On This Day:
Thursday April 9, 2015 This is the 99th day of the year, with 266 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: déjà vu Deja vu is a novel situation is experienced as duplicating an earlier situation in every detail; it is known as deja vu or paramnesia tout court. As a rule, it passes off within a few seconds or minutes, though its repercussions may persist for some time. For some epileptics, however, deja vu may continue for hours or even days and can provide a fertile subsoil for delusional elaboration. Deja vu commonly has been regarded as psychogenic and as having its origin in some partly forgotten memory, fantasy, or dream. An experience very similar to deja vu can be induced in normal people by hypnosis. If a picture is presented to a hypnotized person with the instruction to forget it and then is shown with other pictures when he is awake, the subject may report an intense feeling of familiarity that he is at a loss to justify. The deja vu phenomenon also is attributable to minor neurophysiological abnormality; it is frequent in epilepsy.
Holidays Feast day of St. Madrun, St. Uramar, St. Hugh of Rouen, St. Gaucherius, St. Mary Cleophas, and St. Waldetrudis.
United States: National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day.
Tunisia: Martyrs' Day.
Events 1682 - French explorer Robert La Salle reached the lower Mississippi River and claimed it and all lands that touched it for France.
1770 - English navigator James Cook became the first European to arrive in Botany Bay, Australia.
1833 - The nation's first tax-supported public library was founded in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
1865 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, ending the Civil War.
1866 - The Civil Rights Bill of 1866 was passed by Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, granting blacks the rights and privileges of American citizenship.
1869 - The Hudson Bay Company agreed to transfer its territory to Canada.
1939 - Singer Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after she was denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her race.
1940 - During World War II, Nazi Germany invaded neutral Norway and also Denmark.
1959 - NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton.
1965 - The Houston Astrodome opened in Texas.
1970 - Paul McCartney announced the official breakup of the Beatles.
1991 - The parliament of Georgia voted to have independence from USSR.
Births 1821 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet.
1879 - W.C. Fields (Claude William Dukenfield), American actor, screenwriter, comedian.
1898 - Paul Robeson, American singer, actor.
1903 - Gregory Pincus, American endocrinologist whose discoveries led to the development of the first birth-control pill.
Deaths 1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect.
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