Scott Allsop's Blog, page 137

27th April 1953: The US launches Operation Moolah to obtain a Soviet MiG-15 jet fighter through defection

By the time the armistice was signed on 27 July, the money for Operation Moolah was still untouched as no pilot had brought their MiG-15 to South ...

26th April 1865: John Wilkes Booth, who had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, shot after refusing to surrender

He was dragged out of the barn where he had been hiding and died three hours ...

25th April 1898: The United States declares war on Spain in the Spanish–American War

Congress didn’t formally declare war until 25 April, although the declaration recognized that a state of war had existed since Spain’s declaration four days ...

24th April 1800: The Library of Congress established when John Adams approves a budget of $5,000 for books

The money allowed for the purchase of approximately 3,000 volumes from England that were housed in the north wing of the Capitol ...

21st April 1967: Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, arrives in the USA after defecting from the Soviet Union

The sensational defection of Stalin’s only surviving child made international news and four days later, at a press conference in the Plaza Hotel, she denounced the Soviet Communist regime and her father’s ...

19th April 1987: The Simpsons make their first television appearance on The Tracey Ullman Show

An overwhelmingly positive reaction in season one meant that Simpsons shorts were featured in every episode of the next two seasons before being spun off into a standalone half-hour series in ...

16th April 1902: The first purpose-designed movie theater opened as Thomas Tally’s Electric Theatre

Tally's Electric Theatre in Los Angeles proved incredibly popular with the public, and sparked a revolution in cinema history.Visit the excellent https://losangelestheatres.blogspot.c... for more detailed ...

11th April 1968: The Fair Housing Act of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 signed into law by President Johnson

The Act made it illegal to discriminate regarding the sale, rental, or financing of housing based on race, religion, or national ...

7th April 1954: President Eisenhower first described the ‘domino theory’ of the spread of communism during a news conference

He likened the spread of communism in Southeast Asia to a row of dominoes quickly collapsing after the first one ...

2nd April 1863: The Richmond Bread Riot saw hundreds of women in Virginia loot storehouses and shops

With the cry of ‘bread or blood!’ the women marched to the city’s market district where they broke into government storehouses and nearby ...