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April 1: Iranian Islamic Republic Day (1979)
Two men marrying in Amsterdam, 1 April 2001
- 1293 – Robert Winchelsey left England for Rome to be consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury, but a papal vacancy delayed the ceremony.
- 1833 – Mexican Texans met at San Felipe de Austin to begin the Convention of 1833.
- 1941 – Soviet border guards opened fire on civilians attempting to cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania near Fântâna Albă, killing between 44 and 3,000 people.
- 2001 – Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands was legalised (wedding pictured), with the country becoming the first to do so.
- Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (d. 1682)
- Frederick Denison Maurice (d. 1872)
- Anne McCaffrey (b. 1926)
April 2: World Autism Awareness Day; first day of Ramadan (Islam, 2022); Cheti Chand begins / Ugadi in parts of India (Hinduism, 2022); feast day of Saint Francis of Paola (Catholicism); Malvinas Day in Argentina
John Gotti
- 1863 – About 5,000 people in Richmond, Virginia, mostly poor women, rioted in protest of the high price of bread.
- 1982 – Argentine special forces invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War against the United Kingdom.
- 1992 – John Gotti (pictured), the head of the Gambino crime family of New York City, was convicted of racketeering, murder, conspiracy to commit murder, loansharking, obstruction of justice, illegal gambling, and tax evasion.
- 2002 – Second Intifada: Palestinian militants sought refuge from advancing Israeli forces in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, beginning a month-long siege.
- Charlemagne (b. 747)
- Paškal Buconjić (b. 1834)
- Juanito (d. 1992)
Oscar Wilde
- 1860 – The Pony Express, a mail service that became the most direct means of long-distance communication across the United States before the first transcontinental telegraph, began operation.
- 1895 – The libel trial instigated by Irish author Oscar Wilde (pictured) began, eventually resulting in his arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of gross indecency.
- 1922 – Joseph Stalin became the first general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1948 – Division of Korea: A communist uprising began on Jeju Island, eventually leading to thousands of deaths and atrocities committed by both sides.
- 2016 – The first news stories on the Panama Papers were published, revealing that shell corporations represented by the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca had been used for illegal purposes.
- George Herbert (b. 1593)
- Ernst Chladni (d. 1827)
- SethBling (b. 1987)
Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1866 – Russian tsar Alexander II narrowly survived an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov.
- 1873 – The Kennel Club, the world's oldest kennel club, was founded in the United Kingdom after Sewallis Shirley became frustrated by trying to organise dog shows without a consistent set of rules.
- 1905 – An earthquake hit the Kangra Valley in India, killing more than 20,000 people and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj, and Dharamshala.
- 1949 – Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, establishing NATO, an organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
- 1968 – American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (pictured) was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
- William Strachey (b. 1572)
- Pierre Monteux (b. 1875)
- Isaac K. Funk (d. 1912)
April 5: Feast day of Saint Vincent Ferrer (Catholicism); Hansik in South Korea (2022)
The collapsed stand at Ibrox Park
- 919 – The Fatimid Caliphate began a second unsuccessful invasion of Egypt, then under Abbasid rule.
- 1614 – Pocahontas, a Native American woman, married English colonist John Rolfe in the Colony of Virginia.
- 1902 – A spectator stand collapsed (pictured) during a Scotland–England football match at Ibrox Park, Govan, killing 25 supporters and injuring more than 500 others.
- 1944 – Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust.
- 1986 – The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin, resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured.
- Jules Cambon (b. 1845)
- María Blanchard (d. 1932)
- Jim Marshall (d. 2012)
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Juvénal Habyarimana
- 1712 – A group of 23 slaves in New York City revolted, setting fire to a building, but were soon recaptured.
- 1830 – Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and others formally organized the Church of Christ, starting the Latter Day Saint movement.
- 1994 – The aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana (pictured) and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down in Kigali; the event became the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide.
