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Show April Days The last half of April contains con-tains anniversaries which should be recalled by all Americans. What might have been the most disastrous fire in the history of the nation began on the 18th in 1906, in San Francisco, following an earthquake. . ON THE 19th in 1775, the battles of Lexington and Concord Con-cord (Emerson wrote that the first shot was heard round the world) were fought. The Battle of San Jacinto, which forced Mexico to recognize the independence of Texas, was fought and won on the 21st in 1836. ARBOR Day was celebrated in Nebraska on the 22nd as is the opening of unassigned lands on the 22nd in 1889, in Oklahoma. April 23rd is the birthday anniversary of the fifteenth President of the nation, James Buchanan, born at Mercersburg, Pa. in 1791. ON THE 24th in 1814, British Bri-tish troops attacked, captured and burned Washington. The 24th is remembered in Mississippi Mis-sissippi as Confederate Memorial Day. General U.S. Grant, 18th President of the nation and the commanding general of U.S. forces, won the decisive battles of the Civil War, was bom at Point Pleasant, Ohio, on the 27th in 1822. THE 28th is the anniversary of the birth of the nation's fifth president, James Monroe, in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1758. Monroe negotiated the purchase of the Louisiana territory from France, was so popular as President he received every electoral vote but one in reelection to a second term. |