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• 708

  Constantine begins reign as Catholic Pope.

• 1199

  King Richard I wounded by crossbow, dies April 6.

• 1306

  Robert the Bruce crowned King of Scots.

• 1598

  Cornelis de Houtman departs for East Indies for spices.

• 1609

  Henry Hudson embarks to find passage to Asia.

• 1634

  First settlers found Catholic colony of Maryland.

• 1647

  Ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay, Cape of Good Hope.

• 1655

  Christiaan Huygens discovers Saturn's moon Titan.

• 1669

  Mount Etna erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000.

• 1814

  Netherlands Bank established.

• 1851

  Yosemite Valley discovery made public in California.

• 1857

  First photo of a solar eclipse by Frederick Laggenheim.

• 1882

  First pancake making demonstration in NYC.

• 1901

  Rock Island train derailment kills 55 in Iowa.

• 1913

  Great Dayton Flood in Ohio, greatest natural disaster.

• 1936

  200-inch mirror for Hale telescope begins journey to California.

• 1937

  Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000/year for ads.

• 1947

  Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.

• 1961

  Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona.

• 1961

  Sputnik 10 carries dog into orbit; later recovered.

• 1965

  Martin Luther King Jr. leads 25,000 to Montgomery, Alabama.

• 1970

  Concorde makes its first supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH).

• 1971

  Boston Patriots become New England Patriots, relocate to Foxboro.

• 1992

  Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after 10 months on Mir.

• 1995

  Mike Tyson released from jail after 3 years.

• 1996

  US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill.

• 2018

  Kim Jong un meets Xi Jinping in Beijing.

• 1975

  King Faisal of Saudi Arabia assassinated by his nephew.

• 1915

  21 die as US F-4 submarine sinks off Hawaiian coast.