Historical Events
- Apr 2 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
Flash! Bang! It's the Human Cannonball!
Apr 2 1st human cannonball act performed by 14-year-old Rossa Matilda Richter known as Zazel at the Royal Aquarium in London
17th British Open
Apr 6 17th British Open Men's Golf, Musselburgh Links: Jamie Anderson wins his first of 3 consecutive Championships; beats fellow Scot Bob Pringle by 2 shots
- Apr 10 Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia, SC
- Apr 12 British annex Transvaal, South Africa
- Apr 12 Catcher's mask 1st used in a baseball game
- Apr 15 World's first home telephone is installed in Somerville, Massachusetts at the house of Charles Williams Jr. [1]
- Apr 19 Opera "Les Cloches de Cornerville" is produced (Paris)
- Apr 24 Last federal occupying troops withdraw from the South (New Orleans)
- Apr 24 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
Le Roi de Lahore
Apr 27 Jules Massenet's opera "Le Roi de Lahore" (The King of Lahore) premieres at the Palais Garnier, Paris, France
End of Reconstruction
Apr 27 Rutherford B. Hayes removes Federal troops from Louisiana, Reconstruction ends
Famous Birthdays
- Apr 2 Arnold Schering, German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik), born in Breslau, Germany (d. 1941)
- Apr 6 Ted Ray, British golfer (British Open 1912, US Open 1920), born in Jersey (d. 1943)
- Apr 10 Alfred Kubin, Austrian writer and illustrator, born in Leitmeritz, Bohemia (d. 1959)
- Apr 14 Daniel Plooy, Dutch new testament scholar, born in Schiedam, Netherlands (d. 1935)
- Apr 17 Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat, born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1949)
- Apr 18 Vicente Sotto, Filipino politician and author (Sotto Law, Republic Act No. 53), born in Cebu City, Spanish Empire (d. 1950)
- Apr 19 Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American industrialist and inventor (outboard marine engine), born in Gjøvik, Norway (d. 1934)
- Apr 23 Arthur Farwell, American composer, born in St Paul, Minnesota (d. 1952)
- Apr 24 Charles Cuvillier, French composer of operetta (The Naughty Princess), born in Paris (d. 1955)
- Apr 30 Alice B. Toklas, American-Parisian avant-garde and companion of Gertrude Stein, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1967)
