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International Day of Human Space Flight.

The General Assembly, in its resolution A/RES/65/271 of 7 April 2011, declared 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight “to celebrate each year at the international level the beginning […]

Your God is Too Small – Br. Guy Consolmagno

Br. Guy Consolmagno will present the talk "Your God is Too Small" as part of the Rev. George V. Coyne, S.J. Annual Lecture at Marquette University, Wisconsin - at 7:00 PM (Central) on April 12th.

J. A. Fleming died, 1945 (b. 1849).

Illustration from the Bibliographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1945. The Royal Society, London. Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS died in 1945, aged 95 (born 29 November 1849). […]

International Earth Day

First held in 1970, Earth Day is held annually on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection.

International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day

An explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 spread a radioactive cloud over large parts of the Soviet Union; millions of people in the three countries were exposed to the radiation.