1893 - Mary Pickford born
1902 - Texaco founded
1912 - Sonja Henie born
1918 - Betty Ford born
1926 - Shecky Greene born
1938 - Kofi Annan born
1953 - Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced to seven years hard labour for his part in the organisation of the rebel Mau Mau movement.
1963 - Julian Lennon born
1968 - Patricia Arquette born
1973 - The artist Pablo Picasso dies of a heart attack at his chateau near Cannes on the French Riviera.
1980 - Adam Brody born
1986 - Residents of the Californian town of Carmel overwhelmingly vote for actor Clint Eastwood as their mayor.
1994 - Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain is found dead with single gunshot wound to the head. The coroner found that he had taken his own life on 5 April.
1995 - British-born Nicholas Ingram is executed by electric chair in the U.S. after two appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court were turned down.
1997 - Veteran war reporter Martin Bell vows to fight on to victory over disgraced Conservative MP Neil Hamilton in the general election battle for the constituency of Tatton.
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