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On April 18:
1942 – World War II: Sixteen B-25 Mitchell bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet carried out the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, the first Allied attack on the Japanese home islands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid |
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April 20, 1902 - Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
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April 20, 1978 - Korean Air Lines Flight 902
Korean Air Lines Flight 902 was the flight number of a civilian airliner shot down by Soviet fighters . |
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April 20 1914
Ending a bitter coal-miners' strike, Colorado militiamen attack a tent colony of strikers, killing dozens of men, women, and children. |
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On April 21:
1918 – The German fighter pilot known as "The Red Baron", the most successful flying ace of World War I with 80 confirmed air combat victories, was shot down and killed near Vaux-sur-Somme in France. |
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April 22, 1864 - The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act which mandates that the inscription "In God We Trust" be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
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April 22 1934
George "Baby Face" Nelson kills Special Agent W. Carter Baum during an FBI raid in northern Wisconsin. Nelson was holed up with notorious bank robber John Dillinger's gang at the Little Bohemia resort but didn't follow the planned escape route. As he was stealing a car to escape, he blasted several agents with two handguns. |
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On April 22:
1838 - The first steamship to cross the Atlantic, the British ship Sirius, arrived at New York; it made the crossing in 18 days |
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April 23, 1867 - William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine which shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel.
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