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.
1625 - Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1794 - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1846 - Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
1854 - Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
1899 - Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine-American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
1938 - Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
1941 - World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
1945 - World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1981 - The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
2002 - Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
2009 - A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.
Famous Birthdays
972 - King Robert II of France
1306 - Philip III of Navarre
1702 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
1785 - King Louis XVII of France
1839 - John Ballance, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1871 - Heinrich Mann, writer
1898 - Maria Rasputin, daughter of Grigori Rasputin
1912 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1931 - David Janssen, actor
1946 - Andy Bown, bass player and songwriter
1950 - Tony Banks, musician
1969 - Kevin Corrigan, actor
1970 - Princess Leila of Iran
1970 - Mariah Carey, singer and actress
1975 - Fergie, singer
1984 - Ben Franks, rugby player
1988 - Brenda Song, actress
1988 - Jessie J, singer
1992 - Pedro Obiang, footballer
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