Events in History
- Apr 2 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
Flash! Bang! It's the Human Cannonball!
Apr 2 1st human cannonball act performed by 14-year-old Rossa Matilda Richter known as Zazel at the Royal Aquarium in London
- Apr 10 Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia, SC
- Apr 12 British annex Transvaal, South Africa
- Apr 15 Boston-Somerville installs the world's 1st telephone in Massachusetts
- Apr 24 Last federal occupying troops withdraw from the South (New Orleans)
- Apr 24 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
End of Reconstruction
Apr 27 Rutherford B. Hayes removes Federal troops from Louisiana, Reconstruction ends
Birthdays in History
- Apr 10 Alfred Kubin, Austrian writer and illustrator, born in Leitmeritz, Bohemia (d. 1959)
- Apr 14 Daniel Plooy, Dutch new testament scholar, born in Schiedam, Netherlands (d. 1935)
- Apr 17 Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat, born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1949)
- Apr 18 Vicente Sotto, Filipino politician and author (Sotto Law, Republic Act No. 53), born in Cebu City, Spanish Empire (d. 1950)
- Apr 19 Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American industrialist and inventor (outboard marine engine), born in Gjøvik, Norway (d. 1934)
- Apr 30 Alice B. Toklas, American-Parisian avant-garde and companion of Gertrude Stein, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1967)
Deaths in History
- Apr 22 James P. Kirkwood, American civil engineer, dies at 70
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