15th April
1469 Guru Nanak, Founder of the religion of Sikhism and the 1st Sikh Guru, born in Rai-Bhoi- Di-Talwandi, Punjab, Pakistan (d. 1539)
1912 RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 people
1929 Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
16th April
1853 The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane
1889 Charlie Chaplin, British actor and comedian (City Lights, Gold Rush), born in London, England (d. 1977)
1850 Marie Tussaud, French founder of Madame Tussaud’s wax museum, dies at 88
17th April
1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro
1978 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for “Dragons of Eden”
1983 India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
18th April
1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 while destroying 75% of the city
1930 Attempted raid on the armory of police and auxiliary forces in Chittagong in Bengal province, British India by armed pro-independence revolutionaries led by Surya Sen popularly known as Master-da
19th April
1451 Alam Shah of Delhi resigns the throne
1972 Bangladesh becomes a member of the British Commonwealth
20th April
1611 First known performance of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth at the Globe Theatre, London, recorded by Simon Forman
1970 Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and lyricist, dies at 53
21st April
43 BC Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
1977 Zia ur-Rahman appointed as a president of Bangladesh
