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April 23 Through the Years
1635- The Boston Latin School becomes the 1st Public School in America
1914-First Baseball Game held Weeghman Park(Wrigley Field)
1951 American Journalist William N. Oates is arrested for Espionage in Czechoslovakia
1985- New Coke is released
2005- "Me at the zoo" is released on YouTube
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April 22 Through the Years
1519- Hernan Cortez establishes Veracruz, Mexico
1906- The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens
1970- Earth Day is celebrated
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April 21 Through the Years
1509- Henry VIII becomes King of England
1836- Texicans under Sam Houston defeat Mexican forces and General Santa Anna at San Jacinto
1952- Secretary's Day started
1962- Seattle World Fair opens
1982- Rollie Fingers records his 300 Save
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April 20 Through the Years
1534- Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to Canada
1775- The Siege of Boston begins
1836- US Congress creates the Wisconsin Territory
1861- Robert E. Lee resigns his US Army commission
1871- The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law
1898- War against Spain is declared
1912- Tiger Stadium and Fenway Park open
1916- Weeghman Park(Wrigley Field) hosts the zcubs for the first time
1918- Manfred von Richthofen(The Red Baron) makes his 79th and 80th Kill
1999- Columbine High School Shootings
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April 19 Through the Years (con)
1993- Waco astandoff ends
1995- Oklahoma City Bombing
2005- Joseph Ratzinger becomes Pope Benedict XVI
2011- Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
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April 19 Through the Years
1770- Captain James Cook sees Australia
1770- Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI
1775- American victory at Concord
1927- Mae West sentenced 10 Days in jail for her play
1956- Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco
1987- First Appearance of The Simpsons
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April 18 Through the Years
1506- The Cornerstone of St. Peter's Basilica is laid
1689- bostonians rebel against Sir Edmund Andros
1775- Paul Revere's Ride
1831- University of Alabama is fonded
1932- Yankee Stadium is opened
1942- Doolittle Raid in the Pacific
1942- Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France
1954- Gamal Abdul Nasser takes power in Egypt
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April 17 Through the Years
1397- Geoffrey Chaucer tells The Canterbury Tales for the first time
1521- Trial of Martin Luther begins
1524- Giovanni de Verrazzano reaches New York Harbor
1861- Virginia votes to secede
1905- Lochner vs New York is decided
1961- Bay of Pigs Invasion
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April 16 Through the Years
1818- Rush-Bagot Treaty establishes the US border with Canada
1862- Slavery is ended in Washington D. C.
1881- Bat Masterson fights his last gunfight
1894- Manchester City F. C. Is formed
1910- Boston Arena is opened
1917- Vladimir Lenin returns to Russia
1943- Albert zHoffmann discovers the effects of LSD
1963- MLK writes his Letter from the Birmingham Jail
1990- Dr. Jack Kevorkian participates in his first assisted suicide
2007- Virginia Tech Massacre
20141 The MV Sewol capsizes
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April 15 Through the Years
1715- Pocotaligo Massacre
1755- A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson is published
1817- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc found The American School for the Deaf
1861- President Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers
1865- President Lincoln dies of his wounds
1892- The General Electric Company is founded
1896- Closing Ceremonies for the 1st Olympic Games
1920- Events that lead to Sacco and Vanzetti's execution occurs
1922- Tea Pot Dome Scandal is uncovered
1923- Insulin is made available
1924- Rand McNally publishes its first Road Atlas
1947- Jackie Robinson breaks the color Bearer in the MLB
1955- McDonald's opens
1960- Ella Baker starts the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee
1964- The First Ford Mustang rolls off the Assembly Line
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April 14 Through the Years
1715- The Yamasee War begins in South Carolina
1775- The Pennsylvania Abolition Society is formed by Ben Franklin and Benjamin Rush
1828- Noah Webster copyrights his first edition dictionary
1865- John Wilkes Booth shoots President Lincoln
1865- Lewis Powell attacks Secretary of State William Seward and his family
1894- The 1st Commercial Motion Picture House opens in New York City
1900- Exposition Universalle opens in Paris
1906- Azusa Street Revival opens
1912- RMS Titanic hits a Ice Berg
1939- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is published
1941- Rommel attacks Torbuck
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April 13 Through the Years
1849- Hungary becomes a Republic
1861- Fort Sumter surrenders
1902- James C. Penney opens his first store
1941- Neutrality Pact signed between Japan and the USSR
1943- Jefferson Memorial is dedicated
1997- Tiger Wods win the Masters
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April 12 Through the Years
1776- Halifax Resolves allows the North Carolina Delegation to vote for Independence
1861- Confederate Forces fire on Fort Sumter
1864- Confedrate forces kill surrendered African American Troops at Fort Pillow, Tennessee
1945- FDR dies in office
1955- apolitical Vaccine delared safe
1961- Yuri Gagarin becomes first man to travel in space
1999- Bill Clinton cited for Contempt of Court
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April 11 Through the Years
1881-Spellman College is founded
1909- City of Tel Aviv is founded
1945- American Forces liberate Buchenwald Concentration Camp
1951- Harry S. Tuman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his duties in Korea
1968- LBJ signs Civil Rights Act of 1968
