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- 0467 Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
- 1204 4th Crusade sacks Constantinople
- 1606 England adopts the Union Jack as its flag
- 1606 The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
- 1633 The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.
- 1770 Townsend Acts repealed
- 1776 Halifax resolution for independence adopted by North Carolina
- 1776 North Carolina's Provincial Congress authorized its delegates to the Second Continental Congress to vote for independence by issuing the Halifax Resolves.
- 1787 Philadelphia's Free African Society forms
- 1811 First US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA
- 1820 Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organisation to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
- 1838 Rebel Col. Samuel Lount and Captain Peter Matthews publicly hanged for treason and sedition during the Rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada
- 1859 Hibernia Savings and Loan Society of SF incorporates
- 1861 American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1861 Fort Sumter, SC is shelled by Confederacy, starting the Civil War
- 1862 James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, GA
- 1864 American Civil War: Fort Pillow massacre -- Confederate forces under General Nathan Bedford Forrest kill most of the African American soldiers who had surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
- 1864 Confederate Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tn
- 1865 American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
- 1869 North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law
- 1876 Founding of Beaver Steamship Line, formerly the Canadian Shipping Co., with three new iron-screw steamers to replace the old sailing ships; the Montreal to Liverpool service is sold to the CPR in 1903, and is the origin of CP Ships.
- 1877 British annex Transvaal, in South Africa
- 1877 The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
- 1898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in SF Bay to Navy
- 1905 Hippodrome arena opens (NYC)
- 1908 Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts
- 1909 Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens
- 1911 A non-stop London-Paris flight takes 3h56m the first time
- 1911 LT Theodore Ellyson qualifies as first naval aviator
- 1917 World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans. It is also considered a major event in Canadian history for the primary role Canadian forces played in the attack.
- 1927 April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the CPC members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front (China).
- 1930 Visitor posting - Professor Michael Johnson is born
- 1934 Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mt Washington, NH, 231 mph
- 1934 The Auto-Lite Strike, which culminated in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers, began.
- 1934 The strongest surface wind gust in the world, 231 mph, was measured by the staff of the Mount Washington Observatory on the summit of Mount Washington
- 1934 Winds gust to 231 MPH on Mount Washington NH
- 1935 A Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar.
- 1935 First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
- 1937 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at the British Thomson-Houston factory in Rugby, England.
- 1938 US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses (NY)
- 1939 G Kulin discovers asteroid #1489 Attila
- 1945 General Eisenhower is shown the first cave where the Nazis hoarded $250 million in captured treasures, one half-mile under the earth's surface.
- 1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry S. Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President of the United States.
- 1946 Syria gains independence from France
- 1949 Visitor posting - Linda D. Nelson McNeil was born
- 1951 Huge forest fire accidentally started in Friesach Austria by two brothers aged 9 and 11.
- 1954 Billy Haley records "Rock Around the Clock"
- 1954 Joe Turner releases "Shake, Rattle and Roll"
- 1955 Salk polio vaccine safe and effective;
- 1955 The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
- 1957 Visitor posting - Most wonderful wife in the world, Annie Tieche Jenkins is born - USA
- 1961 Human spaceflight: Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
- 1961 Ray Charles wins 4 Grammys
- 1961 Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes first person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1) I have a book issued by the USSR on his flight
- 1962 U.S. Navy demonstrates new landing craft with retractable hydrofoils, LCVP (H)
- 1962 Visitor posting - The most caring mother in the world was born. Angela (Wilson) Lippere
- 1963 Beatles "From Me to You" is released in UK
- 1963 Birmingham police use dogs and cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators
- 1963 The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits. Although both vessels are severely damaged both can make it to port.
- 1966 Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck
- 1968 Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.
- 1969 Simon and Garfunkel releases "Boxer"
- 1970 Visitor posting - slamo de samo was born......shooooottttttsss - USA
- 1973 Visitor posting - Stephanie born!! - USA
- 1975 Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved"
- 1975 Operation Eagle Pull evacuation from Cambodia
- 1979 Soyuz 33 returns to Earth
- 1980 Number one hit on UK music charts - Detroit Spinners - Working My Way Back To You - Forgive Me Girl
- 1980 Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'etat, ending over 130 years of democratic presidential succession in that country.
- 1980 Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" by dipping his artificial leg into the Atlantic at St. John's, Newfoundland.
- 1981 First launching of re-useable Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-1) with all Navy crew. CAPT John W. Young, USN (Ret.) commanded, while LCDR Robert L. Crippen, USN was the pilot. Mission duration was 2 days, 6 hours, and 20 minutes. Sixteen of the shuttle's heat-shielding silicon tiles were lost and 148 damaged during reentry.
- 1981 Human spaceflight: The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.
- 1982 3 CBS employees shot to death in NYC parking lot
- 1982 Ottawa bans imports from Argentina, to protest invasion of Falkland Islands.
- 1983 Harold Washington becomes Chicago's first black mayor
- 1984 Visitor posting - Tiffany Danielle Swyden was born - USA
- 1985 16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn
- 1985 Visitor posting - Jason T. Doucet was born
- 1985 US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow games
- 1987 Texaco files for brankruptcy
- 1989 Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through
- 1990 Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers
- 1990 opening of Jim Gary's Twentieth Century Dinosaurs exhibition, the work of the only living sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
- 1991 2,500th episode of Entertainment Tonight airs
- 1991 US announces closing of 31 major US military bases
- 1992 Earthquake rocks Germany
- 1992 Euro Disney opens in Marne-la-Vallee France
- 1992 Lynn Gunther of Calif threatens to blow herself up in front of UN
- 1992 Trump Shuttle becomes US Air Shuttle
- 1993 Visitor posting - tyler jay thompson was born. :] - USA
- 1993 Aircraft from USS Theodore Roosevelt and NATO forces begin enforcing the no-fly zone over the Bosnia in Operation Deny Flight
- 1994 Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Leanna is born and is going to do somthing worth putting in the history books.
- 1998 An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale near the town of Bovec.
- 1998 In Austria a 6.0 earthquake resulted in the death of one person of a heart attack at Bovec, Slovenia.
- 1999 American President Bill Clinton was cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in the Paula Jones sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
- 2002 Pedro Carmona becomes interim President of Venezuela during the Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002, a military coup against Hugo Chvez.
- 2007 The Kremlin vetos an investigation into the death of Yuri Gagarin, who was the first man in space.
- 2009 Visitor posting - Easter Sunday and my birthday yay!
- 2009 Visitor posting - 'Misi is grateful to God for splendid and wonderful years ahead
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