April 2013 in History

Events in History

Apr 5 60 people are killed in Nigeria after a bus collides with an oil tanker
Apr 5 Japan’s Nikkei 225 reaches its highest level in five years
Apr 6 11 people are killed in an attack on a village in Midlu, Nigeria
Apr 6 22 people are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing at an election campaign tent in Baquba, Iraq
Apr 7 15 people, including 9 children, are killed by an air strike on Aleppo by the Syrian Air Force
Apr 8 15 people are killed and 53 are wounded by a car bombing in Damascus
Apr 8 163 people are killed and 50,000 are displaced after tribal violence erupts in Darfur, Sudan
Apr 8 Filip Vujanović’s election as President of Montenegro is confirmed by the electoral commission
Apr 9 12 civilians and UN peacekeepers are killed in an ambush in Jonglei, Sudan
Apr 9 13 people are killed and 3 are injured from a shooting spree in Velika Ivanča, Serbia
Apr 9 37 people are killed and 850 are injured after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Iran
Apr 9 The French Senate approves a bill for same-sex marriage
Apr 10 Japan and Taiwan sign an agreement on fishing rights around the Senkaku Islands
Apr 11 14 people are killed in clashes between drug traffickers and police in Michoacán, Mexico
Apr 11 57 people are killed by the Syrian Army in Daraa Governorate, Syria
Apr 11 Fossilized dinosaur eggs with embryos are discovered in China
Apr 11 Two women are beheaded for sorcery in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Apr 12 11 people are killed and 30 are injured in mosque attacks across Iraq
Apr 12 A man-made 32-foot and 60 tonne monument that is dates around 2000 BC is discovered in the Sea of Galilee
Apr 13 20 civilians are killed by the government bombing of Saraqib, Idlib

Apr 13 8 people are killed after a bomb explodes on a bus in Peshawar, Pakistan
Apr 14 11 people are killed and 50 are injured after a hotel fire in Xiangyang, China
Apr 14 20 people are killed in attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia
Apr 14 33 people are killed after a bus tumbled off a cliff in Trujillo, Peru

Election of Interest

Apr 14 Justin Trudeau, son of long-serving Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada

Apr 15 33 people are killed and 163 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq

Election of Interest

Apr 15 Nicolás Maduro is narrowly elected President of Venezuela

Apr 16 16 people are killed after a gold mine collapses in Kyekyewere, Ghana
Apr 16 37 people are killed by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Khash country, Iran
Apr 17 15 people are killed and 100 are injured after a fertilizer plant explodes in West, Texas
Apr 17 5 people are killed in Wana, Pakistan, by a United States drone attack
Apr 17 North Korea blocks a South Korean supply delegation from the Kaesong joint industrial zone
Apr 17 Same-sex marriage is legalized in New Zealand
Apr 18 27 people are killed and 65 are injured in a cafe bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
Apr 18 Two earth-like planets are discovered orbiting the star Kepler-62
Apr 19 Boston bombing suspects killed and captured in Boston after 4 days
Apr 20 193 people are killed and 11,826 are injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes Lushan County, China
Apr 20 Giorgio Napolitano is re-elected President of Italy
Apr 21 185 people are killed in a conflict between Islamic extremists and the Nigerian military
Apr 21 Horacio Cartes is elected President of Paraguay
Apr 22 6 people are killed in a shooting rampage in Belgorod, Russia
Apr 23 21 people are killed during violent unrest in Xinjiang, China
Apr 23 28 people are killed and 70 are injured during clashes between police and Sunni Muslims in Hawija, Iraq

Event of Interest

Apr 23 A 1% flash crash hits the US stock market after a news agency was hacked and claimed injury to President Obama

Apr 23 The French National Assembly passes an amended bill legalizing same-sex marriage
Apr 24 33 people are killed and 115 are injured after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Apr 24 Deadliest structural failure in history when 1,134, mostly garment workers killed and 2,500 injured after the Rana Plaza building collapses in Savar Upazila, Bangladesh
Apr 25 38 people are killed in a psychiatric hospital fire in Ramensky, Russia
Apr 25 The United Kingdom reopens its embassy in Somalia after 22 years
Apr 26 30 people are killed after a bus crashes following a Taliban attack in southern Afghanistan
Apr 27 10 people are killed and 25 are injured after a bomb attack in Karachi, Pakistan
Apr 28 3 people are killed and 14 are injured after a gas explosions causes a building to collapse in Reims, France
Apr 28 8 people are killed and dozens are injured after Taliban attacks on election candidates in Pakistan
Apr 29 7 people are killed after a Boeing 747 crashes in Bagram, Afghanistan
Apr 30 13 people are killed after a bomb explodes in Damascus
Apr 30 Apple offers the largest bond offering from a private company of 17 Billion
Apr 30 Hannah Warren, who was born without a trachea, at 2, becomes the youngest patient to receive a stem cell bioengineered organ

Event of Interest

Apr 30 Willem-Alexander becomes the first male Monarch of Netherlands in 123 years, following the abdication of his mother, Queen Beatrix

Weddings in History

Apr 20 "Hart of Dixie" actor Scott Porter (33) weds casting director Kelsey Mayfield in Austin, Texas

Deaths in History

Apr 4 Carmine Infantino, American comic book artist, dies at 87
Apr 7 John St Aubyn, 4th Baron St Levan, English peer (St Michael's Mount), dies at 94

Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)

Apr 8 British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1979-90), dies of a stroke at 87

Apr 9 David Hayes, American sculptor, dies from leukemia at 82
Apr 9 Zao Wou-Ki, Chinese French painter (Juin-Octobre 1985), dies at 93
Apr 10 Raymond Boudon, French sociologist, dies at 79
Apr 10 Robert Edwards, British physiologist, IVF pioneer, and Nobel laureate, dies at 87
Apr 11 Hilary Koprowski, Polish virologist and immunologist, dies at 96
Apr 13 Lin Yang-kang, Taiwanese politician, dies at 85
Apr 14 Dennis Moran, American computer hacker, dies from overdose at 30
Apr 15 Sal Castro, Mexican-American activist, dies from thyroid cancer at 79
Apr 19 François Jacob, French biologist and bacteriologist (Nobel 1965), dies at 92
Apr 19 Patrick Garland, British director (Doll House), dies at 78
Apr 20 Howard Phillips, American politician, dies from dementia and Alzheimer's disease at 72
Apr 20 Struther Arnott, Scottish molecular biologist and chemist (cancer research), dies at 78
Apr 21 Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor, dies at 107

Shakuntala Devi (1929-2013)

Apr 21 Indian writer and mental calculator known as the "Human Computer", stops calculating at 83 due to complications from severe respiratory problems

Apr 23 Robert W. Edgar, American businessman and politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 7th district), dies from a heart attack at 69