April 5·Every year

International Pillow Fight Day

Organised since 2008 on the first Saturday of April, the day has seen coordinated pillow battles in over 100 cities from New York's Washington Square Park to Tokyo's Yoyogi Park. The rules are consistent: soft pillows only, no glasses, warn before swinging. Flash-mob logistics have never been more wholesome.

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Notable · 2018

Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 Hispanic workers in one of the largest immigration raids in the history of the U.S.

2018Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 undocumented Hispanic workers in one of the largest workplace raids in the history of the United States.
2010Up to 50 people are killed and another 100 injured in two militant suicide bombings and attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan: the first on an Awami National Party rally in Timergara; the second on the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar.
2010Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.