Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall.

2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces;Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces.

A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.

John Major's Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.

The April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strikes, demanding restoration of Georgian independence is dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.

8 people in South Korea, who were involved in People's Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.

The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.

The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.

The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.

Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.

Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".

The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.

Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines

Massacre at Deir Yassin.

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the ''Bogotazo''), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as ''La violencia''.

The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.

The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.

World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk.

World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.

World War II: The Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March

World War II: Operation Weserübung

Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.

The ''Kamikaze (1937 aircraft)|Kamikaze'' arrives at Croydon Airport in London

World War I: The Battle of the Lys (1918)|Battle of the Lys

World War I: The Battle of Arras (1917)|Battle of Arras

World War I: The Battle of Verdun

The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.

Alaska purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.

American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.

The oldest audible sound recording of a human voice is made.

American War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes begins.

Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.

Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.

Henry V is crowned King of England.

Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.

Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.

Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).