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On April 7:
1945 - World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go |
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April 7, 1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
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April 8, 1950 - India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact.
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April 8 1935
In November 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, Governor Roosevelt of New York was elected the 32nd president of the United States. In his inaugural address on March 4, 1933, Roosevelt promised Americans that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" and outlined his New Deal-- an expansion of the federal government as an instrument of employment opportunity and welfare. In April 1935, the WPA was established under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, as a means of creating government jobs for some of the nation's many unemployed. Under the direction of Harry L. Hopkins, the WPA employed more than 8.5 million persons on 1.4 million public projects before it was disbanded in 1943. |
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On April 8:
1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos. The statue was discovered by a peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas in 1820 inside a buried niche within the ancient city ruins of Milos on the Aegean island of Milos, also called Melos or Milo. It was found in two main pieces (the upper torso and the lower draped legs) along with several herms (pillars topped with heads), fragments of the upper left arm and left hand holding an apple, and an inscribed plinth. Olivier Voutier, a French naval officer, was exploring the island. With the help of the young farmer, Voutier began to dig around what were clearly ancient ruins. Within a few hours Voutier had uncovered a piece of art that would become renowned throughout the world. |
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April 9, 1867 - Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska. The territory purchased was 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km²) of the modern state of Alaska.
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On April 9:
1865 – Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union troops led by Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War. |
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April 10, 1821 - Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Turks from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
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On April 10:
1815 – Mount Tambora in Indonesia began one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in recorded history, killing at least 71,000 people. |
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April 11 1803
In one of the great surprises in diplomatic history, French Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand makes an offer to sell all of Louisiana Territory to the United States. |
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