Events in History
- Apr 1 Trial begins in Budapest against participants of the Hungarian Uprising of October 1956
- Apr 1 World's biggest glass oven used
Endgame
Apr 3 Samuel Beckett's play "Endgame" premieres in London as a French language production
- Apr 3 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
- Apr 6 NYC ends trolley car service
- Apr 6 USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
- Apr 7 Last of NY's electric trolleys completes its final run
- Apr 10 John Osborne's "Entertainer" premieres in London
- Apr 10 Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns
- Apr 10 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
- Apr 11 Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
Event of Interest
Apr 11 Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires
- Apr 11 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off & land vertically
- Apr 12 Jim Spalding set a 2,088 pin nine-game bowling record
- Apr 12 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
- Apr 13 Saturday postal delivery in US is temporarily halted due to lack of funds
- Apr 14 Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship
- Apr 15 Saturday mail delivery restored in the US after Congress gives the Post Office $41 million
- Apr 16 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan
Birthdays in History
- Apr 1 Peter Deutsch, American politician (US Representative (D)-Florida, 1993-2005), born in The Bronx, New York
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (66 years old)
Apr 4 Mexican drug lord and escape artist, born in La Tuna, Sinaloa, Mexico (or April 4th, 1957)
- Apr 6 Paolo Nespoli, Italian astronaut
- Apr 9 Martin Margiela, Belgian fashion designer, born in Genk, Belgium
- Apr 10 Aliko Dangote, Nigerian Chairman and CEO of the Dangote Group, born in Kano, Kano State
- Apr 10 John M. Ford, American sci-fi author and poet, born in East Chicago, Indiana (d. 2006)
- Apr 13 Amy Goodman, American activist and host of Democracy Now, born in Bay Shore, New York
- Apr 14 Bobbi Brown, American make-up artist (Bobbi Brown Cosmetics), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Apr 17 Nick Hornby, English writer (High Fidelity), born in Redhill, Surrey
- Apr 19 Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman and chairman of Reliance Industries, born in Aden, Yemen
- Apr 22 Donald Tusk, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland (2007-14), President of the European Council 2014-), born in Gdańsk, Poland
- Apr 22 Ethel White, WBL guard (NY Stars)
- Apr 28 Leopold Eyharts, French cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-26, TM-28/27)
- Apr 29 Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, Samoan politician and chieftainess, 1st female Prime Minister of Samoa (2021-), born in Apia, Western Samoa
- Apr 29 Timothy Treadwell, American bear enthusiast (d. 2003)
- Apr 30 Aviva Chomsky, American historian, teacher, activist and daughter of Noam Chomsky, born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Apr 30 Duane G Carey, American major USAF/astronaut, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Deaths in History
- Apr 4 E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909)
- Apr 19 Charles Earle Funk, American lexicographer (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76
- Apr 19 Johan Willem Albarda, 1st Dutch socialist minister (1939-45), dies at 79
- Apr 22 Roy Campbell, South African poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54
- Apr 24 Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff, Dutch politician (Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1926-31), dies at 84
- Apr 26 Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo, dies at 88
- Apr 28 Heinz Bär, German fighter pilot, dies at 43
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