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In 1564, William Shakespeare was baptized at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.

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In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was surrounded by federal troops near Bowling Green, Va., and killed.

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On April 26, 1986, the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire killed at lea…