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• 1607 – English colonists of the Jamestown Settlement (recreation pictured) make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
• 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia.
• 1865 – Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
• 1956 – The first container ship leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
• 1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas would be devastated by the year's only F5 tornado.

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