What Happened On Apr 4 Events

Toussaint L'Ouverture was born into slavery in the Plaine du Nord of what was then Saint-Domingue. He was born on the Bréda plantation of Bayon de Libertat, near Cap Français. Tradition s...

With this simple question, Carrie S. Burnham began her argument, made before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on April 3 and April 4, 1873, for her right to vote. "It is not simply," Bu...

1905 Kangra earthquake was a major earthquake that occurred in the Kangra Valley and the Kangra region of Himachal Pradesh in India on 4 April 1905. The earthquake measured 7.8 on the sur...

The Star Boarder is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin. Charlie is the favorite of his landlady, and the other boarders are jealous.

Mr. President, while I am most emphatically and sincerely opposed to taking any step that will force our country into the useless and senseless war now being waged in Europe, yet if this ...

The 1920 Palestine riots, or Nabi Musa riots, were violent Arab pogroms against the Jews in Jerusalem. They took place under British rule through April 4-7, 1920 in and around the Old Cit...

The 1921 Stanley Cup Final was contested by the National Hockey League (NHL) champion Ottawa Senators and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) champion Vancouver Millionaires. The ...

Marguerite Johnson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4 1928. Her father, Bailey Johnson, was a doorman and navy dietitian and her mother Vivian (Baxter) Johnson, was a real estate...

Hitting the "shot heard 'round the world," Gene Sarazen holed a double eagle (235 yards,4 wood) at the par 5, No. 15 to tie Craig Wood and force the Tournament's only 36-hole playoff. Sar...

Playing in only his second Masters, Jimmy Demaret overcame an opening round 64 by Lloyd Mangrum to win the Tournament. Demaret's four-stroke victory was a then record for margin of victor...

". . .the most interesting--although horrible--sight that I encountered during the trip was a visit to a German internment camp near Gotha. The things I saw beggar description. While I was..." —Dwight D. Eisenhower

Playing the first post-war Masters, Herman Keiser and Ben Hogan both three-putted the 72nd hole to allow Keiser to win by one stroke.

The death toll in the St. Anthony's hospital fire, which investigators believed may have been fed by fresh paint and varnish, was set at 66 today by the Catholic Chancery office. The k...

The Treaty of Brussels, signed on 17 March 1948 by Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and the United Kingdom is considered the precursor to the NATO agreement. The treaty and th...

In 1862, Union forces drive the Confederate Army of the Southwest into Texas, a development that renders the Santa Fe Trail a supply line to the Union's "bleeding troops." Hindering the d...

Doug Ford first played The Masters in 1952, and he last played it in 2001. That's 49 times playing The Masters, which was the record for most appearances until Arnold Palmer hit 50 in 200...

The 32nd Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1959 on 4 April 1960. MGM's (producer Sam Zimbalist) and director William Wyler's three and a half-hour long epic drama Ben-Hur (wi...

Jack Nicklaus donned his first Green Jacket defeating Tony Lema by one stroke, and Julius Boros and Sam Snead by two. Nicklaus' two-under total was aided by a 66 Friday.

Morgan! (original UK title: Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment) is a 1966 comedy film made by the British Lion Films Corporation. It was directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Leon Cl...

The Washington, D.C. riots of April 4–8, 1968 erupted with the April 4, 1968 assassination of Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil unrest affected at least 110 U.S. ...

Apollo 6, launched on April 4, 1968, was the Apollo program's second and last unmanned test flight of its Saturn V launch vehicle. While the vehicle experienced a number of significant ma...

In March 1968, Reverend King went to Memphis, Tennessee in support of striking African American sanitation workers. The workers had staged a walkout on February 11, 1967, to protest unequ...

A speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. was given by New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy on April 4, 1968. Kennedy was campaigning for the 1968 Democratic presidential nom...

The Battle of Loc Ninh was a major battle fought during the North Vietnamese Easter Offensive and lasted from 4–7 April 1972. Loc Ninh was a small district town in Binh Long Province, app...

While at Harvard, he met his future business partner, Steve Ballmer, whom he later appointed as CEO of Microsoft. He also met computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou at Harvard, with wh...

All the President's Men is a 1976 film based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for ...

The 1983 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 52 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball....

The 1988 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball....

Down by Law is the eponymous debut album of the band Down by Law. Dave Smalley wrote words and music for all tracks except "The Truth" (words and music by Dave Nazworthy), "Surf Punk" (mu...

"The Apartment" is the tenth episode of Seinfeld. The episode was the fifth episode for the show's second season. It aired on April 4, 1991. Plot Summary: Elaine is depressed about th...

WrestleMania IX was the ninth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation. The event took place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas...

The 1994 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball....

Civilization Phaze III is a double album by Frank Zappa. It was the last album he completed before his death in 1993, and was released posthumously in April 1995 by The Zappa Family Trust...

A man learns he was born with special powers and becomes the superhero Puma Man. He fights the villainous Dr. Kobras (Donald Pleasence), who uses an ancient mind-control mask in his attem...

Bridget Jones's Diary is a 2001 British romantic comedy film, based on the novel of the same name written by Helen Fielding. The adaptation starred Renée Zellweger as Bridget, Hugh Grant ...

On April 4, 2001, the "Yatta!" single was released under the Pony Canyon label in Japan, it surprisingly hit #6 in the charts and went triple-platinum in Japan within a number of weeks. W...

Vodou is henceforth to be fully recognised as a religion, empowered to fulfil its mission throughout the country consistent with the constitution and the laws of the Republic, pending the...

BALTIMORE -- Blame it on the cold? It would be easy enough since the game-time temperature at Camden Yards last night was 43 degrees, matching the coldest opener for the Orioles since 198...

As part of the occupation of Iraq, the First Battle of Fallujah, codenamed Operation Vigilant Resolve, was an unsuccessful attempt by the United States Military to capture the city of Fal...

DisneyMania 4 is the fourth in the DisneyMania series. This is the album debut of many current stars on Disney Channel, like Miley Cyrus from Hannah Montana. This is the second Disneymani...

Operation: Mindcrime II is the ninth studio album by American progressive metal band Queensrÿche. It is a concept album and the sequel to the group's 1988 release, Operation: Mindcrime. T...

Me and My Gang is the fourth studio album from the American country music group Rascal Flatts. It was released on April 4, 2006. The album sold more than 721,000 units and went double pla...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Not much life in this one. Red Sox starter Tim Wakefield fell behind, 4-0, before recording an out, new catcher Josh Bard forgot how many outs there were in the first ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- There might be icicles hanging from the gyroball this afternoon, but the change in atmospheric conditions here meant more to the Red Sox than just a precipitous drop i...

MINNEAPOLIS -- The ugliness was not confined to Jaret Wright's 2 1/3 innings, a brutal outing in which he recorded just two more outs than walks and put the Orioles into too big of a hole...

Orioles manager Dave Trembley was going to start backup catcher Guillermo Quiroz tonight with left-hander Adam Loewen on the mound, but those plans might have changed. Ramon Hernandez ...

On April 4, 2008, it was reported by People that Knowles and Jay-Z had been married at a private ceremony in New York City. It became a matter of public record on April 22, 2008, but Know...

TORONTO - Manny Delcarmen figured the score in this personal duel was 3-1. Having gotten the better of Frank Thomas last season, and having been victimized by the slugger last night, D...

The Bruins clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference by beating the Rangers, who are a possible first-round opponent. Which means another possible showdown with Sean Avery, who s...