- 2012 – The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally declared the region of Azawad independent from Mali.
- Leonora Baroni (d. 1670)
- Philip Henry Gosse (b. 1810)
- Julie Ertz (b. 1992)
April 7: National Beer Day in the United States
Fridtjof Nansen
- 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh, the bloodiest battle in U.S. history at the time, in Hardin County, Tennessee.
- 1896 – An Arctic expedition led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen (pictured) reached 86°13.6′N, almost three degrees beyond the previous Farthest North latitude.
- 1949 – The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based on Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, opened on Broadway.
- 1972 – Communist forces overran the South Vietnamese town of Lộc Ninh.
- 1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre of hundreds of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
- Berengar I of Italy (d. 924)
- Martha Ray (d. 1779)
- Joseph Lyons (d. 1939)
Bust of Caracalla
- 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla (pictured) was assassinated near Harran and succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect Macrinus.
- 876 – Abbasid forces decisively defeated those of Saffarid emir Ya'qub ibn Laith, forcing the latter to halt his advance into Iraq.
- 1630 – Kiliaen van Rensselaer purchased land near present-day Albany, New York, to found the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, which became the most successful patroonship under the Dutch West India Company.
- 1904 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan, was renamed Times Square after the New York Times building.
- 1942 – World War II: The United States Army Air Forces flew its first mission from India over the Hump (the eastern end of the Himalayas) to deliver materiel to China.
- John II Komnenos (d. 1143)
- Niels Juel (d. 1697)
- Jack Tramiel (d. 2012)
April 9: Vimy Ridge Day in Canada (1917); Day of Valor in the Philippines (1942)
Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
- 1860 – Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville recorded himself singing "Au clair de la lune" on his phonautograph, producing the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
- 1917 – First World War: The Canadian Corps began the first wave of attacks at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in Vimy, France.
- 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces defeated Allied troops at the Battle of Bataan in the Philippines before beginning to forcibly transfer more than 90,000 prisoners of war to prison camps in the Bataan Death March.
- 1980 – Iraqi philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (pictured) and his sister Amina were executed by the regime of Saddam Hussein.
- 1999 – President of Niger Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was shot dead by soldiers in Niamey.
- al-Muqtafi (d. 1096)
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz (b. 1865)
- Nikki Grahame (d. 2021)
April 10: Holy Week begins (Western Christianity, 2022)
General Emiliano Zapata
- 1815 – Mount Tambora in Indonesia began the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history, killing at least 71,000 people and affecting temperatures worldwide.
- 1858 – Big Ben, the bell in the Palace of Westminster's clock tower in London, was cast after the original bell cracked during testing.
- 1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata (pictured) was shot to death near Ciudad Ayala, Morelos.
- 1963 – The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) sank with all hands lost during deep-diving tests in the North Atlantic Ocean.
- 1992 – First Nagorno-Karabakh War: Dozens of Armenian civilians were massacred in the village of Maraga by Azerbaijani forces.
- Samuel Hahnemann (b. 1755)
- Kishori Amonkar (b. 1932)
- Stu Sutcliffe (d. 1962)
Nevill Ground's cricket pavilion after the arson attack
- 1241 – Mongol invasion of Europe: Mongol forces led by Batu Khan and Subutai defeated the army of King Béla IV at the Battle of Mohi near the river Sajó, a key victory in their first invasion of Hungary.
- 1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau was signed, ending the War of the Sixth Coalition, and forcing Napoleon to abdicate as ruler of France and sending him into exile on Elba.
- 1913 – The cricket pavilion at the Nevill Ground was destroyed in an arson attack (damage pictured) that was attributed to militant suffragettes as part of a country-wide campaign co-ordinated by the Women's Social and Political Union.
- 2002 – In a coup attempt, members of the Venezuelan military detained President Hugo Chávez and demanded his resignation.
