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....

  April 12, 1851 Fort Sumter , one of the few military installations in the South still in Federal hands, came under fire from Confederate g...

  April 11, 1970 Apollo 13  was launched from Cape Kennedy (now Cape Canaveral), Florida; although scheduled to be the third lunar landing, ...

  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 ...

  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 co...

  April 9, 1939 Contralto  Marian Anderson  gave  a concert  to an Easter Sunday crowd of 75,000 at the  Lincoln Memorial  after the  Daught...