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On this date in 1970, three years after N.A.S.A. let three Apollo 1 mission astronauts die,

its Apollo 13 mission was crippled by the explosion of a liquid-oxygen tank after four-fifths of the journey to Earth’s moon.

  • April 13  

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On this date in 1865, Confederate Army General Robert Lee surrendered his army to Union Army General Ulysses Grant in Virginia.

  • April 9  

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On this date in 1909, explorers Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first men to reach Earth’s North Pole.

  • April 6  
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"When did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give to you drink? And when did we see you as a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?" And the King will answer them, "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me." Matthew 25: 37--40