QuoteReplyTopic: Today in American History Posted: 01-Apr-2012 at 00:35
March 31st: 1849 - Col John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of SF 1850 - US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%)) 1854 - Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to US 1861 - Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans 1862 - Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River 1863 - Battle of Grand Gulf MS & Dinwiddie Court House VA 1865 - Battle of Boydton, VA (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H) 1865 - Gen Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg 1870 - 1st black to vote in US (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy NJ) 1917 - US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M & renames them Virgin Islands 1918 - 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect 1930 -
The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict
guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film
for the next thirty eight years. 1932 - 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall 1933 - Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps 1943 - US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326 1945 - US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa 1948 - Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe 1951 - US tanks exceed 38° of latitude in Korea 1953 - Department of Health, Education & Welfare established 1953 - UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjoeld secretary-general 1954 - US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo, established 1955 - US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes Chase
National (3rd largest bank) & Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th
largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan 1958 - US Navy forms atomic sub division 1965 - US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam 1968 - LBJ announces he will not seek re-election 1980 - President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry 1980 - The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its
final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets due to
bankruptcy and debt owed to creditors. 1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
April 1st: 1850 - SF County government established 1862 - Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA 1863 - 1st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect 1865 - -9] Battle at Blakely Alabama 1865 - Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army 1866 - US Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in US 1867 - Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama 1939 -
US recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war
Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain 1945 - US forces invade Okinawa during WW II 1946 - 400,000 US mine workers strike 1952 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1954 - US Air Force Academy forms 1960 - Census determines the resident population of the United States to be 179,245,000 1970 - Pres Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71 1980 - New York City's Transit Worker Union 100 begins a strike lasting 11 days. 1982 - US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama 1986 - US sub Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea 1991 - Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race 1991 - US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour 1991 - Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
April 2nd: 1550 - Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy 1792 - Congress establishes Philadelphia mint 1792 - US authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50
quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime
& half-dime 1792 - The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint. 1863 - Bread revolt in Richmond Virginia 1864 - Skirmish at Crump's Hill (Piney Woods), Louisiana 1864 - Skirmish at Spoonville/Antoine, Arkansas 1865 - Battle of Petersburg, VA (Ft Gregg, Sutherland's Station) 1865 - CSA Pres Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA 1865 - Battle of Ft Blakely AL & Selma AL 1866 - Pres Johnson ends war in Ala, Ark, Fla, Ga, Miss, La, NC, SC, Tn & Va 1870 - Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for US pres 1917 - Pres Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany 1930 - 1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda 1945 - 1st US units reach east coast of Okinawa 1945 - Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established. 1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 2006 - Over 60 tornadoes break out, hardest hit is Tennessee with 29 people killed.
April 3rd: 1776 - Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College 1783 - Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity & Commerce 1790 - Revenue Marine Service (US Coast Guard), created 1848 - Thomas Douglas becomes 1st SF public teacher 1860 - Pony Express began between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento Calif 1864 - Skirmish at Okolona, Arkansas 1865 - Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign) 1865 - Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Va & Petersberg 1882 - American Old West: Outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford. 1889 - Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Va 1918 - House of Reps accepts American Creed written by William Tyler 1919 - Austria expels all Habsburgers 1945 - US 1st army conquers Hofgeismar 1968 - N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks 1969 - Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort. 1974 - 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states 1977 - Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter 1986 - US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
April 4th: 1850 - City of Los Angeles incorporated 1864 - Skirmish at Elkin's Ford (Little Missouri River), Arkansas 1865 - Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse 1887 - Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS) 1896 - Announcement of Gold in Yukon 1933 - US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of NJ, 73 die 1945 - US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany 1945 - US tanks/infantry conquer Bielefeld 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1981 - Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio) In WA State history:
April 5th: 1614 - American Indian princess Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan marries English colonist John Rolfe 1621 - Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England 1768 - 1st US Chamber of Commerce forms (NYC) 1792 - George Washington casts 1st presidential veto 1861 - Federals abandon Ft Quitman, Tx 1862 - Siege of Yorktown VA 1865 - Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville Va (Appomattox Campaign) 1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1966 - WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft Pierce-Vero Beach, FL (IND) 1st broadcast 1968 - US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled 1969 - Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities. 1971 - US Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life 1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1988 - Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their pres candidate Comedian David Letterman1989 - David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo 1991 - US begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq 1992 - Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.
