This past week was the anniversary of anti-Semitic Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s birth, and a new generation of anti-Semitic Nazis are raging on college campuses now, right here in America. It starkly illustrates the truth that those who don’t know or understand history are doomed to repeat it. Below are some of the important births, deaths, and events that occurred this past week in history.
April 19
1721 – Roger Sherman, the only Founder to sign all four of America’s founding documents (the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution), is born in Massachusetts. “[AHC] Roger Sherman is one of the most influential Founding Fathers. As a member of the Continental Congress, he participated in writing the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, he designed the Great Compromise.”
1775 – The American Revolution begins as the “shot heard round the world” is fired on Lexington Green. While the British initially killed a number of Patriot minutemen, at Concord the Patriots pushed the British troops back, and harassed the latter all the way back to Boston. Read my full article for more details.
1824 – Famous British Romantic poet Lord Byron dies in Greece.
1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, influential British prime minister, dies.
1882 – English naturalist Charles Darwin dies. While Darwin’s version of evolution has been scientifically debunked, his underlying ideology continues to shape science, philosophy, and religion to this day. Darwin impacted Karl Marx, who appears to have adapted Darwin’s theories to the political sphere for his own ideology of Marxism.
1943 – The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rise up against their Nazis oppressors in a heroic but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to stop deportations to the death camps. Read my previous piece.
1993 – The siege by the Clinton administration’s federal agents (under AG Janet Reno) ends with 75 people, including 25 children, being killed and burned. It was one of the most bloody and egregious scandals of the Clinton administration.
1995 – The Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 people.
April 20
1290 – Reported date of King Edward I’s Round Table Tournament in imitation of King Arthur.
1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his first journey to Canada.
1862 – French scientist Louis Pasteur and his colleague Claude Bernard prove the success of their first pasteurization test.
1889 – Adolf Hitler is born. As the German dictator of the Third Reich and Fuhrer of the Nazis, he launched WWII and was responsible not only for millions of battlefield deaths but also massacres in the concentration camps, where Jews, Catholics, Gypsies, and others were imprisoned. One of the major mass murderers of the 20th century, Hitler was responsible for the Holocaust that massacred about six million Jews.
1902 – Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radium chloride. They were subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize for their work.
1912 – Irish writer Bram Stoker, author of the classic horror novel Dracula, dies.
1999 – The infamous Columbine High School shooting occurs, leaving 15 dead at the Colorado school.
April 21
753 BC – According to legend, the date on which the brothers Romulus and Remus founded one of the greatest and most influential cities in history: Rome, “the Eternal City.” Read my full piece on Rome’s founding and historical/cultural impact.
1526 – “[TestBook] The First Battle of Panipat occurred on April 21 1526, in North India. It was fought between the invading forces of Ibrahim Lodi and Babur. It marked the Mughal Empire’s beginning and the Delhi Sultanate’s end.”
1816 – Charlotte Brontë, English novelist famous for her book “Jane Eyre,” is born.
1910 – Mark Twain, one of the most famous and influential American authors, dies. “[The] writer, adventurer and wily social critic born Samuel Clemens, wrote the novels ‘Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.’” The latter is a profoundly affecting novel that addresses the evils of slavery and other moral corruptions.
1918 – Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German flying ace known as the “Red Baron,” is shot down over France during WWI.
1926 – Elizabeth II, who would go on to be the longest reigning British monarch, is born.
April 22
1451 – Isabella I, later Queen of Castile (Spain) and wife of King Ferdinand II of Aragon, is born. Isabella’s legacy is complicated. In the one hand, she and Ferdinand successfully completed the Reconquista, freeing Spain from Islamic rule, and sponsored Columbus’s famous journey on which he discovered the New World. On the other hand, Isabella and Ferdinand issued the Alhambra Decree expelling all Jews from their kingdoms.
1500 – Explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral discovers Brazil on behalf of Portugal, sighting Mount Pascoal. Tupiniquim Indians were waiting for the European newcomers on the beach. In April 26, Easter Sunday of that year, the first Mass was celebrated there.
1616 – Spaniard Miguel de Cervantes, author of the famous and highly influential Don Quixote (most famous Spanish literary work), dies.
1870 – Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, famously known as Lenin, is born in Russia. He was the radical leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and architect of the Soviet state. He was also the first major Communist mass murderer.
1915 – The Germans introduce poison gas into warfare, devastating the French forces with some 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas during the Battle of Ypres in WWI.
April 23
1014 – “[Your Irish] The Battle of Clontarf took place on Good Friday 1014 April 23rd, located near Dublin. The battle was between Brian Boru and the King of Leinster, Máel Mórda mac Murchada. Brian Boru had an army of 7,000 men and the King of Leinster had an army of 6,600 men. On Boru’s side there was a total of 4,000 deaths, and on the king of Leinster’s side there were 6,000 deaths.” Most of the Vikings leaders were killed, as was Brian Boru (the victor) and most of his sons. The latter tragedy left the Irish leaderless. Because both sides were so heavily hit by the battle, however, they made peace.
