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April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) ... 1947 – The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins. [26] 1948 – Cold War: ...
Action of 23 April 1945: In one of the rare actions of the Pacific War to involve a German submarine, U-183 was sunk off the southern coast of Borneo by American submarine Besugo. Antiship Bat missiles were used for the first time in combat when Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateers of the U.S. Navy launched two of them at Japanese vessels in ...
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The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), [2] also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was fighting the First World War.
April 1 – Frank Capone, gangster, shot by police (born 1895) April 7 – Marcus A. Smith, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1912 to 1921 (born 1851) April 17 – Jane Kelley Adams, educator (born 1852) April 19 – Paul Boyton, extreme water sports pioneer (born 1848 in Ireland) April 14 – Louis Sullivan, architect, "father of skyscrapers ...
The origin of April Fools’ Day is debated, but its history covers centuries of April Fools’ pranks, from family high jinks (like pranks to play on your parents or your kids) to office pranks ...
April 2 – Albert Pike, Confederate military officer, attorney, writer and Freemason (born 1809) April 7 – P. T. Barnum, showman, businessman, and politician (b. 1810) April 14 – Annie Nowlin Savery, suffragist (born 1831 in the United Kingdom) June 9 – Henry Edwards, entomologist and actor (born 1827 in the United Kingdom)