RADIO news station 1010 WINS ("Give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the world") gave its listeners an apparently made-up story yesterday. The station fell for a hoax when a scam artist sent over a bogus press release stating rapper Lil' Kim was mulling a run for mayor of Hoboken, NJ. The release was from "Andrew Carlisle," who claimed he was Kim's publicist. Not so, says Kim's actual publicist, Lisa Perkins. "This is completely untrue," she told The Post's Lukas I. Alpert. "Andrew Carlisle has no association with Kim and he is committing fraud."
April 11, 1942 -
Horton Hatches the Egg, a Merrie Melodies production, is released on this date.
Bob Clampett's version of Dr. Seuss's "Horton Hatches the Egg" was the first cinematic adaptation of a Dr. Seuss book.
April 11, 1947 -
Charlie Chaplin's dark comedy (from an idea by Orson Welles), Monsieur Verdoux, premieres on this date in NYC.
One murder makes a villain; millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.
Today in History:
April 11, 1814 -
Able was I ere I saw Elba. Napoleon tries a forced retirement, for the first time, as Emperor of France.
Retirement on a small island in the Mediterranean off the coast of Italy, doesn't suit him and he comes back for his metric Hundred Day campaign (see March 20).
April 11, 1890 -
If I had a million dollars, well I'd buy you John Merrick's remains. Oh all of them crazy elephant bones.
Joseph "John" Merrick, the Elephant Man dies at the Royal London Hospital at the age of 27.
April 11, 1905 -
A simple patent clerk, Albert Einstein, known mostly for looking at the town clock or passing trains, produces a not so simple paper discussing the Theory of Relativity which among other things postulates that E = MC2 (yeah, yeah I'm no Einstein, I can't make 2 squared).
This astonished the world because previously E had always equally the fifth letter of the alphabet.
April 11 1979 -
Kampala, the capital of Uganda, falls to the Tanzanians and dictator Idi Amin is overthrown.
Amin, an occasional cannibal who killed perhaps 300,000 during his reign, had made the mistake of invading Tanzania - this is the mistake most occasional cannibals make.
Apr 11 1996 -
Jessica Dubroff, a 7-year-old pilot hoping to become the youngest American ever to fly coast-to-coast, is killed along with her father and flight instructor when their single-engine plane crashes on takeoff in Cheyenne, WY.
Now I don't want to say anything negative here but I barely let the six year old who thinks she's in charge of my house, get the milk out of the refrigerator.
And so it goes
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