Histories

April
18 Apr, 1506
1506 Construction of the current St. Peter's Basilica beginsSt. Peter's in Vatican City is one of the world's most important Catholic sites.
April
19 Apr, 1995
1995 168 die in the Oklahoma City bombingTimothy McVeigh, the mastermind behind the attack, was executed on June 11, 2001. The motives for the bombing, which also killed 19 babies and children, remain somewhat unclear.
April
19 Apr, 1987
1987 The first installment of The Simpsons is airedThe hugely popular animated sitcom debuted on the Tracey Ullman Show in the form of one-minute shorts.
April
19 Apr, 1971
1971 The Soviet Union launches the world's first manned space stationSalyut 1 was 23 meters long and offered 100 cubic meters of pressurized space.
April
19 Apr, 1919
1919 Leslie Irvin makes the world's first free-fall parachute jumpThe jump was executed to test a new kind of parachute, which was also the first featuring a ripcord. The Hollywood stuntman broke a leg on landing.
April
19 Apr, 1775
1775 The American Revolutionary War beginsThe Battles of Lexington and Concord marked the beginning of the armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and 13 colonies of British North America. The war resulted in U.S. independence.
April
20 Apr, 2010
2010 The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodesThe explosion of the British Petroleum (BP) platform operated by Transocean killed 11 workers and led to the largest accidental marine oil spill in history.
April
20 Apr, 1999
1999 15 die in the Columbine High School massacreA further 24 victims were injured when two teenagers opened fire on students and teachers in the high school south of Denver.
April
20 Apr, 1978
1978 Soviet air defense shoots down Korean Air Lines Flight 902The Boeing 707's crew had miscalculated their route, taking them into Soviet airspace at the height of the Cold War. The jet made an emergency landing on a frozen lake....
April
20 Apr, 1951
1951 A human organ is surgically replaced for the first timeRomanian surgeon Dan Gavriliu used a section of the stomach to bypass the esophagus.
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