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1966  Soviet Liner Alexandr Pushkin leaves Leningrad for Montreal as the USSR launches North Atlantic passenger service.   

1967  Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at 44.   

1970  Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon.   

1970  The American spacecraft Apollo 13, enroute to the Moon, has an onboard explosion.   

1972  Baseball players' strike ends after 13 days   

1973  Alexandre A M Stols, publisher/typographer (Schoone Book), dies at 73   

1974  Stanley Smith, actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts), dies at 71.   

1975  In this year, Jack Nicklaus claims his 5th Masters golf tournament   

1975  Larry Parks, actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 60.   

1976  $2 bill re-introduced as US currency   

1976  Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes.   

1977  Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #2382 Nonie.   

1977  Statistics Canada reports March unemployment figures at 90000, or 8.1% of the workforce; highest since figures inaugural collected in 1953   

1978  Paul McGrath actor (The Witness), dies at 73.   

1978  Paul McGrath, actor (Witness, No Time for Love), dies at 74   

1979  Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours   

1980  Steve Ballesteros is recorded as becoming youngest winner of the Masters.   

1980  Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2568 Maksutov.   

1981  In this year, Wash Post Janet Cooke claims Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)   

1982  Republic of South Africa a 5.0 earthquake killed 1 and and 20 injured in rockslides in a gold mine near Welkom   

1983  Dedication of the Rats of Tobruk Memorial on Anzac Parade by the Governor-General, the Rt Hon Sir Ninian Stephen The memorial commemorates Australian and other Allied servicemen who fought and died during the siege of Tobruk in 1941.   

1983  Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault.   

1984  11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth.   

1984  Christopher Wilder FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally results in the deaths of self   

1984  Pete Rose becomees inaugural NL to get get 4000 hits in a career.   

1984  Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally results in the deaths of self   

1985  "TASS" denounced US.boycott of the Moscow Olympics.   

1985  Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas   

1986  Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record.   

1986  Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue   

1986  Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second   

1986  Stephen Stucker, actor (Trading Places, Airplane), dies.   

1990  Luis Trenker, dies at 97.   

1992  "Two Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr theater on Broadway   

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1506  Peter faber: French jesuit theologian   

1519  Catherine de' médici: Queen of spain/daughter of henry ii   

1519  De medicis: Queen consort (henry ii of france)   

1545  Elisabeth van valois: French queen of spain/daughter of henri ii   

1547  Elisabeth of valois: Third wife of philip ii of spain   

1570  Guy fawkes: English catholic conspirator   

1573  Christina of holstein-gottorp: Queen consort of sweden   

1584  Albert vi of bavaria: Albert vi of bavaria (d. 1666)   

0799  Death of Paulus diaconus warnafridi: Longobardisch writer,   

0814  Death of Krum of bulgaria: Krum of bulgaria   

1093  Death of Prince vsevolod i of kiev: Prince vsevolod i of kiev (b. 1030)   

1279  Boleslaw the pious: Polish duke   

1517  Tuman bey: Last mamelukken sultan of egypt, hanged   

1612  Sasaki kojirō: Japanese samurai   

1635  Death of Fakhr-al-din ii: Druze prince of lebanon (b. 1572)   

1641  Death of Richard montagu: English clergyman (b. 1577)