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ActiveHistory provides educational, award-winning interactive simulations, decision-making games, self-marking quizzes, high-quality worksheets and detailed lesson plans for the school history classroom. All resources have been designed by full-time history teacher Russel Tarr.
An ActiveHistory subscription provides everything you need to construct and deliver a History course from start to finish for the entire 11-18 age range!
These consist not just of lesson plans, worksheets and teacher notes, but also multimedia lectures and interactive games and historical simulations ideal for remote learning and self-study.
Major historical anniversaries and events for this day in history and this week for 2025.
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Historical Anniversaries this Week
April 15
Births (150 years ago today): 1875 – James J. Jeffries, American boxer and promoter (d. 1953)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Sarah Teichmann, German-American biophysicist and immunologist
April 16
Events (100 years ago today): 1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
Deaths (650 years ago today): 1375 – John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English nobleman and soldier (b. 1347)[57]
Deaths (100 years ago today): 1925 – Stefan Nerezov, Bulgarian general (b. 1867)
April 17
Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
Births (150 years ago today): 1875 – Aleksander Tõnisson, Estonian general and politician, 5th Estonian Minister of War (d. 1941)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 –
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