193 ~ Lucius Septimius Severus proclaimed Roman emperor. April was a good month for him.

1682 ~ Robert La Salle claimed the lower Mississippi River and all lands that touch it for France.

1865 ~ General Robert E. Lee and his 26,765 troops surrendered to Union General Grant. This event was effectively the end of the U.S. Civil War.

1906 ~ Birthday of Antal Dorati, Conductor.

1919 ~ Birthday of John Presper Eckert, who worked with John Mauchly to build what many think was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC. (J.A.).

1926 ~ Birthday of Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine.

1928 ~ Birthday of Tom Lehrer, one of comedy's great paradoxes: a respected Harvard mathematics professor by day, at night he was among the foremost song satirists of the postwar era.

1933 ~ Birthday of Jean-Paul Belmondo, France's most popular male film star throughout the 1960s.

1940 ~ Germany invaded Norway and Denmark.

1966 ~ Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves A Woman" was released.

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