Apr/
1:
Comet Chiron Closest Approach To Earth
On February 14, 1996, the enigmatic object Chiron reached perihelion inside the orbit of Saturn and on April 1 will reach perihelion opposition, its closest approach to Earth.
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Apr/
1:
RAF FOUNDED:
April 1, 1918
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is formed with the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). The RAF took its place beside the British navy and army as a separate military service with its own ministry.
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Apr/
1:
Events that occurred on this day:
1621 The Pilgrim-Wampanoag peace treaty
1924 Hitler sent to Landsberg jail
1970 Gremlins created
1865 Battle of Five Forks
1948 Soviets stop U.S. and British military trains
1924 Beer Hall Putsch secures Hitler's rise to power
1916 Lewis Selznick Pictures founded
1816 Jane Austen declines royal writing advice
1877 Discoverer of Tombstone begins prospecting
1972 North Vietnamese launch Nguyen Hue Offensive
1992 The House Banking Scandal
1945 U.S. troops land on Okinawa
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Apr/
2:
ARGENTINA INVADES FALKLANDS:
April 2, 1982
Argentina invades the Falklands Islands, a British colony since 1892 and British possession since 1833. Argentine amphibious forces rapidly overcame the small garrison of British marines at the town of Stanley on East Falkland and the next day seized the dependent territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich group. The 1,800 Falkland Islanders, mostly English-speaking sheep farmers, awaited a British response.
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Apr/
2:
Events that occurred on this day:
1513 Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
1917 Jeannette Rankin assumes office
1956 The Sloan Era
1865 Union captures Petersburg line and General Hill is killed
1989 Gorbachev begins visit to Cuba
1800 Weeks' trial sheds light on early procedure
1902 First movie theater opens
1805 Hans Christian Andersen is born
1902 First woman judge dies in Wyoming
1972 North Vietnamese troops capture part of Quang Tri
1792 Minting the Mint
1941 "The Desert Fox" recaptures Libya
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Apr/
3:
UNABOMBER ARRESTED:
April 3, 1996
At his small wilderness cabin near Lincoln, Montana, Theodore John Kaczynski is arrested by FBI agents and accused of being the Unabomber, the elusive terrorist blamed for 16 mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 during an 18-year period.
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Apr/
3:
Events that occurred on this day:
1860 Pony Express mail service begins
1882 Jesse James shot in the back
1936 Bruno Hauptmann executed
1948 Truman signs Marshall Plan
1996 Ron Brown killed in plane crash
1996 Art Car
1865 Richmond captured
1948 Truman signs Foreign Assistance Act
1882 Jesse James is murdered
1990 Singer Sarah Vaughan dies
1955 ACLU says it will contest obscenity of HOWL
1817 Texas Ranger "Big Foot" Wallace born
1972 Nixon orders response to North Vietnamese invasion
1974 Tricky Dick vs. The Tax Man
1942 Japanese launch major offensive against Bataan
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Apr/
4:
DR. KING IS ASSASSINATED:
April 4, 1968
Just after 6 p.m. on this day, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Motel Lorraine in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
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Apr/
4:
Events that occurred on this day:
1841 President Harrison dies after one month in office
1918 Second Battle of the Somme ends
1949 NATO established
1944 Actor and car racer Craig T. Nelson was born in Spokane, Washington
1865 President Lincoln in Richmond
1949 NATO pact signed
1968 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
1969 Smothers Brothers cancelled
1928 Maya Angelou is born
1843 Yellowstone photographer William Jackson is born
1967 Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks out against the war
1812 Madison's Embargo
1884 Yamamoto Isoroku, Japan's mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack, is born
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Apr/
5:
POCAHONTAS MARRIES JOHN ROLFE:
April 5, 1614
Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Indian confederacy, marries English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia. The marriage ensured peace between the Jamestown settlers and the Powhatan Indians for several years.
