1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
1865 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
1890 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1908 – Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in [[Montana], U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1 m) high downstream.
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
1966 – Greg Maddux, American baseball player, coach, and manager is born.
1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress and producer is born.
1981 – STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight.
1995 – Burl Ives, American actor, folk singer, and writer (b. 1909) dies.
1996 – Abigail Breslin, American actress is born.
2000 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer, co-created the zip file format (b. 1962) dies.
2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
2003 – U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
2004 – Micheline Charest, English-Canadian television producer, co-founded the Cookie Jar Group (b. 1953) dies.
2004 – Kobe Bryant tries a three pointer while the Lakers are down two points against the Trail Blazers. He makes it and the Lakers win 105-104 in double overtime.
2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
2007 – Don Ho, American singer and ukulele player (b. 1930) dies.
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