Events in History
- Apr 4 Israel & Jordan sign armistice agreement
- Apr 4 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington, D.C.
- Apr 5 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital n Effingham, Illinois, catches fire, 77 people killed
- Apr 9 UN International Court of Justice holds Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel and awards Britain damages
- Apr 13 Philip S. Hench at Mayo Clinc announces discovery of cortisone to treat rheumatoid arthritis
- Apr 14 International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg's last judgment
- Apr 18 Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth
- Apr 23 Chinese Red army conquers Nanjing
- Apr 23 Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in San Francisco
- Apr 23 Netherlands annexes Elten & Tudderen
- Apr 24 3rd Tony Awards: "Death of a Salesman" & "Kiss Me Kate" win
- Apr 25 Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Romulus der Grosse" premieres in Basel
- Apr 26 Transjordan is officially renamed the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
- Apr 28 Former Philippine First Lady Aurora Quezon, 61, assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others also killed
Birthdays in History
- Apr 1 Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman (Engie), born in Paris, France
- Apr 1 Paul Manafort, American political consultant (Trump campaign chairman), born in New Britain, Connecticut
- Apr 2 Paul Gambaccini, American-British disc jockey, born in Bronx, New York
- Apr 4 Shing-Tung Yau, Hong Kong-born American mathematician, born in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
- Apr 5 Judith Arlene Resnik, ast (STS 41D, 51L-Chal disaster), born in Akron, Ohio
- Apr 6 Mary Maples Dunn, American college president (Smith College), born in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin (d. 2017)
- Apr 12 Carol Ross Barney, American architect (1st woman to design US federal building), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Apr 12 Scott Turow, American lawyer and author (Presumed Innocent), born in Chicago, Illinois
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
Apr 13 English author and columnist (Vanity Fair, New Statesman), born in Portsmouth, England
- Apr 13 Jean-Jacques Favier, French engineer and astronaut (STS 78), born in Kehl, Germany
- Apr 13 Philippe Petit, French high-wire artist, born in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France
- Apr 14 DeAnne Julius, American-English economist
- Apr 19 Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1993)
- Apr 19 Paloma Picasso, French-Spanish businesswoman, jewelry designer (Tiffany & Co.), and perfume maker, born in Vallauris, France
- Apr 25 Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
- Apr 25 James Fenton, English poet and journalist, born in Lincoln, England
- Apr 28 Indian Larry, American stuntsman (d. 2004)
- Apr 28 Jerome "Jay" Apt, American astronaut (STS 37, 47, 59, 79), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
António Guterres (74 years old)
Apr 30 114th Prime Minister of Portugal (1995-2002) and 9th Secretary-General of the United Nations (2017-), born in Lisbon, Portugal
Deaths in History
- Apr 14 Joseph Augustine Cushman, American paleontologist, dies at 68
- Apr 18 Leonard Bloomfield, American linguist (Structural Linguistics), dies at 62
- Apr 19 Stephen Samuel Wise, American Rabbi and President of Zionist Org of America, dies at 75
- Apr 25 Jankel Adler, Polish painter and printmaker, dies at 53
- Apr 28 Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines, assassinated at 61
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