Events in History April |
| Date | Story or event |
| 3rd April, 1926 | Birthday of Astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom (Mercury astronaut killed in the Apollo fire of February 1967) |
| 12th April, 1817 | Charles Messier died in Paris, France |
| 12th April, 1961 | Russians win space race |
| 14th April, 1629 | Birth of Christiaan Huygens |
| 14th April, 1970 | Critical explosion cripples Apollo 13 |
| 18th April, 1955 | Albert Einstein Dies, aged 76 |
| 20th April, 1972 | Apollo 16 safely on Moon after engine crisis |
| 24th April, 1967 | Russian cosmonaut dies in space crash |
| 26th April, 1962 | First US rocket lands on the moon |