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Apr 2 Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant signs a three-year contract extension with the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers worth $87 million

Film & TV History

Apr 3 Matt Smith's first appearance as the 11th Doctor with Karen Gillan as his companion in BBC program "Doctor Who" during "The Eleventh Hour" episode

• Apr 4 Africa's tallest monument, the African Renaissance Monument, dedicated outside Dakar, Senegal, designed by Pierre Goudiaby to commemorate Senegal's 50th anniversary of independence

Golf Major

Apr 4 Kraft Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Yani Tseng of Taiwan wins her 2nd major title by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Suzann Pettersen of Norway

• Apr 5 72nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Duke beats Butler, 61-59; Blue Devils' forward Kyle Singler, 19 points
• Apr 6 29th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Connecticut beats Stanford, 53-47; UConn forward Maya Moore scores 23 points
• Apr 10 163rd Grand National: Tony McCoy wins aboard 10/1 joint-favourite Don't Push It by 5 lengths ahead of Black Apalachi
• Apr 10 Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński
• Apr 11 "The night of Sora Aoi", Japanese porn actress Sora Aoi joins twitter prompting many Chinese fans to try and circumnavigate Chinese censorship

• Apr 12 A train derailed near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
• Apr 14 Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull begins erupting from the top crater in the centre of the glacier
• Apr 15 Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe.

• Apr 19 114th Boston Marathon: Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot of Kenya wins 4th men's title in 2:05:52; Teyba Erkesso of Ethiopia women's champion in 2:26:11
• Apr 20 The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes, killing 11 and causing the rig to sink, causing a massive oil discharge into the Gulf of Mexico and an environmental disaster

• Apr 22 NFL Draft: Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford first pick by St. Louis Rams

Indian Premier League

Apr 25 IPL Cricket Final, DY Patil Stadium, Mumbai: Chennai Super Kings beat Mumbai Indians by 22 runs; Suresh Raina 57 no (35)

Famous Weddings

• Apr 3 "Love and Theft" country trio Eric Gunderson weds Emily Hagar (24) at sunset on the front porch of the historic Hazel Path mansion in Hendersonville, Tennessee
• Apr 9 Philadelphia Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos (30) weds Julie Lesicki at St. Augstine Catholic Church in Philadelphia

Famous Divorces

• Apr 2 "Wayne's World" actress Tia Carrere (43) divorces British photojournalist Simon Wakelin due to irreconcilable differences after 7 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

• Apr 2 Chris Kanyon, American pro wrestler (WCW/WWF World Tag Team C'ship), dies from suicide at 40
• Apr 2 Mike Cuellar, Cuban baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1967, 70, 71, 74; World Series 1964, 70; AL Cy Young Award 1969; Baltimore Orioles), dies from stomach cancer at 72
• Apr 2 Thomas J. Moyer, American judge and Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1987-2010), dies at 70
• Apr 3 Dušan Radić, Serbian composer, dies at 80
• Apr 3 Eugène Terre'Blanche, South African white supremacist and leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, beaten to death over alleged political and racist motivations at 69

• Apr 4 Clifford M. Hardin, American politician (17th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture), dies at 94
• Apr 4 Rudy Kousbroek, Dutch essayist (Het Oostindisch kampsyndroom (The East Indian Camp Syndrome)), poet (Anathema), and translator, dies at 81
• Apr 5 Vitali Sevastiyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 9, 18), dies at 74
• Apr 6 Corin Redgrave, British actor (Excalibur, A Man For All Seasons), dies at 70
• Apr 6 Lorraine Chargin, American boxing promoter (IBHOF; Bobby Chacon, Tony "The Tiger" Lopez, Loreto Garza), dies from cancer at 79
• Apr 6 Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (26 Tests, 70 wickets; Canterbury CA), dies at 85

• Apr 8 Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979-80), dies at 84
• Apr 8 Dorothea "Teddy" Scholten, Dutch pop singer ("Een beetje" - "A Little Bit"), dies at 83
• Apr 8 Jack Agnew, American World War II veteran (b. 1922)

• Apr 9 Aladár Kovácsi, Hungarian pentathlete and Olympic champion (1952, Helsinki), dies at 77
• Apr 9 Bob Franks, American politician (Rep-R-NJ 1993-2001), dies of cancer at 58
• Apr 9 Zoltán Varga, Hungarian Footballer (b. 1945)
• Apr 10 Dixie Carter, American actress (Designing Women; The Edge of Night), dies at 70
• Apr 10 Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician (President of Poland, 2005-10), killed in the crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154 at 60
• Apr 10 Maria Kaczyńska, Polish economist and First Lady of Poland, is killed in the crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154 at 67
• Apr 10 Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman is killed in the crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154 at 90
• Apr 11 Jean Boiteux, French swimmer (Olympic gold 400m freestyle, bronze 4×200m freestyle 1952), dies after falling off a tree at 76
• Apr 11 Vicki Draves, American diver (Olympic gold platform & springboard 1948), dies from pancreatic cancer at 85
• Apr 12 Michel Chartrand, French Canadian union activist, dies at 93
• Apr 12 Palito [Reynaldo Hipolito], Filipino slap-stick comedian and actor, dies at 76
• Apr 12 Peter Haskell, American actor (Bracken's World, Rituals), dies at 75
• Apr 13 Manos Xydos, Greek rock singer-songwriter, and music producer (Pyx Lax), dies of a heart attack at 56
• Apr 14 Peter Steele [Petrus Ratajczyk], American heavy metal singer-songwriter, and bassist (Type O Negative), dies of sepsis at 48
• Apr 15 Benjamin Hooks, American lawyer, Baptist minister, and civil rights leader (NAACP executive director, 1977-92), dies at 85
• Apr 15 Jack Herer, American author and cannabis activist, dies at 70
• Apr 16 Daryl Gates, LAPD Chief, dies at 83
• Apr 16 Marion Ladewig, American ten-pin bowler (9 time woman bowler of year 1950-63), dies at 95
• Apr 16 Rasim Delic, Bosnian military chief of staff and war criminal (b. 1949)
• Apr 19 Carl Williams, Australian criminal (b. 1970)
• Apr 19 Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (undefeated world champion WBA super featherweight 2006-08; WBC lightweight 2009-10), commits suicide at 28
• Apr 19 Keith "Guru" Elam, American rapper (b. 1966)

• Apr 21 Gustav Lorentzen, Norwegian singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
• Apr 21 Idwal Pugh, Welsh-born British civil servant (UK Ombudsman 1976-78), dies at 92
• Apr 21 Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports administrator (7th President International Olympic Committee 1980-2001), dies of cardio-respiratory failure at 89
• Apr 23 Norman Wright, American doo-wop tenor vocalist (Del-Vikings - “Come Go With Me”), dies at 72
• Apr 23 Peter Porter, Australian-British author and poet (Chair of Babel), dies at 81
• Apr 25 Alan Sillitoe, English writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner), dies at 82
• Apr 25 Dorothy Provine, American actress (The Roaring 20's; That Darn Cat: Who's Minding The Mint?), and singer, dies of emphysema at 75
• Apr 27 Morris Pert, Scottish session jazz-rock drummer, percussionist, pianist, and contemporary classical composer (Ankh; Auroura), dies at 62
• Apr 29 Johannes Fritsch, German violist, and classical and electro-acoustical composer (Duett für Bratsche), dies at 68
• Apr 30 Gerry Ryan, Irish radio broadcaster (b. 1956)

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