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King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties
April 9th 2005
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are married
April 10th 1986
Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan
April 11th 1960
1st weather satellite launched (Tiros1)
April 12th 1988
Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse
April 13th 1919
Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India
April 14th 1865
American President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth
April 15th 1912
Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on
April 16th 1917
Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
April 17th 1961
1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro
April 18th 1909
Joan of Arc declared a saint
April 19th 1975
India launches 1st satellite with help of U.S.S.R.
April 20th 1999
Two disaffected students brought guns to their high school in Columbine, Colorado and murdered twelve students, one teacher and then killed themselves
April 21st 1976
Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing
April 22nd 1987
Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed
April 23rd 1896
Premier of motion pictures (Koster and Bial’s Music Hall, New York City)
April 24th 1989
Thousands of students strike in Beijing China
April 25th 1990
Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery
April 26th 1986
Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl U.S.S.R. explodes, 31 die
April 27th 1956
Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
April 28th 1967
Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title
April 29th 1942
Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands and Vichy-France
April 30th 1986
Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles