April 2002

1
1979—Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
AskAsia Map of Iran
 (W)

2
1834 Born—Frederic-Auguste Bertholdi, Statue of Liberty sculptor
The Statue of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol
 (LP)

3
1783 Born—Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
 (LP)

4

Let Freedom Ring: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (LP)

1968—Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. King's Dream
 (LP)

1928 Born—Maya Angelou
Academy of American Poets
 (W)

5
1856 Born—Booker T. Washington
American Studies at University of Virginia (W)

Festival of Kwan Yin, Chinese Goddess of Compassion
AskAsia: Silk Road Encounters (W)

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1770 Born—William Wordsworth
Romantic Circles (W)

1917 Born—Billie Holiday
Learning the Blues  (LP)

8
1935—Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources (LP)

563 BC Born—Gautama Buddha
AskAsia (W)

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1925—F Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary  (W)

11
1814 1st abdication of Napoleon— exiled to Elba
Napoleon (W)

1968—Civil Rights Act of 1968
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement  (W)

12
1861—Civil War begins at Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC
Crisis at Fort Sumter (W)

13
1743 Born—Thomas Jefferson
Declare the Causes: The Declaration of Independence (LP)

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1843 Born—Henry James
American Collection: An Educator's Site (W)

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1906—San Francisco Earthquake
American Memory: Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire (W)

1989—Zimbabwe gains independence
Art and Life in Africa Online (W)

19
1971—Sierra Leone becomes a republic
African Studies WWW: Sierra Leone (W)

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1816 Born—Charlotte Bronte
Victorian Web (W)

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Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the Motives of Evil (LP)

1564 Born—William Shakespeare
1616 Died—William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the  (LP)

1964—Tanganyika & Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania - Tanzanian Union Day
African Voices (W)

24
1905 Born—Robert Penn Warren
Modern American Poetry (W)

25
1925 Born—Flannery O'Connor
Documenting the American South (W)

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1926 Born—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird author
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (LP)

29

Harlem: 1910-1940 (W)

1899 Born—Duke Ellington
Jazz: A Ken Burns Film (W)

30

Conversations with History: Recalling the Vietnam War (W)

1975-End of Vietnam War
Eyewitness to History (LP)