1555 – Siena surrenders to Spanish troops
1907 – Ellis Island, New York records 11,745 immigrants
1927 – Japan’s Wakarsoeki government falls, Baron Tanaka becomes premier
1945 – German occupiers flood Wieringermeer, Netherlands
1953 – Mickey Mantle hits a 565′ (172 m) HR in Washington, D.C.’s Griffith Stadium
1961 – Jimmy Stewart accepts an honorary Oscar on behalf of his friend Gary Cooper, who is too ill to attend
1967 – Shortwave Radio NY Worldwide goes back on the air after a week off
1978 – 82nd Boston Marathon: US double; Bill Rodgers wins his 2nd men’s title in 2:10:13; Gayle Barron women’s champion in 2:44:52
1979 – Four Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army van bomb in Bessbrook, County Armagh; the bomb is believed to be the largest PIRA bomb used up to that point
2019 – Terror alert closes schools in Denver, Colorado, due to 18 year-old woman obsessed with Columbine massacre, who is then found dead