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The history of the United States from 1917 to 1945 was marked by World War I, the interwar period, the Great Depression, and World War II. The United States tried and failed to broker a peace settlement for World War I , then entered the war after Germany launched a submarine campaign against U.S. merchant ships that were supplying Germany's ...
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 ...
April – Dick Grayson (AKA as Robin, the Boy Wonder) first appears with Batman. April 1 (April Fools' Day) – Census date for the 16th U.S. Census. April 3 – Isle Royale National Park is established in Michigan. April 7 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
The Executive Committee and the full Soviet endorsed Nikolai Sukhanov's "An Appeal to All the Peoples of the World", which renounced war and "acquisitionist ambitions." This appeal conflicted with the Provisional Government's position on annexations, and Foreign Minister Pavel Milyukov responded with the Milyukov note on 18 April declaring ...
On April Fools’ Day in 1698, so many saps were tricked into schlepping to the Tower of London to watch the “washing of the lions” (a ceremony that didn’t exist) that the April 2 edition of ...
The funeral of the former Kaiserin of the German Empire, Augusta Victoria, was carried out in Potsdam with full state honors afforded to her by the republic, proclaimed after Kaiser Wilhelm II had been deposed in 1918. Of the 300,000 people in attendance, an estimated 25,000 were monarchists who wanted to return to rule by a Kaiser.
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