- 1611 The word "telescope" is first used by Prince Federico Cesi
1828 Noah Webster registers the copyright for the publication of the first American dictionary titled "An American Dictionary of the English Language"
1st Detective Story
1841 First detective story is published, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" [April 1841]
Edison's Kinetoscope
1894 First public showing of Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope (moving pictures)
- 1896 US Patent Office issues Patent No. 558,393 to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan, for "flaked cereal, and process of making same"
1912 RMS Titanic, the world's largest ocean liner, hits an iceberg at 11:40pm off Newfoundland and sinks in the early hours of April 15
- 1927 The first Volvo car is produced in Gothenburg, Sweden
- 1932 World's first particle accelerator built by Ernest Walton and John Cockcroft performs the first artificial nuclear fission with Lithium at Cambridge University [1]
Bye Bye Birdie
1960 Lee Adams and Charles Strouse's musical "Bye Bye Birdie," starring Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera, and Dick Gautier, opens at the Martin Beck Theater in NYC and runs for 607 performances
- 1961 First live television broadcast from the Soviet Union
- 1981 The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, returns to Earth after 2 days and 6 hours in space
Let's Dance
1983 EMI America Records releases David Bowie's 15th studio album, "Let's Dance"; co-produced by Bowie and Nile Rodgers, it becomes his biggest commercial success with sales of nearly 11 million units, topping the charts in 9 countries, and introduces guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan to a larger audience
Bill Nye the Science Guy
1993 "Bill Nye the Science Guy" starring Bill Nye debuts on KCTS-TV in the US
- 2015 Archaeologists announce they have found 3.3 million-year-old stone tools at Lomekwi in Kenya, the oldest ever discovered and predating the earliest humans
DAMN.
2017 Kendrick Lamar releases his fourth studio album "DAMN." (2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music)
Beyoncé Headlines Coachella
2018 Beyoncé is the first Black woman to headline the Coachella Music Festival; her performance on this day is the most-watched performance ever on YouTube
- 2023 European Space Agency's mission to Jupiter's moons, the Juice satellite launches on an Ariane-5 rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana [1]
