Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 INDIA
Ambush of law enforcement by Naxalite-Maoist insurgents in Chhattisgarh, India
आज का इतिहास
🇮🇳 भारत (India) (3)
Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 INDIA
Controlled detonation of nuclear weapons for scientific or political purposes
🌍 विश्व (World) (58)
Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.
📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL
Roman general and dictator (100–44 BC)
A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team collides with a semi-truck in Saskatchewan
📜 HOCKEY🌍 CANADA
Junior ice hockey team from Humboldt, Canada
U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an “aggression”
📜 POLITICS🌍 UNITED STATES
United States missile strike in Syria on 7 April 2017
Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
Tuareg name for a territory in northern Mali
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L’Aquila
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 ITALY
Earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy
The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activists.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
Strike by Egyptian textile workers due to low wages and high food costs
Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
📜 POLITICS🌍 GLOBAL
President of Iraq from 2006 to 2014
Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
📜 POLITICS🌍 GLOBAL
Lithuanian politician; President from 2003 until impeached in 2004
In Greene County
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
1997 triple homicide in Greene County, Tennessee, USA
The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
📜 POLITICS🌍 GLOBAL
Mass murder campaign in Rwanda
Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry is ousted from power in a coup d’état led by Field Marshal Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab.
📜 POLITICS🌍 GLOBAL
Sudanese president and military officer (1931–2009)
Members of Cameroon’s Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
📜 CITIES🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
Country in Central Africa
The first California Jam festival takes place at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario
📜 MUSIC🌍 GLOBAL
1974 one-day rock music festival
The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
League within Major League Baseball
Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES
War in Southeast Asia from 1955 to 1975
Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED STATES
Shootout near Santa Clarita, California
Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Party leadership election
📜 POLITICS🌍 CANADA
Prime Minister of Canada (1968–1979; 1980–1984)
Launch of Early Bird
📜 SPACE🌍 UNITED STATES
American commercial communications satellite launched in 1965
Capital Airlines Flight 67 crashes in Tittabawassee Township
📜 SPACE🌍 UNITED STATES
1958 plane crash in Michigan, United States
The Finno-Soviet Treaty is signed in Moscow.
📜 POLICIES🌍 RUSSIA
1948 treaty between Finland and the Soviet Union
The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
📜 AWARDS🌍 UNITED STATES
Annual awards for Broadway theatre
World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY
Capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina
World War II: The Battle of Slater’s Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
📜 WARS🌍 AUSTRALIA
1945 battle between Australia and Japan
World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
📜 HISTORY🌍 GERMANY
1939–1945 global conflict
Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
Tornadoes that struck the United States
Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
American domestic airline based in Boise, Idaho (1926-34)
World War I: The United States declares war on Germany.
📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED STATES
1914–1918 global conflict
Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary’s claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
American explorer (1856–1920)
The Grand Army of the Republic
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES
American fraternal organization of Civil War veterans (1866–1956)
American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor’s Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES
1865 American Civil War battle in Virginia