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Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic Churches in Tanta and Alexandria take place.
A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.
In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall.
Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces; Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader Saddam Hussein, pulling down a grand statue of him and tearing it to pieces.
A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Tbilisi massacre: an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strike in Tbilisi, demanding restoration of Georgian independence, is dispersed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer, David Pratt in Johannesburg.
Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines
Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia.
The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk by the Royal Air Force
Execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, anti-Nazi dissident and spy, by the Nazi regime.
World War II: The Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March: United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the island's east coast.
World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.
World War I: The Battle of the Lys: The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.
World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
American War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes begins.
Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
Philip III of Spain issues the decree of the "Expulsion of the Moriscos".
Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony.
St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter.
The Treaty of Lodi is signed, establishing a balance of power among northern Italian city-states for almost 50 years.
Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels.
Mongol invasions of Vietnam: Yuan forces are defeated by Trần forces in the Battle of Bach Dang in present-day northern Vietnam.
Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.
Siege of Rome: The Byzantine general Belisarius receives his promised reinforcements, 1,600 cavalry, mostly of Hunnic or Slavic origin and expert bowmen. He starts, despite shortages, raids against the Gothic camps and Vitiges is forced into a stalemate.
Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
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