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Show April Events You nrc I he hope of beauty mid I he liii III of life mid death come, welcome home ii)iiiii' Anne l.uvvlcr The sccoiul quarter i)l t he year begins with April which also conlains April Fool's 1 );iy , I misIci ( April 1 I) and happy hap-py lax-paying day on the 15th. ON I NK (th in 1917. Congress Con-gress declared war on Germany, Ger-many, which doomed ihe. Kaiser and Ihe German monarchy monar-chy and eventually, indirectly, produced Adolf Hitler. On the same day in 1X30, Ihe Mormon C hurch was founded. ( The Greeks in America celchrate the ()th as the Anniversary of Ihe Greek war for independence). independ-ence). On the 9th in 1K65. Gen. Robert H. l.ee finally surrendered surren-dered his Army of Northern Virginia, perhaps the most ably-led in Ihe nation's history, his-tory, at Appomattox, Va., to a generous U.S. Grant. 1 he 10th is Ihe birthday anniversary of Ihe founder of the Salvation Army, William Hooth. THE FAMKI) Halifax (N.C);res)lulions, calling lor independence, date from the I2lh in 1776, and largely influenced influ-enced Ihe Continental Congress Con-gress later that year, which fol- lowed the Halifax example. One of Ihe greatest Americans and for eight years ( IKOI-IX(W) president, Thomas Jefferson, was born at Shad well. Va.. on Ihe 13th in 1743. The Huguenot Society observes Ihe 13th, Ihe day of Ihe signing of the Fdict of Nantes, hailing Ihe persecution persecu-tion of Protestants in France in , 1598. Henry IV signed this act of freedom: Louis XIV revoked re-voked il in 16X5, and Protestants Protes-tants were again persecuted. |