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- THIS WEEK IN HISTORY -
April 25, 1926 - Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowns himself Shah Palawi; April 25, 1927 - Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen); April 25, 1980 - Announcement of US hostage rescue bungle in Iran; April 25, 1982 - In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawal; April 26, 2005 - Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country; April 27, 1915 - Counterattack launched by Turkish forces under the command of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk against allied troops; April 27, 1978 - Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup; April 28, 1951 - Mohammad Mosaddegh elected Prime Minister of Iran by the Parliament of Iran (Majlis); April 28, 1967 - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title; April 28, 1989 - Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie; April 30, 711 - Islamic conquest of Iberia: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus); April 30, 2002 - A referendum in Pakistan overwhelmingly approves the Presidency of Pervez Musharraf for another five years; April 30, 2004 - U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
April 24, 1704 - First continuously published newspaper in America - The Boston News-Letter published by John Campbell; April 25, 1846 - Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War; April 25, 1898 - Spanish–American War: The US declares state of war on Spain; April 25, 1950 - Chuck Cooper becomes the first African American to be drafted into the NBA; April 26, 1777 - Sybil Ludington aged 16, rides 40 miles in New York to warn her father's militia of the approach of the British; April 26, 1954 - Mass trials of Jonas Salk's anti-polio vaccine begin; April 26, 1986 - World's worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR explodes, 31 die, radioactive contamination reaches much of Western Europe; April 27, 1773 - British Parliament passes Tea Act; May 1, 1989 - Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins: US Supreme Court rules employers have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting; April 29, 1902 - Congress extends the Chinese Exclusion Act (of 1882) prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers from territories to the mainland, a rule clearly aimed at Chinese in the Philippines; April 29, 1945 - US Army liberates 31,601 people from the Dachau Nazi concentration camp in Germany; April 29, 1992 - Jury acquits LAPD officers on charges of excessive force in the beating of Rodney King; the decision sparks massive riots; April 29, 2004 - Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office; April 30, 1789 - George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States.
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