On the 12th April 1945, Harry Truman became the 33rd President of the United States when his predecessor, Franklin D Roosevelt, suddenly died while having his portrait painted.
The Act made it illegal to discriminate regarding the sale, rental, or financing of housing based on race, religion, or national origin.
On the 10th April 1858 Big Ben – the bell inside the clocktower at the Palace of Westminster in Britain – was cast.
John Hancock, one of Boston’s wealthiest merchants and a leading figure in Boston politics, forcibly removed customs officials from his ship Lydia.
On 8th April 1904, a series of agreements between Britain and France known as the Entente Cordiale were signed.
He likened the spread of communism in Southeast Asia to a row of dominoes quickly collapsing after the first one falls.
The United States entered the First World War after Congress declared war on the German Empire.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death in the United States for conspiracy to commit espionage.
The Nazi Party founded a paramilitary organisation that became the Schutzstaffel, better known as the SS.
The first Pony Express service left the American city of St Joseph in Missouri destined for Sacramento in California.
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