Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - Artist ("Mona Lisa", "The Last Supper"), Nikita Khrushchev 1894 - U.S.S.R. premier, Michael Ansara 1922
Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery 1933 - Actress ("Bewitched"), Claudia Cardinale 1939 - Actress ("The Pink Panther"), Emma Thompson 1959 - Actress
1817 - The first American school for the deaf was opened in Hartford, CT.
1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by John Wilkes Booth.
1912 - The ocean liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. 1,517 people died and more than 700 people survived.
1945 - During World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
1948 - The Arabs were defeated in the first Jewish-Arab battle.
1952 - The first B-52 prototype was tested in the air.
1953 - Charlie Chaplin surrendered his U.S. re-entry permit rather than face proceedings by the U.S. Justice Department. Chaplin was accused of sympathizing with Communist groups.
1967 - Richard Speck was found guilty of murdering eight student nurses.
1986 - U.S. F-111 warplanes attacked Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5, 1986.
1994 - The World Trade Organization was established.
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