• 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
• 1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia.
• 1965 - A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
• 2005 - Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
• 2007 - Queen's Pier is officially closed by the Hong Kong Government, after a bitter struggle by conservationists, in order to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kong's Central district

• 1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (d. 1616)
• 1933 - Carol Burnett, American comedian
• 1963 - Jet Li, Chinese martial artist

• 1989 - Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)

• In the Roman Catholic Church:

             Our Lady of Good Counsel