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* April-The first railroad car ferry in the U. S., the Susquehanna enters service on the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Maryland.
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* 1851 23 April-The Province of Canada issues its first stamp, the Three-Penny Beaver, designed by Sandford Fleming.
* 19 April-The first Indian satellite, Aryabhata, goes into Earth's orbit.
* 30 April-The paper rix dollars is issued for the first time in the Cape
* 13 April-The first electrical street lights in Cape Town are switched on
* 8 April-The first Jewish congregation consecrates their synagogue
* 7 April-The Representation of Natives Act no 16 of 1936 is passed, the first of a series of laws to diminish the voting rights of non-Whites in the Cape Province
* 9 April-The first publication of the Dutch / Afrikaans newspaper De Zuid Afrikaan is issued in the Cape Colony
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* 22 April-The U. S .- based current affairs magazine TIME apologizes emphatically for the offense caused by the printing of a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad-considered a blasphemy in Islam-which had sparked large riots in Kashmir the previous day.
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* April-The government of Cape Colony sets a deadline for the surrender of weapons by the Basuto people.
* 1887, April-The Texas legislature establishes Schleicher County from Crockett County and named it in honor of Gustav Schleicher.
* 1961 April-The Short Term Women's College in Tokushima is opened, later reformed into Shikoku University.
* 1963 April-The Tokushima Municipal Culture Center is completed.
* 2005 April-The Shikoku Island League is created, and baseball team The Indigo Socks represents Tokushima.
* 2006 April-The West District Administration Bureau is created.
* 14 April-The Dutch submarine O10 was bombed in error off Noordwijk by two V. 156-F Dive Bombers.
* April-The Female Spectator, a monthly periodical, is founded by Eliza Haywood.
* 6 April-The biggest ever Indo-French naval exercise Varuna 2004 gets underway off the coast of Goa.
* 3 April-The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ( AIADMK ) backs an opposition demand for a parliamentary inquiry into the sacking of the naval chief.
* 5 April-The cabinet rejects an AIADMK demand for the dismissal of Defense Minister George Fernandes and the reinstatement of the navy chief.
* 6 April-The AIADMK withdraws two of its representatives from the Council of Ministers.
* 14 April-The AIADMK withdraws support from the ruling coalition.
* Late April-The state government of Bihar agrees to support proposals to create a new state-unofficially named Jharkhand-from its southern districts.
* Early April-The Tibetan spiritual leader, the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, welcomes news that tens of thousands of Dalits ( lower-caste Hindus ) are to convert to Buddhism on October 14.
* 18 April-The country's space program is brought into a new era with the successful test launch of its geostationary satellite launch vehicle, the GSLV-D1, at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
* 22 April-The government is outraged when medical reports suggest that many of the 16 soldiers killed by Bangladeshi forces in border skirmishes were mutilated and tortured before being murdered.
* 19 April-The provisional government of Bangladesh exiled flees to West Bengal.
* 1 April-The Reserve Bank of India is established.
* 22 April-The last coal mine in France closes, ending nearly 300 years of coal mining.
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* 7 March – 18 April-The Times publishes a series of articles on " Parnellism and Crime " quoting letters implicating Charles Stewart Parnell of involvement in illegal activities, in particular, support for the 1882 Phoenix Park Murders.
* 3 April-The Merenstejin, a Dutch merchant ship, sinks off Jutten Island on the west coast of the Cape Colony
* 23 April-The Afrikaans-German Culture Union ( Afrikaanse-Deutsche Kultuurgemeinschaft-ADK ) is founded on Pretoria
first and railroad
The first, or double-step, type might also be called the `` railroad type '' because of its application to railroads ( and other transportation agencies ) by the Cost Section of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
In the first subtype, the analyst ( following the practice of railroad analysis in this particular respect ) distributes both total operating costs and total annual capital costs ( including an allowance for `` cost of capital '' or `` fair rate of return '' ) among the different classes and units of service.
Insofar as it carried railroad trains under a city street, some have claimed it be the world's first subway tunnel, though, unlike a modern rapid transit subway, it had no stations.
* 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.
He established the first Ottoman railroad network and Sirkeci Train Station in Istanbul, terminus of the Orient Express.
President Grover Cleveland appointed Thomas M. Cooley, a railroad ally, as its first chairman and a permit system was used to deny access to new entrants and legalize price fixing.
* Carl Abraham Pihl, engineer and director of first Norwegian railroad ( Hovedbanen ).
Mexican factory workers and railroad crews first arrived in the Chicagoland area ( Chicago, Illinois ), used the term among themselves, probably to mean chicanery or the working man.
The first railroad in Indiana reached Columbus from Madison, Indiana in 1844.
Rock Island Railroad built the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River in 1856.
* 1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
* 1827 – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
Many of the first American railroad builders came to Newcastle to learn from Stephenson, and indeed, the first dozen or so locomotives utilized in the U. S. were purchased from the Stephenson shops.
The Granite Railway, America's first railroad, was built to haul granite from the quarries in Quincy, Massachusetts, to the Neponset River in the 1820s.
Liberal concessions allowed U. S. based concerns to enter the Honduran market, first as shipping companies, and then as railroad and banana producing enterprises.
By the 1890s, industrialisation in these areas had created the first giant industrial corporations with burgeoning global interests, as companies like U. S. Steel, General Electric, Standard Oil and Bayer AG joined the railroad companies on the world's stock markets.
They were first hidden at Senator David Levy Yulee's plantation in Florida, then placed in the care of a railroad agent in Waldo.
* Theodore Judah, American engineer who dreamed of the first transcontinental railroad
In 1845 Douglas, serving in his first term in the United States House of Representatives, had submitted an unsuccessful plan to formally organize the Nebraska Territory as the first step in building a railroad with its eastern terminus in Chicago.
It received its first contract from the Prussian State railroad, and manufactured its first locomotive.
Krupp was the first company to patent a seamless, reliable and strong enough railroad tire for rail freight.
* 1957 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U. S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
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