1749 – First performance of George Frideric Handel’s “Music For The Royal Fireworks”in Green Park, London
1859 – “Pomona” sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard
1904 – The Australian Labor Party under Prime Minister Chris Watson becomes the first Labor government in the world
1940 – Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1942 – Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma, killing 100, injuring 300
1943 – Witold Pilecki escapes from Auschwitz after having voluntarily been imprisoned there to gain information about the Holocaust
1963 – Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
1965 – RC Duncan patents “Pampers” disposable diaper
1968 – The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) hold a rally to protest the banning of a Republican Easter parade
2019 – Shooter opens fire in a synagogue in Poway, California, killing one and injuring three