753 BC – Today is the traditional date of the foundation of Rome.
43 BC – Marcus Antonius was defeated by Octavian near Modena, Italy.
1509 – Henry VIII is crowned King of England – In popular culture, the monarch is known mainly for his six marriages, two of which ended with the wife’s execution.
1536 – Thomas Cromwell begins to plot Anne Boleyn’s downfall while feigning illness
1649 – Maryland Toleration Act passed in the American colony, allowing freedom of worship for Christians but sentencing to death anyone who rejected the divinity of Jesus
1689 – William III and Mary II were crowned joint king and queen of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1792 – Brazilian revolutionary Tiradentes, is hanged, drawn and quartered in Rio de Janeiro
1836 – General Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. This battle decided the independence of Texas.
1895 – Woodville Latham and his sons demonstrated their Panopticon. It was the first movie projector developed in the United States.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain
1914 – U.S. Marines occupied Vera Cruz, Mexico. The troops stayed for six months.
1916 – Bill Carlisle, the infamous ‘last train robber,’ robbed a train in Hanna, WY.
1918 – German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, “The Red Baron,” was shot down and killed during World War I.
1930 – Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
1934 – The Surgeon’s photo, allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail – In reality, the famous image depicts a toy submarine with a head and neck made of wood putty.
1952 – Secretaries’ Day (now Administrative Professionals’ Day) is first celebrated
1967 – In Athens, Army colonels took over the government and installed Constantine Kollias as premier.
1967 – Joseph Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Allilueva arrives in New York City after defecting to the US
1972 – Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke explored the surface of the moon.
1975 – South Vietnam president, Nguyen Van Thieu, resigned, condemning the United States.
1981 – US furnish $1 billion in arms to Saudi-Arabia
1984 – In France, it was announced that doctors had found virus believed to cause AIDS.
1986 – Geraldo Rivera opened a vault that belonged to Al Capone at the Lexington Hotel in Chicago. Nothing of interest was found inside. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-04-22-mn-1421-story.html
1989 – Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom
1995 – FBI arrests Timothy McVeigh and charge him with the Oklahoma City bombing
1998 – Astronomers announced in Washington that they had discovered possible signs of a new family of planets orbiting a star 220 light-years away.
2000 – The 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act went into effect.
2002 – In the city of General Santos, 14 people were killed and 69 were injured in a bomb attack on a department store. The attack was blamed on Muslim extremists
2008 – The United States Air Force retires the F-117 Nighthawk.
2013 – 185 people are killed in a conflict between Islamic extremists and the Nigerian military
2017 – Taliban attack army base at Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, killing more than 100
2019 – Terror attacks on churches and hotels on Easter Sunday in three Sri Lankan cities, Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa kill at least 253 and injure hundreds
2019 – Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky wins the country’s presidential election in a landslide
2021 – Russian President Vladimir Putin warns the West not to cross a “red line” in his state of the union address, amid massing of 100,000 Russian troops on Ukraine border
2021 – Manhattan district attorney’s office announces it will no longer prosecute prostitution, dismissing 914 open cases, part of growing movement to change approach to prostitution
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
