Historical Events
- Apr 4 Susanna Madora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor in Argonia, Kansas
Helen Keller's Lesson
Apr 5 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to blind and deaf six-year-old Helen Keller by holding one of her hands under a dripping water pump and spelling out “w-a-t-e-r” in Keller’s palm. She goes on to learn how to read, write, speak and graduate from college.
- Apr 10 Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen
Lincoln Reburied
Apr 10 US President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Illinois
Rosmersholm
Apr 12 Henrik Ibsen's play "Rosmersholm" premieres in Oslo
- Apr 26 Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity
World's First Motor Race
Apr 28 "Europe's first motoring competition" is 'won' by The Marquis de Dion on a steam-powered quadricycle built by French toymaker and engineer Georges Bouton; French newspaper Le Velocipede organized the 'test', and Bouton was the only participant
- Apr 30 1st game played at Broad & Huntingdon St Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Phillies beat Giants 19-10
Famous Birthdays
- Apr 1 Leonard Bloomfield, American linguist (Structural Linguistics), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1949)
- Apr 4 William Cumming Rose, American biochemist who discovered threonine (an amino acid), born in Greenville, South Carolina (d. 1985)
- Apr 5 Hedwig Kohn, German-Jewish physicist and one of the first female physicists in Germany, born in what is now Wrocław, Poland (d. 1964)
- Apr 8 Walter Connolly, American actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1940)
- Apr 10 Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1971)
- Apr 10 Heinz Tiessen, German composer, born in Königsberg, Germany (d. 1971)
- Apr 12 Harold Lockwood, American actor (Tess of the Storm Country), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1918)
- Apr 13 Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association, born in Gladstone, Manitoba (d. 1995)
- Apr 15 Mike Brady, American golfer (US Open 1911, 19 runner-up; 9 PGA Tour titles), born in Brighton, Massachusetts (d. 1972)
Joe McCarthy (1887-1978)
Apr 21 American Baseball Hall of Fame manager (Chicago Cubs; New York Yankees - World Series 1932, 36–39, 41, 43; Boston Red Sox), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Famous Weddings
Andrew Carnegie
Apr 22 Business magnate Andrew Carnegie (51) weds Louise Whitfield (30) in NYC, New York
