Historical Events In April - 09

1908  On April - 09 herbert Henry Asquith becomes PM of England  

1908  On April - 09 the birth of Victor Vasarely, Russian painter  

1908  On this day in history fred Lohse, composer  

1909  The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act on this day in history.  

1909  Domenico Enrici, Apostolic Nuncio on this day in history.  

1909  Charles Conder, artist, dies on April - 09.  

1910  On this day in history abraham A Ribicoff, (Sen-D-Ct)  

1911  On April - 09 albert Remy, Sevres France, actor (Grand Prix, Gigot, Train)  

1912  On this day in history steamers collide in the Nile, drowning 200  

1912  On this day in history 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard)  

1913  17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified on April - 09.  

1913  On this day in history brooklyn Dodger's Ebbets Field opens, Phillies win 1-0  

1914  First full color film shown "The World, The Flesh and the Devil" (London) on April - 09.  

1914  On this day in history grand Trunk Pacific Railway main line is completed between Winnipeg, Melville, Edmonton, Jasper and Prince Rupert.  

1914  US &Columbia sign a treaty concerning the Panama Canal Zone on April - 09.  

1914  On this day in history "World, the Flesh & the Devil," 1st color film, shown in London  

1914  On this day in history richard Young, CEO (Boosey & Hawkes)  

1916  Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer, dies at 62 on April - 09.  

1917  Battle of Arras begins on April - 09.  

1917  Capt. Thain Wendell MacDowell (Cdn. 38th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Vimy Ridge France on this day in history.  

1917  Lance-Sargent Ellis Wellwood Sifton (Cdn. 18th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Vimy Ridge France on this day in history.  

1917  Pvt. William Johnstone Milne (Cdn. 16th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Vimy Ridge France on April - 09.  

1917  On April - 09 vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops  

1917  On April - 09 johannes Bobrowski, writer  

1917  Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I on this day in history.  

1918  On April - 09 latvia proclaims independence  

1918  Jorn Utzon, Danish architect (Sydney Opera House) on this day in history.  

1919  On this day in history john Presper Eckert, co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC)  

1920  Alexander Moulton, English bicycle designer (folding bicycle) on April - 09.  

1921  On this day in history frankie Thomas, NYC, actor (Tom Corbett Space Cadet)  

1922  On this day in history carl Amery, writer  

1923  Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman," premieres in Dublin on this day in history.  

1923  Bruno Kiefer, composer on this day in history.  

1923  On this day in history mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder), dies  

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1336  On this day in history birth of tamerlane (Timur), Central Asian, Turkic conqueror (d. 1405)  

1498  On April - 09 birth of john, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (d. 1550)  

1597  John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (d. 1670) was born on this day in history.  

1611  On this day in history birth of giacomo Maria Predieri, composer  

1627  On April - 09 birth of johann Kaspar Kerll, composer  

1634  On April - 09 birth of albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau  

1648  On this day in history birth of henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720)  

1649  On this day in history birth of james Scott, duke of Monmouth, bastard son of English king Charles II  

0093  Death of Yuan An, Minister over the Masses of the Han dynasty on April - 09.  

0491  Death of Zeno, Byzantine Emperor on this day in history.  

0715  On this day in history constantine I, Greek/Syrian Pope (708-15), dies  

1024  Benedict VIII, [Theophylactus van Tusculum], Pope (1012-24), dies on this day in history.  

1137  On April - 09 death of william X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)  

1483  Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83) dies at 38 on this day in history.  

1484  Death of Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. 1473) on this day in history.  

1492  On April - 09 lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine statesman, dies