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April 1 1963 |
Soap opera "General Hospital" premiers on ABC-TV
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April 2 1805 |
Storyteller Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark
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April 3 1907 |
The University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon was granted a provincial charter
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April 4 1968 |
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
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April 5 2063 |
Zefram Cochrane makes first contact during the first warp flight
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April 6 1909 |
Explorer Robert E. Peary became the first person to reach the North Pole
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April 7 1948 |
World Health Organization founded by
United Nations
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April 8 1973 |
Pablo Picasso died at his home near Mougins, France, at age 91
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April 9 1917 |
Four Canadian divisions began an assault on Vimy Ridge
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April 10 1912 |
The Titanic set sail
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April 11 1814 |
Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of France and was banished to the island of Elba
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April 12 1961 |
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space
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April 13 1970 |
Apollo 13 was crippled when a tank of liquid oxygen burst, on the way to the moon
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April 14 1865 |
President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded
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April 15 1452 |
Birth of Leonardo da Vinci
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April 16 1889 |
Birth of Charlie Chaplin
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April 17 1855 |
Charlottetown was incorporated as a city
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April 18 1955 |
Death of Albert Enstein
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April 19 1943 |
Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto
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April 20 1902 |
Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium
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April 21 1926 |
Birth of Queen Elizabeth
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April 22 1876 |
Tchaikovsky completes his
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April 23 1564 |
Birth (and death 1616) of William Shakespeare
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April 24 1942 |
Death of Lucy Maud Montgomery
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April 25 1990 |
1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery
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April 26 1986 |
The world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union
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April 27 1521 |
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines
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April 28 1789 |
Mutineers seized the British ship the Bounty
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April 29 1429 |
Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English
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April 30 1975 |
The Vietnam War ended
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