Tag: 17 April 1976

  • The World on April 17th

    1704 – 1st successful US newspaper (Boston); 1883 – 120 days of count down to the great Krakatau eruption; 1889 – 1 day after Charles Spencer Chaplin’s birth; 1912 – two days after Titanic disaster; 1937 – Daffy Duck, Elmer J Fudd & Petunia Pig, debut; 1961 – Bay of Pigs invasion; 1970 – Apollo…