April 1884 in History

Events in History

Apr 2 London prison for debtors closed
Apr 10 US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo

Catholic Encyclical

Apr 20 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"

Apr 21 Potters Field reopened as Madison Park
Apr 22 Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 yrs 9 mths)
Apr 22 US recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
Apr 24 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes in Atlanta

Birthdays in History

Apr 2 Sir J. C. Squire, British poet, writer, and historian, born in Plymouth, Devon (d. 1958)

Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943)

Apr 4 Japanese World War II Marshall Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese fleet who led the attack on Pearl Harbor, born in Nagaoka, Niigata

Apr 7 Charles Dodd, English new testament authority
Apr 7 Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician/resistance fighter
Apr 12 Otto Meyerhof, German psychologist and biochemist (Nobel 1922), born in Hannover, Germany (d. 1951)
Apr 17 Leo Frank, American convict (murder of a 13-year-old employee), born in Cuero, Texas (d. 1915)
Apr 20 Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, born in Eastwell Park, Kent, England (d. 1966)