Anniversaries

8th April 1973 (36 Years)

Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential artists of the all time, died.

9th April 1492 (517 Years)

Lorenzo de' Medici, also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, magnate, diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets, died.

9th April 1830 (179 Years)

Eadweard J. Muybridge, English photographer and inventor, was born.

9th April 1865 (144 Years)

The American Civil War, one of history's bloodiest wars, ended.

9th April 1969 (40 Years)

Exclusive and only colour footage of the Concorde's maiden flights.

10th April 1877 (132 Years)

The first human cannonball, a 14 year-old girl named Rossa Matilda Ritcher and known as Zazel, is launched at the Royal Aquarium in London.

10th April 1894 (115 Years)

Ben Nicholson was born.

10th April 1938 (71 Years)

Pearl Buck awarded a Nobel prize for literature.

10th April 1954 (55 Years)

Auguste Lumiere, the French cinema pioneer who developed a film projector and camera with his brother Louis, died.

10th April 1966 (43 Years)

Evelyn Waugh, English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books, dies.

10th April 1912 (97 Years)

The Titanic sets sail.

12th April 1935 (74 Years)

First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.

12th April 1945 (64 Years)

Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, died.

12th April 1961 (48 Years)

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to enter space and the first to orbit the Earth.

12th April 1975 (34 Years)

American-born French dancer, singer and actress, Josephine Baker died.

13th April 1519 (490 Years)

Catherine de' Medici, daughter of Lorenzo II de' Medici and of Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne, Queen of France from 1547 until 1559, as the wife of King Henry II, was born.

13th April 1743 (266 Years)

Thomas Jefferson, American lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the United States, was born.

13th April 1866 (143 Years)

Butch Cassidy, notorious American train and bank robber, and leader of the Wild Bunch gang, is born.

13th April 1939 (70 Years)

Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner, was born.

13th April 1956 (53 Years)

Emil Nolde, German Danish painter, printmaker and one of the first Expressionists, dies.

13th April 1970 (39 Years)

Launch of Apollo 13 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

14th April 1865 (144 Years)

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. President, was assassinated.

14th April 1924 (85 Years)

Louis Sullivan, the American architect, died.

14th April 1958 (51 Years)

Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika.

14th April 1986 (23 Years)

Simone de Beauvoir, French author and existentialist philosopher most famous for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, dies.

15th April 1367 (642 Years)

Henry IV, King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1399 to 1413, was born.

15th April 1452 (557 Years)

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter and inventor, is born.

15th April 1764 (245 Years)

Madame de Pompadour, mistress, friend and adviser to Louis XV, died.

15th April 1843 (166 Years)

Henry James, American-English author, was born.

15th April 1888 (121 Years)

Matthew Arnold, English poet dies aged 55.

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