On 12 April 2006, Afridi announced a temporary retirement from Test cricket so that he could concentrate on ODIs, with a particular focus on the 2007 World Cup, and to spend more time with his family.

* 21 destroyer – HMS Acasta ( sunk 8 June ), HMS Afridi ( sunk 3 May ), HMS Ardent ( sunk 8 June ), HMS Bedouin, HMS Cossack, HMS Eskimo, HMS Punjabi, HMS Hero, HMS Icarus, HMS Kimberley, HMS Forester, HMS Foxhound, HMS Hardy ( sunk 10 April ), HMS Hunter ( sunk 10 April ), HMS Hotspur, HMS Havock, HMS Hostile, HMS Gurkha ( sunk 9 April ), HMS Glowworm ( sunk 8 April ), HMS Wolverine, HMS Zulu

Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning, Washington Post photographer Carol Guzy was detained by police and arrested on April 15, and two journalists for the Associated Press also reported being struck by police with batons.

On 3 April 1918, the 10, 000-strong Baltic Sea Division led by Rüdiger von der Goltz struck west of Helsinki at Hanko.

In April 1895 the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen struck out for the Pole on skis after leaving Nansen's icebound ship Fram.

Camp workers in BC struck on April 4, 1935, and, after two months of protesting in Vancouver, began the On-to-Ottawa Trek to bring their grievances to Bennett's doorstep.

Prices dropped 70 % over the next few years, to nearly US $ 20 per kilogram ; prices rose sharply again after tropical cyclone Hudah struck Madagascar in April 2000.

A second fire, or series of fires, struck from the German air-raids in April and May 1940, and destroyed about two thirds of the town.

The Union successfully struck the Great Northern Railway in April 1894, winning most of its demands.

This initial period of cooperation to unify China and end the unequal treaties broke up in April 1927 when Chiang Kai-shek struck out against the Communists.

Avala by taking an aerial tramway over the harbor, but on April 17 of that year a U. S. Navy plane, flying overhead as part of the Flag Day celebrations, struck the cable ; the plane crashed into a wing of the Rainmaker Hotel.

Charles also struck up a firm friendship with his sister-in-law, Queen Marie Antoinette, whom he had first met at her arrival in France in April 1770 when he was twelve.

( On April 19, 1968, he had struck out three batters on nine pitches in the second inning of a 2 – 1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals ; becoming the eighth National League pitcher and the 14th pitcher in Major League history to accomplish the feat.

On April 8, 1998, an F3 tornado struck northeast of Tuscaloosa.

On the afternoon of April 16, 2011 at approximately 2: 30pm EDT, an EF2 tornado struck the Bethel Hill community.

On April 18, 1880, an intense tornado measuring F4 on the Fujita scale struck Marshfield.

On April 27, 2011, a powerful tornado from the April 25 – 28, 2011 tornado outbreak struck downtown Cullman.

An EF4 tornado struck this city on April 27, 2011.

An EF5 tornado struck this city on April 27, 2011 leaving twenty-five fatalities.

A long-track EF3 tornado struck Sumiton on April 24, 2010.

On April 3, 1974, during the Super Outbreak tornado event, two violent tornadoes including one F5 struck the community within 30 minutes of each other.

On April 8, 1998, an F2 tornado struck north of the city limits after the F5 tornado expired in western Jefferson County.

Its name is identical to the unincorporated community west of Hueytown where an F5 tornado struck the high school on April 8, 1998.

A long-track EF3 tornado struck Parrish on April 24, 2010.

On April 25, 2011, An EF3 tornado struck the gated community.

Following an extremely wet winter and spring, the Flood of 1927 struck in April and May, depositing as much as four feet of sand in the Arkansas River bottoms and forcing some of the small farmers to abandon their land.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

A United Nations plan sponsored by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was announced on 31 March 2004, based on what progress had been made during the talks in Switzerland and fleshed out by the UN, was put for the first time to civilians on both sides in separate referendums on 24 April 2004.

On April 17, 1999, just nine days after Compaq reported first-quarter profit being at half of what analysts had expected, the latest in a string of earnings disappointments, Pfeiffer was forced to resign as CEO in a coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen.

On 18 April, the Estates decided to call ' a general gathering of the German nation ', to meet at Speyer the following year, and to decide what would be done until the meeting of the general council of the Church which they demanded.

In August 2007 Newsweek reported that in April 1998 a dozen people from what it called " the denial machine " met at the American Petroleum Institute's Washington headquarters.

NIPCC organized an international climate workshop in Vienna in April 2007, to provide what they called an independent examination of the evidence for climate change.

Anzac Day celebrations take place on 25 April, the day the Anzac troops landed at what is known as Anzac Cove.

In April 1935, Harold Latham of Macmillan, an editor who was looking for new fiction, read what she had written and saw that it could be a best-seller.

On April 19, 1988, Japanese telecommunications company NTT began offering nationwide ISDN services trademarked INS Net 64, and INS Net 1500, a fruition of NTT's independent research and trial from the 1970s of what it referred to the INS ( Information Network System ).

On April 27, 2007, Voight spoke about criticism of George W. Bush in an interview with Bill O ' Reilly on The O ' Reilly Factor: " And they — what I hear, you know, talking about our president.

On 1 April 1923, Shaikh Ahmad al-Sabah wrote the British Political Agent in Kuwait, Major John More, " I still do not know what the border between Iraq and Kuwait is, I shall be glad if you will kindly give me this information.

During the Hillsborough Memorial Service on 15 April 2011, Liverpool MP Steve Rotherham announced he would submit an Early Day Motion to have Dalglish knighted, " not only for his outstanding playing and managerial career, but also the charity work he has done with his wife, Marina, for breast cancer support and what he did after Hillsborough.

On April 20, 2012, Torvalds was declared one of two winners of that year's Millennium Technology Prize, together with Shinya Yamanaka for what is widely described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the technology field.

Trotsky was so upset by what he saw as a usurpation of his newspaper's name that in April 1913 he wrote a letter to Nikolay Chkheidze, a Menshevik leader, bitterly denouncing Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

The earliest account of a performance of what was probably Shakespeare's play is April 1611, when Simon Forman recorded seeing such a play at the Globe Theatre.

Smith published what he said was a translation of these plates in March 1830 as the Book of Mormon, named after Mormon, the ancient prophet-historian who compiled the book, and on April 6, 1830, Smith founded the Church of Christ.

Highlights of the year included Paul Molitor's 39-game hitting streak and what is still the only no-hitter in team history, pitched by Juan Nieves on April 15.

In March and April 1959, Davis re-entered the studio with his working sextet to record what is widely considered his magnum opus, Kind of Blue.

The first effort by any government to set aside such protected lands was in the United States, on April 20, 1832, when President Andrew Jackson signed legislation that the 22nd United States Congress had enacted to set aside four sections of land around what is now Hot Springs, Arkansas to protect the natural, thermal springs and adjoining mountainsides for the future disposal of the US government.

Ibrahim Ahmad, a Jordanian-American traveling from his home in Oklahoma City to visit family in Jordan on April 19, 1995, was also arrested in what was described as an " initial dragnet.

Still developing what would become their signature B movie – inspired style, later dubbed horror punk, they made their first appearance at CBGB in April 1977.

Continuing to ride what one movie reviewer has called a " pop cultural wave ," they also appeared at a live show in April 2009 for the comedy film I Love You, Man.

On April 26, 2006, the Supreme Court heard Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Williams,, which concerned what sort of corporations fell under the scope of RICO.

On April 19, students from various universities and schools rallied and marched in protest in the Seoul streets, in what would be called the April Revolution.