Also on April 17th in 1892- The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York opened.

On April 18, 1906, a major earthquake struck San Francisco and set off raging fires. More than 3,000 people died.

Also on April 18, 1676, Sudbury, Massachusetts, was attacked by Indians...

On April 19, 1939, Connecticut approved the Bill of Rights for the U.S. Constitution after 148 years...

Also on April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring 500.

April 19, 1775 marks the beginning of the revolutionary war.

On April 20, 1912, Fenway Park opened as the home of the Boston Red Sox...

Also on April 20th 1972 The manned lunar module from Apollo 16 landed on the moon.

On April 21, 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Conn.

Also on April 21, 1918, German fighter ace Baron von Richthofen, "The Red Baron," was shot down and killed during World War I...

On April 22nd 1864 Congress authorized the use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins.

Also on April 22, 1914, Babe Ruth made his pitching debut with the Baltimore Orioles...

Also on April 22, in 1954, Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson Motorcar Company merged to form American Motors Corporation.

On April 23, 1924, the U.S. Senate passed the Soldiers Bonus Bill...

Also on April 23rd in 1971- The Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" was released.

On April 24, 1805, the U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli...

Also on April 24, 1898, Spain declared war on the United States after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.

On April 25th, 1945- U.S. and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, in central Europe, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany.

Also 0n April 25, 1792, the guillotine was first used to execute highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier...

On April 26, 1906, in Hawaii, motion pictures were shown for the first time...

Also on April 26th in 1606- An expedition of English colonists went ashore at Cape Henry, Va., to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere. (They later settled at Jamestown.)

O April 27th in 1521- Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines.

Also on April 27, 1861, U.S. President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus...

On April 28, 1947, a six-man expedition sailed from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia.

"Well his name was Captain Adam Troy
And he sailed the "Kon-Tiki"
Now the captain's gone but he won't be forgotten
Nor his likes will we ever see"

Jimmy Buffett

Also 0n April 28, 1789, a mutiny on the British ship Bounty took place when a rebel crew took the ship and set sail to Pitcairn Island. The mutineers left Captain W. Bligh and 18 sailors adrift...

On April 29, 1913, Gideon Sundback patented an all-purpose zipper...

Also on April 29, 1992, deadly rioting that claimed 54 lives and caused $1 billion in damage erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.

On April 30, 1975, the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces.

Also on April 30, 1900, Casey Jones was killed while trying to save the runaway train "Cannonball Express..."

On May 1, 1889, Asa Candler published a full-page advertisement in The Atlanta Journal, proclaiming his wholesale and retail drug business as "sole proprietors of Coca-Cola ... Delicious. Refreshing. Exhilarating. Invigorating." Mr. Candler did not actually achieve sole ownership until 1891 at a cost of $2,300...

On May 2, 1776, France and Spain agreed to donate arms to American rebels fighting the British...

Also on May 2, 1945, the Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.

may 2nd 1930

President Hoover in a speech said that the stock market crash of last year was just a temporary setback and would soon pass and that the economy would soon bounce back ( this was 6 months after the stock market crash and the great depression of the 1930's would continue and worsen over the next 5 years )

On May 3, 1971, anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe began four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the nation's capital.

Also on May 3, 1916, Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising...

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On May 4, 1970, Jeffrey Glen Miller, Allison Krause, William Knox Schroeder, and Sandra Lee Scheuer died...

On May 5, 1862, the Battle of Puebla took place. It is celebrated as Cinco de Mayo Day...

Which oddly means nothing down here south of the border.

Also on May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

On May 6, 1840, the first adhesive postage stamps went on sale in Great Britain...

Also on May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 of the 97 people on board.