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1947 – The aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-16) was decommissioned.

1956 – The first flight of a Douglas C-133 Cargomaster.

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1958 – The first flight of a V-107 took place.

1998 – Disney’s Animal Kingdom, the fourth of four theme parks built at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, opened.

Noah’s Ark is the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative by which God spares Noah, his family, and a remnant of all the world’s animals from the flood.

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1948 – The battleship USS Texas (BB-35) was decommissioned.

1995 – The European remote sensing satellite (ERS-2) was launched.

The Northrop B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy penetration strategic bomber, featuring low observable stealth technology designed for penetrating dense anti-aircraft defenses; it is a flying wing design with a crew of two.

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1940 – The first Pony Express Statue was unveiled in St. Joseph, Missouri.

2004 – A tornado outbreak that affected parts of the U.S. Upper Midwest spawned thirty tornadoes in eastern Iowa, extending into northern and central Illinois and Indiana and killed eight people.

The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Carried out by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing destroyed one-third of the building, killed 168 people, and injured more than 680 others. The blast caused an estimated $652 million worth of damage.

1987 – Homer Simpson first appeared on TV.

1995 – The Oklahoma City bombing, a domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, took place.

April 18, 1772 – Archibald Arnott, a British Army surgeon who was best known as Napoleon’s last physician at St. Helena.

April 19, 1953 – Sara Simeoni, an Italian former high jumper, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics and twice set a world record in the women’s high jump.

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