Page 4: Historical Events In April - 04

1884  Isoroku Yamamoto, admiral/supreme commander of Japanese fleet   

1887  Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia KS)   

1887  Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS).   

1888  Tris Speaker, baseball great, hit more doubles than Pete Rose   

1889  Thomas T H Jorissen, historian, dies at 56.   

1892  Cyril Smith, Peterhead Scotland, actor (Adv of Sir Lancelot)   

1893  Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 86   

1895  Arthur Murray, NYC, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)   

1896  Announcement of Gold in the Yukon.   

1896  News of the Yukon's Klondike gold strike reaches the outside world   

1896  Tristan Tzara, French poet is born   

1896  Announcement of Gold in Yukon   

1896  Robert Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight).   

1897  Pierre Fresnay, Paris France, actor (Grand Illusion).   

1898  Appointment of inaugural Civil Engineering Corps officer, Mordecai Endicott, as Chief, Bureau of ards and Docks.   

1899  South Africa all out 35 vs England (Trott 4-19, Haigh 6-11)   

1899  Duke Ellington, American band leader is born.   

1899  William Brann, cricketer (South African batsman v England 1922-23).   

1900  Assassination attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII.   

1900  British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer General De Wet   

1900  Edward VII, King, assassinated.   

1901  Carmel Myers, SF Calif, actress (Carmel Myers Show).   

1902  British financier Cecil Rhodes leaves $10 million in his will to provide scholarships for Empire and American students at Oxford University   

1902  Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund established with $10 million.   

1902  Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million   

1902  Louise L de Vilmorin, French poetess/author (Lutin Sauvage)   

1905  Earthquake in Kangra India, results in the deaths of 370000.   

1905  In Kangra, India a 8.6 earthquake resulted in 19000 deaths   

1905  Earthquake in Kangra India, results in the deaths of 20000   

1905  Eugene Bozza, composer   

1905  Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 73   

1906  Bea Benaderet, NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction)   

1907  Nathan M Pusey, Iowa, educator (Natl Ass for Social Sciences-1963)   

1908  Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, author (Cheaper by the Dozen).   

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0186  Caracalla: Roman emperor   

1492  Ambrosius blarer: German reformer   

1527  Abraham ortelius: [ortels/hortels], south neth geographer   

1572  William strachey: English writer   

1593  Edward nicholas: English statesman   

1646  Antoine galland: French archaeologist   

1648  Grinling gibbons: Sculptor/woodcarver   

1688  Joseph-nicolas delisle: French astronomer   

0397  Ambrosius: Gov of liguria/bishop of milan (374-97)/saint,   

0636  Saint isidore of seville: Church father and the proposed patron of internet (b. cira 560)   

0896  Formosus: Pope (891-96),   

1229  Death of Hugo van pierrepont: Bishop of liege,   

1284  Death of Alfonso x: "el sabio" king of castile/leon (1252-84),   

1292  Death of Nicholas iv: [girolamo masci], pope (1288-92),   

1305  Death of Jeanne of navarre: Wife of philip iv of france (b. circa 1217)   

1393  Floris van wevelinkhoven: Bishop of utrecht,