1969 First major league baseball game outside US played in Montreal, Canada

1969 Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College

1969 Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540

1969 VQ-1 aircraft shot down by North Korean aircraft over Sea of Japan

1971 Fort Point, SF dedicated as a national historic site

1974 Gary Player wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament

1974 The Navy donated the ASW carrier Yorktown to Charleston, South Carolina for the city's National Naval Museum.

1978 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #2364 Seillier

1980 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2759 Idomeneus & #2830 Greenwich

1981 Space Shuttle-Columbia 1-returns to Earth

1982 M Watt discovers asteroid #2675 Tolkien

1986 US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya

1988 USS Samuel B. Roberts struck Iranian mine off Qatar

1989 First Navy ship arrives on scene to assist in Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup

1992 "Guys & Dolls" opens at Martin Beck theater on Broadway

1992 UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc

1992 UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect

1865 John Wiles Booth murders president Lincoln "But apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"

1912 The liner 'Titanic' strikes an ice berg at 11.40pm, and begins to sink

1931 Spain becomes a republic with the overthrow of King Alfonso XIII... Black shirt sales on the rise

1981 The first space shuttle, Columbia, is successfully launched

1904 The birth of John Gielgud, British actor

1907 The birth of Francois Duvalier, Dictator of Haiti

1925 The birth of Rod Steiger, American film actor

1941 The birth of Julie Christie, American actress

2007 Retired chess champion Garry Kasparov is detained in Moscow for participating in a banned mar. United States President George W. Bush with Virginia Tech Student Government Association President James Tyger after his speech at the school's convocation.apr 16 - 32 people are killed in the Virginia Tech massacre on the premises of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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