Page 9: Historical Events In April - 01
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1990 In this year, Jack Nicklaus claims inaugural start on Senior PGA tour. 

1990 Ottawa signs final land claim agreement with Yukon inaugural Nations; gives them surface title to 41000 sq km; of land, plus mineral rights and $232 million cash. 

1990 Wrestlemania VI-Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan for championship. 

1991 Richard Thorpe director (MGM), dies at 95. 

1991 US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour 

1991 Warsaw Pact officially disolves 

1991 Martha Graham, US, choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96. 

1992 Juanito soccer star (Madrid Real 1977-87), dies at 37 in car crash 

1992 NFL decides to stay with 17 week sched instead of expanded 18 games 

1992 Juanito, soccer star (Madrid Real 1977-87), dies at 37 in car crash. 

1993 Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38. 

1994 Leon Degrelle, Belgium general, dies 

1995 Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer, dies at 50 

1996 Alfredo Nobre Coast, PM of Portugal (1978), dies. 

2009 Croatia and Albania joined NATO. 

2011 After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers. 

2012 Plane crash in Western Siberia results in the deaths of at least 31 people ( UTair Aviation ATR-72) 

2013 9 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Tikrit, Iraq 

2014 NATO suspends all practical civilian and military cooperation with Russia. 

2017 Bob Dylan receives his Nobel Prize for Literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm 

2017 Chinese leaders announce plans to build city in Xiongan New Area, 3x size of New York 

2019 Japanese government announces the name of a new era 'Reiwa' for the next Emperor, Crown Prince Naruhito Learn More >>. 

2020 US President Donald Trump says the US Strategic National Stockpile is almost depleted amid widespread shortages of medical equipment to fight Coronavirus COVID-19. 

2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] China reports 130 asymptomatic cases of COVID-19, its inaugural reported asymptomatic cases. 

2020 In this year, [COVID-19 pandemic] Yemen's internationally recognised government releases more than 470 of its prisoners amid concerns of the spread of the virus in Yemen's overcrowded jails. The United Nations Human Rights Council has called for the release of all political prisoners 

2021 Seven democracy protesters convicted for unauthorized assembly in Hong Kong including Martin Lee and Jimmy Lai. 

2024 Seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen are killed in an Israeli attack in Deir al Balah, Gaza, prompting condemnation and an apology from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu [1]. 

2024 Israel attacks the Iranian embassy in Damascus, killing 16 people. 

2025 Indian chess prodigy Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, from Madhya Pradesh, is recorded as becoming youngest player to earn official FIDE (International Chess Federation) rating at 3 years, 7 months and 20 days old, besting November 2024 youngesr record holder Anish Sarkar, by about a month. 

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