1625 – Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander
1890 – Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal, Japan
1906 – The world’s 1st animated cartoon “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces” by J. Stuart Blackton is released
1943 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg
1946 – 10th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: American Herman Keiser wins his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of tour money-leader Ben Hogan; first Masters in 4 years because of World War II
1977 – German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
1991 – Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
1996 – Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore
2012 – Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi
2017 – US President Donald Trump orders missile strike on Syrian airfield after chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 6th April 2020
1886 – City of Vancouver BC incorporated
1909 – North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
1912 – Electric starter 1st appeared in cars
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
1941 – Italian forces holding Addis Ababa surrender to British and Ethiopian forces
1952 – 16th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Sam Snead wins his second green jacket by 4 strokes over Jack Burke Jr
1982 – Largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in Minnesota 52,279
1986 – Nabisco Dinah Shore Women’s Golf, Mission Hills CC: Pat Bradley wins the 4th of her 6 major titles, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Val Skinner
1994 – Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis and himself
1994 – Rwandan Genocide begins with the assassination of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira with their plane being shot down by surface-to-air missiles, abruptly ending peace negotiations. Those responsible have never been identified.
Historical Events for 5th April 2020
456 – Saint Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop
1764 – British Parliament passes the Sugar Tax on the American colonies, introduced by Prime Minister George Grenville
1901 – Under threats from the Ottoman Turkish Government, Bulgaria is forced to arrest the leaders of the Macedonian Committee
1952 – 106th Grand National: Jockey Arthur Thompson and trainer Neville Crump combine for their second GN with Teal winning at odds of 100/7
1962 – Herb Gardner’s “Thousand Clowns” premieres in NYC
1975 – Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
1992 – Serbian troops begin besieging Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, which would become the longest siege in modern warfare
1992 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Lee Trevino win his second Champions Tour major by 1 stroke from Jack Nicklaus
2005 – 24th NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship: Baylor beats Michigan State, 84-62; Bears’ small forward Sophia Young is named Most Outstanding Player
2063 – Earth’s 1st contact with the extra-terrestrial Vulcan species in the Star Trek universe
Historical Events for 4th April 2020
1866 – Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of St. Petersburg
1900 – Assassination attempt on Prince of Wales, later British King Edward VII when shot by Jean-Baptiste Sipido in protest over Boer war
1917 – US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WWI
1938 – 5th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Henry Picard wins his only Masters, 2 strokes ahead of runners-up Harry Cooper and Ralph Guldahl
1958 – The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London
1970 – Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson
1990 – Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody
1994 – Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706
2007 – 15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
2012 – Boris Tadić, President of Serbia, resigns
Historical Events for 3rd April 2020
1721 – Robert Walpole becomes Britain’s 1st Lord of the Treasury – effective Prime Minister, although that term was never officially used (indeed, it was considered an insult) until much later
1913 – British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
1926 – Second flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
1949 – KQW-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KCBS
1955 – Baltimore Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs KC Athletics)
1962 – American jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)
1966 – Soviet Luna 10 completes its first orbit of the Moon
1978 – Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington, D.C.
1982 – 136th Grand National: 48 year old Dick Saunders wins aboard 7/1 favourite Grittar; oldest jockey to win the event
2012 – US President Barack Obama officially secures Democratic presidential nomination
Historical Events for 2nd April 2020
1864 – Skirmish at Spoonville, Antoine, Arkansas
1865 – Battle of Selma, Alabmaa, Union forces break Confederates defenses to secure the town
1908 – Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by in 1839 by future American Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York; known as ‘the Doubleday myth’
1932 – Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for his kidnapped son
1942 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta CC: Dorothy Kirby retains title by 5 strokes ahead of Eileen Stulb
1995 – WrestleMania XI, Hartford Civic Centre, CT: NFL linebacker Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow
1995 – Sunday NY Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
1996 – Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minnesota Timberwolves, 105-103 at General Motors Place Arena to end their NBA single-season record 23-game consecutive loss streak
2012 – 74th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kentucky defeats Kansas, 67-59; Wildcats guard Doron Lamb, 22 points
2018 – 80th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Villanova defeats Michigan, 79–62; Wildcats guard Donte DiVincenzo 31 points
Historical Events for 1st April 2020
1778 – New Orleans businessman Oliver Pollock creates the “$” symbol
1873 – British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die
1927 – 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master’s Voice
1934 – Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers
1936 – Charles “Lucky” Luciano” is arrested in Arkansas on a criminal warrant from New York
1942 – Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor
1948 – Fast bowler Hines Johnson has match figures of 10-96 on debut in West Indies 4th cricket Test win v England in Kingston, Jamaica; first fast bowler to take 10 wickets in a single Test for West Indies
1955 – EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus
1957 – Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising
1990 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Jack Nicklaus wins his first start on the Senior PGA Tour by 4 strokes from Gary Player
Historical Events for 25th March 2020
1609 – Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Company to find a passage to Asia
1846 – German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt arrives in Sydney to a hero’s welcome after completing his exploration of Australia’s Northern Territory
1937 – Washington Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
1937 – It is revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads
1961 – Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona
1967 – 29th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton, 79-64; Bruins center Lew Alcindor (later named Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) tournament MOP
1969 – Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president
1973 – AIAW Women’s Basketball Tournament, Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52, Immaculata 1st undefeated team in New York
1983 – Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58)
1990 – “Lettice and Lovage” opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances
Historical Events for 24th March 2020
1877 – English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers beat Oxford University, 2–1 (a.e.t.); Wanderers’ 4th title
1962 – 24th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Cincinnati beats Ohio State, 71-59; Bearcats win back-to-back National titles
1973 – San Francisco 49er pres Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams
1979 – 1st appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes
1985 – Third straight WTA Tour Championship for tennis legend Martina Navratilova; beats Helena Suková 6–3, 7–5, 6–4 at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1986 – Men’s International Professional Tennis Council announces Jimmy Connors’ 10 week suspension and $20,000 fine for storming off the court after defaulting against Ivan Lendl at Boca Raton, Florida in February
1988 – Quarterback Dan Fouts retires
1998 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
2006 – Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police.
2013 – 17 soldiers are killed by a suicide bomber at a military checkpoint in North Waziristan, Pakistan
Historical Events for 22nd March 2020
1765 – Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on American colonists, organized by Prime Minister George Grenville
1929 – 88th Grand National: Robert W. H. Everett wins aboard 100/1 outsider Gregalach
1943 – Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
1952 – Wales wins Five Nations Rugby Championship, Grand Slam and Triple Crown with a 9-5 win over France at St. Helen’s Ground, Swansea
1958 – 20th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle, 84-72; Seattle’s future Hall of Fame small forward Elgin Baylor is named tournament MOP
1968 – Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
1968 – Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone
1975 – 20th Eurovision Song Contest: Teach-In for Netherlands wins singing “Ding-a-dong” in Stockholm
1975 – “Dr Jazz” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances
2009 – Cricket Women’s World Cup: England defeats New Zealand by 4 wickets