[CALIBK12] Titanic, Lincoln, San Francisco Earthquake and Other April Highlights

[Carole Bos]

During April we remember the Titanic (which struck an iceberg and sank soon after), the shooting of President Lincoln (whose assassination sent shock waves through America) and "the miracle" at the water pump (when Annie Sullivan made a startling breakthrough with her pupil, Helen Keller).  

In addition, we're thinking about the earthquake of April 6th (in which "a jewel of medieval Italy collapsed"), Mahatma Gandhi (who "broke" the unfair salt laws following non-violent resistance), Martin Luther King, Jr. (who was killed soon after delivering his powerful "Mountaintop" speech), the San Francisco earthquake and fire (which devastated the city on April 18, 1906) and the Chernobyl reactor meltdown (which remains the world's worst nuclear accident).  Learn the details of those, and other events, in this summary of April Highlights.  
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Carole Bos
Dean's Advisory Board
Grand Valley State University
bosc at gvsu.edu