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April 1 - United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership
April 5 – In Ceylon, group calling himself People’s Liberation Front begins a rebellion against Bandaranaike government
April 5 – Chile and East Germany form diplomatic relations
April 5 - Mount Etna erupts
April 7 – Greece releases 261 political prisoners, 50 of which are sent to internal exile
April 8 – Right-wing coup attempt exposed in Laos
April 9 - Charles Manson is sentenced to death but the sentence is commuted to life imprisonment.
April 12 – Palestinians retreat from Amman to north of Jordan
April 17 – Bangladesh makes official declaration of independence but Pakistani troops continue the fighting
April 17 - Libya, Syria and Egypt sign an agreement to form a confederation.
April 19 – Government of Bangladesh flees to India
April 19 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic
April 19 – Unemployment in UK is 3.4%
April 19 - Soviet Union launches Saljut I.
April 19 - Followers of Charles Manson, the Manson Family, are sentenced to gas chamber.
April 20 - Supreme Court of the United States rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation.
April 20 – Cambodian Prime Minister Lon Nol resigns
April 21 – Siaka Stevensis elected the first president of Sierra Leone
April 21 – Francois Duvalier, president of Haiti, dies—his son Jean-Claude Duvalier follows him as president-for-life
April 24 – Soyuz 10 docks with Saljut
April 24 – 500.000 people in Washington DC and 125.000 in San Francisco march against the Vietnam War
April 25 – Todor Zhivkov re-elected as a the leader of the Bulgarian communist party
April 25 – Franz Jonas re-elected as the new chancellor of Austria
April 26 – Government of Turkey declares the state of siege in 11 provinces, Ankara included, because of violent demonstrations
April 29 – Bolivia nationalizes American-owned zinc mine of Matilde
April 29 - The third anniversary of the Broadway musical Hair was celebrated with a concert at a Central Park bandshell.

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