Events Calendar Fred E. Hayes Post 57 Events: April 2027

April 2027

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U.S. troops land on Okinawa (1945)

Location:

Okinawa, Japan
Date:

Thursday, April 1, 2027

50,000 U.S. combat troops under the command of Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner Jr., land on the southwest coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa.

U.S. troops land on Okinawa (1945)

Congress authorizes privateers to attack British vessels (1776)

Location:

United States
Date:

Saturday, April 3, 2027

Because it lacked sufficient funds to build a strong navy, the Continental Congress gives privateers permission to attack any and all British ships on April 3, 1776.

Congress authorizes privateers to attack British vessels (1776)

Confederate capital of Richmond captured (1865)

Location:

United States
Date:

Saturday, April 3, 2027

The Rebel capital of Richmond, Virginia, falls to the Union, the most significant sign that the Confederacy is nearing its final days.

Confederate capital of Richmond captured (1865)

Pony Express Debuts (1860)

Location:

United States
Date:

Saturday, April 3, 2027

On April 3, the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.

Pony Express Debuts (1860)

Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated (1968)

Location:

Memphis TN
Date:

Sunday, April 4, 2027

Just after 6 p.m., Martin Luther King, Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. The civil rights leader was 39 years old.

Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated (1968)

Black Hawk War Begins (1832)

Location:

United States
Date:

Tuesday, April 6, 2027
Contact:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

Battle between the Sauk tribe led by Black Hawk and the United States in the area around Rock River in Illinois.

Black Hawk War Begins (1832)

Grand Army of the Republic Founded (1866)

Location:

United States
Date:

Tuesday, April 6, 2027

The GAR, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War is founded. It lasts until 1956.

Grand Army of the Republic Founded (1866)

Battle of Shiloh begins (1862)

Location:

Near Memphis, Tennessee
Date:

Tuesday, April 6, 2027

The Civil War explodes in the west as the armies of Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston collide at Shiloh, near Pittsburgh Landing in Tennessee.

Battle of Shiloh begins (1862)

U.S. Formally Enters WWI (1917)

Location:

United States
Date:

Tuesday, April 6, 2027

Two days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World War I.

U.S. Formally Enters WWI (1917)

Robert E. Lee surrenders (1865)

Location:

Appomattox, Virginia
Date:

Friday, April 9, 2027

In Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War.

Robert E. Lee surrenders (1865)

U.S. Army liberates Buchenwald (1945)

Location:

Weimar, Germany
Date:

Sunday, April 11, 2027

The American Third Army liberates the Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany, a camp that will be judged second only to Auschwitz.

U.S. Army liberates Buchenwald (1945)

Civil War Begins (1861)

Location:

Charleston, South Carolina
Date:

Monday, April 12, 2027

Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard opens fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay.

Civil War Begins (1861)

Doolittle Raid on Tokyo (1942)

Location:

Tokyo, Japan
Date:

Sunday, April 18, 2027

On April 18, 1942, 16 American B-25 bombers, launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet 650 miles east of Japan and commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, attack the Japanese mainland.

Doolittle Raid on Tokyo (1942)

Steamboat Sultana Explodes (1865)

Location:

Memphis, TN
Date:

Tuesday, April 27, 2027

On April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana explodes on the Mississippi River near Memphis, killing 1,700 passengers including many discharged Union soldiers.

Steamboat Sultana Explodes (1865)

Dachau Liberated (1945)

Location:

Dachau, Germany
Date:

Thursday, April 29, 2027

On April 29, 1945, the U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau, the first concentration camp established by Germany’s Nazi regime.

Dachau Liberated (1945)

Fall of Saigon (1975)

Location:

Saigon (Ho Chi Monh City), Vietnam
Date:

Friday, April 30, 2027

The South Vietnamese stronghold of Saigon (now known as Ho Chi Minh City) falls to People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on April 30, 1975.

Fall of Saigon (1975)