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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, anad 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.
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April 13th
1570 ~ Birthday of Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder Plot conspirator.
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.
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".
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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
1955 ~ The first McDonald's restaurant opened in Des Plaines, Illinois.
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.
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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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April 21st
1649 ~ The Maryland Toleration Act, which provided for freedom of worship for all Christians, was passed by the Maryland assembly.
1836 ~ Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat Mexican troops under General Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto.
1838 ~ Birthday of John Muir, Environmentalist.
1910 ~ Death of Mark Twain, author.
1912 ~ The New York Giants and New York Yankees played an exhibition game to benefit survivors of the RMS Titanic.
1918 ~ Manfred von Richthofen, the German fighter ace known as "The Red Baron", was shot down and killed.
1926 ~ Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1944 ~ Women in France were enfranchised.
1960 ~ Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.
1992 ~ The first extrasolar planets were announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
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April 23rd
1564 ~ Birthday of William Shakespeare, Playwright.
1858 ~ Birthday of Max Planck, Physicist. Awarded the Nobel Prize in physics 1918.
1891 ~ Birthday of Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet Composer.
1954 ~ Hank Aaron hit his first major league home run.
1968 ~ Birthday of Timothy McVeigh, American Terrorist.
1969 ~ Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating Sen. Robert Kennedy.
1984 ~ American announcement of the isolation of the AIDS virus.
1985 ~ Coca-Cola changed its formula and released New Coke.
2004 ~ President Bush eased Reagan-era sanctions against Libya in return for Moammar Gadhafi's giving up weapons of mass destruction.
2007 ~ Death of Boris Yeltsin, Soviet strongman and the architect of the dismantling of the USSR.
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April 24th
1731 ~ Death of Daniel Defoe, English Writer.
1898 ~ Spain declared war on the U.S. over Cuba.
1905 ~ Birthday of Robert Penn Warren, Writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, first American Poet Laureate.
1916 ~ The Easter uprising began when some 1,600 Irish nationalists seized several key sites in Dublin.
1942 ~ Birthday of Barbra Streisand, American Singer & Actress.
1967 ~ Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died in Soyuz 1.
1986 ~ Death of Wallis Simpson, Mistress & Wife of The Duke of Windsor.
1990 ~ The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by Space Shuttle Discovery.
1996 ~ The main assembly of the Palestine Liberation Organization voted to revoke clauses in its charter that called for an armed struggle to destroy Israel.
1997 ~ Death of Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician.
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