1865 - John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was surrounded by federal troops near Bowling Green, Va., and killed.
1937 - planes from Nazi Germany raided the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
1945 - Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the head of France’s Vichy government during World War II, was arrested.
1980 - following an unsuccessful attempt by the United States to rescue the US Embassy hostages in Iran, the Tehran government announced the captives were being scattered to thwart any future rescue effort.
1986 - the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union.
2000 - Vermont Governor Howard Dean signed the nation’s first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.
2005 - Syria’s 29-year military presence in Lebanon ended. Actress Maria Schell died in Preitenegg, Carinthia, Austria, at 79.
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