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2023
2023 – Donald Trump becomes the first former United States president to be indicted by a grand jury.
2019
2019 – Pope Francis visits Morocco.
2018
2018 – The Israeli Army kills 17 Palestinians and wounds 1,400 in Gaza during Land Day protests.
2017
2017 – SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.
2011
2011 – Min Aung Hlaing is appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces.
2009
2009 – Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.
2008
2008 – Drolma Kyi arrested by Chinese authorities.
2006
2006 – Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the Australian region makes landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.
2002
2002 – The 2002 Lyon car attack takes place.
1982
1982 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
1981
1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
1979
1979 – Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament (MP), is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
1976
1976 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: in the first organized response against Israeli policies by a Palestinian collective since 1948, Palestinians create the first Land Day.
1972
1972 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
1967
1967 – Delta Air Lines Flight 9877 crashes at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, killing 19.
1965
1965 – Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
1961
1961 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
1959
1959 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1949
1949 – Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
1945
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna. Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig.
1944
1944 – Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.
1944
1944 – World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
1940
1940 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.
1939
1939 – The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745 km/h).
1918
1918 – Beginning of the bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate.
1912
1912 – Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1900
1900 – Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover the first clay tablet with hieroglyphic writing in a script later called Linear B.
1899
1899 – German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
1885
1885 – The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empires.
1870
1870 – Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
1867
1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about two cents/acre ($4.19/km2), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
1863
1863 – Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
1861
1861 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium.
1856
1856 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
1855
1855 – Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
1844
1844 – One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
1842
1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
1841
1841 – The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.
1822
1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
1818
1818 – Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.
1815
1815 – Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation, among the earliest calls for Italian unification.
1699
1699 – Guru Gobind Singh establishes the Khalsa in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab.
1296
1296 – Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
1282
1282 – The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
598
598 – Avar–Byzantine wars: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic army is decimated by the plague.