1619 – Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam
1861 – Baltimore riots – 4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed
1943 – 47th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:28:25.8; his 2nd of 4 wins in the event
1947 – Stanley Cup Final, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario: Toronto Maple Leafs edge Montreal Canadiens, 2-1 for a 4-2 series win; first all-Canadian final since 1935
1966 – In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium, Angels lose 3-1 to Chic
1970 – “Look to the Lilies” closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 performances
1972 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1991 – Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990
1997 – NFL Draft: Ohio State offensive tackle Orlando Pace first pick by St. Louis Rams
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 18th April 2025
1899 – John McGraw, at 26, has his managerial debut as Oriole manager
1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
1946 – International Court of Justice opens at The Hague Netherlands
1947 – “New Orleans”, an American musical romance film premieres; Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday, in her only feature film, play supporting roles
1950 – 1st opening night-game, Cards beat Pirates, 4-2
1970 – France beats England, 35-13 at Stade Colombes, Paris to earn a share of the Five Nations Rugby Championship with Wales
1993 – Senior PGA Championship, PGA National GC: American Tom Wargo pars second playoff hole to beat Bruce Crampton of Australia and take his first and only major title
2020 – Canada’s worst modern mass shooting as a gunman kills 18 people, including a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, across Nova Scotia
2024 – United States vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution recognising Palestine as a state with the UK and Switzerland abstaining
2024 – Fossil evidence of the largest known snake 11-15 meters long named Vasuki indicus, 66 million years old, published from a mine in Panandhro, western India
Historical Events for 17th April 2025
1875 – Modern Snooker invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain, a bored British officer in Jabalpur, India
1922 – 26th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar in race record 2:18:10; his 2nd race victory; first of 3 consecutive wins
1927 – Japan’s Wakarsoeki government falls, Baron Tanaka becomes premier
1935 – Provincial-National elections (Musserts NSB achieves 7.9%, 44 chairs)
1942 – POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein
1981 – Carl Gottlieb’s movie “Caveman”, starring Ringo Starr, Shelley Long, Barbara Bach, Dennis Quaid, Jack Gilford, and John Matuszak premieres
1991 – Railroad workers go on strike in US
1999 – NFL Draft: University of Kentucky quarterback Tim Couch first pick by Cleveland Browns
2001 – A letter between Gale Norton and Jeb Bush is released, stating that the Bush administration has decided to go ahead with plans to auction 6 million acres of potentially oil-and-gas-rich seabed in the Gulf of Mexico
2023 – New Research shows the Great Pacific Garbage Patch now has coast creatures living and breeding in it, including jellyfish, sponges and worms raising concerns about the spread of invasive species
Historical Events for 16th April 2025
1799 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre
1917 – 21st Boston Marathon won by Bill Kennedy in 2:28:37.2
1945 – World War II: Dutch town of Arnhem, site of failed Operation Market Garden, is freed by British and Canadian forces
1973 – 77th Boston Marathon: American double; Jon Anderson men’s champion in 2:16:03; Jacqueline Hansen wins women’s title in 3:05:59
1979 – Failed Palestinian attack on Zaventem Airport, Belgium
1987 – Peter Taylor’s “Summons to Memphis” wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
1992 – “Metro” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 13 performances
2006 – Colin Farrell reaches a confidential settlement with ex-girlfriend Nicole Narain to keep their 13-minute sex tape private
2007 – “Spider-Man 3” directed by Sam Raimi and starring Toby Maguire and Kristen Dunst premieres at the Tokyo Film Festival
2020 – Nationwide State of Emergency declared in Japan till 6 May due to the worsening COVID-19 outbreak
Historical Events for 15th April 2025
1621 – Hugo Grotius arrives in France after escaping prison in a book chest
1817 – 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford, Connecticut)
1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies nine hours after he is shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington
1896 – I (modern) Summer Olympic Games close at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece; USA wins gold medal count, 11; Greece wins total medal count, 46; IOC has retroactively assigned gold, silver and bronze medals to 3 best placed athletes in each event
1912 – RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 people
1920 – Sacco and Vanzetti Trial: paymaster shot and killed along with his guard
1924 – WHO-AM in Des Moines Iowa begins radio transmissions
1963 – 67th Boston Marathon won by Aurèle Vandendriessche of Belgium in race record 2:18:58
1997 – Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring #42 for all teams
2020 – US’s deadliest day during COVID-19 pandemic with 2,752 deaths reported
Historical Events for 14th April 2025
193 – Lucius Septimius Severus crowned Emperor of Rome
1699 – Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar
1836 – US Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin
1896 – US Patent Office issues Patent No. 558,393 to Dr John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan for “flaked cereal, and process of making same”
1910 – US President William Howard Taft begins tradition of throwing ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day of baseball season
1949 – International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg’s last judgment
1961 – Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua
1989 – In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North’s case goes to the jury
2007 – At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
2021 – Coinbase becomes the first major cryptocurrency company to trade shares on the New York Stock Exchange
Historical Events for 13th April 2025
1256 – The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae
1863 – Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled is incorporated in the State of New York
1870 – Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC, opening in the Dodworth Building at 681 Fifth Avenue
1925 – Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd St NYC
1934 – US Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act
1941 – Heavy German assault on Tobruk
1969 – Closure of the Brisbane tramway network.
1979 – Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
1980 – 44th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: 23-year-old Spaniard Seve Ballesteros wins his first Masters, 4 strokes ahead of Jack Newton and Gibby Gilbert
1992 – American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50%
Historical Events for 12th April 2025
1862 – James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, Georgia
1900 – The US Congress passes the Foraker Act, establishing Puerto Rico as an unincorporated territory (effective 1 May)
1905 – French Dufaux brothers test helicopter
1927 – Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek begins a counter-revolution by violently suppressing Communist groups
1938 – First US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses in New York
1954 – Joe Turner releases “Shake, Rattle and Roll”
1983 – Harold Washington elected Chicago’s 1st black mayor
1992 – Lynn Gunther of California threatens to blow herself up in front of UN
1992 – Euro Disney (Disneyland Paris) opens in Marne-la-Vallee, France
2009 – President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority makes a courtesy phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, restarting the Palestinian-Israeli dialogue
Historical Events for 11th April 2025
491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, as Anastasius I – often called the first Byzantine Emperor
1828 – Foundation of Bahia Blanca, Argentina
1898 – President McKinley asks for Spanish–American War declaration
1921 – Iowa imposes 1st state cigarette tax
1921 – The Emirate of Transjordan created
1942 – US Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal established
1962 – New York Mets make a losing debut
1991 – UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration
2021 – 20-year-old Daunte Wright shot and killed at a traffic stop by police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, who says they mistook their gun for a taser
2023 – Largest cosmic explosion ever recorded (AT2021lwx)- fireball 100 x size of the solar system with a brightness 2trillion x the sun’s, thought to be large gas cloud entering a supermassive black hole eight million lights years away
Historical Events for 10th April 2025
1816 – 2nd Bank of US chartered
1937 – Cole Porter’s musical “Red, Hot And Blue”, starring Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope, closes at the Alvin Theatre, NYC, after 183 performances
1939 – Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
1945 – German troops attack Ijsselbrug
1946 – 1st election for Japanese Parliament
1961 – 25th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: South African Gary Player beats defending champion Arnold Palmer and amateur Charles Coe by 1 stroke to become first international champion; Monday finish because of rain
1988 – Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2
1993 – Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak
2006 – 5th CMT Video Music Awards: Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood and Kenny Chesney win
2019 – First home delivery service by drone begins in Canberra, Australia by Wing, part of Google’s Alphabet company