1413 – England’s King Henry IV, the first monarch of the Lancastrian dynasty died, and his son, Henry V, ascended to the throne.
1828 – Playwright Henrik Ibsen (A Doll’s House, An Enemy of the People) was born in Skien, Norway.
1854 – Former members of the Whig Party met in Ripon, WI to establish the Republican Party and oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories.
1865 – A plan by John Wilkes Booth to abduct President Abraham Lincoln was foiled when Lincoln changed plans and failed to appear at the Soldier’s Home near Washington, D.C. Booth would later assassinate the President while Lincoln was attending a performance at Ford’s Theatre in the nation’s capital.
1891 – The first computing scale company, Dayton Scales, was incorporated in Dayton, OH.
1915 – Russia and Great Britain signed a secret agreement to divide the Ottoman Empire – now known as Turkey.
1948 – The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra was featured in the first televised symphonic concert on CBS station WCAU-TV 10.
1953 – Nikita Khrushchev began his rise to power, when the Soviet government announced he had been selected to the Secretariat of the Communist Party.
1965 – President Lyndon Johnson informed Alabama Governor George Wallace that he will use federal authority to call up the Alabama National Guard to supervise a planned civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
1995 – The Aum Shinrikyo cult unleashed several packages of deadly sarin gas on the Tokyo subway system, killing 12 people and injuring over 5,000.
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