Joseph Pulitzer 1847 - Publisher, his will left $2 million for a fund which established annual prizes for literature, drama, music and journalism
- 1809 - Austria declared war on France and its forces entered Bavaria.
- 1849 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. He sold the rights for $100.
- 1912 - The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England.
- 1919 - In Mexico, revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata was killed by government troops.
- 1932 - Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany with 19 million votes. Adolf Hitler came in second with 13 million votes.
- 1941 - In World War II, U.S. troops occupied Greenland to prevent Nazi infiltration.
- 1963 - 129 people died when the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher failed to surface off Cape Cod, MA.
- 1994 - NATO warplanes launched air strikes for the first time on Serb forces that were advancing on the Bosnian Muslim town of Gordazde. The area had been declared a U.N. safe area.
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