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Events
- 1306 - Robert The Bruce crowned King of Scotland at Scone.
- 1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island.
- 1613 - First English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
- 1794 - The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
- 1814 - War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
- 1836 - Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre - Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
- 1851 - First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley.
- 1854 - Crimean War: United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
- 1918 - Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
- 1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
- 1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
- 1970 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.
- 1993 - Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
Births
- 972 - King Robert II of France (d. 1031)
- 1871 - Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950)
- 1886 - Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
- 1913 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (d. 1945)
Deaths
- 1555 - William Hunter, Protestant martyr
- 1968 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934)