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Apr/
5:
Events that occurred on this day:
1951 Rosenbergs sentenced to die
1955 Winston Churchill resigns
1992 Abortion rights advocates march on Washington
1988 Tracy Chapman released the single "Fast Car" from her self-titled first album
1862 Siege of Yorktown begins
1951 Rosenbergs sentenced to death for spying
1994 Kurt Cobain commits suicide
1931 Fox drops John Wayne
1859 Darwin sends first three chapters of The Origin of Species to his publisher
1976 Howard Hughes dies
1972 North Vietnamese launch second front of Nguyen Hue Offensive
1894 The Life of the Miner
1945 Tito signs "friendship treaty" with Soviet Union
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Apr/
6:
OLYMPIAD REBORN:
April 6, 1896
On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the Athens Games, King Georgios I of Greece and a crowd of 60,000 spectators welcomed athletes from 13 nations to the international competition.
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Apr/
6:
Events that occurred on this day:
1830 Mormon Church established
1909 Peary's expedition reaches North Pole?
1917 America enters World War I
1898 Winton Car Company, International
1862 Battle of Shiloh begins
1990 U.S. and Soviet negotiators make progress
1922 A case of blatant murder
1930 Will Rogers' radio show premieres
1895 Oscar Wilde arrested
1832 Black Hawk War begins
1972 U.S. forces respond to North Vietnamese offensive
1808 The Fur King
1941 Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
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Apr/
7:
TITO IS MADE PRESIDENT FOR LIFE:
April 7, 1963
A new Yugoslav constitution proclaims Tito the president for life of the newly named Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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Apr/
7:
Events that occurred on this day:
1953 Hammarskjęld elected U.N. head
1994 Rwandan massacres begin
1922 Sig Speeds
1862 Battle of Shiloh concludes
1954 Eisenhower gives famous "domino theory" speech
1994 Absence of international aid for the genocide in Rwanda
1891 P.T. Barnum dies
1770 William Wordsworth is born
1805 Lewis and Clark depart Fort Mandan
1975 North Vietnamese forces begin preparations for final offensive
1934 Congress and Crops
1939 Italy invades Albania
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Apr/
8:
Events that occurred on this day:
1935 WPA established by Congress
1953 Kenyatta jailed for Mau Mau uprising
1974 Aaron sets new home run record
1910 Los Angeles Motordome, the first speedway with a board track
1864 Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana
1950 McCarthy publicly attacks Owen Lattimore
1899 The first woman is executed in the electric chair
1994 Kurt Cobain dies
1944 Barbara Kingsolver is born
1842 Elizabeth Bacon Custer is born in Michigan
1972 North Vietnamese forces open a third front
1952 Truman's Steel Seizure
1945 Defiant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged
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Apr/
8:
B.C. GAUTAMA BUDDHA IS BORN:
April 8, 563
On this day, Buddhists celebrate the commemoration of the birth of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, thought to have lived in India from 563 B.C. to 483 B.C. Actually, the Buddhist tradition that celebrates his birthday on April 8 originally placed his birth in the 11th century B.C., and it was not until the modern era that scholars determined that he was more likely born in the sixth century B.C., and possibly in May rather than April.
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Apr/
9:
FIRST ASTRONAUTS INTRODUCED:
April 9, 1959
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) introduces America's first astronauts to the press: Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Walter Schirra Jr., Alan Shepard Jr., and Donald Slayton. The seven men, all military test pilots, were carefully selected from a group of 32 candidates to take part in Project Mercury, America's first manned space program.
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Apr/
9:
Events that occurred on this day:
1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders
1939 Marian Anderson sings at Lincoln Memorial
1940 Germany invades Norway
1986 The State Of Renault
1865 Lee surrenders
1987 George Shultz condemns Soviet spying
1984 A husband attempts murder for money in England
1972 Jane Fonda wins Oscar
1859 Mark Twain receives steamboat pilot's license
1881 Billy the Kid convicted of murder
1969 "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty
1909 Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act passes
1940 Germany invades Norway and Denmark
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Apr/
10:
CHAPLIN RECEIVES OSCAR:
April 10, 1972
As part of his first visit to the United States in 20 years, British film pioneer Charlie Chaplin accepts an honorary Academy Award for his "incalculable" contribution to the art of filmmaking. Chaplin, once America's most successful movie star and director, had left the country under a storm of controversy in 1952.
