Hank Aaron's first home run, Yeltsin dead, first McDonalds in China
FILE - In this March 29, 2006 file photo, YouTube cofounders Chad Hurley, 29, left, and Steven Chen, 27, pose for a photo with their laptops at their office loft in a San Mateo, Calif. Co-founders Hurley, Chen and Jawed Karim started YouTube in February 2005 shortly after realizing there wasnt an easy way for people to share their videos on the Internet.
On April 23, 2005, the recently created video-sharing website YouTube uploaded its first clip, “Me at the Zoo,” which showed YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo.In 1616 , William Shakespeare died in Stratford-upon-Avon on what has traditionally been regarded as the 52nd anniversary of his birth in 1564.Hank Aaron
of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his 755 major-league home runs in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. veterans opposed to the conflict protested by tossing their medals and ribbons over a wire fence in front of the U.S. Capitol.
In 1988, a federal ban on smoking during domestic airline flights of two hours or less went into effect.In 1993, labor leader Cesar Chavez died in San Luis, Arizona, at age 66. In 1998, James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and then insisted he’d been framed, died at a Nashville, Tennessee, hospital at age 70., killing 10 people and leaving 16 others hurt; noted that researchers were looking at the effects of disinfectants on the coronavirus, and wondered aloud whether they could be injected into people.
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