April 7th. 1994. Civil war erupts in Rwanda, a day after its leader and the president of Burundi are killed in a mysterious plane crash. In the months that follow, hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsis and Hutu intellectuals are slaughtered in the...
April 6th. 1917. The United States enters World War I on the side of the Allies as Congress declares war on Germany. 1909. Explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson lead the first successful expedition to reach the North Pole. 1896. The first m...
April 5th, 1986A bombing at a disco in whats then West Berlin kills an American soldier and a Turkish woman. The US retaliates more than a week later with an air raid on Libya, narrowly missing its leader Muammar Kaddafi. 1964Old soldiers never die....
April 4th, 1968The reverend Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was 39. And Ive seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we as a pe...
April 2nd 2005Pope John Paul II dies at his apartment in the Vatican at age 84. He led the Roman Catholic Church for 26 years and helped topple communism in Eastern Europe. May Christ give you his grace and his peace, overturning the barriers of divi...
March 30th1981Outside a Washington hotel, John Hinckley Jr. shoots President Ronald Regan and three others. Presidential aide Lyn Nofziger: The President has been shot once in the left chest. The bullet entered from his left side. The shooting seriou...
March 28th. 1979America's worst commercial nuclear accident takes place at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. Though the health effects are considered small, the accident strengthens opposition to the nation's nuclear power in...
March 26th. 1979. In Washington, leaders of Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty at the White House. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin: No more war, no more bloodshed, no more bereavement. Peace unto you, shalom! Salaam, forever!Egyptian Presid...
March 23rd, 1775A famous call for American independence from Britain, Patrick Henry tells the Virginia Provincial Convention, Give me liberty or give me death. The American Revolution begins just weeks later. 1933Germany's Parliament, the Reichstag e...
March 22nd, 1765Britain enacts the Stamp Act to raise money from its American colonies, but the colony's bulky taxation without representation and the Act is repealed the next year. The conflict helps set the stage for the American Revolution in the...
