By 5 April the first battle ships, including two aircraft carriers, hurriedly set sail for the South Atlantic.
Sharp 38.0% gains in the stock in the first quarter of 2012 evaporated in April and the first couple of weeks in May.
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The industrial action by 1, 250 workers at the plant in April was the first at any refinery in the UK for 73 years, and also led to the closure of the Forties North Sea oil pipeline.
The second week of April is the first week since Christmas it has been warm enough to lay the concrete foundations to support the turbine.
For a month before both the parliamentary polls in April and the first round of the presidential election in July, campaign workers draped their towns with bunting and plastered colourful stickers onto vehicles.
Meanwhile, Iraq is currently awaiting the results of provincial polls held on 20 April - the first elections since the last US troops withdrew at the end of December 2011.
Work on the "extra care" scheme will begin in April and the first homes should be ready by autumn 2014.
Although she did not live long enough to see the new inquests take place, she did make it to the 24th annual memorial service at Anfield on 15 April - the first held since the Hillsborough Independent Panel exonerated fans of blame.
He made the second defence of his WBO title against Bobby Gunn in April, the first-round stoppage taking the Welshman's record to 26-1 (20 KOs).
The violence comes ahead of Iraq's provincial elections on 20 April, the first in the country since 2010.
According to figures out this morning from the Treasury Department, China was a net buyer of Treasuries in April for the first time in six months.
On 1 April, the first element of changes to housing benefit came into force.
April was the first month the industry saw growth in both units and dollars in the software category since last November.
Those reports were for April, the first month of the second quarter.
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New car sales across Europe rose in April for the first time in 18 months, helped by strong demand in the UK and by the early Easter break.
Mr. Gross boosted Treasury holdings to 35% in May from 31% in April, the first increase in four months, according to the latest data from the company's web site.
According to IHS Screen Digest, U.S. spending on DVDs (including Blu-ray) grew 1.6% over April and the first two weeks of May thanks to the DVD release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.
The UN marked April 12 as the first annual International Day of Human Space Flight.
Ramsay, 23, who played alongside Mickelson in the Masters in April, became the first British US Amateur champion in 95 years when he beat American John Kelly at Hazeltine National in August 2006.
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The race on 21 April will be the first marathon to be held in the occupied Palestinian territory.
The exhibition, which began in April, is the first devoted to the group since 1968.
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Similarly, the current market correction began in mid-April just as the first quarter earnings reports began coming out.
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Data showed the European Union market for new passenger cars in April expanded for the first time since September 2011.
McCoy, who won the Grand National on Don't Push It in April, is the first jockey to win the honour.
Malaysia announced the ban Friday, but it was effective as of April 23 after the first case of human infection with the H7N9 virus was reported in the coastal province of Shandong, a major chicken-processing area in China.
It is imperative that companies file their petitions on April 1, or at the very least during the first week of April, because of the high demand for these visas.
For Mr Bush, the mid-air collision of a Chinese fighter with an American spy plane in April 2001 became the first foreign-policy crisis of his presidency.
The figure for April to June - the first period under the new scheme - saw 443 sales, the Department for Communities and Local Government said.
In December, it announced that privately-owned newspapers would be allowed to operate from April 2013 for the first time in almost 50 years.
Pope Benedict's predecessor Pope John Paul II, who died on 2 April, was the first pope to visit a synagogue and the Nazi concentration camps.
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