"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."

-- Dr. Thomas F. Jones Jr., American college official (1916-1981)

Actress-comedian Carol Burnett is 76.

R&B singer Maurice Williams is 71.

Songwriter-musician Duane Eddy is 71.

Singer Bobby Rydell is 67.

Rock musician Gary Wright is 66.

Actor Giancarlo Esposito is 51.

Actress Joan Chen (inset) is 48.

Rock musician Chris Mars is 48.

Actor-singer Michael Damian is 47.

Actor Jet Li is 46.

Rock musician Jimmy Stafford (Train) is 45.

Actor-comedian Kevin James is 44.

Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste is 42.

Rapper T-Boz (TLC) is 39.

Country musician Michael Jeffers (Pinmonkey) is 37.

Rock musician Jose Pasillas (Incubus) is 33.

Actor Jason Earles ("Hannah Montana") is 32.

Actress Marnette Patterson is 29.

Actor Channing Tatum is 29.

Actor Aaron Weeks is 23.

On April 26, 1607, English colonists went ashore at present-day Cape Henry, Va., on an expedition to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.

In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was surrounded by federal troops near Bowling Green, Va., and killed.

In 1909, Abdul Hamid II was deposed as sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

In 1937, planes from Nazi Germany raided the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

In 1945, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the head of France's Vichy government during World War II, was arrested.

In 1964, the African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania.

In 1968, the United States exploded beneath the Nevada desert a 1.3 megaton nuclear device called "Boxcar."

In 1970, the Stephen Sondheim musical "Company" opened at the Alvin Theatre in New York.

In 1986, the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union.

In 1989, actress-comedian Lucille Ball died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at age 77.

In 2000, Vermont Gov. Howard Dean signed the nation's first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.

In 2004, the government unveiled its new, colorized $50 bill.