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Apr/
10:
Events that occurred on this day:
1919 Zapata assassinated in Mexico
1942 Bataan Death March begins
1944 Henry Ford II named executive VP of the Ford Motor Company
1865 Lee's last orders
1971 U.S. table tennis team visits communist China
1834 A torture chamber is uncovered by arson
1970 McCartney announces Beatles breakup
1906 The Gift of the Magi is published
1933 Civilian Conservation Corps created
1970 Poll reveals that public approval of Vietnam policy is down
1816 Federal government go-ahead for second National Bank
1941 Croatia declares independence
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11:
Events that occurred on this day:
1979 Idi Amin overthrown
1888 Power Marriage - Henry Ford and Clara Bryan
1862 Fall of Fort Pulaski, Georgia
1951 Truman relieves MacArthur of duties in Korea
1870 War is narrowly averted
1915 The Tramp: Charlie Chaplin's 3rd film and first comic masterpiece released
1931 Dorothy Parker resigns as drama critic for The New Yorker
1803 Talleyrand offers to sell Louisiana
1972 B-52s strike North Vietnamese positions
1941 The Fight Against Inflation - Office of Price Administration (OPA)created
1945 The U.S. army liberates Buchenwald concentration camp
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Apr/
12:
FIRST MAN IN SPACE:
April 12, 1961
On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes. Vostok 1 orbited Earth at a maximum altitude of 187 miles and was guided entirely by an automatic control system.
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Apr/
12:
Events that occurred on this day:
1861 The Civil War begins
1864 The Fort Pillow Massacre
1945 President Roosevelt dies
1981 First launching of the space shuttle
1888 Cecil Kimber, the founder of MG Born
1861 Fort Sumter fired upon
1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies
1633 Galileo is convicted of heresy
1954 Haley records "Rock Around the Clock"
1949 Legal thriller writer Scott Turow is born
1858 First gentile governor arrives in Utah
1975 U.S. Embassy in Cambodia evacuated
1937 Supreme Court National Labor Relations Act
1945 FDR dies
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Apr/
13:
TIGER WOODS WINS FIRST MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP:
April 13, 1997
In Augusta, Georgia, 21-year-old Tiger Woods wins the Masters Tournament by a record 12 strokes. It was Woods' first victory in one of golf's four major championships (the U.S. Open, the British Open, the PGA Championship, and the Masters).
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13:
Events that occurred on this day:
1919 The Amritsar Massacre
1941 Japan and USSR sign nonaggression pact
1970 Apollo 13 oxygen tank explodes
1925 Elwood Haynes (founder of Haynes Automobile Company) died in Kokomo, Indiana
1861 Fort Sumter surrenders
1990 Soviets admit to Katyn Massacre
1984 Mass murderer Christopher Wilder commits suicide
1964 Sydney Poitier becomes the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor
1909 Eudora Welty, Southern writer is born in Jackson, Mississippi
1866 Butch Cassidy is born
1972 North Vietnamese launch major attack on An Loc
1852 Frank Winfield Woolworth was born in Rodman, New York
1939 USS Astoria attempts pre-war reconnaissance
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Apr/
14:
U.S. BOMBS LIBYA:
April 14, 1986
The United States launches air strikes against Libya in retaliation for the Libyan sponsorship of terrorism against American troops and citizens.
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14:
Events that occurred on this day:
1865 President Lincoln shot
1912 RMS Titanic hits iceberg
1918 U.S. fliers in first dogfight over western front
1988 Soviets to withdraw from Afghanistan
1927 "I Roll"
1865 Lincoln is shot
1950 President Truman receives NSC-68
1865 President Lincoln is assassinated
1894 Edison's Kinetoscope
1818 Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language is printed
1935 A major Dust Bowl storm strikes
1965 173rd Airborne Brigade ordered to South Vietnam
1874 The Inflation Bill
1945 U.S. Fifth Army joins in Italian offensive
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Apr/
15:
TITANIC SINKS:
April 15, 1912
At 2:20 a.m. on this day, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and half hours before.
