The April Curse continues

I was going to avoid doing this in hopes that the April curse would be broken.  Since it continues, here is my list.  It only includes events from 1980 on.

April 15, 1980 - Jean-Paul Sarte, existentialist, dies
April 18, 1980 - Zimbabwe comes into being. It was formerly known as Rhodesia
April 20, 1980 - hundreds of Berber activists arrested in Algeria, in a critical point during the Berber Spring
April 22, 1980 - Military coup in Liberia. A number of former officials are publicly executed.
April 23, 1980 - Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
April 19, 1981 - Hayden Christensen, actor who plays Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars, is born
April 15, 1983 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and holocaust survivor, dies
April 18, 1983 - U.S. embassy in Lebanon bombed by Islamic terrorists, killing over 60 people
April 15, 1984 - Christopher Thomas shot 10 people (8 children and 2 women) execution style on Palm Sunday in Brooklyn
April 20, 1984 - during the Good Friday Massacre, the Montreal Canadiens and Quebec Nordiques get into a brawl that lasted for a full hour
April 19, 1985 - ATF siege of Aryan compound in Arkansas, ending peacefully
April 5, 1986 - Libyan agents bomb a Berlin disco, killing 4 and injuring 230
April 15, 1986 - US military bombs Libya in response to the Berlin bombing
April 26, 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, worst nuclear disaster in history
April 21, 1987 - terrorist attack by Tamil Tigers in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 106
April 23, 1987 - 28 construction workers killed in an apartment collapse in Bridgeport, Ct
April 9, 1989 - Soviet troops fire on protestors in Tbilisi, Georgia, killing 20, leading to Georgia's independence. It is celebrated today as a public holiday.
April 15, 1989 - Hillsborough, UK disaster, killing 96 people in a stampede at a football match. It is the deadliest stadium-related disaster in British history.
April 15, 1989 - Hu Yaobang, Chinese reformer, dies of a heart attack, and 100,000 gather to mourn, leading to the Tiananmen Square protests
April 19, 1989 -  On this day in 1989, a 28-year-old female investment banker is severely beaten and sexually assaulted while jogging in New York City’s Central Park.
April 19, 1989 - gun turret on the USS Iowa explodes, killing 47 sailors, in an act of sabotage
April 15, 1990 - Greta Garbo, American Actress, dies at the age of 84
April 4, 1991 - Sen. John Heinz dies when his plane collided with a helicopter over Merion, PA. His widow, Teresa Heinz, later marries John Kerry, 2004 presidential candidate.
April 5, 1991 - Sen. John Tower was killed in an suspicious airplane crash near Brunswick, Georgia
April 10, 1992 - IRA bombs the Baltic Exchange building in London, killing 3 and causing £800 million in damages
April 21, 1992 - California resumes executions after a 25 year hiatus, gassing Robert Alton Harris
April 22, 1992 - Guadalajara, Mexico explosion in sewer system kills over 200
April 29, 1992 - Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, killing 53 people and causing over $1 billion in damages
April 19, 1993 - Waco tragedy - 76 people, including cult leader David Koresh, died in a fire after a siege by the ATF
April 19, 1993 - George Mickelson, governor of S. Dakota, dies in a plane crash near Dubuque, Iowa along with 7 others. This was the same date as the end of the Branch Davidian siege.
April 19, 1993 - Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
April 22, 1993 - Holocaust Museum opens in Washington DC
April 24, 1993 - Bishopsgate bombing in London, killing 1 and causing over £1 billion in damages, near the Baltic Exchange bombing the previous year
April 6, 1994 - Rwandan Genocide begins, killing at least 500,000
April 20, 1994 - Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
April 22, 1994. Former Pres. Richard Nixon dies at the age of 81
April 19, 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh killing 168 people
April 19, 1995 - white supremacist Richard Snell executed in Arkansas
April 3, 1996  - US Sec. of Commerce Ron Brown is killed in a suspicious plane crash
April 18, 1996 - In Qana, Lebanon, Israeli forces shell a UN compound, killing at least 106 civilians
April 27, 1996 - Former CIA director William Colby dies in a suspicious boating accident
April 28, 1996 - The Port Arthur massacre was a killing spree in which 35 people were killed and 23 wounded, mainly at the historic Port Arthur prison colony, a popular tourist site in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia.
