Wednesday, April 20, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

Billie HolidayCover of Billie Holiday
APRIL 20
1939:Billie Holiday records the song Strange Fruit, a condemnation of the lynching of African American men, originally written as a poem by high school teacher Abel Meeropol.

1902: Husband-and-wife scientists Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radium in their laboratory in Paris. Their investigation of radioactivity will earn the Curies the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903.

1999: Teenage gunmen Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris open fire at Columbine High School in the Denver suburb of Littleton, killing 13 people and wounding 24 others before turning their guns on themselves
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