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This sample chapter contains a full month's worth of information, covering April 2008, exactly as in the real book.
The Date-A-Base Book 2008
Ann. |
Date |
Event |
400 |
19 Apr 1608 |
Death of Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet |
400 |
25 Apr 1608 |
Birth of Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician |
350 |
29 Apr 1658 |
Death of John Cleveland, English poet |
250 |
12 Apr 1758 |
Death of Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist |
250 |
28 Apr 1758 |
Birth of James Monroe, 5th President of the United States |
200 |
6 Apr 1808 |
The American Fur Company was founded by John Jacob Astor |
200 |
20 Apr 1808 |
Birth of Napoleon III, French Emperor |
175 |
22 Apr 1833 |
Death of Richard Trevithick, British inventor and mining engineer, built the first steam railway locomotive |
150 |
7 Apr 1858 |
Death of Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor and composer |
150 |
15 Apr 1858 |
Birth of Émile Durkheim, French sociologist |
150 |
18 Apr 1858 |
Birth of Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian social reformer, supporter of women's education |
150 |
23 Apr 1858 |
Birth of Max Planck, German physicist who developed quantum theory, Nobel Prize winner |
150 |
28 Apr 1858 |
Death of Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist, anatomist and marine biologist |
125 |
30 Apr 1883 |
Death of Edouard Manet, French artist |
100 |
1 Apr 1908 |
Birth of Abraham Maslow, American psychologist who developed the hierarchy of human needs |
100 |
1 Apr 1908 |
The British Territorial Army was founded |
100 |
4 Apr 1908 |
Birth of Antony Tudor, English-born American dancer, teacher and choreographer |
100 |
5 Apr 1908 |
Birth of Bette Davis, American film actress |
100 |
5 Apr 1908 |
Birth of Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor |
100 |
5 Apr 1908 |
Birth of Jagjivan Ram, long-serving Indian politician |
100 |
7 Apr 1908 |
Herbert Asquith became British Prime Minister |
100 |
9 Apr 1908 |
Birth of Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-born French artist who specialised in geometric abstract art |
100 |
11 Apr 1908 |
Birth of Leo Rosten, Polish-born American author and screenwriter |
100 |
11 Apr 1908 |
Birth of Dan Maskell, British tennis player, coach and commentator |
100 |
16 Apr 1908 |
The Natural Bridges National Monument was established in Utah, USA |
100 |
20 Apr 1908 |
Birth of Lionel Hampton, American musician (Note: this date is given by most sources, but Encyclopaedia Britannica lists it as 12th Apr 1913) |
100 |
22 Apr 1908 |
Death of Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British Prime Minister (1905-08) |
100 |
23 Apr 1908 |
US President Theodore Roosevelt signed an act creating the US Army Reserve |
100 |
25 Apr 1908 |
Birth of Edward R. Murrow, influential American radio and television broadcaster |
100 |
28 Apr 1908 |
Birth of Oskar Schindler, Austrian-Hungarian businessman who saved many Jews during the Holocaust. Subject of the film 'Schindler's List' |
100 |
30 Apr 1908 |
Birth of Eve Arden, American radio and television actress (Note: various years of birth are listed, from 1908 to 1912) |
90 |
1 Apr 1918 |
The Royal Air Force was formed when the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps merged |
90 |
21 Apr 1918 |
World War I: German fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen ('The Red Baron') was shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme, France |
90 |
28 Apr 1918 |
Death of Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian revolutionary who caused World War I by assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife |
75 |
1 Apr 1933 |
Nazi Germany organised a one-day boycott of Jewish-owned businesses. This was the beginning of what would become the Holocaust |
75 |
4 Apr 1933 |
The US Navy's airship 'USS Akron' crashed into the sea off the coast of New Jersey, killing 73 people |
75 |
15 Apr 1933 |
Birth of Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress ('Bewitched') |
75 |
19 Apr 1933 |
Birth of Jayne Mansfield, American film actress |
75 |
19 Apr 1933 |
The United States went off the gold standard |
75 |
26 Apr 1933 |
The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, was established by Hermann Göring |
75 |
29 Apr 1933 |
Death of Constantine Cavafy, Greek poet |
70 |
6 Apr 1938 |
Teflon (also known as PTFE or Polytetrafluoroethylene) was invented by Dr Roy Plunkett at DuPont research laboratories, New Jersey, USA |
60 |
1 Apr 1948 |
The Faroe Islands received autonomy from Denmark and became self-governing |
60 |
3 Apr 1948 |
US President Harry S. Truman signed the 'Marshall Plan', the European recovery programme designed to repel communism and restore the economies of European allied countries after World War II |
60 |
7 Apr 1948 |
The World Health Organization (WHO) was established |
50 |
2 Apr 1958 |
The National Advisory Council on Aeronautics was renamed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
50 |
4 Apr 1958 |
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) held the first Aldermaston March, from Hyde Park Corner, London to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire |
50 |
14 Apr 1958 |
The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 burnt up in the Earth's atmosphere after 162 days in orbit |
50 |
16 Apr 1958 |
