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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 17th April 2020
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
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”