April 17th is officially Blah Blah Blah Day and Haiku Day.
Dua Lipa made the cover of the TIME100 list of the world’s most influential people.
A US National Reconnaissance Office mission launched on a reused SpaceX booster for the first time.
Johns Hopkins University announced that the number of people who died worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic had reached three million.
Using gene therapy, eight babies suffering from ''bubble boy disease" were cured in Memphis, Tennessee.
Game of Thrones premiered on HBO.
The movie 'Thor' premiered in cinemas in Sydney, Australia.
Jazz composer and musician John Coltrane received the Special Citation Pulitzer Prize after his death.
FedEx officially began its operations and flew 186 packages to 25 cities on the US's East Coast.
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of killing US Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Ford Mustang went on sale for the first time.
1,400 Cuban exiles failed to overthrow Fidel Castro after landing in the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
The United Kingdom officially created its first National Park, the Peak District National Park.
Slavery in Ethiopia came to an end thanks to Emperor Haile Selassie.
Seven Irish prisoners broke out of the Western Australian Colony's Fremantle Prison and fled to the US.
American boarding house owner Mary Surratt was arrested for taking part in President Lincoln's assassination.
Explorer Christopher Columbus was given funding for his first journey.
