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Lord of the Rings: Return of the King has the highest body count of any movie ever made with 836 on-screen deaths.

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No Pixar movie has ever made less than $150 million domestically.

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This Week In #History ... April 18th - 24th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Apr 18
1834 Charles Darwin sails to Rio Santa Cruz up Patagonia
1853 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
1868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed
1902 Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
1909 Joan of Arc declared a saint
1924 1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon and Schuster)
1934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Ft. Worth, Texas)
1948 International Court of Justice opens at Hague, Netherlands
1955 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed
1963 Dr. James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant
1980 Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK
1987 An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air
2010 President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for 'alien troops' to leave and suggests that the regional nations be allowed to settle things themselves

Apr 19
1770 Captain James Cook 1st sees Australia
1892 Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin (Mass)
1910 Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
1919 Leslie Irvin of U.S. makes 1st parachute jump and free fall
1934 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up and Cheer"
1948 ABC-TV network begins
1965 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in New York City) begins operating
1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)
1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
1994 Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
2005 Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, becomes the 265th pope
2010 Kyrgyzstan unrest continues as over 1,000 people in Jala-Abad gather in the towns main square denouncing Otunbayeva's interim government and chanting pro-Bakiev slogans

Apr 20
1770 Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales
1841 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published
1879 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London and Cyprus
1896 1st public film showing in U.S. John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in New York City
1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1926 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic
1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa
1961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
1971 U.S. Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
1993 Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)
2010 Planes return to the air in Germany, France and Italy after being grounded by ash clouds from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano

Apr 21
1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
1857 Alexander Douglas patents the bustle
1878 New York installs 1st firehouse pole
1908 Frederick A. Cook claims to reach North Pole, he didn't
1913 Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper
1941 Greece surrenders to nazi-Germany
1948 1st Polaroid camera was sold in US
1952 BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in New York City
1976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing
1983 1 pound coin introduced in United Kingdom
1993 Brazil votes against a monarchy
1997 Ashes of Timothy Leary and Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit
2010 Renewed tribal clashes in Sudan's South Darfur state result in 52 civilians killed and 55 others wounded

Apr 22
1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil and claims it for Portugal
1793 President Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in U.S.
1864 U.S. mints 2 cent coin (1st appearance of "In God We Trust")
1884 Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 years 9 months)
1898 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship
1915 1st military use of chlorine poison gas by Germany in WW I
1930 U.S., Britain and Japan sign London Naval Treaty
1944 Hitler and Mussolini meet at Salzburg
1954 U.S.S.R. joins UNESCO
1969 1st human eye transplant performed
1982 Launch of STS-3-Lousma and Fullerton
1992 Holocaust Museum dedicated in Washington D.C.
2010 The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded off the coast of Louisiana two days ago, sinks; the wreck is leading crude oil and diesel at an alarming rate

Apr 23
1348 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter)
1661 English king Charles II crowned in London
1878 1st Dutch test drive of steam tram
1896 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (New York City)
1910 International Exhibition opens in Brussels
1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara
1932 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon
1945 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated
1952 Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed
1962 1st U.S. satellite to reach the moon launched
1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface
1984 AIDS-virus identified, acquired immune deficiency syndrome
1992 McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China
2010 A series of bomb explosions in Baghdad, near Shia mosques, kill dozens of people and wound 100 others

Apr 24
1704 "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in U.S., forms
1833 Patent granted for 1st soda fountain
1865 Fire alarm and police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco
1897 1st reporter, William Price (Washington Star), assigned to White House
1900 Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
1916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
1929 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates
1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA
1971 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
1981 IBM-PC computer introduced
1990 West and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1st
2010 Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva rejects demands by Thai protesters to dissolve Parliament in 30 days

This Week in #History ... March 28th - April 3rd

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Mar 28
1738 English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)
1794 Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine
1866 1st ambulance goes into service
1891 1st world weightlifting championship held
1922 1st microfilm device introduced
1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco
1944 Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle and begins writing Pippi Longstocking
1957 1st National Curling Championship held
1964 9.2 earthquake shakes Prince William Sound, Alaska
1974 Rock group Raspberries breakup
1993 Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031)
2010 The BBC finds evidence of a massacre in the Democratic Republic of Congo carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army last December, in which 321 people, including children, were killed

Mar 29
1461 Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)
1795 Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
1827 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1886 Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Coke
1912 Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1936 Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
1943 Meat, butter and cheese rationed in U.S. during WW II
1961 After a 4 year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge
1971 Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
1974 Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
1987 Wrestlemania III - 93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant
1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago, Illinois on WCKG 105.9 FM
2010 At least 38 are killed and 60 injured when two female suicide bombers carry out two separate terrorist attacks at Moscow Metro stations Lubyana and Park Kultury

Mar 30
1778 Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath
1814 Britain and allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
1842 Ether was used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr. Crawford Long
1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented by Hyman L. Lipman
1889 John T. Reid opens 1st U.S. golf course in Yonkers, New York
1923 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard U in 1920, incorporates
1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic
1950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, New Jersey
1970 U.S.S.R. wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
1981 President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley III
1991 1st exhibition of baseball game at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yankees - Orioles)
2010 8 Indian vessels are hijacked and 120 sailors are abducted by Somali pirates and off the cost of Kismayo

Mar 31
1831 Quebec and Montreal incorporated
1880 1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, Indiana)
1889 300m Eiffel Tower officially opens, commemorates French Revolution
1896 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening, also known as the zipper
1903 Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand)
1918 1st daylight savings time in U.S. goes into effect
1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity
1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler
1948 Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
1959 Dalai Lama fled China and was granted political asylum in India
1967 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
1981 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins
1991 Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
2010 Tear gas is fired on more than 200 Palestinians and their allies protesting outside the gates of Ofer Prison over the recent detainment of colleagues

Apr 1
1578 William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation
1748 Ruins of Pompeii found
1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates
1826 Samuel Morey patents internal combustion engine
1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed in Chicago
1927 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice
1929 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
1934 Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers
1948 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow
1957 Trial begins in Budapest against participants of october uprising
1964 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years
1971 U.S. and Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
1983 Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England
1991 Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
2010 Northern Ireland's electricity is knocked out; nearly 25,000 homes remain powerless

Apr 2
1513 Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon
1792 U.S. authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle and 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins and silver dollar, dollar, quarter, dime and half-dime
1870 Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for U.S. president
1902 1st motion picture theater opens in Los Angeles
1908 Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
1917 Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of U.S. House of Representatives
1935 Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR
1954 Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced
1964 U.S.S.R. launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market
1987 IBM introduces PS/2 and OS/2
1992 John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
2007 8.1 earthquake triggers tsunami in the Solomon Islands

Apr 3
1657 English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1860 Pony Express began between St. Joseph Missouri and Sacramento California
1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1913 British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
1926 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
1933 1st airplane flight over Mount Everest
1948 1st U.S. figure skating championships held
1956 German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/

Viebahn freed
1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft launched
1977 Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point
1985 French government adopts equal electoral system
2010 Rescuers in Shanxi, China, enter a flooded mine to help over 153 workers who have been trapped for over a week



Weird Al Says ... #WTF?!

Scientists say newborns look more like their fathers. Evolutionarily speaking, this helps reassure men that the baby is theirs.

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