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Featured article Joshua Abraham Norton was a famous, impoverished and highly eccentric citizen of San Francisco, California in the mid-to-late 19th century. Among his many celebrated and curious activities, he most famously anointed himself as "Emperor of the United States" in 1859, becoming Emperor Norton I. Other notable activities include his ordering the dissolution of the United States Congress and his numerous (and prophetic) decrees that a bridge be built across San Francisco Bay. The King in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is reportedly modeled after him. Recently featured: Crushing by elephant – Byzantine Empire – Superman More featured articles... Selected anniversaries On April 3: 1860 - The first successful Pony Express run was started. 1948 - U.S. President Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan into law. 1975 - Bobby Fischer refused to play Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the chess title. 1986 - IBM unveiled the PC Convertible, the first laptop computer. 1996 - Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski was arrested. Recent days: April 2 - April 1 More selected anniversaries...	Did you know... ...that Bodega Bay in California was the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds? ...that rattlesnake venom contains hemotoxins? ...that Ernest Duchesne discovered penicillin's antibiotic powers 32 years before Alexander Fleming? ...that the Indrikis chronicles are the oldest written history of Latvia and Estonia? Archive | All new articles... In the news The Korea Train Express high-speed rail line opens, connecting Seoul to Busan and Mokpo. The White House says it will allow Condoleezza Rice to testify publicly and under oath on the investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks. NATO welcomes seven new members: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. The National Movement - Democrats win the Georgian legislative election. Recent deaths | More current events...
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