April 6th: 1663 - King Charles II signs Carolina Charter 1712 - Slave revolt in NY 1789 - 1st US Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, NYC 1808 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company. 1830 - Joseph Smith & 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, NY 1841 - Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri 1859 - US recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform 1860 -
Joseph Smith III, creates the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints by reorganizing the previous church organized by his
father, Joseph Smith, Jr. 1862 - Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee 1865 - Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off 1865 - Skirmish at High Bridge VA (Appomattox); 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off 1868 - Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife 1893 - Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City dedicated 1909 - 1st credit union forms in US 1917 - US declares war on Germany, enters World War I 1936 - Tornado, kills 203 & injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia 1939 - US & UK agree on joint control of Canton & Enderbury Is (Pacific) 1943 - British & US army link up in Africa during WW II 1945 - Massive kamikaze-attack on US battle fleet near Okinawa 1945 - US marines explore Tsugen Shima near Okinawa 1950 - John F Dulles becomes advisor to US Sect of State Acheson 1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island 1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1957 - NYC ends trolley car service 1968 - HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas 1968 - In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150. 1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1992 - US Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornography
April 7th: 1712 - Slave revolt (NYC) 1776 - Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward. 1788 - 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta 1798 - Mississippi Territory organized 1818 - Gen Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Fla from Seminole indians 1862 - Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls 1863 - Battle of Charleston SC, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter 1865 - Battle of Farmville VA 1891 - Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day 1901 - SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber 1902 - Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms 1919 - 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks 1923 - Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party 1933 - Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment 1940 - 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T Washington) 1943 - British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia 1945 - 1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers 1945 - US B-17's bombs range at Luneburg 1945 - US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato & four destroyers were sunk 1951 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak 1954 - Pres Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China 1959 - Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years 1966 - US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!) 1969 - Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material 1971 - Pres Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free 1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 2003 - U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
April 8th: 1789 - House of Representives 1st meeting 1861 - US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia seized by confederacy 1869 - American Museum of Natural History opens (NYC) 1913 - 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified 1914 - US & Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone 1952 - Pres Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike 1994 - Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases 2004 - U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies before the 9/11 Commission. In WA state history:
April 9th: 1816 - African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Phila) 1831 - Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain & Spain 1833 - 1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough, NH) 1864 - Battle of Pleasant Hill LA, 2870 casualities 1865 -
General Robert E Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender at Appomattox Court
House in Virginia to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant 1865 - General Robert E Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender at
Appomattox Court House in Virginia to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S.
Grant 1866 - Civil Rights Bill passes over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto 1869 - Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada 1870 - American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves 1909 - The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act. 1914 - Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in Mexico 1949 - UN Intl Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel & awards Britain damages 1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1972 - USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty 1988 - US imposes economic sanctions on Panama 1992 - US Fed court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drugs
April 10th: Also, on April 10th: 1790 - US Patent system forms 1816 - 2nd Bank of US chartered 1825 - 1st hotel in Hawaii opens 1841 - NY "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley 1845 - More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa 1865 - At Appomattox, Gen Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last 1866 - American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms 1884 - US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo 1887 - President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield Il 1917 - Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers 1945 - US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa 1945 - US troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany 1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1979 - Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. 1984 - US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors 1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 2006 - Hundreds of thousands protest H.R. 4437 (aka the "Sensenbrenner Bill") in the United States.
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