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Selected anniversaries
April 9: Easter Monday in Christianity (2007); Day of Valor in the Philippines.
- 193 - Septimius Severus was proclaimed Roman Emperor.
- 1865 - Battle of Appomattox Courthouse: Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War.
- 1917 - World War I: The Canadian Corps began the first wave of attacks in the Battle of Vimy Ridge, advancing behind a creeping barrage known as the 'Vimy Glide'.
- 1959 - NASA announced the selection of the Mercury Seven (pictured), the first astronauts in Project Mercury.
- 1989 - April 9 tragedy: An anti-Soviet demonstration in Tbilisi, Georgia was quashed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and thousands of injured.
Recent days: April 8 – April 7 – April 6
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- ...that Eugene Antonio Marino became the first African American Catholic archbishop in the United States in 1988?
- ...that Hungerford Market, a food market in London for nearly 200 years, was demolished in the 1860s to make way for Charing Cross railway station?
- ...that George B. Schwabe served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1921 to 1922 and was the first and only Republican to hold that position until 2005?
- ...that while undercover as a woman, Herbert Dyce Murphy was so convincing that he received a proposal from a French lieutenant?
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