87 BC – Crown Prince Fuling, later Emperor Zhao of Han, is named as Emperor Wu of Han's successor and heir to the throne. Emperor Wu dies two days later.
1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter.
1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1775: Thomas Jefferson is elected a Virginia delegate to the second Continental Congress. Jefferson quickly established himself in the Continental Congress with the publication of his paper entitled A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Throughout the next year, Jefferson published several more papers, most notably Drafts and Notes on the Virginia Constitution. History
1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1809 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
1812 – Hugh McGary Jr. establishes what is now Evansville, Indiana on a bend in the Ohio River.
1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1829: President Andrew Jackson defies Washington society matrons and appoints scandal-plagued John Eaton as his secretary of war. History
1835 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army kills more than 400 Republic of Texas soldier-prisoners and their commander, James Fannin at Goliad, Texas. History
1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
1865: President Abraham Lincoln meets with Union generals Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman at City Point, Virginia, to plot the last stages of the Civil War. History
1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of Teetotalism by the Salvation Army.
1884 – Cincinnati riots of 1884: A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army for the last time, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
1890 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
1910 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
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1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
1918: In the wake of Russia's withdrawal from World War I and its acceptance of the humiliating peace terms set by the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk, the Balkan republic of Romania annexes Bessarabia, a strategically important area of land located on its eastern border and bounded on the south by the Danube River and the mouth of the Black Sea. History
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
1939: The University of Oregon defeats Ohio State University 46–33 to win the first-ever NCAA men’s basketball tournament. For the first 12 years of the men’s tournament, only eight teams were invited to participate. That number grew steadily until a 65-team tournament format was unveiled in 2001. History
1941 – World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands: The battle in the Aleutian Islands begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
1945: In a last-ditch effort to deploy their remaining V-2 missiles against the Allies, the Germans launch their long-range rockets from their only remaining launch site, in the Netherlands. Almost 200 civilians in England and Belgium were added to the V-2 casualty toll. History
1948 – The Second Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea is convened.
1958 – Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev replaced Nicolay Bulganin as Soviet premier, becoming the first leader since Joseph Stalin to simultaneously hold the USSR's two top offices. History
1963 – Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
1964 – Good Friday earthquake: A magnitude 9.2 megathrust earthquake, the most powerful recorded in North American history, and the second most powerful recorded in world history, strikes South Central Alaska, inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage and creating a deadly tsunami. Some 139 people were killed and thousands injured. History
1965: Following several days of consultations with the Cambodian government, South Vietnamese troops, supported by artillery and air strikes, launched their first major military operation into Cambodia. The South Vietnamese encountered a 300-man Viet Cong force in the Kandal province and reported killing 53 communist soldiers. Two teams of U.S. helicopter gunships took part in the action. Three South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and seven wounded. History
1973: The White House announced that, at the request of Cambodian President Lon Nol, the bombing of Cambodia would continue until communist forces ceased military operations and agreed to a cease-fire. History
1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
1976: The Kingdome opened in Seattle.
1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1980 – After 123 years of inactivity, Mount St. Helens begins to erupt.
1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.
1990 – The U.S. government begins the operation of TV Marti, an anti-Castro propaganda network broadcasting television programs into communist Cuba. The project marked yet another failed attempt to undermine the regime of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. History
1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
1999 – Kosovo War: Yugoslav SAM downed F117A, the first and only kill of the stealth aircraft.
2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one and injures 71.
2002 – Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
2002 – Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors and the injury of 19 others.
2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2009 – The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
2009 – A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.
2013 – A 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes near Taipei, Taiwan, injuring 97 people.
2013 – Canada becomes the first country to announce its intention to withdraw from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
2014 – Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
2015 – Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos on Mount Athos:
"Glykophylousa" ("Sweet-kissing"), and
"Of the Akathist"
Repose of Elder Augustine of Philotheou, Mt. Athos (1965)
1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
1976: The Kingdome opened in Seattle.
1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1980 – After 123 years of inactivity, Mount St. Helens begins to erupt.
1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.
1990 – The U.S. government begins the operation of TV Marti, an anti-Castro propaganda network broadcasting television programs into communist Cuba. The project marked yet another failed attempt to undermine the regime of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. History
1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
1999 – Kosovo War: Yugoslav SAM downed F117A, the first and only kill of the stealth aircraft.
