April 1 -
1826 Samuel Morey patented the internal combustion engine.
1854 Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times began serialization in his Household Words magazine.
1920 Toshiro Mifune was born in Tsingtao, China.
1513 Explorer Ponce De Leon sighted Florida and claimed it for Spain.
1725 Giacomo Casanova was born in Venice.
1792 Congress established the first U.S. Mint.
1800 Ludwig van Beethoven led the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.
1902 “Electric Theatre,” first full-
1917 President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany.
1965 Rodney King was born in Sacramento, California.
1982 Falkland Islands War began between Argentina and the United Kingdom.
1860 The Pony Express began service between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California.
1882 Jesse James shot dead in St. Joseph, Missouri by Robert Ford.
2000 Terence McKenna died in San Rafael, California at age 53.
2000 United States v. Microsoft Corp. -
1581 Francis Drake knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
1721 Sir Robert Walpole became the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1768 Philip Astley staged first modern circus in London.
1928 Author-
1965 Actor Robert Downey, Jr. was born in New York City.
1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death in Memphis at age 39.
1973 The World Trade Center in New York City was officially dedicated.
1983 The Space Shuttle Challenger roared into orbit on its maiden voyage.
1595 John Wilson, English composer, lutenist and teacher was born in Faversham, Kent.
1614 Pocahontas married colonist John Rolfe.
1906 Lord Buckley was born in Tuolumne, California.
1922 American Birth Control League (Planned Parenthood forerunner) was incorporated.
1997 Allen Ginsberg died in New York City at age 70.
1483 Raphael was born in Urbino, Italy.
1520 Raphael died in Rome at age 37.
1895 Oscar Wilde was arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
1937 Merle Haggard was born in Oildale, California.
1973 American League of Major League Baseball began using the designated hitter.
April 7 -
451 Atilla the Hun sacked Metz in Gaul.
1827 English chemist John Walker sold the first friction match (his invention).
1931 Seals Stadium opened in San Francisco.
1938 Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (Jerry Brown) was born in San Francisco, California.
1991 Brent Hunter Nettell was born.
1730 Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, was dedicated.
1892 Mary Pickford born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1904 In Egypt, Aleister Crowley transcribed the first chapter of The Book of Law.
1963 Julian Lennon was born in Liverpool, England.
1974 Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s record.
1454 The Tready of Lodi was signed.
1928 Satirical math guy Tom Lehrer was born in New York City.
1932 Carl Perkins born in Tiptonville, Tennessee.
1970 Paul McCartney announced official split of The Beatles.
1710 Statute of Anne, the first copyright law, entered into force in Great Britain.
1847 Joseph Pulitzer, who established the Pulitzer Prize, was born.
1878 The California Street Cable Railroad started service.
1925 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald first published, Charles Scribner’s Sons.
1970 Paul McCartney quit The Beatles.
1998 Protestant and Catholic politicians in Northern Ireland reached an agreement aimed at ending 30 years of violence.
2019 Event Horizon Telescope project released the first ever image of a black hole.
1961 Bob Dylan’s 1st Greenwich Village appearance.
1945 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia at age 63.
1955 Polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, was declared safe and effective.
1947 David Letterman was born in Indianapolis.
1743 Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell, Virginia.
1921 Margo Skinner was born in San Francisco.
1949 Christopher Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England.
2018 Art Bell died on Friday the 13, the Kingdom of Nye, in Pahrump, Nevada at age 72.
1828 The first edition of Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language (ADEL) was published.
1865 President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.
1927 The first Volvo car premiered in Sweden.
1939 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was first published by the Viking Press.
1941 Pete Rose was born in Cincinnati.
2002 Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returned two days after military coup d’etat.
2003 The Human Genome Project was completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
1865 President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington, D.C. at age 56.
1912 The luxury liner RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., Hours after striking an iceberg.
1924 Rand McNally’s first road atlas published.
2001 Joey Ramone died in New York City.
2002 Damon Knight died in Eugene, Oregon.
2019 Notre-
1889 Charlie Chaplin was born in London.
1902 Tally’s Electric Theater, first full-
1943 Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of LSD.
1961 Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA landed at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba.
