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, 1346 | Stefan Dušan, "the Mighty", is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, his empire occupying much of the Balkans. |
| April 16, 1799 | French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre. |
| April 7, 451 | Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town. |
| April 3, 1933 | First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston. |
| April 25, 1944 | The United Negro College Fund is incorporated. |
| April 19, 1987 | The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night". |
| April 8, 1918 | World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district. |
| April 7, 1990 | A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people. |
| April 3, 1888 | Jack the Ripper: The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs. |
| April 4, 1983 | Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space on STS-6. |
| April 25, 1981 | More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of at the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. |
| April 22, 1519 | Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico. |
| April 24, 1996 | In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law. |
| April 24, 1704 | The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published. |
| April 1, 1572 | In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic. |
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