Find Out What happened This Day in History for the month of April
April 1
- 1918 Royal Air force is Founded
- 1946 Hawaii Earthquake and Tsunami
- 1970 Cigarette Advertising Banned in US
- 1999 Eleven countries in the European Union adopted the Euro as a common currency
- 2003 Jessica Lynch is rescued in Iraq
April 2
- 1916 - 1918 World War I Battle Of The Somme
- 1932 Charles Lindbergh, whose son was kidnapped paid $50,000 ransom
- 1972 Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States
- 1977 Red Rum the diminutive horse with the heart of a champion wins the English Grand National for a record third time
- 1980 Windfall Act on Oil Industries High Profits
- 1982 Argentina invades Falklands Islands
- 1992 Mob boss John Gotti often referred to as "The Teflon Don" Convicted for first time
- 2005 Pope John Paul II Dies
- 2009 G20 Summit Over Global Financial Problems
April 3
- 1860 Pony Express Service Starts
- 1974 148 tornadoes hit North America from Georgia to Canada within 16 hours
- 1994 Civil War breaks out in Rwanda
- 2010 Apple Releases Ipad
April 4
- 1906 Mount Vesuvius erupts
- 1949 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established
- 1964 The Beatles hold an unprecedented record of twelve positions on Billboard Hot 100 singles chart
- 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. Murdered
- 1973 New York's World Trade Center Completed
- 2006 Saddam Hussein Charged With Genocide
- 1933 President Franklin Roosevelt signs "United States Executive Order 6102" Gold Compulsorily Purchased
- 1968 Race Riots Follow Assassination of Martin Luther King
- 1969 One of the greatest co-ordinated demonstrations in modern times starts on this weekend against US involvement in Vietnam with demonstrations in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and other major cities.
- 1976 American billionaire Howard Hughes dies at the age of 70.
- 1987 Fox Broadcasting Co. made its prime-time TV debut
- 1994 Kurt Cobain lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the rock band Nirvana commits suicide
- 2010 Explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, Raleigh County, West Virginia
April 6
- 1896 Modern Olympics Games Reborn
- 1917 America enters World War I
- 1941 Germany invades Yugoslavia
April 7
- 1933 On April 7th 1933 beer goes on sale again in 19 of the 48 states and the District of Columbia .
- 1948 The World Health Organization (WHO) established
- 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein debut their hit musical "South Pacific" on Broadway
April 8
- 1904 Long Acre Square in Manhattan, New York, was renamed Times Square
- 1958 10,000 protesters arrive in Trafalgar Square, London as part of the CND / Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
- 1974 Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run
- 1992 The satirical British magazine Punch publishes it's final issue
April 9
- 1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders
- 1940 Germany invades Norway and Denmark
- 1942 Philippines Surrender To Japanese
- 1942 The Japanese forced 75,000 captured American and Filipino soldiers on the Bataan Death March.
