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On this day - April 4
Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a ...
190 — Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn ...
611 — Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque ...
619 — The Bijapur-Mumbai inscription is issued by Pulakeshin II, ...
801 — King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a ...
1268 — A five-year Byzantine–Venetian peace treaty is concluded ...
1423 — Death of the Venetian Doge Tommaso Mocenigo, under whose rule ...
1581 — Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing ...
1609 — Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia.
1660 — Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of Great Britain ...
1796 — Georges Cuvier delivers the first paleontological lecture.
1814 — Napoleon abdicates (conditionally) for the first time and ...
1818 — The United States Congress, affirming the Second Continental ...
1841 — William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia, becoming the first ...
1860 — The declaration on the introduction of the Finnish markka as ...
1865 — American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, ...
1866 — Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination ...
1887 — Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female ...
1894 — Foyot bombing by the Russian or French state during the Ère ...
1904 — Two Ms ~7.1 earthquakes, among the largest in Europe, strike ...
1905 — In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing ...
1913 — First Balkan War: Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes ...
1920 — The four-day Nebi Musa riots commence.
1925 — The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded under Adolf Hitler's ...
1933 — U.S. Navy airship USS Akron is wrecked off the New Jersey ...
1944 — World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest ...
1945 — World War II: Soviet Red Army troops liberate Hungary from ...
1945 — World War II: United States Army troops capture Kassel.
1945 — World War II: United States Army troops liberate Ohrdruf ...
1946 — Greek judge and archeologist Panagiotis Poulitsas is appointed ...
1949 — Cold War: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty ...
1958 — The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time ...
1960 — France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a ...
1963 — Bye Bye Birdie, a musical romantic comedy film directed by ...
1964 — The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot ...
1967 — Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A ...
1968 — Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
1968 — Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a ...
1969 — Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial ...
1973 — A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the ...
1973 — The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are ...
1975 — Vietnam War: A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy ...
1975 — Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and ...
1977 — Southern Airways Flight 242 crashes in New Hope, Paulding ...
1979 — Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
1981 — Iran–Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts ...
1983 — Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its ...
1984 — President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on ...
1987 — Garuda Indonesia Flight 032 crashes at Medan Airport, killing ...
1988 — Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his ...
1990 — The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial ...
1991 — Forty-one people are taken hostage inside a Good Guys! ...
1991 — Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed ...
1994 — Three people are killed when KLM Cityhopper Flight 433 crashes ...
1996 — Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near ...
1997 — Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on ...
2002 — The MPLA government of Angola and UNITA rebels sign a peace ...
2009 — France announces its return to full participation of its ...
2010 — A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits south of the Mexico-USA ...
2011 — Georgian Airways Flight 834 crashes at N'djili Airport in ...
2013 — 74 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.
2017 — Syria conducts an air strike on Khan Shaykhun using chemical ...
2020 — China holds a national day of mourning for martyrs who died in ...
2023 — Finland becomes a member of NATO after Turkey accepts its ...
2025 — The impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea in ...