April 17, 2011: Welcome home

Joe Garagiola is a class act.

April 17, 1790, Benjamin Franklin dies.

April 17, 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion begins.

April 17, 1970, Apollo 13 returns home.


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Here's the AccuWeather forecast:

Antofagasta, Chile

Brax, France

Buxton, Derbyshire, England

Cape Girardeau, Mo.

China Grove, NC

Erie, PA

Fort Wayne, IN

Glendale, AZ

Grosse Pointe, MI

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Hurricane, UT

Indianapolis

Kankakee, IL

Lafayette, IN

Rochester, MN

Wooster, OH

Some place exotic:

Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Honolulu, HI

April 16, 2011: Deadly rampage

R.I.P. Bernie Flowers, a Purdue University legend and wonderful man.

April 16, 1947, Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War."

April 16, 2007, massacre at Virgina Tech leaves 32 dead.


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Here's the AccuWeather forecast:

Antofagasta, Chile

Brax, France

Buxton, Derbyshire, England

Cape Girardeau, Mo.

China Grove, NC

Erie, PA

Fort Wayne, IN

Glendale, AZ

Grosse Pointe, MI

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Hurricane, UT

Indianapolis

Kankakee, IL

Lafayette, IN

Rochester, MN

Wooster, OH

Some place exotic:

Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Honolulu, HI

April 15, 2011: Jackie was great

You gotta keep on dancing.

April 15, 1920: the Sacco-Vanzetti case draws national attention.

April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier in baseball.


Thanks to History.com.

Here's the AccuWeather forecast:

Antofagasta, Chile

Brax, France

Buxton, Derbyshire, England

Cape Girardeau, Mo.

China Grove, NC

Erie, PA

Fort Wayne, IN

Glendale, AZ

Grosse Pointe, MI

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Hurricane, UT

Indianapolis

Kankakee, IL

Lafayette, IN

Rochester, MN

Wooster, OH

Some place exotic:

Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Honolulu, HI

April 14, 2011: Fatal act

Always bite the hand that feeds you.

April 14, 1865, President Lincoln is shot.

April 14, 1912, RMS Titanic hits iceberg.


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Here's the AccuWeather forecast:

Antofagasta, Chile

Brax, France

Buxton, Derbyshire, England

Cape Girardeau, Mo.

China Grove, NC

Erie, PA

Fort Wayne, IN

Glendale, AZ

Grosse Pointe, MI

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Hurricane, UT

Indianapolis

Kankakee, IL

Lafayette, IN

Rochester, MN

Wooster, OH

Some place exotic:

Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Honolulu, HI

April 13, 2011: Music, wonderful music

Everyone can blog, but not all are writers.

April 13, 1742, Handel's Messiah premieres in Dublin.

April 13, 1866, Butch Cassidy is


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Here's the AccuWeather forecast:

Antofagasta, Chile

Brax, France

Buxton, Derbyshire, England

Cape Girardeau, Mo.

China Grove, NC

Erie, PA

Fort Wayne, IN

Glendale, AZ

Grosse Pointe, MI

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Hurricane, UT

Indianapolis

Kankakee, IL

Lafayette, IN

Rochester, MN

Wooster, OH

Some place exotic:

Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Honolulu, HI

April 12, 2011: Great space day

A nation divided goes to war on April 12, 1861.

April 12, 1633, Galileo is convicted of heresy.

April 12, 1961, the first man in space.

April 12, 1981, first launching of the space shuttle.


Thanks to History.com.

Here's the AccuWeather forecast:

Antofagasta, Chile

Brax, France

Buxton, Derbyshire, England

Cape Girardeau, Mo.

China Grove, NC

Erie, PA

Fort Wayne, IN

Glendale, AZ

Grosse Pointe, MI

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Hurricane, UT

Indianapolis

Kankakee, IL

Lafayette, IN

Rochester, MN

Wooster, OH

Some place exotic:

Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Honolulu, HI

April 11, 2011: Drama in space

"Houston, we've got a problem here." James Lovell commander of Apollo 13 after an explosion on April 13, 1970

April 11, 1951, President Truman relieves Gen. Douglas MacArthur of U.S. forces in Korea.

April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 launched to moon.

Thanks to History.com.

Here's the AccuWeather forecast:

Antofagasta, Chile

Brax, France

Buxton, Derbyshire, England

Cape Girardeau, Mo.

China Grove, NC

Erie, PA

Fort Wayne, IN

Glendale, AZ

Grosse Pointe, MI

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Hurricane, UT

Indianapolis

Kankakee, IL

Lafayette, IN

Rochester, MN

Wooster, OH

Some place exotic:

Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Honolulu, HI