April 18, 1997 - Red River Flood begins with a dike breached in Grand Forks, ND
April 24, 1997 -  trial of Timothy McVeigh begins in Denver
April 15, 1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator, dies
April 19, 1999 - The German Bundestag returns to Berlin
April 20, 1999 - Columbine High School massacre, killing 15 including the assailants
April 18, 2000 - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe vilifies white farmers as enemies
April 19, 2000 - Air Philippines flight 541 crashes into a hill near Davao, killing 131
April 22, 2000 - six-year old Elian Gonzales seized by Federal agents and sent to Cuba
April 23, 2000 - Gulf Air flight 72 crashes near Bahrain, killing 143
April 28, 2000 - Carlos Ghigliotti, who was investigating the Waco incident, died of an apparent heart attack at his home in Washington DC
April 11 2001. The Ellis Park Stadium disaster was the worst sporting accident in South African history. 43 people were crushed to death.
April 18, 2002 - a plane crashes into a tower in Milan, Italy killing 3 and injuring 60
April 22, 2004 - Train fire and explosion in Ryongchon, North Korea kills at least 160 and levels several buildings
April 22, 2004 - Pat Tillman, NFL star, was killed or possibly assassinated in a "friendly fire" incident in Afghanistan
April 6, 2005 - White supremacist Matthew Hale sentenced to 40 years in prison for trying to kill a federal judge
April 19, 2005 - Cardinal Ratzinger, former Nazi, elected pope and becomes Pope Benedict XVI
April 20, 2005 - New bankruptcy law in US passes, making it more difficult to declare bankruptcy.
April 22, 2005 - Zacarias Moussaoui (a French citizen of Moroccan descent) pleads guilty to conspiring with other al-Qaeda members as part of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
April 16, 2007 - Virginia Tech massacre, killing 33 including the assailant Seung-Hui Cho
April 18, 2007 - Qinghe Special Steel Corporation (China) disaster. A ladle holding molten steel separated from the overhead iron rail, fell, tipped, and killed 32 workers, injuring another 6.
April 20, 2007 - Johnson Space Center shooting in which the gunman killed one person before committing suicide
April 23, 2007 - death of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin
April 20, 2008 - more than 10,000 people gather at CU-Boulder to smoke marijuana and celebrate "420", a counterculture holiday
April 20, 2008 - Pope Benedict XVI visits Ground Zero in New York, and celebrates Mass at Yankee Stadium.
April 29, 2008 - Roland Carnaby, possible CIA agent, was killed by Houston police after a high speed chase
April 3, 2009 - Binghampton, NY. Shooter kills 14 (including himself) at immigration center
April 7, 2009 - Gunman opens fire at Korean Christian retreat center in Temecula, CA, killing 1, injuring 4
April 12, 2009 - The Zimbabwean Dollar is abandoned, as its value had disappeared because of massive hyperinflation
April 19, 2009 – Easter (varies from year to year)
April 21, 2009 - Holocaust Remembrance Day (varies from year to year)
April 5, 2010 - Upper Big Branch Mine disaster occurred roughly 1,000 feet (300 m) underground in Raleigh County, West Virginia at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine located in Montcoal. Twenty-nine out of thirty-one miners at the site were killed.
April 10, 2010 - The Polish president and 95 other people died in an airplane crash in Russia en-route to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre
April 14, 2010- Neo-Nazi Bill White sentenced to 30 months in prison
April 14, 2010 - Eruption of a volcano in Iceland which severely disrupted airline traffic in Europe for a week.
April 18, 2010 - US Pres. Obama was forced to cancel a trip to Poland to attend the funeral of the Polish president due to the volcanic plume covering Europe
April 19, 2010 - In Canada over 400 hundred of straw bales caught on fire and blazed out of control.
April 20, 2010 - Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and causing a massive spill covering at least 2500 square miles
April 11, 2011 – The accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station is officially raised to Level 7, which is the same level as the Chernobyl disaster.
April 15, 2011 – Income tax due
April 15, 2011 – Atlas Shrugged, the movie based on the book by Ayn Rand, opens
April 18, 2011 - A landslide in Indonesia's East Java province kills 100 people
April 19, 2011 - Fidel Castro resigns as dictator of Cuba
April 20, 2011 - A pipe bomb is found at Southwest Plaza Mall, only 1 mile from Columbine.  Earl Albert Moore later pled guilty to the incident.
