Coup d’état attempt on President Hugo Chávez failed in Venezuela.
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Sixty-six Jewish families founded the City of Tel Aviv.
Paleontologists unearthed dinosaur eggs with embryonic bones inside in China.
The RMS Titanic departed Queenstown, Ireland, for its fatal journey to New York.
Anastasius I Dicorus ascended to the throne of the Byzantine Empire at the age of sixty-one.
The War of the Roses ended with King Henry VI surrendering to King Edward IV in London.
