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• ...that Gordon Dam (pictured), a 140-metre (460 ft) tall arch dam on the Gordon River, is the tallest in Tasmania, Australia?
• ...that the USS Mount Vernon, a control ship in the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, was destroyed off the coast of Hawaii in 2005?
• ...that New Albany, Indiana's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky?
• ...that compression of the duodenum by the aorta and the overlying superior mesenteric artery may lead to nausea, bilious vomiting, abdominal pain and weight loss?
• ...that turquerie became popular in Europe and America primarily due to the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu?
• ...that as a result of a 1972 referendum, the boundary between time zones in British Columbia ended up being different from the provincial boundary?
• ...that the C-Leg microprocessor-controlled prosthetic leg records the motion of the user?
• ...that the Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology is the only research center in the world built on a coral reef?
• ...that among the effects of Hurricane Dennis in Georgia was the death of a Decatur man from a tree that fell on his bedroom?
  

• Soyuz TMA-12 is launched, carrying Yi So-yeon (pictured), the first Korean in space, for a mission to the International Space Station.
• The Olympic torch relay is delayed and the flame extinguished by security officials as disruption from protestors continues in Paris.
• At its summit in Bucharest, NATO invites Albania and Croatia to join the alliance.
• Jules Verne, the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle, successfully performs a fully automated docking with the International Space Station.
• Greek and Turkish Cypriots open a crossing at Ledra Street, a main shopping street in Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus.
• The Movement for Democratic Change secures a plurality of seats in the Zimbabwean parliamentary election, defeating incumbent President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF. Results in the presidential election remain unclear.

April 9: Araw ng Kagitingan in the Philippines.

• 1865 – Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union troops led by Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.
• 1917 – World War I: The Canadian Corps began the first wave of attacks at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in Vimy, France.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces defeated Allied troops at the Battle of Bataan on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines before beginning to forcibly transfer more than 90,000 prisoners of war to prison camps in the Bataan Death March.
• 1959 – NASA announced the selection of the Mercury Seven (pictured), the first astronauts in Project Mercury.
• 1989 – An anti-Soviet demonstration in Tbilisi, Georgia was quashed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

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