This week in history
April 8, 1820
The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
April 9, 2005
Charles, Prince of Wales, marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor’s Guildhall.
April 10, 1815
Mount Tambora volcano in Indonesia begins a three-month-long eruption. Ultimately 71,000 people are killed and the Earth’s climate is affected for two years. The year 1816 becomes known as the “year without a summer”.
April 11, 1981
A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
April 12, 1981
The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
April 13, 1997
Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
April 14, 1865
US President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln dies the next day.