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, 1946 | Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm. |
| April 4, 1946 | Greek judge and archeologist Panagiotis Poulitsas is appointed Prime Minister of Greece in the midst of the Greek Civil War. |
| April 19, 1943 | World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews. |
| April 7, 1798 | The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and the Spanish Empire. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812. |
| April 13, 2017 | The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. |
| April 26, 1964 | Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania. |
| April 17, 1492 | Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices. |
| April 5, 1992 | Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force. |
| April 12, 1970 | Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board. |
| April 20, 2020 | For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero. |
| April 6, 1841 | U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having become president upon William Henry Harrison's death. |
| April 28, 2004 | CBS News released evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees. |
| April 9, 2014 | A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania. |
| April 21, 1506 | The three-day Lisbon Massacre comes to an end with the slaughter of over 1,900 suspected Jews by Portuguese Catholics. |
| April 22, 1500 | Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil. |
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