9th April 1865: Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
Lee’s surrender to Grant encouraged other Confederate forces across the south to do the same and marked the beginning of the end of the American Civil ...
9 Apr 20220s
8th April 1904: Times Square in New York given its name
Times Square in New York was given its name shortly after the offices of The New York Times moved to the ...
8 Apr 20220s
7th April 1498: Savonarola takes part in a failed trial by fire that was intended to test his holiness
The belief was that God would intervene to protect Savonarola from the flames, but he and his opponents squabbled for so long that a rainstorm eventually led to the cancellation of the ...
7 Apr 20220s
6th April 1896: The first modern Olympic Games take place
On the 6th April 1896, the first modern Olympic Games opened in ...
6 Apr 20220s
5th April 1621: The Mayflower returns to England from the settlement at Plymouth, having carried the Pilgrim fathers to America
To the ship’s crew the voyage to the New World was just a delivery contract between the Pilgrims and the ship’s master, Christopher ...
5 Apr 20220s
4th April 1968: Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee
On the 4th April 1968, Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of ...
4 Apr 20220s
3rd April 1882: American outlaw Jesse James shot dead by fellow gang-member Robert Ford
As James stood on a chair and turned to clean a dirty picture frame in his house, Robert Ford shot him in the back of the head from virtually point-blank ...
3 Apr 20220s
2nd April 1977: Red Rum wins an unprecedented third Grand National horse race
The racehorse Red Rum won an historic third Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in ...
2 Apr 20220s
