14th April 2014 - 276 female students, who were sitting their final exams in the village of Chibook, Nigeria were abducted. Most are still missing.

2nd April 1932 - Charles Lindbergh left $50,000 in a New York City cemetery in hope of regaining his kidnapped son, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Sadly the infant was later found dead. Bruno Hauptmann was convicted of kidnapping and murder and executed by electrocution on April 3, 1936.