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15:
Events that occurred on this day:
1865 President Lincoln dies
1998 Pol Pot dies
1912 Titanic
1865 President Lincoln dies
1959 Castro visits the United States
1920 The Sacco-Vanzetti case draws national attention
1990 Ava Gardner dies
1940 English author and politician Jeffrey Archer is born
1912 Molly Brown avoids sinking with the Titanic
1970 U.S. 1st Infantry Division withdraws from Vietnam
1992 The Queen of Mean's Comeuppance
1944 Soviets capture Tarnopol in Poland
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16:
LENIN RETURNS:
April 16, 1917
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. One month before, Czar Nicholas II had been forced from power when Russian army troops joined a workers' revolt in Petrograd, the Russian capital.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1943 Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered
1947 Texas City explodes
1972 Apollo 16 departs for moon
1946 The Tragic Tale Of Les Freres Chevrolet
1863 Passage of Vicksburg
1947 Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War"
1997 Reasonable doubt saves the defense
1949 Garroway at Large debuts
1922 Kingsley Amis is born
1881 Bat Masterson's last shootout
1972 United States resumes bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
1945 Another Year, More Might for Democracy
1897 Frederick William Winterbotham, one of Britain's top code breakers, is born
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Apr/
17:
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DIES:
April 17, 1790
American statesman, printer, scientist, and writer Benjamin Franklin dies in Philadelphia at age 84.
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17:
Events that occurred on this day:
1941 Yugoslavia surrenders
1969 Architect of Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring resigns
1970 Apollo 13 returns to Earth
1911 Self-Starter, Save Carter
1864 Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina, begins
1961 The Bay of Pigs invasion begins
1936 A single horsehair uncovers a murderer
1924 MGM formed
1885 Isak Dinesen is born
1882 Life of Billy the Kid arrives at Library of Congress
1975 Cambodia falls to the Khmer Rouge
1975 John Connally's Sour Milk Saga
1945 Americans seize 1,100 tons of uranium
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18:
REVERE AND DAWES RIDE:
April 18, 1775
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
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18:
Events that occurred on this day:
1521 Luther defiant at Diet of Worms
1906 The Great San Francisco Earthquake
1945 Journalist Ernie Pyle killed
1983 Suicide bomber destroys U.S. embassy in Beirut
1949 Geoff And Geoffrey
1864 Battle of Poison Springs, Arkansas
1989 Chinese students protest against government
1974 The Red Brigade terrorizes Italy
1956 Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier
1958 Federal court decides to release Ezra Pound
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1969 Nixon says prospects for peace in Vietnam are better
1806 The Nicholson Act
1942 Doolittle leads air raid on Tokyo
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19:
FIRST BLOOD IN THE CIVIL WAR:
April 19, 1861
The first blood of the American Civil War is shed when a secessionist mob in Baltimore attacks Massachusetts troops bound for Washington, D.C. Four soldiers and 12 rioters were killed.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1775 The American Revolution begins
1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins
1993 Branch Davidian compound burns
1995 The Oklahoma City Bombing
1955 American Volkswagen
1861 Baltimore Riots
1949 Soviet clowns lampoon U.S. foreign policy
1995 The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building explodes
1957 Bogey cult launches
1824 Lord Byron dies in Greece
1876 Wyatt Earp dropped from Wichita police force
1971 Vietnam Veterans Against the War demonstrate
1903 The Untouchable Eliot Ness
1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising put down
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20:
CURIES ISOLATE RADIUM:
April 20, 1902
Marie and Pierre Curie successfully isolate radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende in their laboratory in Paris. In 1898, the Curies discovered the existence of the elements radium and polonium in their research of pitchblende. One year after isolating radium, they would share the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with French scientist A. Henri Becquerel for their groundbreaking investigations of radioactivity.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1689 Siege of Londonderry begins
1871 Ku Klux Act passed by Congress
1924 DePaolo
1861 Lee resigns from U.S. Army
1978 Korean Air Lines jet forced down over Soviet Union
1999 A massacre at Columbine High School
1926 Sound process announced
1841 First detective story is published
1914 Militia slaughters strikers at Ludlow, Colorado
1971 "Fragging" on the rise in U.S. units
1818 The Age of Protectionism
1945 Operation Corncob is launched while Hitler celebrates his birthday
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21:
B.C. ROME FOUNDED:
April 21, 753
According to tradition, on April 21, 753 B.C., Romulus and his twin brother, Remus, found Rome on the site where they were suckled by a she-wolf as orphaned infants. Actually, the Romulus and Remus myth originated sometime in the fourth century B.C., and the exact date of Rome's founding was set by the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro in the first century B.C.
