My Muslim Calendar Project

April 4 Events 1609  –  Moriscos  are expelled from the  Kingdom of Valencia . 1939  –  Faisal II  becomes King of  Iraq . 1960  –  France  agrees to grant independence to the  Mali Federation , a union of  Senegal  and  French Sudan . 1979  – Prime Minister  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto  of Pakistan is executed. 1981  –  Iran–Iraq War : The  Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force  mounts an  attack on H-3 Airbase  and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft. Births 1179 -- Fariduddin Masud, Sufi saint (d. 1266) 1930  –  Netty Herawaty , Indonesian actress (d. 1989) 1947  –  Wiranto , Indonesian general and politician 1948  –  Abdullah Öcalan , Turkish activist 1971 –  Malik Yusef , American actor, producer, and poet Deaths 968  –  Abu Firas al-Hamdani , Arab prince and poet (b. 932) Al-Harith ibn Abi’l-ʿAlaʾ Saʿid ibn Hamdan al-Taghlibi  ...

April 3 Events 801  – King  Louis the Pious  captures  Barcelona  from the  Moors  after a  siege  of several months. 1997  – The  Thalit massacre  begins in  Algeria ; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of  Thalit  are killed by guerrillas. 2004  –  Islamic terrorists  involved in the  2004 Madrid train bombings  are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves. Births 1900  –  Camille Chamoun , Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th  President of Lebanon  (d. 1987) 1929  –  Fazlur Rahman Khan , Bangladeshi engineer and architect, co-designed the  Willis Tower  and  John Hancock Center  (d. 1982) 1965  –  Nazia Hassan , Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist (d. 2000) 1990  –  Karim Ansarifard , Iranian footballer 1993  –  Pape Moussa Konaté , Senegalese footballer Deaths 1153...

April 2 Events 1921  – The  Autonomous Government of Khorasan , a military government encompassing the modern state of  Iran , is established. 1968 -- According to witnesses, Mary appeared in different forms over the  Coptic Orthodox   Church  of Saint Mary in the  Zeitoun  district of  Cairo ,  Egypt , for a period of 2–3 years, beginning on April 2, 1968, some ten months after the  Six-Day War . It was a mass apparition, reportedly witnessed by many thousands of people, including Egyptian President  Gamal Abdel Nasser , and captured by newspaper photographers and Egyptian television. The apparitions each lasted from a few minutes up to several hours and were sometimes accompanied by dove-shaped luminous bodies. There have been  conversions to Christianity  and claims of miraculous cures [112]  associated with the apparitions. A month into the events, the apparitions up to that point were approved by  Pope ...

April 1 Events 1941 – A  military coup  in  Iraq  overthrows the regime of  'Abd al-Ilah  and installs  Rashid Ali al-Gaylani  as  Prime Minister . 1971  –  Bangladesh Liberation War : The  Pakistan Army   massacre  over 1,000 people in  Keraniganj Upazila ,  Bangladesh . 1979  –  Iran  becomes an  Islamic republic   by a 99% vote , officially overthrowing the  Shah . 2011  – After protests against the  burning of the Quran  turn violent, a mob attacks a  United Nations  compound in  Mazar-i-Sharif ,  Afghanistan , resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers. 2016  –  Nagorno-Karabakh clashes : The Four Day War or April War begins along the  Nagorno-Karabakh  line of contact on April 1. Births 1936 –  Abdul Qadeer Khan , Indian-Pakistani physicist, chemist, and engineer 1951  – ...