Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 4Political office in ancient Rome
Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 7, 2018Military operations of the Syrian Civil War involving chemical weapons
U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an “aggression”📜 POLITICS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 6, 2017United States missile strike in Syria on 7 April 2017
The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 7, 2011Combined military forces of Israel
France announces its return to full participation of its military forces within NATO.📜 CITIES🌍 INDIA🗓️ April 4, 2009Country primarily in Western Europe
Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist regime falls two days later.📜 ISLAMIC FESTIVALS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 7, 2003Conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011
The MPLA government of Angola and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 4, 2002Ruling party of Angola since 1975
An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Chinese pilot ejected but is subsequently lost. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 1, 2001Signals reconnaissance aircraft of the US Navy
Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces📜 POLITICS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 1, 2001Head of state of SFR Yugoslavia (1953-80); only occupied by Josip Broz Tito
First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki📜 WARS🌍 RUSSIA🗓️ April 7, 19951994–1996 war between Russia and Chechen separatists
The Bosnian War begins.📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 6, 19921992–1995 armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 5, 1992Bridge in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry is ousted from power in a coup d’état led by Field Marshal Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab.📜 POLITICS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 6, 1985Sudanese president and military officer (1931–2009)
Iran–Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.📜 ISLAMIC FESTIVALS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 4, 19811980–1988 armed conflict in West Asia
Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.📜 POLITICS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 7, 1978Low-yield thermonuclear weapon
German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GERMANY🗓️ April 7, 1977Public Prosecutor General of Germany from 1974 to 1977
Vietnam War: A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 4, 1975War in Southeast Asia from 1955 to 1975
A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter📜 EDUCATION🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 4, 1973Retired American heavy military transport aircraft from Lockheed