WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 2013
Find out what all happened February to April 2013

A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others. (24. April 2013)

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands. (20. April 2013)

A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, Czech Republic, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people. (29. April 2013)

A gunman murders 13 people in a spree shooting in the village of Velika Ivanča, Serbia. (9. April 2013)

Funeral of The Rt. Hon Margaret Thatcher. Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (17. April 2013)

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates and Willem-Alexander becomes King of the Netherlands. (30. April 2013)

Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts. (19. April 2013)

A hot-air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people. (26. February 2013)

Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from the papacy, the first pontiff to resign in more than half a millennium. (11. February 2013)

Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415. (28. February 2013)

More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India. (4. April 2013)

A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada. (8. February 2013)

A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14. (15. February 2013)

An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others. (17. April 2013)

Pope Francis is elected in the papal conclave to succeed Pope Benedict XVI. (13. March 2013)

The smallest Extrasolar planet, Kepler-37b is discovered. (20. February 2013)

Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 3 people and injuring 264 others. (15. April 2013)

Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival. (10. February 2013)

A wave of bombings across Iraq kills 75 people and injures approximately 356 others. (15. April 2013)

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, the strongest in the country in 40 years, killing at least 35 people. (16. April 2013)