2010 Daniel Patrick Wilson died in Chimacum, Washington at age 44.
1397 Geoffrey Chaucer for the first time told The Canterbury Tales at the court of Richard II.
1790 Benjamin Franklin died in Philadelphia at age 84.
2016 Lisbeth Roessler died in Pleasant Hill, California at age 94.
1906 The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.
1946 English actress Haley Mills was born.
1955 Albert Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey at age 76.
1958 A United States federal court released poet Ezra Pound from an insane asylum.
2014 Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in Mexico City at age 87,
1782 John Adams secured the Dutch Republic’s recognition of the United States.
1943 Warsaw Ghetto revolt of Jews against Nazi SS troops began.
1943 Albert Hofmann first deliberately dosed himself with LSD and began to feel the effect as he rode home on his bicycle.
2012 Logan Daniel Farmer was born in Antioch, California.
1657 Freedom of religion granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (New York City).
1745 Philippe Pinel was born.
1912 Bram Stoker died in London at age 64.
1996 Christopher Robin Milne died in London at age 75.
2010 BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, Gulf of Mexico.
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1910 Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) died in Redding, Connecticut.
1925 Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals was published in Il Mondo, establishing the foundations of Italian Fascism.
1926 Queen Elizabeth II of the U.K. was born.
1960 Brasilia, Brazil’s capital, was officially inaugurated at 09:30 hours.
1962 Century 21 Exposition–The Seattle World’s Fair opened.
1989 About 100,000 students gathered in Tiananmen Square to commemorate the Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
2016 Musician Prince Rogers Nelson died in Chanhassen, Minnesota at age 57.
1864 “In God We Trust” included on all newly minted U.S. coins by Act of Congress.
1970 The First Earth Day was celebrated in the United States.
1978 Will Geer, American actor, died in Los Angeles at age 76.
1979 Brent Mydland played his first gig with the Grateful Dead in San Jose, California.
1984 Photographer Ansel Adams died in Monterey, California at age 82.
2010 Daniel Patrick Wilson was buried in Juliaetta, Idaho.
711 Dagobert III crowned King of the Franks.
1516 The Bayerische Reinheitsgebot was signed in Ingolstadt.
1564 William Shakespeare was born (traditional) in Stratford-
1616 William Shakespeare died in Stratford-
1635 Boston Latin School, the first public school in America was established in Boston.
1927 Cardiff City defeated Arsenal in the FA Cup Final (only time FA Cup has been won by a team not based in England).
1993 Cesar Chavez died in San Luis, Arizona at age 66.
2005 First ever YouTube video, titled “Me at the zoo,” was published by user “jawed.”
1558 Mary, Queen of Scots, was married to the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
1766 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder of The Farmer’s Almanac[k] (later The Old Farmer’s Almanac), was born in Grafton, Massachusetts.
1800 The United States Library of Congress was established.
1863 The Port of San Francisco was established.
1953 Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
2005 Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI (Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) inaugurated.
1792 'La Marseillaise' (the French national anthem) composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1874 Guglielmo Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy.
1900 Seismologist Charles Richter was born in Overpeck, Ohio.
1958 Daniel C. Nettell (Clephius J. Troll) was born.
1963 Li Lianjie (Jet Li) was born in Beijing.
1570 Roman Catholic Pope Pius V declared Queen Elisabeth I of England a heretic.
1996 Former head of CIA William Colby died in Rock Point, Maryland at age 76..
1998 Carlos Castaneda died in Los Angeles at age 72.
2002 Writer George Alec Effinger died in New Orleans at age 55.
1881 Billy the Kid escaped jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1930 First organized baseball night game was played in Independence, Kansas.
1945 Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement.
1947 Thor Heyerdahl and crew set out on the Kon-
1950 Jay Leno was born in New Rochelle, New York.
1973 Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, recorded in Abbey Road Studios, went
to number 1 in the U.S. Charts, beginning a record breaking 741-
1969 French President Charles de Gaulle resigned.
2001 Dennis Tito became the world’s first space tourist.
2016 Casey Wilson, a German Shepherd dog, died at Top of the Hill in Martinez, California at age 10.
1863 William Randolph Hearst was born in San Francisco.
1901 Emperor Hirohito of Japan was born.
1933 Willie Nelson was born in Abbott, Texas.
1968 Hair opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway in New York City.
1992 Rodney King riots erupted in Los Angeles.
1877 Alice B. Toklas was born in San Francisco.
1900 Engineer Casey Jones died in a train wreck in Vaughan, Mississippi.
1910 “Grandpa” Al Lewis was born in New York City.
1980 Secret Founding of the Gerard Baldwin Chapter, Legion of Dynamic Discord, in Pleasant Hill, California. Members present included: R. Hansch, D. Nettell, D. A. Wilson. Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!
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