330 entries
- 2016 — Nagorno-Karabakh clashes: The Four Day War or April War, began along the...
- 2011 — After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United...
- 2004 — Google announces Gmail to the public.
On This Day in April
Pick any day to see notable events, births, and deaths from history.
April is a month of beginnings and pivotal turns in world history. Earth Day on April 22 highlights environmental awareness; April 1 (April Fool's Day) has centuries of tradition. Notable April events include the sinking of the Titanic (April 15, 1912) and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1865). Our database covers every April date in full detail.
Every day in April
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- 2015 — Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and...
- 2014 — A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including...
- 2012 — A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured.
365 entries
- 2017 — A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.
- 2016 — The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore...
- 2013 — More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata...
457 entries
- 2013 — More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.
- 2002 — The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
- 1996 — Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
402 entries
- 2010 — Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in...
- 2009 — North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed...
- 1999 — Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for...
407 entries
- 2012 — Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali.
- 2011 — In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 victims of Los Zetas were exhumed from...
- 2010 — Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
413 entries
- 2017 — 2017 Stockholm attack happened on Drottninggatan in central Stockholm, Sweden. A...
- 2009 — Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for...
- 2009 — Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the...
371 entries
- 2013 — The Islamic State of Iraq enters the Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger...
- 2008 — The construction of the world's first building to integrate wind turbines is completed...
- 2006 — Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in...
398 entries
- 2017 — Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic Churches in Tanta and Alexandria take place.
- 2014 — A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
- 2013 — A 6.1-magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.
368 entries
- 2016 — The Paravur temple accident in which a devastating fire caused by the explosion of...
- 2016 — 2016 Afghanistan earthquake, of 6.6 magnitude, 39 km west-southwest of Ashkasham,...
- 2010 — Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including...
353 entries
- 2012 — A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia....
- 2011 — An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
- 2007 — Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
381 entries
- 2017 — Zuma Must Fall protests resume in South Africa, with Julius Malema addressing large...
- 2014 — The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso, killing 16,...
- 2013 — Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a...
420 entries
- 2017 — The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.
- 1997 — Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
- 1992 — Basements throughout the Chicago Loop are flooded, forcing the Chicago Board of Trade...
387 entries
- 2014 — Twin bomb blasts in Abuja, Nigeria, kill at least 75 people and injures 141 others.
- 2014 — Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria.
- 2010 — Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous...
348 entries
- 2014 — In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, at least 200 civilians were...
- 2013 — Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston,...
- 1989 — Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield...
403 entries
- 2014 — The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304...
- 2013 — A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at...
- 2013 — The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga.
331 entries
- 2014 — NASA's Kepler space observatory confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet...
- 2013 — An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and...
- 2006 — A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in a Tel Aviv restaurant,...
340 entries
- 2013 — A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.
- 2007 — A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and...
- 1996 — In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the...
355 entries
- 2013 — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police....
- 2011 — Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding...
- 2005 — Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.
300 entries
- 2015 — Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United...
- 2013 — A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province,...
- 2012 — One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area...
338 entries
- 2014 — The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River,...
- 2012 — Two trains are involved in a head-on collision near Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the...
- 2010 — The controversial Kharkiv Pact (Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas Treaty) is signed...
346 entries
- 2016 — The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming
- 2014 — More than 60 people are killed and 80 are seriously injured in a train crash in the...
- 2013 — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest and charge two men with plotting to disrupt a...
356 entries
- 2013 — At least 28 people are killed and more than 70 are injured as violence breaks out in...
- 2005 — The first ever YouTube video, titled "Me at the zoo", was published by user "jawed".[1]
- 1993 — Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United...
295 entries
- 2013 — A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
- 2013 — Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of...
- 2005 — Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic...
366 entries
- 2015 — Nearly 9,100 are killed after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal.
- 2015 — Riots break out in Baltimore, Maryland following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.
- 2007 — Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for...
309 entries
- 2005 — Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military...
- 2002 — Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of...
- 1994 — China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271...
321 entries
- 2012 — At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27...
- 2011 — The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially...
- 2007 — Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in...
318 entries
- 2011 — United Nations Security Council Resolution 1980 relating to Ivorian crisis is adopted.
- 1996 — Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony...
- 1996 — Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow...
330 entries
- 2015 — A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the...
- 2013 — A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been...
- 2011 — The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey...
319 entries
- 2014 — A bomb blast in Ürümqi kills three people and injures 79 others.
- 2012 — An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
- 2009 — Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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