On April 22, 1056 Supernova Crab (the Crab Nebula) was last seen by the naked eye. Pictured...
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On April 21, 1864 the U.S. Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1864, which led to the...
On April 20th, 1653 Oliver Cromwell and 40 musketeers forcibly dissolved the English Rump Parliament, after it...
April 19th is the original Patriot Day which marks the multiple anniversary of the battles of Lexington...
On April 18, 1775 Paul Revere (pictured) met with Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington, Massachusetts,...
On April 17, 1935: The first commercial flight from the mainland to Hawaii, as Pan Am’s Pioneer...
The Battle of Culloden was fought on April 16, 1746. Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland...
On April 15th, 1621, Hugo Grotius arrived in France after escaping prison in a book chest. Grotius...
On April 14, 1849, Hungary declared itself independent of Austria, with Lajos (Louis) Kossuth as its leader....
On April 13, 1012: A ransom of 48,000 pounds was paid to a large band of Vikings,...