1522 – Battle of Bicocca: a combined French and Venetian force is decisively defeated by a Spanish-Imperial and Papal army
1646 – King Charles I flees Oxford
1805 – US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
1890 – French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou, West Sudan
1910 – Louis Botha and James Hertzog establish the moderate nationalists South African Party promising equality of Britons and Boers
1942 – Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma, killing 100, injuring 300
1947 – Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium and through out US
1959 – Mao Zedong resigns as Chairman of the PRC after the disastrous failure of the Great Leap Forward
1968 – The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) hold a rally to protest the banning of a Republican Easter parade
1989 – Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy