Historical Events
- Apr 3 1st NSW v Queensland F-C game, at Brisbane Exhibition Ground
- Apr 5 Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks)
- Apr 6 Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box 7 hrs 19 mins to no decision (111 rounds)
- Apr 6 Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City dedicated
- Apr 8 The Critic reports that ice cream soda is America's national drink
- Apr 12 "Massacre of Hoornkrans": Curt von François, colonial Governor of German South West Africa (now Nambia), leads attack by 225 Schutztruppe soldiers on Nama leader Hendrik Witbooi's headquarters at Hoornkrans; shelling of the village causes tremendous civilian casualties. Witbooi escapes and wages several months of guerrilla warfare against the German forces. [1]
- Apr 22 Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo
Kruger Again Transvaal President
Apr 22 Paul Kruger elected President of Transvaal for the third time
Famous Birthdays
- Apr 1 Cicely Courtneidge, Australian actress (Double Exposure), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 1980)
- Apr 3 Leslie Howard [Stainer], British actor (Gone With The Wind; Of Human Bondage), born in London, England (d. 1943)
- Apr 3 Princess Maud of Fife, Countess of Southesk, born in East Sheen Lodge, Richmond-upon-Thames (d. 1945)
- Apr 4 Hans Riegel Sr., German confectioner and inventor of the 'gummy bear' (founder of Haribo), born in Bonn, Germany (d. 1945)
Clas Thunberg (1893-1973)
Apr 5 Finnish speed skater (Olympic gold 1500m, 5000m, allround 1924; 500m, 1500m 1928), born in Helsinki, Finland
Allen Dulles (1893-1969)
Apr 7 American Central Intelligence Agency director (1953-1961), born in Watertown, New York
- Apr 8 Grace Cunard, American silent screen actress (Untamed, Resurrection), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1967)
- Apr 8 Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Serenity), born in Molenbeek-St-Jean, Belgium (d. 1971)
- Apr 11 Dean Acheson, American statesman and U.S. Secretary of State (1949-53), born in Middletown, Connecticut (d. 1971)
- Apr 11 Johannes Theodoor Thijsse, Dutch director of Delft Hydraulics Laboratory, born in Amsterdam (d. 1984)
- Apr 16 Federico Mompou, Catalan composer (Música Callada -'The Voice of Silence'), born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1987)
- Apr 16 Joseph Yasser, Russian-American composer, born in Łódź, Poland (d. 1981)
- Apr 17 Irene Castle, American vaudeville, stage, and screen dancer, and animal rights activist, born in New Rochelle, New York (d. 1969)
- Apr 18 Violette Morris, French athlete and spy for Nazi Germany, born in Paris (d. 1944)
- Apr 20 Edna Parker, American supercentenarian, the oldest person in the world following the death of Yone Minagawa of Japan on August 13, 2007, born in Morgan County, Indiana (d. 2008)
- Apr 20 Harold Lloyd, American silent and sound film actor, comedian, and director (Why Worry?; The Freshman; Safety Last!; The Sin of Harold Diddlebock), born in Burchard, Nebraska (d. 1971)
- Apr 20 Hermann Ungar, Moravian writer, born in Boskovice (d. 1929)
- Apr 20 Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor, born in Barcelona (d. 1983)
- Apr 23 Frank Borzage, American director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1962)
- Apr 24 Robert Harron, American actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), born in New York City (d. 1920)
Draža Mihailović (1893-1946)
Apr 27 Serbian WWII hero and war criminal, born in Ivanjica, Serbia
- Apr 27 Norman Bel Geddes, American theatrical designer (Rivals, Dead End), born in Adrian, Michigan (d. 1958)
- Apr 29 Elisaveta Bagriana, Bulgarian poet (The Eternal and the Holy), born in Sofia, Bulgaria (d. 1991)
- Apr 29 Harold Urey, American physical chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), born in Walkerton, Indiana (d. 1981)
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946)
Apr 30 Nazi foreign minister and war criminal, born in Wesel, Rhine Province, German Empire
Born in 1893
Famous Deaths
John Ballance (1839-1893)
Apr 27 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand & the founder of the Liberal Party, dies of intestinal disease after a major surgical operation at 54
