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• 1916 Easter Rebellion begins

• American Revolution

• 1781 Phillips and Arnold launch attack on Petersburg, Virginia

• Automotive

• 1983 German endurance driver killed in crash

• Civil War

• 1863 Union issues conduct code for soldiers

• Cold War

• 1955 The Bandung Conference concludes

• Crime

• 1922 Forensic evidence is introduced in Australia

• Disaster

• 1908 Tornado flattens towns in Louisiana and Mississippi

• General Interest

• 1800 Library of Congress established
• 1953 Churchill knighted
• 1980 Hostage rescue mission ends in disaster

• Hollywood

• 1982 Jane Fonda’s first Workout video released

• Literary

• 1940 Sue Grafton is born

• Music

• 1962 Patti LaBelle makes her debut on the pop charts, sort of

• Old West

• 1947 Author Willa Cather dies

• Presidential

• 1945 Truman is briefed on Manhattan Project

• Sports

• 1996 Penguins defeat Capitals in marathon hockey game

• Vietnam War

• 1967 Westmoreland makes controversial remarks
• 1971 North Vietnamese attack South Vietnamese installations

• World War I

• 1916 The Easter Rising begins in Dublin

• World War II

• 1876 Erich Raeder, commander in chief of the German navy, is born on this day
•  1940 Britain begins its evacuation of Greece in Operation Demon