--William Harvey, English physician who discovered the circulation of the blood, born 1578.
--Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck born 1815.
--Edmond Rostand, French dramatist, born 1868.
--Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff born 1873.
April 2
--Charlemagne, medieval European ruler, born 742.
--First federal U.S. mint established, 1792.
--Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer of fairy tales, born 1805.
--Emile Zola, French novelist, born 1840.
--Automaker Walter P. Chrysler born 1875.
April 3
--Washington Irving, American author, born 1783.
--John Burroughs, American naturalist, born 1837.
--First pony express service began, 1860.
April 4
--Dorothea Lynde Dix, American prison and asylum reformer, born 1802.
--Congress adopted the flag with 13 stripes and with 1 star for each state, 1818.
--Playwright Robert E. Sherwood born 1896.
--North Atlantic Treaty signed, 1949.
April 5
--Pocahontas married John Rolfe, 1614.
--Elihu Yale, benefactor of Yale University, born 1649.
--Sir Joseph Lister, English surgeon, born 1827.
--Poet Algernon Swinburne born 1837.
--American educator Booker T. Washington born 1856.
April 6
--Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Fayette, N.Y., 1830.
--Robert Peary reached what he claimed to be the North Pole, 1909.
--The United States declared war on Germany in World War I, 1917.
BRIAN WHITE
April 7
--William Wordsworth, English poet, born 1770.
--Robert Marcel Casadesus, French pianist and composer, born 1899.
LORAN & SARAH WHITE
April 8
--Sonja Henie, Norwegian-American figure-skater and motion-picture actress, born 1912.
--Henry Aaron broke Babe Ruth's career major-league home run record, 1974.
April 9
--General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in the Civil War, 1865.
--Charles P. Steinmetz, American physicist and electrical engineer, born in Germany, 1865.
--Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines fell to Japan, 1942.
April 10
--King James I chartered the Virginia companies of London and Plymouth, 1606.
--United States patent system established, 1790.
--Matthew C. Perry, American officer who opened Japan to world trade, born 1794.
--William Booth, English reformer and founder of the Salvation Army, born 1829.
--Newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer born 1847.
--Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat and writer, born 1903.
April 11
--Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated the first time, 1814.
--Charles Evans Hughes, chief justice of the United States, born 1862.
April 12
--Henry Clay, American statesman, born 1777.
--The Civil War began at Fort Sumter, 1861.
--President Franklin D. Roosevelt died, 1945.
--Yuri Gagarin, Soviet astronaut, became first person to orbit the earth, 1961.
April 13
--The Edict of Nantes gave religious toleration to Huguenots in France, 1598.
--F. W. Woolworth, American merchant, born 1852.
April 14
--Christiaan Huygens, Dutch physicist, born 1629.
--Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary, 1828.
--John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln, 1865.
April 15
--Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, and scientist, born 1452.
--The Revolutionary War declared ended, 1783.
--Henry James, American novelist, born 1843.
--Painter Thomas Hart Benton born 1889.
--Liner Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, 1912.
April 16
--Anatole France, French novelist, born 1844.
--Inventor Wilbur Wright born 1867.
April 17
--Samuel Chase, American jurist, born 1741.
--J. P. Morgan, American financier, born 1837.
--Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev born 1894.
--Queen Elizabeth II signed the Constitution Act, making Canada completely independent of Britain, 1982.
DEAN (MILLER) WHITE
April 18--Paul Revere made his famous ride, 1775.
--San Francisco earthquake and fire began, 1906.
--Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle led carrier-based planes in a raid on Tokyo, in World War II, 1942.
April 19
--The Revolutionary War began in Lexington, 1775.
April 20
--Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, born 1889.
April 21
--Rome founded, according to tradition, 753 B.C.
--Friedrich Frobel, German founder of the kindergarten system, born 1782. --Novelist Charlotte Bronte born 1816.
--Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic, born 1828.
--Texans routed the Mexicans in the Battle of San Jacinto, 1836.
--The Spanish-American War began, 1898.Queen Elizabeth II of Britain, born 1926.
CONNIE (WHITE) BOSCOE
April 22--Isabella I, patron of Columbus, born 1451.
--Henry Fielding, English novelist, born 1707.German philosopher Immanuel Kant born 1724.
--V. I. Lenin, first dictator of the Soviet Union, born 1870 (April 10 on the Russian calendar then in use).
April 23
--Traditional birth date of William Shakespeare, 1564.
--James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, born in Stony Batter, near Mercersburg, Pa., 1791.
--Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, born 1891.The first public showing of a motion picture, in New York City, 1896.
--Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson born 1897.
April 24
--Library of Congress established, 1800.
--English statesmanSir Stafford Cripps born 1889.
April 25
--William I, Prince of Orange, born 1533.
--Oliver Cromwell, English general, born 1599.
--Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy, born 1874.
--San Francisco Conference to establish the United Nations began, 1945.
April 26
--John James Audubon, American ornithologist and painter, born 1785.
--Alfred Krupp, German industrialist, born 1812.
GREG & KAY (DOWLER) PHILLIPS
April 27
--Historian Edward Gibbon born 1737.
--Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, born 1791.
--Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, 1822.
April 28
--James Monroe, fifth President of the United States, born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1758.
--Maryland ratified the Constitution, 1788.Mutiny on the British ship Bounty, 1789.
April 29
--Lorado Taft, American sculptor, born 1860.
--William Randolph Hearst, publisher, born 1863.
--Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham born 1879.
April 30
--Washington inaugurated as the first President of the United States, 1789.
--Louisiana Territory purchased from France by U.S., 1803 (treaty was signed May 2, but dated April 30).
--Louisiana became the 18th state, 1812.
--Television first publicly broadcast, from the Empire State Building, 1939.
--Vietnam War ended with South Vietnam's surrender to North Vietnam, 1975.
