Histories

April
14 Apr, 1865
1865 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shotThe assassin, John Wilkes Booth, wanted to revive the Confederate cause, mere days after their surrender to the Union Army, bringing the American Civil War to an end. Lincoln died the next day.
April
15 Apr, 1994
1994 The World Trade Organization is foundedThe WTO coordinates and strives to liberalize international trade. It has been criticized for ignoring and escalating the negative social and environmental side-effects of globalization.
April
15 Apr, 1989
1989 A small group of students initiates pro-democracy protest on Tiananmen Square in BeijingThe death of reformer Hu Yaobang triggered the demonstrations, which grew in size and were brutally dispersed in the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4.
April
15 Apr, 1986
1986 The United States launches retaliatory air strikes against LibyaAround 40 Libyans died in Operation El Dorado Canyon, including an infant girl. The attack was the United States' response to the bombing of a Berlin discotheque on April 5, in...
April
15 Apr, 1945
1945 The German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen is liberatedBritish and Canadian troops found about 53,000 prisoners inside the camp. Tens of thousands died before and after the liberation.
April
15 Apr, 1935
1935 The Eastman Kodak Company launches KodachromeThe photographic film was one of the most popular media used by professional and hobby photographers around the world. The product was discontinued in 2009 because of the advent of digital photography.
April
16 Apr, 2012
2012 The trial of Anders Behring Breivik begins in OsloThe right-wing extremist had killed 77 people, mostly teenagers, in Oslo with a car bomb and at a youth camp on Utøya island. After doubts about his mental health emerged before...
April
16 Apr, 2003
2003 Ten new member states are admitted to the European UnionThe Treaty of Accession admitted countries including Poland, Cyprus, and the Czech Republic to the EU. Its original title contains 99 words.
April
16 Apr, 1964
1964 The Rolling Stones release their debut albumThe album The Rolling Stones, released in the United States with the added title “England's Newest Hit Makers”, topped the UK charts for twelve weeks.
April
16 Apr, 1917
1917 Vladimir Lenin returns to Russia from exileThe communist revolutionary became leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR) later that year. From 1922, he was the first Premier of the Soviet Union.
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