Portal:Prostitution/Anniversaries/April


 * 1st
 * 1957: The Prostitution Prevention Law, which outlawed Prostitution in Japan, came into force.
 * 4th
 * 1888: Murder of Emma Elizabeth Smith. Her killing was the first of the Whitechapel murders.
 * 10th
 * 1836: Murder of Helen Jewett, a New York prostitute, whose alleged murderer, Richard P. Robinson, was tried and sensationally acquitted.
 * 13th
 * 1946: Brothels were outlawed in France by the passing of the Loi Marthe Richard.
 * 2016: Paying for sex in France became illegal by Law 444 (2016) coming into force.
 * 17th
 * 2009: Iceland enacted legislation to adopt the Nordic model of prostitution which criminalises the buying of sex.
 * 24th
 * 1891: Murder of Carrie Brown, a New York prostitute who was murdered and mutilated. She is occasionally mentioned as an alleged victim of Jack the Ripper.