Histories

April
08 Apr, 1904
1904 France and the United Kingdom sign the Entente cordialeThe treaty, which was initially designed to regulate the countries' colonial interests in Africa, later evolved into the Triple Entente to fight Germany in World War I.
April
09 Apr, 2005
2005 Prince Charles marries Camilla Parker BowlesCharles was formerly married to Diana, Princess of Wales. His second marriage to Camilla made him the first member of the British Royal Family to have a civil wedding.
April
09 Apr, 1967
1967 The first Boeing 737 takes off on its maiden flightThe short-to-medium range plane is the best-selling airplane in history.
April
09 Apr, 1952
1952 The Bolivian National Revolution overthrows Hugo Ballivián's governmentThe nationalist movement initiated radical reforms, including universal suffrage, the nationalization of tin mines, and the inclusion of previously marginalized ethnicities into national life.
April
09 Apr, 1940
1940 Germany invades Denmark and NorwayThe rationale of Operation Weserübung was to secure access to Swedish iron ore. In Norway, a resistance group around Max Manus and Gunnar Sønsteby successfully sabotaged the German war effort.
April
09 Apr, 1860
1860 The world's first recording of the human voice is createdFrench inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville used his phonautograph, the earliest known sound recording device, to capture himself singing the French folk song “Au clair de la lune”.
April
10 Apr, 2010
2010 The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, dies in a plane crashSeveral high-ranking officials, senior members of the Polish clergy, as well as relatives of the Katyn massacre victims were killed. The accident was blamed on pilot error and bad...
April
10 Apr, 2001
2001 Mercy killings become legal in the NetherlandsIn a controversial decision the Dutch senate approved a bill legalizing euthanasia for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.
April
10 Apr, 1998
1998 Negotiators in Northern Ireland reach an historic peace dealThe Good Friday Agreement ended 30 years of violent conflict about Northern Ireland's constitutional status (“The Troubles”).
April
10 Apr, 1970
1970 The Beatles break up as Paul McCartney leaves the bandIn their ten years of existence, the British rock group became one of the most successful bands of all time, selling over a billion albums, according to EMI. McCartney's announcement...
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