William Randolph Hearst 1863 - American newspaper magnate, newspaper publisher
- 1429 - Joan of Arc led Orleans, France, to victory over Britain.
- 1813 - Rubber was patented by J.F. Hummel.
- 1913 - Gideon Sundback patented an all-purpose zipper.
- 1945 - The Nazi death camp, Dachau, was liberated.
- 1946 - Twenty-eight former Japanese leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.
- 1952 - IBM President Thomas J. Watson, Jr., informed his company's stockholders that IBM was building "the most advanced, most flexible high-speed computer in the world." The computer was unveiled April 7, 1953, as the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine.
- 1990 - The destruction of the Berlin Wall began.
- 1992 - Rioting began after a jury decision to acquit four Los Angeles policemen in the Rodney King beating trial. 54 people were killed in 3 days.
- 1998 - The U.S., Canada and Mexico end tariffs on $1 billion in NAFTA trade.
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