Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889 to Hannah Chaplin ( née Hill, 1865 – 1928 ) and Charles Chaplin Sr. ( 1863 – 1901 ).

* Edgar, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana ( in four acts – premiered at La Scala, 21 April 1889 )

The city was officially founded on 1 April 1889.

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951 ) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

It rapidly spread west and hit North America in December 1889, South America in February – April 1890, India in February – March 1890, and Australia in March – April 1890.

* April 29 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher ( b. 1889 )

* April 4 – Harry Nyquist, American information theory pioneer ( b. 1889 )

* April 11 – George H. Plympton, American screenwriter ( b. 1889 )

April 22: Land Run of 1889 | Land Run.

* April 22 – At high noon in Oklahoma Territory, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889.

* April 13 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-born inventor ( d. 1889 )

Together, Wilhelm and Henriette had four children: Jacob Grimm ( 3 April 1826 – 15 December 1826 ), Herman Friedrich Grimm ( 6 January 1828 – 16 June 1901 ), Rudolf Georg Grimm ( 31 March 1830 – 13 November 1889 ), and Barbara Auguste Luise Pauline Marie ( 21 August 1832 – 9 February 1919 ).

" A devastating fire on April 9, 1889 ( the 24th anniversary of Lee's surrender at Appomattox ) destroyed his house and many of his personal possessions, including his personal Civil War documents and memorabilia.

Oklahoma City was settled on April 23, 1889, when the area known as the " unassigned lands " was opened for settlement in an event known as " The Land Run ".

Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo ( April 26, 1889 – December 14, 1984 ) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville.

However, Aomori was not given town status within Higashitsugaru District until April 1, 1889, and was not designated a city until April 1, 1898.

Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH ( 14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975 ) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934 – 1961, was a synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline, which examined history from a global perspective.

Born in London on 14 April 1889, Arnold J. Toynbee was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford.

The opera was first seen in the US at the Academy of Music in New York on 16 April 1888 and in the UK on 5 July 1889 in London.

These lands were opened to non-Indian settlement on April 22, 1889.

It became part of the Unassigned Lands, and the area was open to non-Indian settlement on April 22nd, 1889.

The area became part of the Unassigned Lands and was opened for white settlement on April 22, 1889.

* April 3 – Michael Woodruff, British / Australian surgeon ( d. 2001 )

In the April church general conference of 1889, the First Presidency was reorganized with Wilford Woodruff as the president.

* In April 2011, a new theatrical adaptation of Autumn Sonata, based on Bergman's original screeplay, had its World Premiere at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT, directed by Robert Woodruff.

* April 3-Michael Woodruff ( died 2001 ), English pioneer of organ transplant surgery.

Smith was present in the large assembly room of the Salt Lake Temple for its dedication on 6 April 1893 by Church President Wilford Woodruff.

The capstone — the granite sphere which holds the statue of the Angel Moroni — was laid on April 6, 1892, by means of an electric motor and switch operated personally by Wilford Woodruff, the church's fourth President, thus completing work on the temple's exterior.

President Woodruff dedicated the temple on April 6, 1893, exactly forty years after the cornerstone was laid.

Married Genevieve Woodruff, the daughter of Brigadier General Charles Woodruff April 1901 ; attended the Infantry and Cavalry School ( 1903 – 1904 ) and Staff College ( 1904 – 1905 ) at Fort Leavenworth ; was promoted to captain and assigned to the 10th Cavalry, May 1904, and the 1st Cavalry, 1905 ; was regimental quartermaster at Fort Clark, 1906 – 1909,

Alexander Woodruff Buel ( December 13, 1813 – April 19, 1868 ) was a politician from the U. S. state of Michigan.

George Quayle Cannon ( January 11, 1827 – April 12, 1901 ) was an early member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), and served in the First Presidency under four successive presidents of the church: Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and Lorenzo Snow.

* April 28 — Major Donald L. Woodruff of the City of Duluth's Police Department announced that because there were no other explanations, Wilbanks ' disappearance was being handled as a criminal investigation.

