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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 9th April 2025
1941 – PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, East Prussia, ends.
1965 – Beatles “Ticket to Ride” single is released in UK
1977 – Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years
1986 – TV show “Dallas” announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
1992 – Florida drops rape charges against NY Mets Gooden, Boston and Coleman
2000 – 64th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Fijian Vijay Singh wins by 3 strokes from Ernie Els of South Africa
2013 – The French Senate approves a bill for same-sex marriage
2017 – Suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia kills at least 17, Al-Shabaab group claim responsibility
2018 – Fleetwood Mac announce new members Neil Finn and Mike Campbell after firing long-standing member Lindsey Buckingham
Historical Events for 8th April 2025
1802 – French Protestant church becomes state-supported and -controlled
1913 – China’s National Assembly opens in Peking, the first free democratic parliament in Chinese history
1945 – 1945 NFL Draft: Charley Trippi from University of Georgia first pick by Chicago Cardinals
1965 – India and Pakistan forces engage in a border fight
1975 – 47th Academy Awards: “The Godfather Part II”, Ellen Burstyn and Art Carney win
1989 – Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo is arrested in Mexico and charged with kidnapping, murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena, drug trafficking and other crimes
1994 – MLB outfielder Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California for substance abuse rehabilitation
1994 – Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0
2006 – 159th Grand National: 11–1 Irish shot Numbersixvalverde, ridden by Niall Madden wins by 6 lengths from defending champion Hedgehunter
2013 – 163 people are killed and 50,000 are displaced after tribal violence erupts in Darfur, Sudan
Historical Events for 7th April 2025
1498 – Crowd storms Savonarola’s convent San Marco Florence, Italy
1862 – Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls
1917 – J.M. Barrie’s play “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals” premieres in London
1976 – Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
1985 – Nabisco Dinah Shore Women’s Golf, Mission Hills CC: Alice Miller shoots a final round 67 (−5) to win her only major title, 3 strokes ahead of Jan Stephenson of Australia
1996 – Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya hits the fastest ODI fifty off 17 balls vs Pakistan in Singapore
1997 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Myers , Florida on WRXK 96.1 FM
2018 – Vegas Golden Knights suffer a 7-1 end of regular season defeat at Calgary but finish with an NHL expansion team record 51 victories; previous record 33 by Anaheim Ducks and Florida Panthers 1993-94
2020 – China ends its lockdown of Wuhan, the city at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic after 76 days as the country reports no new deaths for the 1st time
2020 – Australia’s highest court overturns the child sexual abuse conviction of Catholic Cardinal George Pell