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 17, 1907 | The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day. |
| April 26, 1944 | Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete. |
| April 14, 1849 | Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader. |
| April 20, 1653 | Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament. |
| April 25, 1792 | "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. |
| April 17, 1905 | The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
| April 15, 1969 | The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board. |
| April 6, 2012 | Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali. |
| April 10, 1998 | The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland. |
| April 1, 1955 | The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece. |
| April 20, 1876 | The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War. |
| April 9, 1947 | The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. |
| April 7, 2020 | COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier. |
| April 8, 2010 | U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START Treaty. |
| April 24, 1957 | Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region. |
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