Page 5: Historical Events In April - 09

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

1908  The birth of Victor Vasarely, Russian painter on April - 09.   

1908  Fred Lohse, composer on April - 09.   

1909  The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act on April - 09.   

1909  Domenico Enrici, Apostolic Nuncio on April - 09.   

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

1910  Abraham A Ribicoff, (Sen-D-Ct) on this day in history.   

1911  On this day in history albert Remy, Sevres France, actor (Grand Prix, Gigot, Train)   

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

1912  1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard) on April - 09.   

1913  On this day in history 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified   

1913  Brooklyn Dodger's Ebbets Field opens, Phillies win 1-0 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1914  "World, the Flesh & the Devil," 1st color film, shown in London on April - 09.   

1914  On April - 09 richard Young, CEO (Boosey & Hawkes)   

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

1917  Battle of Arras begins on this day in history.   

1917  Capt. Thain Wendell MacDowell (Cdn. 38th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Vimy Ridge France on April - 09.   

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

1917  Pvt. William Johnstone Milne (Cdn. 16th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Vimy Ridge France on this day in history.   

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

1917  On this day in history johannes Bobrowski, writer   

1917  On this day in history edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I   

1918  On April - 09 latvia proclaims independence   

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

1919  On April - 09 john Presper Eckert, co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC)   

1920  On April - 09 alexander Moulton, English bicycle designer (folding bicycle)   

1921  Frankie Thomas, NYC, actor (Tom Corbett Space Cadet) on April - 09.   

1922  Carl Amery, writer on April - 09.   

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  Mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder), dies on April - 09.   

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

1498  John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (d. 1550) was born on April - 09.   

1597  On this day in history birth of john Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (d. 1670)   

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

1627  Johann Kaspar Kerll, composer was born on April - 09.   

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  James Scott, duke of Monmouth, bastard son of English king Charles II was born on April - 09.   

0093  On this day in history death of yuan An, Minister over the Masses of the Han dynasty   

0491  Death of Zeno, Byzantine Emperor on April - 09.   

0715  Constantine I, Greek/Syrian Pope (708-15), dies on this day in history.   

1024  On April - 09 benedict VIII, [Theophylactus van Tusculum], Pope (1012-24), dies   

1137  Death of William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099) on this day in history.   

1483  Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83) dies at 38 on April - 09.   

1484  On this day in history death of edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. 1473)   

1492  Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine statesman, dies on this day in history.