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4 Ēastermōnaþ is se 94oða dæg þæs gēares in þǣre Gregoriscan gerīmbēc (95oða in hlēapgēarum). Þǣr sind 271 belīfendra daga.
- 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elisabeþ I.
- 1721 - Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Fyrmestscealc þæs Geānlǣhtan Cynerīces under George I cyning.
- 1812 - U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the Geānlǣht Cynerīce.
- 1814 - Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
- 1818 - The U.S. Congress adopts the flag of the United States as having 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 stars) with additional stars to be added whenever a new state is added to the Union.
- 1841 - President William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first Foresittend þāra Geānlǣhtra Rīca to die in office and at one month, the elected president with the shortest term served.
- 1850 - Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.
- 1865 - Americanisc Ingefeoht: A day after Union forces captured Richmond, Virginia, Americanisc foresittend Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
- 1866 - Alexander II Russlandes narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev. A design for a city gate to commemorate his escape was the inspiration for Mussorgsky's The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition.
- 1887 - Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna Medora Salter as the first female mayor in þǣm Geānlǣhtan Rīcum.
- 1905 - In Indian, an earthquake near Kangra kills 370,000.
- 1918 - Ōðru Woruldgūþ: Ōðru Beadu þæs Somme endaþ.
- 1939 - Faisal II wearþ Cyning Iraces.
- 1945 - Ōðru Woruldgūþ: American troops liberate Ohrdruf death camp in Þēodiscland.
- 1945 - Ōðru Woruldgūþ: Soviet Army liberates Ungerland.
- 1949 - Twelve nations sign The North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- 1964 - The Beatles occupy all of the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States.
- 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated.
- 1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
- 1969 - Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
- 1969 - The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is cancelled after the brothers failed to submit an episode before its broadcast date.
- 1973 - The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
- 1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Baby Lift - A United States Air Force C-5A Galaxy crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, transporting orphans. 172 people are killed.
- 1976 - Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
- 1979 - President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
- 1981 - In Dublin, Ireland, Bucks Fizz win the twenty-sixth Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom singing "Making Your Mind Up".
- 1983 - Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.
- 1984 - President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
- 1991 - Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.
- 1994 - Netscape Communications Corporation is founded (under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation") by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark.
- 186 - Caracalla, Rōmānisc cāsere (d. 217)
- 1648 - Grinling Gibbons master wood-worker (d. 1721)
- 1785 - Bettina von Arnim, lyricist (d. 1859)
- 1843 - William Jackson, photographer
- 1870 - George Albert Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1951)
- 1875 - Pierre Monteux, conductor (d. 1964)
- 1876 - Maurice de Vlaminck, painter (d. 1958)
- 1884 - Isoroku Yamamoto, naval commander (d. 1943)
- 1885 - Arthur Murray, sealtere (d. 1991)
- 1888 - Tris Speaker, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1958)
- 1898 - Agnes Ayres, silent film actress, starred with Rudolph Valentino in THE SHEIK, (d. 1940)
- 1902 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, actress (d. 1969)
- 1906:
- Bea Benaderet, actress (d. 1968)
- John Cameron Swayze, journalist, television host (d. 1995)
- 1910 - Juri Pawlowitsch German, writer (d. 1967)
- 1914 - Marguerite Duras, writer (d. 1996)
- 1915 - Muddy Waters, blues musician (d. 1983)
- 1922 - Elmer Bernstein, composer
- 1928 - Maya Angelou, poet, novelist
- 1932:
- Anthony Perkins, actor (d. 1992)
- Andrei Tarkovsky, film director (d. 1986)
- 1938 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale Univ. and baseball commissioner who banned Pete Rose (d. 1989).
- 1939 - Hugh Masekela, musician
- 1940 - Sharon Sheeley, sangwrītere
- 1944 - Craig T. Nelson, actor (Coach, The District, The Incredibles)
- 1945 - Daniel Cohn-Bendit, political activist
- 1946 - Dave Hill, Slade, guitarist
- 1947 - Stephen Kerton, banking wizard, wide-screen tv patron
- 1948 - Dan Simmons, wrītere
- 1950 - Christine Lahti, actress
- 1952 - Rosemarie Ackermann, German high jumper
- 1956 - David E. Kelley, wrītere, television producer
- 1957 - Aki Kaurismäki, Finnisc film-director
- 1958
- Mary-Margaret Humes, American soap opera actress
- Don Bliss, Actor, Theater Educator, Writer and Congregational Pastor
- 1960:
- Jane Eaglin, English soprano
- Hugo Weaving, actor
- 1963:
- Jack Del Rio, American football player and coach
- Graham Norton, talk show host
- 1965 - Robert Downey Jr., actor
- 1970 - Barry Pepper, actor
- 1973 - David Blaine, illusionist
- 1974 - Dave Mirra, extreme sports champion
- 1975 - Scott Rolen, baseball player
- 1979 - Heath Ledger, actor
- 1980 - Björn Wirdheim, racing driver
- 1991 - Jamie Spears, television show host
- 397 - St. Ambrose, bishop of Milan (b. c. 340)
- 1292 - Pope Nicholas IV (b. 1227)
- 1701 - Joseph Haines, entertainer and author
- 1774 - Oliver Goldsmith, playwright (b. 1728)
- 1807 - Joseph Jērôme Lefrançais de Lalande French astronomer
- 1817 - Andrē Massēna, French soldier (b. 1758)
- 1841 - William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (b. 1773)
- 1842 - Jean Moufot, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1784)
- 1846 - Solomon Sibley, Senator, Michigan Territory, 1820-1823 (b. 1769)
- 1861 - John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1785)
- 1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff, artist (b. 1860)
- 1919 - Sir William Crookes, chemist and physicist (b. 1832)
- 1951:
- Al Christie, early Hollywood director/producer (b. 1881)
- George Albert Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1870)
- 1968 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist, minister (b. 1929)
- 1972:
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American politician
- Stefan Wolpe, composer (b. 1902)
- 1979 - Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1928)
- 1980 - Red Sovine, country music entertainer
- 1983 - Gloria Swanson, actress (b. 1897)
- 1987 - C.L. Moore, science fiction writer (b. 1911)
- 1991:
- H. John Heinz III, Member of the U.S. Senate in a plane crash (b. 1938)
- Forrest Towns, American hurdler (b. 1914)
- 1996:
- Barney Ewell, American athlete (b. 1918)
- Larry LaPrise, songwriter (b. 1913)
- 1999 - Early Wynn, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1920)
- 2002 - Harry L. O'Connor, film stuntman, died while filming xXx (movie)
- 2003 - Resortes (Adalberto Martinez Chavez), legendary Mexican comedian
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