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In April 1968, The New York Times — using Telfer as a main source — introduced the XYY genetic condition to the general public in a three-part series on consecutive days that began with a Sunday front-page story about the planned use of the condition as a mitigating factor in two murder trials in Paris and Melbourne — and falsely reported that Richard Speck was an XYY male and that the condition would be used in an appeal of his murder conviction.
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An American Civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
On April 22, 1971, syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reported allegations that Capp made indecent advances to four female students when he was invited to speak at the University of Alabama in February 1968.
When third husband Marty Melcher died April 20, 1968, a shocked Day discovered that her husband of 17 years and his business partner Jerome Bernard Rosenthal had squandered her earnings, leaving her deeply in debt.
Upon her husband's death on April 20, 1968, Day learned that he had committed her to a television series, which became The Doris Day Show.
In April 1968 he was proposed for a Minister of State position by Roy Jenkins but nothing came of it.
April 15, 1968 saw a pitching duel for the ages.
In 1882 Pope Leo XIII had a Mass and an Office composed for his feast day, which he set at 14 April, the day after the day indicated as that of his death in the Martyrology of Florus ; but since this date quite often falls within the main Paschal celebrations, the feast was moved in 1968 to 1 June, the date on which he has been celebrated in the Byzantine Rite since at least the 9th century.
It was therefore the site of protests and major demonstrations of the German student movement, while on April 11, 1968 spokesman Rudi Dutschke leaving the office of the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund on Kurfürstendamm No. 140 was shot in the head.
A major change in the structure of Zambia's economy came with the Mulungushi Reforms of April 1968: Kaunda declared his intention to acquire an equity holding ( usually 51 % or more ) in a number of key foreign-owned firms, to be controlled by his Industrial Development Corporation ( INDECO ).
Sorrow ( December 1968 ), The Who's Tommy ( April 1969 ) and The Kinks ' Arthur ( September 1969 ).
One of these passenger ferries, the Wahine, was lost in a storm as it entered Wellington Harbour on 10 April 1968, with the loss of 51 passengers and crew.
Setting aside Peary's claim, the first confirmed surface conquest of the North Pole was that of Ralph Plaisted, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean Luc Bombardier, who traveled over the ice by snowmobile and arrived on April 19, 1968.
The Writer ’ s Union also formed a committee in April 1968, headed by the poet Jaroslav Seifert, to investigate the persecution of writers after the Communist takeover in February 1948 and rehabilitate the literary figures into the Union, bookstores and libraries, and the literary world .< ref > Golan, Galia.
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Control Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, " Action Plan of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( Prague, April 1968 )" in Dubcek ’ s Blueprint for Freedom: His original documents leading to the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (; ; October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000 ), usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.
Nevertheless, at the April 1968 Liberal leadership convention, Trudeau was elected as the leader on the fourth ballot, with the support of 51 % of the delegates.
The most recent premier to die was Joh Bjelke-Petersen ( 1968 – 1987 ), on 23 April 2005.
In the spring of 1968 Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader, joined by Thorwald Proll and Horst Söhnlein, set fire to two department stores in Frankfurt on 2 April as a protest against the Vietnam war.
On 11 April 1968 Rudi Dutschke, a leading spokesman for protesting students, was shot in the head in an assassination attempt by the right-wing extremist Josef Bachmann.
The APC, with its leader Siaka Stevens, narrowly won a small majority seats in Parliament over the SLPP in a closely contested 1967 Sierra Leone general election and Stevens was sworn in as Prime Minister of April 26, 1968.
In April 1968, a group of senior military officers who called themselves the Anti-Corruption Revolutionary Movement led by Brigadier General John Amadu Bangura overthrew the NRC junta.
From 1968 to 2009 the date has never left the 21-day range of April 13 to May 3.
Timothy James " Tim " McVeigh ( April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001 ) was an American domestic terrorist who detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.
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F. L. Lucas's article in SR's April 1 issue seemed to be a very fair and objective analysis of the New English Bible.
April 10 marked a memorable date in New York's musical history -- indeed in the musical history of the entire eastern United States.
* Thai New Year in Thailand – April 13
* Lao New Year in Laos – April 13
* Khmer New Year in Cambodia – April 13
* ANZAC Day ( Australia and New Zealand ) – April 25
** Khmer New Year, or Chol Chnam Thmey, most commonly celebrated on April 13 ( Cambodia )
** Lao New Year, or Songkan / Pi Mai Lao, generally celebrated from 13 to 15 April ( Laos )
** Thai New Year, or Songkran, celebrated from 13 to 15 April ( Thailand )
The Thai zodiac includes a Naga in place of the Dragon and begins, not at Chinese New Year, but at either on the first day of fifth month in Thai lunar calendar, or during the Songkran festival ( now celebrated every 13 – 15 April ), depending on the purpose of the use.
Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in April 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building site of the annual ball drop on New Year's Eve.
On April 8, 1995, a staged concert was held at Carnegie Hall in New York City as a benefit for the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
A videotape released with The Wills of the New York and Washington Battle Martyrs, was aired on Al Jazeera on April 16, 2002.
An English-language version, simply titled Kristina, was staged in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City for two nights in September 2009, yielding a live recording, and at the Royal Albert Hall for one night in April 2010.
In April 1861, early in the American Civil War, Corbett enlisted as a private in Company I of the 12 Regiment New York Militia.
Corbett was a member of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment sent, on April 24, 1865, to apprehend John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, who was still at large.
*" Collier Overdue A Month ", The New York Times, April 15, 1918.
*" More Ships Hunt For Missing Cyclops ", The New York Times, April 16, 1918.
*" Haven't Given Up Hope For Cyclops ", The New York Times, April 17, 1918.
*" To Search For Missing Freighter ", The New York Times, April 11, 1926.
*" Abandon Hope For Ship ", The New York Times, April 28, 1926.
*" Vanishing Of Ship Ruled A Mystery ", The New York Times, April 14, 1964.
It seems to have been patented on April 20, 1880, in New York City by Joshua K. Ingalls.
Caltech is on the quarter system: the fall term starts in late September and ends before Christmas, the second term starts after New Years Day and ends in mid-March, and the third term starts in late March or early April and ends in early June.
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