Charles Henry Dow 1851 - Journalist, economist.
- 1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.
- 1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederacy in the U.S.
- 1894 - William C. Hooker received a patent for the mousetrap.
- 1903 - Philippe Bunau-Varilla, as Panama's ambassador to the United States, signed the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty. The document granted rights to the United States to build and indefinitely administer the Panama Canal Zone and its defenses.
- 1923 - Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.
- 1935 - Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development of FM broadcasting.
- 1961 - In the Saraha Desert of Algeria, a natural gas well ignited when a pipe ruptured. The flames rose between 450 feet and 800 feet. The fire burned until April 28, 1962 when a team led by Red Adair used explosives to deprived the fire of oxygen. (Devil's Cigarette Lighter)
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