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Petrarch Falls in Love (1327)
Petrarch claimed to have first laid eyes on his beloved Laura, who was to inspire his great vernacular love lyrics, at the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon on Good Friday 1327. Over the next 20 years, the Italian humanist poet wrote hundreds of sonnets and odes about the lovely Laura, with whom he may never have conversed even once. Petrarch revealed little about the object of his chaste love, and her true identity has been the source of much debate.

On this day in Sioux City history: Electrified streetcars made their debut in Sioux City on April 6, 1890. Before their arrival, horse-drawn cars were used. These 1890 photograph show examples of the open streetcar initially used.

Weird but not history so much.

South America is really far east.

Dayum really didn't know that,they're kinda politically to the right to 

April 7, 1871 - The first group of settlers from the Soldier’s Free Homestead Colony reached Gibbon by Union Pacific Railroad on April 7, 1871.

Col. John Thorp of Ohio started the colony, looking for members to take homesteads and help increase the value of land near the railroad.

Once the settlers got to Gibbon, they lived in railroad boxcars until sod or frame houses were built. Many were Civil War veterans.

1820 The famous ancient Greek statue Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos

1861 US Civil War: US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia, seized by Confederacy

1879 Milk is sold in glass bottles for the first time

1886 William Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill in the British House of Commons

1919 Businessman & retail pioneer Frank Woolworth (Five-and-Dimes) and founder of F. W. Woolworth Co, dies at 66

1943 Stanley Cup Final, Boston Garden, Boston, MA: Detroit Red Wings beat Boston Bruins, 2-0 for a 4-0 series sweep and their 3rd SC Championship

1946 League of Nations assembles for the last time

1947 Largest recorded sunspot ever observed at 40 times the diameter of Earth

1961 British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236

1966 American Football League votes in 36-year-old Al Davis as commissioner after Joe Foss resigns; appointment lasts 3 months when AFL merges with NFL

1968 Major League Baseball decides to postpone Opening Day because of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr

1969 First Major League Baseball game featuring a Canadian team; Montréal Expos beats NY Mets, 11-10 at Shea Stadium; KC Royals, SD Padres and Seattle Pilots also win on debut

1973 Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor, dies at 91

1974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits his 715th home run off LA Dodger Al Downing in Atlanta, breaking Babe Ruth's record

1975 Frank Robinson debuts as 1st African American baseball manager (Cleveland Indians beat New York Yankees, 5-3)

1979 205th & final episode of "All in the Family"; followed by "Archie Bunker's Place" for 4 seasons

1981 Omar Bradley, American WWII General and 1st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1949-53), dies of cardiac arrhythmia at 88

1982 Tracy Caulkins wins her 36th US swimming title aged 19

1986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California, makes his day

1993 MLB Cleveland Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit HRs in same innings vs the Yankees

2013 Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister 1979-90, dies of a stroke at 87

2019 Record 17ft (5.2M) invasive Burmese python pregnant with 73 eggs captured in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve

2021 Dr. Anthony Fauci thanks American health workers for their sacrifice during the pandemic, acknowledging their more than 3,600 deaths

I watched that game with my posse, tossing back some refreshments.At that time we discussed whether that had ever happened before in MLB history. One dude was a real stat freak and big Tribe fan he looked that up in many volumes of Bill James Baseball abstract and the like and said Carlos was the 1st. he was right but this rare feat was followed by Mark Bellhorn in 2002, and Kendrys Morales in 2012

so now you know the rest of the story🍻