1507 – German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller is the first to use the name America on his world map “Universalis Cosmographia”
1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War
1945 – Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
1957 – Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian government
1964 – 11th National Film Awards (India): “Shehar Aur Sapna” wins the Golden Lotus
1970 – Melanie (Safka) releases “Lay Down”
1978 – ABC premiere of crime drama “Vega$”
1991 – Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL NE Patriots for sexual harassment
1993 – Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader
1994 – Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 24th April 2022
1800 – US Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
1877 – Last federal occupying troops withdraw from the South (New Orleans)
1883 – 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World’s Fair
1910 – German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
1950 – Independent republic of South Molukkas declared
1958 – Lee Walls hits 3 HRs, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2
1990 – Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
1990 – West and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1st
2006 – King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
2018 – Golden State Killer suspect Joseph DeAngelo arrested and charged with eight murders after being identified through genealogy websites
Historical Events for 23rd April 2022
1344 – Order of the Garter founded by English King Edward III, the most senior knighthood in the UK with just 24 living members plus the monarch (or 1348)
1723 – Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht
1860 – Democratic convention in Charleston, South Carolina divided over slavery
1861 – Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces (US Civil War)
1900 – 1st know occurrence of word “hillbillie” (NY Journal)
1939 – Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st HR
1941 – Greek Army surrenders to Germany; British RAF evacuates the Greek King George II to Egypt
1983 – David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* v Sri Lanka
1993 – Peter Townshend’s musical “Tommy” premieres in NYC
2012 – Netherlands Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, tenders resignation, paving the way for early elections
Historical Events for 22nd April 2022
1876 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completes his ballet “Swan Lake”
1876 – 1st official National League baseball game is played; Boston Red Caps beat Philadelphia Athletics, 6-5 at the Jefferson Street Grounds, Philadelphia
1898 – 1st Spanish–American War action sees the USS Nashville capture a Spanish ship
1947 – 1st Basketball Association of America Finals: Philadelphia Warriors beat Chicago Stags, 83-80 to take inaugural series, 4 games to 2
1983 – Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolf Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)
1994 – In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made
2000 – In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives’ home in Miami, Florida.
2006 – Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War
2013 – 6 people are killed in a shooting rampage in Belgorod, Russia
2014 – David Moyes is sacked as manager of Manchester United
Historical Events for 21st April 2022
1902 – 6th Boston Marathon won by Sam Mellor in 2:43:12
1910 – Cleve Naps play 1st game at League Park, lose to Det Tigers 5-0
1930 – Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Moskva Golid” premieres in Moscow
1935 – King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties
1956 – Elvis Presley’s 1st hit record, “Heartbreak Hotel”, becomes #1
1958 – 62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalić of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54
1984 – After 37 weeks Michael Jackson’s album “Thriller” is knocked off as top album by movie soundtrack for “Footloose”
1990 – Reds win running their record to 9-0, best start in club history
1993 – Brazil votes against a monarchy
2021 – Russian President Vladimir Putin warns the West not to cross a “red line” in his state of the union address, amid massing of 100,000 Russian troops on Ukraine border
Historical Events for 20th April 2022
1657 – Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet
1910 – Halley’s Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1934 – Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police
1972 – Virgil Thomson’s final opera, “Lord Byron”, with libretto by Jack Larson, first performance at Lincoln Center, New York City
1981 – Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession
1986 – Vladimir Horowitz performs in Moscow, Russia, his first appearance in his Russian homeland since 1925
1987 – US deports Karl Linnas to USSR, charged with Nazi war crimes
1992 – Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse
1994 – Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
1996 – 1996 NFL Draft: Keyshawn Johnson from USC first pick by New York Jets
Historical Events for 19th April 2022
1770 – Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname
1775 – American Revolution begins in Lexington, Massachusetts. The “Shot Heard Round the World” takes place later that day in Concord
1836 – Nikolai Gogol’s “Revisor” premieres in St Petersburg
1861 – Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1877 – Opera “Les Cloches de Cornerville” is produced (Paris)
1968 – Belgian construction workers strike
1969 – Serious rioting in the Bogside area of Derry following clashes between Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association marchers and Loyalists and members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
1970 – “Look to the Lilies” closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 performances
1985 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1986 – Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Historical Events for 18th April 2022
1738 – Real Academia de la Historia (“Royal Academy of History”) founded in Madrid
1862 – Battle of Fort Jackson, Fort St Philip and New Orlean’s, Louisiana
1916 – US Secretary of State Warns Germany that the USA may break diplomatic relations unless torpedo attacks on unarmed ships stop
1921 – 25th Boston Marathon won by Frank Zuna in race record 2:18:57.6
1926 – Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf, Germany
1936 – Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco to Honolulu
1962 – 16th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
1987 – Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver near Coolidge, Arizona
1990 – Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in WLAF
2010 – 45th Academy of Country Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, and Miranda Lambert win
Historical Events for 17th April 2022
1555 – Siena surrenders to Spanish troops
1907 – Ellis Island, New York records 11,745 immigrants
1927 – Japan’s Wakarsoeki government falls, Baron Tanaka becomes premier
1945 – German occupiers flood Wieringermeer, Netherlands
1953 – Mickey Mantle hits a 565′ (172 m) HR in Washington, D.C.’s Griffith Stadium
1961 – Jimmy Stewart accepts an honorary Oscar on behalf of his friend Gary Cooper, who is too ill to attend
1967 – Shortwave Radio NY Worldwide goes back on the air after a week off
1978 – 82nd Boston Marathon: US double; Bill Rodgers wins his 2nd men’s title in 2:10:13; Gayle Barron women’s champion in 2:44:52
1979 – Four Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army van bomb in Bessbrook, County Armagh; the bomb is believed to be the largest PIRA bomb used up to that point
2019 – Terror alert closes schools in Denver, Colorado, due to 18 year-old woman obsessed with Columbine massacre, who is then found dead
Historical Events for 16th April 2022
1509 – French army under Louis XII enters the Alps
1918 – The British House of Commons passes a new Military Service Bill, taking men up to 55 years old and extending to Ireland
1922 – Annie Oakley sets women’s record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row
1922 – Treaty of Rapallo between the German Republic and Soviet Union a is signed in Italy, normalizing diplomatic relations with each side renouncing their territorial and financial claims against the other
1947 – Massive explosion and fire kills 522 in Texas City, Tx
1954 – Stanley Cup Final, Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens, 2-1 in OT for a 4-3 series victory
1978 – “History of the American Film” closes at ANTA NYC after 21 performances
1979 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for “Buried child”
1987 – August Wilson’s “Fences” wins 1987 Pulitzer Prize for drama
1992 – NY Rangers win team record 50th game