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1911
Triangle Shirtwaist fire kills 146 in New York City
In one of the darkest moments of America’s industrial history, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burns, killing 146 workers, on March 25, 1911. The tragedy led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of factory workers. The... read more
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1950s
1957
Europe’s Common Market founded in major step toward economic unity
 
Arts & Entertainment
1957
U.S. Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”
2001
Icelandic pop singer Björk makes splash at the Oscars
 
Colonial America
1634
The settlement of Maryland
 
Crime
1987
Torture chamber uncovered in Philadelphia
 
Middle Eastern History
1975
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia assassinated
 
Sports
1958
Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Carmen Basilio for middleweight title
 
Vietnam War
1967
Martin Luther King Jr. leads march against the Vietnam War
 
World War II
1941
Yugoslavia joins the Axis Powers
1941
Naval warfare gets new weapon

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March 26
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1953
Dr. Jonas Salk announces polio vaccine
On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio. In 1952—an epidemic year for polio—there were 58,000 new cases reported in the... read more
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Arts & Entertainment
1920
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel published
1955
Black music gets whitewashed, as Georgia Gibbs hits the pop charts with ‘The Wallflower (Dance With Me, Henry)’
 
Cold War
1950
Public learns Joseph McCarthy named Owen Lattimore as a Soviet spy
 
Crime
1997
Heaven’s Gate cult members found dead
 
Middle Eastern History
1979
Israel-Egypt peace agreement signed
 
U.S. Presidents
1804
President Jefferson presented with a “mammoth loaf” of bread
 
Vietnam War
1968
“Wise Men” advise President Johnson to negotiate peace in Vietnam
1969
Antiwar demonstration in Washington
 
World War II
1945
Fighting on Iwo Jima ends, island declared “secure”

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March 27
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1912
Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac
March 27, 1912: In Washington, D.C., Helen Taft, wife of President William Taft, and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant two Yoshino cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River, near the Jefferson Memorial. The event commemorated a gift, by the Japanese...  read more
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19th Century
1836
Mexican army executes 417 Texas revolutionaries at Goliad
 
American Revolution
1775
Thomas Jefferson elected to the Continental Congress
 
Arts & Entertainment
1973
Marlon Brando declines Best Actor Oscar
1979
Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton are married
 
Civil War
1865
Lincoln, Sherman and Grant plan final stages of Civil War
 
European History
1958
Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier
 
Inventions & Science
1952
Kiichiro Toyoda, founder of the Toyota Motor Corporation, dies
1998
FDA approves Viagra
 
Natural Disasters & Environment
1964
Strongest earthquake in U.S. history rocks Alaska
1977
Jumbo jets collide at Canary Islands airport
1980
Oil workers drown in North Sea
 
Sports
1939
“March Madness” crowns its first men’s NCAA Champion
 
U.S. Presidents
1929
Herbert Hoover has telephone installed in Oval Office

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March 28
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1979
Nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island
At 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979, one of the worst accidents in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry begins when a pressure valve in the Unit-2 reactor at Three Mile Island fails to close. Cooling water, contaminated with radiation, drained from the open valve into adjoining buildings, and the... read more
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Arts & Entertainment
1958
W.C. Handy—the “Father of the Blues”—dies
1960
First star laid on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
 
Civil War
1862
Union forces halt Confederates at Battle of Glorieta Pass
 
Crime
2006
Duke lacrosse team suspended following sexual assault allegations
 
European History
1814
Funeral held for the man behind the guillotine
1939
Spanish Civil War ends
 
Sports
1984
Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis
 
U.S. Presidents
1834
Congress censures President Jackson
1969
President Eisenhower dies
 
World War I
1915
First American citizen killed during WWI

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March 29
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1973
U.S. troops withdraw from Vietnam
March 29, 1973: Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees many of the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America’s direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end. In Saigon,... read more
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Civil War
1865
Appomattox, the final campaign in the Civil War, begins
 
Cold War
1951
Rosenbergs convicted of espionage
 
Crime
1951
The “Mad Bomber” strikes in New York
 
European History
1974
Exiled writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn reunited with family
 
Inventions & Science
1958
First reading of the Keeling Curve, which shows carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere
 
Space Exploration
1974
U.S. space probe Mariner visits Mercury
 
Sports
1982
Freshman Michael Jordan hits winning shot to give North Carolina NCAA title
 
