Historical Events
- Apr 4 Susanna Madora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor in Argonia, Kansas
Event of Interest
Apr 5 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
Helen Keller
Event of Interest
Apr 10 US President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Ilinois
Abraham Lincoln
Famous Birthdays
- Apr 1 Leonard Bloomfield, US linguist
- Apr 4 William Cumming Rose, American biochemist who discovered threonine (an amino acid), born in Greenville, South Carolina (d. 1985)
- Apr 5 Hedwig Kohn, Jewish physics pioneer, born in Breslau, Province of Silesia (Poland) (d. 1964)
- Apr 8 Walter Connolly, American actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1940)
- Apr 10 Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1971)
- Apr 10 Heinz Tiessen, German composer, born in Königsberg, Germany (d. 1971)
- Apr 12 Harold Lockwood, American actor (Tess of the Storm Country), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1918)
- Apr 13 Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association, born in Gladstone, Manitoba (d. 1995)
- Apr 21 Lillian Walker, American silent era actress, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1975)
- Apr 21 Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (New York Yankees), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1978)
- Apr 24 Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter, born in Kensington, London (d. 1931)
Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
Apr 22 Business magnate Andrew Carnegie (51) weds Louise Whitfield (30) in NYC, New York
Andrew Carnegie