Events in History
- Apr 6 1st credit union forms in US
Event of Interest
Apr 6 North Pole reached by American explorers Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
- Apr 9 The US Congress pass the Payne-Aldrich bill, raising certain tariffs on goods entering the United States
- Apr 11 Establishment of Tel Aviv by Jewish settlers (named 1910)
- Apr 13 In Constantinople the primarily Albanian First Army Corps seizes the parliament building and telegraphs offices, forcing the Ottoman statesman Hilmi Pasha to resign
- Apr 14 Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London
- Apr 19 A convention with Turkey recognizes Bulgarian independence
Beatification
Apr 19 Joan of Arc receives beatification by the Roman Catholic Church
Birthdays in History
- Apr 6 William M. Branham, American evangelist (d. 1965)
- Apr 7 Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978)
- Apr 8 William James Millar Mackenzie, Scottish political scientist, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1996)
- Apr 9 Domenico Enrici, Roman Catholic Curia Archbishop, born in Cervasca, Italy (d. 1997)
- Apr 13 Eudora Welty, American novelist (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973), born in Jackson, Mississippi (d. 2001)
- Apr 13 Mervyn Hugh Cowie, wildlife conservationist, born in Nairobi (d. 1996)
Stanislaw Ulam (1909-1984)
Apr 13 Polish-American mathematician and nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project, H-bomb), born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary
- Apr 16 Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian, born in Denderbelle (d. 1967)
- Apr 17 Alain Poher, French politician and President of the European Parliament (1966-69), born in Ablon-sur-Seine, France (d. 1996)
- Apr 17 Humphrey Sims Moore, British pacifist and journalist (founder of Peace News), born in Samoa (d. 1995)
- Apr 21 Rollo May, American psychologist (Love & Will), born in Ada, Ohio (d. 1994)
- Apr 22 Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (History of the Greeks), born in Fucecchio, Italy (d. 2001)
- Apr 22 Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist (Nobel 1986), born in Turin, Italy (d. 2012)
- Apr 23 Thomas Padmore, British senior civil servant, born in Sheffield, England (d. 1996)
- Apr 24 Bernhard Grzimek, German zoologist (West Germany), born in Neisse, Prussian Silesia, German Empire (d. 1987)
- Apr 27 Muriel C. Bradbrook, English writer (That Infidel Place), born in Birkenhead, England (d. 1993)
- Apr 29 Daniel Mayer, French journalist and resistance fighter, born in Paris (d. 1996)
- Apr 30 F. E. McWilliam [Frederick Edward], Northern-Irish surrealist sculptor (Four Seasons Group), born in Banbridge, County Down (d. 1992)
- Apr 30 Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands (1948-80), born in Noordeinde Palace, The Hague, Netherlands (d. 2004)
Weddings in History
- Apr 15 Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo
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