This date in history

It official ?
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  • 1841
    First detective storyThe first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue was published.
    • 1769​

      Ottawa Indian chief Pontiac murdered.​
    • 1902​

      Marie and Pierre Curie isolated radium.
    • 1912​

      The Boston Red Sox played their first game at Fenway Park. They beat the N.Y. Highlanders (who in 1913 would become known as the Yankees) 7-6.
    • 1971​

      The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the practice of busing for racial desegregation.
    • 1999​

      14 students (including killers) and 1 teacher killed, 23 others wounded at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in the nation's deadliest school shooting.
    • 2008​

      Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first woman to win an IndyCar race.
    • 2010​

      An explosion on a BP oil drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana kills 11 people and injures 17. Experts estimate that 13,000 gallons of crude oil per hour are pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.
 
 
April 30, 2019 - The COVID Pandemic forces Roccus to initiate a 2-year streak of successful NY Times Crossword Puzzles. OK, I can stop worrying about doing the Tuesday Puzzle. My Monday streak is approaching 100 straight...

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Units are very critical for context, that's Minutes and Seconds, although 15:26 isn't a very good Tuesday Time, I'm usually around 10 min for Tuesday. Took me a bit to figure out today's "Angle"...
15 hours,15 minutes or 15 seconds They are all difficult for me to comprehend in the context of crossword puzzles. I haven't seen a crossword puzzle i many years. I haven't even read a newspaper in 20 years or so. and i have never read the NY Times. Does that explain a few things ?? :giggle:


Oh yeah, while im here. This day in history in 1626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
 
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