On April 6, 2006, ABC News released photos of Woodruff recovering at home, along with a letter thanking everyone for their support and kindness during his ongoing recovery.

On April 26, 2008, Woodruff received an honorary degree and delivered a commencement address at the University of Michigan spring graduation.

Their tax collection calendar could then be: July 25, October 26, January 26, and April 25, ( Providence ) ; ;

Alexios attempted to organize a resistance to the new regime from Adrianople and then Mosynopolis, where he was joined by the later usurper Alexios V Doukas Mourtzouphlos in April 1204, after the definitive fall of Constantinople to the crusaders and the establishment of the Latin Empire.

Ælfheah refused to allow a ransom to be paid for his freedom, and as a result was killed on 19 April 1012 at Greenwich ( then in Kent, now part of London ), reputedly on the site of St Alfege's Church.

Bahá ' u ' lláh was eventually released from prison but ordered into exile, and ` Abdu ' l-Bahá then eight joined his father on the journey to Baghdad in the winter ( January to April ) of 1853.

It was soon used in combat — in March 1986 against a Libyan SA-5 site in the Gulf of Sidra, and then Operation Eldorado Canyon in April.

On April 12, 2012, Bir and 30 other officers were taken in custody for their role in the 1997 military memorandum that forced the then Turkish government, led by the Islamist Welfare Party, to step down.

The name " Pluto " was reportedly suggested by Venetia Burney, then an 11-year-old English school girl, who died in April 2009, having lived to see the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.

Roosevelt made his request to Congress on March 21, 1933 ; the legislation was submitted to Congress the same day ; Congress passed it by voice vote on the 31st ; Roosevelt signed it the same day, then issued an executive order on April 5 creating the agency, appointing its director ( Fechner ), and assigning War Department corps area commanders the task to commence enrollment.

Earnhardt was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina, on April 29, 1951, to Martha Coleman and Ralph Lee Earnhardt, who was then one of the best short-track drivers in North Carolina.

The duke then set out for the Shrine of Saint James of Compostela, in the company of other pilgrims ; however, he died on Good Friday 9 April 1137.

He then went on to serve as Fourth Sea Lord at the Admiralty from June 1950 to April 1952 and then returned to the Mediterranean to serve as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet from June 1952.

Mountbatten was Governor of the Isle of Wight from 20 July 1965 and then the first Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight from 1 April 1974.

On Wednesday, 26 April, the guns at Trinity College and Helga shelled Liberty Hall, and the Trinity College guns then began firing at rebel positions, first at Boland's Mill and then in O ' Connell Street.

* April 9, 806 (): In the 25th year of Emperor Kammu's reign, he died ; and despite an ensuring dispute over who should follow him as sovereign, contemporary scholars then construed that the succession ( senso ) was received by his son.

The band toured in support in the US only from October 1976 to April 1977 with a break in December, then an American Music Award show appearance on 31 January 1977, plus a one-off gig in San Diego in August 1977.

SST anomalies then transitioned into the negative ( La Niña ) and have now transitioned back to ENSO-neutral during April 2012.

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. ( born April 19, 1931 ) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System / 360 family of computers and the OS / 360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.

The main German formations then advanced rapidly eastwards from Hanko and took Helsinki on 12 – 13 April.

In 1983, Brundtland was invited by then United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to establish and chair the World Commission on Environment and Development ( WCED ), widely referred to as the Brundtland Commission, developing the broad political concept of sustainable development in the course of extensive public hearings that were distinguished by their inclusiveness and published its report Our Common Future in April 1987.

Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.

He then signed articles on yet another whaler for a six-month cruise ( November 1842 − April 1843 ) and left that ship in Honolulu.

The country was then renamed the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ( DRA ), and the PDPA regime lasted, in some form or another, until April 1992.

In late April 1849, it was defeated and pushed back from Rome by Giuseppi Garibaldi's volunteer corps, then recovered and recaptured Rome.