Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
3 May 2000
The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
2 May 1989
Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
1 May 1945
Joseph Goebbels who was was a German Nazi politician and then Hitlers Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945 takes his own life. Joseph Goebbels…
29 April 1968
The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some…
28 April 1996
Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23…
25 April 1916
Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.