More than 7000 refugees are killed after the when the German ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.

The first flight of the B-52 Stratofortress takes place.

92 people are killed in Bangladesh when the heaviest hailstones ever recorded (~1 kilogram) fall.

Tiger Woods becomes the youngest winner the USA Masters Golf Tournament.

The Union Flag is adopted as the flag for use on the English and Scottish ships.

The Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is overthrown.

The People’s Republic of China hosts the USA table tennis team for a week-long visit in an attempt to thaw relations with the United States,

Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to end the Eighty Years’ War.

The retired tennis player Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS that he got from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.

Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.