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- 0043 BC - Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Although Antony fails to capture Mutina, Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly afterwards.
- 0753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome (traditional).
- 1509 Henry VIII ascends the throne of England (unofficially) at the death of his father, Henry VII
- 1600 First date in James Clavell's novel Shogun (OS)
- 1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
- 1729 Sophia Augusta Frederica of Anhalt-Zerbst born. She later ruled Russia under the name Catherine II.
- 1789 John Adams sworn in as first US VP (9 days before Washington)
- 1792 Tiradentes, a revolutionary who was leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged and quartered.
- 1828 Noah Webster publishes first American dictionary
- 1836 Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from M‚xico
- 1836 Texas Revolution: Battle of San Jacinto Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna.
- 1855 First train crosses Miss River's first bridge, Rock Is Ill-Davenport Ia
- 1856 The first rail train to pass over the mighty Mississippi River between Davenport, Iowa and Rock Island, IL made its journey across a newly completed bridge between the two rail centers.
- 1856 The first railroad bridge across Mississippi completed
- 1857 A Douglas patents the bustle
- 1861 USS Saratoga captures slaver, Nightingale.
- 1862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co
- 1863 Bah'u'llh declares his mission as "He whom God shall make manifest". Considered the founder of the Bah' Faith.
- 1863 Declaration of Bah 'u'll h; Bah '¡ Feast of Ridv n (Jalƒl 13, 20)
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington
- 1878 The ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia
- 1892 Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis Mo
- 1892 The first buffalo born in Golden Gate Park
- 1894 Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jrgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
- 1898 Phillies' pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on first at bat
- 1898 Spanish-American War begins
- 1898 Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date.
- 1898 U.S. at war against Spain.
- 1901 L Carnera discovers asteroid #470 Kilia
- 1906 Commander Robert Peary discovered supposed Arctic Continent did not exist.
- 1908 Frederick A Cook claims to reach North Pole (NOT)
- 1910 Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens], author, dies in Redding Conn
- 1914 US marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico, stay 6 months
- 1917 Foundation of Imperial War Graves Commission, later Commonwealth War Graves Commission The purpose of the commission was to erect and maintain war memorials and cemeteries
- 1918 "Red" Baron Manfred von Richtofen, killed in WW I
- 1918 World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France.
- 1921 Ottawa Senators beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
- 1925 Chuvash Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Chuvash ASSR
- 1930 A fire at a penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, kills 320 people.
- 1930 Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 320
- 1940 The first $64 Question, "Take It or Leave It", on CBS Radio
- 1944 Women in France receive the right to vote.
- 1945 World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
- 1951 Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup
- 1952 BOAC begins first passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
- 1952 Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
- 1954 Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of USSR
- 1954 USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam
- 1956 Visitor posting - Charles Lee "Pappy" Snowden was born.
- 1959 Alf Dean using a rod & reel hooks a 2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark
- 1960 Brasilia becomes the capital of Brazil
- 1960 Braslia, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 9:30 am the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
- 1960 Founding of the Orthodox Bah' Faith in Washington, DC.
- 1961 French army revolts in Algeria
- 1961 James Melton opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57
- 1961 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,000 m
- 1962 Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington (think Space Needle)
- 1962 Frederick Handley Page designer of first big airplane (40 seats), dies
- 1962 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the U.S. since World War II. [1]
- 1963 Beatles meet Rolling Stones for first time
- 1963 The Beatles and The Rolling Stones met for the first time at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, England
- 1963 The Universal House of Justice of the Bah' Faith is elected for the first time.
- 1965 The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
- 1966 Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica
- 1966 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
- 1967 A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'tat, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
- 1967 Dodgers first rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games)
- 1967 Military coup in Greece
- 1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in NYC
- 1968 Toby Halicki car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt
- 1969 Record 1,152 starters compete in Boston Marathon
- 1970 Canadian Pacific unveils Canada's first double-deck passenger train comprising nine air-conditioned cars built by Canadian Vickers Limited at a cost of $2.8 million. The cars went into operation April 27 on the Montreal Lakeshore suburban service.
- 1970 The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia
- 1971 Edmund Lowe actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81
- 1972 John Young & Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16)
- 1972 Moonwalk in the Descartes Highlands by CAPT John W. Young, USN Commander of Apollo 16. He was the ninth man to walk on the moon. LCDR Thomas K. Mattingly II, USN was the Command Module Pilot. During the 11 day, 1 hour and 51 minute mission, 213 lbs. of lunar material was collected. Recovery by HC-1 helicopters from USS Ticonderoga (CVS-14)
- 1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
- 1973 Number one hit on UK music charts - Dawn featuring Tony Orlando - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree
- 1975 Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years
- 1975 Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
- 1976 A Cadillac convertible, the"last" American-made rag-top automobile, rolled off the assembly line at GM’s Cadillac production facility in Detroit, MI. This ended a tradition that began in 1916.
- 1976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing
- 1977 Broadway play "Annie" opens, first of 2,377 performances
- 1982 Joe Sawyer actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80
- 1982 Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.
- 1983 Soyuz T-8 is launched [04-20?]
- 1983 Walter Slezak actor, commits suicide at his NY home at 80
- 1984 "Nightline" reverts back from 1 hour to « hour
- 1984 After 37 weeks, "Thriller" is knocked off as top album by "Footloose"
- 1984 Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph
- 1986 Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing
- 1987 The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, killing 106 people.
- 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
- 1990 "Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue" shown on all 4 TV networks
- 1990 National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards
- 1992 "High Rollers" opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway
- 1993 Visitor posting - Lamont Robert Davon Tillery was born at 8;54 PM
- 1994 The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
- 2011 In the Movie "Terminator" Skynet starts nuclear war.
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