This Week In #History ... April 25th - May 1st
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Apr 25
1684 Patent granted for thimble
1792 Guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier
1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal
1901 New York becomes 1st state requiring auto license plates ($1 fee)
1928 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind
1945 U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River
1954 Bell labs announces 1st solar battery
1957 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
1961 Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
1971 About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington
1979 Peace treaty between Israel and Egypt goes into effect
1985 West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust
1993 Russia elect Boris Yeltsin leader
2010 At least 80 schoolgirls attending different Kunduz schools are poisoned this week; an inquiry is launched and the Taliban, opposed to female education, deny any involvement
Apr 26
1514 Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va
1721 Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated
1887 Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity
1928 Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition opens in London
1941 A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium for the Chicago Cubs
1954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
1967 San Marco 2 Launch (1st Equatorial Launch)
1975 Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal
1986 Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl U.S.S.R. explodes, 31 die
1991 Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics
2010 Timothy Torlot, British ambassador to Yemen, survives an attempted suicide bombing
Apr 27
1565 1st Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms
1662 Netherlands and France sign military covenant
1805 U.S. Marines attack shores of Tripoli
1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from U.S.
1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song and legend) dedicated
1910 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights
1923 Mussolini government italian place in South Tirol/Alto Adige
1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1945 Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner
1960 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched, the Tullibee
1972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth
1982 Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. attempted assassin of Reagan, begins
1994 President Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California
2010 The U.S. Senate investigates Goldman Sachs, finding that they made billions of dollars at the expense of clients during the housing market collapse
Apr 28
1770 Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1855 1st veterinary college in U.S. incorporated in Boston
1914 W. H. Carrier patents air conditioner
1932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
1937 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am
1952 WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect
1964 Japan joins OECO
1983 NASA launches Geos-F
1989 Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days]
2001 Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist by paying $20 million to fly on a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station.
Apr 29
1553 Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England
1781 French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope
1813 Rubber is patented
1886 1st public Dutch electricity opens
1901 Anti semitic riot in Budapest
1913 Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper
1930 Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service
1945 U.S. liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany
1965 Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe
1977 British Aerospace forms
1985 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
1991 Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die/10 million homeless
2010 Economic losses mount and class action lawsuits are filed as the U.S. Coast Guard plans a controlled burn to remove spilled oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster
Apr 30
1598 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
1772 John Clais patents 1st scale
1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of the United States
1808 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
1889 1st U.S. national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut
1921 American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron
1935 World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul
1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, WI
1952 Mr. Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television
1955 Element 101, Mendelevium, announced
1974 President Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
1980 Beatrix [Wilhelmina Armgard}, crowned queen of Netherlands
1990 U.S. 66th manned space mission STS-31 (Discovery 10) returns from space
2010 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill reaches the Louisiana Coast; weather is projected to impede cleanup efforts
May 1
1751 1st American cricket match is played
1840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
1844 Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
1889 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International
1909 Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
1935 Canada's 1st silver dollar is circulated
1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight
1947 Radar for commercial and private planes 1st demonstrated
1957 Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
1967 Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu wed
1978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
1991 Angola's civil war ends
2010 A car bomb is discovered and deactivated in New York City's Times Square