April 1, 1865 Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army April 1, 1865 Richard Zsigmondy, Germany, chemist (Nobel-1925) April 1, 1864 Marie Jungius, Dutch fairy tale writer April 1, 1863 1st wartime conscription law in U.S. goes into effect April 1, 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA April 1, 1858 Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life) April 1, 1858 Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite) April 1, 1853 Cincinnati became 1st U.S. city to pay fire fighters a regular salary April 1, 1852 Edward Austin Abbey, U.S., painter (Quest of the Holy Grail) April 1, 1850 SF County Government established April 1, 1847 Gavriil Musicescu, composer April 1, 1847 Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer (South America) April 1, 1843 Ludwig Enneccerus, German jurist April 1, 1836 Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands April 1, 1834 Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer April 1, 1832 Robert the Hermit, U.S. ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies April 1, 1830 Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer, dies at 51 April 1, 1826 Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine April 1, 1823 Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1914 April 1, 1817 Johannes J van Oosterzee, Dutch theologist