Historical Events
- Apr 4 Susanna Madora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor in Argonia, Kansas
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Apr 5 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
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Apr 10 US President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Illinois
- Apr 10 Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen
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Apr 12 Henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm" premieres in Oslo
World's First Motor Race
Apr 20 Georges Bouton wins the world’s 1st motor race on a steam-powered quadricycle, a 'test' organised by French newspaper Le Velocipede
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 15 Mike Brady, American golfer (US Open 1911, 19 runner-up; 9 PGA Tour titles), born in Brighton, Massachusetts (d. 1972)
- Apr 21 Lillian Walker, American silent era actress, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1975)
- Apr 21 Joe McCarthy, American Baseball Hall of Fame manager (World Series 1932, 36–39, 41, 43; 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
Andrew Carnegie
Apr 22 Business magnate Andrew Carnegie (51) weds Louise Whitfield (30) in NYC, New York
