April 1: EOKA A starts a terrorist campaign against British rule in the Crown colony of Cyprus.
April 5: Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom due to ill-health at the age of 80. - Richard J. Daley defeats Robert Merrian to become Mayor of Chicago by a vote of 708,222 to 581,555.
April 6: Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
April 11: The Taiwanese Kuomintang put a time-bomb on the airplane Kashmir Princess, killing 16 but failing to assassinate the People's Republic of China leader, Zhou Enlai.
April 12: The Salk polio vaccine, having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
April 14: The Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup for the 7th time in franchise history, but will not win again until 1997.
April 15: Middle East Treaty Organization (MENTO).
April 16: Burma-Japanese peace treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954, comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries that has not existed for a long time.
April 17: Imre Nagy, the communist Premier of Hungary, is ousted for being too moderate.
April 18-April 24: Asian-African Conference held in Indonesia. (source: Wikipedia)
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| Description: | One wretched November night, Inspector Stanley Hopkins comes to see Holmes at 221B Baker Street to tell him of a murder that defies solution. The dead man is Willoughby Smith, secretary to Professor Coram, an old invalid. The murder happened at Yoxley Old Place ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | This story, set in 1891, introduces Holmes's greatest opponent, the criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty. Holmes arrives at Dr. John Watson's residence one evening in a somewhat agitated state and with grazed and bloody knuckles. Much to Watson's surprise, ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks has written an article for True Family Romance magazine under a pseudonym. The article is titled, 'I Was The Mother Of A Quiz Kid. ' Walter Denton finds that he has to impersonate a quiz kid for Miss Brooks, at the same time he has to imitate a dunce ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | n April 1894, Watson (now a widower) checks 427 Park Lane where a young gambler, the Honorable Ronald Adair, was shot in a closed room on the 30th of March. He bumps into a wizened old book collector, who follows him home to his Kensington practice study then ... | ||||||||||||
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