| 56 | BC | Council of Luca: The triumvirs Caesar, Pompey, & Crassus renew their pact to plunder the state |
| 43 | BC | Marc Antony was defeated by the Consuls in the Battle of Forum Gallorum -- Learn More |
| 0 | | Feast of Saint Damien of Molokai, Patron of Lepers |
| 614 | | the Persians sacked Jerusalem -- Learn More |
| 1064 | | the Good Friday Massacre: Islamic raiders slew c. 7,000 Dutch and German pilgrims near Jerusalem, before the Moslem governor of Ramla could intervene. |
| 1207 | | Veteran and former prisoner-of-war St. Francis renounces worldly goods |
| 1395 | | Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeats the Golden Horde and razes its capital city, Sarai |
| 1450 | | Battle of Formigny: The French virtually annihilate an English army, effectively ending the Hundred Years' War |
| 1632 | | Battle of Rain/the River Lech: Gustavus Augustus's Protestant Swedes defeat the Holy Roman Empire & Catholic League |
| 1746 | | Battle of the Trebbia: Austrians defeat the French & Spanish |
| 1836 | | Battle of New Washington: Inconclusive skirmish between Texians and Mexicans |
| 1861 | | Ft Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces |
| 1861 | | President Lincoln issues a call for 75,000 Volunteers to supress "combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings." |
| 1865 | | Former Brig Gen Andrew Johnson assumes the presidency (1865-1869) |
| 1865 | | The Stars and Stripes are again hoisted over Ft Sumter |
| 1868 | | Emperor Meiji reviews the first ships to fly the imperial naval ensign |
| 1874 | | Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill marries Jennie Jerome, in Paris |
| 1892 | | Battle of Serobeti: Italians defeat the Sudanese Mahdists |
| 1904 | | Battle of Pensacola: c. 350 soldiers & sailors riot against police and shore patrol; 1 k, many injured |
| 1912 | | RMS 'Titanic' sinks at c. 0225 |
| 1940 | | British troops land at Narvik, Norway |
| 1942 | | George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta |
| 1942 | | Japanese threaten to encircle the British Burma Div. |
| 1943 | | Aleutians: U.S. convoys begin converging on Attu. |
| 1943 | | Russell Is.: U.S. completes a major airfield on Banika |
| 1943 | | US code breakers discover Adm Yamamoto will visit the Solomon Is. |
| 1944 | | India: British and Indians make important gains on the Kohima Front. |
| 1945 | | British Army liberates Bergen-Belsen concentration camp |
| 1945 | | Burma: helicopter makes first rescue of a downed pilot. |
| 1945 | | FDR is buried at his estate in Hyde Park, NY |
| 1947 | | Former Army 2nd Lt Jackie Robinson begins playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, integrating modern Major League baseball |
| 1952 | | First test flight of a prototype B-52 |
| 1969 | | North Korea shoots at US airplane over the Sea of Japan |
| 1974 | | Military coup in Niger |
| 1986 | | US a/c raid terrorist bases in Libya, following Berlin disco bombing |
| 2001 | | the annual "Class A Aviation Accident Rate" of the U.S. armed forces fell to per1.22 per 100,000 hours flown -- Learn More |