- Christopher Smart (b. 1722)
- Percy Lavon Julian (b. 1899)
- Muhammad Kamaruzzaman (d. 2015)
April 12: Cosmonautics Day in Russia (1961); Education and Sharing Day in the United States (2022); Yuri's Night
- 1204 – Troops of the Fourth Crusade entered Constantinople and began a sack of the city, temporarily dissolving the Byzantine Empire.
- 1822 – Greek War of Independence: Ottoman troops began a massacre of tens of thousands of Greeks (depicted) on the island of Chios.
- 1961 – Aboard Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin performed the first human spaceflight, completing one orbit of Earth in 108 minutes.
- 1980 – Samuel Doe took control of Liberia in a coup d'etat, overthrowing President William Tolbert and ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession.
- 2014 – A fire broke out in the hills near Valparaíso, Chile, eventually destroying at least 2,500 homes and leaving approximately 11,000 people homeless.
- Richeza of Poland, Queen of Sweden (b. 1116)
- Nicola Amati (d. 1684)
- Abbie Hoffman (d. 1989)
Damage caused by the Kamień Pomorski homeless hostel fire
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian forces conducted a surprise attack against a Continental Army outpost at Bound Brook, New Jersey.
- 1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act received royal assent, removing the most substantial restrictions on Catholics in the United Kingdom.
- 1942 – Austrian soldier Anton Schmid was executed for rescuing Jews from the Ponary massacre in Vilnius.
- 1956 – The Vietnamese National Army captured Ba Cụt, a military commander of the religious sect Hòa Hảo, which ran a de facto state in South Vietnam in opposition to Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm.
- 2009 – Twenty-three people died in a fire at a homeless hostel (aftermath pictured) in Kamień Pomorski; it was Poland's deadliest fire since 1980.
- Arthur Matthew Weld Downing (b. 1850)
- Joe Hewitt (b. 1901)
- Evelyne Daitz (b. 1936)
April 14: Vaisakhi (Sikhism, 2022); Tamil New Year and other New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asia (2022); Day of the Georgian Language (1978); N'Ko Alphabet Day in West Africa (1949)
Hailstones from the 1999 Sydney hailstorm
- 966 – Polish ruler Mieszko I converted to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
- 1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Yorkists under Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Barnet, killing Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.
- 1908 – The first Hauser Dam in the U.S. state of Montana failed, causing severe flooding and damage downstream.
- 1945 – World War II: The German town of Friesoythe was razed by the 4th Canadian Division on the orders of Major General Christopher Vokes.
- 1999 – A storm dropped around 500,000 tonnes of hailstones on Sydney (examples pictured) and the east coast of New South Wales, causing about A$2.3 billion in damages, the costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history.
- Anne Sullivan (b. 1866)
- John Gielgud (b. 1904)
- M. Visvesvaraya (d. 1962)
April 15: Day of the Sun in North Korea
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John B. Kendrick
- 769 – The final session of the Lateran Council, convened to rectify abuses in the papal electoral process that had led to the elevation of the antipopes Constantine II and Philip, was held in Rome.
- 1632 – Thirty Years' War: A Swedish–German army defeated the forces of the Catholic League at the Battle of Rain, mortally wounding their commander Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly.
- 1912 – More than 1,500 people on the Titanic died when the passenger liner sank after colliding with an iceberg southeast of Newfoundland.
- 1922 – U.S. senator John B. Kendrick (pictured) introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal involving U.S. president Warren G. Harding's administration, leading to the Teapot Dome scandal.
- 1952 – The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered, strategic bomber operated by the U.S. Air Force for most of the aircraft's history, made its first flight.
- Leonhard Euler (b. 1707)
- Arsenio Lacson (d. 1962)
- Seth Rogen (b. 1982)
April 16: First day of Passover (Judaism, 2022)
Harriet Quimby
- 1520 – Citizens of Toledo, Castile, opposed to the rule of the foreign-born Charles I, revolted when the royal government attempted to unseat radical city councilors.
