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1. 26th April 1865: John Wilkes Booth, who had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, shot after refusing to surrender

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2. 25th April 1859: Construction begins on the Suez Canal at the northern Egyptian port town of Port Said

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3. 24th April 1932: Mass trespass of Kinder Scout in the Peak District protests against limited access to open countryside

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4. 23rd April 1516: The Reinheitsgebot beer purity law first introduced in Bavaria

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5. 22nd April 1915: Poison gas used effectively in the First World War at the Second Battle of Ypres

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6. 21st April 1526: First Battle of Panipat marks the beginning of Mughal rule in India and the end of the Lodi dynasty

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7. 20th April 1965: Houston Astrodome’s skylight windows painted to reduce glare from the sun

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8. 19th April 1775: The Battles of Lexington and Concord mark the beginning of the American Revolutionary War

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9. 18th April 1942: The Doolittle Raid marks the first American air operation to strike the Japanese mainland

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10. 17th April 1961: The Bay of Pigs invasion launched by Brigade 2506

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11. 16th April 1746: The Battle of Culloden takes place near Inverness, Scotland, ending the Jacobite Rising of 1745

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12. 15th April 1861: President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to suppress the growing insurrection in the southern states

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13. 14th April 70 CE: Titus begins the Siege of Jerusalem

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14. 13th April 1953: Project MK-Ultra human experimentation program granted approval by Allen Dulles, Director of the CIA

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15. 12th April 1917: The Canadian Corps successfully capture Vimy Ridge

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16. 11th April 1951: U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his commands in Korean and Japan

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17. 10th April 1971: US table tennis team ushers in ping pong diplomacy

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18. 9th April 1860: First known audio recording made by French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on his phonautograph

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19. 8th April 1904: Times Square in New York given its name

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20. 7th April 1739: Legendary British highwayman Dick Turpin executed in York after being convicted of horse theft

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