1963 – Dr Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network. See Beeching axe.
1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1994 – One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
2002 - Nanterre Massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire on councilors at the end of a town council meeting, killing 8 councilors and injuring 19.
2003 – An explosion in the Nitrochimie dynamite factory in Billy-Berclau, France, kills 4 people.
2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leanderfrigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2006 – The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
2008 – Geert Wilders releases a movie called Fitna. The next days protests were held by people in the Middle East.
2009 – The Situ Gintung Dam breaks in Indonesia, leading to at least 99 deaths.
2009 - A suicide bomber kills at least 48 people at a mosque in Khyber Agency, Pakistan.