Upcoming Activities
- Ham Radio License Exams - 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, April 15, 2024
- Membership Meeting - 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm, April 15, 2024
- SOARA Elmer Saturday - 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, April 20, 2024
- SOARA Board Meeting - 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm, April 22, 2024
- SOARA 50th Anniversary Special Event - 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, May 18, 2024 – May 19, 2024
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Today in History
1471 - Wars of the Roses: King Edward IV of England seizes London from Henry VI
1907 - New York Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame backstop Roger Bresnahan becomes first catcher to wear shin guards
1926 - Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent
1939 - Hungary leaves League of Nations
1957 - Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule
1991 - Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California
1919 - Raymond Carr, English historian and warden (St Antony's College Oxford), born in Bath, Somerset, England (d. 2015)
1930 - Joseph Burnett-Stuart, CEO (Robert Fleming Holdings)
1937 - Jill Gascoine, British stage and pioneering TV actress (The Gentle Touch - "Maggie Forbes"), and novelist, born in Lambeth, London, England (d. 2020)
1966 - Lisa Stansfield, English pop singer ("Around the World"), born in Manchester, England
1971 - Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein), born in Schwerin, Germany
1974 - Alex Corretja, Spanish tennis player (Tour Finals 1998; Davis Cup 2000), born in Barcelona, Spain
1240 - Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies
1626 - Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)
1810 - Jakob Zupan, Slovenian composer, dies at 75
1853 - Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, French pianist, music director, and composer, dies at 84
2007 - Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
2010 - Jean Boiteux, French swimmer (Olympic gold 400m freestyle, bronze 4×200m freestyle 1952), dies after falling off a tree at 76