Scott Allsop's Blog, page 112
April 9, 2022
10th April 1971: US table tennis team ushers in ping pong diplomacy
The United States table tennis team heralded the era of ‘ping pong diplomacy’ by becoming the first official American delegation to visit China in 20 ...
April 8, 2022
9th April 1865: Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
Lee’s surrender to Grant encouraged other Confederate forces across the south to do the same and marked the beginning of the end of the American Civil ...
April 7, 2022
8th April 1904: Times Square in New York given its name
Times Square in New York was given its name shortly after the offices of The New York Times moved to the ...
April 6, 2022
7th April 1498: Savonarola takes part in a failed trial by fire that was intended to test his holiness
The belief was that God would intervene to protect Savonarola from the flames, but he and his opponents squabbled for so long that a rainstorm eventually led to the cancellation of the ...
April 5, 2022
6th April 1896: The first modern Olympic Games take place
On the 6th April 1896, the first modern Olympic Games opened in ...
April 4, 2022
5th April 1621: The Mayflower returns to England from the settlement at Plymouth, having carried the Pilgrim fathers to America
To the ship’s crew the voyage to the New World was just a delivery contract between the Pilgrims and the ship’s master, Christopher ...
April 3, 2022
4th April 1968: Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee
On the 4th April 1968, Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of ...
April 2, 2022
3rd April 1882: American outlaw Jesse James shot dead by fellow gang-member Robert Ford
As James stood on a chair and turned to clean a dirty picture frame in his house, Robert Ford shot him in the back of the head from virtually point-blank ...
April 1, 2022
2nd April 1977: Red Rum wins an unprecedented third Grand National horse race
The racehorse Red Rum won an historic third Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in ...
March 31, 2022
1st April 1924: Adolf Hitler found guilty of treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch and sentenced to five years in jail
Hitler’s detention provided him with the opportunity to write Mein Kampf, his blueprint for power, and to rethink the tactics he would use to take that power in ...
