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  1. 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 

  2. April 22 Through the Years 

      1519- Hernan Cortez establishes Veracruz, Mexico

     

      1906- The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens

     

      1970- Earth Day is celebrated 

  3. 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

     

      

  4. 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

  5. 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

     

        

  6.  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 

  7. 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

  8. Welcome to TigerTown Coach Maners and Coach Maners

  9. 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

  10. Because of Easter I decided to post this early

     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 

     

  11. 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 

  12. 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

     

     

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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 

  16. 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 

  17. 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 

  18. 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

  19. 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 

     

     

  20. 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

      

      

     

     

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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 

  24. 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 

  25. 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

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