1607 English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1865 Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia.
1933 The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
1986 Worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl USSR, 31 die
1992 In Simi Valley, California, the LAPD police officers accused of excessive force in their severe beating of Rodney King, are found "not guilty". The verdict results in several days of riots in L.A. and smaller riots around the country.
