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 4, 1973 | The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are officially dedicated. |
| April 24, 2004 | The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction. |
| April 10, 1938 | The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria. |
| April 6, 1973 | The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter. |
| April 18, 1943 | World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island. |
| April 21, 1967 | A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years. |
| April 25, 1972 | Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum. |
| April 9, 1945 | World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends. |
| April 28, 1965 | United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops. |
| April 17, 1942 | French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress. |
| April 12, 1961 | Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight, Vostok 1. |
| April 29, 1968 | The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement. |
| April 6, 2004 | Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment. |
| April 26, 1937 | Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe. |
| April 30, 1963 | The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom. |
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