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 16, 1910 | The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time. |
| April 21, 753 | Romulus founds Rome (traditional date). |
| April 8, 1908 | Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School. |
| April 3, 1895 | The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. |
| April 1, 1960 | The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space. |
| April 10, 1970 | Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons. |
| April 26, 1954 | The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia. |
| April 7, 1983 | During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk. |
| April 13, 1953 | CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra. |
| April 18, 1947 | The Operation Big Bang, the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion to that time, destroys bunkers and military installations on the North Sea island of Heligoland, Germany. |
| April 26, 2005 | Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon). |
| April 4, 1949 | Cold War: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
| 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 25, 1644 | Transition from Ming to Qing: The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng. |
| April 29, 1944 | World War II: New Zealand-born SOE agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to be a liaison between London and the local maquis group. |
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