Anniversaries

8th April 1918 (10898 Years)

Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Ford, née Bloomer, First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, was born.

8th April 1973 (10843 Years)

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

8th April 1973 (10843 Years)

Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist and co-founder of the Cubism movement, died.

8th April 2013 (10803 Years)

Baroness Margaret Thatcher, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, died.

9th April 1492 (11324 Years)

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

9th April 1830 (10986 Years)

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

9th April 1865 (10951 Years)

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

9th August 1936 (10880 Years)

Jesse Owens won international fame with four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics. Hence he has been credited with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy".

9th April 1969 (10847 Years)

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

10th April 1877 (10939 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 1877 (10939 Years)

Launch of the first human cannonball.

10th April 1894 (10922 Years)

Ben Nicholson was born.

10th April 1912 (10904 Years)

The Titanic sets sail. 105 years.

10th April 1938 (10878 Years)

Pearl Buck awarded a Nobel prize for literature.

10. April 1954 (10862 Years)

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

10th April 1966 (10850 Years)

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

10th April 1912 (10904 Years)

The Titanic sets sail.

12th April 1935 (10881 Years)

First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.

12th April 1945 (10871 Years)

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

12th April 1961 (10855 Years)

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

12th April 1961 (10855 Years)

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, a Russian-Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, becomes the first human to enter space.

12th April 1975 (10841 Years)

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

13th April 1519 (11297 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 (11073 Years)

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

13th April 1866 (10950 Years)

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

13th April 1939 (10877 Years)

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

13th April 1956 (10860 Years)

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

13th April 1956 (10860 Years)

Emil Nolde, German Danish painter and printmaker, one of the first Expressionists and a member of Die Brücke, died.

13th April 1970 (10846 Years)

Launch of Apollo 13 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

14th April 1865 (10951 Years)

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

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