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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 30th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 30, 1517, oddly enough the day before May Day, riots in London, England broke out known as Evil May Day (alternatively, Ill May Day). On April 30, 1961, the Soviet Union was proud to commission their ill-fated nuclear powered submarine, the K-19. On April 30, 1961, the Soviet Navy commissioned their first nuclear armed submarine, the K-19, later made famous…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 29th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 29, 1429, Joan of Arc, The Maid of Orleans, arrived at Orleans wearing the armor of a knight to lead the battle to lift the Siege of Orleans. On April 29, 1483, the Kingdom of Castile captured the main island of the Canary Islands, Gran Canaria, leading to Spanish ownership of the islands to this day. On April 29, 1945,…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 28th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 28, 1192, the Hashshashin (Assassins) assassinated Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, just two days after his title to the throne was confirmed by election. On April 28, 1192, the Christian King of Jerusalem, Conrad of Montferrat, perhaps better known as Conrad I, was murdered by an Islamic organization called the Order of Assassins, or the…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 27th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 27, 33 BC, Roman politician Lucius Marcius Philippus, a step-brother to the future emperor Augustus (r. 27 BC–AD 14), celebrated a triumph for his victories while serving as governor in one of the provinces of Hispania. On April 27, 1805, the United States Marine Corps conducted one of their first famous missions, one immortalized in the Marines’ Hymn, by taking…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 26th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 26, 1336, famed Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarca (better known as Petrarch) ascended Mont Ventoux, a mountain in the Provence region of southern France. On April 26, 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte signed a general amnesty for those members of the émigrés of the French Revolution, those royalists and others opposed to the French Revolution that had fled France. On April…