01 April History


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  • 1572    -    The Sea Beggars under Guillaume de la Marck land in Holland and capture the small town of Briel.
  • 1778    -    Oliver Pollock, creates the dollar sign.
  • 1863    -    The first wartime conscription law goes into effect in the United States.
  • 1865    -    At the Battle of Five Forks, Gen. Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive.
  • 1868    -    The Hampton Institute is founded in Hampton, Va.
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  • 1905    -    Berlin and Paris are linked by telephone.
  • 1918    -    England's Royal Air Force is formed.
  • 1920    -    Germany's Workers Party changes its name to the Nationalist Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazis).
  • 1924    -    Adolf Hitler sentenced to five years in prison for the "Beer Hall Putsch."
  • 1928    -    China's Chiang Kai-shek begins attacks on communists.
  • 1929    -    The yo-yo is introduced in the United States by Louie Marx.
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  • 1939    -    The Spanish Civil War effectively ends with the official recognition of Franco's government.
  • 1942    -    The U.S. Navy begins a partial convoy system in the Atlantic.
  • 1945    -    U.S. forces launch invasion of Okinawa.
  • 1946    -    A miner's strike in the U.S. idles 400,000 workers.
  • 1948    -    The Berlin Airlift begins, relieving the surrounded city from the Soviet siege.
  • 1951    -    United Nations forces again move northward across the 38th Parallel in Korea.
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  • 1954    -    The U.S. Air Force Academy is founded in Colorado.
  • 1968    -    The U.S. Army launches Operation Pegasus, the reopening of a land route to the besieged Khe Sanh Marine base.
  • 1970    -    The U.S. Army charges Captain Ernest Medina for his role in the My Lai massacre.
  • 1982    -    The United States transfers control of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama.

  • 01 April Birthdays

  • 1578    -    William Harvey, English physician and biologist.
  • 1815    -    Otto Von Bismarck, chancellor of Germany.
  • 1868    -    Edmond Rostand, French dramatist (Cyrano de Bergerac).
  • 1883    -    Lon Chaney, film actor.
  • 1883    -    William Manchester, U.S. historian and biographer.
  • 1895    -    Alberta Hunter, blues singer.
  • 1919    -    Joseph E. Murray, transplant physician.
  • 1929    -    Milan Kundera, Czech writer (The Farewell Party, The Unbearable Lightness of Being).