* April 27-Sir Mackenzie Bowell resigns as Prime Minister due to cabinet infighting.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

In April 2011, a representative for Andrews McMeel received a package from a " William Watterson in Cleveland Heights, Ohio ", which contained a 6 " x 8 " oil-on-board painting of Cul De Sac character Petey Otterloop, done by Watterson for the Team Cul de Sac fundraising project for Parkinson's Disease.

Beginning in April 1915, Herbert ordered his subordinates cease calling him " Sir ", and to address him only by the pseudonym " Captain William McBride.

William Hodgson Cole, rector of West Clandon and Vicar of Wonersh, near Guildford, Surrey, on 8 April 1828.

* William Theodore Heard ( 28 April 1969 – 18 May 1970 )

The Viscount and Viscountess Alexander of Tunis are greeted by Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King | Mackenzie King upon the viceregal couple's arrival in Ottawa, 12 April 1946

Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska on April 6, 1903, the son of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut and a descendent of Governor William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

He was among the guests at the Royal Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge to Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011.

* Booknotes interview with William Cooper on Jefferson Davis, American, April 8, 2001.

William Jan Berry ( born in Los Angeles, California April 3, 1941 ; died March 26, 2004 ), was the son of aeronautical engineer William L. Berry ( born December 7, 1909 in The Bronx, NY ; died December 19, 2004 in Camarillo, California ), who had been project manager of the " Spruce Goose " and flew on its only flight with Howard Hughes, and Clara Lorentze Mustad Berry ( born September 2, 1919 in Bergen, Norway ; died July 9, 2009 ).

On April 25 in a house speech that biographer William Nisbet Chambers called “ long, passionate, historical, polemical ,” Benton attacked the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which he “ had stood upon ... above thirty years, and intended to stand upon it to the end -- solitary and alone, if need be ; but preferring company .” The speech was distributed afterwards as a pamphlet when opposition to the act moved outside the walls of congress.

* Sir William Reid ( b. April 25, 1791, Kinglassie-d. October 31, 1858, London, England ), governor of Bermuda ( 1839 – 46 ), Barbados ( 1846 – 48 ), and Malta ( 1851 – 58 ); knighted 1851

A later proposal by William Barton Rogers led to a charter for the incorporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was signed by the governor of Massachusetts on April 10, 1861.

Mary II ( 30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694 ) was joint Sovereign of England, Scotland, and Ireland with her husband and first cousin, William III and II, from 1689 until her death.

* Calvin, William " Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection ", Science, 24 June 1988, accessed April 16, 2007 ( a review of Gerald Edelman's book Neural Darwinism )

* William Ury, Roger Fisher and Bruce Patton, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving in, Revised 2nd edition, Penguin USA, 1991, trade paperback, ISBN 0-14-015735-2 ; Houghton Mifflin, April, 1992, hardcover, 200 pages, ISBN 0-395-63124-6.

Soon after their marriage on June 15, 1862, the couple moved to San Francisco, California, where Phoebe gave birth to their only child, William Randolph Hearst, on April 29, 1863.

* Phipps, William E., Eve and Pandora Contrasted, in Theology Today, v. 45, n. 1, April 1988, Princeton: Princeton Theological Seminary.

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* Method of making a transistor structure ( coinventor William Shockley ), filed April 1957, issued July 1964, assigned to Clevite Corporation

Sir Robert William Askin GCMG, ( 4 April 19079 September 1981 ) was an Australian politician and the 32nd Premier of New South Wales from 1965 to 1975, the first representing the Liberal Party of Australia.

Adam Jones and Nick Markakis, Orioles v. Tampa Bay Rays, Camden Yards, April 12, 2009.

In April 2008 Stephen Jones told a reporter, " I don't think I have a political bone in my body.

He surrounded Donald Duck and nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie with a cast of eccentric and colorful characters, such as the aforementioned Scrooge McDuck, the wealthiest duck in the world ; Gladstone Gander, Donald's obscenely lucky cousin ; inventor Gyro Gearloose ; the persistent Beagle Boys ; the sorceress Magica De Spell ; Scrooge's rivals Flintheart Glomgold and John D. Rockerduck ; Daisy's nieces April, May and June ; Donald's neighbor Jones, and The Junior Woodchucks organization.

In April 2006, Jones recorded the single " Your Personal Penguin ", written by children's author Sandra Boynton, as a companion piece to her new board book of the same title.

In April 2009, many viewers complained about the death of Danielle Jones ( Lauren Crace ), moments after revealing herself to be Ronnie Mitchell's ( Samantha Womack ) long lost daughter.

* Sir Eric Jones ( April 1952 – 1960 )

On 30 April 2004, Life of Brian was re-released on five North American screens to " cash in " ( as Terry Jones put it ) on the box office success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.

Sir William Jones ( 28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794 ) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages.

' Talkback ' radio, using a seven-second time lapse mechanism, began in Australia in April 1967, simultaneously on 2SM, Sydney ( with Mike Walsh ) and 3DB, Melbourne ( with Barry Jones ).

* April 21 – The first of forty boundary stones delineating the borders of the new District of Columbia is laid at Jones Point Light, in Alexandria, Virginia.

* April 30 – Casey Jones, American railway engineer ( b. 1863 )

* April 12 – NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the National Labor Relations Act is constitutional.

* April 17 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3, 000 for the first time ever, at 3, 004. 46.

* April 28 – Carolyn Jones, American actress ( d. 1983 )

* April 27 – Sir William Jones, British philologist ( b. 1746 )

* April 10 – Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin ( b. c. 1550 )

* Stafford Hildred & David Gritten: " Tom Jones: A Biography " ( Isis Large Print Books, April 1991 ) ISBN 1-85089-486-8

John Paul Jones became notorious in Britain for his expedition from France in the little sloop of war Ranger in April 1778, during which, in addition to his attacks on merchant shipping, he made two landings on British soil.

It was reported in the British media on 27 April 2009 that Jones was due to become a father for the third time in autumn 2009, by way of Söderström.

He released his first solo recording as John Paul Jones, " Baja " ( written by Lee Hazlewood and produced by Oldham ) / " A Foggy Day in Vietnam ", as a single on Pye Records in April 1964.

On 19 April 2008 an English woman, Jayne Jones ( age 37 ) who had an ectopic pregnancy attached to the omentum, the fatty covering of her large bowel, gave birth to her son Billy by a laparotomy at 28 weeks gestation.

* Stephen Faris, “ Nigeria ’ s Vigilante Justice ,” Mother Jones ( April 25, 2002 )

Pfizer's shares have been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since April 8, 2004.

Mother Jones magazine, April 1988.

Jones and second husband David O. Selznick in 1957Jones's first marriage produced two sons, Robert Walker, Jr. ( born April 15, 1940 ; the only one of Jones's children who would not predecease her ), and Michael Walker