Stop to Love
Apr 1 "Stop to Love" compilation album byLuther Vandross is released
- Apr 1 64th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Maryland beats Indiana, 64-52; Terrapins' first title in first title game
- Apr 1 The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so.
- Apr 2 Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated. A siege ensues.
- Apr 4 The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War
- Apr 6 155th Grand National: 8-year-old 20/1 shot Bindaree, ridden by Jim Culloty and trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies wins by 1¾ lengths from What's Up Boys
- Apr 6 France beats Ireland 44-5 at Stade de France, Saint Denis to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship; their 13th title
Event of Interest
Apr 9 Funeral ofQueen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey UK. More than a million people line the streets
Coup d'état
Apr 11 An attempted coup d'état takes place in Venezuela against PresidentHugo Chávez.
- Apr 11 The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia
- Apr 12 Palestinian suicide bomber (female) kills 7 and injures 104 (among them 9 Arabs) at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem.
- Apr 12 Pedro Carmona becomes interim President of Venezuela during the military coup againstHugo Chávez.
- Apr 13 Pedro Carmona, interim president of Venezuela, resigns one day after taking office
Rock for the Rainforest
Apr 13 Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert held at Carnegie Hall, NYC; performers include:Sting,Elton John,James Taylor,Nina Simone,Smokey Robinson, Lulu, Patti Labelle,Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar,Jeff Beck,Wynonna Judd, and Rebecca Del Rio
US Masters Golf
Apr 14 66th US Masters Tournament:Tiger Woods becomes the third player to claim back-to-back Masters, three strokes ahead of Retief Goosen of South Africa
- Apr 14 Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military
- Apr 15 106th Boston Marathon: Kenyan double; Rodgers Rop claims men's event in 2:09:02; Margaret Okayo women's winner in 2:20:43
- Apr 15 Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129, crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128 people
- Apr 17 Four Canadian Forces soldiers are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from two United States Air Force F-16s, the first deaths in a combat zone for Canada since the Korean War
- Apr 20 NFL Draft: Fresno State quarterback David Carr #1 pick by Houston Texans
- Apr 21 48th British Academy Television Awards: "The Sketch Show" Best Comedy, "Cold Feet" Best Drama
Meeting of Interest
Apr 23 PopeJohn Paul II meets with U.S. Catholic Church leaders at Vatican regarding sexual abuse of minors
- Apr 26 Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
- Apr 27 The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10
- Apr 28 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Superstition Mountain G&CC: Jim Thorpe wins his lone career major title with birdie on first playoff hole against John Jacobs
- Apr 29 The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years
Presidential Referendum
Apr 30 A referendum in Pakistan overwhelmingly approves the Presidency ofPervez Musharraf for another five years
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
Suffragists