Donald Trump becomes the first former United States president to be indicted by a grand jury.
The Israeli Army kills 17 Palestinians and wounds 1,400 in Gaza during Land Day protests.
SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.
Min Aung Hlaing is appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces.
Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.
Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the Australian region makes landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.
Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament (MP), is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: in the first organized response against Israeli policies by a Palestinian collective since 1948, Palestinians create the first Land Day.
Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
Delta Air Lines Flight 9877 crashes at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, killing 19.
Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna. Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig.