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April: Today in History, Holidays, and Fun Facts |
| 1 |
1976 - Apple Computer Company Founded by Steve
Jobs and Steve Wozniak April Fools Day |
| 2 | 1513 - Florida Reached by
Juan Ponce de Leon 1917 - Woodrow Wilson Asked Congress for a Declaration of War against Germany |
| 3 | 1948 - Marshall Plan Signed by President Harry Truman |
| 4 | 1949 - North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) 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) 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 League of 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 |
| 11 | 1814 - Napoleon Exiled to
Elba 1945 - Buchenwald Concentration Camp Liberated by Allied Forces 1968 - Civil Rights Act of 1968 Signed into Law by President Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 12 | 1861 - Attack on Fort
Sumter 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 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 Liberated by Allied Forces |
| 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 |
| 18 | 1775 - Paul Revere's
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 Chief Pontiac |
| 21 | 1960 - Brasilia Became the Capital of Brazil |
| 22 |
1500 - Brazil Reached by Portuguese Explorer
Pedro Alvares Cabral Earth Day |
| 23 | Talk Like Shakespeare Day - in Honor of His Birthday |
| 24 | 1916 -
Easter Rising Begins in Dublin, Ireland 1800 - Library of Congress Established 1915 - Start of the Armenian Massacre |
| 25 | 1901 -
New York
First State to Require License Plates on
Cars 1945 - First Meeting to Establish the United Nations - San Francisco |
| 26 | 1986 -
Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 1994 - South Africa's First Multi-Race Elections 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 Killed in the Philippines 1937 - First Social Security Checks Mailed 1993 - Eritrea Became Independent |
| 28 | 1788 -
Maryland Statehood 1945 - Execution of Benito Mussolini |
| 29 | 1945 - Dachau Liberated by American Forces |
| 30 | 1803 - Louisiana Purchase |
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