1457 BC Battle of Megiddo: Egyptian forces of Thutmose III defeat a large Canaanite coalition under King of Kadesh. First battle recorded with a reliable account.
1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge
1746 Jacobite Rising 1745: Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart
1900 US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
1917 Vladimir Lenin issues his radical “April Theses” calling for Soviets to take power during the Russian Revolution [OS Apr 4]
1948 Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris
2003 Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union
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Today in Film & TV
1932 Short film “The Music Box” released in the US, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (1932 Academy Award Best Live Action Short Film)
Today in Music
1849 Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera “Le prophète” premieres in Paris
Today in Sport
1929 New York Yankees become first MLB team to permanently feature numbers on backs of uniforms; numbers correspond to position in batting order
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1943 Swiss scientist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD
Famous Weddings
1966 Actor and comedian Michael Palin (22) weds Helen Gibbins
1994 American singer and piano player Harry Connick, Jr. (26) weds American model Jill Goodacre (30) at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, Louisiana
1994 British actor Dudley Moore (58) weds actress Nicole Rothschild
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