1564 – The birth of William Shakespeare, often considered the greatest English writer and the greatest dramatist of all time. Shakespeare died on the same date in 1616. Read my full piece for more details on Shakespeare and a selection of his most famous quotes.
1850 – Influential English Romantic poet William Wordsworth dies.
1861 – Robert E. Lee, having refused command of Union forces, accepts command of Virginia’s troops during the Civil War. Lee and his men would go on to commit horrific war crimes during the war.
1928 – Shirley Temple, arguably the most iconic child star of the Golden Age of Hollywood, is born in California.
2007 – Boris Yeltsin, the Soviet leader who democratized Russia, dies.
April 24
1184 BC – The Greeks, wearying of long war with besieged Troy, engaged in some of their usual underhanded deception. They made a pretense of going away and left behind a huge wooden horse as if as a peace offering. Despite prophetical warning from Cassandra and Laocoon, the Trojans brought the horse into the city, not knowing the vicious Odysseus and his men were concealed inside. On April 24, the Greeks came out of the Horse at night and set to slaughtering the Trojans wholesale (including the children), excepting the women they took as sex slaves. For a historical-mythical account of the Trojan Horse and the Sack of Troy, see Vergil’s Aeneid, Book II.
1633 – William I of Orange, the Protestant Dutch ruler who led the Netherlands’ revolt against Catholic Spain’s rule, is born.
1731 – English writer Daniel Defoe, author of the famous novel Robinson Crusoe, dies.
1866 – Democrats hold the first national Ku Klux Klan (KKK) convention in Nashville, TN, to establish a nationwide organization. After the Civil War, the Democrats had surrendered militarily but they were just as determined to oppress and terrorize black men and white Republicans as they had been during the war. The KKK was the domestic terrorist wing of the Democrat Party for years, assassinating, beating, raping, lynching, and otherwise harming thousands of white Republicans and black Americans. Read more at Gateway Pundit.
1877 – The Russians declare war on the Ottoman Turks.
1886 – Augustus Tolton, a former slave, is ordained as America’s first black priest. Read my Untold Stories article for the incredible story of how Tolton overcame huge obstacles to inspire thousands with his holiness.
1898 – Spain declares war on the U.S. at the start of the Spanish-American War, after Spain refuses to recognize Cuban independence.
1916 – “[U of Delaware] Easter Rising in Ireland, when a small band of republicans’ brief insurrection over Easter Week 1916 resulted in their declaration of independence from Great Britain to form the Irish Republic (Poblacht na hÉireann). Quickly and violently squashed by the British, the Easter Rising became a defining moment for the complex landscape of Irish culture, politics, and history in the twentieth century.” The leaders, including Padraig Pearse, who set up headquarters in Dublin’s General Post Office but later surrendered to end bloodshed, were executed by the British. William B. Yeats wrote of the patriotic heroes of the Easter Rising:
I write it out in a verse –
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
April 25
1284 – King Edward II of England is born. His struggle to be free of baronial control ended with his defeat, imprisonment, and death after his wife and her lover invaded England.
1644 – Chinese emperor Chongzhen commits suicide, marking the end of the Ming dynasty.
1599 – English Puritan dictator Oliver Cromwell is born. As Lord Protector of Great Britain, he caused bloodshed in England, Scotland, and Ireland; in the latter alone, as much as 41% of the Irish population perished during anti-Catholic Cromwell’s reign.
1792 – The first execution by guillotine during the French Revolution. Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposed and helped design the machine to be a more humane and rapid method of execution; ironically, it just helped the bloodthirsty tyrants of the Revolution execute large numbers of victims in quick succession.
1846 – “[American History Central] The Thornton Affair — also known as the Carricitos Skirmish — was fought between the United States of America and Mexico from April 25 to April 26, 1846, during the Mexican-American War. It was the first engagement of the war and opened the Texas Campaign. Mexican forces won the battle, which led to the United States Declaration of War against Mexico on May 12, 1846.”
1915 – “[Britannica] Troop transports assembled off the island of Lemnos, and landings began on the Gallipoli Peninsula at two places early on April 25, 1915, at Cape Helles (29th British and Royal Naval divisions) and at ANZAC(Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) beaches.” The disastrous campaign cost the lives of over 200,000 British and temporarily blasted the political career of government official Winston Churchill, one of its supporters.
1917 – Iconic American singer Ella Fitzgerald is born.
1920 – The San Remo Conference following WWI decides to adopt the Balfour Declaration, which aimed to ensure the establishment of a Jewish state in the area of ancient Israel.
1945 – Soviet and U.S. forces meet at the Elbe River in Germany. Allied commanders then made the idiotic political decision to halt and let the Soviets enter Berlin first, and horrific reports of widespread and brutal gang rapes and other “unspeakable” crimes are told of the rampaging Soviets.
1990 – NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is launched into orbit.
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Author: Catherine Salgado
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