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Notable anniversaries in history for today: April 4
- 250th: 1774 - Oliver Goldsmith Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at age 17.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Gil Hodges; baseball player/manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Mets).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Peter Vaughan; actor (Haunted Honeymoon, Die Die My Darling).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of David Melville; professor/director (Middlesex Polytechnic).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Lawrence A Hough; American rower (Pairs without cox-1968 Olympics-silver).
- 80th: 1944 - British troops capture Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 80th: 1944 - Charles De Gaulle forms new French regime in exile, with communists.
- 80th: 1944 - John Peale Bishop, American poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at age 51.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Julie Carmen in Mount Vernon, New York, USA; actress (Gloria, Last Plane Out).
- 70th: 1954 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open.
- 60th: 1964 - The Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" single goes #1 and stays #1 for five weeks.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Gregory Thomas Kraft in Detroit, Michigan, USA; PGA golfer (1993 Walt Disney-second).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Robbie Rist in California, USA; actor (Oliver - The Brady Bunch).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of O J Santiago; tight end (Atlanta Falcons).
- 50th: 1974 - Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th.
- 40th: 1984 - Birth of Sean May, American basketball player.
- 40th: 1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
- 40th: 1984 - John Arnold, cricket player (England bat versus New Zealand 1931, scored 34 only Test), dies.
- 30th: 1994 - First game played at Jacobs Field; Cleveland Indians beat Seattle Mariners 4-3 in 11 innings.
- 30th: 1994 - 56th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Arkansas Razorbacks beats Duke 76-72.
- 30th: 1994 - KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, three killed.
- 30th: 1994 - Largest opening day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706.
- 30th: 1994 - Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Mosaic Communications (later renamed Netscape).
- 30th: 1994 - Olga Lowina, Dutch yodeler (Edelweisskapel), dies at age 69.
- 30th: 1994 - Death of Virginia "Ginny" Simms at age 77; actress, singer (Kay Kyser Band).
- 15th: 2009 - In Binghampton, New York, USA, a gunman kills 13 people in the American Civic Association building after taking dozens hostage, then kills himself.
- 15th: 2009 - Ivan Gasparovic wins re-election after the second round of voting in Slovakia's presidential election.
- 10th: 2014 - Death of Kumba Ialá, President of Guinea-Bissau (2000-2003) (born 1953).
- 5th: 2019 - The Libyan National Army (LNA) launches a surprise offensive in western Libya, moving units towards the Government of National Accord-held capital Tripoli and capturing Gharyan.
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