April 18th

On this day - April 18th 1971 - Scottish Actor David Tennant was born 

David Tennant is an Scottish Actor who was born in Bathgate on this day in 1971. His most famous roles include the 10th Doctor in Doctor Who, Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, Barty Crouch, Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Alec Hardy in Broadchurch. He has also worked as an voice actor and on stage for several plays. His acting debut was for a anti-smoking film in Glasgow at the age of 16. He was offered the role as Doctor Who in 2005, and Tennant has describe this role as his childhood dream. Tennant is married to Georgia Moffett (Actress from the Doctors daughter) and they have four children together. David Tennant was awarded the Special Recognition award at the British National Television Award in January 2015.

"I’ve been an obsessive Doctor Who fan since I was a child and it persists to this very day."

"When someone brings you a cup of tea, you say ‘thank you’ rather than ‘it’s not warm enough’"

April 17th

On this day - April 17th 1961 - The Bay of Pigs invasion 

The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed military invasion undertaken by the CSI / the US on Cuba. The aim of the invasion as to overthrow the communist regime of Fidel Castro. Castro had gained power when the US friendly dictator Batista had been overthrown in the Cuban revolution between 1952 to 1959. Due to secret intelligens knew the government in Cuba that the invasion was coming. The invasion was defeated after three days by the Cuban revolutionary army. 4 american airmen was killed, together with 6 Cuban airmen and 10 Cuban exiles.  The invasion contributed to a closer relationship between Castro and the Soviet Union, which again contributed to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

April 16th

On this day - 16 April 1972 - Apollo 16 launched

On April 16th 1972 Apollo 16 launched from Kennedy Space Center. Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the Apollo space program and the fifth to land on the moon. The mission was crewed by commander John W. Young, commander Thomas K. Mattingly II and pilot Charles M. Duke, Jr. Mattingly was supposed to join the Apollo 13 launch, but he contracted measles and was replaced three days before the launch. Young and Duke spent 71 hours on the moon. The mission returned with almost a 100 kg of lunar samples. Apollo 16 returned to earth on April 27th spending a total of 11 days and almost two hours in space. 

April 15th

On this day - April 15th 1989 - The Hillsborough disaster 

96 Liverpool fans died and another 766 were inured in the Hillsborough disaster in 1989. Liverpool was playing the FA cup semi final against Nottingham Forrest when the disaster happened. Due to lack of police control and the opening of an extra entrance became some of the areas allocated to Liverpool fans overcrowded. Just moments after the kick off a crush barrier broke down and fans were crushed to their death on top of each other. The accident was first blamed on the fans, but investigation conduced in 2012 proved that the fans were not to blame for the accident. The Hillsborough disaster is still one of the worlds worst fotball related accidents. 38 of the people who died in the accident was only teenagers and all the people killed were under the age of 50.

April 14th

On this day - April 14th 1912 - RMS Titanic hit the iceberg and sank 

Titanic was on it maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean when it hit an iceberg at 23:40 on April 14th and sank at 2:20 on April 15th. The ship had reportedly been warn about icebergs in the area, but due to the ships size was it too slow to turn when an iceberg was spottet. Around 2200 passengers were on the boat and somewhere between 1490 and 1635 people died. The safety boats on board wasn't meant for keeping al the passengers for longer periods of times, and several of the boats was put on the water before they were full. Most of the people who jumped or fall in the water died of hypothermia just minutts after landing in the cold water. The accident led to much stronger regulations for safety on passenger ships. Titanic still stand as one of the deadliest passenger ship accidents in peace time.

April 13th

On this day - April 13th 1919 - Over 300 Indians were killed in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, was a massacre of over 300 peaceful protesters in Punjab, India. The people was gathered in an large open area to celebrate the Baisakhi festival. The protesters were fired on for 10 minutts by the British army, and the main fire was directed at the protesters who were trying to escape. At least 379 people died and 1100 people were inured in the incident, but the number might have been much higher. The incident led to the Non-cooperation Movement of 1920–22 in India.

The area a few months after the massacre 

April 12th

Disneyland Paris is a theme park 32 km outside of Paris in France. The plans for a European theme parked emerged in 1972. Construction started in 1988 and it took four years to finish the park. It was the fourth Disney park to be built after California, Florida and Tokyo. When the park opened in 1992 was the name "Euro Disney Resort", but Disneyland soon discovered that "Euro" didn't sound as exciting for Europeans as for Americans, and the name was changed. As many people as 90 thousand was expected to visit the par on the first day of its opening. Only 25 thousand actually did and the park struggled financially in the beginning. It was able to adjust to the European market in the next few years after its opening and the park is one of Europe's most visited theme park today.