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April 3rd
1882 ~ Death of Jesse James (shot in the back and killed for the reward).
1895 ~ The libel trial started by Oscar Wilde against the Marquess of Queensbury began, eventually resulting in Wilde's arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. 1897 ~ Death of Johannes Brahms, Composer. 1901 ~ Death of Richard D'Oyly Carte, Impresario. 1934 ~ Birthday of Jane Goodall, Zoologist. 1946 ~ Masaharu Homma, the Japanese general responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines. 1948 ~ President Truman signed the Marshall Plan. 1991 ~ Death of Graham Greene, English writer. 1996 ~ Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin. 2000 ~ Microsoft was ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws. |
April 4th
1884 ~ Birthday of Isoroku Yamamoto, naval commander.
1902 ~ British financier Cecil Rhodes left £6 million in his will to provide scholarships for Americans at Oxford University in England. 1949 ~ Twelve nations signed The North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 1961 ~ Birthday of Tom Byron, Porn Actor. 1964 ~ The Beatles occupied all of the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States. 1968 ~ Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. 1975 ~ Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. 1979 ~ Death of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan Prime Minister (hanged). 1984 ~ Winston Smith, the main character of George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, began writing in his secret diary. 1994 ~ Netscape Communications Corporation was founded by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark. |
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April 6th
1528 ~ Death of Albrecht Dürer, Artist.
1866 ~ Birthday of Butch Cassidy, Outlaw. 1909 ~ Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. 1917 ~ The United States declared war on Germany. 1928 ~ Birthday of James D. Watson, Geneticist, co-discoverer of structure of DNA, awarded 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 1933 ~ Hostess Twinkies were invented. … and they will return! 1971 ~ Death of Igor Stravinsky, Composer. 1992 ~ Death of Isaac Asimov, Science-fiction author. 1994 ~ The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash near Rwanda's capital. 2001 ~ Algerian national Ahmed Ressam, accused of bringing explosives into the U.S. days before the millennium celebrations, was convicted twice in the same day - first in France for belonging to a group supporting Islamic militants, then in Los Angeles on terror charges. |
April 7th
1614 ~ Death of El Greco (Domenikos Theotocopoulos), artist.
1795 ~ France adopted the meter as the unit of length. 1891 ~ Death of P. T. Barnum, Circus Impresario. 1945 ~ The Yamato, a 72,000-ton Japanese battleship was sunk off Okinawa due in large part to SIGINT tipoffs. 1953 ~ Dag Hammarskjöld was elected United Nations Secretary General. 1964 ~ IBM announced the System/360. 1967 ~ Birthday of Runa Akasaka (赤坂ルナ), Japanese Porn actress. 1968 ~ Death of Jim Clark, racing driver. 1969 ~ The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of First Request for Comment (RFC). 1978 ~ Development of the neutron bomb was canceled by President Carter. |
April 8th
1820 ~ The Venus de Milo was discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1945 ~ Pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed at the POW camp at Flossenbürg. 1953 ~ Jomo Kenyatta was convicted of being a member of the Mau Mau. 1973 ~ Death of Pablo Picasso, artist. 1974 ~ Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth's record. 1975 ~ Frank Robinson managed his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager. 1982 ~ Birthday of Judy Star, Canadian porn actress. 1983 ~ Death of Omar Bradley, general. 1991 ~ Birthday of Melanie Ríos, Colombian Porn Actress. 2005 ~ The funeral of Pope John Paul II. |
April 9th
1865 ~ Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
1906 ~ Birthday of Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor. 1940 ~ Operation Weserübung: Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. 1942 ~ HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire were sunk off Ceylon’s (Sri Lanka) east coast by Japanese naval aircraft. 1926 ~ Birthday of Hugh Hefner, Editor & Publisher. 1928 ~ Birthday of Tom Lehrer, Musician & Satirist. 1959 ~ Death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. 1974 ~ Birthday of Jenna Jameson, Porn actress. 1991 ~ Georgia declared its independence from the Soviet Union. 2003 ~ Iraqis celebrated the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, beheading a toppled statue of the dictator in downtown Baghdad. |
April 10th
1847 ~ Birthday of Joseph Pulitzer, Journalist & Publisher.
1912 ~ The RMS Titanic left port in Southampton, England. 1919 ~ Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata was ambushed and killed by government forces. 1932 ~ Birthday of Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Funny Girl, and many others). 1947 ~ Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in MLB. 1954 ~ Death of Auguste Lumière, Cinema Pioneer. 1963 ~ The American submarine USS Thresher and its crew was lost off Cape Cod, Mass. 1966 ~ Death of Evelyn Waugh, Writer. 1970 ~ Paul McCartney announced that The Beatles had broken up. 1998 ~ The Belfast Agreement was signed. |
April 11th
1814 ~ Napoleon abdicated and was exiled to Elba.
