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April 17 is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 258 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
Patriots' Day ( Patriot's Day in Maine) [1] is an annual event, formalized as a legal holiday or a special observance day in six U.S. states, commemorating the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy, the inaugural battles of the American Revolutionary War. The holiday occurs on the third Monday of April each year, with celebrations ...
28. 29. 30. Events. 1861 - American Civil War: Virginia secedes from the Union. 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Plymouth begins – Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina. 1865 - Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. 1907 - Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people ...
174 wounded. 53 missing [8] The Battles of Lexington and Concord was the first major military campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in an American victory and outpouring of militia support for the anti-British cause. [9] The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the ...
April 7 – Hersheypark opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania. April 15 – Triangle Fraternity, for engineering and related majors, is founded at Pennsylvania State University. April 17 – Today is the all-time busiest day of immigration through Ellis Island; this will be the busiest year ever seen here, with 1.1 million immigrants arriving.
April 30, 1924 (Wednesday) An outbreak of tornadoes killed 111 people across in five states in the southern U.S, [132] with 76 deaths in South Carolina, primarily in a storm that swept through Richland County Sumter County. Another 16 died in Georgia and 13 in Alabama.
Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month and was formerly known as Negro History Month before 1976. It began as a way of remembering important people and events in the history of the African diaspora , initially lasting a week before becoming a month ...
April 17: Evacuation Day in Syria ( 1946) 1362 – Lithuanian Crusade: After a month-long siege, forces of the Teutonic Order captured and destroyed Kaunas Castle (reconstruction pictured), which was defended by troops of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1783 – The Mechanical Turk, a fraudulent chess -playing "machine" by Wolfgang von Kempelen ...