Monthly Archives: April 2016

April 10, 1938

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 1938 New York made it mandatory to get tested for syphilis in order to get a marriage license. Many New York natives angrily confronted their congressmen and aldermen and demanded just how they were to get this syphilis thing and what was considered a passing grade. Close Bookmark and Share … Continue reading →

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April 9, 1626

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1626, Sir Francis Bacon died. He has been called the father of empiricism and his works established and popularized inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry and became known as the Baconian method or simply the scientific method. He died of pneumonia, supposedly contracted while studying the effects of freezing on … Continue reading →

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April 8, 1820

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 1820 the famous marble sculpture was discovered on the island of Milos by a peasant, Yorgos Kentrotas, and a French naval officer. The sculpture was in several pieces including parts of her missing arms. It was immediately bought by France and presented to French King Louis XVIII before it … Continue reading →

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April 7, 1954

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 1954 President Eisenhower gave his “Domino Theory” speech. This was the theory that if one country fell to communism, the surrounding countries would follow suit like a line of dominoes and it was a major part of US foreign policy from the 1950s to the 1990s. It was because … Continue reading →

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April 6, 1896

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 1896, the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece. Many of the better known events were held, like the marathon, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, and swimming. But there was one event that did not use the same rules as ancient Greece or even modern rules, and that was … Continue reading →

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April 5, 1242

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 1242 AD the army of Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod (a medieval Russian state) fought a group of the Teutonic Knights at the border of Russia and Estonia. It was fought almost entirely on top of a large frozen lake and only ended when the ice collapsed under several thousand … Continue reading →

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April 4. 2013

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 2013 in Sri Lanka, a new species of tarantula was discovered that was just slightly smaller than a dinner plate and had a leg span of eight inches. This would be twelve inches in boyfriend to girl friend conversions and the tarantula was going to be called Nopenopenopenopenope Ohgodnopenopenope, … Continue reading →

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April 3, 2015

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 2015 France outlawed the hiring of models who do not meet the new Body Mass Index (BMI) minimums for a certain period before and during a modeling job. In others words, they have to be at a ‘healthy’ weight for their height, because if they are too skinny, they … Continue reading →

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April 2, 1958

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 1958 a tornado in Wichita Falls, Texas set a new wind speed record of 450 kph (280 mph). These speeds were so high that the WTAB (Witches Travel Advisory Board) advised that all brooms be grounded and not to use the bicycle/tornado assisted jump to Oz at that time … Continue reading →

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April 1, 1973

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 1973 John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono formed their own country, Nutopia, and offered citizenship to any who wanted to join and since the new country had no land or borders, the new citizens did not have to leave their homes. The national anthem was immediately played, which … Continue reading →

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