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Events on the 4th of April in history

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04 Apr 0503 According to the Fasti Triumphales, Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrated a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
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04 Apr 1081 Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne
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04 Apr 1147 First historical record of Moscow.
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04 Apr 1287 King Wareru founds the Ramanya Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.
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04 Apr 1460 University of Basle in Swizerland forms
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04 Apr 1541 Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st superior-general of Jesuits
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04 Apr 1552 Mauritius van Saksen begins alliance with Karel Anikita Stroganov
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04 Apr 1558 Czar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders
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04 Apr 1581 Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of world
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04 Apr 1581 Francis Drake becomes knight
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04 Apr 1581 Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
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04 Apr 1588 Christian IV succeeds Frederik II as King of Denmark
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04 Apr 1625 Viceroy Frederik Henry marries Amalia countess von Solms-Braunfels
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04 Apr 1655 Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbarian pirates
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04 Apr 1660 Declaration of Breda
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04 Apr 1660 English King Charles II ends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion)
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04 Apr 1660 Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of England.
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04 Apr 1686 English King James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence
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04 Apr 1687 King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church
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04 Apr 1721 Sir Robert Walpole takes office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I.
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04 Apr 1737 Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor
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04 Apr 1768 In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
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04 Apr 1796 Georges Cuvier delivers his first paleontological lecture at École Centrale du Pantheon of the National Museum of Natural History on living and fossil remains of elephants and related species, founding the science of Paleontology.
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04 Apr 1812 United States President James Madison enacts a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
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04 Apr 1814 Napoleon abdicates for the first time and names his son Napoleon II as Emperor of the French.
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04 Apr 1818 Congress decided US flag is 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars
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04 Apr 1818 The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).
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04 Apr 1828 Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)
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04 Apr 1832 Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro
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04 Apr 1841 William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and with the shortest term served. Vice President John Tyler, becomes President upon Harrison's death.
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04 Apr 1850 City of Los Angeles incorporated
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04 Apr 1850 Los Angeles is incorporated as a city.
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04 Apr 1850 The Great Fire of Cottenham: A large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground in suspicious circumstances.
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04 Apr 1859 Opera "Dinorah" is produced (Paris)
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04 Apr 1859 Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
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04 Apr 1862 Battle of Yorktown begins
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04 Apr 1862 US begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond
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04 Apr 1865 American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
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04 Apr 1866 Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of Saint Petersburg.
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04 Apr 1870 Golden Gate Park forms by City Order #800
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04 Apr 1873 The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
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04 Apr 1887 Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)
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04 Apr 1887 Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
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04 Apr 1896 Announcement of Gold in Yukon
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04 Apr 1899 South Africa all out 35 vs. England (Trott 4-19, Haigh 6-11)
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04 Apr 1900 Assassination attempt on Prince of Wales / King Edward VII
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04 Apr 1900 British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet
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04 Apr 1902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million
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04 Apr 1905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000
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04 Apr 1905 In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamsala.
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04 Apr 1911 Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP
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04 Apr 1912 Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia
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04 Apr 1912 Chinese Republic proclaimed in Tibet
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04 Apr 1913 First Balkan War: Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot to die in the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
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04 Apr 1914 "Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in LA
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04 Apr 1916 US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WWI
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04 Apr 1918 Battle of Somme, ends
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04 Apr 1918 Food riot in Amsterdam
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04 Apr 1920 Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem
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04 Apr 1921 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
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04 Apr 1922 WAAB (Baton Rouge La) becomes 1st US radio station with "W" calls
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04 Apr 1925 The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded in Germany.
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04 Apr 1926 Greek Dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected President
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04 Apr 1929 "New Moon" musical opens in London
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04 Apr 1929 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held
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04 Apr 1930 The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
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04 Apr 1932 Vitamin C 1st isolated, CC King, University of Pittsburgh
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04 Apr 1933 US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of NJ, 73 die
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04 Apr 1933 U.S. Navy airship, USS Akron, is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
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04 Apr 1937 4th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283
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04 Apr 1938 5th Golf Masters Championship: Henry Picard wins, shooting a 285
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04 Apr 1939 Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
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04 Apr 1939 Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
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04 Apr 1941 German troops conquer Banghazi
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04 Apr 1944 British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia
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04 Apr 1944 De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists
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04 Apr 1944 World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
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04 Apr 1945 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
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04 Apr 1945 US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany
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04 Apr 1945 US tanks / infantry conquer Bielefeld
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04 Apr 1945 World War II: Soviet troops liberate Hungary from German occupation and occupy the country itself.
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04 Apr 1945 World War II: American troops capture Kassel.
