428 - Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
837 - Halley's Comet and Earth experienced their closest approach to one another when their separating distance equalled 0.0342 AU (3.2 million miles).
879 - Louis III and Carloman II become joint Kings of the Western Franks.
1606 - The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
1710 - The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, enters into force in Great Britain.
1741 - War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
1809 - Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.
1821 - Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus (the Istanbul Strait)
1858 - After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
1864 - Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
1904 - British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law.
1912 - The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.
1941 - World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power.
1957 - The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
1959 - Akihito, Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko.
1970 - Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
1972 - Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
1992 - The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
1998 - The Good Friday Agreement was signed.
2009 - President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
2010 - Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński.
Famous Birthdays
401 - Theodosius II, Roman Emperor
1512 - James V of Scotland
1735 - Button Gwinnett, Signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
1783 - Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen Consort of Holland
1829 - William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army
1873 - Kyösti Kallio, 4th President of Finland
1936 - Bobbie Smith, singer
1959 - Davy Carton, singer-songwriter and guitarist
1960 - Katrina Leskanich, singer and musician
1972 - Ed Byrne, comedian
1979 - Sophie Ellis-Bextor, singer
1981 - Liz McClarnon, singer
1983 - Andrew Dost, guitarist and songwriter
1986 - Ben Torgersen, actor
1990 - Alex Pettyfer, actor
1991 - A.J. Michalka, actress, model, and singer
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