1 April 1945 – Invasion of Okinawa began
1 April 1968 - Operation Pegasus began
1 April 1977 -- KyANG wing vice commander John B. Conaway appointment as Deputy Director the the Air National Guard at NGB approved by Congress.
05 – Operation Rugged began (1951)
06 – Operation Linebacker began (1972)
08 – Siege of An Loc began (1972)
09 - The officers of the 123rd regiment of Kentucky Militia unanimously, by newspaper communications and petitions, seek the abolition of the present militia system (1845).
09 - 21 companies volunteered for service in the Utah War of 1858. Only 10 companies were selected by Governor Morehead (1858).
09 - General Lee surrenders (Civil War, 1865).
09 – Fall of Bataan (1942)
10 – Bataan Death March (1942)
Battle for Lang Vei began (1968)
11 - Brig. General Edward R.S. Canby, U.S. Army, commanding the Department of Columbia, murdered by Captain Jack, chief of the Modoc Indians, while mediating for their removal from their rocky fastness on the northern border of California to a government reservation. General Canby was a native of Mason County, Kentucky (1873).
11 – Persian Gulf Official Cease Fire (1991)
15 - First attack on Fort Boonesborough by Indians (1777).
16 – Battle of Pork Chop Hill began (1953)
17 - Re-interment, with impressive ceremonies, at the cemetery in Lexington, of the remains of General John Hunt Morgan (1868).
18 - Storming of Cerro Gordo, Mexico. Captain John S. Williams' company (the only Kentucky company engaged) behave with distinguished valor (Mexican War, 1847).
18 – Doolittle Raid on Japan (1942)
19 -- (1968) The 2d Battalion, 138th Field Artillery with units in Louisville, Bardstown, Elizabethtown and Carrollton, Kentucky were ordered to active duty by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
19 – Operation Delaware began (1968)
20 – Operation Little Switch began (1953)
24 - Kentucky Legislature directs that the remains of General Cary H. Fry, Colonel Theodore O'Hara, and Adjutant George N. Cardwell to be brought from distant States, and buried in State military lot at Frankfort, and graves marked with appropriate stones (1873).
24 – Battle of the Hills began (1967)
27 (1805) - Battle of Derne - War with Tripoli Lt. Presley O'Bannon led an expedition across North African desert and captured the fortified city then held against numerous attempts to retake the place until peace treaty was signed on June 4 1805. [Courtesy Luther Davenport] O'Bannon was the first to plant the American Flag on foreign soil. The phrase "the shores of Tripoli" from the U.S. Marine Corps Hymn refers to Lt. O'Bannon's expedition. O'Bannon is now buried in the Frankfort Cemetery.