximately 8% of all rams (male sheep) exhibit an exclusive sexual preference for other rams and this preference is linked to a decreased volume of a particular brain region compared to “straight” rams.

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The only Japanese who survived the Titanic…

The only Japanese who survived the Titanic lost his job because he was known as a coward in Japan for not dying with the other passengers.

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A woman’s sex drive begins to plummet once…

A woman’s sex drive begins to plummet once she is in a secure relationship.

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Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Apr 13, 2014)

Hand Shakes



There are ten people in a house. Everybody wants to make a hand shake with only people shorter than themselves. Assume everybody is different in height. How many hand shakes are made?





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During the Invasion of Normandy, Scottish Bagpiper, Bill Millin…

During the Invasion of Normandy, Scottish Bagpiper, Bill Millin, contrary to British Command, in the thick of battle, marched up & down the beach playing his Pipes. When his unit captured German snipers, they asked why Millin wasn’t shot. They said they didn’t shoot because he was clearly insane.

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