1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and designer, co-designed Central Park (d. 1903) is born.
1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
1900 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948) is born
1933 – Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and producer is born.
1956 – SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenian-American model and jewelry designer is born.
1970 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, exotic dancer, and writer (b. 1911) dies.
1973 – Irene Ryan, American actress and philanthropist (b. 1902) dies.
1978 – Stana Katic, Canadian actress, Castle, is born.
1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor and producer is born.
1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
1984 – Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1904) dies.
1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress and producer (b. 1911) dies.
1989 – The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
2015 – Jayne Meadows, American actress (b. 1919) dies.
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