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April is also National Humor Month
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April 1 April Fools Day. Send a friend a card
April 2 Daylight Savings time begins. Set your clock ahead 1 hour. Find out the hows and whys of Daylight Savings Time
April 3 The Pony Express was established in 1860 and would deliver a 1 ounce letter from Missouri to California for $5.
April 4 Tell a lie day (but don't get caught!!)
April 5 Booker T Washington was born this day, 1915, in Franklin County Virginia
April 6 Sorry Charlie Day - Sorry Charlie Day honors those who have been rejected and lived through it.
April 9 US Civil War ended (Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox; 1865)
April 10 Publisher Joesph Pulitzer was born in 1847 and established a fund for the Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for excellence in journalism.
April 12 The first space shuttle, Columbia, lifted off the ground for a 54 hour flight. (1981)
April 14 President Abraham Lincoln was killed while watching a performance of Our Americian Cousin in the Ford Theater in 1865
April 16 National Stress Awareness Day and National Eggs Benedict Day
April 18 The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 caused mass destruction and the loss of over 4000 lives
April 19 Oldest continuously peaceful alliance made by US (with Netherlands; 1782)
April 21 The Red Baron was shot down and killed during the Battle of the Somme after being credited with 80 kills in less than 2 years.
April 22 "In God we Trust" was added to all minted coins in 1864
April 22 The Oklahoma land rush began at noon in 1889, as thousands of settlers rushed to a claim part of 2 million acres.
April 23 Happy Easter. Things to do on Easter
April 24 The Library of Congress was established in 1800
April 25 Hubble Telescope sent into orbit (1990)
April 26 In Russia, the nuclear power plant, Chernobyl, exploded resulting in a meltdown of the plant and evactuation of a 300 square mile radius.
April 27 Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the electromagnetic telegraph, was born in 1791. Translate letters into morse code with this program.
April 28 James Monroe, the 5th U.S. President was born in Westmoreland Country, Virginia
April 30 George Washington became the first President of the United States on the balcony of Federal Hall, in New York City.