1471 – Wars of the Roses: King Edward IV of England seizes London from Henry VI
1512 – The forces of the Holy League were heavily defeated by the French at the Battle of Ravenna.
1612 – Last public burning at the stake in England – Edward Wrightman for heresy in Lichfield
1689 – William III and Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
1713 – Great Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, Prussia, Savoy, Portugal & France agree the Treaty of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces in North America to Britain
1783 – After receiving a copy of the provisional treaty on March 13, the U.S. Congress proclaimed a formal end to hostilities with Great Britain.
1868 – The Shogunate is abolished in Japan
1899 – Treaty of Paris ratifies ends war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US
1914 – Mexican President Huerta breaks off diplomatic relations with the US
1921 – Iowa became the first state to impose a cigarette tax.
1921 – The first live sports event on radio took place this day on KDKA Radio. The event was a boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee.
1945 – During World War II, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald in Germany.
1947 – Jackie Robinson became the first black player in major-league history. He played in an exhibition game for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1948 – The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was announced in a general press release.
1951 – U.S. President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur as head of United Nations forces in Korea.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/truman-relieves-macarthur-of-duties-in-korea
1956 – Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater in racial incident
1961 – Israel began the trial of Adolf Eichman, accused of World War II war crimes.
1970 – Apollo 13 blasted off on a mission to the moon that was disrupted when an explosion crippled the spacecraft. The astronauts did return safely.
1974 – The Judiciary committee subpoenas U.S. President Richard Nixon to produce tapes for impeachment inquiry.
1979 – Idi Amin was deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seized control.
1980 – The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors.
1986 – Kellogg’s stopped giving tours of its breakfast-food plant. The reason for the end of the 80-year tradition was said to be that company secrets were at risk due to spies from other cereal companies.
1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
1993 – 450 prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continue for ten days, citing grievances about prison conditions and the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis)
2001 – China agreed to release 24 crewmembers of a U.S. surveillance plane. The EP-3E Navy crew had been held since April 1 on Hainon, where the plane had made an emergency landing after an in-flight collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese pilot was missing and presumed dead.
2002 – An attempted coup d’état takes place in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez.
2006 – Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is arrested – Provenzano was one of Cosa Nostra’s central figures. The mafioso was arrested near Corleone, Sicily after 40 years on the run.
2013 – Two women are beheaded for sorcery in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
2013 – Fossilized dinosaur eggs with embryos are discovered in China
2019 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London by police and arrested on failure to appear in court on US extradition charges
2019 – Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir overthrown and arrested by the army in Khartoum after 29 years in power
2019 – Ex-Pope Benedict XVI claims Catholic sexual abuse caused in part by 1960s sexual revolution
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
