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Today in History Word of the Day

Today in History Word of the Day. April 2011. April 1 st :. 1999. BEHOOVE (verb). Be appropriate or necessary. A New Jersey man was arrested and charged with originating the "Melissa" e-mail virus Importance- it infected more than 1 million computers worldwide. April 4 th :. 1968.

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Today in History Word of the Day

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  1. Today in HistoryWord of the Day April 2011

  2. April 1st: 1999 BEHOOVE (verb) Be appropriate or necessary. • A New Jersey man was arrested and charged with originating the "Melissa" e-mail virus • Importance- it infected more than 1 million computers worldwide.

  3. April 4th: 1968 GENTILITY (noun) Elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression. • Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was killed in Memphis, Tennessee. • Importance- the civil rights movement lost one of their most important leaders.

  4. April 5th: 2009 FACILE (adj) 1.performing without effort. 2. expressing oneself readily, clearly, effectively. • President Barack Obama, visited Prague to launch an effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons. • Importance: Obama called them “the most dangerous legacy of the Cold War”.

  5. April 6th: 1830 CODIFY (verb) Organize into a code or system, such as a body of law. • 1830 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was organized by Joseph Smith in Fayette, N.Y. • Importance: the Mormon Church under the leadership of Brigham Young later settled in Utah.

  6. April 7th: 1927 CORPULENT (adj) Excessively fat. • An audience in New York watched an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover in Washington, D.C. • Importance: this was the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.

  7. Apirl 8th: 2002 MYRIAD (adj) 1. Consisting of a very great number. 2. Composed of many diverse elements. • Suzan-Lori Parks won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. • Importance: Parks became the first African American woman to win that award.

  8. April 11th: 1980 INVALIDATE (verb) make invalid or ineffective. • The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors. • Importance: this was considered an important victory for working women.

  9. April 12th: 1861 PRY (verb) 1. to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open. 2. search or inquire in a meddlesome way. • Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. • Importance: this was the start of the Civil War.

  10. April 13th: 1999 CANDOR (noun) 1. ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty. 2. being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech. • Jack Kervorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Mich., to 10-25 years in prison for the 2nd-degree murder of a man whose suicide was shown on 60 Minutes in 1998. • Importance: Kervorkian perormed “assisted suicides” of terminally ill persons.

  11. April 14th: 1854 DISPARITY (noun) Inequality or difference in some respect. • President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. • Importance: he died the next day and Vice President Andrew Johnson became president.

  12. April 15th: 1986 CUMULATIVE (adj) Increasing over time. • The United States launched an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5 • Importance: Libya said 37 people, mostly civilians, were killed.

  13. April 26th: 1986 CORROSIVE (adj/noun) adjective: spitefully sarcastic. noun: a substance having the ability to destroy or eat away by chemical action. • An explosion and fire in the No. 4 reactor occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Soviet Union, sending radioactivity into the air and killing 31 people instantly. • Importance: this was the world’s worst nuclear accident.

  14. April 27th: 2006 PENANCE (noun) 1. a Catholic sacrament. 2. voluntary self-punishment in order to makeup for some wrongdoing. 3. feeling badly for past behavior. • Construction began on the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. • Importance: construction is scheduled to be finished for the 10-year anniversary in September 2011.

  15. April 28th: 2001 MOTILITY (noun) 1. ability to move spontaneously and independently. • A Russian rocket lifted off from Central Asia with California businessman Dennis Tito onboard. • Importance: he was the first “space tourist”.

  16. April 29th: 1992 VISCERAL (adj) 1. relating to or affecting the internal organs. 2. obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation. • Rioting erupted in Los Angeles after a jury acquitted four LA police officers of almost all charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. • Importance: 54people were killed and $1 billion of damage were done to the city.

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