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17 Apr 2024
Dua Lipa made the cover of the TIME100 list of the world’s most influential people.
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17 Apr 2022
A US National Reconnaissance Office mission launched on a reused SpaceX booster for the first time.
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17 Apr 2021
Johns Hopkins University announced that the number of people who died worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic had reached three million.
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17 Apr 2019
Using gene therapy, eight babies suffering from 'bubble boy disease' were cured in Memphis, Tennessee.
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17 Apr 2011
Game of Thrones premiered on HBO.
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17 Apr 2011
The movie 'Thor' premiered in cinemas in Sydney, Australia.
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17 Apr 2007
Jazz composer and musician John Coltrane received the Special Citation Pulitzer Prize after his death.
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17 Apr 1986
The world's longest war ends without a single shot having been fired.
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17 Apr 1978
Mir Akbar Khyber's assassination triggers a communist coup in Afghanistan.
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17 Apr 1975
Phnom Penh falls to the Khmer Rouge.
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17 Apr 1973
FedEx officially began its operations and flew 186 packages to 25 cities on the US's East Coast.
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17 Apr 1969
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of killing US Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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17 Apr 1964
Ford Mustang went on sale for the first time.
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17 Apr 1961
1,400 Cuban exiles failed to overthrow Fidel Castro after landing in the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
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17 Apr 1951
The United Kingdom officially created its first National Park, the Peak District National Park.
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17 Apr 1932
Slavery in Ethiopia came to an end thanks to Emperor Haile Selassie.
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17 Apr 1876
Seven Irish prisoners broke out of the Western Australian Colony's Fremantle Prison and fled to the US.
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17 Apr 1865
American boarding house owner Mary Surratt was arrested for taking part in President Lincoln's assassination.
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17 Apr 1492
Explorer Christopher Columbus was given funding for his first journey.
