1803 – Chancellor Robert Livingston and James Monroe sign Louisiana Purchase Treaty in Paris at a cost of 15 million dollars, doubles the size of the USA
1871 – The Camp Grant Massacre of Apache Indians in Arizona Territory is committed by white and Mexican adventurers, 144 die
1939 – Lou Gehrig sets a MLB record playing his 2,130th consecutive and final game for the New York Yankees.
1972 – “Arthur Godfrey Time” ends a 27 year run on radio
1973 – Women’s tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments
1995 – After 120 years the last 15 A and S department stores close
1997 – Tajik Prest Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt
2019 – New type of dementia identified and named limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (Late) after misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 29th April 2026
1644 – Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes Emperor of China and flees Peking
1707 – English and Scottish parliaments accept Act of Union; creates the United Kingdom of Great Britain (comes into being 1st May)
1854 – Ashmun Institute (later Lincoln University), in Hinsonville, Pennsylvania, receives its charter from Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, making it the 1st degree-granting Black college in US
1862 – 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Mississippi
1864 – The Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York
1953 – Milwaukee Braves’ Joe Adcock is 1st to homer into New York’s Polo Grounds center field bleachers
1995 – KC Royal John Nonely is 70th to HR on his 1st at bat
1996 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fresno, California on KFRR 104.1 FM
Historical Events for 28th April 2026
1887 – “Europe’s first motoring competition” is ‘won’ by The Marquis de Dion on a steam-powered quadricycle built by French toymaker and engineer Georges Bouton; French newspaper Le Velocipede organized the ‘test’, and Bouton was the only participant
1914 – 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles, West Virginia
1919 – American stuntman and parachute developer Leslie Irvin (23) makes the first premeditated free-fall parachute jump from a plane above the US Army Air Service’s McCook Field near Dayton, Ohio
1952 – St Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan
2017 – Gwyneth Paltrow brand Goop and Condé Nast announce they will be launching a quarterly publication together
2022 – Russian missiles strike Ukrainian city of Kyiv during a visit by UN Secretary-General António Guterres
2025 – Beyoncé’s 10th concert tour, The Cowboy Carter Tour, commences in Inglewood, California
2025 – Airports, hospitals, and public transit shut down due to a widespread power outage in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and parts of France
Historical Events for 27th April 2026
1565 – First Spanish settlement in the Philippines is founded in Cebu City
1908 – IV Summer (Modern) Olympic Games open in London
1912 – Relief laws in Netherlands replace those of 1854
1940 – Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1952 – Revival of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s operetta “Four Saints in Three Acts” closes at Broadway Theater, NYC, after 15 performances
1968 – Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands
1982 – Trial of John Hinckley, Jr begins for the attempted assassination of US President Ronald Reagan
2023 – NFL Draft: Alabama quarterback Bryce Young first pick by the Carolina Panthers
Historical Events for 26th April 2026
1819 – Odd Fellows Lodge forms
1912 – First home run hit at Fenway Park by Hugh Bradley of the Red Sox
1956 – First modern container ship, the Ideal X, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
1967 – Jule Styne, Adolph Green and Betty Comden’s musical “Hallelujah, Baby!”, starring Leslie Uggams, opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC; runs for 293 performances and wins 2 Tony Awards
1976 – Pan Am begins nonstop flights between NYC and Tokyo
1983 – San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game
1994 – Physicists announce the first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle
2012 – NFL Draft: Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck first pick by Indianapolis Colts
Historical Events for 25th April 2026
1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom
1875 – Latest date for measurable snow in NYC (3″)
1901 – Erve Beck hits American League’s 1st home run
1950 – Chuck Cooper becomes the 1st African American to be drafted into the NBA (for Boston Celtics)
1982 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1984 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
2012 – The United Kingdom dips back into recession after the economy shrank 0.2% in the first quarter of 2012
2018 – Danish inventor Peter Madsen found guilty of killing and desecrating body of journalist Kim Wall aboard submarine, sentenced to life imprisonment
Historical Events for 24th April 2026
1288 – Jews of Troyes France are accused of ritual murder
1910 – German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
1917 – NY Yankees left-handed pitcher George Mogridge no-hits Boston Red Sox, 2-1 at Fenway Park
1921 – First municipal elections for men and women in Belgium
1950 – Leonard Bernstein’s musical “Peter Pan”, starring Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, opens at Imperial Theater, NYC; runs for 320 performances
1955 – Gaullists lose elections in France
1965 – “Comedy in Music-Opus 2” closes at John Golden NYC after 192 performances
1990 – Brian Friel’s stage drama “Dancing at Lughnasa” opens at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland; later wins Olivier Award, Tony Award, and Drama Desk Award for Best Play
Historical Events for 23rd April 2026
1851 – Canada issues its first postage stamp, a Three-Pence Beaver
1918 – Zeebrugge Raid: Dover Patrol attempted to block Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge to prevent German U-boats from leaving port
1942 – 4-day allied bombing on Rostock, Germany begins
1950 – NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 110-95 to take series, 4 games to 2
1958 – Robert Kurka’s “The Good Soldier Schweik”, with libretto written by Abe Meeropol, premieres at the New York City Opera
1963 – Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s musical “She Loves Me”, based on the film “The Shop Around the Corner”, opens at Eugene O’Neill Theater, NYC; runs for 302 performances and a Tony Award for Jack Cassidy
2013 – “Star Trek Into Darkness” directed by J. J. Abrams starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto premieres in Sydney
2017 – Adam Ondra sets a new highpoint for the Project indoor sport route in Stockholm, Sweden
Historical Events for 22nd April 2026
1728 – Pierre de Marivaux’s play “Le Triomphe de Plutus” premieres in Paris
1823 – Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London
1848 – Captain James Fitzjames and 105 surviving crew depart their ice-trapped ships for safety in Arctic Canada; all later perish as part of John Franklin’s doomed Northwest Passage expedition
1957 – All NL baseball teams integrate, John Irwin Kennedy becomes the 1st Black player for the Philadelphia Phillies
1969 – Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 days of non-stop sailing to become the 1st person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe
1971 – Soyuz 10 launches as the world’s first mission to the first-ever space station (the Salyut 1) however the docking was unsuccessful and the cosmonauts returned to Earth
1998 – 33rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood and George Strait win
2006 – Nepalese security forces open fire on pro-democracy protesters demonstrating against King Gyanendra, injuring hundreds. The protesters secure the restoration of parliament and a federal state
Historical Events for 21st April 2026
1930 – Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
1944 – NFL Chic Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers merge (dissolves on Dec 3)
1980 – Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWWW Detroit, Michigan
1991 – French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio discovers the San Diego, Dutch galleon sunk in 1600 off Fortune Island in the Philippines
1994 – Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed
1997 – 101st Boston Marathon: Lameck Aguta of Kenya wins men’s event in 2:10:34; Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia women’s champion in 2:26:23
2017 – Taliban attack army base at Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, killing more than 100
2018 – Oakland A’s left hander Sean Manaea no-hits the Boston Red Sox