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April 11700: First April Fools' Day
1918: Royal Air Force founded
April 2
1978: Velcro first marketed
April 3
1882: Jesse James is killed
April 4
1841: William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia
1884: Admiral Yamamoto is born
1949: NATO formed
1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
April 5
1974: World Trade Center opens
April 6
1199: Richard I dies
April 7
1862: Battle of Shiloh
April 8
1513: Ponce de Leon claims Florida
April 9
1865: Lee surrenders to Grant, ending the U.S. Civil War
1940: Germany invades Denmark and Norway
April 10
1849: Safety pin patented
April 11
1906: Einstein introduces theory of relativity
April 12
1861: U.S. Civil War begins with the attack on Ft. Sumpter
1945: Franklin Roosevelt dies
1961: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space
April 13
1743: Thomas Jefferson is born
April 14
1865: Abraham Lincoln is shot
1912: Titanic hits iceberg
April 15
1865: Abraham Lincoln dies
April 16
1917: Lenin returns to Russia after being exiled
April 17
1790: Benjamin Franklin dies
1894: Nikita Khrushchev is born
April 18
1775: Paul Revere's ride
1955: Albert Einstein dies
April 19
1775: Revolutionary War begins with the Battles of Lexington and Concord
1993: Federal law enforcement officials attack Branch Davidian compound at Waco
1995: Timothy McVeigh bombs Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City
April 20
1889: Adolf Hitler is born
1999: Columbine High School massacre
April 21
1926: Queen Elizabeth II is born
April 22
1872: Vladimir Lenin is born
April 23
1564: William Shakespeare is born
1616: William Shakespeare dies
1791: James Buchanan is born
1968: Timothy McVeigh is born
April 24
1981: First PC introduced
April 25
1859: Ground broken for Suez Canal
April 26
1894: Rudolf Hess is born
April 27
1822: Ulysses Grant is born
April 28
1758: James Monroe is born
1945: Benito Mussolini and his girlfriend, Clara Petacci, are killed by an Italian mob
April 29
1945: Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun
April 30
1945: Adolf Hitler commits suicide, along with his new wife, Eva Braun
