This Week In History April 2nd to April 8th

This Week In History

Taken From Our This Day In History From
April 2nd to April 8th




1860 Pony Express Service Starts


1896 Modern Olympics Games Reborn


1904 Long Acre Square in Manhattan, New York, was renamed Times Square


1906 Mount Vesuvius erupts


1916 - 1918 World War I Battle Of The Somme


1917 America enters World War I


1932 Charles Lindbergh, whose son was kidnapped paid $50,000 ransom


1933 President Franklin Roosevelt signs "United States Executive Order 6102" Gold Compulsorily Purchased


1933 On April 7th 1933 beer goes on sale again in 19 of the 48 states and the District of Columbia .


1941 Germany invades Yugoslavia


1948 The World Health Organization (WHO) established


1949 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established


1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein debut their hit musical "South Pacific" on Broadway


1958 10,000 protesters arrive in Trafalgar Square, London as part of the CND / Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament


1964 The Beatles hold an unprecedented record of twelve positions on Billboard Hot 100 singles chart


1968 Martin Luther King Jr. Murdered


1968 Race Riots Follow Assassination of Martin Luther King


1969 One of the greatest co-ordinated demonstrations in modern times starts on this weekend against US involvement in Vietnam with demonstrations in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and other major cities.


1972 Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States


1973 New York's World Trade Center Completed


1974 Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run


1974 148 tornadoes hit North America from Georgia to Canada within 16 hours


1976 American billionaire Howard Hughes dies at the age of 70.


1977 Red Rum the diminutive horse with the heart of a champion wins the English Grand National for a record third time


1980 Windfall Act on Oil Industries High Profits


1982 Argentina invades Falklands Islands


1987 Fox Broadcasting Co. made its prime-time TV debut


1992 The satirical British magazine Punch publishes it's final issue


1992 Mob boss John Gotti often referred to as "The Teflon Don" Convicted for first time


1994 Civil War breaks out in Rwanda


1994 Kurt Cobain lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the rock band Nirvana commits suicide


2005 Pope John Paul II Dies


2006 Saddam Hussein Charged With Genocide


2009 G20 Summit Over Global Financial Problems


2010 Apple Releases Ipad


2010 Explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, Raleigh County, West Virginia