1934 – 4.7 million US families report receiving welfare payments
1945 – Canadian army liberates Teuge and Assen, Netherlnds, from Nazis
1960 – Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit
1964 – Ian Smith becomes Prime Minister of Rhodesia
1970 – Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club’s home opener: Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation
1980 – US and its allies boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow in protest against Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan
1989 – “Welcome to the Club” opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 12 performances
1990 – NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1
1992 – Great Chicago Flood – Chicago’s underground tunnels flood
2008 – 72nd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Trevor Immelman of South Africa wins his first major title, 3 strokes ahead of Tiger Woods; Immelman leads, or ties for the lead after every round
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 12th April 2019
1648 – University of Harderwijk Neth solemn opens
1940 – Italy annexes Albania
1955 – Polio vaccine tested by Dr Jonas Salk announced to be ‘safe and effective’
1964 – 28th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Arnold Palmer wins by 6 shots from Dave Marr and Jack Nicklaus to become the first 4-time winner of the Masters; his 7th and final major victory
1978 – Gyorgy Ligeti’s opera “Le Grand Macabre” premieres in Stockholm
1980 – Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d’etat, ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession.
1985 – 16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn
1990 – H. J. Heinz, Chicken of the Sea and Bumble Bee Seafood say they wouldn’t buy tuna caught in nets that trap dolphins
1990 – 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for the Holocaust and asks for forgiveness
1998 – An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
Historical Events for 11th April 2019
1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated
1958 – Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated in San Francisco
1964 – “Anyone Can Whistle” closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 9 performances
1967 – Tom Stoppard’s play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” debuts in London at the Old Vic
1968 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
1972 – Benjamin L Hooks named to FCC
1983 – NASA launches RCA-F
1993 – 450 prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continue for ten days, citing grievances about prison conditions and the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis)
2001 – Detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People’s Republic of China after a collision with an J-8 fighter are released
2012 – 8.6 magnitude earthquake and 8.2 aftershock occurs off the coast of Indonesia
Historical Events for 10th April 2019
1815 – Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies experiences a cataclysmic eruption, one of the most powerful in history, killing around 71,000 people, causes global volcanic winter
1816 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge recites his poem “Kubla Khan” to fellow poet Lord Byron, who persuades him to publish it
1865 – At Appomattox, General Robert E. Lee issues General Order #9, his last
1887 – Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen
1939 – Colijn’s Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
1968 – Ferry Wahine sinks in Wellington harbour, New Zealand on route from Lyttelton (51 killed)
1994 – 58th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: José María Olazábal wins the first of 2 Masters titles, 2 strokes ahead of Tom Lehman; 6th winner from Europe in the past 7 years
2011 – 75th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Charl Schwartzel of South Africa birdies the final 4 holes to win his first major title, 2 strokes ahead of Australian pair Adam Scott and Jason Day
2014 – “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” directed by Marc Webb and starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone premieres in London
2016 – Explosions and a fire caused by fireworks at Puttingal Temple in Kerala, India, kills more than 100 and injures nearly 400
Historical Events for 9th April 2019
475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
1474 – Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon and Italians
1621 – Spain and Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends
1914 – US President W Wilson refuses to recognize Huerta as President of Mexico on the ground that he has not been elected by the people
1928 – Turkey passes separation of church and state
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, East Prussia, ends.
1963 – Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen
1976 – “All the President’s Men”, directed by Alan J. Pakula, based on the novel by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward detailing their Watergate investigation, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford, is released
1986 – “Dallas” announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
2002 – Funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey UK. More than a million people line the streets
Historical Events for 8th April 2019
1912 – Steamers collide on the Nile, drowning 200
1913 – 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified by Congress, providing for election of senators by popular vote
1962 – Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France
1964 – Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
1979 – People’s Republic of China joins IOC
1980 – Islander Potvin’s 2 shorthanded goals tie NHL record vs Kings and set NHL rec of 2 shorthanded playoff goals in 1 period
1990 – “Aspects of Love” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 377 performances
1990 – New Democracy wins the national election in Greece.
1995 – Oliver McCall beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
2000 – Nineteen US Marines are killed when a V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashes near Marana, Arizona
Historical Events for 7th April 2019
1509 – France declares war on Venice
1798 – Mississippi Territory organized
1805 – Premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Eroica” (conducted by himself)
1865 – Battle of Farmville, Virginia
1922 – Warren G. Harding’s Interior Secretary, Albert B. Fall, leases the Teapot Dome oil reserves to Harry Sinclair, setting in motion the Teapot Dome scandals
1923 – Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1967 – Tom Donahue, San Francisco DJ begins new radio format – Progressive (KMPX-FM)
1969 – Dodgers’ Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds
1987 – Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on “Nightline”
1993 – Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colo Rockie HR (Shea Stadium NY)
Historical Events for 6th April 2019
1652 – Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established by Dutch East India Company under Jan van Riebeeck
1924 – Völkische Block (Nazis) receives 17.8% of vote in Bavaria
1936 – Tornado, kills 203 and injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
1941 – German bombardment of Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
1947 – 1st Tony Awards: Arthur Miller, David Wayne and Patricia Neal win for theatrical achievements
1973 – Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks
1987 – Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler
1997 – Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge
1997 – Progress M-34 Launch (Russia)
2014 – 49th Academy of Country Music Awards: George Strait, Jason Aldean, and Miranda Lambert win
Historical Events for 5th April 2019
1424 – Scottish King James I returns to Scotland after 18 years of detention at the English court
1609 – Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa
1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest ever non-nuclear controlled explosions
1961 – Barbra Streisand appears on “Jack Paar Show”
1961 – Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
1971 – Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1990 – NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
1992 – Game 2 of Mayor Challenge – NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea
1994 – “Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect” opens at Golden NYC for 347 performances
2013 – Japan’s Nikkei 225 reaches its highest level in five years
Historical Events for 4th April 2019
1660 – English King Charles II sends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion)
1828 – Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)
1866 – Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of St. Petersburg
1900 – British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet
1939 – Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
1959 – Mali Federation founded, consisting of Senegal and French Sudan (dissolved 1960)
1966 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 – Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
1986 – Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
2018 – 21st Commonwealth Games open in the Gold Coast, Australia