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April 3rd
1882 ~ Death of Jesse James (shot in the back and killed for the reward).
1895 ~ The libel trial started by Oscar Wilde against the Marquess of Queensbury began, eventually resulting in Wilde's arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1897 ~ Death of Johannes Brahms, Composer.
1901 ~ Death of Richard D'Oyly Carte, Impresario.
1934 ~ Birthday of Jane Goodall, Zoologist.
1946 ~ Masaharu Homma, the Japanese general responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines.
1948 ~ President Truman signed the Marshall Plan.
1991 ~ Death of Graham Greene, English writer.
1996 ~ Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin.
2000 ~ Microsoft was ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws.
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April 4th
1884 ~ Birthday of Isoroku Yamamoto, naval commander.
1902 ~ British financier Cecil Rhodes left £6 million in his will to provide scholarships for Americans at Oxford University in England.
1949 ~ Twelve nations signed The North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1961 ~ Birthday of Tom Byron, Porn Actor.
1964 ~ The Beatles occupied all of the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States.
1968 ~ Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
1975 ~ Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
1979 ~ Death of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan Prime Minister (hanged).
1984 ~ Winston Smith, the main character of George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, began writing in his secret diary.
1994 ~ Netscape Communications Corporation was founded by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark.
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April 6th
1528 ~ Death of Albrecht Dürer, Artist.
1866 ~ Birthday of Butch Cassidy, Outlaw.
1909 ~ Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole.
1917 ~ The United States declared war on Germany.
1928 ~ Birthday of James D. Watson, Geneticist, co-discoverer of structure of DNA, awarded 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1933 ~ Hostess Twinkies were invented.
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1971 ~ Death of Igor Stravinsky, Composer.
1992 ~ Death of Isaac Asimov, Science-fiction author.
1994 ~ The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in a plane crash near Rwanda's capital.
2001 ~ Algerian national Ahmed Ressam, accused of bringing explosives into the U.S. days before the millennium celebrations, was convicted twice in the same day - first in France for belonging to a group supporting Islamic militants, then in Los Angeles on terror charges.
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April 8th
1820 ~ The Venus de Milo was discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1945 ~ Pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed at the POW camp at Flossenbürg.
1953 ~ Jomo Kenyatta was convicted of being a member of the Mau Mau.
1973 ~ Death of Pablo Picasso, artist.
1974 ~ Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth's record.
1975 ~ Frank Robinson managed his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
1982 ~ Birthday of Judy Star, Canadian porn actress.
1983 ~ Death of Omar Bradley, general.
1991 ~ Birthday of Melanie Ríos, Colombian Porn Actress.
2005 ~ The funeral of Pope John Paul II.
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April 10th
1847 ~ Birthday of Joseph Pulitzer, Journalist & Publisher.
1912 ~ The RMS Titanic left port in Southampton, England.
1919 ~ Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata was ambushed and killed by government forces.
1932 ~ Birthday of Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Funny Girl, and many others).
1947 ~ Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in MLB.
1954 ~ Death of Auguste Lumière, Cinema Pioneer.
1963 ~ The American submarine USS Thresher and its crew was lost off Cape Cod, Mass.
1966 ~ Death of Evelyn Waugh, Writer.
1970 ~ Paul McCartney announced that The Beatles had broken up.
1998 ~ The Belfast Agreement was signed.
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April 13th
1598 ~ Henry IV of France granted freedom of religion to Hguenots.
1742 ~ George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah premiered in Dublin, Ireland.
1743 ~ Birthday of Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President.
1829 ~ The British Parliament granted freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
1892 ~ Birthday of Arthur Harris, commander of RAF's Bomber Command in World War II.
1964 ~ Sidney Poitier broke the color barrier when he was awarded the “Best Actor” Oscar.
1970 ~ Apollo 13 was almost lost when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst.
1980 ~ Birthday of Jana Cova, Czech Porn Actress.
1990 ~ The Soviet Union admitted committing the Katyn Massacre.
2008 ~ Death of John Wheeler, American physicist, inventor of the terms "black hole", "quantum foam" and "wormhole".
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April 17th
1521 ~ Martin Luther appeared before the Holy Roman Emperor at Worms, Germany, and was cross-examined about his thoughts on religious reform.
1741 ~ Birthday of Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1790 ~ Death of Benjamin Franklin, Politician, Inventor, Diplomat, & Printer.
1837 ~ Birthday of J.P. Morgan, Financier, Art Collector, & Philanthropist.
1861 ~ The Virginia State Convention voted to secede from the Union.
1894 ~ Birthday of Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet politician & Premier 1958-1964.
1903 ~ Birthday of Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist.
1961 ~ Cuba was invaded at the “Bay of Pigs” by a U.S. supported invasion force of 1,500 Cuban exiles, who were defeated by Fidel Castro's forces.
1984 ~ Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher was killed by gunfire coming from the Libyan People's Bureau in central London.
2003 ~ Death of Dr. Robert Atkins, noted for the Atkin's Diet.
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