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• 419 Antipope Eulalius loses to Pope Boniface I after both were elected in a dual election and becomes bishop of Napete

1043 Edward the Confessor crowned King of England

• 1077 The first Parliament of Friuli is created
• 1312 2nd council of Vienna, Knights Templars suppressed

1367 Battle of Navarrete: Alliance of King Peter of Castile, Edward the Black Prince and John of Gaunt of England, Aquitaine, Majorca and Navarre defeats Count Henry of Castile near Nájera in La Rioja, Castile

• 1559 Spain & France sign 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis
• 1582 Francis of Valois, Duke of Anjou honored as Duke of Gelre, Earl of Zutphen
• 1645 English Long Parliament passes the Self-Denying Ordinance, limiting regional armies, a significant step toward the New Model Army

1679 Edmond Halley meets fellow astronomer Johannes Hevelius in Danzig

1721 Robert Walpole becomes Britain's 1st Lord of the Treasury - effective Prime Minister, although that term was never officially used (indeed, it was considered an insult) until much later

• 1764 Austrian Archduke Jozef crowned himself Holy Roman Emperor Josef II

1776 Harvard College votes to award George Washington an honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree

• 1783 Sweden and the US sign a Treaty of Amity and Commerce
• 1834 Theodoros Kolokotronis and Dimitris Plapoutas, both military leaders in the Greek War of Independence, are tried for high treason by the Bavarian Regency

1848 American education reformer Horace Mann joins the US Senate, representing Massachusetts

1848 German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is seen for the last time at McPherson's Station, Coogoon, before he disappears on the same expedition to reach the Swan River in Australia [1]

• 1848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st public teacher in San Francisco
• 1856 Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes badly damaged by gunpowder explosion, kills 4,000 on island of Rhodes

1860 Start of the Pony Express, mail is delivered by horse and rider relay teams between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California

• 1864 Skirmish at Okolona, Arkansas
• 1865 Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
• 1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond & Petersberg, Virginia
• 1868 Hawaiian surfs on the highest wave ever - a 50-foot tidal wave

1882 American outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back of the head and killed by fellow gang member Robert Ford at his home in St. Joseph, Missouri

• 1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
• 1889 Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Virginia
• 1893 1st NSW v Queensland F-C game, at Brisbane Exhibition Ground
• 1908 Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hrs
• 1910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley claimed to have been 1st climbed by 4 local men
• 1911 Harry James Smith's "Mrs Bumsted-Leigh" premieres in NYC

1913 British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is sentenced to 3 years in jail for incitement to place an explosive in a building at Walton

1917 Alfred Stieglitz opens first one-person show of the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe at 291 art gallery in New York

1917 Vladimir Lenin arrives in Petrograd, returning to Russia from exile in Switzerland [NS=April 16]

• 1918 US House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
• 1919 Austria expels all Habsburgers

1922 Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party by an ailing Vladimir Lenin

• 1923 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary

1924 Istanbul's Ottoman Topkapi Palace is converted into a museum on orders of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

• 1925 Great Britain goes back to gold standard
• 1925 Netherlands and Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
• 1926 Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions

1926 Second flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard

• 1927 Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
• 1929 Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
• 1929 RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.

1930 2nd Academy Awards: "The Broadway Melody", Warner Baxter & Mary Pickford win. First time Academy Awards are broadcast on the radio.

1930 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4-3 for a 2-0 series sweep and their 3rd Championship

• 1933 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
• 1933 Then longest North American hockey game requires a 1:44:46 overtime as Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0
• 1935 Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44)

1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warns Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that a German invasion is imminent

• 1941 Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq
• 1941 Walton's overture "Scapino" premieres in Chicago
• 1944 British dive bombers attack German battleship Tirpitz at Kåfjorden, Norway
• 1944 US Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional
• 1945 World War II: Dutch city of Hengelo freed from Nazi control by the Canadian Army
• 1946 Netherlands-German postal relations resume

1948 US President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan to rebuild war-torn Western Europe after World War II, granting an initial $5 billion in aid to 16 European countries

• 1949 KQW-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KCBS
• 1949 WLWC-TV (now WCMH, channel 4) in Columbus, Ohio begins broadcasting (NBC)
• 1951 Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners" premieres in Oxford

1952 Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress

1953 American magazine "TV Guide" publishes its first issue; the cover features a photo of Lucille Ball's newborn baby boy, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV (Desi Arnaz Jr.)

