1775 – Paul Revere and William Dawes ride from Charlestown to Lexington warning the “regulars are coming!”
1943 – Operation Vengeance: US Army Air Force P-38G fighter aircraft from Kukum Field on Guadalcanal ambush and shoot down the transport bomber aircraft of Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy and mastermind behind the Pearl Harbor attack
1950 – Sam Jethroe is 1st African American to play for Boston Braves
1966 – 70th Boston Marathon: Kenji Kimihara of Japan wins in 2:17:11; American Bobbi Gibb first woman in 3:21:40 (unsanctioned)
1968 – 1st ABA basketball championship began
1972 – The Widgery Report on ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Northern Ireland is published, causing outrage among the people of Derry who call it the “Widgery Whitewash”
1995 – Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football
1999 – Wayne Gretzky plays his last game in the NHL, as his New York Rangers lose 2-1 to the Pittsburgh Penguins
2004 – 50th British Academy Television Awards: “Little Britain” Best Comedy, “Buried” Best Drama
2015 – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Lou Reed, Ringo Starr, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Green Day, Bill Withers, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the 5 Royales