April: Today in History

 
 
1976 - Apple Computer Company was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
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April Fools Day
   

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1513 - Florida was reached by Juan Ponce de Leon.
1917 - Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany.
   
1917 - The U.S. House of Representatives accepted The American's Creed, penned by William Tyler Pag
3 as an official national motto.
1948 - Marshall Plan was signed by President Harry Truman.
   

1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed into existence.
1968 - Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
   
5 1614 - Marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe.
   
1830 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) was established by Joseph Smith and othe
6 in Fayette, New York.
1862 - Start of the Battle of Shiloh (U.S. Civil War).
   
7 1948 - Founding of the World Health Organization.
   
8 1946 - First assembly of the United Nations.
   
9 2005 - Marriage of Camilla Parker Bowles and Prince Charles of Great Britain.
   
1849 - Patent granted to Walter Hunt for his safety pin.
10 1912 - Titanic set sail.
1942 - Start of the Bataan Death March, Philippines (World War II).
   
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1814 - Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to Elba.

1945 - Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by Allied forces.
1968 - Civil Rights Act of 1968 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
   
1861 - Attack on Fort Sumter which started the U.S. Civil War.
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1961 - Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union became the first person in space.
   
13 1598 - France's Edict of Nantes granted Huguenots (Protestants) religious tolerance.
   
1828 - Dictionary copyrighted by Noah Webster.
14 1865 - Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth.
1912 - Iceberg struck by the Titanic.
   
15 1945 - Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated by Allied forces (World War II).
 
 
16 1917 - Return of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin to Russia (Russian Revolution).
   
1895 - Treaty of Shimonoseki formally ended the First Sino-Japanese War.
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1975 - Khmer Rouge gained control of Phnom Penh (the capital city of Cambodia).
   
1775 - Paul Revere went on his famous midnight ride.
18 1906 - Great San Francisco earthquake.
1956 - Marriage of Grace Kelly and Monaco's Prince Rainier.
   
1775 - Americans defeated the British at the Battle of Concord, later commemorated by Ralph Waldo
19 Emerson in his "Concord Hymn."
1943 - Start of an uprising in the Warsaw ghetto of Poland (World War II).
   
1769 - Killing of Indian leader, Chief Pontiac.
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1912 - Death of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula.
   
1836 - The forces of Sam Houston are victorious over the forces of Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacin
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1960 - Brasilia became the capital city of Brazil.
   

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1500 - Brazil was reached by Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral.

Earth Day
   
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1916 - Easter Rising began in Dublin, Ireland.
1800 - Library of Congress established.
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1915 - Start of the Armenian Massacre.
1990 - Hubble Space Telescope launched.
   
1901 - New York became the first state to require license plates on cars.
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1945 - The first meeting to establish the United Nations was held in San Francisco.
   
1986 - Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
26 1994 - South Africa's first multi-race elections were held.
2000 - Vermont became the first state to allow same-sex unions.
   
4977 B.C.E. - Kepler's Date for the formation of the universe.
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines.
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1937 - The first Social Security checks were mailed.
1993 - Eritrea became independent.
   
1788 - Maryland became a U.S. state.
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1945 - Execution of Benito Mussolini.
   
1429 - Joan of Arc liberated Orleans.
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1945 - Dachau concentration camp was liberated by American forces.
   
30 1803 - The Louisiana Purchase was made by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.