Top Historical Events That Happened on April 04

1929  "New Moon" musical opens in London   

1929  1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held   

1929  inaugural AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held.   

1929  Karl Friedrich Benz, automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies at 84   

1930  Andrew Sandham makes Test Cricket 1st triple century   

1930  Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149)   

1930  Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies.   

1931  Andre Michelin, CEO (Michelin Tires), dies   

1932  George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good", premieres in NYC.   

1932  Anthony Perkins, American actor is born   

1932  Vitamin C 1st isolated, C C King, University of Pittsburgh   

1932  Vitamin C inaugural isolated, C.C. King, Univ of Pittsburgh   

1932  Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian minister, dies at 59   

1933  US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die.   

1933  US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of NJ, 73 die.   

1934  K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1716 Peter   

1934  Braulio Dueno Colon, composer, dies at 80   

1937  4th Golf Masters Championship Byron Nelson claims, shooting a 283.   

1937  Frantisek X Salda, Czech writer/critic, dies at 69   

1938  5th Golf Masters Championship Henry Picard claims, shooting a 285   

1938  Cyril Christiani, cricket wicket keep (WI 1935), dies of malaria at 24   

1939  Canada recognizes the government of General Francisco Franco of Spain, following the end of the Spanish Civil War.   

1939  Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq   

1940  L Oterma discovers asteroid #2332 Kalm.   

1940  R Rodgers/Lorenz Hart's "Higher and Higher", premieres in NYC.   

1941  German troops conquer Banghazi.   

1941  Max Frisch, writer, dies at 29   

1942  RCAF Squadron Leader L.J. Birchall spots Japanese fleet heading for Ceylon; alerts naval base and averts disaster for the British Fleet and a second Pearl Harbour   

1943  Oskar Schlemmer, German painter/sculptor, dies at 54.   

1944  British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia.   

1944  De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists   

1944  John Peale Bishop, US poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51   

1945  Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Liberation Day)   

1945  US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.   

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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  Death of 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  Death of Formosus: Pope (891-96),   

1229  Death of Hugo van pierrepont: Bishop of liege,   

1284  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  Death of Floris van wevelinkhoven: Bishop of utrecht,