During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

Two supplementary meetings were also held during this period: a Commonwealth Statesmen's meeting to discuss peace terms in April 1945, and a Commonwealth Economic Conference in 1952.

Clara Petacci ( born Claretta Petacci ; 28 February 1912 – 28 April 1945 ) was the mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, who was twenty-eight years her senior.

On 27 April 1945, when a convoy of escaping Italian Social Republic members, including Mussolini, was captured by Communist partisans, it is said that Petacci was offered the opportunity to go unmolested.

Concerning his own brother Husayn, Shoghi Effendi sent the following cable to the Bahá ' í world in April 1945:

Bombed as a target of the Oil Campaign of World War II, Erfurt suffered only limited damage and was captured on 12 April 1945, by the US 80th Infantry Division.

Moreover, in Yugoslavia there existed the Jasenovac concentration camp ( August 1941 – April 1945 ), which was the only central extermination camp outside of Poland, and the only one not operated by Nazis, but by the fascist Ustaše forces of the Independent State of Croatia, the majority of whose victims were Orthodox Christian Serbs, Roma, and Jews.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( or ; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945 ), also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States ( 1933 – 1945 ) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.

On 28 April 1945, Mussolini was captured and executed by Italian communist partisans.

On 30 April 1945, Hitler committed suicide.

:* Sir John Boyd Orr ( UK ): October 1945 – April 1948.

She also wrote that the Soviets were " violating girls and women of all ages ", and about her, her daughter's and grandson's suffering as displaced persons in postwar Berlin, where the Germans abandoned them for a possible hostage exchange in April 1945, as the Russians were advancing.

At the arrangement of editor Max Eastman, the American magazine Reader's Digest also published an abridged version in April 1945, enabling The Road to Serfdom to reach a far wider audience than academics.

United States | American and USSR | Soviet troops Elbe Day | meet in April 1945, east of the Elbe River.

Hitler committed suicide on 30 April 1945.

Hearing of this, Hitler dismissed him from all his posts in April 1945.

Himmler and Hitler met for the last time on 20 April 1945 — Hitler's birthday — in Berlin, and Himmler swore total loyalty to Hitler.

Of the approximately 4, 800 Jews who had lived in Hannover 1938, fewer than 100 were still in the city when troops of the United States Army arrived on April 10, 1945 to occupy Hanover at the end of the war.

The Allied ground advance into Germany reached Hanover in April 1945.

The US 84th Infantry Division captured the city on 10 April 1945.

* April 8 – Henrietta Treffz, soprano, first wife of Johann Strauss II ( b. 1818 )

Strauss's parents, Franz Borgias Strauss ( October 10, 1764 – April 5, 1816 ) and Barbara Dollmann ( December 3, 1770 – August 28, 1811 ), were innkeepers ().

On April 24, 1941, Strauss and Goldstein's convictions were affirmed by New York's Court of Appeals on a 4 – 3 decision.

As of April 2011, Strategic Marks, LLC has obtained the ' Filene's ' trademark and plans on re-introducing the famous department store name as part of a virtual mall, along with other nostalgic stores such as The Bon Marche, The Broadway, Robinson's Department Store, Joseph Magnin, Abraham and Strauss and many others.

* April 8 – Henriette " Jetty " Treffz, singer, first wife and business manager of Johann Strauss II ( b. 1818 )

In April 2010 she sang the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss in two performances at the Cologne Opera in Germany.

Strauss was the driving force in the hearings, held in April 1954 before a United States Atomic Energy Commission Personnel Security Board, in which J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance was revoked.

Strauss is perhaps most remembered as the driving force in the month-long hearings, held in April and May 1954, before an AEC Personnel Security Board which resulted in Oppenheimer's security clearance being revoked.

In November 2008 Coming Back to Me was named the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year, and in April 2009, Trescothick turned down another request from new England captain Andrew Strauss to consider making himself available for England's World Twenty20 Championship campaign.

* 1874 ( April 5 ) Die Fledermaus by the younger Johann Strauss

On January 5, 2005, the Telegraph of India reported that Blackwill was traveling to India on a trip linked to India's $ 600, 000-a-year contract with the Washington lobbying firm, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld that had expired in April, 2004.

Henrietta " Jetty " Treffz ( née Chalupetzky ; 1 July 1818, Alsergrund – 8 April 1878, Hietzing ) was best known as the first wife of Johann Strauss II and a well-known mezzo-soprano appearing in England in 1849 to great acclaim.

354 is a waltz by Johann Strauss II first performed by the composer on 22 April 1873.

* Film Piracy Heads North of Border by Bob Strauss, Daily News, April 7, 2009

As of April 2011, Strategic Marks, LLC has obtained the ' Jordan Marsh ' trademark and plans on re-introducing the famous department store name as part of a virtual mall, along with other nostalgic stores such as The Bon Marche, The Broadway, Robinson's Department Store, Joseph Magnin, Abraham and Strauss, Filene's and many others.

In April 1945, at the war's end, Strauss was apprehended by American soldiers at his Garmisch estate.

Just prior to the release of The Word's debut album, Randolph was brought to the attention of music fans through an enthusiastic review by Neil Strauss in the New York Times in April 2001.

* The New Machiavelli: Leo Strauss and the Politics of Fear, CBC, April 27, 2005.

As of April 2011, Strategic Marks, LLC has obtained the ' Filene's ' trademark and plans on re-introducing the famous department store name as part of a virtual mall, along with other nostalgic stores such as The Bon Marche, The Broadway, Robinson's Department Store, Joseph Magnin, Abraham and Strauss and many others.

* April Stewart-Justice Strauss

#" Skip Softly ( My Moonbeams ) / Also Sprach Zarathustra " ( Brooker / Reid )/( Richard Strauss )( live in the USA, April 1969 )