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 5, 1621 | The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England. |
| April 20, 1876 | The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War. |
| April 26, 1956 | SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas. |
| April 27, 1987 | The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II. |
| April 26, 2018 | American comedian Bill Cosby is convicted of sexual assault. |
| April 14, 1979 | The Progressive Alliance of Liberia stages a protest, without a permit, against an increase in rice prices proposed by the government, with clashes between protestors and the police resulting in over 70 deaths and over 500 injuries. |
| April 4, 1945 | World War II: Soviet Red Army troops liberate Hungary from German occupation and occupy the country themselves. |
| April 29, 1916 | Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end. |
| April 3, 1989 | The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield. |
| April 25, 1901 | New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates. |
| April 8, 1960 | The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung. |
| April 12, 1934 | The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers. |
| April 28, 1869 | Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First transcontinental railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched. |
| April 20, 1884 | Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, condemning Freemasonry. |
| April 21, 1821 | Benderli Ali Pasha arrives in Constantinople as the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire; he remains in power for only nine days before being sent into exile. |
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