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April 4
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In 1920, the University of Oxford admitted women to degrees for the first time during the Michaelmas term. The conferrals took place at the Sheldonian Theatre on 14 October, 26 October, 29 October, 30 October and 13 November. That same year, on 7 October, women also became eligible for admission as full members of the university. Before 1920, it is estimated that around 4,000 women studied at Oxford since the opening of the university's first women's colleges in 1879. One graduate was Annie Rogers, who took undergraduate exams in 1875 and 1877 and was finally given a degree in 1920, when she was 64 years old. The last survivor of the first conferral ceremony was Constance Savery, who died at the age of 101 in 1999. (Full list...)
April 7
There are 156 parliamentary constituencies in Zambia that each elect one member to the National Assembly (building pictured), the country's unicameral legislature. The assembly meets in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, and is presided over by the speaker of the National Assembly and two deputy speakers. The National Assembly was established upon Zambia's independence in 1964 to succeed the Legislative Council of the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia. Since 2016, it has 167 members, of which 156 are elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, a further eight are appointed by the president of Zambia, and three are ex officio members. The Constitution of Zambia mandates that the constituencies are delimited after every census by the Electoral Commission of Zambia. (Full list...)
April 11
The American television series The Last of Us has won 58 awards from 147 nominations. Created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann for HBO and based on the video game franchise developed by Naughty Dog, it follows the characters Joel and Ellie. Pedro Pascal (pictured) and Bella Ramsey have received the most acting nominations for the series. It has been nominated for twenty-four Primetime Emmy Awards, with a leading eight wins at the 75th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards; Ramsey's was the second non-binary acting nomination and the first for a leading role, Pascal was the second Latino nominated for Lead Actor in a Drama Series and the first since 1999, and Keivonn Montreal Woodard was the second-youngest Emmy nominee, the youngest ever for Guest Actor in a Drama Series, and the first nominated black deaf and second deaf actor. From major guilds, the series has won two awards at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and one at the Directors Guild of America Awards and Writers Guild of America Awards, and received two nominations at the Producers Guild of America Awards. (Full list...)
April 14
The Sakurai Prize, awarded by the American Physical Society, honors "outstanding achievement in particle theory" and is presented annually at the Society's April meeting. The award was established in November 1984 with an endowment fund provided by the family and friends of physicist Jun John Sakurai, who died in October 1982. The prize consists of a US$10,000 cash award, an allowance for the recipient to travel to the ceremony, and a certificate citing their contributions. The Sakurai Prize is administered by the Society's Division of Particles and Fields, and winners are chosen by a selection committee. The prize may be shared by multiple people. The inaugural recipients, Toshihide Maskawa and Makoto Kobayashi (both pictured), were awarded the prize in 1985 for their work on the electroweak interaction. The first woman to receive the Sakurai Prize was Mary K. Gaillard in 1993. (Full list...)
April 18
The 30th Annual South African Music Awards took place on 2 November 2024 at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, Gauteng. Presented by the Recording Industry of South Africa, it honoured music released in 2023 through 2024. Hosted by Minnie Dlamini, the ceremony was live streamed on YouTube and broadcast on SABC 1. Tyla (pictured) won four awards, including the Newcomer of the Year and the Female Artist of the Year for her studio album Tyla. Other winners included Kabza de Small and Mthunzi, with three awards for their collaborative studio album, Isimo. (Full list...)
April 21
There are 54 extant emballonurid species, which are members of Emballonuridae, one of the twenty families of bats in the mammalian order Chiroptera and part of the suborder of microbats. Members include sheath-tailed bats, sac-winged bats, and tomb bats. They are found in all continents besides Europe and Antarctica, primarily in forests and caves, though some species can also be found in shrublands, savannas, rocky areas, or deserts. They range in size from the Amazonian sac-winged bat, at 3 cm (1 in) plus a 1 cm (0.4 in) tail, to Pel's pouched bat (pictured), at 14 cm (6 in) plus a 4 cm (2 in) tail. The 54 extant species in Emballonuridae are divided into two subfamilies: Emballonurinae contains 36 species in 12 genera, and Taphozoinae contains 18 species in 2 genera. (Full list...)
April 25
The DHL Fastest Lap Award is given annually by the courier, Formula One global partner and logistics provider DHL to the driver with the highest number of fastest laps over the course of the season. It is presented to the winning driver at the final round of the season. The inaugural winner was the Ferrari driver Kimi Räikkönen with six fastest laps in 2007. The award has been decided on a tiebreaker on four occasions. Räikkönen and his teammate Felipe Massa tied with six fastest laps and two-second-quickest laps in 2007 with the former winning by having more third-fastest laps than the latter. British drivers have won the award seven times, German drivers four times, and Finnish racers three times. Mercedes have won on seven occasions to Red Bull Racing's six and Ferrari's three. The 2024 recipient was Lando Norris of the McLaren team with six fastest laps, the first time he and his team won the award. (Full list...)
April 28
In Ukraine's eastern Donetsk Oblast, there are 52 populated places officially granted city status by the Verkhovna Rada, the country's parliament. Settlements with more than 10,000 people are eligible to become cities although the status is also typically given by parliament to settlements of historical or regional importance. According to the country's last official census in 2001, the most populous city in the oblast was the regional capital Donetsk (pictured), with a population of 1,016,194 people, while the least populous city was Sviatohirsk, with 5,136 people. Following fighting during the Donbas war, 21 of the oblast's cities were occupied by pro-Russian separatists. After the enactment of decommunization laws across the country, ten cities in both Ukrainian-controlled and separatist-occupied territory were given new names in 2016 which were unrecognized by de facto pro-Russian officials in the occupied cities. (Full list...)