1865 - The American civil war ends. The Federal forces of the Northern States win leaving around 600,000 American dead. 1898 Paul Robeson born
1903 - Ward Bond born
1926 - Hugh Hefner born
1933 - Jean-Paul Belmondo born
1935 - Avery Schreiber born
1939 - Michael Learned born
1940 - Germany invades Norway
1954 - Dennis Quaid born
1965 - Paulina Porizkova born
1966 - Cynthia Nixon born
1969 - Sikh busmen in Wolverhampton have won the right to wear turbans on duty after a long-running campaign.
1971 - Austin Peck born
1976 - The president of the Young Liberals, Peter Hain, is acquitted of robbing a branch of Barclays bank.
1978 - Rachel Stevens born
1979 - Keshia Knight Pulliam born
1984 - About 100 pickets are arrested during violent clashes with police outside two working coal pits in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
1999 - The president of Niger, Ibrahim Bare Mainassara, is shot dead in an apparent coup attempt.
2003 - Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down a statue and tearing it to pieces as US tanks roll into the centre of Baghdad.
2005 - The Prince of Wales weds Camilla Parker-Bowles at a civil ceremony followed by a blessing.
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