It last convened on 26 April 1942.

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.

From 8 April to 11 April 1942, the First Consultative Meeting of Activists of the Communist Party of Albania was held in Tirana.

Enver Hoxha delivered the main report to the assembled delegates on 8 April 1942.

British heavy cruisers HMS Dorsetshire ( 40 ) | Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall ( 56 ) | Cornwall under Japanese air attack and heavily damaged on April 5, 1942

In April 1942, as part of a diplomatic counterpart to Case Blue Ribbentrop had assembled in Hotel Adlon in Berlin a collection of anti-Soviet émigrés from the Caucasus with the aim of having them declared leaders of governments in exile.

Filming at the Babelsberg Studios near Berlin began 18 months later in April 1942 and lasted into summer.

Brazil was the first founding member to withdraw ( 14 June 1926 ), and Haiti the last ( April 1942 ).

The Assistant Chief of Staff ( G1 ) ( BG Hilldring ), in a response to the QMG on April 3, 1942, indicated the Secretary of War approved the design recommended by the QMG.

It was painted and signed by the artist on April 1942, weeks before his death on the first day of the First Battle of El Alamein.

In April 1942, after his requests for commissions as a war artist-or even leave to depict war damage in London-had been consistently refused, he suffered a nervous breakdown and was sent to Southport Hospital.

This disaster was surpassed only by the Benxihu Colliery accident in China on April 26, 1942, which killed 1, 549 miners.

During US involvement in WW II, April 29, 1942, Socony's unescorted tanker, named Mobiloil, was sunk by a German U-boat ( U-108 captained by Klaus Schlotz ), and all 52 people survived after 86 hours adrift in lifeboats.

" The production of napalm was first entrusted to Nuodex Products, and by the middle of April 1942 they had developed a brown, dry powder that was not sticky by itself, but when mixed with gasoline turned into an extremely sticky and flammable substance.

Between April and November 1942, 79, 000 Czech workers were taken in this manner for work within Nazi Germany.

Trick-or-treating spread from the western United States eastward, stalled by sugar rationing that began in April 1942 during World War II and did not end until June 1947.

He was relocated to Britain on 24 April 1942 and given the code name, after the drink concentrate.

Between April 1942 and October 1943, at least 160, 000 people are killed in the camp.

* April 18 – Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister ( d. 1942 )

* April 2 – Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer ( d. 1942 )

* April 23 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral ( d. 1942 )

* April 3 – Agda Östlund, Swedish politician ( d. 1942 )

* April 7 – Bronisław Malinowski, Polish anthropologist ( d. 1942 )

* April 4 – William Jackson, photographer ( d. 1942 )

Alp Arslan defeated Kutalmish for the throne and succeeded on 27 April 1064 as sultan of Great Seljuq, and thus became sole monarch of Persia from the river Oxus to the Tigris.

Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose ( c. 330 – 4 April 397 ), was an archbishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.

In April 1820, the Brontës moved into the a five-roomed Haworth Parsonage which became their home for the rest of their lives.

French forces occupied Aargau from 10 March to 18 April 1798 ; thereafter the Bernese portion became the canton of Aargau in the Helvetic Republic and the remainder formed the Canton of Baden.

On 1 April 1881 it became a city district separate from Brandenburg.

In April 1941, he became commander of XII Corps responsible for the defence of Kent.

On 8 April he became the first to prove the quadratic reciprocity law.

He became the second player in major league history to hit for the cycle and have an unassisted triple play, which he did on April 29, 2007, in his career.

When it became clear that Li was unlikely to accept Mao's terms, the Communists issued an ultimatum in April 1949, warning that they would resume their attacks if Li did not agree within five days.

India won the cup by defeating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final in Mumbai on 2 April and became the first team to win the World Cup final on home soil.

The famous decree Haec Sancta Synodus, which gave primacy to the authority of the Council and thus became a source for ecclesial conciliarism, was promulgated in the fifth session, 6 April 1415:

Upon her husband's death on April 20, 1968, Day learned that he had committed her to a television series, which became The Doris Day Show.

In April it became illegal for individuals to hold and exchange foreign currency.

At an extraordinary Congress in Brussels held on 30 April 2004 the day before the enlargement of the European Union, the ELDR Party incorporated itself under Belgian law and later became a European political party.

Mountbatten arrives on board HMS Glasgow at Malta to assume command of the Mediterranean Fleet, 16 May 1952After India, Mountbatten served as commander of the 1st cruiser squadron in the Mediterranean Fleet and, having been granted the substantive rank of vice admiral on 22 June 1949, he became Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet in April 1950.

On 27 April 1977, shortly before his 77th birthday, Mountbatten became the first member of the Royal Family to appear on the TV guest show This Is Your Life.

On 9 April 1371, he abdicated in favor of his son, who became the Northern Pretender Emperor Go-En ' yū.

The final meeting of the Rules Committee tasked with reshaping the game was held on April 6, 1906, at which time the forward pass officially became a legal play.

Roaming became partially available in April 2007 depending on providers.

The 1billionhungry project became the EndingHunger campaign in April 2011.

In April 1932 Blair became a teacher at The Hawthorns High School, a prep school for boys in Hayes, West London.

Here, he once more became involved in Freemasonry, joining the Johore Royal Lodge No. 3946, but had retired from it by April 1931.

On 3 July 2005, the country became the first country in the world to give full marriage and adoption rights to homosexual couples ( Belgium has allowed same-sex marriage since 2003 and co-parenting since April 2006, and the Netherlands has allowed same-sex marriage since 2001 and now has a law in preparation to provide full adoption rights in equal conditions to opposite-sex marriages ).

Although the automaker announced two days later that it had been approached with new offers, by April 2010, any sale became unlikely, as inventory was depleted and Hummer dealerships began shutting down.