1893 ~ Birthday of Dean Acheson, former U.S. Secretary of State. 1932 ~ Birthday of Joel Grey, American singer and actor. 1945 ~ U.S. forces liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. 1951 ~ President Truman replaced General MacArthur with Lieutenant-General Ridgway. 1961 ~ Bob Dylan made his singing début in New York City. 1961 ~ Start of war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann. 1979 ~ Idi Amin deposed as president of Uganda. 1986 ~ Birthday of Roman Heart, Porn Actor. 2007 ~ Death of Kurt Vonnegut, Author. |
April 12th
65 ~ Death of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Philosopher, Dramatist & Statesman.
1861 ~ The American Civil War began when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. 1895 ~ Birthday of Lily Pons, Opera Soprano. 1937 ~ Frank Whittle ground-tested the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft. 1940 ~ Birthday of Herbie Hancock, Musician. 1945 ~ President Franklin Roosevelt died. 1961 ~ Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space aboard Vostok 1. 1984 ~ Arthur Scargill, the man who led the destruction of the National Union of Mineworkers ruled out a national ballot of miners on whether to continue their strike. 1999 ~ President Clinton was cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit. 2009 ~ Death of Marilyn Chambers, Porn actress, best known for her performance in "Behind the Green Door". |
April 13th
1598 ~ Henry IV of France granted freedom of religion to Hguenots.
1742 ~ George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah premiered in Dublin, Ireland. 1743 ~ Birthday of Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President. 1829 ~ The British Parliament granted freedom of religion to Roman Catholics. 1892 ~ Birthday of Arthur Harris, commander of RAF's Bomber Command in World War II. 1964 ~ Sidney Poitier broke the color barrier when he was awarded the “Best Actor” Oscar. 1970 ~ Apollo 13 was almost lost when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. 1980 ~ Birthday of Jana Cova, Czech Porn Actress. 1990 ~ The Soviet Union admitted committing the Katyn Massacre. 2008 ~ Death of John Wheeler, American physicist, inventor of the terms "black hole", "quantum foam" and "wormhole". |
April 14th
1629 ~ Birthday of Christiaan Huygens, Mathematician.
1759 ~ Death of Georg Friedrich Handel, Composer. 1865 ~ President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth. 1904 ~ Birthday of Sir John Gielgud, Actor. 1935 ~ Death of Emmy Noether, Mathematician. 1939 ~ ''The Grapes of Wrath'' by John Steinbeck was published. 1964 ~ Death of Rachel Carson, Writer & Ecologist. 1988 ~ The USSR pledged to leave Afghanistan. 1999 ~ A hailstorm in Sydney, Australia caused at least A$1.7 billion damages. 2003 ~ The Human Genome Project was completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced. |
April 15th
1452 ~ Birthday of Leonardo da Vinci.
1802 ~ William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy come across a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring him to write "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud". 1912 ~ The RMS Titanic sank. 1912 ~ Birthday of Kim Il-sung, "Great Leader" & President of North Korea . 1924 ~ Birthday of Sir Neville Marriner, Conductor. 1945 ~ British & Canadian troops liberate Bergen-Belsen 1947 ~ Jackie Robinson broke MLB baseball's color barrier when he started for the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1985 ~ Birthday of Amy Reid, Porn actress. 1994 ~ Representatives of 124 countries signed the Marrakesh Agreements which replaced the GATT with the WTO. 1998 ~ Death of Pol Pot, Cambodian Dictator. |
April 16th
1867 ~ Birthday of Wilbur Wright, Pioneer Pilot.
1889 ~ Birthday of Charlie Chaplin, Actor, Writer & Film Producer. 1912 ~ Harriett Quimby became the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel. 1921 ~ Birthday of Peter Ustinov, Writer, Actor & Film Director. 1927 ~ Birthday of Joseph Ratzinger, German Shepard. 1943 ~ Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered the psychedelic effects of LSD. 1947 ~ The explosive nature of ammonium nitrate fertilizer first tested in the wild. 1947 ~ Bernard Baruch coined the term Cold War to describe the relationship between the U.S. and the USSR. 1980 ~ Birthday of Adriana Sage, Mexican-American Porn Actress. 1993 ~ The UN voted to make Srebrenica a 'safe haven'. |
April 17th
1521 ~ Martin Luther appeared before the Holy Roman Emperor at Worms, Germany, and was cross-examined about his thoughts on religious reform.
1741 ~ Birthday of Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 1790 ~ Death of Benjamin Franklin, Politician, Inventor, Diplomat, & Printer. 1837 ~ Birthday of J.P. Morgan, Financier, Art Collector, & Philanthropist. 1861 ~ The Virginia State Convention voted to secede from the Union. 1894 ~ Birthday of Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet politician & Premier 1958-1964. 1903 ~ Birthday of Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist. 1961 ~ Cuba was invaded at the “Bay of Pigs” by a U.S. supported invasion force of 1,500 Cuban exiles, who were defeated by Fidel Castro's forces. 1984 ~ Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher was killed by gunfire coming from the Libyan People's Bureau in central London. 2003 ~ Death of Dr. Robert Atkins, noted for the Atkin's Diet. |
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