Portal:Politics/Selected anniversaries/April


 * April 1, 1979 – Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially.
 * April 9, 1948 – the period known as La Violencia begins with the assassination of Colombian Liberal Party leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. For the next ten years Liberals, Communists and Conservatives would fight each other in the conflict.
 * April 9, 2003 – Government of Saddam Hussein overthrown by American forces in Iraq.
 * April 19, 2006 – Han Myung-sook becomes South Korea's first female Prime Minister.
 * April 24, 2005 – Presidential elections in Togo return Faure Gnassingbe to power two months after he was installed by the military following the death of his father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma.
 * April 28, 1937 – Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq was born.
 * April 30, 1945 – Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun, commit suicide as the Red Army approached the Führerbunker in Berlin. Karl Dönitz succeeds Hitler as President of Germany; Joseph Goebbels succeeds Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.