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APRIL 1, 1883 – Laurette Taylor is born Loretta Helen Cooney in New York City, New York.
APRIL 1, 1946 – Ronnie Lane is born in London, England.
APRIL 1, 1949 – Gil Scott-Heron is born in Chicago, Illinois.
APRIL 1, 1971 – Boots Riley is born Raymond Lawrence Riley in Chicago, Illinois.
APRIL 1, 2004 – Google unveils Gmail.
APRIL 2, 1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven premieres of his 1st Symphony in Vienna, Austria..
APRIL 2, 1891 – Max Ernst is born in Brühl, Germany.
APRIL 2, 1928 – Serge Gainsbourg is born in Paris, France.
APRIL 2, 1947 – Emmylou Harris is born in Birmingham, Alabama.
APRIL 2, 1987 – Melody Prochet is born in Puyricard, France.
APRIL 3, 1895 – Oscar Wilde's libel case goes to trial.
APRIL 3, 1924 – Marlon Brando is born in Omaha, Nebraska.
APRIL 3, 1962 – Mike Ness is born in Lynn, Massachusetts.
APRIL 4, 1932 – Anthony Perkins is born in New York City, New York.
APRIL 4, 1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
APRIL 5, 1897 – The first American Arts and Crafts Exhibition begins at Copley Hall, Boston, Massachusetts.
APRIL 5, 1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
APRIL 5, 1929 – Joe Meek is born Robert George Meek in Newent, England.
APRIL 5, 1954 – Peter Case is born in Buffalo, New York.
APRIL 5, 1973 – Pharrell Williams is born in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
APRIL 6, 1857 – Arthur Wesley Dow is born in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
APRIL 6, 1866 – Lincoln Steffens is born in San Francisco, California.
APRIL 6, 1931 – Ram Dass is born Richard Alpert in Boston, Massachusetts.
APRIL 6, 1965 – Black Francis is born Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV in Boston, Massachusetts.
APRIL 6, 1965 – Early Bird, the first communications satellite, is launched.
APRIL 7, 1772 – Charles Fourier is born in Besançon, France.
APRIL 7, 1915 – Billie Holiday is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
APRIL 7, 1922 – United States Secretary of the Interior receives bribes for oil rights to the Teapot Dome in Wyoming.
APRIL 7, 1959 – Kim Warnick is born in Seattle, Washington.
APRIL 8, 1820 – Venus de Milo is discovered on the island of Melos, Greece .
APRIL 8, 1941 – Vivienne Westwood is born in Derbyshire, England.
APRIL 9, 1895 – Mance Lipscomb is born Beau De Glen Lipscomb in Navasota, Texas.
APRIL 9, 1926 – Hugh Hefner is born in Chicago, Illinois.
APRIL 9, 1932 – Carl Perkins is born in Tiptonville, Tennessee.
APRIL 9, 1959 – NASA selects the Mercury Seven.
APRIL 10, 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres its first 3-D film, House of Wax.
APRIL 10, 1970 – Q-Tip is born in Harlem, New York.
APRIL 11, 1961 – Doug Hopkins is born in Seattle, Washington.
APRIL 11, 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
APRIL 12, 1883 – Imogen Cunningham is born in Portland, Oregon.
APRIL 12, 1892 – Henry Darger is born in Chicago, Illinois.
APRIL 12, 1980 – Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope in St. John's, Newfoundland.
APRIL 12, 1994 – Melissa Brooks is born in Seal Beach, California.
APRIL 13, 1878 – B.J.O. Nordfeldt is born in Tulstorg, Scania, Sweden.
APRIL 13, 1919 – Eugene V. Debs is incarcerated at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for standing up against the United States draft during World War I.
APRIL 13, 1924 – Stanley Donen is born in Columbia, South Carolina.
APRIL 14, 1828 – Noah Webster copyrights his dictionary.
APRIL 14, 1932 – Loretta Lynn is born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky.
