April 15 History, Trivia, and Fun FactsApril 15 History Highlights1947 – Jackie Robinson, became the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, for the Brooklyn Dodgers.1989 – 96 fans were killed in The Hillsborough Tragedy in Sheffield, England with poor crowd control planning at a soccer match
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April 14 History, Trivia, and Fun FactsApril 14 History Highlights1561 – A ‘celestial phenomenon’ is reported over Nuremberg, described as an aerial UFO battle.1828 – Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language.1865 – President Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.1933 – Jack Mackay and his wife reported
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April 13 History, Trivia, and Fun FactsApril 13 History Highlights1962 – Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.1964 – Sidney Poitier became the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film, Lilies of the Field.1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note.If
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Universe 25 The Universe 25 experiment, conducted by American ethologist John B. Calhoun in the late 1950s and early 1970s, remains a significant study in behavioral science. This experiment was designed to test the effects of a perfect environment on mice’s behavior, with a particular focus on population density and social behavior. Calhoun created
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April 12 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 12 History Highlights1961 – Aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human being to travel into space.If you were born on April 12th,You were likely conceived the week of… July 20th (prior year)April 12 is…Day of Human Space Flight Day
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April 11 History, Trivia, and Fun FactsApril 11 History Highlights1945 – American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp.1965 – Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.1970 – Apollo 13 launched.If you were born on April 11th,You were likely conceived the week of… July 19th (prior year)April 11, 1954 – The Most Boring
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April 10 History, Trivia, and Fun FactsApril 10 History Highlights1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was founded in New York City.1963 – The submarine USS Thresher sank, killing 129 American sailors.1970 – The Beatles broke up as a band.2019 – Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announced
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April 9 History, Trivia, and Fun FactsApril 9 History Highlights1784 – The Treaty of Paris was ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War.1816 – The AME (African Methodist Episcopla) Church was founded in Philadelphia, PA.1865 – The American Civil War ended at Appomattox, Virginia.1882 – Jumbo
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April 8 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 8 History Highlights1820 – Created nearly 2,000 years earlier, the Venus de Milo staue was discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.1974 – Henry Aaron hit his 715th Home Run, beating Babe Ruth’s record of 714.2005 – Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph agreed to plead guilty.
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April 7 History, Trivia, and Fun FactsApril 7 History Highlights1712 – A slave revolt took place in New York city.1940 – Booker T. Washington became the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.1948 – The World Health Organization was established by the United Nations.April 7, 1969 – The Internet’s symbolic
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April 6 History, Trivia, and Fun FactsApril 6 History Highlights1869 – Celluloid was patented (#50359) by John Wesley Hyatt.1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games took place, 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.1917 – The United States joined in World War I.April 6, 1946 Birthday (fictional)
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April 5 History, Trivia, and Fun FactsApril 5 History Highlights1768 – The first American Chamber of Commerce was founded in New York, NY.1792 – United States President George Washington vetoed a bill, the first time exercising the authority to this power is used in the United States.1933 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed executive order
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April 4 History, Trivia, and Fun FactsApril 4 History Highlights1814 – Napoleon abdicated and named his son Napoleon II as Emperor of the French.1841 – William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia, becoming the first President of the United States to die in office (presiding 31 days total).1887 – Argonia, Kansas elected Susanna M. Salter as
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April 3 History, Trivia, and Fun FactsApril 3 History Highlights1860 – The first United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California took began.April 3, 1918 Birthday (fictional) Jay Garrick (Golden Age Flash), DC Comics.2000 – Microsoft was ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping “an oppressive thumb” on
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April 2 History, Trivia, and Fun FactsApril 2 History Highlights1513 – Ponce de Leon discovered Florida.1792 – The United States Mint was established via the Coinage Act.1878 – The first White House Easter Egg Roll took place.1917 – The Great War: US President Woodrow Wilson asked the American Congress for a declaration of war on
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April 1 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril 1 History Highlights1891 – The Wrigley (Chewing Gum) Company was founded in Chicago, Illinois.April 1 is known as April Fools Day or All Fools’ Day in many countries.April 1, **** Birthday (fictional) Mr. Mxyzptlk Superman, DC Comics1976 – Apple Inc. was formed by Steve Jobs, Steve
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March 31 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 31 History Highlights1492 – Queen Isabella of Castile issued The Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.1889 – Eiffel Tower was dedicated, opening later that year.1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States
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April Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryApril History HighlightsIt is likely that the Roman Goddess of Love ‘Aprilis’ was honored when naming the month of April, but historians aren’t totally sure of that factoid.Birthstone: DiamondFlower: Daisy or Sweet PeaAries (March 21 – April 20), Taurus (April 21 – May 20)Traditional April InformationThe origin of
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March 30 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 30 History Highlights1822 – The Florida Territory was created in the United States.1856 – The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Crimean War.1981 – President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest outside a Washington, DC hotel by John Hinckley Jr. He later told his
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March 29 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 29 History Highlights845 – Paris was sacked by Viking raiders, possibly under Ragnar Lodbrok.1848 – Large blocks of ice blocked Niagra Falls until April 1.1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage with the Soviet Union.1999 – The Dow Jones Index
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March 28 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 28 History Highlights1842 – The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra debuted, conducted by Otto Nicolai.1881 – ‘The Greatest Show On Earth’ Barnum and Baily Brothers Circus debuted.1979 – The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant accident occurred.If you were born on March 28th,You were likely conceived the week
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March 27 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 27 History Highlights1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reached the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever ID’d in the United States, was put in quarantine.1952 – Singin’ In The
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March 26 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 26 History Highlights1484 – William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop’s Fables.1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coined the term “gerrymander” to describe oddly shaped electoral districts.1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention came into force.1979 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin, and Jimmy Carter
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March 25 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 25 History Highlights1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted permission to colonize Virginia.Until 1752, March 25 was considered New Year’s Day in Great Britain and its colonies.1807 – The Slave Trade Act abolished the slave trade in the British Empire.1911 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
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March 24 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 24 History Highlights1765 – Great Britain passed the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.3rd Amendment to the US Constitution, 1791: No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time
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March 23 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 23 History Highlights1857 – Elisha Otis’s first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.1868 – The University of California was founded in Oakland, California.1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement.1933 – The Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of 1933,
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March 22 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 22 History Highlights1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians killed 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population.1945 – The Arab League was founded in Cairo, Egypt.1993 – Intel Corporation shipped the first Pentium chipsMarch 22, **** Birthday (fictional) Diana of Themyscira (Wonder
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March 20 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 20 History Highlights1760 – The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroyed 349 buildings, but no reported deaths.1916 – Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity was published in Annalen der Physik.1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosted the opening of Pablo Picasso’s first United States showing.March
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March 21 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture HistoryMarch 21 History Highlights1913 – 20,000 homes were destroyed, and over 360 people were killed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.1965 – 3,000 civil rights demonstrators participated in the walk from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph
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March 19 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture History March 19 History Highlights 1279 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ended the Song dynasty in China.Over 100,000 people died in the sea battle. 1918 – US Standard Time Act established standard time zones in the United States. 1962 – Bob Dylan released
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