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the British liner RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
In 1912,
In 1932,
German President Paul Von Hindenburg was reelected in a runoff, with Adolf Hitler coming in second.
In 1963,
the fast-attack nuclear submarine USS Thresher sank during deep-diving tests east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in a disaster that claimed 129 lives.
In 1971,
a table tennis team from the United States arrived in China at the invitation of the communist government for a goodwill visit that came to be known as “ping-pong diplomacy.”
In 1972,
the United States and the Soviet Union joined some 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare.
In 1981,
imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was declared the winner of a by-election to the British Parliament.
In 1992,
comedian Sam Kinison was killed in a car crash outside Needles, California, at age 38.
In 1998,
the Northern Ireland peace talks concluded as negotiators reached a landmark settlement to end 30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody attacks.
In 2005,
Tiger Woods won his fourth Masters in a one-hole playoff.
In 2010,
Polish President Lech Kaczynski, 60, was killed in a plane crash in western Russia that also claimed the lives of his wife and top Polish political, military and church officials.
In 2015,
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the Apple Watch made its
scientists released the first image ever made of a black hole, revealing a fiery, doughnut-shaped object in a galaxy 53 million lightyears from earth.
The House Homeland Security Committee examined Muslim extremism in America during a hearing punctuated by tearful testimony and angry recriminations.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an official visit to the White House.
The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus surged past 100,000. On Good Friday, Pope Francis presided over a torch-lit procession in an otherwise empty St. Peter’s Square, with nurses and doctors among those holding a cross.
In 2019,
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