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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 1679033, member: 44132&quot;]<font size="3"><b>March 31st, 1282 Sicilian Vespers: rebellion against Charles I of Naples. </b>On Easter Monday, 1282, a rebellion broke out on the island of Sicily against King Charles of Anjou, who had ruled the island for sixteen years. According to Runciman, Sicilians asked anyone who looked like a foreigner to say the word “ciciri”, and if they couldn’t pronounce it correctly, they were killed. Thousands of French men and women were murdered that day. This rebellion is considered the beginning of the War of the Sicilian Vespers. [HR][/HR]<i>April 2nd, 1792</i> <b>Congress authorized the first U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.</b> After the ratification of the Constitution of the United States, the Founding Fathers thought it was important to establish a national mint. This is why they signed the Coinage Act of 1792, which proclaimed the creation of the first Mint. It was established in Philadelphia because it was the capital city at the time. It took three years to produce one million coins when it was first built. Today, the mint can produce the same amount of coins in only thirty minutes.</font> [HR][/HR]<i>April 4th, 188 A.D. </i><b>Caracalla born at Lugdunum.</b> Lucius Septimius Bassianus, later known as Caracalla, was born in Lugdunum (modern: Lyon, France) on April 4th, 188 A.D. Son of Septimus Severus, he was named Caesar when he was only seven years old, and emperor in 198 A.D. Caracalla is remembered for his cruelty, but he is also remembered for the Constitutio Antoniniana or Edict of Caracalla, which granted Roman citizenship to all free men throughout the Roman Empire.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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