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April
04 Apr, 1949
1949 NATO is formed12 nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty to establish what is today one of the world's most important military alliances.
April
05 Apr, 1998
1998 The world's largest suspension bridge opens to trafficThe Akashi Kaikyō Bridge in Japan features the world's longest central span, measuring 1991 meters (6532 feet).
April
05 Apr, 1986
1986 A bomb kills 3 people at the La Belle in West BerlinThe attack on the nightclub, which was frequented by U.S. soldiers, was later blamed on the Libyan secret service. In retaliatory strikes, at least 15 people were killed...
April
05 Apr, 1955
1955 Winston Churchill resigns as U.K. Prime MinisterChurchill was instrumental in initiating the alliance between the U.K., the U.S., and the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany. His political career spanned half a century.
April
05 Apr, 1951
1951 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to deathThe U.S. couple was accused of passing information about nuclear weapons on to the Soviet Union. It later emerged that Ethel was not involved in her husband's activities. Both were executed in...
April
05 Apr, 1895
1895 Oscar Wilde loses his criminal libel case triggered by accusations of homosexualityThe Marquess of Queensbury had left his calling card in the Albemarle Club with the added inscription, “For Oscar Wilde posing Somdomite” (sic).
April
06 Apr, 1994
1994 The Rwandan genocide beginsThe assassination of Rwandan President, Juvénal Habyarimana, and Burundian President, Cyprien Ntaryamira, triggered a mass slaughter of ethnic Tutsis with up to 1 million victims.
April
06 Apr, 1965
1965 The first commercial communications satellite is launchedIntelsat I, also known as Early Bird, facilitated the first live TV broadcast of a spacecraft splashdown when Gemini 6 landed in the Atlantic Ocean.
April
06 Apr, 1924
1924 A team of aviators begins the first round-the-world flight in historyFour aircraft left Seattle on a westbound route around the globe. 157 days later, two of them reached the same location.
April
06 Apr, 1909
1909 Robert Peary allegedly becomes the first person to reach the North PolePeary's claim has never been verified and is widely contested. The first undisputed journey to the North Pole was the 1948 Soviet Sever-2 expedition.
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