April Fools Day

1834– The birthday a French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi who created the Statue of Liberty

1805 - Hans Christian Andersen was born

1934 - Jane Goodall was born

1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. Was killed

1856 – Educator and leader, Booker T. Washington, was born

1827 – Dr. Joseph Lister, founder of antiseptic surgery, was born

1909 - Robert E. Peary reached the North Pole

Buddha’s birthday

1866 – The Civil Right’s Bill was passed by Congress

1865 – The American Civil War ended

1955 – Anniversary of the development of a safe polio vaccine

1743 – The birthday of Thomas Jefferson, American President

1866 – The Birthday of Helen Keller’s “Teacher,” Anne Sullivan

1817 – The first public American school for the deaf was founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc.

1912 – The luxury liner “Titanic” sank on her maiden voyage

1947 – Jackie Robinson played his first game in the Major Leagues breaking the color barrier in baseball

1452 - Leonardo da Vinci was born

1775 – Paul Revere made his famous ride from Boston to Concord

1906 – San Francisco was rocked by an earthquake that destroyed much of the city

1775 – The American Revolution began with the battles of Lexington and Concord

Earth Day (USA)

St. George's Day (UK)

1564 – The birthday of William Shakespeare

1874 – The birthday of Guglielmo Marconi – the inventor of wireless telegraphy

1785 – The birthday of naturalist John James Audubon

1521 – Ferdinand Magellan died in the Philippines

27^th, 1791 – Samuel Morse was born

1927 - The birthday of Coretta Scott King

28^th, 1789 – The anniversary of the Mutiny on the Bounty

1899 – The birthday of musician and composer “Duke” Ellington