APRIL 14, 1948 – Berry Berenson is born in New York City, New York.
APRIL 15, 1452 – Leonardo Da Vinci is born in Florence, Italy.
APRIL 15, 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot by actor John Wilkes Booth.
APRIL 15, 1933 – Elizabeth Montgomery is born in Los Angeles, California.
APRIL 15, 1958 – Benjamin Zephaniah is born in Birmingham, England.
APRIL 16, 1889 – Charlie Chaplin is born in London, England.
APRIL 16, 1939 – Dusty Springfield is born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien in London, England.
APRIL 16, 1990 – Doctor Jack Kevorkian performs in his first assisted suicide.
APRIL 17, 1907 – The Ellis Island Immigration Center processes a one-day record of 11,747 people.
APRIL 17, 1955 – Pete Shelley is born in Leigh, England.
APRIL 17, 1964 – Maynard James Keenan is born in Ravenna, Ohio.
APRIL 18, 1775 – Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside that The British Are Coming..
APRIL 18, 1857 – Clarence Darrow is born in Kinsman Township, Ohio.
APRIL 19, 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play, Sex.
APRIL 19, 1947 – Mark Volman is born in Los Angeles, California.
APRIL 20, 1939 – Billie Holiday records Strange Fruit.
APRIL 20, 1943 – Edie Sedgwick is born in Santa Barbara, California.
APRIL 20, 1971 – Mikie Welsh is born in Syracuse, New York.
APRIL 20, 1975 – Killer Mike is born Michael Render in Atlanta, Georgia.
APRIL 21, 1915 – Anthony Quinn is born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca in Chihuahua, Mexico.
APRIL 21, 1947 – Iggy Pop is born in Muskegon, Michigan.
APRIL 21, 1966 – Haile Selassie visits Jamaica, celebrated today as Grounation Day.
APRIL 22, 1884 – William L'Engle is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
APRIL 22, 1899 – Vladimir Nabokov is born in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
APRIL 22, 1904 – Robert Oppenheimer is born in New York City, New York.
APRIL 22, 1922 – Charles Mingus is born in Nogales, Arizona.
APRIL 22, 1923 – Bettie Page is born in Nashville, Tennessee.
APRIL 22, 1937 – Jack Nicholson is born in Neptune, New Jersey.
APRIL 22, 1946 – John Waters is born in Baltimore, Maryland.
APRIL 22, 1977 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone data.
APRIL 23, 1635 – Boston Latin School, the nation's first public school is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
APRIL 23, 1928 – Shirley Temple is born in Santa Monica, California.
APRIL 24, 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established.
APRIL 24, 1904 – Willem DeKooning is born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
APRIL 25, 1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
APRIL 25, 1923 – Albert King is born in Indianola, Mississippi.
APRIL 26, 1938 – Duane Eddy is born in Corning, New York.
APRIL 26, 1986 – The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant reactor in Ukraine, USSR melts down.
APRIL 27, 1667 – John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
APRIL 27, 1947 – Ann Peebles is born in St. Louis, Missouri.
APRIL 27, 1948 – Kate Pierson is born in Weehawken, New Jersey.
APRIL 27, 1953 – Wild Bill Firehands Wampler is born in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
APRIL 28, 1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed.
APRIL 28, 1953 – Kim Gordon is born in Rochester, New York.
APRIL 29, 1889 – Duke Ellington is born in Washington, D.C..
APRIL 29, 1917 – Maya Deren is born Eleanora Derenkowskaia in Kiev, Ukraine.
APRIL 29, 1933 – Willie Nelson is born in Abbott, Texas.
APRIL 29, 1937 – Hasil Adkins is born in Boone County, West Virginia.
APRIL 29, 1968 – Hair opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway.
APRIL 30, 1877 – Alice B. Toklas is born in San Francisco, California.
APRIL 30, 1976 – Amanda Palmer is born in New York City, New York.
APRIL 30, 1993 – CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) announces that World Wide Web protocols will be free.