- 1862 – Slavery in Washington, D.C., ended when the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act became law.
- 1912 – American pilot Harriet Quimby (pictured) became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
- 1963 – In response to an open letter written by white clergymen, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail in defence of the strategy of nonviolent resistance against racism.
- 2001 – India and Bangladesh began a six-day conflict over their disputed border, which ended in a stalemate.
- Tabinshwehti (b. 1516)
- Farran Zerbe (b. 1871)
- Johnny Peirson (d. 2021)
April 17: Easter (Western Christianity, 2022); Evacuation Day in Syria (1946)
Superstructure of Minas Geraes
- 1080 – Canute IV became King of Denmark upon the death of his brother Harald III.
- 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: British forces commanded by Lieutenant-General Ralph Abercromby invaded the Spanish colonial port of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- 1907 – Minas Geraes (pictured), the first of three Brazilian dreadnought battleships, was laid down, sparking a vastly expensive South American naval arms race with Argentina and Chile.
- 1951 – The Peak District was designated the first national park in the United Kingdom.
- 1971 – Ustaše-affiliated Croatian separatists attacked the Yugoslav embassy in Stockholm, fatally shooting the ambassador, Vladimir Rolović.
- Benjamin Franklin (d. 1790)
- Karen Blixen (b. 1885)
- Victoria Beckham (b. 1974)
April 18: Patriots' Day in various U.S. states (2022)
Roland Garros
- 1689 – Glorious Revolution: Provincial militia and citizens in Boston revolted, arresting officials of the Dominion of New England.
- 1915 – World War I: Hit by ground fire, French aviation pioneer Roland Garros (pictured) landed his aircraft behind enemy lines and was taken prisoner.
- 1949 – The Republic of Ireland Act 1948 came into force, declaring Ireland a republic and terminating its membership in the British Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1958 – Controversial American poet Ezra Pound was released from St. Elizabeths Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., in which he had been incarcerated for twelve years.
- 2019 – The United States Department of Justice released a redacted version of the Mueller report about the investigation of Russian influence on the U.S. presidential election to Congress and the public.
- Gratian (b. 359)
- Polydore Vergil (d. 1555)
- Robert Christgau (b. 1942)
April 19: Feast day of Saint Alphege of Canterbury (Catholicism, Anglicanism)
Grace Kelly
- 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issued the Pragmatic Sanction, allowing the Habsburg hereditary possessions to be inherited by a daughter.
- 1775 – The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the British colony of Massachusetts.
- 1903 – Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Kishinev, the capital of Bessarabia Governorate, causing the death of nearly 50 Jews and focusing worldwide attention on the persecution of Jews in Russia.
- 1956 – American actress Grace Kelly (pictured) became the princess consort of Monaco upon her marriage to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.
- 1984 – "Advance Australia Fair", written by Scottish-born composer Peter Dodds McCormick, officially replaced "God Save the Queen" as Australia's national anthem.
- Ernst Rüdin (b. 1874)
- Jiroemon Kimura (b. 1897)
- Kwon Ki-ok (d. 1988)
April 20: 420 (cannabis culture)
Enoch Powell
- 1657 – Anglo-Spanish War: The English navy sank much of a Spanish treasure fleet at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife off the Canary Islands, but was unable to capture the treasure.
- 1828 – French explorer René Caillié reached Timbuktu in present-day Mali, and later received a 9,000-franc prize from the Société de Géographie for being the first European to return with a description of the city.
- 1914 – A fire and a gun battle between the Colorado National Guard and striking coal miners led to 17 deaths in the Ludlow Massacre.
- 1968 – Enoch Powell (pictured), a British Conservative member of Parliament, made a controversial speech in opposition to immigration and anti-discrimination legislation, resulting in his removal from the shadow cabinet.
