Historical Events in April, Month of April Events
Here is a list of some historical events in April. You can learn What major event happened in April?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| April 9, 1909 | The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act. |
| April 1, 1997 | Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion. |
| April 20, 2015 | Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland. |
| April 2, 2012 | A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured. |
| April 29, 2011 | The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London. |
| April 10, 1938 | The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria. |
| April 3, 2008 | ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations. |
| April 7, 2003 | Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later. |
| April 16, 2013 | The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga. |
| April 29, 1946 | The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes. |
| April 16, 1922 | The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed. |
| April 2, 1912 | The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials. |
| April 14, 1991 | The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President following its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. |
| April 3, 1888 | Jack the Ripper: The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs. |
| April 7, 1995 | First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya. |
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