238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman Emperors.
871 – Æthelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.
1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
1638 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1713 – The Tuscarora War comes to an end with the fall of Fort Neoheroka, effectively opening up the interior of North Carolina to European colonization.
1739 – Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
1784 – The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram (Wat Phra Kaew), , commonly known in English as the Temple of the Emerald Buddha), on the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand. It is considered the sacred palladium of Thailand, upon which the safety of the country is said to depend.
1790 – Thomas Jefferson becomes the first Secretary of State under President George Washington.
1820: Commodore Stephen Decatur was mortally wounded in a duel with Captain James Barron at Bladensburg, Maryland. Criticism of Barron, while commanding USS Chesapeake when she was captured by HMS Leopard in 1807, led to the duel. Decatur later died at his home in on Lafayette Square. Wounded in the leg, Barron recovered. He died at Norfolk, Virginia, on 21 April 1851.
1829 – In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1849 – The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
1872 – Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.
1873 – A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
1894 – The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
1906 – The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris.
1912– The State of Bihar, India was formed out of the State of Bengal.
1916 – The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
1920 – Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
1939 – World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
1941: Two small service generators at Grand Coulee Dam went online for the first time, sending some 10,000 kilowatts of electricity into the Bonneville Power Administration’s transmission network. A crowd of 8,000 people attended the ceremony.
1942 – World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
1943 – World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
1945 – The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
1945 – The first U.S. rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere is launched.
1954 – Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
1954: Hudson's opened Northland Center in Southfield, Michigan, the first modern suburban shopping mall built in the United States. At the time, Northland Center was the world's largest shopping center.
1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
1963 – The Beatles ' first album, Please Please Me, is released in the United Kingdom.
1972 – The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1982 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
1984 – Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
1989 – Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player's skate accidentally slits his throat.
1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
1992 – Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.
1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
1995 – Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
1997 – Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
1997 – The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.
2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague, American Tom Fox.
2013 – At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
2014 – At least 35 people die in Balochistan, Pakistan, in a collision between a petrol tanker and two buses.
2014 – Oso mudslide: Forty-three people are killed in a mudflow near Oso, Washington.
2014 – At least 251 people die when a boat capsizes in Lake Albert.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Earliest day on which Easter Sunday can fall (last in 1818, will not happen again until 2285)
Traditional Western
Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double.
Edward, King of England, Martyr. Double.
Contemporary Western
Basil of Ancyra
Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen
Darerca of Ireland
Epaphroditus
Lea of Rome
Nicholas Owen
Paul of Narbonne
Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen
Darerca of Ireland
Epaphroditus
Lea of Rome
Nicholas Owen
Paul of Narbonne
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Jonathan Edwards (Lutheranism)
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Virgin-confessor Drosida (Drosis) of Antioch, daughter of Emperor Trajan,
and with her five Virgin-martyrs (104-117)
Martyrs Kalliniki and Vasilissa of Rome (252)
Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra, Priest of Ancyra (362)
Saint Isaac the Confessor, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (383)
and with her five Virgin-martyrs (104-117)
Martyrs Kalliniki and Vasilissa of Rome (252)
Hieromartyr Basil of Ancyra, Priest of Ancyra (362)
Saint Isaac the Confessor, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople (383)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Epaphroditus, by tradition the first Bishop of Terracina in Italy (1st c.)
Saint Paul, Bishop of Narbonne, Brittany (3rd c.)
Saint Lea of Rome, an aristocrat in Rome who on the death of her husband
entered the convent of St Marcella (384)
Saint Deogratius, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa (457)
Saint Octavian and Companions, Archdeacon of the Church in Carthage
in North Africa, martyred with several thousand companions under
the Arian Vandal King Hunneric (484)
Saint Saturninus and Companions, a group of ten martyrs in North Africa
Saint Trien (Trienan), a disciple of St Patrick and Abbot of Killelga in Ireland (5th c.)
Saint Darerca of Ireland, sister of St Patrick of Ireland (5th c.)
Saint Fáilbe mac Pípáin, the eighth Abbot of Iona in Scotland (680)
Saint Paul, Bishop of Narbonne, Brittany (3rd c.)
Saint Lea of Rome, an aristocrat in Rome who on the death of her husband
entered the convent of St Marcella (384)
Saint Deogratius, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa (457)
Saint Octavian and Companions, Archdeacon of the Church in Carthage
in North Africa, martyred with several thousand companions under
the Arian Vandal King Hunneric (484)
Saint Saturninus and Companions, a group of ten martyrs in North Africa
Saint Trien (Trienan), a disciple of St Patrick and Abbot of Killelga in Ireland (5th c.)
Saint Darerca of Ireland, sister of St Patrick of Ireland (5th c.)
Saint Fáilbe mac Pípáin, the eighth Abbot of Iona in Scotland (680)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Martyr Basil of Mangazea in Siberia, Wonderworker (1602)
New Monk-martyr Euthymius of Dimitsana and Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1814)
New Monk-martyr Euthymius of Dimitsana and Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1814)
New Martyrs and Confessors
Hieromartyr Basil (Zelentsov), Bishop of Prilutsk, Vicar of Poltava (1930)
New Confessor Schema-abbess Sophia (Grineva) of Kiev (1941), and her priest
Demetrius Ivanov (1934)
New Confessor Schema-abbess Sophia (Grineva) of Kiev (1941), and her priest
Demetrius Ivanov (1934)
Other commemorations
Commemoration of Maria Berushko of Brazil and eight students who died
trying to save people during a fire in their school (1986)
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