April 23 1616 Playwright William Shakespeare died in Stratford-on-Avon, England. 1954 Hank Aaron hit the first of his 755 home runs. 1969 Sirhan Sirhan was…
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This Day In History — Oklahoma Land Rush Begins
April 22 1500 Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered Brazil and claimed it for Portugal. 1509 Henry VIII became king of England. 1616 The Spanish poet Cervantes…
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April 21 1836 Texan army under Sam Houston defeated Mexicans in the Battle of San Jacinto. 1910 Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), the author of the…
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April 20 1769 Ottawa Indian chief Pontiac murdered. 1841 The first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue was published. 1902 Marie…
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April 19 1775 The “shot heard around the world” was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Mass., starting…
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April 18 1775 Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington to warn Massachusetts colonists of the arrival of British troops during the American Revolution. 1906…
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April 17 1790 Benjamin Franklin, U.S. patriot, diplomat, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, died in Philadelphia. 1895 The Sino-Japanese War ended with…
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April 16 1746 The Jacobite uprising in England ends when Charles “Bonnie Prince Charlie” Stuart is defeated by the Duke of Cumberland. 1912 Harriet Quimby…
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April 15 1755 Samuel Johnson published his Dictionary of the English Language. 1817 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet opened the first free American school for the deaf…
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April 14 1775 Benjamin Rush was among those who founded the first American antislavery society. 1828 Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary.…
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