April Answers
- 1578 William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation
- 1960 The first weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)
- 1935 Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt patents RADAR3
- 1896 Announcement that gold has been discovered in the Yukon
- 1968 Martin Luther King assassinated by James Earl Ray
- 1919 Eamon de Valera elected President of the Irish Dail
- 1199 Richard the Lionheart, King of England. Killed in a battle in France aged 41
- 1933 Prohibition ends in America
- 1739 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse rustling (Not for being a highwayman)
- 1920 Church disestablished in Wales. Church IN Wales formed.
- 1770 Capt James Cook discovers Botany Bay in Australia
- 1957 Egypt reopens Suez Canal for shipping
- 1955 Ruth Ellis shoots lover David Blakely (Last woman to be hanged in UK)
- 1960 Adolf Eichmann trial for war crimes begins in Israel
- 1961 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space
- 1964 Sidney Poitier becomes the first black actor to win an Oscar for his role as Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field.
- 1931 Spain becomes republic. King Alfonso XIII abdicates.
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln dies, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
- 1912 The Titanic Sinks
- 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie (The Young Pretender) defeated at Culloden.
- 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
- 1956 Premium Bonds launched in UK
- 1480 Lucrezia Borgia born
- 1775 Paul Revere rides from Lexington to Concorde to warn Boston that the British were coming.
- 1956 Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly marry
- 1862 Louis Pasteur completes the first pasteurization test
- 1960 – Brasìlia becomes the capital of Brazil, taking over from Rio de Janeiro
- 1889 – Oklahoma land rush. Crazy scheme where first to stake a valid claim got the former Cherokee Territory
- 1897 – Lester ‘ Mike’ Pearson former President of Canada was born on this day
- 1898 – Spain declare war on America. (Later, Theodore Roosevelt led the Rough Riders to victory at Kettle Hill)
- 1953 – Watson and Crick publish their discovery of DNA
- 1964 – Tanzania formed by merging Tanganyika and Zanzibar
- 1789 – Original Mutiny on the HMS Bounty (not 1935 film or 1962 remake)
- 1770 – Captain Cook arrives at Botany Bay Australia
- 1993 – World Wide Web born. CERN makes WWW free to everyone.
Bonus Which date in April are these?
All Fool’s Day 1st April
