Today in History

April 4th


1964
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British pop group The Beatles occupied the first five places in the US singles pop charts with:- 'Can't Buy Me Love', 'Twist and Shout', 'She Loves You', 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' and 'Please Please Me'. It was the first and only time anyone ever monopolized the entire top five. The Beatles are the best-selling pop band in history, have had the most number-one albums in the UK charts and have held the top spot longer than any other musical act. See picture of the Beatles' statue at Liverpool's Pier Head.
 

April 4th
1818
The U.S. flag was declared to have 13 red&white stripes and 20 stars.A new star would be added for each new state
1974
Hank Aaron tied Babe Ruth's major league baseball home run record with 714
 
April 5th 1649
Death of Englishman John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company.
 

5th April

Died today in Cairo in 1923...George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, best known as the financial backer behind the excavation with Howard Carter of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings.
 
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On this day, 4/6

1994 Rwandan Genocide begins with the assassination of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira with their plane being shot down by surface-to-air missiles, abruptly ending peace negotiations. Those responsible have never been identified.

Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, ends tax on men with beards
On this day in 1722
 
April 7th
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[h=2]John Walker Sells His Famous Invention[/h]Not many know that John Walker has made several human lives easier. This great inventor is the man who introduced the ‘friction match’ to the world. According to a source, Walker had apparently sold around 250 such matches on the 7th of April, 1827. This event earned Walker a place in books related to history.
 
April 7th
1827
English chemist,John Walker invents wooden matches
1963
Jack Nicklaus at age 23, becomes the youngest golfer to win green jacket at Masters Tournament
1983
The oldest human skelton age 80,000 yrs discovered in Egypt
 
1999 The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas
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1906 The world's 1st animated cartoon "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces" by J. Stuart Blackton is released.

 
April 8th


1838
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The day before his 32nd birthday, Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s 236 ft steamship Great Western sailed from Bristol on her maiden voyage to New York. The journey took 15 days, half the time of the fastest sailing ship. She became the first steamship to make regular Atlantic crossings.
 
1768 John Hancock refuses to allow two British customs agents to go below deck of his ship, considered by some to be the first act of physical resistance to British authority in the colonies

1865 Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S Grant (US Civil War)

2012 "The Lion King" becomes highest grossing Broadway show after overtaking "The Phantom of the Opera"
 
April 10th
1849
The safety pin was patented by Walter Hunt,who sold the rights for $400
1866
American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals forms{ASPCA}
1970
Paul McCartney officially announces split of The Beatles
 
April 10th

  • 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
 
April 11th
1890
Ellis Island,NY designated as an immigration station
1968
Pres.Lyndon Johnson signs the 1968 Civil Rights Act
1976
The Apple 1 computer created by Steve Wozniak is released
 
April 12th
1954
Bill Haley&The Comets recorded 'Rock Around The Clock'
1981
The space shuttle'Columbia' blasted off from Cape Canaveral,Fla on its 1st test flight
 
April 13th
1869
steam power brake patented by George Westinghouse
1870
Metropolitian Museum of Art in NYC was founded
1943
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt dedicates the Lincoln Memorial
 
April 14th
1865
Pres Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington,DC
1939
John Steinbeck's book'The Grapes of Wrath' was first published. The book would win National Book Award and Pulitizer Prize for Fiction
 
1903 Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)

2003 The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%
 

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