^B{^#!16!10 April^N! Feast day of St Hedda of Peterborough, Saints Beocca and Hethor, St Bademus, St Macarius of Ghent, St Paternus of Abdinghhof, St Michael de Sanctis, St Fulbert of Chartres, and the Martyrs under the Danes.
^B{1633^B} Bananas, never seen before in England, were on sale in a London shop. ^B{1820^B} The first British settlers landed at Algoa Bay, South Africa. ^B{1841^B} The US newspaper ^I{New York Tribune^I} was first published. ^B{1849^B} The safety pin was patented in the US; unaware of this, a British inventor patented his own safety pin later the same year. ^B{1864^B} Austrian Archduke Maximilian was made Emperor of Mexico. ^B{1972^B} Earthquakes in Iran killed over 3,000 people.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}King James V of Scotland, ^B{1512^B}; William Hazlitt, English essayist and critic, ^B{1778^B}; William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army, ^B{1829^B}; Joseph Pulitzer, US newspaper proprietor who founded the Pulitzer Prize for literature and journalism, ^B{1847^B}; Max von Sydow, Swedish actor, ^B{1929^B}; Omar Sharif, Egyptian film actor, ^B{1932^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Joseph-Louis Lagrange, French mathematician, ^B{1813^B}; Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, ^B{1909^B}; Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary leader, shot by government troops, ^B{1919^B}; Auguste LumiΦre, French cinema pioneer, ^B{1954^B}; Evelyn Waugh, English novelist, ^B{1966^B}; Chris Hani, South African ANC leader, asssassinated, ^B{1993^B}.
