WORLD Pinhole Photography Day
NATIONAL Babe Ruth Day
NATIONAL Prime Rib Day
NATIONAL Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day [fourth Thursday in April]
NATIONAL Tell a Story Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1773 British Parliament passes the Tea Act [leading to the Boston Tea Party]
1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from the Union
1940 Himmler orders the construction of Auschwitz concentration camp
1983 Pitcher Nolan Ryan surpassed Walter Johnson’s strikeout record, which had held since 1927
1989 In China, more than 150,000 students and workers calling for democracy marched, cheered, and sang as they took over Tiananmen Square in central Beijing
2009 The low-flying Air Force One causes momentary panic in New York City
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