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, 1991
Day of Week 2nd » Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier (Canada) called Premier of a province (Canada) or Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
Day of Week 4th » Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
Day of Week 5th » An Atlantic Southeast Airlines ASA Embraer EMB 120 EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including John Tower Sen. John Tower and Sonny Carter Astronaut Sonny Carter.
Day of Week 9th » Georgia (country) e.g Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union
Day of Week 10th » Italian ferry ship MS Moby Prince 6 collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
10th » A South Atlantic tropical cyclone rare tropical cyclone tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by weather satellite satellites.
Day of Week 14th » The Georgia (country) or Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President of Georgia e.g President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
Day of Week 29th » A 1991 Bangladesh cyclone cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around convert 155 mph kph, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless.
10th » Martin Hannett, English guitarist and producer (The Invisible Girls) (b. 1948)
10th » Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
11th » Walker Cooper, American baseball player and manager (b. 1915)
11th » Bruno Hoffmann. German glass harp player (b. 1913)
16th » David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
19th » Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (b. 1905)
20th » Steve Marriott, English singer, songwriter, producer, and actor (Small Faces called The Small Faces and Humble Pie (band) or Humble Pie) (b. 1947)
20th » Don Siegel, American director and producer (b. 1912)
21st » Willi Boskovsky, Austrian violinist and conductor (b. 1909)
23rd » Johnny Thunders, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers) (b. 1952)
26th » Leo Arnaud, French-American composer and conductor (b. 1904)
26th » Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
26th » A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American author and screenwriter (b. 1901)
26th » Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician, 26th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1931)
26th » Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1928)
28th » Steve Broidy, American film producer (b. 1905)
28th » Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (Sons of the Pioneers) (b. 1916)