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21:
Events that occurred on this day:
1836 The Battle of San Jacinto
1918 Red Baron killed in action
1989 Chinese students begin protests at Tiananmen Square
1985 Senna Center Stage
1863 Steight's Raid begins
1953 Roy Cohn and David Schine return to U.S.
1992 Executions resume in California
1956 Elvis Presley's first No. 1 hit
1816 Charlotte Brontę born
1838 Naturalist John Muir is born
1975 Thieu flees Saigon as Xuan Loc falls
1946 John Maynard Keynes
1945 Red Army overruns German High Command as it approaches the capital
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22:
GERMANS INTRODUCE POISON GAS:
April 22, 1915
German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. This was the first major gas attack by the Germans, and it devastated the Allied line.
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22:
Events that occurred on this day:
1970 The first Earth Day
1997 Fujimori orders assault on Japanese ambassador's home
1970 Earth Day
1863 Grierson's raid cuts telegraph wires near Macon
1954 McCarthy Army hearings begin
1886 Seduction is made illegal
1937 Jack Nicholson born
1873 Ellen Glasgow, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, is born
1889 The Oklahoma land rush begins
1968 South Vietnamese have increased combat capabilities
1970 Perot Takes a Bath
1944 Americans launch Operation Persecution in the Pacific
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23:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BORN:
April 23, 1564
According to tradition, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564. It is impossible to be certain the exact day on which he was born, but church records show that he was baptized on April 26, and three days was a customary amount of time to wait before baptizing a newborn.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1014 King Brian of Ireland murdered by Vikings
1992 Miller's Museum
1865 "Panic has seized the country," writes Davis
1945 Truman confronts Molotov
1934 An FBI agent is killed in a gangster raid
1986 Director Otto Preminger dies
1564 Birth and death of William Shakespeare celebrated
1859 Byers publishes first Denver newspaper
1975 Ford says that war is finished for America
1996 MCA Gets Its Man
1942 Germans begin "Baedeker Raids" on England
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
April 23, 1616
Shakespeare had retired in Stratford, and there three years later died at the age of 52. Shakespeare had written over a million words at his untimely death. He captured the a complete range of human emotions and conflicts with a precision that remains sharp today.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1800 Library of Congress established
1916 Easter Rebellion begins
1980 Hostage rescue mission ends in disaster
1908 DePalma
1863 General Orders No. 100 issued
1955 The Bandung Conference concludes
1922 Forensic evidence is introduced in Australia
1942 Ingrid Bergman signs on for Casablanca
1940 Sue Grafton is born
1947 Author Willa Cather dies
1967 Westmoreland makes controversial remarks
1899 More Mine Woes
1940 Britain begins its evacuation of Greece in Operation Demon
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24:
CHURCHILL KNIGHTED:
April 24, 1953
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the British leader who guided Great Britain and the Allies through the crisis of World War II, is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
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25:
GROUND BROKEN FOR SUEZ CANAL:
April 25, 1859
At Port Said, Egypt, ground is broken for the Suez Canal, an artificial waterway intended to stretch 101 miles across the isthmus of Suez and connect the Mediterranean and the Red seas. Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French diplomat who organized the colossal undertaking, delivered the pickax blow that inaugurated construction.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1990 Space telescope in orbit
1959 Mario Of Nazareth
1864 Battle of Mark's Mills, Arkansas
1983 Andropov writes to an American fifth-grader
1989 A father is exonerated after 21 years
1995 Ginger Rogers dies
1719 Robinson Crusoe is published
1831 A play lionizing Davy Crockett opens
1964 Johnson announces appointment of Westmoreland
1996 Compromise on Capitol Hill
1945 Americans and Russians link up, cut Germany in two
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NUCLEAR DISASTER AT CHERNOBYL:
April 26, 1986
The world's worst nuclear power plant accident occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union. Thirty-two people died and dozens more suffered radiation burns in the opening days of the crisis, but only after Swedish authorities reported the fallout did Soviet authorities reluctantly admit that an accident had occurred.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1937 Nazis test Luftwaffe on Guernica
1994 South Africa holds first multiracial elections
1906 Birdcages To Bankruptcy
1865 Death of John Wilkes Booth
1954 Geneva Conference begins
1913 An innocent man is hanged without evidence
1989 Lucille Ball dies
1893 Anita Loos is born
1798 James Beckwourth is born
1971 U.S. troop strength in South Vietnam at five-year low
1997 Retail King on the Ropes
1894 Rudolf Hess is born
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MAGELLAN KILLED IN THE PHILIPPINES:
April 27, 1521
