1791 - Samuel Morse born
1822 - Ulysses S. Grant born
1865 - Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is killed
1882 - Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson dies
1922 - Jack Klugman born
1927 - Coretta Scott King born
1932 - Anouk Aimée and Casey Kasem born
1937 - Guernica in Spain is destroyed by Luftwaffe. Also Sandy Dennis born
1945 - Russian and American troops have joined hands at the River Elbe in Germany, bringing the end of the war a step closer.
1951 - Ace Frehley born
1959 - Sheena Easton born
1961 - Sierra Leone becomes the latest West African state to win independence, after more than 150 years of British colonial rule.
1971 - Police in Wales have to remove demonstrators from the entrance of a courtroom after they disrupted proceedings inside.
1984 - The siege of the Libyan Embassy in London ends 11 days after the shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the St James's Square building.
1992 - The House of Commons has elected a woman, Betty Boothroyd to the post of Speaker for the first time in its 700-year history.
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