1970- Apollo 13 is launched
1976- The Apple 1 is created
1979- Idi Amin is disposed
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April 10 Through the Years
837- Hailey's Comet makes it closest approach to Earth
1606- Virginia Company of London is established
1816- The Second Bank of the United States is formed
1856- The Theta Chi Fraternity founded at Vermont's Norwich University
1872- Arbor Day observed in Nebraska
1912- RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton
1916- PGA formed
1919- Emiliano Zapata killed
1925- The Great Gatsby published
1970- Paul McCartney announces he is leaving the Beatles
1971-Ping Pong Diplomacy between the US and China
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April 9 Through the Years
1413- Henry V crowned King of England
1682- Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the Mouth of the Mississippi River
1865- Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to U. S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
1909- Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act passed
1939- Marian Anderson sings st The Lincoln Memorial
1940- Germany invades Denmark and Norway
1945- The United States Atomic Energy Commission is established
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April 8 Through the Years
1665- Patents are granted to establish the Monmouth Tract
1808- The Dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown(Louisville) are established
1820- Venus de Milo is discovered
1832- Black Hawk War starts
1935- The WPA is created
1943- Otto and Elise Hampel are executed for Anti-Nazi actions
1975- Frank Robinson makes history by managing the Cleveland Indians
2013- ISIL(ISIS) is formed
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April 7 Through the Years
1788- Marietta, Ohio is founded
1798- Mississippi Territory is created
1829- Joseph begins to translate The Book of Mormon
1922- The US Secretary of the Interior leases federal oil reserves to private companies
1927- The 1st long distance public TV broadcast occurs
1933- Prohibition is repealed
1948- UN established The WHO
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April 6 Through the Years
1199- Richard I dies of infection
1712- New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins
1793- The Committee of Public Safety becomes the Executive Branch of France
1808-.John Jacob Astor incorporates The American Fur Company
1830- Joseph Smith and others create the first church in The Latter Day Saints Movement
1841- John Tyler is sworn in as President
1860- Joseph Smith III creates the Reorganized Church of Christ
1862- The Battle of Shiloh
1866- The Grand Army of the Republic is formed
1869- Celluloid is patented
1888- Thomas Green Clemson bequeaths his estate to South Carolina to established Clemson Agricultural College
1893- The Salt Lake Temple is dedicated
1896- The 1st Modern Olympic Games open in Athens
1909- Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North
Pole
1917- The United States declares war on Germany
1926- The Root Company of United Airlines makes it first flight
1929- Huey P. Long is impeached as governor of Louisiana
1941- Nazi Germany begins an Invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece
1947- TheTony Awards are held for the first time
1968- Richmond, Indiana double explosion kills 41
1968- Pierre Trudeau becomes Prime Minister of Canada
1970- Newhall Massacre
1973- The American League starts using the DH
1992- Bosnian War begins
1994- Rwandan Genocide begins
1998- Citibank is formed
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April 5 Through the Years
1614- Pocahontas marries John Rolfe
1621- The Mayflower sets sail for America
1792- George Washington uses the veto power for the first time
1915- Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson to become Heavyweight Champion
1933- FDR creates the CCC and bans hoarding of gold
1951- The Rosenbergs are sentenced to death
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April 4 Through the Years
1811- President James Madison places a 90 Day embargo on the United Kingdom
1818- Congress adopts the current flag
1841- William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia
1850- Los Angeles is incorporated
1887- Susanna Salter becomes the first elected female mayor(Argonia, Kansas)
1968- MLK Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray
1975- Microsoft is founded
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April 3 Through the Years
1043- Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England
1860- The First successful run of the Pony Express
1865- Union Forces capture Richmond, Virginia
1882- Robert Ford kills Jesse James
1885- Gottlieb Damler is granted a German Patent for his engine
1888- First of the Whitechapel Murders in England
1922- Josef Stalin becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1936- Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr
1948- President Truman signs the Marshall Plan
1955- ACLU announces plans to defend Howl by Allen Ginsburg
1968- MLK jr delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech
1973- First mobile phone call made
1981- Osborne 1 is unveiled
1991- UN Resolution 687 is passed
1996- Ted Kaczynski is captured
2010- Apple inc. releases the IPad
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April 2 Through the Years
1792- The Coinage Act creates the US Mint
1865- The Confedrate Gonvernment abandons Richmond
1900- Congress passes the Foraker Act granting Puerto Rico limited Self Rule
1902- The First full time movie theater opens in LA
1956- As the World Turns and The Edge of Night debuts on CBS-TV
1989- Gorbachev meets Castro in Havana
1992- John Gotti is convicted of racketeering
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On April 1 Through the Years
1789- Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania is elected the first US Apeaker of the House
1826- Samuel Morey receives a patent for his Gas or Vapor Engine
1891- The Wrigley Company is founded
1918- The RAF is created
1924- The RCAF is founded
2004- Gmail is introduced to the published c