Vietnam War
1971
Lt. William Calley found guilty of My Lai murders
 
World War II
1945
Gen. George Patton takes Frankfurt

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March 30
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1981
President Reagan shot
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by a drifter named John Hinckley Jr. The president had just finished addressing a labor meeting at the Washington Hilton Hotel and was walking with his entourage to his limousine when Hinckley, standing... read more
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19th Century
1867
U.S. purchase of Alaska ridiculed as “Seward’s Folly”
 
1970s
1971
Starbucks opens its first store in Seattle’s Pike Place Market
 
21st Century
2009
President Obama announces auto industry shakeup
 
American Revolution
1775
King George endorses New England Restraining Act
 
Arts & Entertainment
1939
Batman debuts in comics
1974
John Denver has his first #1 hit with “Sunshine On My Shoulders”
1974
The Ramones play their first public gig in Manhattan
 
Cold War
1948
Henry Wallace criticizes Truman’s Cold War policies
 
Crime
1949
Actor Robert Mitchum is released after serving time for marijuana possession
 
European History
1814
Napoleon’s forces defeated in Paris
 
U.S. Constitution
1870
15th Amendment adopted
 
U.S. Government and Politics
1855
Violence disrupts first Kansas election
 
Vietnam War
1965
Bomb explodes outside U.S. Embassy in Saigon

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March 31
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1889
Eiffel Tower opens
On March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by Gustave Eiffel, the tower’s designer, and attended by French Prime Minister Pierre Tirard, a handful of other dignitaries and 200 construction workers. In 1889, to honor of the centenary of the French... read more
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American Revolution
1774
Parliament passes the Boston Port Act
1776
Abigail Adams urges husband to “remember the ladies”
 
Arts & Entertainment
1943
“Oklahoma!” premieres on Broadway
1999
“The Matrix” released in theaters
 
Asian History
1854
Treaty of Kanagawa signed with Japan
1959
Dalai Lama begins exile
 
Cold War
1991
Warsaw Pact’s military union ends
 
Crime
1995
Pop star Selena murdered by fan club president
 
Religion
1492
Spain announces it will expel all Jews
 
World War I
1905
The First Moroccan Crisis

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April 01
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1945
U.S. troops land on Okinawa
On April 1, 1945, after suffering the loss of 116 planes and damage to three aircraft carriers, 50,000 U.S. combat troops, under the command of Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner Jr., land on the southwest coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa, 350 miles south of Kyushu, the southern main island... read more
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Arts & Entertainment
1816
Jane Austen declines royal librarian’s writing advice
1963
Soap operas “General Hospital” and “The Doctors” premiere
 
Crime
1924
Hitler sentenced for his role in Beer Hall Putsch
1984
Marvin Gaye is shot and killed by his own father
 
European History
1918
RAF founded
 
Inventions & Science
1993
The “Polish Prince” killed in plane crash
 
Natural Disasters & Environment
1946
Alaskan earthquake triggers massive tsunami
 
Sports
1972
First MLB players’ strike begins
1985
Villanova wins NCAA basketball title in stunning upset
 
U.S. Government and Politics
1789
First U.S. House of Representatives elects speaker
 
U.S. Presidents
1970
President Nixon signs legislation banning cigarette ads on TV and radio

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April 02
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2005
Pope John Paul II dies
On April 2, 2005, John Paul II, history’s most well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century, dies at his home in the Vatican. Six days later, 2 million people packed Vatican City for his funeral, said to be one of the biggest in history. John Paul II was... read more
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Arts & Entertainment
1805
Hans Christian Andersen is born
1968
“2001: A Space Odyssey” has its world premiere
 
Crime
1979
Deadly anthrax poison released from Soviet bio-weapons plant
1992
Mob boss John Gotti convicted of murder
 
Latin American & Caribbean History
1982
Argentina invades Falklands
 
Women’s History
1917
Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to U.S. Congress, assumes office
 
World War I
1917
President Wilson asks for declaration of war

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April 03
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1860
Pony Express debuts
On April 3, 1860, the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. Ten days later, on April 13, the westbound rider and mail packet completed the approximately 1,800-mile journey and arrived in Sacramento,... read more
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19th Century
1817
Texas Ranger “Big Foot” Wallace born
 
American Revolution
1776
Congress authorizes privateers to attack British vessels
 
Arts & Entertainment
1948
“The Louisiana Hayride” radio program premieres on KWKH-AM Shreveport
1978
“Annie Hall” beats out “Star Wars” for Best Picture
 
