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, 1961
Day of Week 8th » A large explosion on board the MV known as Dara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
Day of Week 9th » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
Day of Week 11th » The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
Day of Week 12th » The Soviet Union known as Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok spacecraft known as Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
Day of Week 17th » Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the Central Intelligence Agency called CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
Day of Week 18th » The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.
18th » Conferência das Organizações Nacionalistas das Colónias Portuguesas e.g CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portugal named Portuguese colonial rule.
Day of Week 20th » Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
Day of Week 25th » Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
Day of Week 27th » Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Heads of Government of Sierra Leone called Prime Minister.
Day of Week 30th » 'Soviet submarine K-19 K-19', the first Soviet Union Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with Submarine-launched ballistic missile nuclear missiles, is ship commissioning commissioned.