1912 - the British luxury liner "Titanic" sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg. About 1500 people died.
1817 - the first American school for the deaf opened in Hartford, Connecticut.
1850 - the city of San Francisco was incorporated.
1861 - three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops.
1865 - President Lincoln died, several hours after he was shot at Ford's Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson became the nation's 17th president.
1945 - during World War Two, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
1959 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro arrived in Washington to begin a goodwill tour of the United States.
1986 - the United States launched an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April fifth; Libya says 37 people, mostly civilians, were killed.
1980 - existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre died in Paris at the age of 74.
1989 - ninety-five people died in a crush of soccer fans at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England.
1998 - Pol Pot, the notorious leader of the Khmer Rouge, died at age 73, evading prosecution for the deaths of two million Cambodians.
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