Civil War
1865
Confederate capital of Richmond is captured
 
Crime
1876
Wyatt Earp dropped from Wichita police force
1882
Jesse James is murdered
1936
Bruno Hauptmann, convicted of kidnapping Lindbergh’s son, executed
1996
Unabomber arrested
 
Exploration
1513
Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain
 
Natural Disasters & Environment
1996
U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Ron Brown, killed in plane crash
 
U.S. Presidents
1948
President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan
 
Vietnam War
1969
Nixon administration vows to “Vietnamize” the war

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April 04
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1968
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a... read more
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1970s
1973
World Trade Center, then the world’s tallest building, opens in New York City
 
21st Century
2007
Radio host Don Imus makes offensive remarks about Rutgers’ women’s basketball team
 
American Revolution
1776
General George Washington begins march to New York
 
Arts & Entertainment
1841
First detective story is published
1928
Maya Angelou is born
1960
“Ben-Hur” wins 11 Academy Awards
2013
Movie critic Roger Ebert dies
 
Asian History
1884
Isoroku Yamamoto, Japan’s mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack, is born
 
Cold War
1949
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) pact signed
 
Early 20th Century U.S.
1933
Dirigible crash kills 73 in New Jersey
 
Inventions & Science
1975
Microsoft founded
 
Sports
1974
Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth’s home run record
 
U.S. Presidents
1841
President Harrison dies—32 days into office
 
Vietnam War
1967
Martin Luther King Jr. speaks out against the war
1975
“Operation Babylift,” transporting South Vietnamese children, starts in tragedy
 
World War I
1918
Allies drive back Germans in Second Battle of the Somme

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April 05
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1994
Grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain dies by suicide
Modern rock icon Kurt Cobain dies by suicide on April 5, 1994. His body was discovered inside his home in Seattle, Washington, three days later by Gary Smith, an electrician, who was installing a security system in the house. Despite indications that Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, killed... read more
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1970s
1976
Business magnate and famed aviator Howard Hughes dies
 
American Revolution
1774
Benjamin Franklin writes “An Open Letter to Lord North”
 
Arts & Entertainment
1859
Charles Darwin sends first three chapters of “On the Origin of Species” to his publisher
1895
Writer Oscar Wilde arrested in England
1968
James Brown calms Boston following the King assassination
1974
Stephen King’s first novel, “Carrie,” is published
 
Civil War
1862
Siege of Yorktown begins
 
Cold War
1951
Rosenbergs sentenced to death for spying
 
European History
1955
Winston Churchill retires as prime minister
 
Native American History
1614
Pocahontas marries John Rolfe
 
Sports
1984
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks NBA all-time scoring record
 
U.S. Presidents
1792
George Washington exercises first presidential veto
1933
FDR creates precursor to Civilian Conservation Corps
 
Women’s History
1992
Abortion rights advocates march on Washington
 
World War I
1918
First stage of German spring offensive ends
 
World War II
1945
Gen. MacArthur and Adm. Nimitz given new commands

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April 08
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1974
Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record
On April 8, 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714 homers. A crowd of 53,775 people, the largest in the history of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, was with Aaron that night to cheer when he hit a 4th inning pitch off the... read more
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1990s
1990
Eighteen-year-old Ryan White, national symbol of the AIDS crisis, dies
 
African History
1953
Jomo Kenyatta jailed for Mau Mau uprising in Kenya
2009
Somali pirates hijack Maersk Alabama ship
 
Arts & Entertainment
1990
“Twin Peaks” premieres on ABC
1994
Grunge icon Kurt Cobain is found dead three days after his suicide
 
Cold War
1987
U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz condemns Soviet spying
 
Crime
2005
Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph agrees to plead guilty
 
Great Depression
1935
Works Progress Administration established by Congress as part of FDR’s “New Deal”
 
Hispanic History
1993
Astronaut Ellen Ochoa becomes the first Hispanic woman in space
 
Sports
1975
Frank Robinson makes debut as first Black manager in MLB
1989
Pitcher Jim Abbott, born without right hand, makes MLB debut
 
Women’s History
2013
Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister, dies
 
World War I
1904
Britain and France sign Entente Cordiale
 
World War II
1944
Russians attack Germans in drive to expel them from Crimea

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April 09
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1865
Robert E. Lee surrenders
In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War. Forced to abandon the Confederate capital of Richmond, blocked from joining the surviving...  read more
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Arts & Entertainment
1859
Mark Twain receives steamboat pilot’s license
1939
Marian Anderson sings on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
 
Black History
1947
The Journey of Reconciliation—considered the first Freedom Ride—sets out from D.C.
 
