More on the April Curse

These are just some notes for completion, largely taken from the comments from a post in April 2012.  I was sure I had posted about the Mutiny on the Bounty and a search didn't find it.  So here they are for the sake of completion. Add these to the prior list

• April 18, 1587 - John Foxe, who wrote Foxe's book of martyrs, dies
• April 23, 1616 - Miguel Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, dies on the same day as Shakespeare. (Another source says that he died on April 22).
• April 13 (April 2 o.s.), 1743 - Thomas Jefferson born
• April 28, 1758 - James Monroe born
• April 15, 1783 - Congress ratifies the peace treaty signed in November 1782
• April 19, 1783 - Gen. Washington informs his troops that hostilities have ended, exactly 8 years after they began
• April 28, 1789 - Mutiny on the HMS Bounty
• April 17, 1790 - Benjamin Franklin dies
• April 23, 1791 - James Buchanan born
• April 27, 1822 - Ulysses S Grant born
• April 4, 1841 - William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia only 1 month after inaguration, the first victim of Tecumseh's curse
• April 16, 1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville dies
• April 23, 1860 - William Wordsworth, American poet, dies
• April 9, 1865 - Gen. Robert E Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse
• April 26, 1865 - John Wilkes Booth shot by a Union soldier.
• April 27, 1865 - In the greatest Maritime disaster in US history, the Sultana, a Mississippi River steamboat, exploded near Memphis Tennessee, killing an estimated 1800 of her 2427 passengers, when three of the boat's four boilers exploded and she burned to the waterline and sank.
• April 20, 1871 - "Third Force Act" passed. Congress authorizes President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations, and use military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
• April 18, 1874 - David Livingstone, adventurer, dies and is buried in Westminster Abbey
• April 15, 1889 - Father Damien, who ministered to people with leprousy on the island of Molokai, dies
• April 15, 1912 - Kim Il-Sung, dictator of North Korea, born
• April 15, 1912 - John Jacob Astor IV, the richest man in the world at that time, dies when the Titanic sunk
• April 21, 1930 - A fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 320 inmates, and many burn to death when they are not unlocked from their cells
• April 4, 1933. USS Akron crashes in the ocean. This was the world's worst airship disaster, in which 73 of the 76 passenger and crew on board perished
• April 30, 1939 - The 1939 World's Fair opened in Queens, NY
• April 26, 1942 - Benxihu Colliery (China) mining disaster. 1,549 miners lost their lives in the worst mining disaster of all time.
• April 12, 1945 - Franklin Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage 
• April 28, 1945 - Benito Mussolini is executed
• April 21, 1946 - John Maynard Keynes dies
• April 13, 1953 - the Central Intelligence Agency director Allen Dulles authorized the MK-ULTRA project
• April 28, 1953 - Hooker Chemical sells the Love Canal dump to the Niagara Falls City School District with a contract that mentioned toxic waste and disclaimed any liability
• April 18, 1955 - Albert Einstein dies
• April 10, 1963 - USS Thresher submarine disaster. This was the deadliest submarine disaster in US history, and 129 men died during deep-dive testing off of Cape Cod
• On April 20, 1964, Boulder District Court Judge William Buck declared that Colorado laws banning marijuana use were unconstitutional. The stunned Colorado Supreme Court overruled Buck and reinstated the law the following year
• April 21, 1967 - A series of 17 tornadoes strike Illinois, including several in Chicago, killing more than 50 
• April 24, 1967 - Soyuz 1 crashes, killing Cosmonaut Vladimir Komorov, the first fatility in space 
• April 19, 1969 - Militant black students at Cornell Univ. use force to take over Willard Straight Hall demanding a black studies program
• April 20, 1971 - Supreme Court issues Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, upholding the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.
• April 20, 1975 - President Thieu of Vietnam resigns in protest over lack of US support
• April 27, 1978 - Willow Island disaster. A cooling tower for a power plant under construction in Willow Island, West Virginia collapsed, killing 51 construction workers.
• April 15, 1980 - Jean-Paul Sarte, existentialist, dies
• April 22, 1980 - Military coup in Liberia. A number of former officials are publicly executed
• April 15, 1983 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and holocaust survivor, dies 
• April 15, 1984 - Christopher Thomas shot 10 people (8 children and 2 women) execution style on Palm Sunday in Brooklyn
• April 19, 1987 - First episode of The Simpson's airs
• April 1989 - Jeff Rhodes - He was shot, mutilated and found burned in a trash dump. (This was on the list of people on the Clinton Body Count and I haven't been able to independently verify it).
• 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 21, 1992 - California resumes executions after a 25 year hiatus, gassing Robert Alton Harris
• April 22, 1993 - Holocaust Museum opens in Washington DC
• April 28, 1996 - The Port Arthur massacre of 28 April 1996 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. Martin Bryant, a 28-year-old from New Town, a suburb of Hobart, eventually pleaded guilty to the crimes and was given 35 life sentences without possibility of parole.
• April 15, 1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator, dies
• April 11, 2001. The Ellis Park Stadium disaster was the worst sporting accident in South African history. 43 people were crushed to death
• 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 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, 2008 - Pope Benedict visits Ground Zero
• 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 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 19, 2011 - Seventeen people died as the result of a helicopter crash in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh
• April 21, 2011 - Japan declares it illegal to enter evacuation zone around Fukushima
• April 20, 2012 - Mt. Popocatépetl erupts in Mexico
• 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 April 20, the same day Breitbart’s cause of death was finally made public.
• April 20, 2012 - Pakistani jet flying near the Islamabad airport carrying 127 people, crashes with no survivors
• April 21, 2012 - Train crash in the Netherlands injures 117
• April 21, 2012 - Charles Colson, Nixon adviser, dies
• April 17, 2013 - A massive explosion and fire rocks the town of West, Texas (near Waco, Texas), almost exactly 20 years after the massacre of the Branch Davidians.  70 people may be dead.
• April 24, 2013 - Dhaka, Bangladesh. An 8-story building containing a garment factory collapsed, killing 1,129, in the worst industrial accident ever to occur in Bangladesh