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Events
- 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople.
- 1250 - The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured.
- 1849 – Hungary becomes a republic.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
- 1868 – Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
- 1941 – Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
- 1943 – World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced by the German government.
- 1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
- 1958 – Van Cliburn is the first American to win the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
- 1970 – An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
Births
- 1570 - Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator (d. 1606)
- 1732 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
- 1743 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1897 - Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (d. 1917)
- 1924 - J. B. Stoner, American White activist and chairman of the National States Rights Party (d. 2005)
- 1932 – Orlando Letelier, Chilean politician (d. 1976)
- 1950 - Joseph Paul Franklin, racist serial killer
Deaths
- 1638 - Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader (b. 1579)
- 2005 - Wolfgang Droege, Canadian White Nationalist and founding leader of the Heritage Front (b. 1949)
