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14 Apr 1865      President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth and died the following day.
14 Apr 1912      RMS Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began to sink.
14 Apr 1929      The Monaco Grand Prix took place for the first time won by William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti Type 35.
14 Apr 1994      Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley announced they were to divorce.
14 Apr 2000      Metallica filed a lawsuit against file-sharing website Napster.
14 Apr 2002      Tiger Woods became only the third player to claim back-to-back Masters.

15 Apr 1896      The first modern Summer Olympic Games close in Athens.
15 Apr 1912      RMS Titanic sank.
15 Apr 1952      The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress made its first flight.
15 Apr 1989      96 fans died in the Hillsborough Football Stadium disaster.
15 Apr 1989      Thousands of Chinese students crowded into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square demanding greater political freedom.
15 Apr 1990      Greta Garbo died.
15 Apr 2011      Christina Aguilera divorced Jordan Bratman.
15 Apr 2019      Notre Dame Cathedral was seriously damaged by a large fire.

16 Apr 1705      Queen Anne knighted Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge.
16 Apr 1912      Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
16 Apr 1942      King George VI awarded the George Cross to the people of Malta in appreciation of their heroism.
16 Apr 1943      Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of LSD.
16 Apr 1947      Bernard Baruch first coined the term “Cold War” to describe the relationship between the US and the Soviet Union.
16 Apr 1948      The European Economic Co-operation was formed.
16 Apr 1953      Queen Elizabeth II launched the Royal Yacht Britannia.
16 Apr 1964      The Great Train Robbers were sentenced to over 300 years between them.
16 Apr 1972      Apollo 16 was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
16 Apr 1994      Dudley Moore married Nicole Rothschild.

17 Apr 1875      Modern Snooker was invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain.
17 Apr 1951      The Peak District became the UK’s first National Park.
17 Apr 1956      Harold Macmillan unveiled the premium bond scheme.
17 Apr 1969      Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating Robert F Kennedy.
17 Apr 1970      The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returned to Earth safely.
17 Apr 1970      Paul McCartney released his first solo album ‘McCartney’.
17 Apr 1986      British journalist John McCarthy was kidnapped in Beirut.
17 Apr 2011      ‘Game of Thrones’ had its premiere on HBO.
17 Apr 2012      The British Library purchased the 8th century St. Cuthbert Gospel, Europe’s oldest intact book, for £9m.
17 Apr 2021      The funeral of Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh took place.

18 Apr 1809      2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket was run for the first time.
18 Apr 1879      Albert Einstein was born.
18 Apr 1912      RMS Carpathia arrived in New York City with the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic.
18 Apr 1924      The first crossword puzzle book was published by Simon & Schuster.
18 Apr 1930      The BBC announced that “there is no news” in their evening bulletin.
18 Apr 1985      Wham! became the first western pop act to release an album in China.

19 Apr 1770      Captain James Cook sighted the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
19 Apr 1770      Marie Antoinette married Louis XVI of France.
19 Apr 1927      Mae West was sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play ‘Sex’.
19 Apr 1934      Shirley Temple appeared in her first feature length film, ‘Stand Up & Cheer’.
19 Apr 1956      Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco.
19 Apr 1987      ‘The Simpsons’ made its TV debut as a short on ‘The Tracey Ullman Show’.
19 Apr 1997      Tennis star Andre Agassi married Brooke Shields.
19 Apr 2005      Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected as the new Pope.

20 Apr 2010      The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.

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What are you if you drive a Subaru backwards?