Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - Artist ("Mona Lisa," "The Last Supper"), Nikita Khrushchev 1894 - U.S.S.R. premier, Michael Ansara 1922
Roy Clark 1933 - Country musician, singer, Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery 1933 - Actress ("Bewitched"), Emma Watson 1990 - Actress ("Harry Potter" movie series)
1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by John Wilkes Booth.
1871 - "Wild Bill" Hickok became the marshal of Abilene, Kansas.
1912 - The ocean liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. 1,517 people died and more than 700 people survived.
1940 - French and British troops landed at Narvik, Norway.
1945 - During World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
1952 - The first B-52 prototype was tested in the air.
1967 - Richard Speck was found guilty of murdering eight student nurses.
1986 - U.S. F-111 warplanes attacked Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5, 1986.
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