- Peter Bartholomew (d. 1099)
- Allegra Byron (d. 1822)
- Toller Cranston (b. 1949)
April 21: First day of Ridván (Baháʼí Faith, 2022); Grounation Day (Rastafari)
Romulus and Remus suckling from the Capitoline Wolf
- 753 BC – Romulus and Remus (depicted) legendarily founded the city of Rome, according to the calculations of ancient Roman scholar Varro Reatinus.
- 1509 – Henry VIII became King of England, following the death of his father Henry VII, eventually becoming a significant figure in the history of the English monarchy.
- 1925 or 1926 – Al-Baqi Cemetery in Medina, the site of the mausoleum of four of the Twelve Imams of Shia Islam, was demolished by Wahhabis.
- 1962 – The Century 21 Exposition, the first world's fair in the United States since World War II, opened in Seattle.
- Pope Alexander II (d. 1073)
- Antonín Kammel (b. 1730)
- Cheryl Gillan (b. 1952)
Two-cent piece first issued in 1864
- 1500 – A fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral anchored off the coast of present-day Brazil, claiming the land for the Portuguese Empire.
- 1622 – Anglo-Persian forces combined to capture the Portuguese garrison at Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf.
- 1864 – The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of a two-cent coin (pictured), the first U.S. currency to bear the phrase "In God We Trust".
- 1945 – About 600 prisoners of the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia revolted, but only 80 managed to escape while the remainder were killed by the Ustaše regime.
- 2004 – Flammable cargo exploded at a railway station in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing at least 54 people and injuring more than a thousand others.
- Germaine de Staël (b. 1766)
- Henry Conwell (d. 1842)
- Donna Williams (d. 2017)
April 23: National Sovereignty and Children's Day in Turkey (1920)
1927 FA Cup programme
- 1661 – Charles II was crowned King of England, Scotland and Ireland at Westminster Abbey.
- 1891 – Chilean Civil War: The armored frigate Blanco Encalada was sunk at the Battle of Caldera Bay, the first ironclad warship lost to a self-propelled torpedo.
- 1927 – Cardiff City defeated Arsenal 1–0 in the FA Cup Final (match programme pictured), the only time the FA Cup has been won by a non-English team.
- 1942 – Second World War: In retaliation for the Royal Air Force's bombing of Lübeck, the Luftwaffe began a series of air raids across England, beginning with Exeter.
- 2019 – A landslide triggered the collapse of a jade mine in Hpakant, Myanmar, resulting in six confirmed deaths and presumed dozens more.
- Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (d. 1792)
- Halston (b. 1932)
- Satyajit Ray (d. 1992)
April 24: Easter (Eastern Christianity, 2022); Divine Mercy Sunday (Catholicism, 2022); Night of Decree (Shia Islam, 2022); Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (1915)
North flank of Kinder Scout
- 1704 – John Campbell released the first issue of The Boston News-Letter, the first continuously published newspaper in British North America.
- 1866 – German composer Max Bruch conducted the premiere of his first violin concerto, which later became his most famous work.
- 1922 – The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy communications network created to link the countries of the British Empire, opened.
- 1932 – An estimated 400 ramblers committed a wilful mass trespass of Kinder Scout (pictured) in the Peak District to highlight the denial of access to areas of open country in England.
- 1965 – Cold War: The Dominican Civil War broke out due to tensions following a military coup against the democratically elected government of President Juan Bosch two years earlier.
- Axel von Fersen the Elder (d. 1794)
- Benjamin Lee Whorf (b. 1897)
- Richard M. Daley (b. 1942)
April 25: Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand (1915); Liberation Day in Italy (1945)
Dedication of New Zealand's National War Memorial
- 799 – Leo III was attacked by partisans of his predecessor Adrian I, but was rescued and taken to Charlemagne, as described in the epic Karolus magnus et Leo papa.
- 1644 – Ming–Qing transition: The Ming dynasty of China fell when the Chongzhen Emperor committed suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
- 1932 – Gladys Elinor Watkins consecrated the carillon of the National War Memorial in New Zealand (dedication pictured).
