Apr 25 Unmanned Mercury test explodes on launch pad

Apr 11 Bob Dylan's first appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village

Apr 14 First live television broadcast from the Soviet Union

Apr 21 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,000 m

Apr 03 Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia is sold to J Schleifer Properties

Apr 29 ABC's "Wide World of Sports, debuts

Apr 10 Gary Player becomes first foreign golfer to win the Masters

Apr 05 Dutch Governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council

Apr 17 Bay of Pig invasion The US try to start a people's revolution to overthrow Fidel Castro. They fail

Apr 15 Launching of first nuclear-powered frigate, USS Bainbridge, at Quincy, MA

Apr 01 Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye

Apr 11 Israel begins the Adolf Eichman world war II crimes trial

Apr 27 Sierra Leone, in Africa, becomes an independent republic

Apr 12 Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes person to orbit Earth UFO theorists start talking about government conspiracies

Apr 21 French army revolts in Algeria

Apr 24 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs

Apr 11 Israel begins the Adolf Eichman world war II crimes trial

Apr 20 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave approval for FM stereo broadcasting

Apr 15 Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, is awarded the Order of Lenin

Apr 20 Revolt in the South African country of Angola

Apr 08 Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye

Apr 27 UK grants Sierra Leone independence

Apr 27 NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays

Apr 30 The first Airline shuttle flights between Wash DC, Boston & NYC begin (Eastern)

Apr 21 James Melton opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57

Apr 25 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin

Apr 12 Ray Charles wins 4 Grammys

Apr 13 UN General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid

Apr 25 Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit

Apr 16 Chic Black Hawks beat Det Red Wings 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup

Apr 12 Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes first person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1) I have a book issued by the USSR on his flight

Apr 24 General de Gaulle of France order a blockade of Algeria

Apr 21 French army revolts in Algeria

Apr 24 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs

Apr 17 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro

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