1478: Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo and kill Giuliano de’Medici.
1514: Copernicus makes his first observations of Saturn.
1564: William Shakespeare is baptized.
1607: The British establish a colony at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman.
1915: Second Lieutenant Rhodes-Moorhouse becomes the first airman to win the Victoria Cross after conducting a successful bombing raid.
1929: The first non-stop flight from England to India is completed.
1931: New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits a home run but is called out for passing a runner, the mistake ultimately costs him the home run record.
1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes.
1941: The first organ is played at a baseball stadium in Chicago.
1968: Students seize the administration building at Ohio State University.
1983: The Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 1,200 for first time.
1986: The world’s worst nuclear disaster occurs at the Chernobyl power plant in the Soviet Union.
1994: Nelson Mandela wins the presidency in South Africa’s first multiracial elections.
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