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1947 - Japan's new constitution went into effect; it granted universal suffrage, stripped Emperor Hirohito of all but symbolic power, abolished peerage, outlawed Japan's right to make war, and offered a bill of rights.

Beate Sirota Gordon (born in Vienna, October 25, 1924), former Performing Arts Director of the Japan Society; a member of the team that worked under Douglas MacArthur on the Constitution of Japan.

When the U.S. began writing a new constitution for Japan, Sirota was enlisted to help and, as one of only two women in the room the other being Eleanor Hadley an economist, played an integral role in writing into the Japanese Constitution legal equality between men and women in Japan.

1494 - Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica.

1740 The Church and Charity School of Philadelphia opened and was operated until 1746; the site was chosen by Ben Franklin's Trustees (assembled November 13, 1749) to open the College of Philadelphia on February 1, 1750. As of 1791, it was known as the University of Pennsylvania.

1802 - Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city.

1903 - Birth of Harry Lillis Crosby (Bing Crosby), American singer/actor.

1921 - West Virginia became the first state to impose a sales tax.

1937 - Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind."

1947 - Japan's new constitution went into effect; it granted universal suffrage, stripped Emperor Hirohito of all but symbolic power, abolished peerage, outlawed Japan's right to make war, and offered a bill of rights.

1952 - The first airplane landed on the geographic North Pole.

2003 - New Hampshire lost face it could not save. The Old Man of the Mountain, the state's icon, a formation resembling a face on the granite cliff of Cannon Mountain, fell to rubble.

murjax, et. al., can now fill in the blanks and expand. I'm not sure how much time I can allot online now; too much to get done, so little time.


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First of all, it's May 3, not April 3. And now here's the complete history of today. Look at next post.