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Events Calendar: April 2025 Fred E. Hayes Post 57 Events: April 2025

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U.S. troops land on Okinawa (1945)

  • Location:
    Okinawa, Japan
  • Date:
    Tuesday, April 1, 2025
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.

Congress authorizes privateers to attack British vessels (1776)

  • Location:
    United States
  • Date:
    Thursday, April 3, 2025
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.

Confederate capital of Richmond captured (1865)

  • Location:
    United States
  • Date:
    Thursday, April 3, 2025
The Rebel capital of Richmond, Virginia, falls to the Union, the most significant sign that the Confederacy is nearing its final days.

Pony Express Debuts (1860)

  • Location:
    United States
  • Date:
    Thursday, April 3, 2025
On April 3, the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.

Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated (1968)

  • Location:
    Memphis TN
  • Date:
    Friday, April 4, 2025
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.

Black Hawk War Begins (1832)

  • Location:
    United States
  • Date:
    Sunday, April 6, 2025
  • 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.

Grand Army of the Republic Founded (1866)

  • Location:
    United States
  • Date:
    Sunday, April 6, 2025
The GAR, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War is founded. It lasts until 1956.

Battle of Shiloh begins (1862)

  • Location:
    Near Memphis, Tennessee
  • Date:
    Sunday, April 6, 2025
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.

U.S. Formally Enters WWI (1917)

  • Location:
    United States
  • Date:
    Sunday, April 6, 2025
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.

Robert E. Lee surrenders (1865)

  • Location:
    Appomattox, Virginia
  • Date:
    Wednesday, April 9, 2025
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.

Blood Drive

  • Location:
    Grandview Community Center
  • Date:
    Wednesday, April 9, 2025
  • Time:
    1:00 PM
  • Duration:
    5 Hours
  • Contact:
    Jim Davidson at (509) 882-1984

Appointments fill quickly, so schedule at RedCrossBlood.org.

U.S. Army liberates Buchenwald (1945)

  • Location:
    Weimar, Germany
  • Date:
    Friday, April 11, 2025
The American Third Army liberates the Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany, a camp that will be judged second only to Auschwitz.

Civil War Begins (1861)

  • Location:
    Charleston, South Carolina
  • Date:
    Saturday, April 12, 2025
Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard opens fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay.

POST MEETING

  • Location:
    Grandview Community Center
  • Date:
    Thursday, April 17, 2025
  • Time:
    7:00 PM
  • Duration:
    1.5 Hours
  • Contact:
    Jim Davidson at (509) 882-1984

RegularPost Meeting held both in person at by teleconference. Agendas emailed to the membership one to two daays before the meeting.

Doolittle Raid on Tokyo (1942)

  • Location:
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Date:
    Friday, April 18, 2025
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.

Bunny Breakfast

  • Location:
    Grandview Community Center
  • Date:
    Saturday, April 19, 2025
  • Time:
    9:00 AM
  • Duration:
    1 Hour
  • Contact:
    Gretchen Chronis at 509-882-9219

Grab and Go breakfast for attendees of the Easter Egg Hunt.

Easter Sunday

  • Location:
    World-wide
  • Date:
    Sunday, April 20, 2025

Steamboat Sultana Explodes (1865)

  • Location:
    Memphis, TN
  • Date:
    Sunday, April 27, 2025
On April 27, 1865, the steamboat Sultana explodes on the Mississippi River near Memphis, killing 1,700 passengers including many discharged Union soldiers.

Dachau Liberated (1945)

  • Location:
    Dachau, Germany
  • Date:
    Tuesday, April 29, 2025
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.

Fall of Saigon (1975)

  • Location:
    Saigon (Ho Chi Monh City), Vietnam
  • Date:
    Wednesday, April 30, 2025
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.