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04 Apr 1945 World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
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04 Apr 1947 Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect
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04 Apr 1947 Largest group of sunspots on record
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04 Apr 1948 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie
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04 Apr 1949 Israel and Jordan sign armistice agreement
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04 Apr 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington, DC)
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04 Apr 1949 WKRC TV channel 12 in Cincinnati, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
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04 Apr 1949 Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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04 Apr 1950 Dirk Stikker becomes Chairman of OES
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04 Apr 1953 KFDA TV channel 10 in Amarillo, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
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04 Apr 1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open
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04 Apr 1955 British government signs military treaty with Iraq
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04 Apr 1958 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
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04 Apr 1958 The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
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04 Apr 1959 Fed of Mali, consisting of Senegal and French Sudan (dissolved 1960)
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04 Apr 1960 32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur, " Charlton Heston and Simone Signoret win
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04 Apr 1960 Oscar awarded to the Netherlands director Bert Haanstra
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04 Apr 1960 Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center
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04 Apr 1960 Senegal declares independence from France
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04 Apr 1960 France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
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04 Apr 1964 "Anyone Can Whistle" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 9 performances
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04 Apr 1964 The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
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04 Apr 1965 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Baton Rouge Golf Invitational
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04 Apr 1965 The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft is unveiled.
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04 Apr 1966 Pirate Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland
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04 Apr 1967 Amsterdam Marines chase out "nozems" of Central Station
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04 Apr 1967 Dutch De Young government forms
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04 Apr 1967 Marines chase "Nozems" out of Amsterdam Central Station
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04 Apr 1967 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.
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04 Apr 1968 "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances
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04 Apr 1968 Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
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04 Apr 1968 A.E.K. Athens B.C. becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
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04 Apr 1968 Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
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04 Apr 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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04 Apr 1969 Denton Cooley gets 1st temporary artificial heart
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04 Apr 1969 Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
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04 Apr 1970 Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson
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04 Apr 1971 "Follies" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 524 performances
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04 Apr 1971 Marine clay under houses liquefies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Quebec)
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04 Apr 1972 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
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04 Apr 1973 A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.
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04 Apr 1973 The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
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04 Apr 1975 130, killed as USAF plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashes
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04 Apr 1975 USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155
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04 Apr 1975 Vietnam War: Operation Babylift: A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans, crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff killing 172 people.
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04 Apr 1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
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04 Apr 1976 5th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Judy Rankin
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04 Apr 1976 Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
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04 Apr 1979 Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
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04 Apr 1981 Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)
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04 Apr 1981 The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.
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04 Apr 1982 11th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sally Little
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04 Apr 1983 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched
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04 Apr 1983 Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.
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04 Apr 1984 President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
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04 Apr 1985 Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
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04 Apr 1986 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
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04 Apr 1987 Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts
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04 Apr 1988 Largest crowd (55,438) at a season game at Riverfront (Reds Vs Cards)
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04 Apr 1988 Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV
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04 Apr 1988 Mets set Opening Day record with 6 HRs
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04 Apr 1988 Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
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04 Apr 1989 New York Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th win puts him 19th overall as Yanks beat Twins on opening day 4-2
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04 Apr 1990 "Marshall Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV
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04 Apr 1990 Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident
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04 Apr 1990 Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody
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04 Apr 1991 The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.
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04 Apr 1991 Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
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04 Apr 1992 Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - New York Yankees beat the Mets 6-4 at Yankee Stadium
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04 Apr 1992 John Tesh (Entertainment Tonight) marries actress Connie Selleca
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04 Apr 1992 Jury deliberations begin in Noriega case
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04 Apr 1992 Sali Berisha becomes President / Alexander Meksi Premier of Albania
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04 Apr 1993 5th Seniors Golf Tradition: Tom Shaw
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04 Apr 1993 Trish Johnson wins Las Vegas LPGA at Canyon Gate Golf Tournament
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04 Apr 1994 1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 inn
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04 Apr 1994 Cubs Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes, hit 3 HRs in 1993 hits 3 HRs on opening
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04 Apr 1994 Day vs. Mets starter Dwight Gooden
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04 Apr 1994 KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed
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04 Apr 1994 LA Dodger Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment
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04 Apr 1994 Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706
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04 Apr 1994 Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications
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04 Apr 1994 Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery
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04 Apr 1994 Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation.
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04 Apr 1996 "Inherit the Wind" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 45 performances
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04 Apr 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Austin TX on KJFK 98.9 FM
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04 Apr 1996 Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
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04 Apr 1997 Anaheim Ducks clinch their 1st-ever playoff berth
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04 Apr 1997 Braves officially open Turner Field against Cubs
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04 Apr 1997 DMSP Titan 2 launched
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04 Apr 1997 STS 83 (Columbia 22), launches
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04 Apr 1998 NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season
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04 Apr 2002 The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
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04 Apr 2007 Fifteen British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
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04 Apr 2009 Three police officers are shot and killed during a shootout in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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04 Apr 2013 More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.
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