Death of Rosalind Franklin, British biophysicist and crystallographer whose work led to the understanding of the structures of DNA, viruses and various forms of carbon |
50 |
30 Apr 1958 |
The musical 'My Fair Lady' opened in London |
40 |
4 Apr 1968 |
Death of Martin Luther King, American black civil rights leader, assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee |
40 |
4 Apr 1968 |
NASA launched Apollo 6 |
40 |
7 Apr 1968 |
Death of Jim Clark, British racing driver |
40 |
18 Apr 1968 |
London Bridge was sold to American entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch, who had it shipped stone by stone to Arizona and re-erected |
40 |
23 Apr 1968 |
Britain's first decimal coins, the 5p and 10p, were issued |
40 |
27 Apr 1968 |
Abortion became legal in Britain when pregnancy endangered the physical or mental health of a woman or child |
30 |
6 Apr 1978 |
US President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that extended the mandatory retirement age for most workers from 65 to 70 |
25 |
4 Apr 1983 |
The space shuttle Challenger was launched for the first time |
25 |
4 Apr 1983 |
Death of Gloria Swanson, American actress |
25 |
14 Apr 1983 |
The first cordless telephone went on sale in Britain. British Telecom's 'Hawk' could be used up to 100 metres from its base station |
25 |
15 Apr 1983 |
Death of Corrie ten Boom, Dutch writer and Holocaust survivor |
25 |
21 Apr 1983 |
One pound coins went into circulation in England and Wales |
25 |
22 Apr 1983 |
Death of Earl 'Fatha' Hines, British jazz pianist |
25 |
22 Apr 1983 |
West German magazine 'Der Stern' reported that it had acquired 60 volumes of Adolf Hitler's diaries (later proven to be fakes) |
25 |
23 Apr 1983 |
Death of Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor |
25 |
25 Apr 1983 |
Soviet leader Yuri Andropov invited 11-year-old American schoolgirl Samantha Smith to visit his country after she sent him a letter expressing her fears about nuclear war |
25 |
30 Apr 1983 |
Death of George Balanchine, Russian choreographer |
25 |
30 Apr 1983 |
Death of Muddy Waters, American blues singer |
20 |
15 Apr 1988 |
Death of Kenneth Williams, British actor and comedian |
15 |
3 Apr 1993 |
Britain's 'Grand National' steeplechase was declared void after several riders completed the full course before realising there had been a false start |
15 |
5 Apr 1993 |
Britain's Child Support Agency (CSA) began operating. Its main task was to collect maintenance payments from absent fathers |
15 |
19 Apr 1993 |
The compound of the Branch Davidian religious cult in Waco, Texas was destroyed by fire after federal agents attacked the buildings with armoured vehicles. There were 82 people inside, including 17 children |
15 |
24 Apr 1993 |
A massive IRA bomb exploded in the Bishopsgate area of the City of London, killing one person, injuring more than 40, and causing £350m worth of damage |
15 |
24 Apr 1993 |
Death of Oliver Tambo, South African ANC politician and anti-apartheid campaigner |
15 |
26 Apr 1993 |
The British Government announced that the recession was over, after figures showed growth in the economy for the first time in two years |
15 |
29 Apr 1993 |
The Queen announced that Buckingham Palace would open to the public for the first time to raise funds to repair Windsor Castle |
15 |
20 Apr 1993 |
Cern, creators of the World Wide Web, announced that it could be used for free by anyone |
15 |
30 Apr 1993 |
World number one women's tennis player Monica Seles was stabbed in the back during a match in Hamburg, Germany |
10 |
1 Apr 1998 |
A federal district judge in Little Rock, Arkansas, dismissed a sexual harassment case against US President Bill Clinton (Paula Jones case) |
10 |
2 Apr 1998 |
Former French cabinet minister Maurice Papon was found guilty of war crimes for his involvement in deporting Jews from France during WWII |
10 |
3 Apr 1998 |
Death of Rob Pilatus, infamous German-American model, dancer and singer ('Milli Vanilli') |
10 |
5 Apr 1998 |
Japan's Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge – the largest suspension bridge in the world – opened to traffic |
10 |
5 Apr 1998 |
Death of Cozy Powell, British rock drummer |
10 |
6 Apr 1998 |
Death of Tammy Wynette, American country singer |
10 |
6 Apr 1998 |
Death of Wendy O. Williams, American punk rock singer ('The Plasmatics') |
10 |
10 Apr 1998 |
The Good Friday Agreement. Politicians in Northern Ireland reached a landmark peace agreement whereby Protestants and Catholics would govern together, ending 26 years of direct rule |
10 |
15 Apr 1998 |
Death of Pol Pot, Cambodian leader of the Khmer Rouge |
10 |
15 Apr 1998 |
Death of Fred Davis, British snooker player |
10 |
17 Apr 1998 |
Death of Linda McCartney, American photographer, musician and animal rights activist |
10 |
18 Apr 1998 |
Death of Terry Sanford, American politician |
10 |
19 Apr 1998 |
Death of Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize winner |
10 |
23 Apr 1998 |
Death of James Earl Ray, convicted killer of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (died in prison) |
10 |
25 Apr 1998 |
Death of Morris Wright, American writer |
10 |
27 Apr 1998 |
Death of Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born American writer |
10 |
30 Apr 1998 |
Death of Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet |
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