1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
1564 - Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.
1607 - English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliatory gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
1805 - First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
1923 - The Duke of York (later King George VI) weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
1933 - The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1945 - World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1954 - The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1960 - Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
1963 - In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
1965 - A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
1986 - A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
1989 - The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
2005 - Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
Famous Birthdays
121 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor
1575 - Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France
1648 - Peter II of Portugal
1782 - Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen consort of the French
1856 - Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1914 - James Rouse, real estate developer, urban planner, founder of The Rouse Company
1953 - Nancy Lenehan, actress
1960 - Roger Taylor, musician
1963 - Jet Li, martial artist and actor
1967 - Glenn Jacobs (Kane), wrestler
1974 - Ivana Milicevic, actress
1980 - Channing Tatum, actor
1985 - John Isner, tennis player
1987 - Jessica Lee Rose, actress
1991 - Ignacio Lores Varela, footballer
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