1534 – Sir Thomas More confined in the Tower of London
1824 – Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54° 40’N
1925 – NY Yankee Babe Ruth has ulcer surgery
1941 – US Office of Price Administration forms (handled rationing)
1956 – Willie Mosconi sinks 150 consecutive balls in a billiard tournament
1961 – 33rd Academy Awards: “Apartment” wins best film, Burt Lancaster and Elizabeth Taylor win best actor, actress
1961 – Jimmy Stewart accepts an honorary Oscar on behalf of his friend Gary Cooper, who is too ill to attend
1964 – “Cafe Crown” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 3 performances
1978 – 82nd Boston Marathon: US double; Bill Rodgers wins his 2nd men’s title in 2:10:13; Gayle Barron women’s champion in 2:44:52
1979 – Four Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army van bomb in Bessbrook, County Armagh; the bomb is believed to be the largest PIRA bomb used up to that point
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 16th April 2019
1906 – 10th Boston Marathon won by 18-year old Tim Ford in 2:45:45; youngest race winner
1942 – Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship
1945 – German troops in Groningen surrender
1951 – British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75
1956 – 60th Boston Marathon won by Antti Viskari of Finland in race record 2:14:14
1964 – 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain’s 1963 “Great Train Robbery”
1984 – Oakland A’s Dave Kingman hits 3 HRs including a grand slam
1989 – Berendrechtsluis opens in Antwerp, biggest flood lock in world
2014 – South Korean ferry MV Sewol sinks on route Incheon to Jeju, 304 drown, mostly students. National controversy erupts over rescue efforts and actions of crew and owner.
2017 – World record for gathering of Charlie Chaplin lookalikes – 662 at Manoir de Ban, Chaplin museum in Vevey, Switzerland
Historical Events for 15th April 2019
1850 – City of San Francisco incorporated
1949 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Redemptoris nostri
1954 – WHO TV channel 13 in Des Moines, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 – 1st baseball game in California, SF Giants beat LA Dodgers, 8-0
1963 – “Sophie” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances
1970 – “Cry for Us All” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances
1986 – US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing
1990 – Greenidge and Haynes make 298 opening stand (v England), combination best
1992 – Jay Leno’s final appearance as permanent guest host of Tonight
2013 – Boston Marathon bombings: 3 people are killed and 183 injured after two explosions near the finish line
Historical Events for 14th April 2019
1536 – English King Henry VIII expropriates minor monasteries
1570 – Polish Calvinists, Lutherians and Hernhutters unify against Jesuits
1865 – Mobile, Alabama is captured
1930 – Philip Barry’s “Hotel Universe” premieres in NYC
1944 – 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz
1965 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 – 32nd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Bob Goalby shoots a final round 66 (-6) to win his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of Roberto De Vicenzo who has his card famously marked incorrectly
1978 – Thousands of Georgians demonstrate in the captial Tbilisi against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language
1985 – Alan Garcia wins elections in Peru
2008 – 42nd CMT Music Awards: Taylor Swift and Trace Adkins wins
Historical Events for 13th April 2019
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
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