April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, the fifth in the early Julian and one of four months with a length of 30 days. April is commonly associated with the season of spring in parts of the Northern hemisphere and autumn in parts of the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
April symbols: The birthstone for April is the diamond. The birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy (Bellis perennis) or the Sweet Pea. The zodiac signs for the month of April are Aries (until April 20) and Taurus (April 21 onwards).
Historical Events for April, 1943
Day of Week 5th » World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the resid
Day of Week 7th » The Holocaust called Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
7th » Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis occupation of Greece known as Axis Occupation.
Day of Week 8th » President of the United States named U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common car
Day of Week 13th » World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoner of war prisoners of war mass execution killed by Soviet forces in the Katyn massacre Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in Lond
Day of Week 18th » World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
Day of Week 19th » World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after Nazi Germany e.g German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
Day of Week 25th » The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
Day of Week 26th » The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
Day of Week 30th » World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph P219 6 surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
Famous Birthdays on April in 1943
1st » Carol White, English-American actress (d. 1991)
1st » Dafydd Wigley, English-Welsh academic and politician
2nd » Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce, South African-English admiral and politician
2nd » Caterina Bueno, Italian singer (d. 2007)
2nd » Larry Coryell, American guitarist (The Free Spirits and The Eleventh House)