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, 1970
Day of Week 6th » Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
Day of Week 8th » Bahr el-Baqar incident: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. 46 children are killed.
Day of Week 10th » Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
Day of Week 12th » Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
Day of Week 13th » An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
Day of Week 15th » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese Cambodian or Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam.
Day of Week 17th » Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
Day of Week 21st » The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia.
Day of Week 24th » The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first Heads of State of The Gambia known as President.
Day of Week 26th » The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
Day of Week 28th » Vietnam War: President of the United States or U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
Day of Week 29th » Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces Cambodian Campaign or invade Cambodia to hunt National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam named Viet Cong.
Famous Birthdays on April in 1970
1st » Sung-Hi Lee, South Korean-American model and actress
5th » Miho Hatori, Japanese singer-songwriter (Cibo Matto, Smokey & Miho, and Butter 08)
6th » Olaf Kölzig, South African-German ice hockey player and coach
6th » Roy Mayorga, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Stone Sour, Soulfly, Amebix, Black President (band) or Black President, and Nausea (band) e.g Nausea)