April: This Month in History
What’s special about this month? With a little help from the History Channel, we’ve compiled a list of major (and obscure) historical events that happened this day in history for the month of April.
- April 1: April Fools tradition popularized (1700)
- April 2: Ponce de Leon discovered Florida (1513)
- April 3: Unabomber arrested (1996)
- April 4: Dr. King is assassinated (1968)
- April 5: Pocahontas marries John Rolfe (1614)
- April 6: 2001: Space Odyssey released (1968)
- April 7: Auto pioneer Henry Ford dies (1947)
- April 8: Hank Arron sets new home run record (1974)
- April 9: Robert E. Lee surrenders (1865)
- April 10: First color 3-D film opens (1953)
- April 11: Napoleon exiled to Elba (1814)
- April 11: Apollo 13 launched to moon (1970)
- April 12: The Civil War begins (1861)
- April 13: Apollo 13 oxygen tank explodes (1970)
- April 14: President Lincoln is shot (1865)
- April 15: The “Unsinkable” Titanic sinks (1912)
- April 16: Charlie Chaplin is born (1889)
- April 17: Volcanic eruption kills 80,000 (1936)
- April 18: The Great San Francisco Earthquake (1906)
- April 19: The American Revolution begins (1775)
- April 20:Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the element radium (1902)
- April 21: Rome founded (753 B.C.)
- April 22: The Oklahoma land rush begins (1889)
- April 23: William Shakespeare born (1564)
- April 24: Library of Congress established (1800)
- April 25: Ground broken for Suez Canal (1859)
- April 26: Nuclear explosion at Chernobyl (1986)
- April 27: British Parliament passes the Tea Act (1773)
- April 28: Mutiny on the HMS Bounty (1789)
- April 29: Britain’s Prince William weds Kate Middleton (2011)
- April 30: George Washington gives first presidential inaugural address (1789)
Sources: History.com
