AncientPages.com – Two pilots Vladimir Kokkinaki and Mikhail Gordienko took off on a mission to fly between Moscow and America in the shortest possible time. The plane developed for the flight was the red bomber, a twin-engined monoplane, the TSKB-30, named

AncientPages.com – On April 27, 1124, following the death of his brother Alexander, David I (Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim) made himself king of Scotland with the backing of Henry I of England. David I (born between 1083 and 1085) was

AncientPages.com – On April 26, 1900, seismologist Charles Richter was born near Hamilton, Ohio, USA. Richter became involved in earthquake engineering by promoting good earthquake building codes and proper training for people who live in earthquake zones. Charles Richter & his

AncientPages.com – On April 25, 1507, Martin Waldseemüller (ca. 1470-ca. 1518) was the first to suggest that the newly discovered landmass in the New World should be called America. It was, in fact, in South America. The last known copy of

AncientPages.com – On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the Hubble Space Telescope. The following day, Hubble was released into space and began its great work of reshaping our perception

AncientPages.com – The great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare was probably born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon. Very little is known about his life, yet his literary legacy has influenced many worldwide. Statue of Shakespeare (1872) in Central Park, New

AncientPages.com – On April 22, 1509, Henry VIII took the crown as the ruler of all England. Henry VIII is best known for his six wives, whose fate is described in the famous rhyme: “Divorced, Beheaded, Died: Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.”

AncientPages.com – April 21, 753 BC, is a mythological date when Rome is founded by Romulus, one of the twin brothers. In Roman mythology, Romulus and his twin brother Remus were the children of Rhea Silvia and Mars (or, in some variations,

AncientPages.com – On April 20, 1535, an atmospheric optical phenomenon known as the “Sun Dog” was observed over Stockholm. The painting that depicts the event was named “Weather Sun”) (in Swedish: Vädersol)  and is considered the oldest depiction of Stockholm in color, the oldest Swedish landscape

AncientPages.com – On April 19, 1770, Captain James Cook spotted and claimed the East Coast of Australia. Cook was born in north-east England in 1728, and in his late teens, he worked on ships along the English coast and the

AncientPages.com – On the evening of April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren instructed Paul Revere, a Boston silversmith, to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn Sam Adams and John Hancock that the British troops were coming to arrest them. Paul Revere

AncientPages.com – On April 16, 1457, BC (other sources propose May 9), the Battle of Megiddo took place during a rebellion against Pharaoh Thutmose III. On one side, there was a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, and on