April 9th
Today in America's Present Past
1597 | Cleric John Davenport was born.
1768 | Founder John Hancock denies British government agents to inspect his ship, considered the colonies’ first physical act of rebellion.
1784 | War of Independence. The Treaty of Paris, signed September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War is ratified by all parties.
1833 | The first tax-subsidized government library is opened in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
1864 | Civil War: 1864 Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana.
1865 | Civil War: Confederate forces surrender at Appomattox, concluding the American Civil War.
1865 | General Thomas Alfred Smyth died.
1866 | Congress: An override of Democrat President Johnson’s veto of the Civil Rights Act is passed.
1872 | Entrepreneur Erastus Corning died.
1899 | SCOTUS: Justice Stephen Johnson Field died.
1905 | Politician J. William Fulbright was born.
1909 | Congress: The Payne-Aldrich tariff passes.
1926 | Publisher Hugh Hefner was born.
1932 | Musician Carl Perkins was born.
1939 Civil Rights: After contralto, Marian Anderson is denied singing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall; she performs to a crowd of 75,000 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1950 | TV: Bob Hope’s first television appearance.
1954 | Actor Dennis Quaid was born.
1959 | Architect Frank Lloyd Wright died.
1963 | Winston Churchill becomes the first “honorary” U.S. Citizen.
1963 | Politician Joe Scarborough was born.
1966 | Actress Cynthia Nixon was born.
1968 | Civil War: MLK-related riots continue in Kansas City, Missouri.
1968 | Martin Luther King, Jr. is buried in Atlanta, Georgia.
1990 | Actress Kristen Stewart was born.
1996 | Author Richard Condon died.
1999 | Musician Lil Nas X was born.
2003 | War on Terror: Baghdad surrenders to U.S. forces.
2019 | Author Charles Van Doren died.