The BANSHEE design was similar to Operation Aphrodite ; like Aphrodite it failed, and was canceled in April 1949.

* On 26 April 1949, broke in two as she was being towed into Rio de Janeiro harbour.

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.

When the Communists captured the Nationalist capital of Nanjing in April 1949, Li refused to accompany the central government as it fled to Guangdong, instead expressing his dissatisfaction with Chiang by retiring to Guangxi.

In May 1948 Thomas and his family moved to his final home, the Boat House at Laugharne purchased for him at a cost of £ 2, 500 in April 1949 by Margaret Taylor, first wife of historian A. J. P. Taylor.

( The title is a reference to Lost in the Andes !, a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, first published in April, 1949.

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.

In April 1949, Kaunda returned to Lubwa to become a part-time teacher, but resigned in 1951.

Leonard Bloomfield ( April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949 ) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s.

* 1949 – Steve Lang, Canadian musician ( April Wine and Mashmakhan )

A contract with Capitol Records granted the nonet several recording sessions between January 1949 and April 1950.

The Republic of Ireland Act 1948, which came into force in April 1949, proclaimed a republic and transferred the role of representing the state abroad from George VI to the President.

The first popular science-fiction program on American television was the children's adventure serial Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which ran from June 1949 to April 1955.

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt ( 22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835 ) was a Prussian philosopher, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the University of Berlin, which was named after him ( and his brother, naturalist Alexander von Humboldt ) in 1949.

The cave claimed its first life on 9 April 1949 when Gordon Marriott lost his life returning from Chamber 9.

* Establishment of the defence alliance NATO April 4, 1949.

* April 1 – Wallace Beery, American actor ( d. 1949 )

* April 13 – James Ensor, Belgian painter and printmaker ( d. 1949 )

* April 22 – Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress ( b. 1949 )

*" Night Call, Collect " ( Super Science Stories, April 1949, reprinted in I Sing the Body Electric )

She appeared on Broadway in South Pacific, opening on April 7, 1949 as nurse Nellie Forbush.

In 1949, Rockwell donated an original Post cover, " April Fool ", to be raffled off in a library fund raiser.

The Armistice Agreements of April 3, 1949 left Jordan in control of the West Bank and provided that the armistice demarcation lines were without prejudice to future territorial settlements or boundary lines.

On 25 April 1949, the country was renamed " the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan " to include officially those portions of Palestine annexed by King Abdullah.

Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired on a U. S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell launched the talks on April 3, 2001, and the negotiations continued with mediation by the U. S., Russia, and France until April 6, 2001.

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

* 1986 – In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U. S. servicemen, U. S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.

The ship ’ s logbook was found by Michelle Gatz and shows the ship was carrying classified cargo that was offloaded under armed guard at White Beach a U. S. Navy port on Okinawa ’ s east coast on April 25, 1962.

), USAMRIID ’ s Medical Management of Biological Casualties Handbook, 6th edition, U. S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland ( April 2005 ).

*" U. S. Consul Gottschalk Coming To Enter The War ", The Washington Post, April 15, 1918.

Next came a North Vietnamese attempt to overrun the entire country in March – April 1970, to which U. S. and South Vietnamese forces responded by a limited ground incursion at the end of April ... The outcome in Indochina was not foreordained.

* Fidel Castro's ' Reflection ' on U. S. Travel Restrictions Miami Herald, April 14, 2009

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.

In April 1986, the U. S. Supreme Court refused to review the lower court's judgment.

In April 2011, Ecuador expelled the U. S. ambassador after a leaked diplomatic cable was shown accusing president Correa of knowingly ignoring police corruption.

On April 27, 2011 Indiana passed a statewide voucher program, the largest in the U. S. It offers up to $ 4, 500 to students with househould incomes under $ 41, 000, and lesser benefits to households with higher incomes.

ELO's debut concert took place on 15 April 1972 at The Fox & Hounds Pub in Croydon, U. K. with a line-up of Wood, Lynne, Bevan, Bill Hunt ( horns, keyboards ), Wilfred Gibson ( violin ), Hugh McDowell ( cello ), Mike Edwards, Andy Craig ( cello ) and Richard Tandy on bass.

:* Norris E. Dodd ( U. S .): April 1948 – December 1953.

:* Philip V. Cardon ( U. S .): January 1954 – April 1956.

Noghaideli underwent heart operation in April 2007 at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston, Texas, which was led by the leading U. S. surgeon Dr. Charles Frazier.

The Greens founded the first international chapter of a German political party in the U. S. on April 13, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington D. C. Its main goal is " to provide a platform for politically active and green-oriented German citizens, in and beyond Washington D. C., to discuss and actively participate in German Green politics.

In April 2007, the college reached a settlement with CareerLink in U. S. District Court in Pittsburgh.