April 30

George Washington becomes 1st President of the US (1789); Louisiana Purchase doubles the size of the US (1803); Adolf Hitler commits suicide in underground bunker (1945); HBD actress Gal Gadot (1985).

April 29

Jazz legend Duke Ellington born (1899); HBD singer-songwriter Willie Nelson (1933); RIP film director Alfred Hitchcock (1980); Los Angeles riots begin following acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King (1992); Prince William and Kate Middleton get married (2011).

April 26

John Wilkes Booth killed 12 days after assassinating President Lincoln (1865); HBD Melania Trump (1970); RIP Lucille Ball (1989); Deadliest tornado in history kills 1,300 in Bangladesh (1989).

April 25

Workers break ground on Suez Canal (1859); Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald born (1917); US declares war on Spain to begin Spanish-American War (1898); HBD Al Pacino (1940).

April 24

HBD US Library of Congress (1800); Easter Rising begins (1916); Hubble Space Telescope is launched (1990); HBD Barbra Streisand (1942); RIP Estee Lauder (2004).

April 23

William Shakespeare born, dies (1564, 1616); Actress and diplomat Shirley Temple born (1928); Rhythm Club fire in Mississippi kills 209 (1940); RIP civil rights activist Cesar Chavez (1993); First YouTube video published (2005).

April 22

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Ellen Glasgow born (1873); Earth Day first celebrated in US (1970); RIP photographer Ansel Adams (1984); RIP President Richard Nixon (1994); Former NFL football player Pat Tillman dies in Iraq War (2004).

April 19

Battles of Lexington and Concord begin the American Revolutionary War (1775); RIP Charles Darwin (1882); Boston Marathon held for 1st time (1897); HBD Maria Sharapova (1987); Oklahoma City bombing kills 168, including 19 children (1995).

April 18

Paul Revere’s famous ride during American Revolution (1775); Original Yankee Stadium opens (1923); RIP Albert Einstein (1955); HBD Kourtney Kardashian (1979); RIP Dick Clark (2012).

April 17

RIP Benjamin Franklin (1790); Bay of Pigs Invasion begins in Cuba (1961); Apollo 13 returns safely to Earth (1970); HBD Victoria Beckham (1974); RIP Barbara Bush (2018).

April 16

Actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin born (1889); Harriet Quimby is 1st woman to fly across English Channel (1912); HBD Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947); Singer-songwriter Selena Quintanilla-Pérez born (1971); 32 die, 17 injured in Virginia Tech mass shooting (2007).

April 15

Leonardo da Vinci born (1452); RIP Abraham Lincoln (1865); Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg, 1,500 people die (1912); HBD actress Emma Watson (1990); Two bombs explode at Boston Marathon, killing 3 and injuring 264 (2013).

April 12

RIP American Red Cross founder Clara Barton (1912); RIP Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945); HBD David Letterman (1947); Yuri Gagarin becomes first person to orbit Earth (1961); RIP boxing great Joe Louis (1981).

April 11

HBD Ethel Kennedy, philanthropist and widow of Bobby Kennedy (1928); Civil Rights Act of 1968 is signed (1968); Apollo 13 launches (1970); RIP American novelist Kurt Vonnegut (2007).

April 10

The Great Gatsby published (1925); HBD labor rights activist Dolores Huerta (1930); HBD football personality John Madden (1936); Paul McCartney leaves The Beatles (1970); Good Friday Agreement is signed (1998).

April 9

RIP Francis Bacon (1626); Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War (1865); Hugh Hefner born (1926); RIP architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1959); HBD actress Cynthia Nixon (1966).

April 8

HBD actress Robin Wright (1966); RIP Pablo Picasso (1973); Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record (1974); Frank Robinson becomes first African American to manage a major league baseball team (1975); RIP Margaret Thatcher (2013).

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April 5

Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe (1614); HBD Booker T. Washington (1856); American Civil War Battle of Yorktown begins (1862); HBD Colin Powell (1937); RIP Kurt Cobain (1994).

April 4

William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia, shortest presidency ever at just 31 days (1841); American poet and activist Maya Angelou born (1928); NATO is created (1949); Martin Luther King, Jr is assassinated (1968).

April 3

American politician Boss Tweed born (1823); HBD actress Doris Day (1922); Actor Marlon Brando born (1924); First mobile phone call is made (1973); Apple releases the 1st iPad (2010).

April 2

Ponce de Leon is first European in Florida (1513); Singer Marvin Gaye born (1939); Rita Johnston becomes 1st female Premier of a Canadian province (1991); RIP Pope John Paul II (2005); RIP Winnie Mandela, activist and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela (2018).

April 1

Actress Debbie Reynolds born (1932); Apple Inc. founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (1976); Iran overthrows the Shah, officially becomes an Islamic republic (1979); Singer Marvin Gaye murdered by his father (1984).