[Interest] April Showers

NOTABLE DATES IN APRIL
1 - Air Force Academy created (1954)
1 - NYC subway strike, 11 days (1980)
3 - Jesse James shot (1882)
3 - Bruno Hauptman executed (1936)
3 - First TV Guide (3rd - 9th) (1953)
4 - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. killed (1968)
5 - Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge completed (1998)
6 - Peary & Henson reach North Pole (1909)
6 - U.S. enters World War I (1917)
8 - Longacre Square becomes Times Square (1904)
8 - Last Automat closed (42nd & 3rd) (1991)
9 - Civil War ends (1865)
9 - Ebbets Field opens (1913)
9 - Hugh Hefner born (1926)
9 - Hitler invades Norway (1940)
9 - Bataan falls to Japan (1942)
10 - Bataan death march begins (1942)
11- Buchenwald liberated (1945)
11 - General MacArthur fired by President Truman (1951)
12 - Civil War starts (1861)
12 - President Franklin Roosevelt dies (1945)
12 - Yuri Gagarin, first man in space (1961)
12 - Joe Louis dies (1981)
12 - Last day tokens used on trains & buses (2003)
13 - Thomas Jefferson born (1743)
14 - President Lincoln shot (1865)
14 - President Taft throws out first baseball (1910)
14 - Titanic hits iceberg (1912)
15 - President Lincoln dies (1865)
15 - Titanic sinks (1912)
15 - Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier in baseball (1947)
15 - First McDonald’s opens (1955)
15 - Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel opens (1964)
16 - Shea Stadium opens (1964)
17 - Benjamin Franklin dies (1790)
17 - Bay of Pigs fiasco (1961)
17 - Paul Revere’s ride (1775)
18 - San Francisco earthquake (1906)
18 - Yankee Stadium opens (1923)
18 - Doolittle raid on Tokyo (1942)
18 - Admiral Yamamoto shot down (1943)
18 - Albert Einstein dies (1955)
19 - Battle of Lexington & Concord (1775)
19 - Warsaw ghetto uprising (1943)
19 - General MacArthur’s speech to Congress (1951)
19 - Grace Kelly weds Prince Rainier (1956)
19 - Central Park jogger incident (1989)
19 - Oklahoma City bombing (1995)
19 - Pope Benedict XVI elected (2005)
20 - Adolph Hitler born (1889)
20 - Columbine shooting (1999)
21 - Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II (1926)
22 - Highlanders play first game, NYC (1903)
24 - Woolworth building opens (1913)
25 - War with Spain (1898)
26 - Chernobyl meltdown (1986)
27 - U.S. Marines take Derna (1805)
27 - First Social Security check (1937)
28 - Benito Mussolini killed (1945)
29 - Whitestone Bridge opens (1939)
29 - Dachau liberated by U.S. 7th Army (1945)
29 - Last train on 3rd Avenue Elevated subway (1973)
29 - Last Oldsmobile made (2004)
30 - George Washington inaugurated (1789)
30 - Hitler dies (1945)
30 - Saigon falls to the North (1975)