After traveling three-quarters of the way around the globe, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan is killed during a tribal skirmish on Mactan Island in the Philippines. Earlier in the month, his ships had dropped anchor at the Philippine island of Cebę, and Magellan met with the local chief, who after converting to Christianity persuaded the Europeans to assist him in conquering a rival tribe on the neighboring island of Mactan. In the subsequent fighting, Magellan was hit by a poisoned arrow and left to die by his retreating comrades.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1773 Parliament passes the Tea Act
1805 To the shores of Tripoli
1865 Tragedy on the Mississippi
1936 UAW's Independence Day
1865 Sultana Disaster
1978 Afghan president is overthrown and murdered
1997 Cunanan begins his killing spree
1954 White Christmas debuts
1667 John Milton sells the copyright to Paradise Lost
1813 Explorer Zebulon Pike dies
1972 North Vietnamese attack outskirts of Quang Tri
1966 Birth of Penn Central
1941 German forces enter Athens
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MUTINY ON THE HMS BOUNTY:
April 28, 1789
Three weeks into a journey from Tahiti to the West Indies, the HMS Bounty is seized in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the master's mate. Captain William Bligh and 18 of his loyal supporters were set adrift in a small, open boat, and the Bounty set course for Tubuai south of Tahiti.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1969 De Gaulle resigns as leader of France
1977 Red Army Faction trial ends
1903 Ten More Join ALAM
1810 Daniel Ullmann born
1965 U.S. troops land in the Dominican Republic
1955 A murder in the mountains
1990 A Chorus Line closes
1925 T.S. Eliot accepts a job at Faber and Faber publishers
1897 Chickasaw and Choctaw abandon communal lands
1970 Nixon approves Cambodian incursion
1930 Jim Baker, National Treasurer
1945 Benito Mussolini is captured and executed by Italian partisans
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DACHAU LIBERATED:
April 29, 1945
The U.S. Seventh Army's 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau, the first concentration camp established by Germany's Nazi regime. A major Dachau subcamp was liberated the same day by the 42nd Rainbow Division.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orleans
1854 First African-American college chartered
1992 Police acquittals in Los Angeles ignite riots
1951 Birth of The Intimidator
1862 Union captures New Orleans
1950 American statesmen deny Lattimore's influence
1992 The verdict is in on the Rodney King trial
1969 Duke Ellington gets Medal of Freedom
1875 Henry James' Transatlantic Sketches is published
1863 William Randolph Hearst is born
1970 U.S.-South Vietnamese forces launch Cambodian "incursion"
1926 The Imperious Creditor
1945 Adolf and Eva marry
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30:
National Arbor Day (United States of America)
Always the last Friday in April.
National Arbor Day is the Tree Planter's holiday.
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THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE:
April 30, 1803
Representatives of the United States and Napoleonic France conclude negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, a massive land sale that doubles the size of the young American republic. What was known as Louisiana Territory comprised most of modern-day United States between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains, with the exceptions of Texas, parts of New Mexico, and other pockets of land already controlled by the United States. A formal treaty for the Louisiana Purchase, antedated to April 30, was signed two days later.
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Events that occurred on this day:
1789 The first presidential inauguration
1939 New York World's Fair opens
1948 Land Rover
1864 Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas
1948 Organization of American States established
1927 The first federal prison for women opens
1997 Ellen comes out
1945 Annie Dillard is born
1867 Arizona Ranger Burton Mossman is born
1975 South Vietnam surrenders
1803 That Land Grab in Louisiana
1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker
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Mr Potato Head
First toy advertised on television
Real Potatos. . . fruits and vegtables were used.
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Children's Day (Mexico)
Not a holiday, but it is traditional to give children small presents on this day.
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Koninginnedag (Queen's Day) Netherlands
This huge birthday party has been going on every year since 1948, when Queen Juliana succeeded to the Dutch throne as the second Dutch queen.
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May Day Eve (Finland)
All official holidays in Finland are established by acts of Parliament.
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Queen's Birthday Sint Maarten / St. Martin
Prior to 1970, the Sint Maarten Government installed a yearly committee to arrange and carry out activities to celebrate various holidays such as Queen's Birthday-April 30th.
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Walpurgis' Night (Switzerland)
Celebration of Walpurgis' Night (Switzerland)
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