Crime
1881
Billy the Kid convicted of murder
1984
Man attempts to kill wife for money using car bomb
 
European History
2005
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles wed
 
Hispanic History
1962
Rita Moreno becomes the first Hispanic woman to win an Oscar
 
Middle Eastern History
2003
Baghdad falls to U.S. forces
 
Space Exploration
1959
NASA introduces America’s first astronauts
 
U.S. Presidents
1866
Ulysses S. Grant arrested for speeding in his horse buggy, newspaper reports
 
Vietnam War
1969
“Chicago Eight” plead not guilty to federal conspiracy charges
 
World War II
1940
Germany invades Norway and Denmark
1942
Troops surrender in Bataan, Philippines, in largest-ever U.S. surrender
1945
Anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged

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April 10
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1866
ASPCA is founded
On April 10, 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by philanthropist and diplomat Henry Bergh, 54. In 1863, Bergh had been appointed by President Abraham Lincoln to a diplomatic post at the Russian court of Czar Alexander II. It was... read more
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Arts & Entertainment
1953
First color 3-D film opens
1970
Paul McCartney announces his break from the Beatles
 
Civil War
1865
After surrendering to Union, General Lee gives final address to troops
 
Cold War
1971
U.S. table tennis team visits communist China
 
Crime
1834
Arson uncovers torture chamber in mansion of New Orleans enslaver
 
Inventions & Science
1849
Safety pin is patented, rights sold for just $400
 
Latin American & Caribbean History
1919
Revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata assassinated in Mexico
 
Natural Disasters & Environment
1815
Indonesian volcano erupts, killing more than 100,000
1963
Atomic submarine USS Thresher sinks in the Atlantic, killing all on board
 
Sports
1961
South African Gary Player becomes first international Masters champion
1975
Lee Elder becomes first Black golfer to play in Masters
 
World War II
1941
Croatia declares independence
1942
Bataan Death March begins

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Napoleon abdicates the throne and is exiled to Elba
On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. The future emperor was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, on August 15, 1769. After... read more
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19th Century
1803
French Foreign Minister Talleyrand offers to sell Louisiana Territory to U.S.
1888
Henry Ford marries Clara Jane Bryant
 
21st Century
2015
Barack Obama and Raúl Castro meet in Panama
 
African History
1979
Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown
 
Arts & Entertainment
1931
Dorothy Parker announces she is resigning as drama critic for “The New Yorker”
1961
Bob Dylan plays his first major gig in New York City
1988
Cher wins Best Actress Oscar for “Moonstruck”
 
Crime
1870
Lord Muncaster of Britain is kidnapped in Greece, nearly causing war
 
Space Exploration
1970
Apollo 13 launches to the moon
 
Sports
1921
First live sporting event broadcast on radio
2004
Phil Mickelson wins first major at Masters
 
U.S. Presidents
1898
President McKinley asks for declaration of war against Spain
1951
President Truman relieves General MacArthur of duties in Korea
1977
President Carter hosts White House Easter egg roll
 
World War II
1945
Yugoslavian partisan leader Tito signs “friendship treaty” with Soviet Union
1945
The U.S. army liberates Buchenwald concentration camp

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Civil War begins as Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter
Four of the bloodiest years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861. During the next 34 hours, 50 Confederate guns and mortars launched more than 4,000... read more
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American Revolution
1770
British king approves repeal of the hated Townshend Acts
 
Arts & Entertainment
1954
Bill Haley and His Comets record “Rock Around The Clock”
 
Black History
1963
Martin Luther King Jr. is jailed in Birmingham
 
Civil War
1864
Hundreds of Union soldiers killed in Fort Pillow Massacre
 
Renaissance
1633
Galileo goes on trial for heresy
 
Space Exploration
1961
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space
1981
The space shuttle Columbia is launched for the first time
 
U.S. Presidents
1945
FDR dies
 
Vietnam War
1975
U.S. Embassy in Cambodia evacuated
 
World War I
1917
Canadians capture Vimy Ridge in northern France
 
World War II
1990
Soviets admit to Katyn Massacre of World War II

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The Colfax Massacre
An armed group of white supremacists attacks a courthouse guarded by a mostly-Black militia in the town of Colfax, Louisiana on April 13, 1873. A bloodbath ensues, as the militia surrenders and the white supremacists carry out a day-long campaign of terror that came to be known as the Colfax... read more
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21st Century
2017
U.S. military drops “Mother of All Bombs” on ISIS tunnel complex
 
