Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 57 events. Showing 31 - 57.
- Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
- The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
- Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
- Adolf Hitler’s 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
- Billie Holiday records the first civil rights song “Strange Fruit”.
- World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
- World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
- Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
- The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
- Dan Gavriliu performs the first surgical replacement of a human organ.
- Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
- BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
- English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
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- Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
- Korean Air Lines Flight 902 is shot down by the Soviet Union.
- Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
- The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
- The ATF raids The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
- Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
- German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
- Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people and injured 21 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
- Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
- Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
- The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
- One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
- A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China’s Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
- 10 people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.
