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Apollo 13 mission patch
"Black Sunday" dust storm
Bust of Septimius Severus
Edward IV of England
Gnassingbé Eyadéma
Hailstones from the 1999 Sydney hailstorm
Two-inch quadruplex videotape
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
Noah Webster
John Wilkes Booth
Damage to the Apollo 13 service module

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Bengali New Year,	expansion
1434 – The foundation stone of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, Brittany, France, was first laid, but the building was not completed until more than four centuries later in 1891.	refimprove
1828 – Lexicographer Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary of American English.	refimprove section
1927 – The first Volvo automobile was built in the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg, Sweden.	date not cited, refimprove section
1931 – After King Alfonso XIII left Spain, the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed by a provisional government led by Niceto Alcalá-Zamora.	lead too long
1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel and a major factor in his 1962 Nobel Prize award, was first published.	refimprove sections
1956 – The use of 2-inch quadruplex, the first practical and commercially successful videotape format, was first demonstrated in public.	unreferenced section
2003 – The completion of the Human Genome Project was announced.	refimprove section
2007 – In Ankara, Turkey, the first of the Republic Protests took place, when hundreds of thousands of people protested against the possible presidential candidacy of incumbent prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.	list should be converted to prose
2010 – Plumes of ash from a major eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland led to widespread disruption of air travel throughout Europe for several days.	need to verify date -- earliest date with citation is 15 Apr
John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu \|d\|1471	lead too long

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43 BC – Mark Antony's forces initially had the upper hand in the Battle of Forum Gallorum, but were forced to retreat by a counter-attack by Roman Republican legions.
966 – Mieszko I, ruler of the Polans, converted to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Yorkists under Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians near the town of Barnet, killing Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.
1906 – The Azusa Street Revival, the primary catalyst for the spread of Pentecostalism in the 20th century, opened in Los Angeles.
1908 – The first Hauser Dam in the U.S. state of Montana failed and caused severe flooding and damage downstream.
1935 – Dust Bowl: A severe dust storm (pictured) swept across Oklahoma and northern Texas, removing an estimated 300 million tons of topsoil from the prairies.
1944 – The freighter SS Fort Stikine, carrying a mixed cargo of cotton bales, gold and ammunition, exploded in the harbour in Bombay, India, sinking surrounding ships and killing about 800 people.
1945 – The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division deliberately destroyed the German town of Friesoythe on the orders of Major General Christopher Vokes.
1970 – An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 exploded, causing the NASA spacecraft to lose most of its oxygen and electrical power.
1978 – Thousands of Georgians demonstrated in Tbilisi against an attempt by the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
1994 – In a friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two U.S. Air Force aircraft mistakenly shot down two U.S. Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
1999 – A storm dropped an estimated 500,000 tonnes of hailstones in Sydney and along the east coast of New South Wales, causing about A$2.3 billion in damages, the costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history.
2010 – Nearly 2,700 people were killed in an earthquake registering 6.9 M_w in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China.
Born/died this day: | Lucia Visconti |d|1424| Christiaan Huygens |b|1629| William Whitehead |d|1785| Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey |b|1819| Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom |b|1857| V. Gordon Childe |b|1892| John Gielgud |b|1904| L. L. Zamenhof |d|1917| Rod Steiger |b|1925| Berry Berenson |b|1948| M. Visvesvaraya |d|1962| Rachel Carson |d|1964| Sarah Michelle Gellar |b|1977