1915 – John McCrae writes the poem “In Flanders Fields”
1926 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
1946 – International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
1954 – KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1961 – Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter
1979 – Martin Sherman’s “Bent” premieres in London
1986 – Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th and 301st HR
1991 – 356th and final episode of CBS second longest running series “Dallas”, (2nd only to “Gunsmoke”)
1995 – Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
2019 – Cyclone Fani strikes Odisha State, India and Bangladesh, killing 33 people after one of the biggest human evacuations ever – 1.2 million in India in 24 hours
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 2nd May 2021
1345 – “Quaden Maendach” in Ghent: battles between fullers and weavers
1911 – French troops occupy Fès El Bali, Morocco
1956 – US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
1970 – 96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4
1974 – Former US Vice President Spiro Agnew disbarred
1977 – “The King and I” opens at Uris Theater NYC for 719 performances
1982 – Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
1994 – Bus crashes into a tree at Gdańsk Poland, 32 killed
2013 – 60 miners are killed after a gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, Sudan
2018 – Spanish Basque separatist group Eta announces it will be formally disbanding after 50 years
Historical Events for 1st May 2021
1841 – First emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri, for California
1866 – American Equal Rights Association forms
1941 – “Citizen Kane”, directed by Orson Welles and starring himself, Joseph Cotten and Dorothy Corningore, premieres at the Palace Theater in New York City
1942 – Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear “Jewish star”
1967 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes President of Nicaragua
1996 – “Ideal Husband” opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 308 performances
2004 – 130th Kentucky Derby: Stewart Elliott wins aboard Smarty Jones. North American wagering records smashed ($142m on 12-race card)
2008 – The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in 2000, enters into force in 14 of the 34 Contracting States to the European Patent Convention.
2009 – Carol Ann Duffy is appointed British Poet Laureate – first Scot and woman Laureate
2017 – Billy Corgan agrees to purchase the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)
Historical Events for 30th April 2021
1671 – Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
1722 – Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant
1863 – -5/1] Battle of Snyder’s Bluff, Virginia (part of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War): General Sherman beaten by Confederate forces
1900 – The “Hawaiian Organic Act” is enacted by US Congress making Hawaii a US territory
1938 – Bradman scores 258 Aust v Worcs, 293 mins, 33 fours 1 five
1973 – Women’s tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments
1985 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1987 – NY Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game
1989 – US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
2008 – Heidi Klum launches her clothing line for Jordache
Historical Events for 29th April 2021
1429 – Joan of Arc arrives at the siege of Orleans
1550 – Emperor Charles V gives inquisiters additional authority
1644 – Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes Emperor of China and flees Peking
1901 – Antisemitic riot in Budapest
1916 – Irish republicans abandon the post office in Dublin and surrender unconditionally, marking the end of the Easter Rising
1934 – Pittsburgh is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday
1988 – Baltimore Orioles end their record 21-game losing streak by beating the White Sox 9-0
1990 – US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space
2005 – New Zealand’s first civil union takes place
2016 – “H.O.L.Y” single released by Florida Georgia Line (Billboard Song of the Year 2016)
Historical Events for 28th April 2021
1202 – King Philip II expels King John of England (“Lackland”) from France
1376 – English parliament demands supervision of royal spending
1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, oldest existing university in Asia and largest Catholic university in the world
1892 – 1st performance of Antonín Dvořák’s overture “Carnival Overture”
1925 – Netherlands and Great Britain return to gold standard
1943 – US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara, North Tunisia
1965 – William F Raborn Jr replaces John A McCone as 7th head of CIA
1965 – US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
1988 – NJ Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes
1988 – Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
Historical Events for 27th April 2021
1509 – Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice
1643 – Tirso de Molina’s “Bellaco Sois, Gomez” premieres in Madrid
1694 – Frederik August I “the Strong” becomes monarch of Saksen
1915 – Counterattack launched by Turkish forces under the command of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk against allied troops
1946 – 1st radar installed aboard a commercial ship
1952 – “4 Saints in 3 Acts” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 15 performances
1968 – Baltimore Oriole Tom Phoebus no-hits Boston, 6-0
1994 – “An Inspector Calls” opens at Royale Theater NYC for 454 performances
1994 – 29.0°C in Genevad, Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record)
2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City
Historical Events for 26th April 2021
757 – Paolo Orsini replaces his brother Pope Stephen II, as Paul I
1928 – Madame Tussaud’s waxwork exhibition reopens in London after a fire
1949 – Transjordan is officially renamed the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
1971 – Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15″ in 24 hrs
1974 – Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline and Buskey to Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow and Upshaw
1984 – President Reagan visits China
1990 – Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal and twists his ankle
1992 – Alex Haley (Roots) wins 1992 Ellis Island Award, posthumously
1992 – “Metro” closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 13 performances
2009 – 55th British Academy Television Awards: “Harry and Paul” Best Comedy, “Wallander” Best Drama
Historical Events for 25th April 2021
1684 – Patent granted for thimble
1898 – Spanish–American War: The United States declares state of war on Spain effective from 21st April
1945 – “Elbe Day” – US and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on the Elbe River during the invasion of Germany in WWII
1949 – Friedrich Durrenmatt’s “Romulus der Grosse” premieres in Basel
1954 – WDEF TV channel 12 in Chattanooga, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 – Belgium government of Gaston Eyskens falls over the Unitary Law
1961 – France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
1975 – Mário Soares’ Socialist Party wins Portugal’s first free election since 1925 following the Carnation Revolution of 1974
1983 – “Nightline” expands from ½ hour to a full hour
2018 – Indian religious leader Asaram Bapu is sentenced to life for raping a 16-year old girl
Historical Events for 24th April 2021
858 – Nicholas I succeeds Benedict III as pope
1288 – Jews of Troyes France are accused of ritual murder
1704 – 1st continuously published newspaper in America – The Boston News-Letter published in Boston by John Campbell
1833 – Jacob Evert and George Dulty patent 1st soda fountain
1872 – Volcano Mt Vesuvius erupts in Italy
1920 – Polish troops attack Ukraine
1955 – KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1960 – 14th Tony Awards: “Miracle Worker” and “Fiorello!” win
1983 – “Show Boat” opens at Uris Theater NYC for 73 performances
1994 – Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election