421 - Venice is founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend.
1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6th.
1306 - Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
1634 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
1655 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1807 - The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
1821 - (Julian Calendar) Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually began since 23rd February 1821. The date was chosen in the early years of the Greek state so that it falls on the day of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, strengthening the ties between the Greek Orthodox Church and the newly-found state.
1917 - The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
1918 - The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
1941 - The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
1949 - The extensive deportation campaign known as March deportation is conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to force collectivisation by way of terror. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
1957 - The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
1965 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1969 - During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel
1971 - The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
1988 - The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
1992 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
2006 - Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
Famous Birthdays
1252 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia
1259 - Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor
1297 - Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor
1347 - St. Catherine of Siena T.O.S.D, saint
1541 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
1593 - St Jean de Brébeuf, Jesuit missionary and saint
1782 - Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples
1886 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople
1911 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald
1921 - Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Queen of Yugoslavia
1937 - Tom Monaghan, businessman, founder of Domino's Pizza
1942 - Aretha Franklin, singer
1947 - Elton John, singer and songwriter
1951 - Maizie Williams, singer
1962 - Marcia Cross, actress
1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker, actress
1978 - Gennaro Delvecchio, footballer
1989 - Aly Michalka, actress and singer
1990 - Alexander Esswein, footballer
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