- 1959 America's First Astronauts Introduced1
- 0th :1925 "The Great Gatsby" F. Scott Fitzgerald, is published
- 1970 Beatles Break Up
- 1971 US table tennis team begins a week long visit to the People's Republic of China ( Ping Pong Diplomacy )
- 1957 Singapore gains self rule from the British
- 1965 The Palm Sunday Tornadoes strike Indiana and the surrounding states
- 1968 President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968
- 1981 Brixton Riots London, England
- 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt Dies Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes the President of The United States
- 1954 Bill Haley and the Comets, record "Rock Around the Clock"
- 1961 Yuri Gagarin Becomes First Man in Space
- 1981 First Space Shuttle Columbia Launched
- 1992 Euro Disney opened in Marne-La-Vallee, Paris, France
- 2001 Cincinnati Riots
- 1925 The Butler Act becomes law
- 1936 Work on the Boulder Dam is completed
- 1969 The Love Bug, a popular Disney movie, was released
- 1996 Dunblane Massacre in kindergarten in Scotland
- 1970 Apollo 13 Explosion
- 1997 Tiger Woods at 21 years old became the youngest ever golfer to win the Masters Tournament
- 1999 Jack Kervorkian ( Assisted Suicide Practitioner) was sentenced in Pontiac, Mich., to 10 to 25 years in prison
- 1865 President Lincoln is shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth
- 1912 Titanic stikes an iceburg and sinks on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York
- 1935 Twenty of the worst "Black Blizzards" that occurred throughout the Dust Bowl years happen on a single day often referred to as "Black Sunday"
- 1953 The Queen launches the Royal Yacht Britannia
- 1974 Israeli and Syrian troops continue fighting along the Golan Heights
- 2007 Killing spree at Virginia Tech
- 1961 1,500 Cuban exiles supported by the US government invade the Bay of Pigs
- 1964 The Ford Motor Co. unveiled its new Mustang model at the New York World's Fair
- 1906 Earthquake, measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, shook the town of San Francisco1923 first baseball game is played at Yankee Stadium in New York City
- 1956 Grace Kelly Marries Prince Rainier of Monaco
- 1983 Car Bomb US Embassy Lebanon
- 2003 Scott Peterson Arrested
- 1897 The Worlds oldest annual marathon run in Boston, Massachusetts, United States races for the first time.
- 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- 1993 Waco Cult Assault
- 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- 1972 Antiwar demonstrations draw 100,000 demonstrators in cities across America
- 1999 Columbine High School Shooting
- 2010 Deepwater Horizon explodes in the Gulf of Mexico
- 1955 Fleet Street Newspaper Worker Strike
- 1989 Student Protest Tiananmen Square
- 1889 Oklahoma Land Rush
- 1970 Earth Day was observed for the first time
- 1932 The New Royal Shakespeare Theatre opens in Shakespears's birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon
- 1968 Decimal coins introduced in UK as part of decimalisation
- 1979 Oil Company Windfall Profits Tax
- 1984 Singer Marvin Gaye Shot by his father
- 1985 The Coca-Cola Company announced it has changed its formula for Coke and will known as New Coke
- 2003 US troops rescue Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch from a hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq
- 1954 Mau Mau Rebels Rounded Up By British Troops in Kenya
- 1968 Student Occupation Columbia University
- 1980 US Embassy Hostage Crisis in Iran Rescue Attempt Failure
- 1990 Space Shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit
- 1956 Elvis Presley has his first number one hit with "Heartbreak Hotel"
- 1953 Two Cambridge University scientists "James D Watson and Francis Crick" publish an article in Nature Magazine explaining the structure of DNA
- 1955 The St. Lawrence Seaway opened to ocean vessels seeking passage from Montreal to ports in the USA on the Great Lakes .
- 1956 Elvis Presley has his first number one on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart with "Heartbreak Hotel"
- 2003 The Human Genome Project to determine the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA of the human genome consisting of 20,000-25,000 genes started in 1990 is published.
- 1927 The Mississippi makes over 150,000 homeless
- 1986 An explosion and fire at the No. 4 reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine resulted in a nuclear meltdown
- 2009 The U.S. declares a public health emergency ( Swine Flu )
- 1953 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450: Hiring and Firing rules for Government Employment. Homosexuality, moral perversion, and communism were categorized as national security threats
- 1994 Nelson Mandela voted as South Africa President
- 1947 Kon-Tiki Expedition Starts
- 2004 Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse Scandal breaks on CBS' "60 Minutes II."
- 1922 Lower Louisiana Floods
- 1945 Dachau concentration camp was liberated
- 1970 US Troops Invade Cambodia
April 30
- 1952 Diary of Anne Frank Published
- 1789 George Washington Inaugurated as the First President of the United States
- 1939 New York World's Fair
- 1945 Hitler Commits Suicide
- 1975 South Vietnam Surrenders
- 1980 Terrorist group takes Iran embassy hostages in London
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