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April 1954
April 1954, the month the Viet Minh overran Dien Bien Phu's airfield and the Geneva Conference on Korea and Indochina opened; also the McCarthy-Army hearings, Eisenhower's domino theory, and Rock Around the Clock.
April 2
April 2, the 92nd day of the Gregorian year; Ponce de León claimed Florida in 1513, the Battle of Copenhagen was fought in 1801, and Argentina seized the Falklands in 1982, commemorated as Malvinas Day.
April 20
April 20, the 110th day of the Gregorian year, marked by the 1889 birth of Adolf Hitler, the 1999 Columbine massacre, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, and the 1912 openings of Fenway Park and Navin Field.
April 2015 Nepal earthquake
The April 2015 Nepal earthquake, known as the Gorkha earthquake, was a magnitude 7.8 quake that struck central Nepal on April 25, 2015, killing nearly 9,000 people.
April 2021 Bulgarian parliamentary election
April 2021 Bulgarian parliamentary election (Парламентарни избори, 4 април 2021): general election for the 240-seat National Assembly. GERB won 26.18% and 75 seats, ITN debuted with 17.66% and 51, but no coalition formed and a July 2021 snap election followed.
April 2024 Iranian strikes on Israel
Operation True Promise: Iran's April 13-14, 2024 direct drone and missile attack on Israel, its first from Iranian soil, launched in retaliation for the April 1 Damascus consulate strike; over 99% intercepted.
April 2025 massacres of Syrian Druze
April 2025 massacres of Syrian Druze: sectarian attacks on Druze communities in Jaramana, Sahnaya, Ashrafieh Sahnaya and Suwayda, 28 April–early May 2025, triggered by a fake audio recording insulting the Prophet Muhammad, killing over 100 and prompting Israeli strikes.
April 21
April 21 (111th day of the year, Natale di Roma) is a calendar date marking the traditional founding of Rome in 753 BC, the 18-minute Battle of San Jacinto in 1836, the 1960 inauguration of Brasília, the 1967 Greek coup, and the 1992 announcement of the first exoplanets around PSR 1257+12.
April 22
April 22, the 112th or 113th day of the year, is Earth Day (International Mother Earth Day since 2009), first observed in 1970 with 20 million US participants; also the 1915 chlorine gas attack at Ypres and the 1889 Oklahoma Land Rush.
April 23
April 23 is a Gregorian calendar date observed as World Book and Copyright Day, chosen by UNESCO in 1995 because it marks the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes.
April 24
April 24, the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years): founding date of the Library of Congress (1800), start of the Armenian genocide (1915), Easter Rising (1916), and Hubble launch (1990).
April 25
April 25, the 115th day of the Gregorian year (116th in leap years), is ANZAC Day, World Malaria Day, and DNA Day, and marks the 1898 U.S. declaration of war on Spain, the 1915 Gallipoli landings, the 1945 Elbe linkup, and Portugal's 1974 Carnation Revolution.
April 25 Sports Club (체육단)
April 25 Sports Club (4.25체육단, 4.25 SC) is a North Korean multi-sports club in Nampo, founded 1949 and run by the Korean People's Army; its football teams hold 20 league titles and were 2019 AFC Cup runners-up.
April 26
April 26 is best known as the date of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, and it is marked by World Intellectual Property Day and International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day.
April 27
April 27, the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years), marked by Magellan's 1521 death at Mactan, Grant's 1822 birth, the 1865 Sultana disaster, South Africa's 1994 first democratic election, and the 2011 Super Outbreak tornadoes.
April 28
April 28, the 118th day of a common year, marks Maryland's 1788 Constitution ratification, Mussolini's 1945 execution, the Kon-Tiki launch, Ali's 1967 title stripping, de Gaulle's 1969 resignation, the 1986 Chernobyl announcement, Tito's 2001 spaceflight, and the 2004 Abu Ghraib broadcast.
April 29
April 29, the 119th day of the Gregorian year, marks Joan of Arc at Orléans (1429), the Dachau liberation (1945), the LA riots (1992), the Chemical Weapons Convention (1997), and International Dance Day and Shōwa Day.
April 29, 1992 (Miami)
"April 29, 1992 (Miami)" is a 1996 Sublime song from their self-titled album about the Los Angeles riots, sung from a looter's viewpoint; its lyrics mistakenly say April 26, an error kept in the take.
April 3
April 3, the 93rd day of the year, marks the 1860 Pony Express debut, Jesse James's 1882 murder, Truman's 1948 Marshall Plan signing, the 1973 first handheld cell call, and the 1996 Unabomber arrest.
April 30
April 30, final day of April in the Gregorian calendar; Walpurgis Night (Valborg, Vappu) and International Jazz Day. Marked by Washington's 1789 inauguration, the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, Hitler's 1945 death, the 1975 fall of Saigon, and the 2013 and 2019 royal abdications.
April 4
April 4 is the 94th day of the year. It marks the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, the 1949 signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, Microsoft's 1975 founding, and Senegal's Independence Day.
April 5
April 5, the 95th or 96th day of the year, marks Pocahontas's 1614 marriage, the 1933 founding of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the 1951 Rosenberg death sentences, and Qingming and First Contact Day observances.
April 6
April 6, the 96th day of the Gregorian year, is the date the U.S. declared war on Germany in 1917 (World War I entry), the first modern Olympics opened in Athens in 1896, and the Rwandan genocide began in 1994.
April 6 Youth Movement (حركة شباب 6 أبريل)
Egyptian opposition movement (حركة شباب 6 أبريل) founded in 2008 as a Facebook group backing the Mahalla textile strike; key mobilizer of the 2011 uprising; banned by court order in April 2014.
April 7
April 7, the 97th day of the Gregorian year, hosts World Health Day (WHO founded 1948), the Rwanda genocide remembrance (began 1994), U.S. National Beer Day (1933), Karume Day, and events from Shiloh to the sinking of the Yamato.
April 8
April 8, the 98th day of the Gregorian year, is International Romani Day (World Romani Congress, London, 1971). Key events: Entente Cordiale 1904, 17th Amendment ratified 1913, Hank Aaron's 715th home run 1974; born Kofi Annan, died Margaret Thatcher.
April 9
April 9, the 99th day of the year, is marked by Lee's 1865 Appomattox surrender, Germany's 1940 invasion of Denmark and Norway, the 1942 Bataan surrender, NASA's 1959 Mercury Seven announcement, and Georgia's 1991 independence declaration.
April 9 tragedy
The April 9 tragedy, known in Georgian memory as "Bloody Sunday," was the killing of about 20 demonstrators by Soviet troops in Tbilisi, Georgia, on April 9, 1989.
April and the Extraordinary World
April and the Extraordinary World (Avril et le monde truqué) is a 2015 French-Belgian-Canadian steampunk animated film by Desmares and Ekinci, based on Jacques Tardi's art, starring Marion Cotillard; Annecy Cristal winner, César-nominated, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.
April Ashley
April Ashley (1935–2021), born George Jamieson, English model, actor and transgender pioneer; Vogue model outed in 1961, Corbett v Corbett (1970) annulled her marriage and set UK legal sex precedent until the Gender Recognition Act 2004; MBE 2012.