A look back at history on this date
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Burmese military and security forces commit the Bago massacre, during which at least 82 civilians are killed.
Soyuz MS-18 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying three members of the Expedition 64 crew to the International Space Station.
Soyuz MS-16 is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the Expedition 62/63 crew to the International Space Station.
The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, take place.
A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.
At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.
Six people and the perpetrator are killed and 17 injured in a mass shooting at a shopping mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands.
In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.
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