* April 21-The body lifeless of Claude Jutra was finally found in the Saint Lawrence River near Cap-Santé.

* February 21-The inquiry into the April 1994 uprising in the Kingston Prison For Women rules that authorities used excessive force in putting it down

* April 21-The World Bank expects that poverty will start reducing soon in Pakistan, as the country has surpassed most of the targets set by the bank under its country assistance strategy ( CAS ).

* April 21-The San Jacinto Monument is dedicated near Houston, Texas.

* April 20 – 21-The German-controlled cargo steamer, masquerading as, is intercepted by the Royal Navy and scuttled following an unsuccessful attempt to land arms for the Irish Volunteers in Tralee Bay.

* April 21-The Jokela rail accident, a derailment in thick fog, kills 4 in Tuusula, Finland.

* April 21-The first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River opens between Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Hearst saw his wife and child, sent a joyful message to his mother in California, and soon returned to Washington, where on April 22, for the first time, he opened his mouth in Congress.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

* April 1 is the first day of Japanese fiscal year.

* Easter, or Resurrection Day ( Christians )-celebrated the First Sunday after the first full moon on or after the Spring Equinox, near March 21st ( between March 22 and April 25 )

* Opening Day – first Sunday in April

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

He aimed the cannon that fired the first return shot in answer to the Confederate bombardment on April 12, 1861.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.

Albert married first, to Princess Dorothea ( 1 August 1504-11 April 1547 ), daughter of King Frederick I of Denmark, in 1526.

In April 1998, American photographer John S Callahan organized the first surfing project in the Andamans, starting from Phuket in Thailand with the assistance of Southeast Asia Liveaboards ( SEAL ), a UK owned dive charter company.

The first Arbor Day was held on April 10, 1872 and an estimated one million trees were planted that day.

Ontario celebrates Arbor Week from the last Friday in April to the first Sunday in May.

On the first Arbor Day, April 10, 1872, an estimated one million trees were planted.

The Thai zodiac includes a Naga in place of the Dragon and begins, not at Chinese New Year, but at either on the first day of fifth month in Thai lunar calendar, or during the Songkran festival ( now celebrated every 13 – 15 April ), depending on the purpose of the use.

The first tank versus tank action took place on 24 April 1918 at Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, when three British Mark IVs met an advance of three German A7Vs, supported by infantry.

* Earliest day on which First Day of Summer or Sumardagurinn fyrsti can fall, while April 25 is the latest ; celebrated on the first Thursday after April 18.

The marriage took place on 30 April or 16 October 1325 and was a purely political maneuver to strengthen the first Polish – Lithuanian coalition against the Teutonic Knights.

The first public performance was given by Beethoven himself, Ignaz Schuppanzigh ( violin ) and Josef Linke ( cello ) at the Viennese hotel Zum römischen Kaiser on 11 April 1814, as his deafness continued to encroach upon his ability as a performer.

In April 2008, Vice President Lt. Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama ( Ian Khama ), son of Seretse Khama the first president, succeeded to the presidency when Festus Mogae retired.

Due to the Anglo-Boer War, the first census of Bechuanaland Protectorate, originally set to occur in 1901, took place on 17 April 1904.

The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.

During an audience interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 April 2004, series author J. K. Rowling had this to say about the fictional Killing Curse's etymology: " Does anyone know where avada kedavra came from?

The comprehensive series, a reprinting of the entire 43-year history of Li ' l Abner spanning a projected 20 volumes, began on April 7, 2010.

In April 1989, Idriss Déby, one of Habré's leading generals and a Zaghawa, defected and fled to Darfur in Sudan, from which he mounted a Zaghawa-supported series of attacks on Habré ( a Gorane ).

In November 2011, Charles took time off from Coronation Street to film a new series of Red Dwarf, returning to filming on ' Corrie ' in April 2012.

The series premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 3, 1998 until June 19, 1998, broadcasting only twelve episodes and a special due to its controversial content.

The entire twenty-six episodes of the series were later broadcast on WOWOW on October 23, 1998 and ran until April 23, 1999.

Upon her husband's death on April 20, 1968, Day learned that he had committed her to a television series, which became The Doris Day Show.

Celebrating Doraemons anniversary, a new Doraemon series began airing on TV Asahi on April 15, 2005 with new voice actors and staff, and updated character designs.

: In April 2009, a third series was announced for broadcast later in 2009.

Dan Simmons ( born April 4, 1948 ) is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium / Olympos cycle.

An Irish-British co-production, written jointly by Irish writers Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring a predominantly Irish cast, it originally aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May 1998, including a Christmas special, for a total of 25 episodes.

The series ran for forty-nine half-hour episodes, beginning on April 7, 1995 and ending on March 29, 1996.

The first manga was originally serialized in Young Magazine from April 1989 to November 1990 and was followed by a sequel, Man-Machine Interface, from September 1991 to August 1997 ; each series was later published as its own tankōbon volume by Kodansha.

At the same time, a series of deaths left the Greek political scene in disarray: Kondylis died in February, Venizelos in March, Demertzis in April and Tsaldaris in May.

India has a series of ballistic missiles called Agni, of which the latest is Agni-V. On 19 April 2012, India successfully test fired Agni-V, a three stage solid fueled missile, with a strike range of more than 8, 000 km.

On April 27, 2011, it was reported that Russ had been admitted to a hospice after suffering a series of strokes.

* On 23 April 2009 kami was discussed in an episode of the Fox Television series Bones.

The last release of the earlier K-Meleon 0. 9 series ( which was based on the earlier Mozilla 1. 7. x rendering engine used in the former Mozilla Application Suite ) was K-Meleon 0. 9. 13 ( released April 24, 2006 ).

Representatives from both sides initiated a series of low-level contacts that led to a resumption of diplomatic ties in April 1985.

For the tenth anniversary of the bombing, the city held 24 days of activities, including a week-long series of events known as the National Week of Hope from April 17 to April 24, 2005.

In April and May 2010 the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Mudlark Production Company presented a version of the play, entitled Such Tweet Sorrow, as an improvised, real-time series of tweets on Twitter.

Clemente is also the subject of a biography as part of the Public Broadcasting Service history series, American Experience which aired April 21, 2008.

In a separate series of events, civilian hostage and German citizen Lothar Hintze was released by FARC-EP on 4 April 2006, after five years in captivity.