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Events
- 1607 – English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
- 1788 - Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
- 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 reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
- 1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia.
- 1907 - Opening of the Jamestown Exposition.
- 1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
- 1933 - The Gestapo, the official police force of National Socialist Germany, is established.
- 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
- 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.
Births
- 121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
- 570 - Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20.
- 1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (d. 1616)
- 1711 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher (d. 1776)
- 1785 – John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (d. 1851)
- 1812 – Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887)
- 1894 - Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy leader, Prisoner of Peace (d. 1987)
- 1896 - Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941)
- 1916 - Robert Stuart, Jr. – diplomat, businessman, and founder of the America First Committee (d. 2014)
Deaths
- 1865 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (shot) (b. 1838)
- 1913 - Mary Phagan, child laborer and murder victim of Leo Frank (b. 1899)
- 1945 - Sigmund Rascher, WWII German doctor (b. 1909)
- 1966 - Earnest Sevier Cox, author and white separatist (b. 1880)
- 2007 – Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (b. 1921)
