EVENTS:
- 1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
- 1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
- 1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.
- 1946 – The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
- 1955 – Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
- 1974 – The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore’s dry port.
- 1981 – The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game is suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23.
- 1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmad Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
- 2007 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5–4 decision.
- 2007 – A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
- 2013 – A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.
- 2014 – Sixteen people are killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest.
- 2018 – King of Swaziland announced to change his country’s name to eSwatini.
- 2019 – A redacted version of the Mueller report is released to the United States Congress and the public.
BIRTHS:
- 1858 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee (d. 1962)
- 1940 – Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1962 – Poonam Dhillon, Indian actress
- 1984 – Red Bryant, American football player
- 1986 – Taylor Griffin, American basketball player
- 1987 – Danny Guthrie, English footballer
- 1992 – Misa Eguchi, Japanese tennis player
- 1995 – Divock Origi, Belgian footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Army Day (Iran)
- Good Friday, celebrated the Friday before Easter Sunday.
- International Day For Monuments and Sites (International)
- Invention Day (Japan)
