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April 27, 1521

Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan was killed during a fight with inhabitants of Mactan Island, Philippines.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-27

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April 26, 1865

Twelve days after assassinating U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was killed at a Virginia farm either by a Federal soldier or by his own hand.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-26

Great book about the hunt for John Wilkes Booth:

You Got This!!!!

 

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April 25, 1990

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro became Central America's first female president as she was sworn into office in Nicaragua.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-25

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April 24, 1949

Communist forces occupied the Chinese capital, Nanking (Nanjing), after crossing the Yangtze River virtually unopposed by adherents to the Nationalist government under President Chiang Kai-shek. The fall of Nanking marked the beginning of the disintegration of the Nationalist government, and the Chinese Civil War would end a few months later with the Communists in control of virtually all of mainland China.

Taken from:https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-24 

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April 23, 1998

James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., died in prison at age 70.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-23

We go to the moon...because it is hard!

 

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April 22, 2004

American football player Pat Tillman, who had left his lucrative NFL career to enlist in the army following the September 11 attacks, died in Afghanistan. Although initial reports claimed he was killed by enemy forces, it was eventually revealed that he had died in a friendly-fire incident.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-22

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April 21, 1789

John Adams was sworn in as the first vice president of the United States, nine days before George Washington's presidential inauguration.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-21

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April 20, 1999

Two students carried out a mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Fourteen people died and 21 were injured as a result of the attack.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-20

We will NEVER Forget!!!

 

31 years ago on April 19, 1995 the Federal Building was blown up in OKC.  Up to this point this was the worst terrorist attack on American Soil.  Now after 9/11 it is the worst domestic terrorist attack.  I was in 7th grade when this happened.  And I remember the news said this had to be an Islamic Terrorist.  Who would do this?  Then America got their first glimpse of the man who blew up this building and killed 168 people - 19 of whom were children!  America felt lied to.  The bomber - Timothy McVeigh - who was white, Christian, and a veteran of America's military.  Why would he do this?  He was upset with the Government - especially Waco.  Look what is anger did!

This happened in our backyard.  People in Tulsa felt the shock of the explosion.  The site is now a Memorial and museum.  You should go if you can!

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April 18, 1775

Silversmith and folk hero Paul Revere made a dramatic ride on horseback to warn Boston-area residents of an imminent attack by British troops, a day before the American Revolution began with a battle at Lexington.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-18

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April 17, 1961

Fidel Castro's forces repelled the Bay of Pigs invasion, which was led by recent Cuban exiles and financed by the U.S. government during the Cold War.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-17

STUDY for AP Exam!

 

The test is 23 days away!  If you have not started to STUDY - now is the time!  Here is a FUN video!  Enjoy, and I hope you laugh a little too!

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April 16, 1962

Walter Cronkite became anchor of the CBS Evening News, a position he held for nearly two decades, during which time he became known as “the most trusted man in America.”

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-16

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April 15, 1912

The sinking of the unsinkable Titanic

On this day in 1912, the British luxury passenger liner Titanic sank en route to New York City from Southampton in England, after striking an iceberg during its maiden voyage. Of the approximately 2,200 people on board, some 1,500 people died, with the ship's crew and third-class passengers experiencing the most losses.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-15

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April 14, 1939

John Steinbeck's classic novel The Grapes of Wrath—which was set during the Great Depression and traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farmworkers—was published.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-14

Houston we have a problem!

 

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April 13, 1943

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in East Potomac Park on the south bank of the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-13

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April 12, 1851


Fort Sumter, one of the few military installations in the South still in Federal hands, came under fire from Confederate guns in Charleston, South Carolina, thus initiating the American Civil War.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-12

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April 11, 1970

Apollo 13 was launched from Cape Kennedy (now Cape Canaveral), Florida; although scheduled to be the third lunar landing, the mission was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded en route to the Moon.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-11

Japanese Internment Camps

 

For the APUSH Exam you MUST know what America is doing home and abroad.  One of the worst things America did was forcing 120,000 Japanese Americans to live in Internment camps across the nation.  Americans were xenophobic, and afraid after Pearl Harbor there would be another homeland attack, or Japanese Americans were spying and telling secrets to Japan. Thankfully it was only till 1945, but dang that was too long.  President Roosevelt said it was his biggest mistake as President issuing this Executive Order, and he regretted it!

Below is George Takei's TED Talk.  He is a famous actor best known as Sulu in Star Trek.  He was 4 years old  when his family was interred.  It is an AMAZING Talk that would be worth the watch!

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April 10, 1957

The courtroom classic 12 Angry Men was released in the United States; it starred Henry Fonda as a juror who tries to convince the others that the accused murderer may be innocent.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-10

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April 9, 1939

Contralto Marian Anderson gave a concert to an Easter Sunday crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow her to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., because she was Black.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-9

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April 8, 1820

The Venus de Milo is found

The Venus de Milo, one of the most famous ancient statues in the world, was found in pieces on this day in 1820 on the Aegean island of Melos. Those bits were collected and shipped to France, presented to King Louis XVIII, reconstructed, and put on display in the Louvre. The statue is commonly thought to represent Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty, though some have suggested it's the sea goddess Amphitrite. The arms have never been found.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-8

Your thoughts create your world!

 

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April 7, 1915

Billie Holiday, one of the greatest American jazz singers from the 1930s to the '50s, was born in Philadelphia.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-7

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April 6, 2009

American basketball player Michael Jordan, widely considered the game's greatest all-around player, was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-6

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April 5, 1994

Grunge rocker Kurt Cobain, leader of the band Nirvana, died by suicide at the age of 27.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-5

WW2 - Wartime Mobilization of American Society

 

For World War 2 you must know the victories of the allied powers - D - Day Invasion and "island hopping" also the Atomic Bombs, and mass mobilization of American society.  All the guys went and fought in the war - so they needed women to work in the factories.  The images above were intended to convince women they were essential to the war effort!

It got so intense Women became baseball players,  America missed BASEBALL!!!!

But when the guys came home they wanted their jobs back.  Women did not want to give up there jobs.  So starts the feminist movement!

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April 4, 1968

Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated

On this day in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was supporting striking sanitation workers. While in Memphis, he delivered his famous Mountaintop Speech, in which he invoked the strike as one of many fights for freedom and economic justice for all, regardless of race. The next day, the civil rights leader was shot and killed while he stood on his hotel balcony. Many responded to news of King's murder with anguish and fury, and over the next several days riots and violence broke out in multiple American cities.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-4

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April 3, 1968

At an event for the Memphis sanitation workers' strike, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his “Mountaintop Speech.” The following day he was assassinated.

Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-3