April 20, 2011 - Neo-Nazi Bill White has his conviction for promoting violence on his website overturned as a violation of his First Amendment rights
April 21, 2011 - Students at Stony Creek Elementary School, about 2 miles from Columbine, were evacuated due to reports of a suspicious man in the building.  The strange man was there because he had to use the restroom.
April 21, 2011 - Japan declares it illegal to enter evacuation zone around Fukushima
April 6, 2012 - Earl Albert Moore sentenced to life in prison for placing an explosive device in Southwest Plaza on April 20, 2011, the anniversary of the Columbine shootings.
April 12, 2012 - Charles Manson, now 77, faces his 12th parole hearing.  It will probably be his last.
April 13, 2012 - A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher facing federal charges of traveling to Colorado to have sex with a mother and her two children has apparently killed himself in prison in Englewood, Colorado, less than 5 miles from Columbine High School.
April 15, 2012 - 100th Anniversary of birth of Kim Il-Sung, dictator of North Korea
April 17, 2012 - Teenager in Spokane, WA arrested after threatening to do a "Columbine-style shooting" at his high school.
April 20, 2012 - Mt. Popocatépetl erupts in Mexico
April 20, 2012 - Pakistani jet flying near the Islamabad airport carrying 127 people, crashes with no survivors
April 20, 2012 -  In Norway, mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, gives chilling testimony of how he killed 69 innocent children.
April 20, 2012 - George Zimmerman, who killed Trayvon Martin, granted $150,000 bond.
April 20, 2012 - The Secret Service, instead of focusing on security arrangements in Colombia, parties with a group of at least 20 prostitutes.  The story comes to light after one cheapskate decides to stiff the escort, Dania Suarez, who becomes instantly famous as a result of the scandal. At least 11 Secret Service agents are being investigated.
April 20, 2012 - Michael Cormier, a respected forensic technician for the Los Angeles County Coroner, who likely worked on the autopsy of Andrew Breitbart, died under suspicious circumstances at his North Hollywood home on April 20, the same day Breitbart’s cause of death was finally made public.
April 21, 2012 - Train crash in the Netherlands injures 117
April 21, 2012 - Charles Colson, Nixon adviser, dies
April 23, 2012 - The English Defence League celebrates St. George's Day.   The SPLC says that St. George's cross is a racist symbol associated with the crusades.
April 26, 2012 - Teenager in Stoughton, Massachusetts, arrested after threatening a "Columbine-style shooting".
April 5, 2013 - A deadly prom night crash in Salem, Oregon on April 30, 2005 is remembered through a mock crash and rescue event.
April 5, 2013 - Megachurch Pastor Rick Warren's son, Matthew Warren, commits suicide after struggling with mental illness and depression.
April 6, 2013 - Rehtaeh Parsons, a 17 year-old Canadian girl, commits suicide after being allegedly raped by 4 boys who were never prosecuted.  This brought back memories of Amanda Todd, a 15 year-old girl from British Columbia, who killed herself on October 10, 2012 after being bullied.
April 7, 2013 - Justice Williams, a 9 year-old girl from Bronx, NY, commits suicide.
April 8, 2013 - Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, dies at the age of 87.
April 10, 2013 - 20 year-old Dylan Quick stabs 14 people with a knife at Lone Star Community College in Houston
April 12, 2013 - Two women are shot at New River Community College in Virginia, 4 days before the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007.
April 12, 2013 - North Korea threatens to fire a nuclear missile at Tokyo unless Japan removes its missile defenses.
April 12, 2013 - 3 teenage boys accused of raping 15 year-old Audrie Potts are arrested in California.  She killed herself on September 10, 2012, eight days after the rape.  The boys posted naked pictures of her online, which was critical evidence that lead to their arrests.
April 13, 2013 - Kirk Franklin shoots himself in the head in the infield of a NASCAR race in Ft Worth, TX.
April 15, 2013 - convicted murderer Justin Helzer hangs himself in his cell in San Quentin, California.
April 15, 2013 - The price of gold drops 9%, the biggest one day drop since gold futures trading began.
April 15, 2013 - Terrorist attack at the Boston marathon kills at least 12 people and injures over 100.  A Saudi national is the suspect.  April 15 is Patriot's Day in Boston, which celebrates the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775, which started the American Revolution.

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April 12, 1961 - Yuri Gagarin, first astronaut in space
April 15, 1990 - Birthday of Emma Watson