Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 6Roman general and dictator (100–44 BC)
Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 4Political office in ancient Rome
The impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea in response to his declaration of martial law is unanimously upheld by the country’s Constitutional Court📜 POLITICS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ April 4, 20252024 South Korean charging of president
Solar eclipse: A total solar eclipse takes place at the Moon’s ascending node📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 8, 2024Total eclipse over North America
A mass shooting occurs at the Old National Bank in Louisville📜 BANKING🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 10, 2023Mass shooting in Kentucky, U.S.
Finland becomes a member of NATO after Turkey accepts its membership request.📜 CITIES🌍 RUSSIA🗓️ April 4, 2023Country in northern Europe
Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States📜 POLITICS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 7, 2022US Supreme Court justice since 2022
COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.📜 DISEASES🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 7, 2021United States government public health agency
Bernie Sanders ends his presidential campaign📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 8, 2020American politician and activist (born 1941)
COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 7, 2020American businessman and government official (born 1960)
COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 CHINA🗓️ April 7, 2020Pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2
China holds a national day of mourning for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease outbreak.📜 DISEASES🌍 CHINA🗓️ April 4, 2020Day marked by mourning and memorial activities
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
A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team collides with a semi-truck in Saskatchewan📜 HOCKEY🌍 CANADA🗓️ April 6, 2018Junior ice hockey team from Humboldt, Canada
Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid a slaughterhouse in Tennessee📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 5, 2018US federal law enforcement agency
After refusing to give up his seat on an overbooked United Express flight📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ April 9, 2017Regional airline brand of the United States