1588: Thomas Hobbes is born; goes on to write Leviathan
1837: Algernon Swinburne is born [etexts]
1906: Lord Buckley is born
1917: Robert Bloch is born
1926: H. L. Mencken is arrested in front of a crowd in Boston for selling a banned issue of the American Mercury
1930: Mahatma Gandhi picks up a tiny lump of salt on a coast in India, thereby breaking British law
1976: The April 5 Movement culminates in the Tiananmen Incident in Beijing
1994: Kurt Cobain ends his life rather spectacularly but is not found until a couple days later, probably smelling like something other than teen spirit