The League of Nations officially dissolves, handing over power to the United Nations. April 20, 1946 – The League of Nations Is Officially Disbanded. The…
19 April 1971
The first space station, Salyut 1 is launched. Salyut 1 was the first space station of any kind, launched into low Earth orbit by the…
18 April 1909
Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome. Joan of Arc was formally canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on 16 May 1920…
17 April 1961
A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel…
16 April 1941
The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships during World War II. The Battle of the Tarigo Convoy was a naval battle…
15 April 1945
The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. ergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of…
14 April 1881
The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas. On April 14, 1881, a group of about 75 heavily armed Mexicans…
13 April 1870
The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is opened in New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s earliest roots date back to 1866 in…
12 April 1831
Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England result in it collapsing. On 12 April 1831, the 60th Rifle Corps carried out an…
11 April 1970
Apollo 13 is launched. Apollo 13, NASA’s third crewed mission to the moon, launched on April 11, 1970. Two days later, on April 13, while…