Joshua Slocum📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 24 April 189519th-century Canadian-American seaman; first to circumnavigate the world solo
The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire📜 WARS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 24 April 1922Radiotelegraphic communications network within the British Empire in the 20th century
The Wignacourt Aqueduct is inaugurated in Malta.📜 CITIES🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 21 April 161517th-century aqueduct in Malta
Tiradentes📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 BRAZIL🗓️ 21 April 179218th-century Brazilian revolutionary and national hero
The Seattle World’s Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World’s Fair in the United States since World War II.📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 21 April 1962World's fair held in Seattle, Washington
Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 19 April 152916th-century movement in Western Christianity
Anti-government protests start in Nicaragua.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 18 April 201821st-century protests in Nicaragua
The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 16 April 1910Team winter sport
Following his marriage to the Christian Doubravka of Bohemia📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 14 April 096610th-century Bohemian princess and Duchess consort of the Polans
Samuel Argall📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 13 April 161316/17th-century English naval officer and colonial official in Virginia