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This Month in History: April
Connecting Historical Events with Related Digital Content
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1917 Wilson asks
Congress to declare
war on Germany.
1973 Pablo Picasso dies at
home in Mougins, France
at 91 years of age.
1948 Truman signs
Marshall Plan
giving $5 billion to 16
European countries.
1939 Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. assassinated at
39 years of age.
1951 Julius and Ethel
1862 The Battle of Shiloh
Rosenburg sentenced to
begins.
death for committing
espionage for Soviet Union.
1865 Lee surrenders his
army to Union Gen.Grant
at Appomattox Court
House in Virginia.
1947, Dodgers purchase
the contract of Jackie
Robinson from the Royals.
1951 Truman relieves
MacArthur of duties in
Korea.
1633 Galileo convicted of
heresy.
1743 Thomas Jefferson is
born.
1889 Charlie Chaplin is
born.
1790 Ben Franklin dies.
1942 Doolittle leads raid
on Toyko.
1897 First Boston
Marathon.
1999 Columbine
massacre.
1922 Forensic evidence is
introduced in Australia.
1859 Ground broke for
Suez Canal.
1564 William Shakespeare
is born.
1954 Polio vaccine trials
begin.
1947 "Babe Ruth Day"
held at Yankee Stadium to
honor ailing baseball star.
1975, the South Vietnamese
capital of Saigon fell to
Communist forces.
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