April 26th, 1986The worlds worst nuclear accident happens at Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire at the plant kills at least 31 people, spewing radioactive clouds into the atmosphere that winds carry as fa...
April 25th, 1874. Radio pioneer Marconi is born in Bologna, Italy. 1507. Amercia gets its name nearly 15 years after Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World.A German cartographer first uses the term on a world map to refer to the huge la...
April 23rd, 1564: To be or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare is believed to have been born on this day in Stratford-upon-Avon England. The poet and dramatist, known as the Bard, one of the greats in world literature, dies on the sa...
April 22nd, 1994: In New York, former President Richard Nixon dies at age 81, just days after suffering a stroke. Others may hate you, those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.Nixon pursued Cold War detente and...
April 21st, 1910Writer and humorist Mark Twain dies of heart disease in Redding Connecticut at age 74, among his works, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and The Prince and the Pauper. 1926: We can make sense of the future if we understand the lessons of...
April 20, 1889: Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany who ruled for more than a dozen years, is born in Austria. Hitler's third rift brought World War II and the holocaust that killed 6 million Jews in Europe. 1999: Two students go on a shooting ram...
April 19th, 1995From my office, the door right normal in it and there is nothing there any more, it's just, it's for me and these individuals, the building's gone.In Oklahoma City, a truck bomb destroys the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The blas...
April 18th，1906A devastating earthquake strikes San Francesco, flattening buildings and setting off raging fires. Estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000 in one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit an American city. 17...
April 12th, 1945President Franklin Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in WarmSprings, Georgia at age 63. Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Roosevelt, who led America through the Great Depression and...
April 9th, 1865The American Civil War effectively ends after four years and more than a half million death. Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his forces to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. 2003Iraqi celeb...
