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*[[1820]] - The [[Venus de Milo]] is discovered on the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]] island of [[Melos]]. *[[1820]] - The [[Venus de Milo]] is discovered on the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]] island of [[Melos]].
*[[1867]] - The first [[World's Fair]] is inaugurated in [[Paris]]. *[[1867]] - The first [[World's Fair]] is inaugurated in [[Paris]].
-*[[1886]] - [[William Ewart Gladstone]] introduces the first [[Irish Government Bill 1886|Irish Home Rule Bill]] into the [[British House of Commons]].  
-*[[1893]] - The first recorded [[college basketball]] game occurs in [[Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania]].  
-*[[1895]] - The [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] declares [[income tax]] to be [[Constitutionality|unconstitutional]] in [[Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.]] 
-*[[1899]] - [[Martha Place]] becomes the first woman to be executed in an [[electric chair]]. 
-*[[1904]] - The [[French Third Republic]] and the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] sign the ''[[Entente cordiale]].'' 
-* 1904 - British mystic [[Aleister Crowley]] transcribes the first chapter of [[the Book of the Law]]. 
-* 1904 - [[Longacre Square]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]] is renamed [[Times Square]] after ''[[The New York Times]]''. 
-*[[1913]] - The [[17th Amendment to the United States Constitution]], requiring direct [[election]] of [[United States Senate|Senators]], becomes law. 
-*[[1916]] - In [[Corona, California]], car racer [[Bob Burman]] crashes, killing three and badly injuring five spectators. 
-*[[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Actor]]s [[Douglas Fairbanks]] and [[Charlie Chaplin]] sell [[war bond]]s on the streets of [[New York, New York]]'s financial district.  
-*[[1929]] - [[Indian Independence Movement]]: At [[Delhi Central Assembly]], [[Bhagat Singh]] and [[Batukeshwar Dutt]] throw handouts, and bombs to court arrest. 
-*[[1935]] - The [[Works Progress Administration]] is formed when the [[Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935]] becomes law.  
-*[[1940]] - [[World War II]]: [[Great Britain]] and [[France]] announce that they have mined [[Norway|Norwegian]] territorial waters to prevent their use by [[Germany|German]] supply ships. 
-*[[1942]] - World War II: [[Siege of Leningrad]] - [[Soviet Union]] forces open a much-needed [[railway]] link to [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]].  
-* 1942 - World War II: the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] take [[Bataan]] in the Philippines. 
-*[[1943]] - [[U.S. President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], in an attempt to check [[inflation]], freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the [[war]] effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases to [[common carrier]]s and [[public utilities]]. 
-*[[1946]] - The last meeting of the [[League of Nations]], the precursor of the [[United Nations]], is held. 
-*[[1950]] - [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] sign the [[Pact of Delhi]]. 
-*[[1952]] - [[U.S. President]] [[Harry S. Truman]] calls for the seizure of all domestic [[steel mill]]s to prevent a nationwide [[Strike action|strike]].  
-*[[1953]] - [[Mau Mau]] leader [[Jomo Kenyatta]] is convicted by [[Kenya]]'s [[United Kingdom|British]] rulers. 
-*[[1957]] - The [[Suez Canal]] in [[Egypt]] is reopened. 
-*[[1960]] - The [[U.S. Senate]] approves a civil rights bill despite Southern senators' marathon [[filibuster]] effort. 
-*[[1973]] - 32 terrorist bombings in [[Cyprus]] 
-*[[1974]] - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves passes Babe Ruth for first place on Major League Baseball's all-time home run list. Aaron's record would be broken 33 years later by Barry Bonds. 
-*[[1975]] - [[Frank Robinson]] manages the [[Cleveland Indians]] in his first game as major league [[baseball]]'s first [[African American]] manager.  
-*[[1985]] - [[Bhopal disaster]]: [[India]] files suit against [[Union Carbide]] for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000. 
-*[[1987]] - [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] executive [[Al Campanis]] resigns amid controversy over [[race|racially]]-charged remarks he had made while on ''[[Nightline]].'' 
-*[[1989]] - [[South Africa]]: the [[Democratic Party (South Africa)|Democratic Party]] is formed from the merger of four parties. 
-* 1989 - The two Greek Communist Parties, along with smaller left-wing parties, merge to form the [[Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology|Coalition of the Left, of Social Movements and Ecology]] in [[Greece]]. 
-*[[1990]] - [[New Democracy (Greece)|New Democracy]] wins the national election in [[Greece]]. 
-*[[1992]] - Retired [[tennis]] great [[Arthur Ashe]] announces that he has [[AIDS]], acquired from [[blood transfusion]]s during one of his two heart surgeries. 
-<!-- DO NOT ADD 1994 - [[Kurt Cobain]]. His death is listed on the April 5 page --> 
-*[[1999]] - [[Haryana Gana Parishad]], a [[political party]] in the [[India]]n state of [[Haryana]], merges with the [[Indian National Congress]]. 
-*[[2000]] - 19 [[Marines]] are killed when an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashes near [[Marana, Arizona]]. 
-*[[2004]] - [[Darfur conflict]]: The [[April 8 Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement|Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement]] is signed by the [[Sudan]]ese [[government]] and two rebel groups. 
-* 2004 - [[U.S. National Security Advisor]] [[Condoleezza Rice]] testifies before the [[9/11 Commission]] . 
-*[[2005]] - [[Funeral of Pope John Paul II]]. 
-*[[2006]] - [[Shedden massacre]]: the bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]. The murders are soon linked to the [[Bandidos]] motorcycle gang. 
-*[[2007]] - [[Debian]] releases Debian [[GNU]]/[[Linux]] 4.0, [[codename]] Etch. 
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