Arts & Entertainment
1742
Handel’s “Messiah” premieres in Dublin
1870
Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City
1964
Sidney Poitier becomes first African American to win Best Actor Oscar
 
Asian History
1919
British and Gurkha troops massacre hundreds of unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar Massacre
 
Civil War
1861
Union forces surrender at Fort Sumter
 
Crime
1984
Serial killer Christopher Wilder dies by suicide
 
Inventions & Science
1928
First nonstop flight from Europe to North America
2009
Former MLB All-star Mark “The Bird” Fidrych dies in truck accident
 
Natural Disasters & Environment
1360
Hail storm kills 1,000 English troops in France
 
Space Exploration
1970
Apollo 13 oxygen tank explodes
 
Sports
1978
Fans toss candy bars onto field, disrupting MLB game
1997
Tiger Woods wins the Masters Tournament for the first time
 
U.S. Presidents
1743
Thomas Jefferson is born
 
World War II
1941
Japan and USSR sign nonaggression pact
1945
Nazis trap more than 1,000 concentration camp prisoners in a burning barn in Gardelegen massacre

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John Wilkes Booth shoots Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. The assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth, shouted, “Sic semper tyrannis! (Ever thus to tyrants!) The South is avenged,” as he jumped onto the stage and fled on horseback. Lincoln died the next... read more
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1980s
1988
Soviets agree to withdraw from Afghanistan
 
African History
1986
U.S. bombs terrorist and military targets in Libya
 
American Revolution
1775
First American abolition society founded in Philadelphia
 
Arts & Entertainment
1828
“Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language” is printed
1932
Loretta Lynn is born
1969
Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand tie for Best Actress Oscar
 
Great Depression
1935
“Black Sunday” Dust Bowl storm strikes
 
Natural Disasters & Environment
1944
Explosion on cargo ship rocks Bombay, India
 
Sports
1910
Taft becomes first U.S. president to throw out first pitch at MLB game
1960
Montreal Canadiens win fifth consecutive Stanley Cup
1996
Greg Norman blows six-shot Masters lead in epic collapse
 
World War I
1918
American pilots engage in first dogfight over the western front

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1947
Jackie Robinson becomes first African American player in Major League Baseball
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first African American player in Major League Baseball’s modern era when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years.... read more
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1990s
1998
Pol Pot, leader of Cambodia’s genocidal government, dies in his sleep
 
Arts & Entertainment
1894
Bessie Smith is born in Chattanooga, Tennessee
 
Cold War
1959
Castro visits the United States
 
Crime
2013
Three people killed, hundreds injured in Boston Marathon bombing
 
Natural Disasters & Environment
1912
Titanic sinks
 
Sports
1997
MLB retires Jackie Robinson’s number
 
U.S. Presidents
1865
President Lincoln dies

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Virginia Tech shooting leaves 32 dead
On April 16, 2007, 32 people died after being gunned down on the campus of Virginia Tech by Seung-Hui Cho, a student at the college who later died by suicide. The Virginia Tech shooting began around 7:15 a.m., when Cho, a 23-year-old senior and English major at Blacksburg-based Virginia Polytechnic... read more
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Arts & Entertainment
1889
Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin born
2018
Kendrick Lamar becomes the first rapper to win the Pulitzer Prize
 
Black History
1963
Martin Luther King Jr. writes “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
 
Cold War
1947
Bernard Baruch popularizes the term “Cold War”
 
Crime
1881
Western gunslinger, Bat Masterson, fights in last shootout
 
European History
1917
Lenin returns to Russia from exile
 
Inventions & Science
1943
Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered
1946
Arthur Chevrolet dies by suicide
 
Natural Disasters & Environment
1947
Fertilizer explosion kills more than 500 in Texas
 
Space Exploration
1972
Apollo 16 departs for moon
 
Sports
1929
Cleveland becomes first MLB team to play with numbers on back of jerseys
 
