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| 1775 | The first American society for the abolition of slavery was organized by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush. |
| 1828 | The first edition of Noah Webster's "American Dictionary of the English Language" was published. |
| 1902 | J.C. Penney opened his first store, in Kemmerer, Wyo. |
| 1904 | Actor John Gielgud was born in London. |
| 1910 | William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game at the Washington Senators' home opener. |
| 1912 | The British liner Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began to sink. |
| 1931 | King Alfonso XIII of Spain went into exile and the Spanish Republic was proclaimed. |
| 1939 | "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck was published. |
| 1956 | Ampex Corp. demonstrated its first commercial videotape recorder. |
| 2002 | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to office two days after being ousted and arrested by his country's military. |
| 2002 | Tiger Woods became only the third golfer in history to win back-to-back Masters titles. |
| 2007 | Singer Don Ho died in Honolulu, Hawaii, at age 76. |
| 2008 | Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp., announced they were combining. |
| 2010 | The Eyjafjallajokul volcano in Iceland erupted, sending out an ash plume that led most northern European countries to close their airspace between April 15 and 20, grounding about 10 million travelers worldwide. |
| 2010 | A magnitude-7 earthquake in a remote Tibetan region of China killed some 2,700 people and injured more than 10,000. |
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