- 1607 - The British established an American colony at Cape Henry, Virginia. It was the first permanent English establishment in the Western Hemisphere.
- 1865 - John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry.
- 1921 - Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on radio in St. Louis, MO.
- 1937 - German planes attacked Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War for the Spanish nationalist government. This raid is considered one of the first to be attacks on a civilian population by a modern air force.
- 1982 - The British announced that Argentina had surrendered on South Georgia.
- 1986 - The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.
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