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1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States. 1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio. 1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax. 1945 - World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. 1951 - Korean War: President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command ...
1996 – While attempting to set a record as the youngest person to pilot an airplane across the United States, the aircraft flown by seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff crashed in Cheyenne, Wyoming, killing her and two others. 2002 – In a coup attempt, members of the Venezuelan military detained President Hugo Chávez and demanded his resignation.
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1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States. 1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio. 1921 - Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a cigarette tax. 1945 - World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. 1951 - Korean War: President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command ...
2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released. 2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia. 2002 – Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the presidential palace to demand the resignation of President Hugo ...
April 11 – David Manker Abshire, United States Army officer (d. 2014) April 12 – Jane Withers, American actress (d. 2021) April 15 – Walter Dee Huddleston, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1973 to 1985 (d. 2018) April 21 – Wayne E. Meyer, American rear-admiral (d. 2009) April 22 – Charlotte Rae, American actress, singer (d. 2018)
Margaret Lea Houston (April 11, 1819 – December 3, 1867) was First Lady of the Republic of Texas, First Lady of the state of Texas, and a founding member of Concord Baptist Church in Grand Cane. She was a poet and an accomplished musician.
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