1471: The Earl of Warwick, who fought on both sides in the War of the Roses, is killed at the Battle of Barnet with the defeat of the Lancastrians.
1543: Bartoleme Ferrelo returns to Spain after discovering a large bay in the New World (San Francisco).
1775: The first abolitionist society in United States is organized in Philadelphia.
1793: A royalist rebellion in Santo Domingo is crushed by French republican troops.
1828: The first edition of Noah Webster’s dictionary is published.
1860: The first Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco with mail originating in St. Joseph, Missouri.
1865: President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
1894: Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope is shown to the public for the first time.
1900: The World Exposition opens in Paris.
1912: The passenger liner Titanic–deemed unsinkable–strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and begins to sink. The ship will go under the next day with a loss of 1,500 lives.
1931: King Alfonso XIII of Spain is overthrown.
1945: American B-29 bombers’s damage the Imperial Palace during firebombing raid over Tokyo.
1953: The Viet Minh invade Laos with 40,00 troops in their war against French colonial forces.
1959: The Taft Memorial Bell Tower is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1961: The first live broadcast is televised from the Soviet Union.
1969: The first major league baseball game is played in Montreal, Canada.
1981: America’s first space shuttle, Columbia, returns to Earth.
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