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- 1467 The miraculous image of Our Lady of Good Counsel appears in Genazzano, Italy.
- 1478 Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo & kill Giuliano de'Medici
- 1478 The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
- 1514 Copernicus makes his first observations of Saturn
- 1558 Jean Fran‡ois Fernel French physician, dies
- 1564 William Shakespeare baptized
- 1607 English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
- 1607 The first British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va
- 1777 Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from NY to Ct rallying her fathers militia
- 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious migrs of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
- 1803 Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France
- 1805 United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
- 1819 Odd Fellows Lodge established
- 1860 Founding of the Second Battalion Volunteer Militia Rifles of Canada from six independent militia units; later the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, oldest regiment in the Canadian Armed Forces.
- 1861 G Schiaparelli discovers asteroid #69 Hesperia
- 1865 Gen Joseph E Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee, at Durham, NC
- 1865 John Wilkes Booth assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green, VA
- 1865 Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia.
- 1875 First scheduled train over the Prince Edward Island Railway from Charlottetown to Georgetown.
- 1876 J Perrotin discovers asteroid #163 Erigone
- 1887 Cardston, Alberta Joseph Ora Card and a small group of Mormons found the community that will become Cardston, Alberta;
- 1887 Huntsville Electric Co established to sell electricity
- 1900 On a Farm in Ohio Charles Richter born, he developed the Richter scale for measuring earthquakes
- 1907 Jamestown, Va Tercentenary Exposition opens
- 1912 The first homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox)
- 1913 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF
- 1920 H Shapley & H.D. Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae
- 1921 U.S. Naval Detachment left Yugoslavia after administering area around Spalato for 2 years to guarantee transfer of area from Austria to new country
- 1925 Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
- 1926 Karachai Autonomous Region established in RSFSR (until 1943)
- 1929 The first non-stop England to India flight lands
- 1931 Lou Gehrig hits a HR but is called out for passing a runner, the mistake costs him AL home run crown; he & Babe Ruth tie for season
- 1933 The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
- 1935 Frank Boucher is given the NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years
- 1937 German-made planes destroy Basque town of Guernica in Spain
- 1937 Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
- 1938 Mandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the Reich, valued Jewish property is to be seized within Greater Germany at a value of approximately eight billion Reichmarks.
- 1942 Colliery explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
- 1942 The worst mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria.
- 1944 The first B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
- 1946 Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
- 1948 The XP-86 prototype for the Sabre Jet first "officially" breaks the sound barrier. The first operational F-86A Sabres entered service in May of the same year
- 1950 Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run
- 1952 US minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp," kills 176
- 1952 USS Hobson sinks after colliding with USS Wasp; 176 lives lost
- 1954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
- 1954 The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
- 1956 Edward Arnold actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 66
- 1956 First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
- 1957 Jamestown, Va 350th Anniversary Festival opens
- 1961 Roger Maris' first of 61 homers that year
- 1962 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
- 1962 US/UK launch Ariel; first international payload
- 1963 In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
- 1964 Tanganyika & Zanzibar unite to form Tanzania (Tanzanian Union Day)
- 1964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
- 1965 In Ottawa Ontario, the Federal budget includes 10% cut in personal income tax. (we don't see another for a long long long time)
- 1968 Students seize administration building at Ohio State
- 1968 US underground nuclear test, "Boxcar", 1 megaton device
- 1970 Gypsy Rose Lee stripper/actress (Pruitts of S Hampton), dies at 56
- 1971 Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hrs
- 1971 Visitor posting - Tony Knox was born in Ashington England
- 1971 SF lightship replaced by automatic buoy
- 1973 Irene Ryan actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69
- 1973 Visitor posting - Ramesh Ganeshan born in Bangalore, India!!! My pet is a planet named EARTH!!! - India
- 1974 Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
- 1976 Allan Jackson newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand), dies at 60
- 1976 Neil McCallum actor (Pete-Saber of London), dies at 45
- 1977 NY's famed disco Studio 54 opens
- 1978 Visitor posting - First Grandson Born - USA
- 1980 Iran begins scattering US hostages from the US Embassy
- 1980 Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'
- 1980 Number one hit on UK music charts - Blondie - Call Me
- 1980 Visitor posting - April 26, 1980 I had the pleasure of meeting the True Spirit of GOD in the form of a BULL and then of a MAN. - Canada [email protected]
- 1981 Jim Davis actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies at 65
- 1981 Madge Evans TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 71
- 1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on S Georgia near Falkland Island
- 1982 Dame Cella Johnson British actress, dies of a stroke at 73
- 1982 Rod Stewart is mugged, the gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche
- 1983 Bronislaw Kaper composer, dies at 81
- 1983 Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1200 for first time
- 1983 Vaughn Taylor actor (Johnny Jupiter), dies at 72
- 1984 Count Basie jazz piano great, dies at 78
- 1984 Henry Rowland actor, dies at 70
- 1984 Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens
- 1984 May McAvoy actress, dies at 82 after a heart attack
- 1984 Pres Reagan visits China
- 1986 Broderick Crawford actor (Highway Patrol), dies at 74
- 1986 In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
- 1986 Kashmir-India Border Region a 5.5 earthquake resulted in six people killed, about 30 injured and 85 percent of the houses damaged in the Dharmsala, India area
- 1986 Maria Shriver & Arnold Schwarzenegger marry
- 1986 Worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl USSR, 31 die
- 1988 TNN Viewers choice awards-Randy Travis wins in 5 categories
- 1989 AT&T announces NJ's 201 area code will split into 908 & 201
- 1989 Lucille Ball comedienne/actress dies at 78 of a massive heart attack
- 1989 Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 MPH in 30 mile zone in Albany
- 1990 126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China
- 1990 Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal & twists his ankle
- 1990 In the Qinghai Province, Chinaa 6.9 quake resulted in at least 126 people killed, many injured, extensive damage and landslides in the Gonghe-Xinghai area
- 1990 NY court of appeals ends 2« year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of the case
- 1991 "Dinosaurs" premiers on ABC-TV
- 1991 Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
- 1991 Vice-Admiral Charles Thomas resigns, warns defense cuts will threaten sovereignty and endanger lives of military personnel
- 1992 "Jelly's Last Jam" opens at Virginia theater on Broadway
- 1992 "Who's The Boss," final episode after 8 years
- 1992 Final episode of "Growing Pains" airs
- 1992 In Simi Valley, California, the LAPD police officers accused of excessive force in their severe beating of Rodney King, are found "not guilty". The verdict results in several days of riots in L.A. and smaller riots around the country.
- 1994 A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264.
- 1994 Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
- 1995 Visitor posting - On 1995 at 8:36 Shakedra Daniels was born!!!!!!!! - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - Grason Passmore was born. - USA
- 2005 Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
- 2007 Queen's Pier was officially closed by the Hong Kong Government, after a bitter struggle by conservationist, in order to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kong's Central district
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