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Events
- 1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown Settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
- First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
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- 1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia.
- 1946 - Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
- Indochinaand Korea, begins.
- Houston, Texas
- 1962 - NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
- Andover, Kansas tornado outbreak).
- Rodney King riotsin Los Angeles.