April

April 30 History, Facts and TriviaApril 30 History Highlights1938 – The cartoon short Porky’s Hare Hunt debuted in movie theaters, introducing ‘Happy Rabbit’ (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).1939 – The 1939/1940 New York World’s Fair opened.1939 – Franklin Roosevelt became the first US President to appear on Televsion, while appearing at the New York World’s […]

April 29 History, Facts and TriviaApril 29 History Highlights1770 – James Cook arrived in Australia, and named Botany Bay.1945 – The Dachau concentration camp was liberated.1968 – Hair, a hippie/counter-culture and sexual revolution musical, opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway.2011 – The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton took place at Westminster Abbey

April 28 History, Facts and TriviaApril 28 History Highlights1789 – The Mutiny on the Bounty took place.1967 – World boxing champion Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.) refused to be inducted into the US Army and was immediately stripped of his heavyweight title.2001 – Dennis Tito became the first tourist in space, paying the Russian

April 27 History, Facts and TriviaApril 27 History Highlights1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.1967 – Expo 67 officially opened in Montreal, Quebec.1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics joined the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.2006 – Construction began on the Freedom Tower (now

April 26 History, Facts and TriviaApril 26 History Highlights1954 – Polio vaccine trials began.April 26, 1968 Birthday (fictional) Lorelai Gilmore, TV Mom1986 – A nuclear reactor accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union, created the world’s worst nuclear disaster.April 26, 19** Birthday (fictional) Donna Troy

April 25 History, Facts and TriviaApril 25 History Highlights1901 – New York required the first license plates.1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson published Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed.If you were born on April

April 24 History, Facts and TriviaApril 24 History Highlights1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, began publication.1800 – The Library of Congress was founded.1913 – The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, was opened.It was the tallest building in the world until 1930.1990 – The Hubble Space

April 23 History, Facts and TriviaApril 23 History Highlights1516 – The Munich Reinheitsgebot, rules regarding the ingredients of beer, took effect in all of Bavaria.1635 – America’s oldest school, The Boston Latin School opened.1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.1940 -The Rhythm Club fire at a dance

April 22 History, Facts and TriviaApril 22 History Highlights1864 – The US Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.1906 – The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, opened in Athens.1970

April 20 History, Facts and TriviaApril 20 History Highlights1836 – The US Congress created the Wisconsin Territory.1898 – President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for a declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolved, giving most of its power to the United Nations.April 20,

April 19 History, Facts and TriviaApril 19 History Highlights1770 – Captain James Cook discovered the eastern coast of what is now Australia.1987 – The Simpsons first appeared as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show,1993 – The Branch Davidian Fire, caused by federal agents at Waco, killed 86 people.1995 – The Oklahoma City

April 18 History, Facts and TriviaApril 18 History Highlights1906 – The San Francisco Earthquake killed nearly 4,000 people.1925 – The International Amateur Radio Union formed in Paris.1946 – The International Court of Justice held its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.1955 – Indonesia’s President Sukarno first used the term “third world” at the Bandung conference.If

April 17 History, Facts and TriviaApril 17 History Highlights1521 – The trial of Martin Luther over his teachings began during the assembly of the Diet of Worms.1961 – The Bay of Pigs Invasion2014 – NASA’s Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet, Kepler-186f.April 17, 19** Birthday (fictional) Daffy Duck, CartoonIf you

April 16 History, Facts and TriviaApril 16 History Highlights1862 – Emancipation Day – Abraham Lincoln freed 3,1000 slaves in Washington DC.1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument was established in Utah.1946 – The United States Army liberated Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Colditz, aka Oflag IV-C.1947 – Bernard Baruch first used the term “Cold War”

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

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

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

April 12 History, Facts and TriviaApril 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 Drop Everything and

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

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

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

April 8 History, Facts and TriviaApril 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. A security guard

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

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)

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

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

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

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

April 1 History, Facts and TriviaApril 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 Wozniak, and Ronald

April History, Facts and TriviaApril 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 April’s name is