One of nineteen astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966, Charles Duke had never flown in space before Apollo 16.

At the 23rd Congress ( 29 March – 8 April 1966 ) the survival ratio was 79. 4 percent, it decreased to 76. 5 percent at the 24th Congress ( 30 March – 9 April 1971 ), increased to 83. 4 percent at the 25th Congress ( 24 February – 5 March 1976 ) and at its peak, at the 26th Congress ( 23 February – 3 March 1981 ), it reached 89 percent.

In April 1966 the British Government bought the entire assets of the Chagos Agalega Company in the BIOT for £ 600, 000 and administered them as a government enterprise while awaiting US funding of the proposed facilities, with an interim objective of paying for the administrative expenses of the new territory.

On April 12, 1966, Berry received severe head injuries in an automobile accident just a short distance from Dead Man's Curve in Los Angeles, California, two years after the song had become a hit.

Then the first kickboxing event was held in Osaka on April 11, 1966.

Kwame Nkrumah ( 21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972 ), P. C., was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1951 to 1966.

In April 1967, the Porsche factory's Christophorus Magazine noted: " On 21 December 1966, Porsche celebrated a particularly proud anniversary.

Robin Gayle Wright ( born April 8, 1966 ) is an American actress.

Among the tracks on The Paul Simon Songbook that were rerecorded ( some with electric backing ) for Sound of Silence were " I Am a Rock " ( which as a single reached U. S. No. 3 in the summer of 1966 ), " Leaves That Are Green ", " April Come She Will ", " A Most Peculiar Man ", and " Kathy's Song ".

On 1 April 1966, MSC sent out contracts to Douglas, Grumman, and McDonnell for the conversion of a S-IVB spent stage, under the name Saturn S-IVB spent-stage experiment support module ( SSESM ).

* " Frequency-Shift Teletypewriter " – filed August 1966, issued April 1970

She was born on 18 April 1966 in Lørenskog, Norway.

* April 13 – United States president Lyndon Johnson signs the 1966 Uniform Time Act, dealing with daylight saving time.

* April 4 – William R. Munroe, American admiral ( d. 1966 )

Known for his leftist views, in April 1966 Ngouabi was demoted to the rank of soldier second class when he refused to be posted again at Pointe-Noire.

They had three children: Francesco Quinn ( March 22, 1963 – August 5, 2011 ), Danny ( born April 16, 1964 ), and Lorenzo Quinn ( born May 7, 1966 ).

In 1965, Ponti obtained a divorce from Giuliana in France, allowing him to marry Loren on 9 April 1966.

Secrets of a Windmill Girl ( 1966 ) featured Pauline Collins and April Wilding and was directed by Arnold L. Miller.

The Church of Satan was established at the Black House in San Francisco, California, on Walpurgisnacht, April 30, 1966, by Anton Szandor LaVey, who was the Church's High Priest until his death in 1997.

The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that was broadcast from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966 on ABC.

It is a museum and theatre first opened by his grandson Paul Robert-Houdin in April 1966.

Originally serialized in Worlds of If ( December 1965, January, February, March, April 1966 ), the book received the Hugo Award for best science fiction novel in 1967, and was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1966.

* April 29 – Claude Gallimard, French publishing magnate

The Curtain was originally published as " Le Rideau ", in French in April 2005 by Gallimard.

Amalric died of dysentery ( allegedly brought on by " a surfeit of white mullet ") or even poisoned at Saint Jean d ' Acre on 1 April 1205, just after his son Amalric and four days before his wife, and was buried at Saint Sophia, Nicosia.

In April 1906, Mrs Deter died and Alzheimer had the patient records and the brain brought to Munich where he was working at Kraepelin's lab.

The American colonists arrived aboard the USCGC Itasca, the same vessel that brought colonists to neighboring Howland Island, on April 3, 1935.

In a busy summer, Powell brought in 19 new players and after a successful season, on 14 April 2012, Charlton Athletic won promotion back to the Championship with a 1 – 0 away win at Carlisle United.

By the time David died, the painting had been completed and the commissioner Ambroise Firmin-Didot brought it back to Paris to include it in the exhibition " Pour les grecs " that he had organised and which opened in Paris in April 1826.

In April, he brought Goebbels to Munich, sending his own car to meet him at the railway station, and gave him a long private audience.

This action was one of the acts brought up against him by the senatus-consulte of 3 April 1814, which pronounced his fall " considering that he has violated the constitutional laws by the decrees on the state prisons.

In April, Sigismund was brought to Hungary by his brother Wenceslaus and the queens were compelled to accept him as Mary's co-ruler by a treaty signed in Győr.

Lorenzo de ' Medici's death on 8 April 1492 brought a reversal of Michelangelo's circumstances.

# Decides that in adjudicating the dispute brought before it by the Application filed by the Republic of Nicaragua on 9 April 1984, the Court is required to apply the " multilateral treaty reservation " contained in proviso ( c ) to the declaration of acceptance of jurisdiction made under Article 36, paragraph 2, of the Statute of the Court by the Government of the United States of America deposited on 26 August 1946 ;

He was married on 28 April 1180 to Isabelle of Hainaut, who brought the County of Artois as her dowry.

By April 1948, the coup group brought back Field Marshal Luang Phibulsongkram, the wartime Prime Minister, to prime ministership once again.

On April 12, 2012, the WSOP announced that 30 players had committed to the tournament, which brought the first prize to $ 12. 3 million, exceeding the record amount won by Jamie Gold.

The radius of the orbit was brought down in stages to a 50 × 50 km orbit on 30 April 2000 and decreased to 35 × 35 km on July 14, 2000.

* April 10 – Because of the plague, the Edinburgh town council orders that the college graduation ceremony should be brought forward so that students can leave the city ( on November 19, teaching resumes in Linlithgow ).

On April 22, 1921, a month after he turned 18, Beiderbecke was arrested by two Davenport police officers on a charge brought by the father of a young girl.

On April 1, 2010, Daimler AG's German and Russian subsidiaries each plead guilty to two counts of bribery charges brought by the U. S. Justice Department and the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

On April 7, 1848, in response to a citizen's petition, the New York State Assembly passed the Married Woman's Property Act, giving women the right to retain property they brought into a marriage, as well as property they acquired during the marriage.

The final release was brought out on April 8, 2007.

The trades brought a late-season push for the Bulls, which finally clinched a playoff berth on April 10, 2009, their fourth in the last five years.

The party was founded in April 1978 as Herri Batasuna, a coalition of leftist nationalist political groups mostly originating from Euskadiko Ezkerra initially brought together to advocate for " no " in the referendum to be held that year on the Spanish constitution.

The other major foreign policy crisis of the period, the intervention in the Dominican Republic during April and May 1965, was not brought before the Council at all.

An event in April 1967 brought an overnight revitalization of the royal family, when the first male heir to the Dutch throne in 116 years, Willem-Alexander, was born to Princess Beatrix.

In the aftermath of the collapse of the Cabinet Marijnen, Cals became Prime Minister of the Netherlands from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966, the Cabinet Cals was suddenly brought down in an attack on its budget, known as the " Night of Schmelzer ".