April
April 1:
-In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. and 700 demonstrators were arrested in Selma, Alabama.
-In 1945, U.S. troops land on Okinawa.
April 2:
-In 1917, President Wilson asks for a declaration of war.
-In 2007, World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) was created to raise awareness of the developmental disorder around the globe.
April 3:
- In 1945, President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan stating authorized the creation of the program that helps the nations of Europe recover and rebuild after the World War II devastation.
-In 1918, Ferdinand Foch is appointed by the Allied Supreme War Council to be commander in chief on the Western Front in World War I.
April 4:
-In 1776, General George Washington begins marching with his unpaid soldiers from the headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts towards New York in anticipation of a British invasion.
-In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.
April 5:
-In 1992, abortion rights advocates march on Washington. The march drew several hundred thousand people to the demonstrations in Washington D.C.
-In 1792, George Washington exercised the first presidential veto of a Congressional bill. The bill included a plan for dividing seats in the House that would have increased the amount of seats for the northern states.
April 6:
-In 1841, John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th president of the U.S. He was a proponent of states’ rights and the abolishing of slavery.
-On this day in 1917, two days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorsed the decision to a vote of 373 to 50 and then the United States entered the First World War.
April 7:
-In 1918, Winston Churchill urges talks with Russia.
-In 1712, in New York City 27 black slaves rebelled and shot nine whites as they attempted to put out a fire that was started by the slaves. State militia was called to capture the rebels and 21 of the slaves were executed while 6 of them committed suicide.
April 8:
-President Harry Truman in 1952, seized control of America’s steel mills to prevent a shutdown by strikers.
-In 1778, John Adams arrives in Paris to replace Silas Deane. Adams arrives in Paris to replace former Continental Congress member Silas Deane as a member of the American commission that represents the interests of the U.S.
April 9:
-In 1947, “Freedom Riders” tested the laws of interstate bus travel in the segregated South.
-In 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
April 10:
-In 1942, during World War II in the Pacific, the Bataan Death March began as a American and Filipino prisoners were forced on a six-day march from an airfield on Bataan to a camp near Cabanatuan. Some of the 76,000 Allied POWS which included 12,000 Americans were forced to walk 60 miles underneath the hot sun without food or water to the POW camp that resulted in over 5,000 American deaths.
-In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which is an innovative federally funded organization that puts thousands of Americans to work during the Great Depression on projects with the environmental benefits.
April 11:
-In 1983, Harold Washington became the first African American mayor of Chicago. He received 51 percent of the vote and was re-elected in 1987 but 7 months later suffered a fatal heart attack at his office.
A week after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, the Civil Rights Act of -1968 was signed in to law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. This law prohibited discrimination in housing, and protected the civil rights workers as well as expanding the rights of Native Americans.
April 12:
-In 1861, The American Civil War began as Confederate troops under the command of General Pierre Beauregard opened fire at 4:30 in the morning on Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C.
-In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died suddenly at Warm Springs, Georgia after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. He had guided America out of the Great Depression and through World War II.
April 13:
-In 1861, Fort Sumter surrenders. After a 33 hour bombardment by Confederate cannons, the Union forces surrender Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. The surrender concluded a standoff that began with South Carolina’s secession from the Union in December.
-Future President Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, and the nation’s leading political theorist is born in 1743.
April 14:
-In 1775, in Philadelphia the first abolitionist society in America was founded as the “Society for the relief of free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage.”
-In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and wounded as he watched a performance at Ford’s Theater in Washington. He was taken to a nearby house and died the next morning.
April 15:
-In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
-The first American school for the deaf was founded by Thomas H. Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc in Hartford, Connecticut in 1817.
April 16:
-In 1862, Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia and devoted $1 million to compensate the owners of freed slaves.
-In 2007, the massacre at Virginia Tech occurred. 32 students and teachers died after being gunned down on the Virginia Tech campus by a student who later died of self-inflicted gun wounds.
April 17:
-In 1961, John F. Kennedy waits for word on the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Kennedy waited for the word on the success of a plan to overthrow on the Cuban government. Operation Zapata, plan to attempt to overthrow communist leader, Fidel Castro was authorized April 15.
-In 1864, the Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina begins. Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina in an attempt to recapture ports that were lost to the Union two years before.
April 18:
-In 1942, the first air raid on the Japan mainland during World War II occurred as James Doolittle led a squad of B-25 American bombers to bomb Tokyo and three other cities.
-In 1969, at a news conference, President Nixon says that he feels the prospects for peace have “significantly improved” since he took office. He mentioned the greater stability of the Saigon government and the improvement in the South Vietnamese armed forces as proof.
