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April 16: General Interest
1943 : Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered

In Basel, Switzerland, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist working at the Sandoz pharmaceutical research laboratory, accidentally consumes LSD-25, a synthetic drug he had created in 1938 as part of his research into the medicinal value of lysergic acid compounds. After taking the drug, formally known as lysergic acid diethylamide, Dr. Hoffman was disturbed by unusual sensations and hallucinations. In his notes, he related the experience:

"Last Friday, April 16, 1943, I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant, intoxicated-like condition characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away."

After intentionally taking the drug again to confirm that it had caused this strange physical and mental state, Dr. Hoffman published a report announcing his discovery, and so LSD made its entry into the world as a hallucinogenic drug. Widespread use of the so-called "mind-expanding" drug did not begin until the 1960s, when counterculture figures such as Albert M. Hubbard, Timothy Leary, and Ken Kesey publicly expounded on the benefits of using LSD as a recreational drug. The manufacture, sale, possession, and use of LSD, known to cause negative reactions in some of those who take it, were made illegal in the United States in 1965.

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Yesterday Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier.

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On this date in:

1775 Paul Revere began his ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.

1923 The first baseball game was played at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, with New York beating the Boston Red Sox 4-1.

1942 An air squadron led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.

1946 The League of Nations went out of business.

1949 The Irish Republic was proclaimed.

1955 Physicist Albert Einstein died at age 76.

1956 Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco.

1978 The U.S. Senate voted 68-32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control in 1999.

1983 A suicide bomber killed 63 people, including 17 Americans, at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.

1989 Thousands of Chinese students demanding democracy tried to storm Communist Party headquarters in Beijing.

1999 Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League's all-time leading scorer, played his last professional game, at Madison Square Garden in New York.

2004 Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ordered a withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq.

2006 Actor Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes had a baby girl, Suri.

2007 The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, upheld a federal ban on a medical procedure that opponents calls partial-birth abortion.



Some really important events took place on this day...

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4/18/2010 me and family went to El Centro ca. for a state qualifer race and a Pro Am race
and my Son Rusty won both of them.......yeah very proud,he crashed in practis and his knee swelled up pretty good but he raced anyway, LOL !! I told him that pain is weakness leaving the body..he didn't agree right away
but changed his mind when he got the money for the Pro Am purse

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prfctlefts wrote:

On this date in:

1775 Paul Revere began his ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.


Some really important events took place on this day...

Fun fact, I'm a descendant of William Dawes, another member of that ride!