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Significant dates:
1 April:    US Forces assault Okinawa, 1945
2 April:    Ponce de Leon discovers Florida, 1513
                    Argentina invades Falkland Islands, 1982
3 April:    Pony Express begins operations, 1860
                    Truman signs Marshall Plan, 1948
4 April:    Today is KICK BUTTS DAY
6 April:    Modern Olympic Games reborn in Athens, Greece, 1896
                    US declares war on Germany, 1917
8 April:    Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, breaks Babe Ruth's record, 1974
9 April:    Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomatox, US Civil War ends, 1865
                    US Forces surrender to Japanese at Bataan, 1942
12 April:  Confederate forces fire on Ft Sumter, US Civil War begins, 1861
                    Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space, 1961
                    First space shuttle, COLUMBIA, launched, 1981
14 April:  Lincloln shot by John Wilkes Booth, 1865
                    US bombs Libya, 1986
15 April: TITANIC sinks after striking iceburg in North Atlantic, 1912
16 April:  Texas City, OK destroyed by explosion of SS GRANDCAMP, nearly 600 killed, 1947
18 April:  Great San Francisco earthquake and fire, 1906
                    Dolittle raid on Tokyo, 1942
                    Suicide bomber destroys US embassy in Beirut, 1983
19 April:  Battle of Lexington, "Shot Heard Around the World" begins the American Revolution, 1775
                    Branch Davidian compound in Waco, TX assaulted by FBI and burns, 1993
                    Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK destroyed by massive truck bomb, 1995
20 April:  Santa Anna captured by Sam Houston at Battle of San Jacinto. Texas wins independence, 1836
21 April:  Rome founded, 753 BC
                    Baron von Richthofen shot down and killed, 1918
22 April:  Today is JELLY BEAN DAY
                    First use of poison gas by Germans at 2nd Battle of Ypres, 1915
24 April:  Library of Congress founded, 1800
                    Irish Easter Rebellion begins in Dublin, 1916
                    Iranian Hostage Rescue Mission ends in disaster, 1980
25 April:  Construction of Suez Canal begins, 1959
26 April:  Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster, 1986
27 April:  Marines capture Derna in Tripoli, traditional Marine Officer's sword, a Mameluke, presented to O'Bannon, 1805
28 April:  Maryland ratifies the Constitution and becomes the 7th State, 1788
                    Mutiny on the HMS BOUNTY, 1789
                    SULTANA explodes on Mississippi, 1600 freed Union POW's killed, 1865
30 April:  First Presidential Inauguration, 1789
                    U S purchases Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, 1803
                    Louisiana becomes 18th State, 1812
                    Hitler commits suicide, 1945