1865 John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was surrounded and killed by federal troops near Bowling Green, Va.
1937 Planes from Nazi Germany raided the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
1945 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the head of France's Vichy government during World War II, was arrested.
1962 The American Moon rocket Ranger IV lands on the far side of the Moon but fails to send back pictures due a technical fault.
1982 A quarter of century ago the founder of best formula 1 technical web site Steven De Groote was born.
Happy birthday Tomba!
...and still there. I mean it's not a good name for the B-day greeting thread, believe me. 
With this much fun here I'm going to be 121 years old 
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