1862 – Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls
1968 – Riots continue in over 100 US cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1969 – Ted Williams begins managing Washington Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4
1971 – WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge US Circuit Court of Appeals
1973 – Doug Walters’ best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 v WI Georgetown
1973 – Cleveland sets day-game and opening-game attendance records of 74,420
1974 – Herb Gardner’s “Thieves” premieres in NYC
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
1987 – Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on “Nightline”
1992 – Republika Srpska (aka the Bosnian Serb Republic) announces its independence.
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 6th April 2023
1757 – British King George II dismisses minister William Pitt the Elder, Secretary of State for the Southern Department
1920 – To force German evacuation of the Ruhr area, the French occupy Frankfurt, Darmstadt, and Hanau
1924 – 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
1931 – 1st Scottsboro (Alabama) trial begins – 9 blacks accused of rape
1934 – 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
1938 – Teflon invented by Roy J. Plunkett
1957 – NYC ends trolley car service
1975 – Fastest hat trick by a Wash Cap 3 mins 26 secs (Stan Gilbertson)
1994 – Liberal Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (Roe v Wade) resigns
2019 – Tampa Bay Lightning beats Boston Bruins, 6-3 in the season finale for their 62nd regular season win, tying the NHL record held by Detroit Red Wings (1995-96); 128 points, 4th in NHL history
Historical Events for 5th April 2023
1804 – High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil
1905 – James Barrie’s “Alice-sit-by-the-fire” premieres in London
1946 – 100th Grand National: Capt. Robert Petre wins aboard 25/1 shot Lovely Cottage; first true GN since 1940 due to World War II; last on a Friday
1967 – ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit
1969 – Massive anti-Vietnam War demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities
1982 – 43 year old St. Louis reliever Jim Kaat pitches 1 inning for the Cardinals in a season-opening, 14-3 rout of Houston; sets a MLB record for pitchers by playing in his 24th consecutive season
1991 – Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida
1994 – Miami Heat beat NY Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
1998 – The Arizona Diamondbacks record their first win in team history with a 3-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants in Phoenix, AZ; ends second-worst start ever (0-5) by an expansion team
2022 – Shanghai lockdown extended to cover the whole city as COVID-19 cases increase, as China remains one of the last to employ a “zero-Covid” system
Historical Events for 4th April 2023
1859 – Bryant’s Minstrels debut “Dixie” in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show
1870 – Golden Gate Park forms by City Order #800
1912 – Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields in Siberia
1932 – George Bernard Shaw’s comedy play “Too True To Be Good” premieres in NYC; runs for 59 performances
1968 – US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee
1994 – 1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 inn
1994 – 56th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Arkansas beats Duke, 76-72; Razorbacks’ first title in first title game
1999 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Graham Marsh of Australia wins his second Champions Tour major by 3 strokes from Larry Nelson
2013 – 9 people have been killed on an axe-murdering rampage in Chhattisgarh state, India
2019 – US Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pledges to roll back anti-LGBT policies, including not baptizing children of gay parents
Historical Events for 3rd April 2023
1856 – Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes badly damaged by gunpowder explosion, kills 4,000 on island of Rhodes
1882 – Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1948 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1948 – 1st US figure skating championships held
1980 – France performs nuclear test
1987 – MLB Chicago Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to Oakland A’s for 3 minor league players
1987 – Duchess of Windsor’s jewels auctioned for £31,380,197
1992 – 1st exhibition game at Camden Field – Orioles beat NY Mets
1994 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Ray Floyd wins first of 4 Champions Tour majors with birdie on first playoff hole against Dale Douglass
2013 – 50 people are killed by flooding across Argentina
Historical Events for 2nd April 2023
1453 – Turkish forces under Sultan Mehmed II begin the siege of Constantinople (İstanbul), which falls May 29
1865 – Battle of Fort Blakely Alabama, last major battle of the US Civil War
1902 – Dutch football club Maatschappelijke Voetbal Vereniging (MVV) is established in Maastricht, Netherlands
1932 – “Tarzan the Ape Man” released starring Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in the first of his 12 Tarzan films
1977 – Montreal Canadiens rout the Washington Capitals, 11-0 at the Montreal Forum to set an NHL record of 34 straight home games without a loss
1985 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1993 – Cleveland Cavaliers guard Mark Price has his consecutive free throw streak end at 77, during a 114-113 loss at Charlotte; falls 1 short of Calvin Murphy’s NBA record of 78 straight free throws
1993 – Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10
2019 – 70 villages evacuated in Khuzesta province, Iran, after at least 45 killed in flooding after unprecedented rainfall
2020 – Spain’s death toll passes 10,000 (10003), as it posts a record single-day rise of 950 deaths
Historical Events for 1st April 2023
1792 – Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women’s right to divorce
1868 – Hampton Institute opens
1891 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
1933 – Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany
1942 – Allied air raid on Japanese occupied harbor city Kupang, Timor, Indonesia
1972 – 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
1972 – MLB players stage first ever collective strike; play resumes (13/4/72) when owners and players agree to $500,000 increase in pension fund payments
1993 – Alan Bennett’s play “The Madness of George III” premieres in London
2000 – Michelle Kwan pushes through all 7 triple jumps at the Palais des Exposition in Nice, France to become the first American since Peggy Flemming to win 3 world figure skating titles
2016 – The Golden State Warriors NBA record winning home run ends at 54 games with a 109-106 defeat to the Boston Celtics; the loss at Oracle Arena was the Warriors’ first since January 2015
Historical Events for 31st March 2023
1683 – Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and King John III Sobieski of Poland sign a covenant against Turkey, beginning of the Holy League
1808 – French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
1906 – GB Shaw’s German version of “Caesar and Cleopatra” premieres in Berlin
1922 – KFI-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1946 – First election is held in Greece after World War II
1968 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces in an address to the nation that he will not seek re-election
1973 – Philadelphia Flyers score an NHL record tying 8 goals from an astounding 60 shots in the 2nd period of a 10-2 win over New York Islanders
1979 – 24th Eurovision Song Contest: Gali Atari and Milk and Honey for Israel wins singing “Hallelujah” in Jerusalem
1996 – Space Shuttle STS 76 (Atlantis 16), lands
2021 – Paul Simon sells his entire songwriting catalog of over 400 songs to Sony Music Publishing for an undisclosed sum
Historical Events for 24th March 2023
1937 – Bus carrying a roller skater troupe to Cincinnati from St.Louis crashes into a bridge abutment in Salem, Illinois, killing 21 people
1966 – Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
1973 – Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile
1979 – 10 rebounds and 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by Penn Mich State’s Earvin “Magic” Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts
1986 – 58th Academy Awards: “Out of Africa”, William Hurt and Geraldine Page win
1988 – “Gospel at Colonus” opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 performances
1991 – NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 9-3
1991 – 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane and Ghosts Can’t Do It wins
1996 – MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way
2013 – 25 people are killed by gunmen in a coordinated attack in Adamawa State, Nigeria
Historical Events for 23rd March 2023
1534 – Aragonese legal code formally recognised
1880 – Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin)
1918 – Germany begins using long-range gun, the ‘Kaiser Wilhelm Geschütz’ (‘Emperor William Gun’), aka ‘Paris Gun’ to shell Paris from Crépy-en-Laonnais, 75 miles away; over several days, 303 rounds kill 256 and wound over 600
1950 – UN World Meteorological Org established
1963 – 8th Eurovision Song Contest: Grethe and Jorgen Ingmann for Denmark win singing “Dansevise” in London
1979 – Larry Holmes TKOs Osvaldo Ocasio in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 – Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns as chairman of the Social Democratic Party
1994 – Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for NY governor
2004 – Andhra Pradesh Federation of Trade Unions holds its first conference in Hyderabad, India
2013 – The US Senate approves its first budget in four years by a margin of 50–49