Histories

April
02 Apr, 1792
1792 The U.S. dollar is introducedThe Mint Act of 1792 established the Dollar as U.S. currency. About two-thirds of global trade today is based on the U.S. Dollar.
April
03 Apr, 1996
1996 The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, is arrestedThe mathematician who was driven by anarchist ideas sent out 16 letter bombs between 1978 and 1995, killing 3 people and injuring 23.
April
03 Apr, 1973
1973 The first public mobile telephone call is placed on a Manhattan sidewalkMotorola's Martin Cooper called Joel Engel of Bell Labs. He later told the BBC that his first words were “Joel, I'm calling you from a 'real' cellular telephone....
April
03 Apr, 1948
1948 Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan$12.4 billion was allocated to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II and prevent communists from seizing control.
April
03 Apr, 1940
1940 Soviet troops massacre about 22,000 Polish nationalsThe Katyn massacre is considered the worst massacre of prisoners of war in history. The order to execute all captive members of the Polish Officer Corps was signed by Joseph Stalin.
April
03 Apr, 1885
1885 Gottlieb Daimler patents his engine designThe German engineer's so-called “grandfather clock engine” was lighter than previous four-stroke engines and is considered a milestone for the invention of the automobile.
April
04 Apr, 1979
1979 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is executedThe former President of Pakistan had been deposed by a coup d'etat. He was hanged despite international calls to stop the execution.
April
04 Apr, 1975
1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen establish MicrosoftMicrosoft has developed into a multinational corporation, and it is the world's largest software maker by revenue.
April
04 Apr, 1969
1969 Denton Cooley implants the first artificial heartThe machine kept patient Haskell Karp alive for 65 hours, until he received a human heart transplant. His body rejected the transplant and he died on April 8, 1969.
April
04 Apr, 1968
1968 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinatedThe civil rights activist was killed by James Earl Ray. Ray, a segregationist, received a 99-year prison sentence. He died in jail in 1998.
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