1522 – Battle of Bicocca: a combined French and Venetian force is decisively defeated by a Spanish-Imperial and Papal army
1646 – King Charles I flees Oxford
1805 – US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
1890 – French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou, West Sudan
1910 – Louis Botha and James Hertzog establish the moderate nationalists South African Party promising equality of Britons and Boers
1942 – Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma, killing 100, injuring 300
1947 – Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium and through out US
1959 – Mao Zedong resigns as Chairman of the PRC after the disastrous failure of the Great Leap Forward
1968 – The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) hold a rally to protest the banning of a Republican Easter parade
1989 – Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 26th April 2020
1848 – Alfred Russel Wallace departs the U.K. for South America, beginning four years of travel, collecting, and research in the region
1865 – Confederate General J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee, at Durham, North Carolina
1971 – San Francisco lightship replaced by automatic buoy
1971 – Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15″ in 24 hrs
1974 – Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
1984 – Liverpool’s Cavern Club reopens
1986 – Game between Angels and Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds
1991 – 23 killed in Kansas and Oklahoma by tornadoes
2002 – Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
2012 – Indonesia suspends imports of American beef after a confirmed case of mad cow disease in California
Historical Events for 25th April 2020
1792 – “La Marseillaise”, later the national anthem of France, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg
1896 – Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire at Cripple Creek, Colorado
1932 – Rose Franken’s “Another Language” premieres in NYC
1954 – Bell labs announces the 1st solar battery made from silicon. It has about 6% efficiency.
1961 – Premier Moise Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo
1980 – Announcement of US hostage rescue bungle in Iran
1983 – NASA space probe Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto’s orbit.
2009 – NFL Draft: Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford first pick by Detroit Lions
2011 – At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.
2012 – The United Kingdom dips back into recession after the economy shrank 0.2% in the first quarter of 2012
Historical Events for 24th April 2020
1914 – A shipment of 35,000 rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition are landed at Larne for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland
1954 – 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
1963 – 17th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 2
1965 – Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic
1978 – Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time he has 15 in game
1979 – Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election
1982 – Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin
1992 – George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball
1997 – “Steel Peer” opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 76 performances
2015 – Armenia commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire
Historical Events for 23rd April 2020
1516 – Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria endorses “The German Beer Purity Law” (Reinheitsgebot) and adds to it standards for the sale of beer
1597 – William Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance
1705 – Richard Steele’s “Tender Husband” premieres in London
1838 – English steamship “Great Western” crossing Atlantic docks in NYC
1861 – Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces (US Civil War)
1891 – Jews are expelled from Moscow, Russia
1949 – Chinese Red army conquers Nanjing
1964 – James Baldwin’s play “Blues for Mr Charlie” premieres in NYC
1965 – Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite
1991 – USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions
Historical Events for 22nd April 2020
1145 – 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet
1793 – President Washington attends opening of Rickett’s, 1st circus in US
1876 – First official National League baseball game is played; Boston Red Stockings beat Philadelphia Athletics, 6-5 at the Jefferson Street Grounds, Philadelphia
1966 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1967 – Martial Law goes into effect in Greece
1969 – 1st human eye transplant performed
1970 – NY Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher
1993 – Seattle Mariner Chris Basio no-hits Boston Red Sox
1993 – “Who’s Tommy” opens at St James Theater NYC for 899 performances
2018 – Liverpool’s Egyptian soccer forward Mohamed Salah is named Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year
Historical Events for 21st April 2020
1789 – John Adams sworn in as 1st US Vice President (9 days before Washington)
1863 – Bahá’u’lláh, founder of the Bahá’í Faith, enters garden of Rivden near Baghdad. He makes his declaration as a Messenger of God during the 12 days spent there
1908 – Frederick Cook claims to reach North Pole (He didn’t)
1910 – Cleve Naps play 1st game at League Park, lose to Det Tigers 5-0
1974 – 28th Tony Awards: River Niger and Raisin win
1980 – 84th Boston Marathon: Bill Rodgers wins 3rd straight event and 4th overall title in 2:12:11; Jacqueline Gareau of Canada women’s winner in 2:34:28; Rosie Ruiz disqualified for not running the entire course
1982 – Atlanta Braves win their 13th straight game
1987 – Brewers lose, ending AL season-opening winning streak at 13 games
1991 – Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14)
1996 – Wayne James scores 99 and 99 and ct 11 stp 2 in Logan Cup Final
Historical Events for 20th April 2020
295 – 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet
1903 – 7th Boston Marathon won by Irishman John Lorden in 2:41:29.8
1904 – Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis
1914 – US President W Wilson, having dispatched more naval ships to Mexico, asks a joint session of Congress to approve armed force if necessary; Congress approves
1934 – Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police
1936 – Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine
1969 – Bombs planted by Loyalists members of the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers explode at Silent Valley reservoir in County Down and at an electricity pylon at Kilmore, County Armagh
1974 – ‘The Troubles’, the Northern Ireland conflict between republican and loyalist paramilitaries, British security forces, and civil rights groups, claims its 1000th victim
1982 – Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season
2012 – Plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 127 people
Historical Events for 19th April 2020
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.
1916 – Alderman Kelly reads the ‘Castle Order’ to a meeting of Dublin Corporation; this forged document supposedly from Dublin Castle, indicated that there was to be mass arrests of Irish Volunteers to prevent “trouble”
1924 – “National Barn Dance” premieres on WLS Chicago
1928 – Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland
1928 – Yanks are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926
1964 – Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier
1979 – FCC raids and shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Brooklyn New York)
1997 – San Diego Padres and St Louis Cards play at Aloha Stadium Hawaii
2013 – Boston bombing suspects killed and captured in Boston after 4 days
2018 – Miguel Diaz-Canel is elected Cuba’s new president after former president Raúl Castro steps down
Historical Events for 18th April 2020
1775 – Paul Revere and William Dawes ride from Charlestown to Lexington warning the “regulars are coming!”
1943 – Operation Vengeance: US Army Air Force P-38G fighter aircraft from Kukum Field on Guadalcanal ambush and shoot down the transport bomber aircraft of Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy and mastermind behind the Pearl Harbor attack
1950 – Sam Jethroe is 1st African American to play for Boston Braves
1966 – 70th Boston Marathon: Kenji Kimihara of Japan wins in 2:17:11; American Bobbi Gibb first woman in 3:21:40 (unsanctioned)
1968 – 1st ABA basketball championship began
1972 – The Widgery Report on ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Northern Ireland is published, causing outrage among the people of Derry who call it the “Widgery Whitewash”
1995 – Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football
1999 – Wayne Gretzky plays his last game in the NHL, as his New York Rangers lose 2-1 to the Pittsburgh Penguins
2004 – 50th British Academy Television Awards: “Little Britain” Best Comedy, “Buried” Best Drama
2015 – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Lou Reed, Ringo Starr, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Green Day, Bill Withers, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the 5 Royales