1798 – Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution
1920 – Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets in Ankara, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution
1940 – NY Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert
1950 – Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island
1953 – “Shane”, directed by George Stevens and based on the 1949 novel by Jack Schaefer, starring Alan Ladd and Jean Arthur, is released
1977 – Dr Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops
1977 – ADO Den Haag soccer team forms in The Hague, Netherlands
1982 – Conch Republic is established – secession of the Florida Keys from the United States of America
2018 – Mario Abdo Benítez is elected President of Paraguay
2019 – Southampton striker Shane Long scores fastest goal in English Premier League history when he nets after 7.69 seconds in 1-1 draw at Watford
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 22nd April 2021
1937 – NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike
1944 – Allies land near Hollandia, New Guinea
1962 – Stanley Cup Final, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: Dick Duff scores the winner as Toronto Maple Leafs beat Chicago Blackhawks, 2-1 for a 4-2 series victory
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
1977 – Shimon Peres becomes the 8th Prime Minister of Israel
1983 – Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy)
1994 – Ice skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500
1994 – 7,000 Tutsi slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda
1994 – Michael Moorer beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
2016 – Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C
Historical Events for 21st April 2021
1453 – Turkish fleet sinks ships Golden Receiver in Constantinople
1916 – Ulster Protestant and Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement lands at Tralee Bay, Ireland from a German submarine; discovered at McKenna’s Fort and arrested by the Royal Irish Constabulary
1930 – Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Moskva Golid” premieres in Moscow
1945 – He Shima Okinawa conquered in 5 days, 5,000 die
1948 – Basketball Association of America Finals: Baltimore Bullets beat Philadelphia Warriors, 88-73 to take series, 4 games to 2
1964 – Pirates and Cubs combine for 9 HRs, Pirates win 8-5
1987 – Milwaukee Brewers lose after 13th straight victory to start season
1996 – “Delicate Balance” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC
2008 – 112th Boston Marathon: 3rd straight men’s title for Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot of Kenya in 2:07:45; Dire Tune of Ethiopia women’s winner in 2:25:25
2020 – US President Donald Trump announces new 60-day ban on most green cards for the US
Historical Events for 20th April 2021
1908 – Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League.
1914 – 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo
1948 – Walter P. Reuther UAW President shot and wounded at his home in Detroit
1968 – South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed
1977 – Supreme Court rules “Live Free or Die” may be covered on NH licenses
1987 – US deports Karl Linnas to USSR, charged with Nazi war crimes
1994 – Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands
2013 – Giorgio Napolitano is re-elected President of Italy
2013 – 5 snowboarders are killed by an avalanche in Loveland Pass, Colorado
2013 – 193 people are killed and 11,826 are injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes Lushan County, China
Historical Events for 19th April 2021
1901 – In the Philippines, recently captured insurgent leader Emilio Aguinaldo issues a proclamation advising his countrymen to end their rebellion and use of peaceful means to work with the US toward independence.
1911 – George Bernard Shaw’s “Fanny’s First Play” premieres in London
1919 – Opera “Monsieur Beaucaire” is produced (London)
1940 – “Lake Shore Ltd” derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls, New York
1945 – US aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid
1973 – Barbra Streisand records “Between Yesterday and Tomorrow”
1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia’s national anthem, with green and gold the national colors
1993 – Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
1994 – “Illmatic” debut studio album by US rapper Nas is released
2018 – Miguel Diaz-Canel is elected Cuba’s new president after former president Raúl Castro steps down
Historical Events for 18th April 2021
1856 – Russian Chancellor Count Nesselrode resigns
1916 – US Secretary of State Warns Germany that the USA may break diplomatic relations unless torpedo attacks on unarmed ships stop
1938 – Headless Mad Butcher victim found in Cleveland
1968 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 – US Government ends Mandatory Oil Import Program, established in 1959 by President Eisenhower
1990 – Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one’s home
1991 – John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136
1994 – Lebanon drops relations with Iran
1994 – STS-59 (Endeavour) lands [approx]
2014 – 12 Nepalese climbers are killed by an avalanche on Mt Everest
Historical Events for 17th April 2021
1865 – Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Abraham’ Lincoln’s assassination
1907 – Ellis Island, New York records 11,745 immigrants
1945 – Benito Mussolini flees from Salò to Milan
1947 – Jackie Robinson bunts for his 1st major league hit
1969 – People’s Democracy activist Bernadette Devlin becomes the youngest woman Member of Parliament ever elected to Westminster at 21 years old
1979 – Brian Clark’s “Whose Life is it Anyway?” premieres in London
1983 – India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
1986 – Netherlands and Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)
2014 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika wins a fourth term as President of Algeria
2019 – Beyoncé releases a live album of her 2018 Coachella performance on the same day as her Netflix documentary “Homecoming”
Historical Events for 16th April 2021
1789 – George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration
1862 – Slavery abolished in District of Columbia
1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to fly across English Channel
1952 – “4 Saints in 3 Acts” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 15 performances
1953 – British royal yacht Britannia launched by Queen Elizabeth II
1957 – Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Dickie Moore has a goal and 2 assists as Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 5-1 for a 4-1 series victory
1987 – British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court in London charged with gross indecency
1987 – Peter Taylor’s “Summons to Memphis” wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
2003 – Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union
2020 – New study claims a multi-decade megadrought is already under way in the western US, published in journal “Science”
Historical Events for 15th April 2021
1776 – Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy
1902 – Russian minister of interior and head of secret police, Sipyengin, is assassinated by the ‘Terror Brigade’ of the Socialist Revolutionaries
1911 – Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St NYC
1945 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical “Communium Interpretes Dolorum”
1957 – KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1986 – US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing
1987 – “Barbara Cook: A Concert” opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 performances
1997 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charlotte NC on WXRC 95.7 FM
2019 – Aretha Franklin posthumously receives the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation honor, first individual woman to win it since 1930
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 2021
1903 – Dr Harry Plotz discovers a vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1946 – “Day Before Spring” closes at National Theater NYC after 167 performances
1950 – 1st edition of British comic “Eagle”
1978 – David Hare’s “Plenty” premieres in London
1983 – US President Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue
1992 – UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc
2007 – At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
2012 – 165th Grand National: Daryl Jacob wins aboard Neptune Collonges; beats Sunnyhillboy in a photo finish and the closest ever GN finish
2013 – 33 people are killed after a bus tumbled off a cliff in Trujillo, Peru
2019 – Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at center of controversy over comments about 9/11 at speech to Council on American-Islamic Relations after tweet by Donald Trump, defended by Nancy Pelosi