Tax day moved to April 15th in 1955: Federal income tax was introduced with the Revenue Act of 1861 to help fund the Civil War. That Act sti...

14 April 1955 : Elston Howard becomes the 1st black to wear the Yankee uniform. Howard became the first African American to play for the Ya...

Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely . [this is all the info I could find on this story, no images or newspaper articles, anyone kn...

I thought I would butter you up with pretty fashion pages, skip history and go straight into a rant. I was thinking today how this jo...

5 April 1955: Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister. This must have felt the end of an era. Churchill had such an extraordinary life ...