April 4th, 1968The reverend Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was 39. And Ive seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we as a pe
April 5th, 1986A bombing at a disco in whats then West Berlin kills an American soldier and a Turkish woman. The US retaliates more than a week later with an air raid on Libya, narrowly missing its leader Muammar Kaddafi. 1964Old soldiers never die.
April 6th. 1917. The United States enters World War I on the side of the Allies as Congress declares war on Germany. 1909. Explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson lead the first successful expedition to reach the North Pole. 1896. The first m
April 7th. 1994. Civil war erupts in Rwanda, a day after its leader and the president of Burundi are killed in a mysterious plane crash. In the months that follow, hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsis and Hutu intellectuals are slaughtered in the
March 17th,461 A.D. Saint Patrick, Irelands patron saint for whom Saint Patricks Day is named dies in the Irish village of Saul. Other authorities say Patricks death happened on this day that more three decades later in 493 A.D. 2003President George
April 29th,1992Rioting hits Los Angeles, killing 55 people and causing a billion dollars in property damage. It happens after four white police officers are acquitted of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of black motorist, Rodney Kin
April 30th 1945Nazi Germany's dictator Aldof Hitler commits suicide during the last days of the World War II in Europe. Hitler and Eva Braun ,his long-time mistress and wife of one day, take their own lives as Soviet troops approaches bunker in Berli
April 8th, 2005At the Vatican, world leaders join pilgrims and Roman Catholic clergy in St. Peter's Square for the funeral of Pope John Paul II. 1973Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, dies at his home in France at age 91.
April 9th, 1865The American Civil War effectively ends after four years and more than a half million death. Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his forces to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. 2003Iraqi celeb
April 12th, 1945President Franklin Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in WarmSprings, Georgia at age 63. Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Roosevelt, who led America through the Great Depression and
April 19th, 1995From my office, the door right normal in it and there is nothing there any more, it's just, it's for me and these individuals, the building's gone.In Oklahoma City, a truck bomb destroys the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The blas
April 20, 1889: Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany who ruled for more than a dozen years, is born in Austria. Hitler's third rift brought World War II and the holocaust that killed 6 million Jews in Europe. 1999: Two students go on a shooting ram
April 21st, 1910Writer and humorist Mark Twain dies of heart disease in Redding Connecticut at age 74, among his works, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and The Prince and the Pauper. 1926: We can make sense of the future if we understand the lessons of
April 22nd, 1994: In New York, former President Richard Nixon dies at age 81, just days after suffering a stroke. Others may hate you, those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.Nixon pursued Cold War detente and
April 23rd, 1564: To be or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare is believed to have been born on this day in Stratford-upon-Avon England. The poet and dramatist, known as the Bard, one of the greats in world literature, dies on the sa
April 25th, 1874. Radio pioneer Marconi is born in Bologna, Italy. 1507. Amercia gets its name nearly 15 years after Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World.A German cartographer first uses the term on a world map to refer to the huge la
April 26th, 1986The worlds worst nuclear accident happens at Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire at the plant kills at least 31 people, spewing radioactive clouds into the atmosphere that winds carry as fa
April 27th, 1822Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general who later served as president, is born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. Grant led Union forces during the wars final years, receiving the Confederates surrender at Appomattox. 1521Portuguese explorer Fe
April 28th1945A violent end for Italys dictator, Benito Mussolini during the last days of World War II in Europe, Italian resistance fighters executed Mussolini and his mistress as they tried to flee the country. 1937Saddam Hussein, dictator of Ira
April 18th,1906A devastating earthquake strikes San Francesco, flattening buildings and setting off raging fires. Estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000 in one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit an American city. 17
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