Events in history
- April 10th 1963, the nuclear-powered submarine USS "Thresher" failed to surface off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in a disaster that claimed 129 lives. - Jupiter
- May sixth, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible "Hindenburg" burned and crashed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground. - Saturn
- April 26th 1968, the United States exploded beneath the Nevada desert a one-megaton nuclear device called "Boxcar." - Chiron
- April 26th 1607, an expedition of English colonists, including Captain John Smith, went ashore at Cape Henry, Virginia, to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere. - Jupiter
- Jan 24th 1997 Publix Super Markets, accused of relegating women to dead-end, low-paying jobs, agreed to pay $81.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit. - SNode
- Firing on Fort Sumter beginning U.S. Civil War, April 12 1861 - Neptune
- July 3rd 1950, American and North Korean forces clashed for the first time in the Korean War.- NNode
- Peterloo Massacre, Aug 16th 1819 - Saturn
- May 6th 1941, dictator Josef Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership, replacing Vyacheslav M. Molotov. He was responsible for the deaths of 20 - 50 million people including whole nations. - SNode
- May 7th 1996, the first international war crimes proceeding since Nuremberg opened at The Hague, with a Serbian police officer, Dusan Tadic, facing trial on murder-torture charges. - Saturn
- April 26th 1968, the United States exploded beneath the Nevada desert a one-megaton nuclear device called "Boxcar." - Venus
- April 26th, 1986, the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire in the number-four reactor sent radioactivity into the atmosphere; at least 31 Soviets died immediately. - Solar eclipse on April 9th
- Hitler's nazi party won 100 seats Sept 15 1930 NNode
- Feb 27th 1933, Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, caught fire. The Nazis, blaming the Communists, used the fire as a pretext for suspending civil liberties. - Uranus
- Jan 19th 1988 State Farm Insurance Company in California announced it had agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by three former employees. - Jupiter
- Jan 16th 1978, NASA named Sally K. Ride, who became America's first woman in space, and Guion S. Bluford Junior, who became America's first black astronaut in space. Their spacecraft exploded soon after take-off - Chiron
- May 15th 1602, Cape Cod was discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold. - Pluto
- July 2nd 1976, the Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual. - Chiron
Feb 2nd 1861, delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to form the Confederate States of America. - Pluto
23rd Feb 1861, President-elect Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take office, an assassination plot having been foiled in Baltimore. - Pluto
Emancipation Edict liberates Russian serfs, Mar 3 1861 Pluto
April 27th 1865, the steamer "Sultana" exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, killing more than 1400 Union prisoners of war. - Pluto
April 10th 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated. - Pluto
April 14th, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington. (Lincoln died the following morning.) - Pluto