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Airbus A380 in original Airbus livery
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Für Elise
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John Milton
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Illustration of the Sultana disaster
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Dennis Taylor
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Victor Schœlcher
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| Freedom Day in South Africa (1994); | refimprove |
| Independence Day in Sierra Leone (1961) and Togo (1960) | Togo: multiple issues: Sierra Leone: needs more footnotes, outdated |
| 1296 – In the first battle of the First War of Scottish Independence, the English defeated the Scots near Dunbar, Scotland. | refimprove |
| 1565 – Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi and 500 armed soldiers established the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines, Cebu. | López: refimprove; Cebu: refimprove section |
| 1667 – John Milton, blind and impoverished, sold the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10. | refimprove section |
| 1805 – First Barbary War: U.S. Marines engaged forces of the Barbary Coast at the Battle of Derna in Tripoli, marking the first recorded land battle by the United States on foreign soil. | refimprove section |
| 1865 – An explosion (depicted) destroyed the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River, killing an estimated 1,700 of her 2,400 passengers. | close paraphrasing section, unreliable sources (SPS and other questionable issues) |
| 1911 – Following the resignation of William P. Frye, a compromise was reached in the United States Senate to rotate the office of the President pro tempore of the United States Senate. | date not mentioned or referenced, and apparently 27 April is the date of the resignation of Frye, not the compromise which was four months later |
| 1909 – After the government was restored following the 31 March Incident and the Adana massacre, [[Abdul Hamid II|Abdul Template:Nowrap]], the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to rule with absolute power, was overthrown by [[Mehmed V|Template:Nowrap]]. | Abdul Hamid II: appears on August 31; Mehmed V: refimprove |
| 1992 – Betty Boothroyd became the first female Speaker of the British House of Commons. | date not cited |
| 1993 – Thirty people died, including players and staff of the Zambia football team and the crew, in a plane crash en route to play a World Cup qualifying match against Senegal. | accuracy disputed |
| 1994 – Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress won a landslide victory in the first non-racial elections in the history of South Africa. | expansion |
| 2011 – During the most active day of the 2011 Super Outbreak 218 tornadoes killed 317 people across 16 U.S. states. | missing information |
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- 395 – Aelia Eudoxia married Byzantine emperor Arcadius without the knowledge or consent of Rufinus, the Praetorian prefect who had intended for his own daughter to wed the emperor.
- 1521 – Filipino natives led by chieftain Lapulapu killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan at the Battle of Mactan.
- 1522 – Four Years' War: The combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeated a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British Army regulars defeated Patriot militias in the Battle of Ridgefield, galvanizing resistance in the Connecticut Colony.
- 1810 – Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Bagatelle Template:Nowrap in A minor, better known as "Für Elise", one of his most popular compositions.
- 1848 – The French National Assembly under Victor Schœlcher proclaims the abolition of slavery within France and it's colonies following the February Revolution.
- 1904 – Chris Watson became the first prime minister of Australia from the Australian Labor Party.
- 1949 – In response to the treatment of Lorenzo Gamboa under the White Australia policy, the Philippine House of Representatives passed a bill banning Australians from the country.
- 1961 – Prime Minister Milton Margai led the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate to independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1967 – The [[Expo 67|Template:Nowrap]] world's fair opened in Montreal, with 62 nations participating and more than Template:Nowrap visitors ultimately attending.
- 1985 – The black-ball final, one of the most famous snooker matches in history, began between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor (pictured).
- 2012 – Unknown perpetrators carried out a series of four bombings in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
- Born/died: | [[Pope Leo XI|Pope Template:Nowrap]] |d|1605| Mary Wollstonecraft |b|1759| Margaret Macpherson Grant |b|1834| Sigismond Thalberg |d|1871| Ralph Waldo Emerson |d|1882| Sergei Prokofiev |b|1891| Draža Mihailović |b|1893| Rogers Hornsby |b|1896| Coretta Scott King |b|1927| Russell T Davies |b|1963| Cory Booker |b|1969| Vinod Khanna |d|2017 Per Holknekt |b|1960| Arch Manning |b|2004|
Notes
- Century 21 Exposition appears on April 21, so Expo 67 should not appear in the same year
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- 630 – Shahrbaraz usurped the throne of the Sasanian Empire from Ardashir III, but was himself killed six weeks later.
- 1650 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Covenanter forces defeated the Royalists at the Battle of Carbisdale near the village of Culrain, Scotland.
- 1945 – World War II: The photograph Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn (pictured) was taken after German troops withdrew to Norway at the end of the Lapland War.
- 1965 – Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation: British forces repelled a surprise Indonesian attack on a base at Plaman Mapu in Sarawak.
- 2005 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner, made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.