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by Steve April 191775 - 'Shot Heard Round the World' American Revolution begins In Lexington, MA [microbadge=15177]1836 - American music patron Augustus Juilliard [microbadge=101]...
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by Steve April 261933 - American entertainer Carol Burnett [microbadge=27611]1986 - Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster [microbadge=37998]???? - kronikApril 271759 - English author a...
30-Scholars estimate for the crucifixion of Jesus by Roman troops in Jerusalem (or April 3) 529-First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis or the Justinian Code (a fundamental work in jur...
by Steve April 121947 - American comedian/Late Night host David Letterman [microbadge=28434]1947 - American author Tom Clancy [microbadge=6726] 1961 - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagar...
by Steve May 171749 - English physician Edward Jenner (smallpox vaccine) [microbadge=13996]1936 - American actor Dennis Hopper [microbadge=34613]1955 - American actor Bill Paxton...
1864-Battle of Gate PДЃ (Pukehinahina): 1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched MДЃori warriors in Tauranga 1872-Jesse...
This week in Clark County history for April 24, 2026
1492-Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spanish monarchs King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I to find the "Indies" with the stated goal of converting people to...
50 years ago today, the April 5th Incident (known as the Tiananmen Square protest) helped pave the way for the end of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, and with it, Maoist communis...
This week, the U.S. announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth hailed the success of Operation Epic Fury in dismantling one of the world's largest m...
"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.
1250-The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, and Louis IX of France is captured 1598-Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots 1860-First Pony Express rider rea...
1536-Anne Boleyn, second wife of English King Henry VIII, is beheaded at the Tower of London on charges of adultery, incest and treason 1643-Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticu...
1792-Mount Unzen on Japan's Shimabara Peninsula erupts, creating a tsunami and killing about 15,000 people in the country's deadliest volcanic eruption 1832-First U.S. Democratic N...
46 B.C.- Battle of Thapsus: Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) near Thapsus in modern-day Tunisia 1453-Turkish forces under...
1252-Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull Ad Extirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition 1618-German astronomer Johannes Kepl...
311-Roman Emperor Galerius issues the Edict of Toleration, ending the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire 711 Islamic conquest of Iberia: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn...
by sdonohue The cut list: May 10-16May 101869 - Central Pacific and Union Pacific meet at Promontory (AKA The Golden Spike) [microbadge=36020]1886 - Swiss theologian Karl Barth...
by sdonohue Cuts for the week of April 19 - 25April 191721 - Statesman Roger Sherman, a signer of the U.S. Constitution [microbadge=15968]1903 - 'Untouchables' leader Eliot Ness [...
A highly abridged monthly version of Dust & Stars.
by sdonohue Cuts for May 17 - 23May 171792 - Foundation of the New York Stock Exchange [microbadge=8062]1860 - Schuyler Wheeler, American inventor of the electric fan [microbadge=...
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