1923 – US Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships
1940 – Second battle of Narvik; 3 German destroyers and one U-boat sunk by the Royal Navy, 5 more German destroyers scuttled.
1942 – 9th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Byron Nelson wins an 18-hole playoff by 1 stroke over runner-up Ben Hogan
1945 – US Marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa
1946 – Eddie Klepp, a white pitcher signed by defending Negro League champ Cleveland Buckeyes, is barred from field in Birmingham, Alabama
1960 – France becomes the 4th nuclear nation by exploding an atomic bomb in the Sahara
1962 – US steel industry forced to give up price increases
1981 – Wash Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)
1987 – 1st 3 San Diego Padres hit HRs off SF starter Roger Mason
2019 – BTS is the first K-pop band to perform on US TV show “Saturday Night Live”
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 12th April 2021
1844 – Texan envoys sign Treaty of Annexation with the United States
1862 – James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, Georgia
1877 – Catcher’s mask 1st used in a baseball game
1893 – Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa: German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi
1907 – Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer resigns
1919 – British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages
1959 – France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria
1960 – Bill Veeck and Chicago Comiskey Park debuts “Exploding Scoreboard”
1992 – Trump Shuttle becomes US Air Shuttle
2009 – President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority makes a courtesy phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, restarting the Palestinian-Israeli dialogue
Historical Events for 11th April 2021
1814 – Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally and he is exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean
1828 – Foundation of Bahia Blanca, Argentina
1881 – River ferry “Princess Victoria” sinks in Thames River, Ontario, 180 die
1898 – President McKinley asks for Spanish–American War declaration
1900 – The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy
1967 – Tom Stoppard’s play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” debuts in London at the Old Vic
1968 – WHED TV channel 15 in Hanover, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1983 – NASA launches RCA-F
1993 – Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie
2012 – 2011 London riot looter is jailed for 11 years after starting a fire at a furniture retailer
Historical Events for 10th April 2021
1816 – 2nd Bank of US chartered
1827 – George Canning becomes British Prime Minister upon the resignation of Robert Jenkinson, lives to serve only 119 days
1887 – US President Abraham Lincoln’s re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Illinois
1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos
1925 – Tsaritsyn renamed Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
1939 – Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
1968 – 40th Academy Awards: “In the Heat of the Night”, Rod Steiger and Katherine Hepburn win
1978 – Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced
1984 – US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
2012 – Rick Santorum suspends his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination making Mitt Romney the overwhelming favourite
Historical Events for 9th April 2021
817 – Louis the Pious, King of the Franks, barely survives when wooden gallery collapses in Aachen, prompts him to later name his succession
1914 – Tampico incident – US ship crew arrested in Mexico
1955 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 – Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot
1967 – Shortwave broadcaster Radio NY Worldwide’s transmitter burns down
1972 – 36th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jack Nicklaus leads wire-to-wire to win the 4th of his 6 Masters titles, 3 strokes ahead of Bruce Crampton, Tom Weiskopf and Bobby Mitchell
1976 – US and Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use
1992 – John Major elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after his Conservative Party wins the most votes in British electoral history
1997 – Major League Soccer announces Miami and Chicago expansion
2003 – Baghdad falls to U.S. forces, ending the invasion of Iraq, but resulting in widespread looting
Historical Events for 8th April 2021
1893 – The Critic reports that ice cream soda is America’s national drink
1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of the Book of the Law
1956 – 20th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jack Burke Jr. wins his first major title, 1 stroke ahead of amateur Ken Venturi; final Masters played without a 36-hole cut
1965 – India and Pakistan forces engage in a border fight
1968 – New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect
1969 – First Major League Baseball game featuring a Canadian team; Montréal Expos beats NY Mets, 11-10 at Shea Stadium; KC Royals, SD Padres and Seattle Pilots also win on debut
1981 – Islanders scored 9 goals against Toronto in playoffs
1990 – New Democracy wins the national election in Greece.
1990 – “Aspects of Love” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 377 performances
1994 – Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0
Historical Events for 7th April 2021
451 – Attila’s Huns plunder Metz
529 – First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (fundamental work in jurisprudence) issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I
1862 – Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls
1895 – Polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen reaches record 86°13.6′N latitude north, expedition closest to the North pole
1951 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1970 – MLB Milwaukee Brewers (former Seattle Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0
1971 – Dismissal of Curt Flood’s suit against baseball is upheld by
1989 – NY Supreme Court takes America’s Cup away from SD Yacht Club for using a catamaran against NZ. Appeals court eventually overrules
1991 – George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched
Historical Events for 6th April 2021
1859 – US recognizes Liberal government in Mexico’s War of Reform
1860 – Joseph Smith III, creates the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by reorganizing the previous church organized by his father, Joseph Smith, Jr.
1919 – Bavaria proclaims itself a soviet republic
1936 – 3rd Augusta National Invitation Tournament (Masters) Golf: Horton Smith wins his second Masters, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Harry Cooper, with defending champion Gene Sarazen 3rd
1973 – America launches the Pioneer 11 (Pioneer G) probe to study Jupiter and Saturn
1977 – Kingdome opens, Seattle Mariners 1st game, loses to Angels 7-0
1979 – Baltimore manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper, a 5-3 Orioles victory over the Chicago White Sox
1991 – NY-NJ Knights 1st home game (Giants Stadium) lose to Frankfurt 27-17
1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
2019 – Tampa Bay Lightning beats Boston Bruins, 6-3 in the season finale for their 62nd regular season win, tying the NHL record held by Detroit Red Wings (1995-96); 128 points, 4th in NHL history
Historical Events for 5th April 2021
1861 – Federals abandon Ft Quitman, Texas
1943 – Chinese steward Poon Lim is found off the coast of Brazil by a Brazilian fisherman family after being adrift 133 days, after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat
1979 – Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia
1984 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain’s all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421)
1986 – Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
1987 – Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title
1993 – Construction begins on Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1993 – Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad
2013 – Japan’s Nikkei 225 reaches its highest level in five years
2015 – Rolling Stone Magazine retracts its “Rape on Campus” story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia after being discredited
Historical Events for 4th April 2021
1859 – Opera “Dinorah” is produced in Paris
1865 – General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army arrives at Amelia Courthouse, Amelia County, Virginia
1944 – Allied Bucharest bombings targeting railroads kills 5,000
1958 – Eugene Ionesco’s “Tueur sans Gages” premieres in Darmstadt
1970 – Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson
1974 – Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth’s home-run record by hitting his 714th in Cincinnati, facing Jack Billingham
1985 – Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
1986 – Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
1994 – Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706
1997 – DMSP Titan 2 launched