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Events
- 1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States.
- 1912 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic, after hitting an iceberg two and a half hours earlier, the previous day.
- 1941 – In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack industrial facilities in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.
Births
- 1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (d. 1519)
- 1684 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
- 1873 - Antonín Švehla, Czech politician (d. 1933)
- 1889 - A. Philip Randolph, Civil Rights agitator (d. 1979)
- 1892 - Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1975)
- 1896 - Robert Henry Best, American broadcaster for Germany during World War II (d. 1952)
- 1959 - Roberto Fiore, leader of Italian neofascist movement Forza Nuova.
Deaths
- 1053 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex
- 1865 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
- 1945 - Hermann Florstedt, NSDAP Official (b. 1895)
- 1976 - Gerald L.K. Smith, Christian nationalist leader (b. 1898)
- 1980 – Jean-Paul Sarte, French Marxist philosopher (b. 1905)
- 1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925)
