Landed on the Moon, April 1972.

Antares B can be observed with a small telescope for a few seconds during lunar occultations while Antares itself is hidden by the Moon ; it was discovered by Johann Tobias Bürg during one such occultation on April 13, 1819.

* Gaylord Johnson " How Moon and Sun Generate the Tides " Popular Science, April 1934

Unification Church members believe that Jesus appeared to Mun Yong-myong ( his birth name ) when Moon was 15 on April 17, 1935, and asked him to accomplish the work left unfinished after his crucifixion.

* April 17 – Sun Myung Moon claims to have a revelation from Jesus telling him to complete his mission from almost 2, 000 years ago.

* April 24 – William Christian Bullitt, Jr., the US ambassador to Moscow, hosted the elaborately prepared Spring Ball of the Full Moon which is said to have surpassed all other embassy parties in Moscow's history.

According to a French documentary TV film " Tank on the Moon " by Jean Afanassieff, the Lunokhod design returned to limelight 15 years later due to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster on April 26, 1986.

* Luna 4 – 2 April 1963 – Attempted lunar lander ( missed Moon )

Luna 4, the second attempt of this program, achieved the desired trajectory but a failure to make a required midcourse correction resulted in it missing the Moon by 8336. 2 km at 13: 25 UT on April 5, 1963.

( A lecture program entitled " Hitting the Moon " was scheduled to be broadcast on Radio Moscow at 7: 45 p. m. the evening of April 5 but was cancelled.

Recent analysis of historical records have found that the supernova that created the Crab Nebula probably appeared in April or early May, rising to its maximum brightness of between apparent magnitude − 7 and − 4. 5 ( brighter than everything in the night sky except the Moon ) by July.

Between it and the previous Luna 4, there were two launch failures ( Luna 1964A on 21 March 1964 ; and Luna 1964B on 20 April 1964 ) and one partial failure ( Cosmos 60, launched on 12 March 1965, which reached Earth orbit but failed to leave for the Moon ).

During a rehearsal on the night of 3 April, the playback went well, but the following morning, controllers discovered a missing note and played the previous night ’ s tape to the assembled gathering at the Congress — claiming it was a live broadcast from the Moon.

Charles Patrick Ryan O ' Neal, Jr. ( born April 20, 1941 ), better known as Ryan O ' Neal, is an American actor best known for his appearances in the ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place and for his roles in such films as Paper Moon ( 1973 ), Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon ( 1975 ), A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 ), and Love Story ( 1970 ), for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as Best Actor.

On April 6, 1942, Johnny Mercer supervised Capitol's first recording session, recording Martha Tilton singing ' Moon Dreams ".

The story begins in late April 1839, as John William Draper had just photographed the Moon and Charles Dickens was serializing Oliver Twist.

In April 2012, composer Eric Whitacre released a song titled, " Goodnight Moon.

Also made available digitally in April 2011, Kajagoogoo's Gone to the Moon album was given a digital release via iTunes.

In 1976 New Lensman was published, containing a chapter called Moon Inspector, based on a piece called Moon Prospector which Ellern had written for the April 1966 issue of Analog.

* Cover of April 1966 issue of Analog magazine, with " Moon prospector " story by William Ellern

On 22 April 1961, Team Moon was overrun.

", " April in Paris ", and " It's Only a Paper Moon ", as well as all of the songs in The Wizard of Oz, including " Over the Rainbow ".

Their tax collection calendar could then be: July 25, October 26, January 26, and April 25, ( Providence ) ; ;

Alexios attempted to organize a resistance to the new regime from Adrianople and then Mosynopolis, where he was joined by the later usurper Alexios V Doukas Mourtzouphlos in April 1204, after the definitive fall of Constantinople to the crusaders and the establishment of the Latin Empire.

Ælfheah refused to allow a ransom to be paid for his freedom, and as a result was killed on 19 April 1012 at Greenwich ( then in Kent, now part of London ), reputedly on the site of St Alfege's Church.

Bahá ' u ' lláh was eventually released from prison but ordered into exile, and ` Abdu ' l-Bahá then eight joined his father on the journey to Baghdad in the winter ( January to April ) of 1853.

It was soon used in combat — in March 1986 against a Libyan SA-5 site in the Gulf of Sidra, and then Operation Eldorado Canyon in April.

On April 12, 2012, Bir and 30 other officers were taken in custody for their role in the 1997 military memorandum that forced the then Turkish government, led by the Islamist Welfare Party, to step down.

The name " Pluto " was reportedly suggested by Venetia Burney, then an 11-year-old English school girl, who died in April 2009, having lived to see the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.

Roosevelt made his request to Congress on March 21, 1933 ; the legislation was submitted to Congress the same day ; Congress passed it by voice vote on the 31st ; Roosevelt signed it the same day, then issued an executive order on April 5 creating the agency, appointing its director ( Fechner ), and assigning War Department corps area commanders the task to commence enrollment.

Earnhardt was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina, on April 29, 1951, to Martha Coleman and Ralph Lee Earnhardt, who was then one of the best short-track drivers in North Carolina.

The duke then set out for the Shrine of Saint James of Compostela, in the company of other pilgrims ; however, he died on Good Friday 9 April 1137.

He then went on to serve as Fourth Sea Lord at the Admiralty from June 1950 to April 1952 and then returned to the Mediterranean to serve as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet from June 1952.

Mountbatten was Governor of the Isle of Wight from 20 July 1965 and then the first Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight from 1 April 1974.

On Wednesday, 26 April, the guns at Trinity College and Helga shelled Liberty Hall, and the Trinity College guns then began firing at rebel positions, first at Boland's Mill and then in O ' Connell Street.

* April 9, 806 (): In the 25th year of Emperor Kammu's reign, he died ; and despite an ensuring dispute over who should follow him as sovereign, contemporary scholars then construed that the succession ( senso ) was received by his son.

The band toured in support in the US only from October 1976 to April 1977 with a break in December, then an American Music Award show appearance on 31 January 1977, plus a one-off gig in San Diego in August 1977.

SST anomalies then transitioned into the negative ( La Niña ) and have now transitioned back to ENSO-neutral during April 2012.

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. ( born April 19, 1931 ) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System / 360 family of computers and the OS / 360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.

The main German formations then advanced rapidly eastwards from Hanko and took Helsinki on 12 – 13 April.

In 1983, Brundtland was invited by then United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to establish and chair the World Commission on Environment and Development ( WCED ), widely referred to as the Brundtland Commission, developing the broad political concept of sustainable development in the course of extensive public hearings that were distinguished by their inclusiveness and published its report Our Common Future in April 1987.

Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.

He then signed articles on yet another whaler for a six-month cruise ( November 1842 − April 1843 ) and left that ship in Honolulu.

The country was then renamed the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ( DRA ), and the PDPA regime lasted, in some form or another, until April 1992.

In late April 1849, it was defeated and pushed back from Rome by Giuseppi Garibaldi's volunteer corps, then recovered and recaptured Rome.