1770 – Poet William Wordsworth (The Prelude, Lyrical Ballads) was born in Cumberland, England.
1940 – Booker T. Washington became the first African-American to be pictured on a U.S. postage stamp.
1948 – The World Health Organization (WHO) was founded in Geneva, Switzerland.
1963 – Jack Nicklaus became, at the age of 23, the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the Masters Tournament.
1963 – A new Yugoslav constitution proclaims Josip “Tito” Broz as president for life of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1994 – Rwandan armed forces killed 10 Belgian peacekeeping officers in a prelude to a civil war that killed an estimated 1 million people over a 4-month period.
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