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Events 1012 - Martyrdom of St Alphege in Greenwich, London 1539 - The Treaty of Frankfurt is signed 1587 - Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cadiz Harbor 1770 - Captain James Cook first spots Australia 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord - British General Thomas Gage attempts to confiscate American colonists' firearms. The British are driven back to Boston, Massachusetts. The American Revolutionary War begins. 1810 - Venezuela achieves home rule: Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed. 1839 - The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom 1861 - American Civil War: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland attacks United States Army troops marching through the city 1892 - Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts 1904 - Much of Toronto, Ontario, Canada is destroyed by fire. 1909 - Joan of Arc is declared a saint 1919 - Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful parachute jump and free fall 1927 - Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex 1933 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announces that the United States will be leaving the gold standard 1934 - Shirley Temple debuts in Stand Up and Cheer 1938 - RCA-NBC begins the first regular television broadcasts 1943 - World War II: German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, starting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1946 - The League of Nations dissolves itself transferring its powers to the United Nations. 1951 - General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military 1956 - Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III of Monaco 1961 - The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in failure 1971 - Sierra Leone becomes a republic 1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, DC 1971 - Charles Manson is sentenced to life in prison for the Sharon Tate murders. 1987 - The Simpsons make their first appearance on television, on The Tracey Ullman Show, in the short episode called "Good Night" 1989 - A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors. 1989 - Trisha Meili, the "Central Park jogger" is raped 1993 - The 50-day siege of the Branch Davidian complex outside Waco, Texas ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die. 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is bombed, killing 168 1999 - The German Parliament returns to Berlin. 2000 - An Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes nearby Davao airport killing 131 Births 1320 - King Peter I of Portugal († 1367) 1721 - Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence († 1793) 1721 - Thomas McKean, signer of the Declaration of Independence († 1817) 1883 - Richard von Mises, mathematician († 1953) 1892 - Germaine Tailleferre, composer († 1983) 1897 - Constance Talmadge, actress († 1973) 1900 - Richard Hughes, novelist († 1976) 1903 - Eliot Ness († 1957) 1912 - Glenn Seaborg († 1999) 1927 - Erma Bombeck, humorist († 1996) 1928 - Alexis Korner, rock musician († 1984) 1930 - Dick Sargent, actor († 1994) 1933 - Jayne Mansfield, actress († 1967) 1933 - Dickie Bird, cricket umpire 1935 - Dudley Moore, actor, musician, comedian, composer († 2002) 1942 - Frank Elstner, television producer 1944 - Bernie Worrell, keyboardist (originally with P Funk) 1946 - Tim Curry, actor 1949 - Paloma Picasso, painter 1952 - Alexis Arguello, boxer 1953 - Ruby Wax, television personality 1962 - Al Unser Jr, automobile racer 1965 - Suge Knight, record producer 1968 - Ashley Judd, actress 1979 - Kate Hudson, actress 1981 - Hayden Christensen, actor Deaths 1054 - Pope Leo IX 1390 - King Robert II of Scotland 1689 - Queen Christina of Sweden 1813 - Benjamin Rush, physician, activist 1824 - Lord Byron, author, poet 1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1882 - Charles Darwin, biologist, author 1906 - Pierre Curie, physicist 1919 - Emiliano Zapata, revolutionary 1930 - Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian Senator, dies at 102 1937 - William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer 1958 - Robert Bentley, humorist, actor 1967 - Konrad Adenauer, former Bundeskanzler of West Germany 1975 - Percy L. Julian, chemist (* 1899) 1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, director 1987 - Maxwell Taylor, general 1989 - Daphne du Maurier, author 1992 - Frankie Howerd, comedian, actor 1993 - David Koresh, cult leader 1998 - Octavio Paz, writer, diplomat 2002 - Layne Staley, musician ("Alice in Chains") Holidays and observances Patriots' Day (Massachusetts) Declaration of Independence Day (Venezuela) Republic Day (Sierra Leone) Landing of the 33 (Uruguay) Primrose Day (England) The Roman holiday of Cerealia ends. (Roman Empire) See Also: April 18 - April 20 - March 19 - May 19 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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