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Show April You are the hope of beauty and the birth Of life and death-come, welcome wel-come home again! Anne Lawler. The second quarter of the year begins with April, which also contains April Fool's Day, Easter (on the 15th this year) and happy tax-paying day on the 15th, when millions of Americans must make final income tax payments for the year 1978, ON THE 6th in 1917, Congress declared war on Germany, which doomed the Kaiser and the German monarchy and eventually, indirectly, in-directly, produced Adolph Hitler. On the same day in 1830, the Mormon Church was founded. (The Greeks in America celebrate the 6th as the anniversary an-niversary of the Greek war for independence. ) ON THE 9th in 1865, General Robert E. Lee finally surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia, perhaps the most ably-led in the nation's na-tion's history, at Appomattox, Virginia, to a generous U.S. Grant. The 10th is the birthday birth-day anniversary of the founder of the Salvation -Army, William Booth. The famed Halifax (N.C.) resolutions, calling for independence, date from the 12th in 1776, and largely influenced the Continental Congress later that year to follow the Halifax example.' One of the greatest Americans and for eight years (1800-1808) president, Jefferson was bOrn at Shad-well,' Shad-well,' Virginia, on .the 13th in 1743. |