April 19:
-In 1982, Guion S. Bluford Jr. was named by NASA as the first African-American astronaut.
-In 1802, the Spanish reopened the New Orleans port to the American merchants.
April 20:
-In 1871, the Ku Klux Act was passed by congress. Congress authorized President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, impose penalties against terrorist organizations, and use military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan.
-In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation.
April 21:
-In 1846, Sarah G Bagley of Lowell, MA became the first US woman to become a telegrapher.
-In 1892, Black longshoremen strike for higher wages in St. Louis, Missouri.
April 22:
-In 1897, the New York City Jewish newspaper, “Forward” begins publishing and is still active.
-In 1957, all National League teams integrates, and John Irvin Kennedy was the first black on the Phillies.
April 23:
-Established by Israel’s Knesset as Holocaust day in remembrance of the estimated 6 million Jews that were killed by Nazis.
-In 2013, The French National Assembly passes an amended bill legalizing same-sex marriage.
April 24:
-In 1867, Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond, Virginia streetcars.
-In 1884, the National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes in Atlanta.
April 25:
-In 1950, Chuck Cooper becomes the first black to play in the NBA.
-In 1967, the first law legalizes abortion was signed by Colorado Governor John Love, which allows abortions in cases in which 3 doctors unanimously agreed.
April 26:
-In 1994, Multiracial elections were held for the first time in the history of South Africa. Nelson Mandela was elected president.
-In 1984, President Reagan arrives in China for a diplomatic meeting with the Chinese President.
April 27:
-In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus.
-In 1981, the first female soccer official was hired by NASL.
April 28:
-George B. Vashon becomes the first black to enter a New York State Bar in 1847.
-In 1931, a program for women athletes approved for the 1932 Olympics track and field.
April 29:
-In 1992, Riots erupted in Los Angeles following the announcement that a jury in Simi Valley, California had failed to convict four LA police officers accused in the videotaped beating of an African American man.
-In 1967, Aretha Franklin released her song, “Respect.”
April 30:
-In 1967, Muhammad Ali, boxer, was stripped of his world heavyweight boxing championship after refusing to be inducted into the American military. He claimed religious exemption.
-In 1598, the first theater performance happened in America. The performance was a Spanish comedy -- Rio Grande.
-In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. and 700 demonstrators were arrested in Selma, Alabama.
-In 1945, U.S. troops land on Okinawa.
April 2:
-In 1917, President Wilson asks for a declaration of war.
-In 2007, World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) was created to raise awareness of the developmental disorder around the globe.
April 3:
- In 1945, President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan stating authorized the creation of the program that helps the nations of Europe recover and rebuild after the World War II devastation.
-In 1918, Ferdinand Foch is appointed by the Allied Supreme War Council to be commander in chief on the Western Front in World War I.
April 4:
-In 1776, General George Washington begins marching with his unpaid soldiers from the headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts towards New York in anticipation of a British invasion.
-In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.
April 5:
-In 1992, abortion rights advocates march on Washington. The march drew several hundred thousand people to the demonstrations in Washington D.C.
-In 1792, George Washington exercised the first presidential veto of a Congressional bill. The bill included a plan for dividing seats in the House that would have increased the amount of seats for the northern states.
April 6:
-In 1841, John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th president of the U.S. He was a proponent of states’ rights and the abolishing of slavery.
-On this day in 1917, two days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorsed the decision to a vote of 373 to 50 and then the United States entered the First World War.
April 7:
-In 1918, Winston Churchill urges talks with Russia.
-In 1712, in New York City 27 black slaves rebelled and shot nine whites as they attempted to put out a fire that was started by the slaves. State militia was called to capture the rebels and 21 of the slaves were executed while 6 of them committed suicide.
April 8:
-President Harry Truman in 1952, seized control of America’s steel mills to prevent a shutdown by strikers.
-In 1778, John Adams arrives in Paris to replace Silas Deane. Adams arrives in Paris to replace former Continental Congress member Silas Deane as a member of the American commission that represents the interests of the U.S.
April 9:
-In 1947, “Freedom Riders” tested the laws of interstate bus travel in the segregated South.
-In 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
April 10:
-In 1942, during World War II in the Pacific, the Bataan Death March began as a American and Filipino prisoners were forced on a six-day march from an airfield on Bataan to a camp near Cabanatuan. Some of the 76,000 Allied POWS which included 12,000 Americans were forced to walk 60 miles underneath the hot sun without food or water to the POW camp that resulted in over 5,000 American deaths.
