Golf Major
Apr 5 ANA Inspiration Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Brittany Lincicome eagles last hole to force a playoff, then beats Stacy Lewis on 3rd extra hole to win her 2nd major title
- Apr 5 Rolling Stone Magazine retracts its "Rape on Campus" story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia after being discredited
- Apr 6 77th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Duke beats Wisconsin, 68-63; Blue Devils' point guard Tyus Jones, 23 points
- Apr 7 34th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Connecticut beats Notre Dame, 63-53; Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis & Moriah Jefferson, 15 points for Huskies
- Apr 11 168th Grand National: Jockey Leighton Aspell wins his second consecutive GN aboard 25/1 shot Many Clouds; owner Trevor Hemmings' 3rd GN victory
Film & TV History
Apr 11 Amy Schumer hosts the 2015 MTV Movie Awards
Meeting of Interest
Apr 11 Barack Obama and Raúl Castro meet in Panama, the first meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution
US Masters Golf
Apr 12 79th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Jordan Spieth leads wire-to-wire to win his 1st major title by 4 strokes from Phil Mickelson and Justin Rose
Event of Interest
Apr 12 Hillary Clinton announces she will run for the Democratic nominee for US President for the 2nd time
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Apr 13 "Avengers: Age of Ultron", directed by Joss Whedon, starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner, premieres in Los Angeles, California
- Apr 13 Migrant ship carrying around 550 sinks off the Libyan coast, about 400 drown
- Apr 14 Archaeologists announce they have found at Lomekwi in Kenya 3.3 million-year old stone tools, the oldest ever discovered and which pre-date the earliest humans
Laureus Awards
Apr 15 Laureus World Sports Awards, Shanghai Grand Theatre, Shanghai, China: Sportsman: Novak Đoković; Sportswoman: Genzebe Dibaba; Team: German Men's National Football team
Event of Interest
Apr 16 Elizabeth Holmes, American entrepreneur, inventor, and founder and CEO of Theranos, is named one of TIME's "100 Most Influential People" of 2015
Music History
Apr 17 American jazz composer and saxophonist John Coltrane is awarded a posthumous Special Citation by the Pulitzer Prize board
- Apr 17 James Anderson becomes the highest wicket-taking bowler in England's test cricket history
- Apr 17 Marianne Winkler finds "message in a bottle" on the shore of the German island of Amrum; it had been dropped in the North Sea by British marine scientist George Parker Bidder on November 30th, 1906, making its length of time spent adrift 108 years, 138 days
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Apr 18 30th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band; Green Day; Joan Jett and the Blackhearts; Lou Reed; Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble; Bill Withers; The "5" Royals; and Ringo Starr
Academy of Country Music Awards
Apr 19 50th Academy of Country Music Awards: Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, and Miranda Lambert win
- Apr 19 Boat carrying approx. 850 migrants is shipwrecked in the Mediterranean between Italian and Libya, with only 27 migrants rescued.
- Apr 20 119th Boston Marathon: Lelisa Desisa Benti of Ethiopia wins men's race in 2:09:17; Caroline Rotich of Kenya women's champion in 2:24:55
- Apr 20 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Anthony Doerr's for his novel "All the Light We Cannot See" and to Elizabeth Kolbert for "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History"
Sports History
Apr 23 Kawhi Leonard is named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year for the first time
Appointment of Interest
Apr 23 Loretta Lynch is confirmed by US Senate vote, 56-43, as the first African-American woman as US Attorney-General, succeeding Eric Holder
- Apr 24 Armenia commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire
Gallipoli: Guts, Glory and Defeat
Apr 25 100 year anniversary of the Gallipoli Peninsula landings in Turkey by ANZAC forces during WWI
- Apr 25 7.8-magnitude earthquake near Kathmandu in Nepal, killing 8000, leaving over 100,000 homeless, destroying many historic sites
London Marathon
Apr 26 35th London Marathon: Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge & Ethiopian Tigist Tufa win
FC Bayern Munich win the Bundesliga
Apr 26 FC Bayern Munich wins the 2014–15 Bundesliga for a 25th time
Election of Interest
Apr 26 Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote
- Apr 29 German Measles is declared eradicated from North and South America - 1st world region to do so
- Apr 29 Indonesia executes 8 prisoners, including 7 foreigners, for drug offences at Besi Prison on the island of Nusakambangan
- Apr 30 MESSENGER spacecraft is intentionally deorbited and destroyed
- Apr 30 NFL Draft: Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston first pick by Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Event of Interest
Apr 30 US senator Bernie Sanders announces he will seek the Democratic Party's nomination for President
Music History
Apr 30 Whitney Museum of American Art holds ribbon cutting ceremony with Michelle Obama and NY Mayor Bill de Blasio, for its new building designed by Renzo Piano
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
Suffragists