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St. George's Day

1014 King Brian Boru of Ireland defeated Viking forces at the Battle of Clontarf.

1154 Damascus surrendered toSultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo.

1229 King Ferdinand III of Castile conquered Cáceres.

1348 The Order of the Garter was founded in England.

1516 Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria endorsed "The German Beer Purity Law".*

1564 Playwright William Shakespeare was born (traditional date).

1633 Sweden and the Protestant German monarchy formed the Union of Heilbronn.

1635 The Boston Latin School, the first public school in the United States, was founded.

1661 Charles II was crowned King of England.

1662 Connecticut Colony was chartered.

1702 Anne was crowned Queen of England at Westminster Abbey.

1791 James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, was born.

1813 Stephen Douglas, U. S. Representative and Senator, was born.

1846 Mexico declared war on the United States.

1856 Inventor Granville T. Woods was born.

1858 Physicist Max Planck was born.

1858 Physicist Max Planck was born.

1861 Robert E. Lee was named Commander of Virginia Confederate forces.

1891 Composer Sergei Prokofiev was born.

1896 The first ever theatrical demonstration of the Vitascope was given.

1897 U. S. General Lucius Clay was born.
1897 Lester Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada, was born.

1898 Spain declared war on the United States.

1899 Author Vladimir Nabokov was born.

1904 The American Academy of Arts and Letters was founded.

1910 The Brussels International Exhibition opened.

1918 The National Urban League was formed.

1921 Baseball player Warren Spahn was born.

1924 The British Empire Exhibition opened at Wembley, England.

1928 Actress Shirley Temple was born.

1936 Singer Roy Orbison was born.

1939 Actor Lee Majors was born.

1940 A dance hall fire killed 198 persons in Natchez, Mississippi.

1942 Actress Sandra Dee.

1949 The Chinese Red Army conquered Nanjing.
1949 Actress Joyce DeWitt was born.

1950 The Minnesota Lakers defeated the Syracuse Nationals for the NBA Championship.
1950 The Detroit Red Wings defeated the New York Rangers to win the Stanley Cup.

1954 Hank Aaron hit his very first Major League home run.

1960 Actress Valerie Bertinelli was born.

1969 Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay signed a treaty providing for the joint development of the Plata River basin.
1969 Jim Chestney won the ABC Masters Bowling Tournament.

1977 Wrestler John Cena was born.

1980 Nine sailors died when a Soviet submarine caught fire off Japan.

1982 Key West, Florida, renamed itself the Conch Republic and declared itself independent of the United States.

1938 Actor Buster Crabbe died.

1985 The Coca-Cola Company introduced "New Coke."
1985 U. S. Senator Sam Ervin died.

1986 Film director Otto Preminger died.

1987 The collapse of an apartment building in Bridgeport, Connecticut, killed 28 construction workers.

1991 The Soviet Union granted republics the right to secede under certain conditions.

1992 McDonald's opened its first restaurant in China.

1993 Eritrea voted to secede from Ethiopia.
1993 Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers, died.

1995 Sportscaster Howard Cosell died.

1998 James Earl Ray, killer of Martin Luther King, Jr., died.

2007 Boris Yeltsin, the first popularly elected President of Russia, died.

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