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This Day in History

Infoplease - This Day in History

Events from This Day in History from the Editors of Infoplease

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May 4, 1626: Peter Minuit landed in Manhattan, which he later bought for 24 worth of cloth and brass buttons.

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May 3, 1937: Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the Wind.

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May 2, 1885: Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time.

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May 1, 1707: The Act of Union joined England and Scotland to form Great Britain.

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Apr 30, 1803: France sold Louisiana and adjoining lands to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase.

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Apr 29, 1986: Pitcher Roger Clemens set a major league baseball record by striking out 20 batters in a regular nine-inning game. He repeated his feat in 1996.

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Apr 28, 1788: Maryland became the 7th state in the United States.

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Apr 27, 1865: The worst steamship disaster in the history of the United States occurred when there was an explosion aboard the Sultana; more than 1,400 people were killed.

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Apr 26, 1937: The German Luftwaffe (air force) destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica.

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Apr 25, 1901: New York became the first state to require license plates on cars.

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Apr 24, 1800: Library of Congress was established.

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Apr 23, 1954: Hank Aaron hit the first of his 755 home runs.

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Apr 22, 1500: Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered Brazil and claimed it for Portugal.

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Apr 21, 1918: Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious World War I German flying ace known as the "Red Baron," was killed in action today.

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Apr 20, 1841: The first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue was published.

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Apr 19, 1775: The "shot heard around the world" was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Mass., starting the American Revolution.

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Apr 18, 1775: Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington to warn Massachusetts colonists of the arrival of British troops during the American Revolution.

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Apr 17, 1895: The Sino-Japanese War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

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Apr 16, 1917: Lenin returned to Russia after 10 years in exile in Switzerland.

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Apr 15, 1912: Titanic sank off the coast of Newfoundland on its maiden voyage after it struck an iceberg.

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