- 1946 – Two passenger trains collided in Naperville, Illinois, leaving 45 people dead and some 125 injured.
- 1990 – Violeta Chamorro took office as president of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have been elected in her own right.
- Anders Celsius (d. 1744)
- Kojo Tovalou Houénou (b. 1887)
- Henck Arron (b. 1936)
April 26: World Intellectual Property Day
B&O Royal Blue
- 1478 – In a conspiracy to replace the Medici family as rulers of the Republic of Florence, the Pazzi family attacked Lorenzo de' Medici and killed his brother Giuliano at Florence Cathedral.
- 1865 – U.S. Army soldiers cornered and fatally shot John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, ending a twelve-day manhunt.
- 1941 – Boris Kidrič and Edvard Kardelj founded the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil-resistance and political organization during World War II.
- 1958 – Service ended on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue Line, one of the first major electrified train lines in the U.S. (steam train pictured).
- 1970 – The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) came into being when the WIPO Convention entered into force.
- Samuel Bellamy (d. 1717)
- Hack Wilson (b. 1900)
- Margaret Scott (b. 1922)
April 27: Koningsdag in the Netherlands; Administrative Professionals Day in various countries (2022)
Dennis Taylor
- 1522 – Four Years' War: The combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeated a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British Army regulars defeated Patriot militias in the Battle of Ridgefield, galvanizing resistance in the Connecticut Colony.
- 1961 – Prime Minister Milton Margai led the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate to independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1985 – The black-ball final, one of the most famous snooker matches in history, began between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor (pictured).
- 2012 – Unknown perpetrators carried out a series of four bombings in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
- Ulysses S. Grant (b. 1822)
- Sheila Scott (b. 1922)
- Olivier Messiaen (d. 1992)
April 28: Workers' Memorial Day; Sa die de sa Sardigna in Sardinia, Italy
Guillaume Schnaebelé
- 1611 – The University of Santo Tomas in Manila, one of the oldest existing universities in Asia and one of the world's largest Catholic universities in terms of enrollment, was founded.
- 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé (pictured) was released on the order of William I, the German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
- 1910 – Flying from London to Manchester, French aviator Louis Paulhan won the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
- 1952 – Japan and the Republic of China signed the Treaty of Taipei to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War, seven years after fighting in that conflict ended due to World War II.
- Rhys ap Gruffydd (d. 1197)
- Tobias Asser (b. 1838)
- Penélope Cruz (b. 1974)
April 29: International Quds Day (2022)
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Buildings burned during the Los Angeles riots
- 1386 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania decisively won the Battle of the Vikhra River, forcibly making the Principality of Smolensk a vassal state.
- 1760 – Seven Years' War: France began an unsuccessful attempt to retake Quebec City, which had been captured by Britain.
- 1910 – Parliament passed the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the express intent of redistributing wealth.
- 1992 – The acquittal of policemen who had beaten African-American motorist Rodney King sparked six days of civil unrest in Los Angeles (damage pictured), during which 63 people were killed.
- George Farquhar (d. 1707)
- Marietta Blau (b. 1894)
- Giacomo dalla Torre (d. 2020)
April 30: Reunification Day in Vietnam (1975)
Remnant of SN 1006
- 1006 – SN 1006 (remnant pictured), the brightest supernova in recorded history, first appeared in the constellation Lupus.
- 1789 – George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City.
- 1897 – British physicist J. J. Thomson and his team announce the discovery of the electron.
- 1945 – World War II: As Allied forces closed in on Berlin, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler committed suicide in the Führerbunker with Eva Braun one day after their marriage.
- 1982 – Sixteen monks and a nun of the Hindu organisation Ananda Marga were beaten to death and set on fire in Calcutta, India.
- Marie of the Incarnation (d. 1672)
- Emily Stowe (d. 1903)
- Kirsten Dunst (b. 1982)
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