April 1866 in History

Events in History

Apr 1 US Congress rejects presidential veto giving all equal rights in US

Event of Interest

Apr 2 US President Andrew Johnson ends civil war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee & Virginia

Apr 4 Ashmun Institute, in Oxford, Pennsylvania, is renamed Lincoln University

Assassination Attempt on Alexander II

Apr 4 Russian Tsar Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of St. Petersburg

Apr 6 Grand Army of the Republic forms in Decatur, Illinois, by Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson
Apr 8 Italy and Prussia ally against Austria-Hungary.
Apr 9 Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto
Apr 10 American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
Apr 16 Nitroglycerine explodes at a Wells Fargo & Co office in San Francisco shattering glass for half a mile

Birthdays in History

Apr 1 Sophonisba Breckenridge, American professor, teacher and social activist (1st woman to graduate from Chicago Uni Law School), born in Lexington, Kentucky (d. 1948) [1]

J. B. M. Hertzog (1866-1942)

Apr 3 South African General and Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa (1924-39), born in Wellington, South Africa

Apr 4 George P Baker, American educator and playwright (47 Workshop), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 1935)
Apr 6 Joseph Lincoln Steffens, American muckraker and investigative journalist (Shame of the Cities), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1936)
Apr 11 Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet, born in Beaufort, Australia (d. 1953)
Apr 11 Clara Ford, American suffragette supporter and wife of industrialist Henry Ford, born in Wayne County, Michigan (d. 1950)

Butch Cassidy (1866-1908)

Apr 13 American desperado (Wild Bunch Passage), born in Beaver, Utah

Apr 14 Anne Sullivan [Johanna Macy], American teacher who educated Helen Keller, born in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts (d. 1936)
Apr 17 Ernest Starling, British physiologist (Frank-Starling law of the heart), born in London (d. 1927)
Apr 19 Henri Deterding, Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell), born in Amsterdam (d. 1939)
Apr 22 Hans von Seeckt, German general and advisor of Chiang Kai-shek, born in Schleswig, Duchy of Schleswig, German Confederation (d. 1936)