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8 SOLERA DIAMOND VALLEY | APRIL 2020 By Clare Mendez, resident 1775: Paul Revere rode 12 miles from Boston to this Massachusetts town to warn the colonists that the British were coming. 1861: The Civil War began when Confederate forces fired on this South Carolina town. 1865: President Abraham Lincoln, while watching a play at this Washington, DC, theater, was shot by John Wilkes Booth. 1896: The first modern Olympic games, with athletes (male only) from 14 countries competing in 43 events, took place in this city. 1912: The luxury liner Titanic, which had left on its maiden voyage from this England port city, sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland. 1913: Swedish American inventor Gideon Sundback filed a patent for this device, which he called a "separable fastener." 1936: Bruno Hauptmann was electrocuted in Trenton, New Jersey, for this very high-profile crime. 1947: He broke the color barrier in baseball when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1953: American scientist James Watson and British scientist Francis Crick discovered the structure of this material- the biological building block that carries all the genetic information for living things. 1961: This Russian cosmonaut became the first human being ever to travel in space. The flight lasted 118 minutes from blastoff to landing and orbited the earth once. 1968: At the age of 39, civil right leader Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death in this city. 1975: As the last U.S. helicopters left the country, this South Vietnamese capital surrendered to the Communist North Vietnam. 1986: An explosion and fire occurred in the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in this country. 1993: A 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near this Texas city ended when the building was set on fire by the people hiding inside. 1995: A truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah building in this city, killing 168 people and injuring many more. 1999: Two students from this Colorado high school went on a shooting rampage, killing 13 people before taking their own lives. 1775 Lexington, Massachusetts (Note: The American Revolutionary War began the next day with the Battle of Concord.) 1861 Fort Sumter 1865 Ford's Theater 1896 Athens, Greece 1912 Southampton 1913 The zipper 1936 The kidnap and murder of the twenty-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh 1947 Jackie Robinson 1953 DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) 1961 Yuri Gagarin 1968 Memphis, Tennessee 1975 Saigon 1986 The Soviet Union (now Ukraine) 1993 Waco, Texas 1995 Oklahoma City 1999 Columbine High School This trivia quiz will stretch your long-term memory muscles. April IN HISTORY ANSWERS