John Madden 1936 - Football player, coach, sports personality-analyst
- 1849 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. He sold the rights for $100.
- 1912 - The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England.
- 1932 - Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany with 19 million votes. Adolf Hitler came in second with 13 million votes.
- 1941 - In World War II, U.S. troops occupied Greenland to prevent Nazi infiltration.
- 1963 - 129 people died when the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher failed to surface off Cape Cod, MA.
- 2000 - Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) reported irregularities in the voting in Georgia's presidential election on April 9. President Eduard Shevardnadze was reelected to a new five-year term.
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