April 1: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1789 - In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.
2. 1826 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
3. 1854 - Charles Dickens' Hard Times begins serialisation in his magazine, Household Words.
4. 1924 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch". However, he spends only nine months in jail, during which he writes Mein Kampf.
5. 1945 - World War II: Operation Iceberg - United States troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war.
6. 1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
7. 1960 - The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
8. 1973 - Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India.
9. 1976 - Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne
10. 1979 - Iran becomes an Islamic Republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing theShah.
11. Famous Birthdays: William Harvey (English physician), Bill Traylor (American painter), Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate), Sergei Rachmaninoff (Russian pianist, composer, and conductor), Joseph Murray (American surgeon, Nobel Prize laureate)

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