2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one and injures 71.
2002 – Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
2002 – Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors and the injury of 19 others.
2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2009 – The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
2009 – A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.
2013 – A 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes near Taipei, Taiwan, injuring 97 people.
2013 – Canada becomes the first country to announce its intention to withdraw from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
2014 – Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
2015 – Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
John of Damascus, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church Double
Contemporary Western
Alexander, a Pannonian soldier, martyred in 3rd century.
Amador of Portugal
Augusta of Treviso
Gelasius
John of Egypt
Philetus
Romulus of Nîmes, a Benedictine abbot, martyred c. 730.
Rupert of Salzburg
Zanitas and Lazarus of Persia
Amador of Portugal
Augusta of Treviso
Gelasius
John of Egypt
Philetus
Romulus of Nîmes, a Benedictine abbot, martyred c. 730.
Rupert of Salzburg
Zanitas and Lazarus of Persia
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Charles Henry Brent (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Prophet Hanani (Ananias) - (II Chronicles 16:7-10)
Martyrs Philetas the Senator, his wife Lydia, their sons Macedon and Theoprepides,
and Amphilochius, an officer in the army, with Chronidas, a notary (c. 121)
Venerable Matrona of Thessalonica the Confessor (3rd-4th c.)
Martyrs Baruch and John, by the sword
Venerable Eutychios, monastic
Venerable Cyricus (Quiricus) of Apros, in Thrace, monastic
Martyrs Manuel and Theodosius (304)
Saint John the Clairvoyant, anchorite of Lycopolis, Egypt (394)
Saint Paphnutius of Thebes, disciple of Saint Anthony the Great (4th c.)
Saint Paul the Standard-bearer, Bishop of Corinth (c. 925)
Martyrs Philetas the Senator, his wife Lydia, their sons Macedon and Theoprepides,
and Amphilochius, an officer in the army, with Chronidas, a notary (c. 121)
Venerable Matrona of Thessalonica the Confessor (3rd-4th c.)
Martyrs Baruch and John, by the sword
Venerable Eutychios, monastic
Venerable Cyricus (Quiricus) of Apros, in Thrace, monastic
Martyrs Manuel and Theodosius (304)
Saint John the Clairvoyant, anchorite of Lycopolis, Egypt (394)
Saint Paphnutius of Thebes, disciple of Saint Anthony the Great (4th c.)
Saint Paul the Standard-bearer, Bishop of Corinth (c. 925)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Augusta, daughter of the Teuton Duke of Friuli, martyred by her father,
venerated in Serravalle near Treviso (5th c.)
Saint Amator (Amador), a hermit to whom several churches are dedicated in Portugal
Saint Rupert of Salzburg, Bishop of Salzburg (718)
Saint Romulus, Abbot of St Baudilius near Nîmes in France (c. 730)
Saint Suairlech, first Bishop of Fore in Westmeath, Ireland, from c. 735-750 (c. 750)
Saint Alkelda (Alkeld, Athilda), martyred by the Danes (10th c.)
venerated in Serravalle near Treviso (5th c.)
Saint Amator (Amador), a hermit to whom several churches are dedicated in Portugal
Saint Rupert of Salzburg, Bishop of Salzburg (718)
Saint Romulus, Abbot of St Baudilius near Nîmes in France (c. 730)
Saint Suairlech, first Bishop of Fore in Westmeath, Ireland, from c. 735-750 (c. 750)
Saint Alkelda (Alkeld, Athilda), martyred by the Danes (10th c.)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Ephraim of Rostov (1454)
Saint Alexander, Abbot of Voche, near Galich (16th c.)
Saint Anthony (Stakhovsky), Metropolitan of Tobolsk in Siberia (1740)
Saint Ambrose (Khelaia) the Confessor, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (1927)
Saint Alexander, Abbot of Voche, near Galich (16th c.)
Saint Anthony (Stakhovsky), Metropolitan of Tobolsk in Siberia (1740)
Saint Ambrose (Khelaia) the Confessor, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (1927)
Other commemorations
"Glykophylousa" ("Sweet-kissing"), and
"Of the Akathist"
Repose of Elder Augustine of Philotheou, Mt. Athos (1965)
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