1071 Five centuries of Byzantine rule in Italy end April 16 as Bari falls to Robert Guiscard after a 3-year Norman siege

1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College

1777 Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout Brits

1789 George Washington heads for first presidential inauguration

1849 M DeGasparis discovers the 10th asteroid, Hygeia [or 0412]

1849 The opera "Il Profeta" is produced (Paris)

1854 San Salvador destroyed by earthquake

1854 Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die

1862 District of Columbia abolishes slavery

1862 Pres Davis approves conscription act for white males between 18-35

1862 Slavery abolished in District of Columbia

1863 Union gunboats pass Confederate batteries at Vicksburg

1866 Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo & Co office explodes

1868 Louisiana voters approve new constitution

1869 Ebenezer Bassett, first US Negro diplomat, begins service in Haiti

1906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #597 Bandusia

1908 Natural Bridges National Monument established

1912 Harriet Quimby becomes first woman pilot to cross the English Channel

1917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution

1922 Annie Oakley shot 100 clay targets in a row, a women's record

1924 Navy commences relief operations in Mississippi Valley floods, lasting until 16 June

1926 Book of the Month Club sends out its first selections "Lolly Willowes" & "Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend Warner

1935 The first radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"

1945 US troops enter Nuremberg, Germany, during WW II

1946 US launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km alt

1947 Act of Congress gives Navy Nurse Corps members commissioned rank

1947 HMCS Esquimalt (RCN- minesweeper) torpedoed off Halifax

1947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (NYC)

1947 Massive explosion & fire kills 500 in Texas City, Tx

1949 Toronto Maple Leafs sweep Detroit Red Wings for the Stanley Cup

1953 Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup

1954 Detroit Red Wings beat Mont Canadiens 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup

1957 Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup

1958 Arnold Palmer wins his first Masters golf tournament

1959 Helicopters from USS Edisto begin rescue operations in Montevideo, Uruguay. By 26 April they had carried 277 flood victims to safety.

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