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• On April 13, 1743, the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, was born in Shadwell, Va..
• On April 14,1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington.
• On April15, 1947, Jackie Robinson put on his first Brooklyn Dodgers uniform (Number 42) and broke the Major League Baseball "color line".
• On April 16, 1947, the French ship Grandcamp blew up at the harbor in Texas City, Texas; another ship, the High Flyer, exploded the following day.  The blasts and resulting fires killed nearly 600 people.
• On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.
• On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.  (Timothy McVeigh was later convicted of federal murder charges and executed.)
• On April 20, 1999, the Columbine High School massacre took place in Colorado as two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives.
• On April 21, 1836, an army of Texans led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto, assuring Texas independence.
• On April 22, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson opened the New York World's Fair.
• On April 23, 1985, the Coca-Cola Co. announced it was changing the secret flavor formula for Coke (negative public reaction forced the company to resume selling the original version).
• On April 25, 1945, during World War 2, U.S. and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River in a meeting that dramatized the collapse of  Nazi Germany's defense.