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Palm Sunday: Understanding the significance of the Christian celebration -  The Economic Times

What Is Palm Sunday and Why Does It Matter to Latter-day Saints?

ShareFaith Media » Palm Sunday Close Colormix Church Motion Graphics –  ShareFaith Media

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

Today in History: September 26, 1960 – First Televised Presidential Debates | USA-eVote

Kozel     associated-press-news
SANDY KOZEL
   

Thomas Jefferson | Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of  Independence
Thomas Jefferson (April 13 April 2], 1743 – July 4, 1826)

Future President Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the Declaration
of Independence
and the nation’s preeminent political theorist, 
was
born on April 13, 1743.

He was the third president of the United States from 1801 to
1809 and the nation’s first U.S. secretary of state
under
George Washington.

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Watch Thomas Jefferson | Ken Burns | PBS
Thomas Jefferson Might Have Been Our Most Financially Challenged Founding  Father

    
    
   

      

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THE CIVIL WAR BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1861

THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Civil War begins as Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter – 1861 – The ...


Four of the bloodiest years in American history began when
Confederate shore batteries under Gen.
Pierre G.T. Beauregard
opened fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s
Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861.

During the next 34 hours, 50 Confederate guns and mortars
launched more than 4,000 rounds at the poorly supplied fort.

On April 13, U.S. Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort and
two days later, President
Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation
calling for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to quell the Southern
“insurrection.”

Four years after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, the
Confederacy was defeated at the total cost of 620,000 Union
and Confederate soldiers dead.

P. G. T. Beauregard - Wikipedia
Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard
(May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893)

Robert Anderson, Biography ...
Robert Houstoun Anderson
(October 1, 1835 – February 8, 1888)

Abraham Lincoln, 1861 – Image Conscious
Abraham Lincoln
(February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)

Civil War - Home of Heroes

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Illustration of The Exodus from Egypt (1907)

Passover is a major Jewish holiday and one of the Three
Pilgrimage Festivals
. It celebrates the Exodus of the
Israelites from slavery in Egypt.

   

   
Passover: A Time-Honored Jewish Holiday | Inclusion, Diversity, Equity,  Allyship & Social Justice (IDEAS) | Washington University in St. Louis

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MUSIC HISTORY RECORDED ON THIS DAY

1955 HITS ARCHIVE: Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets (a #1  record)
"Rock Around the Clock" was a Last-Minute Addition to
the recording session.
 


On April 12, 1954, Bill Haley and His Comets recorded
“(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock” at a Decca
recording session in New York City.

If rock and roll was a social and cultural revolution,
then “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock” was
its Declaration of Independence. And if Bill Haley
was not exactly the revolution’s
Thomas Jefferson,
it may be fair to call him its
John Hancock.

The song was chosen to play over the opening
credits of the film Blackboard Jungle, which is
how it became a pop sensation, selling a million
copies in a single month in the spring of 1955.

Panic - Bill Haley & The Comets [HQ Audio] - YouTube

February 9 1981 HARLINGEN, Texas -- Bill Haley died a lonely man, searching  for a glimmer of his past glory as a pioneer in rock 'n' roll music,  friends who frequently visited
William (Bill) John Clifton Haley
(July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981)

Bill Haley - This Day In Music


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