• 1954 Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record)
• 1955 Baltimore Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs KC Athletics)
• 1955 Fire in cinema in Sclessin, Belgium, kills 39
• 1955 Night express train in Guadalajara, Mexico derails, killing 300

1955 The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book "Howl" against obscenity charges

• 1956 Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated (executed 1949)
• 1956 German war criminals Hinrichsen, Ruhl, Siebens and Viebahn freed
• 1956 Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado

1957 Samuel Beckett's play "Endgame" premieres in London as a French language production

• 1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test

1958 Fidel Castro's rebels attack Havana

• 1960 Earthquake at Havre, Belgium

1960 Elvis Presley records ‘It's Now Or Never’, ‘Fever’ and ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’ at RCA studios in Nashville, Tennessee

• 1961 Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia is sold to J Schleifer Properties

1962 American jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)

• 1962 Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
• 1964 The Beatles hold top 6 spots on the record chart in Sydney, Australia
• 1964 US & Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations
• 1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched
• 1966 Soviet Luna 10 completes its first orbit of the Moon

1966 Tom Seaver signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus

• 1967 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum
• 1967 WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1968 N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks

1968 Science fiction film "Planet of the Apes", starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell, opens nationally in the United States

• 1969 Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start a policy of "Vietnamization", reducing American involvement
• 1970 As part of a new 'get tough' policy in Northern Ireland, Ian Freeland of the British Army, warned that those throwing petrol bombs could be shot dead
• 1970 Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th attempt
• 1971 The Temptations score their second US No. 1 with "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)"
• 1973 First mobile phone call is made in downtown Manhattan, NY, by Motorola employee Martin Cooper to Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey
• 1974 Price of gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris
• 1974 The Super Outbreak: 2nd largest tornado outbreak over 24hr period with 148 confirmed tornadoes in 13 US states, killing approximately 315 people and injuring nearly 5,500

1975 Bobby Fischer is stripped of the world chess title for refusing to defend it, and the title is awarded to Russian Anatoly Karpov

• 1976 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
• 1976 Philadelphia Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game
• 1977 Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point

1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's 1st meeting with US President Jimmy Carter

• 1977 Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg adopt summer time

1978 50th Academy Awards: "Annie Hall", Richard Dreyfuss, and Diane Keaton win

• 1978 European Market and China sign trade agreement

1978 Larry King moves his radio show from Miami, Florida to Washington, D.C.

• 1979 Belgium's Martens government forms
• 1979 Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois
• 1980 France performs nuclear test
• 1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1981 Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumps 6' 8.25," with 1 leg
• 1981 Race riots in London's Brixton area, England
• 1982 Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point

1982 Marco van Basten plays his first match for Ajax, scoring a debut goal in a 5-0 victory over NEC

• 1982 UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands
• 1984 Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
• 1984 Guinea suspends constitution after coup
• 1984 Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
• 1985 French government adopts equal electoral system
• 1985 Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games
• 1985 Vic Elliot pockets 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
• 1986 Maureen O'Boyle (future host of "A Current Affair") is raped
• 1986 US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000

1987 Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega

• 1987 Duchess of Windsor's jewels auctioned for £31,380,197
• 1987 MLB Chicago Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to Oakland A's for 3 minor league players
• 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

1988 Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Gretzky's 7 year streak

• 1988 NJ Devils beat Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time
• 1988 Somalia and Ethiopia sign an accord regarding the Ogaden Desert
• 1988 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1989 "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx
• 1989 Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St Louis at Shea Stad

1991 "Penn and Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater, NYC

1991 Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox

• 1991 Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16)
• 1991 UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
• 1992 1st exhibition game at Camden Field - Orioles beat NY Mets
• 1994 First roster of Silver Bullets is announced, an all-female professional baseball team

1995 Radio personality Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about singer Selena

1996 Cricketer Rahul Dravid makes his international debut for India in an ODI against Sri Lanka

• 1996 St Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1
• 1997 Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas
• 2004 Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves

