1607 ~ An expedition of English colonists, including Captain John Smith, went ashore at Cape Henry, Virginia, to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.

1787 ~ Birthday of John Audubon, Naturalist.

1865 ~ John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, was surrounded and killed by federal troops near Bowling Green, Virginia.

1895 ~ Birthday of Rudolf Hess, Reichsminister/SS-Obergruppenführer

1900 ~ Birthday of Charles Richter, Seismologist.

1937 ~ Planes from Nazi Germany raided the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Pablo Picasso used this event for his tour de force “Guernica”.

1964 ~ The African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania.

1986 ~ The world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union.

1992 ~ Christians officially celebrated the first Russian Orthodox Easter in Moscow in 74 years.

1994 ~ Voting began in South Africa's first all-race elections.

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