On this day:
Sunday, Apr. 1: Palm Sunday (91)
* The date was christened "All Fools Day" to mock people who refused to observe the New Year in January after the switch to the Gregorian calendar:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=145905
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Monday, Apr. 2:
* Caution: Easter lillies are hazardous to house cats:
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=444574
Tuesday, Apr. 3: Passover (93)
* Are string beans Kosher?
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=16
Wednesday, Apr. 4:
* Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space (STS-6) in 1983. How the Earth appears to astronauts in orbit:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=775475
Thursday, Apr. 5: Maunday Thursday (95)
* Origin of the Easter Bunny:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=542733
Friday, Apr. 6: Good Friday (96)
* First modern Olympics reconvenes in 1896 in Athens after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. Goals of the renewed competition:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=288255
Saturday, Apr. 7:
* Prohibition repealed for beer in 1933, eight months ahead of repeal of 18th Amendment creating Prohibition. Beer market share for the U.S.:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=33566
Sunday, Apr. 8: Easter (98)
* Easter's date changes with the astronomical calendar. How it is determined each year:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=453349
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Monday, Apr. 9:
* First question posted on Google Answers in 2002: Why is the sky blue?
Tuesday, Apr. 10:
* U.S. Patent Act passed in 1790. The first patent on the making of potash would be issued almost four months later. How to determine whether a patent has expired:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=2434
Wednesday, Apr. 11:
* Abraham Lincoln's last public speech (1865) in Richmond, VA on Reconstruction policies. Lincoln's genealogy and family tree:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=435642
Thursday, Apr. 12:
* Confederate forces fire on Ft. Sumter in Charleston, SC Harbor in 1861. Historical characters present include Abner Doubleday, G.T. Beauregard and Edmund Ruffin:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=355160
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=787002
Friday, Apr. 13:
* Final exam for 8th graders given on this day in 1885:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=593397
Saturday, Apr. 14:
* RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg on maiden voyage at 11:40 p.m. on this day in 1912, sinking less than three hours later. Oceanographer Robert Ballard's story of finding the wreck in 1985:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=70891
Sunday, Apr. 15:
* Historical income tax rates for the U.S.:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=153020
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Monday, Apr. 16:
* U.S. income taxes due at midnight tonight. Why Congress defines deductions and losses so specifically:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=33316
Tuesday, Apr. 17:
* Bay of Pigs invasion, financed and organized by the CIA, begins in Cuba (1961). A timeline of events leading to it:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=259388
Wednesday, Apr. 18:
* Yankee Stadium, "The house that Ruth built," opened in 1923. The history of all Major League Baseball parks:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=743020
Thursday, Apr. 19:
* Joan of Arc beatified in 1909. Her historical impact:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=185170
Friday, Apr. 20:
* Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the U.S. Army (1861). The eventual commander of the Confederate Army never wrote about the Civil War but his collected letters were published in 1904:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=426158
Saturday, Apr. 21:
* "Italian pastry appropriate with beer and wine" and it is pronounced "peet-za" informs NY Herald Tribune on this day in 1939. Now a $30 billion industry:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=17276
Sunday, Apr. 22:
* Henry VIII becomes King of England in 1509. His role in the religious reformation of England:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=784762
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Monday, Apr. 23:
* Likely birthday of William Shakespeare, poet and playwright, in 1564 (he was baptized three days later). His tragedy 'Macbeth' is considered so unlucky that some actors call it 'The Scottish Play':
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=721201
Tuesday, Apr. 24:
* Greeks enter Troy in 1184 B.C. using the Trojan Horse, designed by Odyssyeus:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=252284
Wednesday, Apr. 25: Liberation Day -- Italy (115)
ANZAC Day -- Australia and New Zealand
* La Marseillaise penned by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle overnight (1792). Becomes the French national anthem in 1795 but was banned periodically by Napoleon, Louis XVIII and Napoleon III:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=283808
Thursday, Apr. 26:
* Tanzania created in 1964 with the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Early colonial history of Zanzibar:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=344305
Friday, Apr. 27:
* Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright for the ten volumes of his epic poem, Paradise Lost, for 10 pounds in 1667:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=233858
Saturday, Apr. 28:
* In 2003, Apple's iTunes music store opens online, selling 1 million songs the first week. Estimates of market share for the digital distribution company:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=602246
Sunday, Apr. 29: Greenery Day -- Japan (119)
* Bubble gum invented by accident when Walter Diemer, an accountant for Fleer Chewing Gum brews up an experimental batch (1929). Important information for your mother would want you to know:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=762829
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Monday, Apr. 30: (120)
* Bob Feller, pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, returns from war after four years and pitches a no-hitter in his second game:
http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=329550
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