22nd April
1930 British troops battle pro-independence revolutionaries in the Jalalabad hills near Chittagong, Bengal province, British India, 80 troops and 12 revolutionaries killed
1972 Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on Moon
23rd April
1984 AIDS-virus identified as HTLV-III (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
1992 Satyajit Ray, an Indian director (Distant Thunder, Agantuk), dies at 70
24th April
1915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day)
1970 People’s Republic of China launches its 1st satellite transmitting song “East is Red”
25th April
1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal
1644 Chongzhen, last Ming Emperor of China, commits suicide at 33
26th April
1865 John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln, shot at 26 by Union soldier Boston Corbett
1986 World’s worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR explodes, 31 died, radioactive contamination reaches much of Western Europe
27th April
1970 Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and lyricist, dies at 53
1989 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China
28th April
1957 4th National Film Awards (India): “Kabuliwala” wins the Golden Lotus
1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France
29th April
1901 Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan (1926-89), born in Aoyama Palace, Tokyo (d. 1989)
1939 Whitestone Bridge connecting the New York boroughs of Bronx and Queens opens
30th April
1777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician considered one of the greatest of all time (Gaussian distribution, fundamental theorem of algebra), born in Brunswick, Germany (d. 1855)
1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide along with his new wife Eva Braun in the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin as the Red Army captures the city
