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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