4/85Number of weeks, since April 1981, that Danielle Steele has not had a book on a national best-seller list: 0
4/88Amount of time, since last April, that Americans spent on hold while calling the IRS (in years): 20
7/88Price paid in West Virginia last April for a case of Billy Beer: $2,000
7/90Sales of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles merchandise since the film was released in April: $500,000,000
Sales of tickets to the film: $110,000,000
9/91Amount the Republican Party was fined in April for illegally giving $2,700,000 to Senate candidates in 1986: $24,000
7/92Price paid at the Chicago White Sox Charities auction in April for a vial of infield dirt from Comiskey Park: $75
7/92Days after the Kent State killings in 1970 that Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released their song “Ohio”: 31
8/92Number of different versions of Crystal Pepsi tested before the product was introduced in April: 3,000
8/92Number of the 3 items looted from the Frederick’s of Hollywood Museum in L.A. last April that have been returned: 2
10/95Minutes of “delightful conversation” Senator Jesse Helms says he had last April with Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto: 60
Number of minutes after the conversation ended that he introduced her to the Senate as the leader of India: 10
10/95Number of years a Utah man had been married before discovering last April that his wife was a man: 3.5
9/95Marriage proposals received by Timothy McVeigh since his arrest last April for the Oklahoma bombing: 4
4/96Estimated nightly attendance last April at a Maryland “drive-through theater” re-enactment of the crucifixion: 4,000
4/96Price paid for 6 vials of frozen sperm last April at a benefit auction for a Boston lesbian and gay health center: $825
5/96Number of years it took Bob Dole to agree to sign the “no new taxes” pledge he signed last April: 8
7/96Percentage by which federal funding of legal services for the poor was cut last April: 30
9/96Percentage of the proceeds of last April’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis auction that went for taxes: 75
6/97Symbolic portion of Gene Roddenberry and Timothy Leary shot into orbit last April, in ounces of ashes apiece: 0.25
9/97Number of suicide notes found in a North Carolina inmate’s cell the day before his scheduled execution last April: 2
Hours before the scheduled execution that he was granted an indefinite stay for “psychiatric evaluation”: 16
9/97Number of the 327 eligible voters who voted in the Rock Creek, Kansas, school board election last April: 0
11/98Number of “I Slept with Kenneth Starr” bumper stickers sold by a Little Rock gift shop since last April: 990
11/98Months after publicly calling the President a “scumbag” last April that Rep. Dan Burton admitted his own adultery: 4
7/98Number of animals that died in accidents at Disney’s new Animal Kingdom park before it opened last April: 27
7/98Percentage of the lab animals launched aboard NASA’s Neurolab last April that died in orbit, snails excluded: 70
7/98Percentage of U.S. plant species cited as “threatened by extinction” by the World Conservation Union last April: 29
Hours after this announcement that Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt declared war on weeds: 5.5
8/98Number of $530 monogrammed Louis Vuitton World Cup soccer balls sold in the U.S. since last April: 87
3/99Size of the business loan given Amazon.com last April after 11 consecutive months without a profit: $275,000,000
8/99Number of ranks by which 18 U.S. sailors were demoted last April after refusing anthrax vaccinations: 1
3/00Ratio of major party presidential primaries to be held before April this year to those held before April in 1984: 3:1
4/00Number of former welfare recipients New York City trained since last April to work as phone psychics: 15
4/00Ratio of April showers to plants producing May flowers at the Springfield, Illinois, Park District last year: 1:1,571
6/00Weeks before Peru ‘s national election last April that President Alberto Fujimori raised the minimum wage by 18 percent: 4
6/00Price of a gallon of gas in the United Kingdom last April: $4.84
Price a year earlier: $3.87
10/01Ratio of Oregon rainfall in April 2000 to rainfall last April after a Native American tribe held a rain ceremony there: 2:3
Amount the tribe subsequently billed an Oregon power company for costs associated with the ceremony: $32,000
11/01Number of days a Quebec protester was jailed in April for allegedly catapulting three stuffed animals at police: 17
12/01Number of mimes Guatemala’s transit department hired last April to administer driver “education” at busy intersections: 20
6/01Years after the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance-reform bill was first introduced that it passed the Senate in April: 5