-In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which is an innovative federally funded organization that puts thousands of Americans to work during the Great Depression on projects with the environmental benefits.
April 11:
-In 1983, Harold Washington became the first African American mayor of Chicago. He received 51 percent of the vote and was re-elected in 1987 but 7 months later suffered a fatal heart attack at his office.
A week after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, the Civil Rights Act of -1968 was signed in to law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. This law prohibited discrimination in housing, and protected the civil rights workers as well as expanding the rights of Native Americans.
April 12:
-In 1861, The American Civil War began as Confederate troops under the command of General Pierre Beauregard opened fire at 4:30 in the morning on Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C.
-In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died suddenly at Warm Springs, Georgia after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. He had guided America out of the Great Depression and through World War II.
April 13:
-In 1861, Fort Sumter surrenders. After a 33 hour bombardment by Confederate cannons, the Union forces surrender Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. The surrender concluded a standoff that began with South Carolina’s secession from the Union in December.
-Future President Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, and the nation’s leading political theorist is born in 1743.
April 14:
-In 1775, in Philadelphia the first abolitionist society in America was founded as the “Society for the relief of free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage.”
-In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and wounded as he watched a performance at Ford’s Theater in Washington. He was taken to a nearby house and died the next morning.
April 15:
-In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
-The first American school for the deaf was founded by Thomas H. Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc in Hartford, Connecticut in 1817.
April 16:
-In 1862, Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia and devoted $1 million to compensate the owners of freed slaves.
-In 2007, the massacre at Virginia Tech occurred. 32 students and teachers died after being gunned down on the Virginia Tech campus by a student who later died of self-inflicted gun wounds.
April 17:
-In 1961, John F. Kennedy waits for word on the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Kennedy waited for the word on the success of a plan to overthrow on the Cuban government. Operation Zapata, plan to attempt to overthrow communist leader, Fidel Castro was authorized April 15.
-In 1864, the Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina begins. Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina in an attempt to recapture ports that were lost to the Union two years before.
April 18:
-In 1942, the first air raid on the Japan mainland during World War II occurred as James Doolittle led a squad of B-25 American bombers to bomb Tokyo and three other cities.
-In 1969, at a news conference, President Nixon says that he feels the prospects for peace have “significantly improved” since he took office. He mentioned the greater stability of the Saigon government and the improvement in the South Vietnamese armed forces as proof.
April 19:
-In 1982, Guion S. Bluford Jr. was named by NASA as the first African-American astronaut.
-In 1802, the Spanish reopened the New Orleans port to the American merchants.
April 20:
-In 1871, the Ku Klux Act was passed by congress. Congress authorized President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, impose penalties against terrorist organizations, and use military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan.
-In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation.
April 21:
-In 1846, Sarah G Bagley of Lowell, MA became the first US woman to become a telegrapher.
-In 1892, Black longshoremen strike for higher wages in St. Louis, Missouri.
April 22:
-In 1897, the New York City Jewish newspaper, “Forward” begins publishing and is still active.
-In 1957, all National League teams integrates, and John Irvin Kennedy was the first black on the Phillies.
April 23:
-Established by Israel’s Knesset as Holocaust day in remembrance of the estimated 6 million Jews that were killed by Nazis.
-In 2013, The French National Assembly passes an amended bill legalizing same-sex marriage.
April 24:
-In 1867, Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond, Virginia streetcars.
-In 1884, the National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes in Atlanta.
April 25:
-In 1950, Chuck Cooper becomes the first black to play in the NBA.
-In 1967, the first law legalizes abortion was signed by Colorado Governor John Love, which allows abortions in cases in which 3 doctors unanimously agreed.
April 26:
-In 1994, Multiracial elections were held for the first time in the history of South Africa. Nelson Mandela was elected president.
-In 1984, President Reagan arrives in China for a diplomatic meeting with the Chinese President.
April 27:
-In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus.
-In 1981, the first female soccer official was hired by NASL.
April 28:
-George B. Vashon becomes the first black to enter a New York State Bar in 1847.
-In 1931, a program for women athletes approved for the 1932 Olympics track and field.
April 29:
-In 1992, Riots erupted in Los Angeles following the announcement that a jury in Simi Valley, California had failed to convict four LA police officers accused in the videotaped beating of an African American man.
-In 1967, Aretha Franklin released her song, “Respect.”
April 30:
-In 1967, Muhammad Ali, boxer, was stripped of his world heavyweight boxing championship after refusing to be inducted into the American military. He claimed religious exemption.
-In 1598, the first theater performance happened in America. The performance was a Spanish comedy -- Rio Grande.