1728 – Pierre de Marivaux’s play “Le Triomphe de Plutus” premieres in Paris
1823 – Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London
1848 – Captain James Fitzjames and 105 surviving crew depart their ice-trapped ships for safety in Arctic Canada; all later perish as part of John Franklin’s doomed Northwest Passage expedition
1957 – All NL baseball teams integrate, John Irwin Kennedy becomes the 1st Black player for the Philadelphia Phillies
1969 – Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 days of non-stop sailing to become the 1st person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe
1971 – Soyuz 10 launches as the world’s first mission to the first-ever space station (the Salyut 1) however the docking was unsuccessful and the cosmonauts returned to Earth
1998 – 33rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood and George Strait win
2006 – Nepalese security forces open fire on pro-democracy protesters demonstrating against King Gyanendra, injuring hundreds. The protesters secure the restoration of parliament and a federal state
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 21st April 2026
1930 – Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
1944 – NFL Chic Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers merge (dissolves on Dec 3)
1980 – Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWWW Detroit, Michigan
1991 – French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio discovers the San Diego, Dutch galleon sunk in 1600 off Fortune Island in the Philippines
1994 – Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed
1997 – 101st Boston Marathon: Lameck Aguta of Kenya wins men’s event in 2:10:34; Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia women’s champion in 2:26:23
2017 – Taliban attack army base at Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, killing more than 100
2018 – Oakland A’s left hander Sean Manaea no-hits the Boston Red Sox
Historical Events for 20th April 2026
1799 – Friedrich von Schiller’s play “Wallensteins Tod” premieres in Weimar
1809 – Napoleon I and French forces defeat Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1951 – Huge ticker-tape parade held in NYC for World War II and Korean War General Douglas MacArthur after he was relieved of Command by President Truman
1962 – OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers
1962 – NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong flies the experimental X-15 aircraft to an altitude of 63,250 meters
1991 – Mark Lenzi becomes the first diver to score more than 100 points on a single dive, earning 101.85 points
1996 – Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season
2012 – Plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 127 people
Historical Events for 19th April 2026
1932 – US President Herbert Hoover suggests five-day work week
1954 – 7-time winner of Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th
1959 – Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails
1971 – Charles Manson sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Sharon Tate
1972 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 – Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park HR against NY Yankees
1982 – Former Cuban marathon cheat Rosie Ruiz is arrested for embezzling $60,000
1987 – Brendon Kuruppu scores 201* on Test Cricket debut (Sri Lanka v NZ)
Historical Events for 18th April 2026
1738 – Real Academia de la Historia (“Royal Academy of History”) founded in Madrid
1869 – 1st international cricket match, held in San Francisco, won by California
1922 – Netherlands soccer team defeats Denmark 2-0
1939 – Hubert Pierlot forms Belgian government
1946 – Jackie Robinson debuts as second baseman for the Montreal Royals, the minor league affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers
1956 – Egypt and Israel agree to a cease fire
1966 – 70th Boston Marathon: Kenji Kimihara of Japan wins in 2:17:11; American Bobbi Gibb first woman in 3:21:40 (unsanctioned)
2013 – 28th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Heart; Albert King; Randy Newman; Public Enemy; Rush; Donna Summer; Quincy Jones; and Lou Adler
Historical Events for 17th April 2026
1930 – Abkhazian ASSR forms in Georgian SSR
1950 – 54th Boston Marathon won by Kee Yong Ham of South Korea in 2:32:39
1956 – Willie Mosconi sinks 150 consecutive balls in a billiard tournament
1961 – 1,400 Cuban exiles land in the Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro
1964 – 1st game at Shea Stadium, NY Mets lose to Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3
1987 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1993 – Two Los Angeles police officers convicted in federal court of violating Rodney King’s civil rights and sentenced to prison, while two others are acquitted,
2006 – 110th Boston Marathon: Kenyan double; Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot wins 2nd men’s title in 2:07:14; Rita Jeptoo takes women’s title in 2:23:38
Historical Events for 16th April 2026
1818 – US Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot Agreement, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes
1854 – Franz Liszt’s symphonic poem “Mazeppa” premieres at the Court Theatre in Weimar
1924 – 1st radio-transmission of wireless: Mattheus Passion
1940 – New York Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Ruppert in Monument Park, Yankee Stadium
1977 – Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia
1982 – Queen Elizabeth proclaims Canada’s new constitution
1983 – Steve Garvey sets NL record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games
2003 – Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens, admitting 10 new member states to the European Union
Historical Events for 15th April 2026
1658 – Battle of Dharmat won by future Moghul emperor Aurangzeb, who defeats his brother and designated heir Dara Shikoh
1861 – Federal army of 75,000 volunteers is mobilized by President Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War
1865 – Mobile, Alabama is captured by Union forces after a siege led by General Canby
1963 – Steve Allen’s musical “Sophie”, based on the life of American singer, and comic actress Sophie Tucker, opens at Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 8 performances
1986 – Viv Richards century off 56 balls v England in Antigua Test Cricket
1994 – Jazz singer Tony Bennett records a session for “MTV’s Unplugged” series at Sony Studios, NYC, featuring the Ralph Sharon trio, and guest appearances by Elvis Costello, and k.d.lang; album release wins 2 Grammy Awards
1997 – Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring #42 for all teams
2020 – South Korea is 1st country to hold a general election under COVID-19, President Moon Jae-in’s ruling Democratic party wins in a landslide
Historical Events for 14th April 2026
1847 – Persia and Ottoman Turkey sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum
1922 – Irish Republican Army rebels occupy the Four Courts (government buildings) in Dublin
1931 – Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 2-0 for a 3-2 series win; Canadiens’ back-to-back Championships
1972 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes 24 bombs in towns and cities across Northern Ireland
1980 – First Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
1988 – Michael Rupert and Jerry Colker’s musical “Mail” opens at Music Box Theater, NYC; runs for 37 performances
1992 – Revival of Frank Loesser’s musical “Guys and Dolls” starring Nathan Lane opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC, runs for 1,143 performances, and wins 4 Tony Awards
2012 – J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, launches her website “Pottermore”
Historical Events for 13th April 2026
1882 – Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia
1909 – In Constantinople the primarily Albanian First Army Corps seizes the parliament building and telegraphs offices, forcing the Ottoman statesman Hilmi Pasha to resign
1928 – 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-US (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Köhl)
1964 – 36th Academy Awards: “Tom Jones” (Best Film), Patricia Neal (Hud), and Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field) win; Poitier is the first Black actor in a leading role to win a competitive Oscar
1975 – Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
1983 – Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault
1990 – Final episode of Pat Sajak’s late night TV show on CBS
1997 – Rare double doubleheader played in the same city Giants vs Mets and Oakland A’s vs Yankees in NY after rain previous day