Historic Publication
Apr 10 Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Apr 11 Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco
- Apr 13 Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd St NYC
- Apr 14 First regular-season Chicago Cubs game broadcast on radio (WGN) by caller Quin Ryan; Cubs beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-2
- Apr 15 NHL's NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
- Apr 16 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 wounded
- Apr 17 NY Yankee Babe Ruth has ulcer surgery
- Apr 17 Paul Painlevé succeeds Edouard Herriot as French premier
- Apr 18 World's Fair opens in Chicago
- Apr 20 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor in 2:33:00.6
- Apr 21 Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR
- Apr 21 No baseball games played in NL due to Charles Ebbets' funeral
Music History
Apr 21 Noël Coward's "Fallen Angels" premieres in London
- Apr 23 1st London performance of Franz Lehár’s operetta "Frasquita" staged
- Apr 23 Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO)
- Apr 23 Having badly defeated Spain and driven her out of Spanish Morocco, the native Riffi, led by Abd-el-Krim, turn on the French in French Morocco
- Apr 24 88°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
Election of Interest
Apr 25 Paul von Hindenburg is elected the President of Germany
- Apr 26 Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big"
Historic Event
Apr 26 Artist Diego Rivera resigns from the Mexican Communist Party