Jen and Jon Johnson

On April 7, 1994, in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, violence erupts between the Patriotic Front rebel group (Tutsis) government soldiers (Hutus) – this is the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide.

On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

On April 5, 1914, Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Tribe, marries English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia – creating peace between the two groups.

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Motel Lorraine in Memphis, TN.

On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which allocated more than $5 billion in aid for 16 European countries recovering from World War II.