WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO APRIL 2013
Find out what all happened March to 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)

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

At least 37 people are killed and 850 are injured when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes the Iranian province of Bushehr. (9. 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)

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

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

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

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Japan last reactor is shut down at midnight. (20. April 2013)

The largest meteorite (since NASA started observing the moon in 2005) hit the moon. (17. March 2013)

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

More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina. (3. April 2013)

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

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

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

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