1534 – Sir Thomas More confined in the Tower of London
1747 – French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands
1824 – Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54° 40’N
1853 – Johan Rudolf Thorbecke’s government in the Netherlands resigns
1922 – 26th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar in race record 2:18:10; his 2nd race victory; first of 3 consecutive wins
1945 – Benito Mussolini flees from Salò to Milan
1958 – Brussells (Belgium) World Fair opens
1969 – Mont Expos Bill Stoneman no-hits Phillies, 7-0
1982 – Proclamation of the Constitution Act by Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
1999 – NFL Draft: University of Kentucky quarterback Tim Couch first pick by Cleveland Browns
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 16th April 2020
1746 – Jacobite Rising 1745: Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart
1928 – 32nd Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar in 2:37:07.8; back-to-back wins for his 6th race title
1940 – Heitor Villa-Lobos’ opera “Izaht” premieres in Rio de Janeiro
1948 – Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris
1959 – “Party with Comden and Green” opens at John Golden NYC for 44 performances
1972 – Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
1975 – Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh
1980 – Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis
1990 – Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $260 per week
1990 – Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977
Historical Events for 15th April 2020
1534 – Thomas Cromwell is appointed Chief Secretary to King Henry VIII of England
1850 – City of San Francisco incorporated
1900 – Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair) in Paris opens (till 12th Nov)
1925 – NHL’s NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
1937 – Stanley Cup Final, Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings beat New York Rangers, 3-0 for a 3-2 series win; back-to-back titles for Red Wings
1945 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum
1948 – 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated
1951 – Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao
1957 – KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1992 – William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame
Historical Events for 14th April 2020
1544 – Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d’Enghien beat Swiss
1903 – Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1940 – RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia
1945 – US forces conquered Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1946 – Manager Mel Ott of Giants hits 511th and final HR
1968 – 1st NBA game at Madison Sq Garden, Knicks beat SD Clippers
1973 – Ireland edges France, 6-4 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to create a 5-way tie for the Five Nations Rugby Championship; each nation wins their 2 home matches
1984 – Farewell concert of “Doe Maar” in Den Bosch Neth
1996 – “Apple Doesn’t Fall” opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 1 performance
2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
Historical Events for 13th April 2020
1842 – Lord Rosse successfully casts 72″ (183-cm) mirror for a telescope
1896 – John Philip Sousa’s “El Capitan” premieres at the Tremont Theatre in Boston
1919 – British troops open fire on demonstrators in Amritsar, India, killing 350
1945 – Red Army occupies Vienna
1957 – Saturday postal delivery in US is temporarily halted due to lack of funds
1972 – 1st baseball players’ strike ends after 13 days
1975 – Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
1991 – BPAA US Open by Pete Weber
2002 – Pedro Carmona, interim president of Venezuela, resigns one day after taking office
2019 – BTS is the first K-pop band to perform on US TV show “Saturday Night Live”
Historical Events for 12th April 2020
1883 – French troops under lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal
1926 – Dutch Catholic Radio Broadcast (KRO) forms
1942 – Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan
1946 – Syria gains independence from France
1953 – KFDX TV channel 3 in Wichita Falls, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 – 8th NBA Championship: Min Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 3
1954 – 18th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Sam Snead wins his 3rd and final Masters by 1 stroke in an 18-hole playoff with Ben Hogan
2012 – Civilian rule in Mali is returned after Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as interim president
2012 – A ceasefire in the 2011-2012 Syrian uprising comes into effect
2016 – Breakthrough Starshot: Scientists and internet entrepreneurs, including Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg, announce interstellar project to send robot spacecraft to Alpha Centauri
Historical Events for 11th April 2020
1750 – Jack Slack retains Champion of England boxing title, beats Frenchman Jean Petit in 7 rounds in Harlston, England; acknowledged as first international prize fight
1924 – 1st men’s college swimming championships begin
1941 – Germany blitzes Coventry, England
1956 – Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater in racial incident
1961 – Bob Dylan makes his 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
1972 – Benjamin L Hooks named to FCC
1984 – Chinese troops invade Vietnam
1990 – Angels Mark Langston and Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle, 1-0
2004 – 68th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Phil Mickelson claims his first major title with a birdie on the final hole to win by 1 stroke over Ernie Els of South Africa
2016 – UN-backed ceasefire comes into effect in Yemen conflict between Iranian-backed Houthis rebels and government forces
Historical Events for 10th April 2020
1407 – Lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing and is awarded the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma
1516 – 1st Jewish ghetto established: Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area
1710 – The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain
1816 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge recites his poem “Kubla Khan” to fellow poet Lord Byron, who persuades him to publish it
1925 – Tsaritsyn re-named Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
1954 – KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 – Ferry Wahine sinks in Wellington harbour, New Zealand on route from Lyttelton (51 killed)
1974 – Magicians Penn and Teller 1st meet
1986 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
2005 – At 16 years, 271 days James Vaughan scores for Everton in a 4-0 win against Crystal Palace at Goodison Park; becomes youngest goalscorer in EPL history
Historical Events for 9th April 2020
1440 – Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark (1440-48)
1948 – Massacre at Deir Yassin.
1950 – Bob Hope’s 1st TV appearance
1950 – 14th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jimmy Demaret becomes the first 3-time Masters champion by 2 strokes ahead of Australian Jim Ferrier
1957 – Howard Hanson’s “Song of Democracy” premieres in Washington, D.C.
1965 – 1st game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st indoor homerun
1968 – Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference
1978 – 42nd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: 42 year old Gary Player shoots a record-tying final round 64 (−8) to win by 1 stroke from Rod Funseth, Tom Watson and Hubert Green
1980 – Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6
2013 – 37 people are killed and 850 are injured after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Iran
Historical Events for 8th April 2020
1149 – Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum
1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of the Book of the Law
1953 – Jomo Kenyatta convicted of involvement with the Mau Mau rebellion and sentenced to 7 years jail in Kenya
1966 – AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner
1967 – 121st Grand National: John Buckingham aboard rank 100/1 outsider Foinavon avoids famous carnage to win by 15 lengths from favourite Honey End
1974 – Discovery Island opens at Walt Disney World, Florida
1980 – Islander Potvin’s 2 shorthanded goals tie NHL record vs Kings and set NHL rec of 2 shorthanded playoff goals in 1 period
1994 – Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0
2003 – 22nd NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship: Connecticut beats Tennessee, 73-68; UConn guard Diana Taurasi is named Most Outstanding Player
2019 – 600 million birds die each year in the US after striking tall buildings with Chicago the worst city, according to Cornell Lab of Ornithology