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 20, 2021 | State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota. |
| April 26, 1986 | The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. |
| April 27, 1296 | First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar. |
| April 11, 1727 | Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany). |
| April 24, 2013 | A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others. |
| April 7, 1922 | Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms. |
| April 12, 1204 | The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day. |
| April 9, 475 | Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position. |
| April 7, 1868 | Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by a Fenian activist. |
| April 2, 2021 | A Capitol Police officer is killed and another injured when an attacker rams his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol. |
| April 28, 1945 | Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement. |
| April 8, 2006 | Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. |
| April 20, 1862 | Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation. |
| April 26, 1803 | Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist. |
| April 1, 1970 | President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law. |
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