| April |
| Today in History, Fun Facts, Holidays, and Teaching Materials |
| 1 |
1976 - Apple Computer Company was founded by Steve
Jobs and Steve Wozniak. April Fools Day |
| 2 | 1513 - Florida was reached by
Juan Ponce de Leon. 1917 - Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany. |
| 3 | 1948 - Marshall Plan was signed by President Harry Truman. |
| 4 | 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. |
| 6 | 1830 - Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) was established by Joseph
Smith and others 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. |
| 10 | 1849 - Patent granted to
Walter Hunt for his safety pin. 1912 - Titanic set sail. 1942 - Start of the Bataan Death March, Philippines (World War II). |
| 11 | 1814 - Napoleon 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. |
| 12 | 1861 - Attack on Fort
Sumter which started the U.S. Civil War. 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. |
| 14 | 1828 - Dictionary
copyrighted by Noah Webster. 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). |
| 17 | 1895 - Treaty of
Shimonoseki formally ended the First Sino-Japanese War. 1975 - Khmer Rouge gained control of Phnom Penh (the capital city of Cambodia). |
| 18 | 1775 - Paul Revere went on
his famous midnight ride. 1906 - Great San Francisco earthquake. 1956 - Marriage of Grace Kelly and Monaco's Prince Rainier. |
| 19 | 1943 - Start of an uprising in the Warsaw ghetto of Poland (World War II). |
| 20 | 1769 - Killing of Indian
leader,
Chief Pontiac. 1912 - Death of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula. |
| 21 | 1960 - Brasilia became the capital city of Brazil. |
| 22 |
1500 - Brazil was reached by Portuguese explorer
Pedro Alvares Cabral. Earth Day |
| 23 | "Talk Like Shakespeare Day" - Held in honor of his birthday. |
| 24 | 1916 -
Easter Rising began in Dublin, Ireland. 1800 - Library of Congress established. 1915 - Start of the Armenian Massacre. |
| 25 | 1901 -
New York
became the first state to require license plates on
cars. 1945 - The first meeting to establish the United Nations was held in San Francisco. |
| 26 | 1986 -
Chernobyl
nuclear disaster. 1994 - South Africa's first multi-race elections were held. 2000 - Vermont became the first state to allow same-sex unions. |
| 27 | 4977 B.C.E. -
Kepler's Date for the formation of the
universe. 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines. 1937 - The first Social Security checks were mailed. 1993 - Eritrea became independent. |
| 28 | 1788 -
Maryland became a state. 1945 - Execution of Benito Mussolini. |
| 29 | 1945 - Dachau concentration camp was liberated by American forces. |
| 30 | 1803 - Louisiana Purchase made by President Thomas Jefferson. |
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