In the spring of 1902, in a converted storefront at 262 South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, a cowboy-turned-entrepreneur named Thomas Lincoln Tally opened a smal
On the morning of April 3, 1865, a Sunday barely twenty-four hours after the Confederate government had fled in the dead of night, Union soldiers marched into the burning ruins of
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In the spring of 748 AD — most likely on April 2, according to the commemorative tradition preserved at Lorsch Abbey since the mid-ninth century — a child came into the world w
On April 1, 1976 — a date that happened to fall on April Fool’s Day — three men signed a partnership agreement in a modest home on Crist Drive in Los Altos, California, a
On the morning of April 1, 1945 — which happened to fall on both Easter Sunday and April Fool’s Day — the largest amphibious assault ever launched in the Pacific Theater
On the morning of April 1, 1933, a Saturday, Germany woke up to a chilling new reality. Across the length and breadth of the country, uniformed members of the Sturmabteilung — th
