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1919 - At their Ard-Fheis, Sinn Féin proposes an Executive Council of the Irish National Alliance which will challenge the right of any foreign parliament to make laws for Ireland.
1939 - De Valera announces that all references to Great Britain and the King will be removed from new passports.
1965 - Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore first describes 'Moores Law' which states that due to improvements in technology computers will double in power every 18 months but still cost the same.
1980 - Johnny Logan wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with the song "What's Another Year".
1987 - The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show.
1993 - Around 77 people are feared to have died in a fire at the besieged headquarters of the Branch Davidian sect near Waco, Texas.
1995 - A huge car bomb exploded at a government building in Oklahoma City killing 168 people. Timothy McVeigh, a 33-year old Gulf War veteran, was convicted of the attack and sentenced to death by lethal injection
2002 - Ireland's first cash-free petrol station, Carrigdhoun Service Station, near Ballygarvan, Co Cork, opens with all business being transacted by credit card or petrol card.
2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected as Pope Benedict XVI , the eighth German pontiff
2011 - Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
2012 - Dylan Moran became the first professional English-speaking comedian to perform in Russia, with his routine mentioning Russia's new law banning "homosexual propaganda" and jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
2013 - Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.
2018 - Miguel Díaz-Canel is sworn in as President of Cuba, marking the first time since 1959 that Cuba has had a president other than Fidel or Raúl Castro.