2006 Steve Yzerman scores his final NHL goal (#692) against the Calgary Flames

• 2007 Conventional train world speed record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets new official world speed record - 574.8 km/h (357 mph)

2007 Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards denies saying he smoked his father's ashes in an interview with NME

2008 Mariah Carey overtakes Elvis Presley's record of 17 No. 1 US hits with her 18th ‘Touch My Body’, only The Beatles have more with 20

• 2009 Australia formally adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

2010 Matt Smith's first appearance as the 11th Doctor with Karen Gillan as his companion in BBC program "Doctor Who" during "The Eleventh Hour" episode

• 2012 Moscow fire kills 17 migrant workers

2012 Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert held at Carnegie Hall, NYC; performers include: Sting, Elton John, James Taylor, Jennifer Hudson, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill, Esperanza Spaulding, Bruno Mars, Bryn Terfel, and Bill Clinton

• 2012 Spanish unemployment reaches record high, youth unemployment stands at 50%

2012 US President Barack Obama officially secures Democratic presidential nomination

• 2013 24 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff in Papua New Guinea
• 2013 46 people are killed and 100 are injured by a court-house suicide bombing in Farah, Afghanistan
• 2013 50 people are killed by flooding across Argentina
• 2014 Marie Louise Coleiro Preca is elected President of Malta

2014 Pope Francis canonizes François de Laval, first bishop of Quebec, as a Catholic saint

• 2014 Tommy Lynn Sells is executed at Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville for the murder of nine-year-old Mary Perez; he is thought to have committed 21 more murders
• 2016 ICC Women's Cricket T20 World Cup, Eden Gardens, Kolkata: Hayley Matthews with 66 from 45 balls leads West Indies to 149/2; beat Australia 148/5 by 4 wickets with 2 balls to spare
• 2016 Panama Papers are published - 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca expose widespread illegal activities, including fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion, and the violation of international sanctions by the world's elite in the largest data leak ever
• 2017 Bomb on St Petersburg metro kills 11, 2nd bomb defused

2018 Alex Puccio ascends Penrose Step V14 (8B+) in Leavenworth, USA

• 2019 Brunei brings into force new Sharia laws punishing gay sex and adultery with death by stoning, prompting widespread condemnation

2019 Ex-Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak goes on trial for the 1MDB corruption scandal in Kuala Lumpur, pleads not guilty

• 2019 San Antonio coach Geg Popovich is ejected after an NBA record low 63 seconds in the Spurs 113-85 loss in Denver; receives 2 technical fouls in a verbal confrontation with a referee
• 2020 27 people swept off a ferry and feared dead in the Solomon Islands during Cyclone Harold

2020 London's Nightingale hospital opened by Prince Charles (remotely) after nine days with 4,000 beds to treat COVID-19 patients at the ExCeL Centre

• 2020 US aircraft carrier captain Brett Crozier cheered off his ship after being fired for a letter demanding more help for his sailors infected with COVID-19

2022 64th Grammy Awards: Jon Batiste wins Album of the Year, Olivia Rodrigo three awards including Best New Artist, Silk Sonic Best Song "Leave the Door Open" [1]

• 2022 Chevron Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: American Jennifer Kupcho wins her first LPGA tournament by 2 strokes over Jessica Korda

2022 Pakistan plunges into constitutional crisis after Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolves parliament and calls for new elections, avoiding a no-confidence vote [1]

• 2022 The Taliban government bans cultivation of opium in Afghanistan, with consequences for world supply as it produces 80% [1]
• 2023 NASA announces the four astronauts for 2024 Artemis II lunar mission around the Moon - Christina Hammock Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen [1]
• 2024 7.4 magnitude earthquakes hits east coast of Taiwan, south of Hualien, killing at least 9 people and injuring 900 [1]

2025 "Sinners," directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, and Wunmi Mosaku, premieres [1]

2025 Hungary withdraws from the International Criminal Court after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted under an ICC arrest warrant, arrives for a state visit [1]

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  Giant Achievements of King Kong Creator

  April 1, 1875
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  April 2, 1877
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  The Computer That Came By Truck

  April 3, 1957
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  Martin Luther King Shot Dead

  April 4, 1968

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