- 1341 – Italian scholar and poet Petrarch took the title poet laureate at a ceremony in Rome.
- 1740 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Royal Navy captured the Spanish ship of the line Princesa and mustered her into British service.
- 1820 – A Greek peasant discovered a statue of a woman with its arms missing—the Venus de Milo (pictured)—on the Aegean island of Milos.
- 1968 – BOAC Flight 712 suffered an engine fire shortly after take-off from London Heathrow Airport, leading to deaths of five people on board, including flight attendant Barbara Jane Harrison , who was later awarded a posthumous George Cross for her heroism during the accident.
- 2013 – Two Sunni Muslim Islamic extremist groups, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Al-Nusra Front, merged to become the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant , also known as ISIS.
More anniversaries: April 7 – April 8 – April 9
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