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Alexios I Komnenos
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Feast day of Vincent Ferrer | unreferenced section |
| 1242 – Northern Crusades: In the Battle on the Ice, Novgorod forces led by Alexander Nevsky rebuffed an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights at Lake Peipus on the present-day border of Estonia and Russia. | refimprove |
| 1566 – A covenant of nobles in the Habsburg Netherlands presented Governor Margaret of Parma a petition to suspend the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. | unreferenced section |
| 1609 – Forces of the Japanese feudal domain of Satsuma captured the castle on Ryukyu Island, beginning the process that turned the Ryukyu Kingdom into a vassal state under Satsuma. | refimprove section |
| 1722 – Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen became the first European to land on Easter Island. | unreferenced section, CN tags |
| 1862 – American Civil War: Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac engaged Confederate forces led by Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder at the Battle of Yorktown in Yorktown, Virginia. | refimprove section, citation problems |
| 1900 – Archaeologists led by Arthur Evans in Knossos, Crete, discovered a large cache of clay tablets with a script used for writing Mycenaean Greek now known as Linear B. | outdated |
| 1942 – World War II: Carrier-based aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy conducted the Easter Sunday Raid on Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the British Eastern Fleet in an attempt to drive the Commonwealth naval force from the Indian Ocean. | refimprove |
| 1958 – In one of the first live Canadian national television broadcasts, Ripple Rock, an underwater mountain in Discovery Passage, British Columbia, was destroyed in a planned explosion. | refimprove section |
| 1992 – Bosnian War: Unidentified gunmen killed two people while firing upon a large crowd of anti-war protesters in Sarajevo, marking the start of the four-year-long Siege of Sarajevo. | refimprove |
| 2010 – An explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia killed 29 miners in the United States' worst mining disaster in 40 years. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1081 – The Komnenian dynasty came to full power when Alexios I Komnenos was crowned Byzantine Emperor.
- 1614 – Native American Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.
- 1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first fully fledged law regulating copyright, received royal assent and went into effect five days later in Great Britain.
- 1966 – During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese military Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky personally attempted to capture the restive city of Da Nang, before backing down.
- 1986 – The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin, killing 3 people and injuring 229 others.
- 1998 – Japan's Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, linking Awaji Island and Kobe, opened to traffic, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world with a main span length of 1,991 metres (6,532 ft).
- 2009 – The North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking concerns it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.
- Born/died this day: Al-Mu'tadid (d. 902) · Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet (b. 1769) · Thure de Thulstrup (b. 1848) · Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1863) · Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté (d. 1864) María Blanchard (d. 1932) · Stella Creasy (b. 1977) · Olek (b. 1978)
Notes
- 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak appears on March 28 and April 2, 2006 tornado outbreak appears on April 2 and Super Outbreak appears on April 3, so 1936 tornado should not appear in the same year
Birkenhead Park
- 919 – The Fatimid Caliphate began a second unsuccessful invasion of Egypt, then under Abbasid rule.
- 1847 – Birkenhead Park (pictured), generally acknowledged as the world's first publicly funded civic park, opened in Birkenhead, England.
- 1936 – During the second deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history, an F5 tornado struck Tupelo, Mississippi, killing at least 216 people.
- 1976 – The Tiananmen Incident, a protest against the Chinese regime triggered by the death of Premier Zhou Enlai near the end of the Cultural Revolution, took place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
- 2000 – Before a semi-final of the UEFA Cup in Istanbul, Turkey, fan violence broke out, resulting in two Leeds United supporters being stabbed to death and Galatasaray supporters being banned from attending the second leg in England.
- José María Coppinger (b. 1773)
- Stephan Gip (b. 1936)
- Kurt Cobain (d. 1994)