# April \[edited title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 14, 2011, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882 "2011-05-14T06:05:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jim2929](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@Jim2929](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim2929)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/1 "2011-05-14T06:05:35Z")
It seems to me that a lot of important things happened, over the years, in the month of April. Two from the top of my head-FDR died, Hitler also. can you by any chance, find a list of others. Well, I really know you can, being the smartist human alive today. Thanks, Ill be looking in next week. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/2 "2011-05-14T07:25:06Z")
In fact, fully one twelfth of all historically significant events throughout all time have taken place in April. Spooky, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/3 "2011-05-14T08:39:18Z")
Isn’t this in the wrong forum? Or is this an anything goes day? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/4 "2011-05-14T09:00:17Z")
April is the cruellest month. Then again, oh to be in England now that April’s there. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/5 "2011-05-14T09:11:36Z")
> [@Jim2929](#): > > It seems to me that a lot of important things happened, over the years, in the month of April. Two from the top of my head-FDR died, Hitler also. can you by any chance, find a list of others. Well, I really know you can, being the smartist human alive today. Thanks, Ill be looking in next week. No-one saw Hitler die, so according to Schrodinger, until you look, he is both dead and alive. So maybe April isn’t \*that \*significant. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/6 "2011-05-14T10:26:46Z")
All the notable (and some not so notable) events for each day of the year are[collected on Wikipedia.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries) There are hundreds for each month. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/7 "2011-05-14T12:26:47Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > In fact, fully one twelfth of all historically significant events throughout all time have taken place in April. > > Spooky, isn’t it? Actually, more have taken place in April than in February, but less in April than August. It’s a Zodiac thing I think. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/8 "2011-05-14T12:27:50Z")
Beware the Ides of April. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/9 "2011-05-14T12:29:01Z")
> [@Jim2929](#): > > It seems to me that a lot of important things happened, over the years, in the month of April. Two from the top of my head-FDR died, Hitler also. can you by any chance, find a list of others. Well, I really know you can, being the smartist human alive today. Thanks, Ill be looking in next week. This post has been smarted by the smartist. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/10 "2011-05-14T12:37:21Z")
The _Titanic_ sank, and Abraham Lincoln died in april. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/11 "2011-05-14T12:47:50Z")
South Vietnam fell in April. By gum, I think the OP is on to something! :eek:! ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/12 "2011-05-14T12:49:17Z")
Pocahontas married John Rolfe in Virginia, 04/05/1614 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/13 "2011-05-14T12:51:21Z")
Custer’s Last Stand was only a couple of months after April ended. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/14 "2011-05-14T13:05:44Z")
The Ford Mustang was born in 1964 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/15 "2011-05-14T13:17:34Z")
[April is the cruelest month](http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html). And, of course, that is the month in which l[ongen folk to goon on pilgrmages, the holie blisful martyr for to seke, that hem hath holpen, whanne that they were sicke.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE0MtENfOMU) Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![anson2995](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@anson2995](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anson2995)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/16 "2011-05-14T13:24:05Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > April is the cruellest month. > > Then again, oh to be in England now that April’s there. … to be in England, in the summertime, with my love, close to the edge. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/17 "2011-05-14T13:26:15Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > The _Titanic_ sank, and Abraham Lincoln died in April. Abraham Lincoln was on the _Titanic_?? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/18 "2011-05-14T14:43:12Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Abraham Lincoln was on the _Titanic_?? Abraham Lincoln and Paul Bunyon manned the oars that propelled the Titanic into that iceburg. Multiculturalism doesn’t teach that today, I bet! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/19 "2011-05-14T15:01:41Z")
At any rate, this should probably be thrown over to MPSIMS. Moved from ATMB. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882/20 "2011-05-14T15:07:42Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Abraham Lincoln was on the _Titanic_?? It’s a little known fact that Abraham Lincoln actually survived the assassination attempt but was in a near-vegetative state; it was decided that it would be best if it was announced that he had died, thus avoiding the confusion that might ensue regarding the status of the Presidency. The “funeral train” which was supposedly taking his body back to Illinois was actually transporting the comatose Lincoln. Against all odds, considering the state of medicine at that time, he continued to live and occasionally showed signs of awareness of his surroundings. In 1909 he was taken to England to undergo experimental treatment which they hoped would restore him to full consciousness. Despite his advanced age the combination of drugs and electrostatic treatments revived him completely, although with some loss of memory which slowly returned over the course of a year. While this was hailed (privately) as a great success, it left those who had been preserving the secret of his survival with a problem: what to do next? How would the world react to the news? After some discussion among the members of the conspiracy, and consultation with Lincoln himself, it was decided to return him secretly to the United States and let him live out his life in solitude in the Union he had fought to preserve, Arrangements were made for him to travel on the _Titanic_ with the Astors, who were able to seclude him in their suite. When the ship hit an iceberg it was impossible to bring Lincoln out to a lifeboat. His last known words, spoken to John Jacob Astor, were “The Union stands”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-edited-title/581882.md?page=2)