Anniversaries

4th April 1818 (193 Years)

The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).

4th April 1949 (62 Years)

The anniversary of the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, also known as NATO.

4th April 1968 (43 Years)

Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

4th April 1983 (28 Years)

Gloria May Josephine Swanson, American actress and producer, died.

5th April 1526 (485 Years)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter, was born.

5th April 1614 (397 Years)

Anniversary of the marriage of Pocahontas to English colonist John Rolfe.

5th April 1916 (95 Years)

Eldred Gregory Peck, American actor who was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, was born.

5th April 1955 (56 Years)

Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.

5th April 1974 (37 Years)

Alexander Young Jackson, Canadian painter died.

5th April 1976 (35 Years)

Howard Robard Hughes, American business tycoon, entrepreneur, investor, aviator, aerospace engineer, inventor, filmmaker and philanthropist, died.

5th April 2008 (3 Years)

Charlton Heston, American actor and political activist, died.

6th April 1520 (491 Years)

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, died.

6th April 1820 (191 Years)

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon known by the pseudonym Nadar, French photographer, is born.

6th April 1909 (102 Years)

Explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole.

6th April 1917 (94 Years)

The United States enters World War I.

6th April 1917 (94 Years)

The US enters WWI.

6th April 1959 (52 Years)

Frank Lloyd Wright died.

7th April 1614 (397 Years)

El Greco, Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, died.

7th April 1891 (120 Years)

P.T. Barnum, American showman and businessman, co-founder of Ringling Bros. and Barnum Circus, dies.

7th April 1938 (73 Years)

Suzanne Valadon, French painter, dies.

7th April 1947 (64 Years)

Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, dies.

8th April 1093 (918 Years)

The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.

8th April 1918 (93 Years)

Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Ford, née Bloomer, First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, was born.

8th April 1918 (93 Years)

WWI: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City.

8th April 1973 (38 Years)

Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential artists of the all time, died.

8th April 1973 (38 Years)

Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist and co-founder of the Cubism movement, died.

9th April 1492 (519 Years)

Lorenzo de' Medici, also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, magnate, diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets, died.

9th April 1830 (181 Years)

Eadweard J. Muybridge, English photographer and inventor, was born.

9th April 1865 (146 Years)

The American Civil War, one of history's bloodiest wars, ended.

9th August 1936 (75 Years)

Jesse Owens won international fame with four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics. Hence he has been credited with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy".

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