1900, 4 April - Boer War: Battle of Mostert's Hoek
British surrender at Mostert's Hoek (near Reddersburg). Boer forces capture nearly 500 Lee-Metford rifles.
1902, 4 April
Cecil John Rhodes' will bequests £6 million to fund scholarships to Oxford University for citizens of the British Empire, United States of America and Germany.
1923, 4 April
Egyptologist Lord Carnarvon dies from an insect bite in Egypt.
1956, 4 April
Sultan Sayyidi Muhammad V ibn Yusuf arrives in northern Morocco in the hope of ending Spanish rule.
1961, 4 April
UN troops defending an airfield in Katanga province, Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), are attacked by 'mobs'.
1977, 4 April
Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) severs ties with Cuba when they are implicated in the rebellion in Shaba (was the Katanga province).
1989, 4 April
The South African government threatens to pull out of the UN peace plan for Namibia unless action is taken against South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) guerrillas fighting near the northern border.
