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April 4 – Rita Romilly Benson, American stage actress and acting teacher (b. 1900) April 6 – Antony Balch, English film director and distributor (b. 1937) April 8 – Wilhelm Arwe, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1898) April 10 – Kay Medford, American actress and singer (b. 1919) April 11
1996 – The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland. [30] 1997 – The Missionaries of Charity choose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as their leader. [31] 2003 – An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints. [32]
1841 – U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having become president upon William Henry Harrison's death. 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , later renamed Community of Christ , is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois .
1760 – French forces commence the siege of Quebec which is held by the British. [6]1770 – James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names. [7]1781 – American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
April 9 is the 99th day of the year ... resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries. ... [15] 2021 – Burmese ...
The following is a list of presidents of the United States by date of death, plus additional lists of presidential death related statistics. Of the 45 people who have served as President of the United States since the office came into existence in 1789, [ a ] 39 have died – eight of them while in office .
1944 – In the Fragheto massacre, soldiers belonging to the German 356th Infantry Division kill 30 Italian civilians and 15 partisans near Casteldelci in central-northern Italy. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] 1945 – World War II : The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato , one of the two largest ever constructed, is sunk by United States Navy ...
[15] 1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh. [16] 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.