Events in History
Event of Interest
Apr 1 Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse
Event of Interest
Apr 9 Eugene O'Neill's "Lazarus Laughed" premieres in Pasadena
- Apr 9 Turkey passes separation of church & state
- Apr 13 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-US (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Köhl)
- Apr 14 Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF & LA
- Apr 15 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf (San Francisco) forms
- Apr 19 Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland
- Apr 19 The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published
- Apr 24 Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
- Apr 25 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for a US citizen Morris Frank
Event of Interest
Apr 26 Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition reopens in London after a fire
- Apr 30 Cherkess Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1957)
Birthdays in History
James Watson (94 years old)
Apr 6 American molecular biologist who co-discovered DNA's structure, with Francis Crick (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1962), geneticist and zoologist, born in Chicago, Illinois [1] [2]
- Apr 7 Alan J Pakula, director (All the President's Men, Klute)
- Apr 7 James White, UK, sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer)
- Apr 8 Leah Rabin (nee Schloßberg), wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, born in Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia) (d. 2000)
- Apr 8 Mary Zeldenrust-Noordanus, Dutch CEO (NVSH - Dutch Association for Sexual Reform), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1984)
- Apr 9 Brian Cubbon, British senior civil servant, born in Lancashire, England (d. 2015)
- Apr 9 Floyd Spence, American attorney and politician (Rep-R-SC, 1971-2001), born in Columbia, South Carolina (d. 2001)
Ethel Kennedy (94 years old)
Apr 11 American human-rights campaigner (wife of Bobby Kennedy), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Apr 12 Brooklyn Supreme, Belgian stallion, heaviest known horse (1450 kg)
- Apr 12 Russell L. Rogers, American electrical engineer and astronaut (X-20), born in Lawrence, Kansas (d. 1967)
- Apr 12 Uwe Kitzinger, President (Templeton College, Oxford), born in Nuremberg, Germany
- Apr 13 Alan Clark, English politician (Minister for Defence Procurement), born in Paddington, London (d. 1999)
- Apr 15 Norma Merrick Sklarek, 1st African-American woman architect in NY & California, born in Harlem, New York (d. 2012)
- Apr 15 Richard Evans, British diplomat, ambassador to the People's Republic of China (1984-88), born in England (d. 2012)
- Apr 17 Cynthia Ozick, American author (Pagan Rabbi & Other Stories), born in NYC, New York
- Apr 18 Howard S. Becker, American sociologist, born in Chicago, Illinois
- Apr 19 John Horlock, British vice-chancellor (Open College), born in Edmonton, Middlesex (d. 2015)
- Apr 19 William Klein, American-French photographer (1957 Prix Nadar), born in New York City
- Apr 20 Gerald S. Hawkins, English-American astronomer (archaeoastronomy), born in Great Yarmouth, England (d. 2003)
- Apr 20 Muhammadu Maccido, 19th Sultan of Sokoto (1996-2006) in Nigeria, born in Dange Shuni, Nigeria (d. 2006)
- Apr 23 Okke Jager, Dutch theologist, writer and poet, born in Delft, Netherlands (d. 1992)
- Apr 28 Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist and geologist (Shoemaker-Levy comet), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1997)
- Apr 28 Yves Klein, French sculptor and painter, born in Nice, France (d. 1962)
- Apr 30 Hugh Hood, Canadian author (White Figure, White Ground), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2000)
Deaths in History
- Apr 2 Theodore W. Richards, American chemist (1st American to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for atomic weights 1914, awarded 1915), dies at 60
- Apr 5 Jane Ellen Harrison, British anthropologist and linguist, dies at 77
- Apr 7 Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher, dies at 54
- Apr 16 Henry Birks, Canadian businessman and founder of Henri Birks and Sons, dies at 87
- Apr 25 Pyotr Nikolayevich, Baron Wrangel, Russian baron general (White Armies, WW II), dies at 49
- Apr 29 Henrich Federer, Swiss writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61
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