1296 – Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England
1650 – The Battle of Carbisdale: Royalist army under Marquess of Montrose invades mainland Scotland from Orkney; defeated by a Covenanter army.
1694 – Frederik August I “the Strong” becomes monarch of Saksen
1924 – Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1
1959 – “Today” show goes abroard 1st time (Paris France)
1963 – Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
1971 – Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games and departs for Denmark
1972 – Apollo 16 returns to Earth
1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse
2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 26th April 2019
1655 – Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant’s desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam
1835 – Frederic Chopin’s “Grand Polonaise Brillante” premieres in Paris
1907 – Jamestown, Virginia Tercentenary Exposition opens
1925 – Artist Diego Rivera resigns from the Mexican Communist Party
1937 – German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
1971 – San Francisco lightship replaced by automatic buoy
1974 – Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline and Buskey to Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow and Upshaw
1976 – Pan Am begins non-stop flights NYC-Tokyo
1981 – “Copperfield” closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 13 performances
1992 – NFL Draft: University of Washington defensive end Steve Emtman from first pick by Indianapolis Colts
Historical Events for 25th April 2019
1678 – French troops conquer Ypres
1707 – Battle of Almansa; Franco-Spanish forces defeat British and Portuguese
1792 – “La Marseillaise”, later the national anthem of France, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg
1945 – Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
1947 – Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St Louis, to win National Wrestling Association world heavyweight title
1956 – Noel Coward’s musical “South Sea Bubble” premieres in London
1975 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1988 – “Nightline” goes on location to Jerusalem Israel
1991 – Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL NE Patriots for sexual harassment
1994 – Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed
Historical Events for 24th April 2019
1897 – 1st reporter, William Price (Washington Star), assigned to White House
1944 – 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China “over the Hump”
1946 – 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, and McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame
1954 – 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
1956 – AL umpire Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game
1968 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1994 – “Flowering Peach” closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances
1995 – Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes
2007 – Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime
2015 – Armenia commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire
Historical Events for 23rd April 2019
1861 – Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces (US Civil War)
1925 – Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms
1932 – 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, the Netherlands, burns down
1939 – Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st HR
1961 – “Tenderloin” closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 216 performances
1964 – New York State Theater opens
1969 – LA Laker Jerry West scores 53 points
1991 – Gordon Greenidge scores 223 v Aus, his last Test Cricket knock at home
1996 – 42nd British Academy Television Awards: “Father Ted” Best Comedy, “Cracker” Best Drama
2009 – Gamma ray burst (GRB) 090423 is observed for 10 seconds, the most distant object of any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe
Historical Events for 22nd April 2019
1145 – 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet
1659 – Lord Protector Richard Cromwell disbands English parliament
1677 – Battle at Catania: between French and Dutch fleet
1961 – Uprising of French parachutist of General Salan and Challe in Algeria
1964 – World’s Fair at Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY opens
1966 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1978 – Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony
1987 – Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed
1990 – “Truly Blessed” opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 33 performances
2016 – Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C
Historical Events for 21st April 2019
1892 – Black longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis, Missouri
1930 – “All Quiet on the Western Front” based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Louis Wolheim and Lew Ayres premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Outstanding Production 1930)
1975 – Last South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years
1975 – 79th Boston Marathon: American Bill Rodgers wins men’s section in race record 2:09:55; Liane Winter of West Germany women’s champion in 2:42:24 (female world record)
1976 – Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing
1979 – “Carmelina” closes at St James Theater NYC after 17 performances
1991 – NFL Draft: University of Miami defensive tackle Russell Maryland first pick by Dallas Cowboys
1991 – Greatest extra-inning comeback, Pitts scores 6 in bottom of 11th erasing 5 run Cub lead, Pirates also trailed 7-2 in bottom of 9th
1994 – Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit HRs in a games (11 times)
1995 – FBI arrests Timothy McVeigh and charge him with the Oklahoma City bombing
Historical Events for 20th April 2019
1657 – Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet
1818 – Napoleon Bonaparte bids emotional farewell to his old guard at Palace of Fontainebleau
1862 – First pasteurization test completed by Frenchmen Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
1894 – 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
1919 – King Nicholas of Montenegro abdicates under duress
1945 – US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg
1958 – Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM
1962 – New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North
1981 – Final performance of TV show “Soap” airs
1992 – Expo ’92 opens in Seville Spain
Historical Events for 19th April 2019
1926 – 30th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Johnny Miles in 2:25:40.4
1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1943 – Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
1951 – “Tree Grows in Brooklyn” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 267 performances
1954 – 7-time winner of Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th
1976 – 80th Boston Marathon: US double; Jack Fultz is men’s winner in 2:20:19; Kim Merritt takes women’s section in 2:47:10
1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashed lands in Iowa.
1997 – NFL Draft: Ohio State offensive tackle Orlando Pace first pick by St. Louis Rams
2015 – Boat carrying approx. 850 migrants is shipwrecked in the Mediterranean between Italian and Libya, with only 27 migrants rescued.
2018 – Miguel Diaz-Canel is elected Cuba’s new president after former president Raúl Castro steps down
Historical Events for 18th April 2019
1874 – David Livingstone, African explorer, buried in Westminster Abbey
1906 – Calvinist Reformed Union in Neth Church forms in Utrecht
1936 – Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco to Honolulu
1949 – Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth
1968 – 1st ABA basketball championship began
1977 – 81st Boston Marathon: Canadian Jerome Drayton wins men’s race in 2:14:46; American Miki Gorman takes her 2nd women’s event in 2:48:33
1981 – Longest game in Professional Baseball: Pawtucket Red Sox tie Rochester Red Wings 2-2 in 32 innings (game resumed 23rd June)
1990 – Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one’s home
2005 – 109th Boston Marathon: Hailu Negussie of Ethiopia claims men’s section in 2:11:44; Catherine Ndereba of Kenya wins back-to-back races and 4th overall women’s title in 2:25:12
2007 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision