| 2013 | Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., publishes a letter to Chinese customers, addressing issues regarding the company's warranty policies in China |
| 2013 | In preparation for plans to step down in 2015, the President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir gives an order to release all political prisoners |
| 2012 | Eli Young Band wins song of the year for 'Crazy Girl' and Taylor Swift wins 'Entertainer of the Year' at the 2012 Academy of Country Music awards |
| 2012 | In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood nominates chairman Khairat El-Shater as a candidate for the May 2012 presidential elections |
| 2011 | The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports 32,788 traffic deaths; the lowest number of deaths since 1949 |
| 2011 | In Greece, Crete withstands a 6.2 magnitude earthquake |
| 2010 | Northern Ireland's electricity is knocked out; nearly 25,000 homes remain powerless |
| 2002 | 64th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Georgia Dome Atlanta |
| 2001 | 20th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at St. Louis |
| 1998 | World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota |
| 1998 | Paula Jones' sexual harassment case against President Bill Clinton is thrown out of court |
| 1997 | 69 year old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse Crunch |
| 1997 | Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU) |
| 1996 | 58th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Syracuse 76-67 |
| 1995 | Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee |
| 1995 | New York Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23 |
| 1994 | Bob Feller Statue on Indians Plaza, dedicated |
| 1993 | Alan Bennett's "Madness of George III," premieres in London |
| 1993 | Stephane Powers weds Patrick de la Chenais |
| 1992 | 5th Largest wrestling crowd (64,287-Toronto SkyDome) |
| 1992 | Battleship USS Missouri, on which, Japan surrendered, decommissioned |
| 1992 | Last defendant in St. John sex assault case sentenced to 3 years prob |
| 1992 | NFL decides to stay with 17 week sched instead of expanded 18 games |
| 1992 | NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history |
| 1992 | Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman |
| 1992 | WA beat NSW by 44 runs to win the Sheffield Shield Final |
| 1992 | World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former U.S.S.R. |
| 1991 | 53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Champion: Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65 |
| 1991 | Dwight Goodin signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with New York Mets |
| 1991 | Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years |
| 1991 | Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race |
| 1991 | U.S. minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour |
| 1990 | "Ha!" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting |
| 1990 | 19th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King |
| 1990 | 2nd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus wins |
| 1990 | 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn 88-81 |
| 1990 | CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger |
| 1990 | Guns and Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames |
| 1990 | It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers |
| 1990 | Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour |
| 1990 | Wrestlemania VI, 67,678 in Toronto, Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan |
| 1989 | 1st New York Mets - New York Yankee game in New York City since 1983, Yankees win 4-3 |
| 1989 | A Bartlett Giamatti replaces Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of baseball |
| 1986 | Delhi beat Haryana by innings and 141 to win Ranji Trophy |
| 1986 | U.S. submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea |
| 1986 | World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel |
| 1985 | 47th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Villanova beats Georgetown 84-75 |
| 1984 | 14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000 |
| 1984 | 3rd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: Southern California beats Tennessee 72-61 |
| 1984 | 8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours |
| 1983 | Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England |
| 1983 | New York Islander Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons seasons |
| 1982 | Anguilla, dependent territory of U.K., adopts constitution |
| 1982 | U.S. formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama |
| 1981 | CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax) |
| 1980 | Baseball Players Association votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games |
| 1980 | Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz |
| 1980 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1980 | Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist |
| 1979 | Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah |
| 1979 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| 1977 | Attempt for Moslem state in Chad fails |
| 1977 | NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason games |
| 1976 | Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer |
| 1975 | Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer |
| 1974 | Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran |
| 1974 | Pioneer Hall opens |
| 1973 | Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Classic |
| 1973 | Japan allows its citizens to own gold |
| 1973 | John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence |
| 1972 | 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico |
| 1972 | Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike |
| 1971 | U.S. and Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere |
| 1971 | United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership |
| 1970 | Bud Selig becomes CEO of Milwaukee Brewers |
| 1970 | John and Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations |
| 1970 | Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bank |
| 1970 | President Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on January 1, 1971 |
| 1969 | Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corp |
| 1969 | Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals |
| 1968 | KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1967 | 1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work |
| 1966 | 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal) |
| 1966 | China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution" |
| 1965 | South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years |
| 1965 | Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control |
| 1964 | 10 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April |
| 1964 | John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years |
| 1964 | Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno," premieres in New York City |
| 1963 | New York Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Dodgers for $40,000 |
| 1963 | New York City's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike |
| 1963 | Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premier on TV |
| 1961 | Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye |
| 1960 | 2nd French atom bomb explodes in the Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria |
| 1960 | Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee |
| 1960 | RCA TIROS (TV and Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched |
| 1960 | U Nu elected premier of Burma |
| 1958 | KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, California (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank |
| 1957 | Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising |
| 1957 | WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, Louisiana (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | World's biggest glass oven used |
| 1956 | 10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank and Damn Yankees win |
| 1956 | KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380 |
| 1955 | Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam |
| 1955 | EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus |
| 1955 | WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1954 | 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens |
| 1954 | 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC |
| 1954 | Earthquake and tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed |
| 1954 | U.S. Air Force Academy forms |
| 1954 | WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea |
| 1953 | KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Walcott Worrell and Weekes all make centuries in innings vs. India |
| 1952 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1948 | H H H Johnson bowls WI to win vs. England 10-96 match on debut |
| 1948 | Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow |
| 1947 | 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat |
| 1946 | 400,000 U.S. mine workers strike |
| 1946 | Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo, Hawaii |
| 1946 | Van Acker forms Belgian government (without CVP) |
| 1946 | Weight Watchers forms |
| 1945 | 1st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes |
| 1945 | Canadian troop free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo and Eibergen |
| 1945 | Ruhrgebied sealed off by U.S. 1st and 9th army |
| 1945 | Sons of Elburger Soccer team forms in Elburg |
| 1945 | U.S. forces invade Okinawa during WW II |
| 1944 | German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed |
| 1944 | Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India |
| 1942 | Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor |
| 1942 | Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2 |
| 1941 | Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine," premieres in New York City |
| 1941 | Navy takes over Treasure Island, in San Francisco Bay |
| 1941 | Nazi's forbid Jews access to cafes |
| 1941 | Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq |
| 1939 | U.S. recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain |
| 1938 | Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York |
| 1938 | Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1937 | Aden becomes British crown colony |
| 1936 | Orissa constituted a province of British India |
| 1935 | 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, New York |
| 1934 | Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers |
| 1933 | Hammond scores 336* vs. New Zealand at Auckland, 47 fours 10 sixes |
| 1933 | Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany |
| 1933 | Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses |
| 1931 | Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000 |
| 1931 | Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball |
| 1930 | "Blue Angel," starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America |
| 1929 | Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls |
| 1929 | Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven, Netherlands opens |
| 1929 | Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo |
| 1929 | Luis Bunuel releases "Un Chien Andalou," 24-minute film |
| 1929 | Morehouse College, Spellman College and Atlanta University affiliate |
| 1928 | Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse |
| 1927 | 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice |
| 1926 | Halsteren Soccer team forms in Halsteren |
| 1925 | 1st transmission of Danish state radio |
| 1925 | Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated |
| 1924 | Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co |
| 1924 | Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but General Ludendorff acquitted |
| 1924 | Imperial Airways forms in Britain |
| 1920 | Church disforms in Wales |
| 1920 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle (PCHA), 3 games to 2 |
| 1918 | England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force |
| 1918 | Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St. New York City |
| 1916 | 1st U.S. national women's swiming championships held |
| 1914 | UVS Soccer team forms in Lead |
| 1910 | Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk |
| 1905 | British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya |
| 1900 | 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People" |
| 1899 | North Carolina Mutual opens doors for business |
| 1891 | London-Paris telephone connection opens |
| 1891 | Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti |
| 1889 | 1st dishwashing machine marketed in Chicago |
| 1888 | Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam |
| 1881 | Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem |
| 1881 | Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens |
| 1876 | 1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Philadelphia-5) |
| 1873 | British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die |
| 1873 | Mehmed Kemals play "Vatan" premeres in Constantinople |
| 1872 | 1st edition of The Standard |
| 1868 | Hampton Institute opens |
| 1867 | Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama |
| 1867 | International Exhibition opens in Paris |
| 1867 | Singapore, Penang and Malakka become British crown colonies |
| 1865 | Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army |
| 1863 | 1st wartime conscription law in U.S. goes into effect |
| 1862 | Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA |
| 1853 | Cincinnati became 1st U.S. city to pay fire fighters a regular salary |
| 1850 | San Francisco County Government established |
| 1836 | Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands |
| 1826 | Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine |
| 1803 | French law rules the use of intention |
| 1793 | Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000 |
| 1792 | Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce |
| 1789 | House of Representatives 1st full meeting, New York City, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker |
| 1778 | Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates "$" symbol |
| 1776 | Friedrich von Klinger's "Sturm und Drang," premieres in Leipzig |
| 1748 | Ruins of Pompeii found |
| 1724 | Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War |
| 1724 | Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters |
| 1663 | Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty) |
| 1581 | Portugese Cortes subjects himself on Philip II |
| 1578 | William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation |
| 1572 | Bloys van Treslong conquers Brielle |
| 1504 | English guilds/corp goes under state control |
| 1064 | Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik |
| 705 | Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI |
| 527 | Justinianus becomes compassionate emperor of Byzantium |
| 374 | Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth |
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