Total amount raised at the two major-party fund-raisers held in the week before its passage: $9,500,000
7/01Signing bonus that two oil companies paid Chad in April 2000 in order to join an oil-exploration project: $25,000,000
Amount of this bonus that Chad spent on weapons, violating an International Monetary Fund agreement: $4,500,000
7/01Minimum number of people who have been trampled to death at soccer matches in Africa since April: 177
9/01Prize awarded an Indiana University senior in April in a national “messiest college apartment” contest: $10,000
10/02Number of Argentines who have applied to be on a new job-search game show since April: 6,500
6/02Years U.S. Latin American policy adviser Otto Reich was a lobbyist for Mobil Oil before his appointment in January: 6
Years into his ambassadorship that he was cited for creating illegal “covert propaganda” in the Iran-Contra scandal: 1
Days after April’s Venezuelan coup that he attributed his ignorance of events there to an “information blackout”: 4
6/02Chance of contracting a “fairly common” form of colon cancer reported on in the New York Times April 4: 1 in 8,000
Chance of a child contracting the “rare disease” neuroblastoma, as cited by another Times article the same day: 1 in 7,000
7/02Minutes after a tornado hit Shiloh, Illinois, in April that the town’s warning siren sounded: 30
8/02Amount an Ohio power company agreed to pay in April to purchase a town affected by its plant’s pollution: $20,000,000
6/03Amount of new U.S. military aid promised Israel in April to offset the “burdens” of the U.S. war on Iraq: $1,000,000,000
7/03Percentage of Americans who said at the end of April that their nation commanded less respect abroad than a year ago: 41
Percentage who said that the Iraq war will have been worthwhile even if Saddam Hussein is never captured or killed: 53
Percentage who said it will have been worthwhile even if weapons of mass destruction are never found: 60
7/03Number of Wisconsin accounting students given take-home tests to accommodate an Enron whistle-blower’s April speech: 78
Number later found to have cheated: 40
7/03Vote in April by which the North Dakota Senate upheld the state’s 1890 ban on cohabitation by unmarried couples: 26-21
Price paid for the bill: $18.50
8/03Amount a judge ordered the Anti-Defamation League to pay in April for calling a Colorado couple anti-Semitic: $10,500,000
8/03Number of books by Henry Kissinger found in Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz’s mansion in April: 2
Number by New York Times reporter Judith Miller: 1
7/04Ratio of deaths of U.S. contractors worldwide in the last three months to those between April and September last year: 2:1
7/04Minimum number of prisoners under the age of 17 or over the age of 70 held by coalition forces in Iraq last April: 79
7/04Number of times after prison-abuse photos aired in April that the President boasted of freeing Iraq of torture chambers: 13
7/04Days after McDonald’s CEO died of a heart attack last April that the firm’s ex-CEO for Japan did the same: 2
7/04Number of fried chocolate sandwiches served at a British hotel chain in April after their debut: 1,256
8/04State grant awarded a Missouri police department’s Youth Outreach Unit two years ago to battle Goth culture: $273,000
Amount the Unit returned to the state in April after no Goth-influenced youth could be found to aid: $132,000
Amount spent in the interim to set up the program: $141,000
9/04Number of deaths due to international terrorism last year according to an April State Department report: 307
9/04Months after reporting missing radioactive spent fuel rods last April that a Vermont nuclear plant found them in a safe place: 3
8/05Minimum number of people convicted on “ terrorism-related charges” since 2001, according to Alberto Gonzales in April: 200
8/05Number of Iraqi troops that have been “trained and equipped,” according to President Bush in April: 150,000
Number that the U.S. military considers ready to deploy independently: 1,500
9/05Average amount an Ohio man paid children to berate him for being obese, until he was arrested in April: $30
7/06Percentage of Republicans who viewed “Hillary Clinton” favorably in an April poll: 16
Percentage who viewed “Hillary Rodham Clinton” favorably: 23
4/07Percentage of G.O.P. House and Senate members in an April 2006 poll who believed humans are causing climate change: 23
7/07Percentage of workers at Russia’s retail markets that can be foreign-born, according to a law that took effect in April: 0
Portion of the stalls at these markets that are now empty: 1/4
2/08Number of checkpoints and barriers in the West Bank that were removed between April and October of last year: 80
Number of new checkpoints and barriers that were added: 115
6/08Portion of Barack Obama supporters who said in April they would not vote for Hillary Clinton if she became the nominee: 1/5