28th » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
Famous Birthdays on April in 1869
2nd » Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (d. 1928)
4th » Mary Colter, American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (d. 1958)
5th » Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1942)
5th » Albert Roussel, French composer (d. 1937)
6th » Levon Shant, Armenian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1951)
8th » Harvey Williams Cushing, American surgeon (d. 1939)
11th » Kasturba Gandhi, Indian wife of Mohandas Gandhi (d. 1944)
11th » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
12th » Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (d. 1922)
30th » Hans Poelzig, German architect, designed the IG Farben Building and Großes Schauspielhaus (d. 1936)