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1949 - Birth of Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate; 1961 - Death of Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870) 1963 - Death of Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897) 1965 - Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in ...
April 1: April Fools' Day; Iranian Islamic Republic Day Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos 1871 – The Duke of Buckingham (pictured) opened the first section of the Brill Tramway , a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
1980 – One hundred forty-six people are killed when Dan-Air Flight 1008 crashes near Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands. [4] 1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of at the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. 1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David ...
April 15 is the 105th day of the year ... 1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes. ... Austrian-born chemist and educator (d ...
April 20 is the 110th ... 2015 – Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to ... Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German politician ...
April 8 in recent years ... A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people. ... Romanian-born American art curator (b. 1926) ...
April 2 is the 92nd day of the year ... Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed. ... Dovid Shmidel, Austrian-born Israeli rabbi; 1936 – Shaul Ladany, ...
April 11 is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... Puerto Rico, after experiencing an engine failure, killing 52 people.