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The

Page from Bach's
   St Matthew Passion

• ... that Bach wrote the chorale "O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig" (O Lamb of God, innocent) in red between the music for the two choirs in the beginning of his St Matthew Passion (pictured)?
• ... that Charles A. Cheever constructed the first telephone line in New York City and was its owner?
• ... that the Good Friday hymn "Take Up Thy Cross, The Saviour Said" was one of two American works included in the Church of England's Hymns Ancient and Modern?
• ... that Major Somnath Sharma, a Param Vir Chakra recipient, and General Vishwa Nath Sharma, former chief of the Indian Army, were brothers?
• ... that the world's first coal-fired power station was at Holborn Viaduct, London?
• ... that tenor Max Ciolek performed the Evangelist in Bach's Passions, and the Mass in B minor with La Petite Bande in Australia?
• ... that the
  Macedonian commonwealth contained some local democracies with popular assemblies
  and annual elections?
• ... that in May 1951, four years before Rosa Parks, Lillie Mae Bradford was arrested for refusing to leave the white folks' section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama?

Sergio García

• Kulbhushan Yadav to death for espionage and sabotage
  .
• In golf, Sergio García (pictured) defeats Justin Rose in a playoff to win the Masters Tournament.
• At least 44 people are killed and 126 others injured when two Egyptian
  Coptic Orthodox churches are attacked on Palm Sunday
  by suicide bombers.
• The
  Basque separatist militant group ETA disarms itself
  .
• A stolen truck is
  driven through crowds and into a department store in downtown Stockholm
  , killing 4 people and injuring 15 others.
• The United States attacks a Syrian air base in response to a chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun that killed more than 70 people.

Gnassingbé Eyadéma

• Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians near the town of Barnet, killing Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
  .
• 1865 – Actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth fatally shot U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
• 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.
• President of Togo
  , a post which he held until 2005.
• 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.

Rod Steiger (b. 1925) · Rachel Carson (d. 1964) · Sarah Michelle Gellar (b. 1977)

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