Years of disagreement between the North and the South finally burst into civil war in April of eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

On April fourth, the nation's top civil rights leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King,Junior, was shot and killed in Memphis,Tennessee.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

By then,Lincoln was dead. On April fourteenth,eighty sixty-five, Southern sympathizer and actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in Ford's Theatre.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Now,late payments are growing. Almost three percent of commercial mortgages were reported at least ninety days late between April and June.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

In March, the government ordered Chrysler to cut costs and form an alliance with Italian carmaker Fiat by April thirtieth.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

It began in April of nineteen ninety-four after a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, both Hutus,was shot down.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Then,shortly after sunset on April twelfth, Navy special operations forces feared that Captain Phillips' life was in immediate danger.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

That began changing when Jackie Robinson played his first game for New York's Brooklyn Dodgers on April fifteenth,nineteen forty-seven.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

The National Association of Realtors reported that sales of existing homes rose about three percent from March to April.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Some cities and communities will hold Earth Day activities and celebrations for an entire week, not just on April twenty-second.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

On the last day of April, the Union troop boats began carrying soldiers to the east side of the river.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

For example, in April of two thousand five, top church officials held a historic meeting in this center for prayer.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

On April twentieth an oil drilling rig, the Deepwater Horizon, exploded and sank about eighty kilometers from the Louisiana coast.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

One reason the Smithsonian picked April to honor jazz is because many great jazz artists were born this month.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

But he said it was too early to say what caused the April twentieth explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

VOA: special.2010.06.19