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Thursday, 18 June 2026
Apr 03 Ferde Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe, composer, dies at 80. 
Apr 03 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2142 Landau.
Apr 04 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
Apr 04 Adam Clayton Powell Jr (Rep-D-NY), dies at 63
Apr 05 Baseball season is delayed due to a strike.
Apr 05 Brian Donlevy, actor (Steve-Dangerous Assignment), dies at 73.
Apr 05 Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub
Apr 06 Bomb explosion at the Cuban Trade Commission in Montreal results in the deaths of one person
Apr 07 "Crazy" Joe Gallo mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party.
Apr 08 Alvin Kallicharran scores 100* in his 1st Test Cricket innings v NZ
Apr 10 7.0 earthquake results in the deaths of 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
Apr 10 An agreement banning the use of biological weapons is signed by 46 countries.
Apr 10 In Southern Iran a 7.1 earthquake struck the Fars Province of southern Iran killing over 5000 and injuring 1700
Apr 10 US, USSR and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons.
Apr 11 200000 Hydro-Quebec workers, teachers, and hospital staff go on 2-week strike; largest in history.
Apr 12 C W Ceram, [Kurt Marek], German/US writer (1st American), dies at 57.
Apr 13 Baseball players' strike ends after 13 days.
Apr 15 Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64.
Apr 16 2 giants pandas arrive in the US, from China.
Apr 16 Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
Apr 16 Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72.
Apr 17 1st Boston Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik of NY in 3:10:26.
Apr 18 T Smirnova discovers asteroids #1902 Shaposhnikov, #2192 Pyatigoriya and #2250 Stalingrad.
Apr 19 Adolf Bach, German philologist/sociologist, dies at 82
Apr 19 Bangladesh joins the British Commonwealth.
Apr 19 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2328 Robeson.
Apr 20 Apollo 16's Young and Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
Apr 21 Apollo 17, the last Apollo mission lands on the Moon
Apr 21 John Young and Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16)
Apr 21 Moonwalk in the Descartes Highlands by CAPT John W. Young, USN Commander of Apollo 16. He was the ninth man to walk on the moon. LCDR Thomas K. Mattingly II, USN was the Command Module Pilot. During the 11 day, 1 hour and 51 minute mission, 213 lbs. of lunar material was collected. Recovery by HC-1 helicopters from USS Ticonderoga (CVS-14)
Apr 21 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched.
Apr 22 Apollo astronauts John Young and Charles Duke ride on the Moon.
Apr 23 Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface.
Apr 25 George Sanders actor (Mr Freeze-Batman), dies at 65.
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