This day in history.....

April 4th


1818: Congress approves the U.S. flag with 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars; a star is to be added for each new state.


1850: Los Angeles is incorporated as a city the same year that California is admitted to the United States.


1949: NATO is formed by 12 western democratic nations, including the United States and Great Britain, to safeguard against Soviet aggression.


1964: The Beatles hold the top five spots on Billboard's Hot 100, setting an all-time record.


1968: American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee; in 1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the shooting.
 
April 5
1792 Washington exercises first presidential veto

1931 Fox drops John Wayne

1945 Tito signs "friendship treaty" with Soviet Union

1951 Rosenbergs sentenced to death for spying

1976 Howard Hughes dies

1972 North Vietnamese launch second front of Nguyen Hue Offensive

1994 Kurt Cobain commits suicide
 
April 5th


1614: Pocahontas, daughter of Native American chief Powahatan, marries American colonist John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia; the union contributes to peace between the Native Americans and English.


1951: U.S. citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.


1976: American billionaire and famed recluse Howard Hughes dies in Houston, Texas.


1984: Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar becomes the all-time highest scorer in the NBA when he scores a record-breaking basket using his signature "sky hook."


1987: The Fox Broadcasting Company makes its prime time television debut with Married…with Children.
 
April 6th


1830: Joseph Smith founds the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known as the Church of Christ until 1834.


1896: The first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece.


1909: American explorer Robert Peary, his assistant Matthew Henson, and four Inuit guides are the first recorded people to reach the North Pole.


1917: The U.S. declares war on Germany and enters World War I.
 
April 7th


1919: The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first jazz band to record its music, makes its debut in London, England; its song “Tiger Rag” becomes popular.


1940: Educator Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American pictured on a U.S. postage stamp.


1948: The World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations dedicated to improving health worldwide, comes into existence.


1949: Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play South Pacific, opens on Broadway; it wins a Pulitzer Prize the following year.


1980: U.S. president Jimmy Carter breaks off diplomatic relations with Iran during the hostage crisis.


1994: Civil war erupts in Rwanda a day after an airplane, carrying the nation's president, Juvénal Habyarimana, was shot down.
 
April 8th


1652: Cape Town in South Africa is founded by Jan van Riebeeck as a supply post for the Dutch East India Company.


1973: Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso dies at his villa in France at age 91.


1974: In Atlanta, Georgia, baseball great Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run, breaking the record previously held by Babe Ruth.


1990: Ryan White, the U.S. teenager whose battle with AIDS promoted public understanding of the disease, dies at 18.


1992: Yasir Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), survives a plane crash in the Sahara Desert; the plane's three crew members perished.
 
April 9th


1865: Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia, paving the way for the end of the Civil War.


1959: NASA announces the selection of America's first seven astronauts, chosen to participate in the Mercury program, the nation's first manned space program.


1968: Slain American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., is buried in Atlanta, Georgia.


1970: Paul McCartney announces the official breakup of the Beatles.
 
April 10th

1790: The first U.S. patent law, protecting inventions against piracy, is approved.


1866: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York.


1912: The British luxury liner Titanic sets off on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean; five days later it sinks after hitting an iceberg.


1925: The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is published; it will become one of the most important novels of the 20th century.


1974: Golda Meir, a founder of the state of Israel, announces that she is resigning as prime minister.
 
April 11th


Mare's Mommy arrives in Florida for Easter vaca!:D


1951: U.S. president Harry Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur from his commands during the Korean War after the general publicly criticized the administration's war policy.


1970: Apollo 13 blasts off toward the moon; an explosion two days later forces astronauts to abort the mission and make a daring return to earth.


1979: Idi Amin is overthrown as president of Uganda; during his brutal regime, an estimated 300,000 civilians were killed.
 
April 12th


1861: The American Civil War begins when Confederate troops open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay.


1945: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, recently elected to a record fourth term in office, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage; Vice President Harry Truman is sworn in as president.


1955: The polio vaccine prepared by U.S. physician Jonas E. Salk is released for general use in the United States.


1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, aboard Vostok 1, is the first man to travel to space; he makes one orbit of the earth during his 108-minute flight.


1999: A U.S. District Court judge cites President Bill Clinton in contempt of court for lying under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
 
Mare said:
April 12th


1861: The American Civil War begins when Confederate troops open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay.
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Debatable as to whether this was the start of the War of Northern Aggression or not. I'll leave it at that.
 
April 13th


1796: The first elephant brought to the United States arrives from Bengal.


1943: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.


1964: Sidney Poitier becomes the first African American actor to win an Academy Award, for his performance in Lilies of the Field.


1970: An oxygen tank explodes aboard the U.S. lunar landing mission Apollo 13 as it nears the moon, forcing the astronauts to return to Earth.


1997: Golfer Tiger Woods, 21, becomes the youngest person to win the Masters and the first African American and Asian American champion.
 
April 14th


1775: The first American society for the abolition of slavery is organized by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia.
1828: American lexicographer Noah Webster publishes the first edition of his dictionary under the title American Dictionary of the English Language.


1865: Confederate malcontent John Wilkes Booth shoots President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.; Lincoln dies early the next morning.


1910: President William Taft starts an American tradition, throwing out the first ball on opening day of the major league baseball season.


1912: The Titanic strikes an iceberg four days into its maiden voyage; over 1,500 passengers drown when the ship sinks early the next morning
 
1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth.

1865 - Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States.

1892 - The General Electric Company is formed through the merger of the Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Company.

1912 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks at about 2:20 a.m. after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic almost three hours earlier.

1920 - Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.

1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.

1927 - Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Norma and Constance Talmadge become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood

1945 - The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.

1955 - The first McDonald's restaurant opens in Des Plaines, Illinois.

1986 - The United States launch Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.
 
April 15th


1865: U.S. president Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous night at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.; Vice President Andrew Johnson is sworn in as president.


1912: The British luxury liner Titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg; it is among the worst maritime disasters in history, with over 1,500 dead.


1947: Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American in the 20th century to play in a major league baseball game.


1986: In retaliation for the terrorist bombing of a Berlin discotheque, the United States launches an air raid against Libya; nearly 40 people are killed.


1990: The enigmatic Swedish film actress Greta Garbo dies in New York.
 
April 18th


1492: Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spain, giving him a commission to seek a westward passage to Asia.


1861: The Virginia convention votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy.


1961: U.S.-backed Cuban exiles land at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba to overthrow Premier Fidel Castro's government; the mission is thwarted and the invaders killed or captured.


1964: The Ford Motor Company unveils its new car, the Mustang. :beardbng:


1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968.
 
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