A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
7 April 1988
Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov orders the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
6 April 1652
At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
4 April 1581
Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
3 April 2016
The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
31 March 1918
Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.