Histories

April
28 Apr, 1947
1947 Thor Heyerdahl begins his legendary journey on Kon-TikiThe Norwegian explorer and his crew set out on the 101-day journey on the self-built raft to prove that South Americans could have reached and settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
April
29 Apr, 1997
1997 The Chemical Weapons Convention becomes effectiveThe arms control treaty prohibits the production, storage, and use of chemical weapons. It has so far been ratified by some 190 countries.
April
29 Apr, 1992
1992 Deadly riots erupt in Los Angeles53 people died in the riots, which started after the acquittal of the 4 Los Angeles police officers accused of the brutal beating of Rodney King.
April
29 Apr, 1975
1975 Hubert van Es takes the famous picture of a helicopter airlift from a Saigon rooftopThe image shows South Vietnamese civilians employed by the U.S. trying to escape Saigon on the day before the city's fall. It came to symbolize...
April
29 Apr, 1968
1968 The musical Hair goes to BroadwayAs a portrait of the 1960s hippie counterculture and sexual revolution, it was highly controversial at the time. Some of the musical's songs became anthems of the peace movement during the Vietnam War.
April
29 Apr, 1945
1945 A day before committing suicide, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun marryOn the same day, U.S. troops liberated the Dachau concentration camp near Munich.
April
30 Apr, 1993
1993 CERN announces that World Wide Web protocols will remain freeBy offering the software required to operate a web server with an open license, the European organization ensured its dissemination, and the WWW flourished.
April
30 Apr, 1993
1993 Tennis ace Monica Seles is stabbed by an obsessed fanAlthough the stab wound proved to be relatively harmless, the psychological ramifications meant that Seles did not play any tournaments for over two years.
April
30 Apr, 1975
1975 The fall of Saigon marks the end of the Vietnam WarAs Communist forces gained control of Saigon, South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh, who had only been in office for 2 days, surrendered unconditionally.
April
30 Apr, 1916
1916 Germany and its World War I allies become the first countries to use daylight saving time (DST)The rationale was to save energy to aid the war effort. Other European countries, such as the United Kingdom, first introduced DST later...
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