1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd state of the United States.
1894 – Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
1963 – Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a crisis involving federal troops.
1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg s charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times are dismissed.
1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
This Wednesday at the Embassy of Haiti in Spain, Jean Robert Charles the President of CORPUHA and José Carlos Gómez Villamandos President of CRUE, will sign a memorandum of understanding for a period of 4 years.
The Leader Newspaper
The Councillor for Works and Services of the Torrevieja City Council, Sandra Sánchez, has advised that on Monday, April 5, 2021, the resurfacing work of various roads in the municipality will begin, with a total budget for the work coming to 327,398.17 euro (VAT included). The execution period will be two months.
Sandra Sánchez explained that the work plan has been coordinated from the Department of Works and Services with Local Police and Traffic, as well as with the Department of Transportation so that the condition has been minimal. It should be noted that all horizontal signalling works will be carried out at night so that the effect on pedestrians and road traffic is minimal.
Library of Congress Builds New Collections Documenting COVID-19 Pandemic Collections Include Photographs of Community Impact, Web Archiving of Public Health Data and Artist Responses to the Health Crisis
As the world marks the one-year anniversary of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Library of Congress has been collecting materials and documenting this time in history through a variety of initiatives.
The Library’s rapid-response collecting since the start of lockdowns and social distancing measures over the past year has included acquiring photographs that document the pandemic’s impact on individuals and communities, capturing artists’ responses to the outbreak, mapping the pandemic’s spread and archiving the world’s response online.
Mortal field of land.
A little death.
Federico García Lorca, Huerta de San Vicente, Granada, 1932 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (public domain)
Does anyone ever consider that their death is “little?” One would hardly think so, for it is far too personal, an end to being altogether; but perhaps as Lorca’s assassins led him away in the foothills outside Granada, the poet told himself that his death was foretold and therefore inexorable.
Aaron Shulman’s
The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain’s Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War leads with the mysteries of Lorca’s death, whose body was never recovered, and it recounts the revealing saga of the Leopoldo Panero clan, snaking through the civil war and postwar years under Franco.