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1 April
1621 - The first colonial treaty with Native Americans was signed between Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags and English pilgrims on behalf of King James I at Strawberry Hill, Massachusetts.
1945 - An assault by 50,000 U.S. troops led by General Buckner on the Japanese-held island of Okinawa heralded the beginning of the last major battle of the Pacific. It ended on July 2 with 7,000 U.S. and 100,000 Japanese dead.
4 April
1788 - The publication of the Federalist Papers, one of the greatest works on U.S. political theory, was completed. Written mostly by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, the essays defended federalism as a means of creating a strong state while protecting the individual against governmental tyranny.
1971 - Veterans stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was dedicated this day. It was the largest baseball park in the National League. A total of 56,371 fans could come out to see the Phillies play baseball or the Eagles play football. The stadium has been nicknamed The Vet. Seating has increased, with more than 63,000 fans looking on these days in the City of Brotherly Love.8 April
1834 - Cornelius Lawrence became the first US mayor to be elected by popular vote in a city election. The city - New York City, New York.
1990 - Ryan White, the Indiana youth who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion, died on this date in Indianapolis at age 18. Publicity about his rejection by his school when he was 14 forced the nation to re-analyze its views on the disease. The boy became an international spokesperson and befriended many celebrities, including rock star Elton John.
12 April
1776 - North Carolina became the first colony to call for independence against Great Britain. The colony's Provincial Congress approved a document later called the "Halifax Resolves." This document is considered the precursor of the US Declaration of Independence. The North Carolina delegates voted for independence in the town of Halifax.
1961 - The Soviet Union launched the first man into space; cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin was carried by the spacecraft Vostok I on a single orbit of the Earth in an 108-minute flight.
16 April
1912 - U.S. pilot Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly the English Channel.
1972 - Apollo 16 was launched to make the fifth manned moon landing.
20 April
1836 - The U.S. Congress separated the western part of Michigan Territory and formed a new territory to be known as Wisconsin.
1996 - World leaders meeting in Moscow agreed to boost nuclear safety through new cooperation and Ukraine reluctantly confirmed, a decade after the Chernobyl disaster, that it would close down the plant by the year 2000.
24 April
1800 - President John Adams signed a law establishing the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Initially designed as a library for congressional research, it has since amassed one of the largest collections of manuscripts and printed material in the world.
1995 - A U.N. tribunal named Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and two of his senior aides as war crimes suspects.
28 April
1789 - A rebel crew took over the British ship "HMS Bounty," leaving the ship's leader, Lieutenant William Bligh, and his supporters adrift in the South Pacific Ocean. The mutiny was led by Masters Mate Fletcher Christian. The "Mutiny on the Bounty" became popularized through novels and movies.
1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower was relieved, at his own request, of the post of Supreme Allied Commander Europe and replaced by General Matthew Ridgeway.
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- Winston [Leonard Spencer] Churchill (1874 - 1965)
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." ...Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
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