Events in History
- Apr 3 Panama Papers published - 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca expose widespread illegal activities including fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion and the violation of international sanctions by the world's elite in the world's largest ever data leak
- Apr 5 Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigns after the Panama Papers leak show a conflict of interest
- Apr 5 PayPal announces it is cancelling a $3.6 million investment in North Carolina after the state passes anti-gay legislation
- Apr 5 San Francisco becomes the first US city to mandate paid parental leave
- Apr 6 First baby born with DNA from 3 parents through mitochondrial transfer in Mexico
- Apr 6 France passes legislation making it illegal to pay for sex
Event of Interest
Apr 6 Protests in Lima, Peru by 30,000 against presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori on 24th anniversary of her father Alberto Fujimori's coup
Election of Interest
Apr 6 US primary elections: Wisconsin won by Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Ted Cruz
Event of Interest
Apr 10 Hong Kong pro-democracy political party Demosistō established by Nathan Law, Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow
- Apr 11 UN-backed ceasefire comes into effect in Yemen conflict between Iranian-backed Houthis rebels and government forces
- Apr 11 Updated "Tree of Life" published in "Nature Microbiology" by scientists from Berkeley University in California
Event of Interest
Apr 12 Breakthrough Starshot: Scientists and internet entrepreneurs, including Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg, announce interstellar project to send robot spacecraft to Alpha Centauri
Event of Interest
Apr 21 US President Barack Obama begins a 4 day visit to the UK with Michelle Obama
- Apr 22 Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C
- Apr 26 CEO of Chobani, Hamdi Ulukaya, announces that he will be giving his employees 10% of the shares in Chobani
- Apr 29 Iranian run-off elections give moderates and reforms a majority in parliament
Deaths in History
- Apr 3 Joseph Medicine Crow, Native American chief and historian, dies at 102
- Apr 3 Lars Gustafsson, Swedish poet and novelist (The Death of a Beekeeper, The Cracks in the Wall), dies at 79
- Apr 10 Howard Marks, British drug dealer and author (Mr Nice), dies at 70
- Apr 12 Arnold Wesker, British playwright (Chips with Everything), dies at 83
- Apr 13 Ray Thornton, American politician (Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas), dies at 87
- Apr 19 Patricio Aylwin, Chilean lawyer, politician and President of Chile (1990-94), dies at 97
- Apr 19 Walter Kohn, Austrian-born American scientist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 1998), dies at 93
- Apr 20 Guy Hamilton, British director (Goldfinger), dies at 93
- Apr 21 Peter Ruckman, American Baptist minister and founder of Pensacola Bible Institute in Pensacola, dies at 94
- Apr 22 Isabelle Dinoire, French recipient of world's 1st partial face transplant, dies from surgical complications at 49
- Apr 23 Banharn Silpa-archa, Prime Minister of Thailand (1995-96), dies at 83
- Apr 28 Conrad Burns, American politician (Senate-R-Montana 1989-2007), dies at 81
- Apr 28 Jenny Diski, English writer (Stranger on a Train), dies of cancer at 68
- Apr 30 Daniel Berrigan, American Jesuit priest and peace activist (Vietnam War), dies at 94
- Apr 30 Marisol (Maria Sol) Escobar, Venezuelan sculptor, dies at 85
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