^B{^#!16!8 April^N! Feast day of St Walter of Pontoise, St Julia Billart, St Perpetuus of Tours, and St Dionysus of Corinth.
^B{1513^B} Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon arrived in Florida and claimed it for Spain. ^B{1838^B} Isambard Brunel's steamship ^I{Great Western^I} set off on its first voyage, from Bristol to New York; the journey took 15 days. ^B{1898^B} Lord Kitchener defeated Sudanese leader the Mahdi, at the Battle of Atbara. ^B{1908^B} Herbert Asquith became prime minister of Britain. ^B{1939^B} In Albania, King Zog abdicated after Italy occupied the country. ^B{1946^B} The League of Nations met for the last time. ^B{1953^B} British colonial authorities in Kenya sentenced Jomo Kenyatta to seven years' imprisonment for allegedly organizing the Mau guerrillas.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Adrian Boult, English conductor, ^B{1889^B}; Mary Pickford, US film actress, ^B{1893^B}; Ian Smith, Rhodesian prime minister, ^B{1919^B}; Eric Porter, English actor, ^B{1928^B}; Dorothy Tutin, English actress, ^B{1931^B}; Hywel Bennett, Welsh actor, ^B{1944^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Caracalla, Roman emperor, assassinated, ^B{AD 217^B}; Domenico Donizetti, Italian composer, ^B{1848^B}; Elisha Graves Otis, US inventor of the safety lift, ^B{1861^B}; Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, ^B{1973^B}; Marian Anderson, US contralto, ^B{1993^B}.
