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In the National Hockey League, Alexander Ovechkin breaks Wayne Gretzky's record for most goals scored.
- Alexander Mikhailovich Ovechkin (Russian: Алексaндр Михайлович Овечкин, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐˈvʲetɕkʲɪn]; born 17 September 1985) is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger and captain of the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "the Great 8" (in reference to his jersey number) and "Ovi", he is widely regarded as one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time, with his 895 career goals standing as the most in NHL history.
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A nightclub roof collapse in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, kills 226 people.
- On 8 April 2025, the roof of the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, collapsed during a live performance by merengue musician Rubby Pérez. The structural failure occurred at approximately 12:44 a.m. AST, resulting in 226 fatalities and 189 injuries, making it one of the deadliest non-natural disasters in the country's history.
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In horse racing, Nick Rockett, ridden by Patrick Mullins, wins the Grand National.
- The 2025 Grand National (officially known as the Randox 2025 Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 177th annual running of the Grand National horse race. It took place on Saturday 5 April 2025, at Aintree near Liverpool, England. The winner was Nick Rockett, trained by Willie Mullins and ridden by his son, amateur jockey Patrick Mullins. The death of Celebre d'Allen two days after the race, following his collapse after the last fence and subsequent lung infection, led to widespread public concern, as well as criticism of racing and the British Horseracing Authority from animal rights groups.
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In basketball, the UConn Huskies win the NCAA Division I women's championship and the Florida Gators win the men's championship.
- The 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game was the final game of the 2025 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. It determined the champion of the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season and was contested by the No. 2 seed UConn Huskies from the Big East Conference and the No. 1 seed South Carolina Gamecocks from the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The game was played on April 6, 2025, at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. UConn defeated South Carolina, 82–59, to win the school's twelfth national championship and their first since 2016.
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- The 2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the final game of the 2025 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. It determined the national champion for the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season and was contested by the No. 1 seed Florida Gators from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and the No. 1 seed Houston Cougars from the Big 12 Conference. The game was played on April 7, 2025, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
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Gaza war (ongoing)
- The Gaza war has been fought between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. It is the 15th war of the Gaza–Israel conflict, and has sparked an ongoing Middle Eastern crisis. The first day was the deadliest in Israel's history, and the war is the deadliest for Palestinians in the history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
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M23 campaign (ongoing)
- The M23 campaign is an ongoing series of military offensives launched by the March 23 Movement (M23), a Rwandan-backed rebel paramilitary group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, since March 2022. In November 2021, the M23 first launched attacks against the Congolese military (FARDC) and MONUSCO, seizing military positions in Ndiza, Cyanzu, and Runyoni in North Kivu Province. This coincided with the deployment of Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) to the region to combat the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan rebel group operating in the Congo's North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
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Russian invasion of Ukraine (ongoing)
- On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II.
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Sudanese civil war (ongoing)
- A civil war between two major rival factions of the military government of Sudan began during Ramadan on 15 April 2023. The two opponent factions consist of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies (collectively the Janjaweed coalition) under the Janjaweed leader Hemedti. Minor factions have also participated in the fighting, allying with either major combatant or remaining opposed to both; these include the Darfur Joint Protection Force; the SLM (al-Nur) under Abdul Wahid al-Nur; and the SPLM-N under Abdelaziz al-Hilu. Fighting has been concentrated around the capital city of Khartoum (the largest and initial battle of the war) and the Darfur region.
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