This Week in History

April 9

Donovan Richards was born.

Joyce Somerville was born.

Kieran O’Sullivan was born.

1963 – Winston Churchill became the first honorary U.S. citizen.

2003 – American Marines pulled down Saddam Hussein’s statue in Baghdad after  his rule ended.

2005 – Britain’s Prince Charles marries Camilla Parker Bowles.

April 10

Sandra Schunck was born.

Patrick O’Toole was born.

1912 – Titanic set sail on its fateful voyage.

1970 – Paul McCartney announced the official split of the Beatles.

April 11

Kelly Werner was born.

Tom Burke was born.

1814 – Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba.

1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1968 Civil Rights Act.

April 12

Edwin Williams was born.

1955 – The polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was called “safe, effective, and potent.”

2017 – Jim Cunningham appeared in The Word Search.

April 13

Pesach Osina was born.

Kate Rizzo was born.

1970 – Apollo 13 announced, “Houston, we have a problem,” when an oxygen tank burst on the way to the Moon.

1997 – Tiger Woods became the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament and the first of African descent to win a major golf title.

April 14

Peter Galvin was born.

Linda Humphrey was born.

1828 – Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary.

1865 – Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

April 15

Michael William Coughlin was born.

Phil Goldfeder was born.

Kelly Kalisak was born.

Catherine Murphy was born.

Kathy Marquardt was born.

1912 – Titanic sank off the coast of Newfoundland after it struck an iceberg.

1947 – Jackie Robinson made his Brooklyn Dodger debut and scored the game-winning run.