April 15 to 19 historical events recap
Timeline items note 1944 Soviet Japan five year non aggression pact signing. 1964 Sidney Poitier becomes first African American Oscar Best Actor winner for Lilies of the Field. 1970 Apollo 13 oxygen tank explosion cripples craft bound for the Moon. 2005 Eric Rudolph pleads guilty to four bombings including the 1996 Atlanta Games.
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Soviet Union
Japan
Sidney Poitier
Eric Rudolph
Atlanta
Major historical events on April 14 across years
Entries mark Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theatre in 1865, Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath published in 1939, U S air strikes on Libya in 1986, and the 2003 completion of the Human Genome Project by the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium.
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John Steinbeck
Viking Press
United States
Libya
West Berlin
U.S
International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium
Notable events scattered across April dates in history
A timeline of events from 1775 Paul Revere warning to 2005 Cardinal Ratzinger elected pope Benedict XVI. Highlights include the 1947 Grandcamp Texas City disaster with 500 plus dead, 1964 Ford Mustang debut, 1963 MLK Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1970 Apollo 13 splashdown, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and 2007 Virginia Tech shooting.
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Vladimir Lenin
Russia
Albert Hoffman
Texas City
Texas
Martin Luther King Jr
Birmingham City
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg
Virginia
Cuba
Bay of Pigs
Flushing Meadows
N.Y
Pacific Ocean
Paul Revere
San Francisco
James Doolittle
U.S
Tokyo
Lexington and Concord
Mass
Warsaw Ghetto
Poland
Branch Davidian
Waco
Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Oklahoma City
Joseph Ratzinger
Benedict XVI
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John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Ford’s Theatre
Washington, D.C
The
Fidel Castro
Pope Benedict XVI
Beirut
Lebanon
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