World War II
1945
Hitler calls for last stand on the Eastern front

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Apollo 13 returns to Earth
With the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13, a U.S. lunar spacecraft that suffered a severe malfunction on its journey to the moon, safely returns to Earth on April 17, 1970. On April 11, the third manned lunar landing mission was launched from Florida, carrying astronauts James A. Lovell, John L.... read more
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Arts & Entertainment
1960
Eddie Cochran dies, and Gene Vincent is injured, in a UK car accident
2002
“General Hospital” airs 10,000th episode
 
Asian History
1989
Chinese students protest against government
 
Cold War
1945
Americans seize 1,100 pounds of uranium in effort to prevent Soviets from developing A-bomb
1961
The Bay of Pigs invasion begins
1969
Architect of Czechoslovakia’s Prague Spring forcibly resigns
 
Early U.S.
1790
Benjamin Franklin dies
 
Inventions & Science
1964
Ford Mustang debuts at World’s Fair
 
Vietnam War
1975
Cambodia falls to the Khmer Rouge
 
World War I
1917
Second Battle of Gaza begins
 
World War II
1941
Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis
1942
General Henri Giraud makes his great escape from the Nazis

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The Great San Francisco Earthquake topples buildings, killing thousands
On April 18, 1906, at 5:13 a.m., an earthquake estimated at close to 8.0 on the Richter scale strikes San Francisco, California, killing an estimated 3,000 people as it topples numerous buildings. The quake was caused by a slip of the San Andreas Fault over a segment about 275 miles long, and shock... read more
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American Revolution
1775
Revere and Dawes warn of British attack
 
Arts & Entertainment
1958
Federal court decides to release poet Ezra Pound from hospital for criminally insane
2012
Dick Clark, host of “American Bandstand” and “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” dies
 
European History
1689
Siege of Derry begins
 
Middle Eastern History
1983
Suicide bomber destroys U.S. embassy in Beirut
 
Natural Disasters & Environment
2014
Avalanche kills 16 Sherpas on Mt. Everest
 
Religion
1521
Martin Luther defiant at Diet of Worms
 
Sports
1983
Joan Benoit wins Boston Marathon, besting women’s record by almost three minutes
 
World War II
1942
Doolittle leads air raid on Tokyo
1945
War correspondent Ernie Pyle killed

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American Revolution begins at Battle of Lexington
April 19, 1775: At about 5 a.m., 700 British troops, on a mission to capture Patriot leaders and seize a Patriot arsenal, march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker waiting for them on the town’s common green. British Major John Pitcairn ordered the outnumbered... read more
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1990s
1993
Waco Siege ends; Branch Davidian compound burns
 
Arts & Entertainment
1824
Lord Byron dies in Greece
1956
Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco marry in “wedding of the century”
 
Civil War
1861
First blood in the Civil War
1863
Union Colonel Abel Streight’s raid into Alabama and Georgia begins
 
Crime
1989
Central Park jogger attack shocks New York City
1995
Oklahoma City bombing
 
Sports
1897
First Boston Marathon held
 
U.S. Presidents
1809
Thomas Jefferson sells indentured servant to newly elected President James Madison
1947
President Truman inaugurates White House bowling alley
 
Vietnam War
1971
Vietnam Veterans Against the War demonstrate
 
World War I
1919
Discussion of Italian claims begins at Paris peace conference
 
World War II
1943
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins

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Teen gunmen kill 13 at Columbine High School
On April 20, 1999, two teenage gunmen kill 13 people in a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, south of Denver. At approximately 11:19 a.m., Dylan Klebold, 17, and Eric Harris, 18, dressed in trench coats, began shooting students outside the school before moving inside to... read more
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1970s
1978
Korean Air Lines jet forced down over Soviet Union
 
American Revolution
1777
New York adopts state constitution
 
Black History
1971
Supreme Court declares desegregation busing constitutional
 
Civil War
1861
Robert E. Lee resigns from U.S. Army after Virginia secedes from Union
 
Early U.S.
1914
Militia slaughters strikers at Ludlow, Colorado
 
Great Depression
1933
FDR suspends the gold standard for U.S. currency
 
Immigration
1980
Fidel Castro announces Mariel Boatlift, allowing Cubans to emigrate to U.S.
 
Natural Disasters & Environment
2010
Massive oil spill begins in Gulf of Mexico
 
Sports
1986
Michael Jordan scores 63 points in playoff game
2008
Danica Patrick becomes first woman to win Indy race
 
U.S. Government and Politics
1871
Ku Klux Klan Act passed by Congress
 
Vietnam War
1971
Pentagon announces a rise in “fragging” among U.S. military units

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