| 2012 | One of the heroes of the French Resistance, Raymond Aubrac, dies at the age of 97 |
| 2012 | The American company Apple, Inc. announces it is worth over $600 billion dollars, making the technology company the largest in the world by market capitalization |
| 2011 | Over 230,000 acres of land, including the town Fort Davis, are destroyed by wildfires in the state of Texas |
| 2011 | Following a show in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the band U2's tour, 360 degrees, becomes the highest grossing music tour of all time |
| 2010 | Bronislaw Komorowski becomes Acting President of Poland after a plane carrying President Lech Kaczynski and top Polish officials crashes, leaving no survivors |
| 1998 | Negotiators from various factions sign the Good Friday Agreement, a plan for peace in Northern Ireland. |
| 1995 | "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 24 performances |
| 1995 | New York City bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more |
| 1994 | "Les Miserables," opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka |
| 1994 | 58th Golf Masters Championship: Jose M Olazabal wins, shooting a 279 |
| 1993 | BPAA U.S. Open by Del Ballard Jr |
| 1993 | Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (Islanders) after 38 straight loses |
| 1993 | Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak |
| 1992 | 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka |
| 1992 | Floriade (Flower Show) opens at Hague, Netherlands |
| 1992 | NHL strike ends after 10 days |
| 1991 | Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138 |
| 1991 | Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores NHL record 93rd playoff goal |
| 1991 | Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd and 42nd St, New York City) |
| 1991 | Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51) |
| 1990 | CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan |
| 1990 | Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown |
| 1989 | 10th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 1989 | 24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams, Jr., Alabama |
| 1989 | Intel corp announces shipment of 80-486 chip |
| 1989 | H. J. Heinz, Van Camp Seafood and Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins |
| 1988 | 52nd Golf Masters Championship: Sandy Lyle wins, shooting a 281 |
| 1988 | 8th Golden Raspberry Awards: Leonard Part 6 wins |
| 1988 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA San Diego Inamori Golf Classic |
| 1988 | Herschel Walker performs Fort Worth Ballet |
| 1988 | Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2 |
| 1986 | "Big Deal" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 70 performances |
| 1986 | Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan |
| 1986 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1985 | At 80 Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game |
| 1985 | Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT)-Patrick Division Semifinals-Caps hold 1-0 lead |
| 1985 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-51-B mission |
| 1984 | Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle |
| 1984 | John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
| 1984 | U.S. Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors |
| 1983 | Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit |
| 1983 | Caps 3-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isles win series 3-2 |
| 1983 | Hennie Kuiper (Netherlands) wins Paris-Roubaix cycle race |
| 1983 | Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO |
| 1983 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
| 1982 | Los Angeles Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton in 3rd period, win in OT 6-5 |
| 1982 | Penguins 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Preliminary- Isles hold 2-1 lead |
| 1981 | "Caveman" with Ringo premieres |
| 1981 | Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded |
| 1981 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1981 | Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament |
| 1979 | J. R. Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome |
| 1979 | Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian and a Bulgarian |
| 1978 | Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced |
| 1977 | 41st Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 276 |
| 1977 | Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inn game (3:17) |
| 1976 | Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed - Yankees win 9-7 |
| 1976 | Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title |
| 1975 | Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs |
| 1974 | American Boccaccio Association forms |
| 1974 | Magicians Penn and Teller 1st meet |
| 1974 | Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir |
| 1973 | BEA flight to Basel, Switzerland, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143 |
| 1973 | Kansas City opens its new park, Royals Stadium, with 12-1 rout of Rangers |
| 1973 | Pakistan suspends constitution |
| 1972 | 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars |
| 1972 | U.S., U.S.S.R. and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons |
| 1971 | 1st baseball game at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, Phils beat Expos 4-1 |
| 1971 | U.S. table tennis team arrives in China PR |
| 1968 | "George M!" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 435 performances |
| 1968 | 40th Academy Awards - "Heat of the Night," Rod Steiger and K Hepburn win |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1968 | Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington, New Zealand, 51 died |
| 1967 | 39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons," E Taylor and P Scofield win |
| 1964 | Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project |
| 1964 | Iranian motor launch catches fire and sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf) |
| 1963 | Thresher, U.S. atomic-powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston |
| 1963 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1962 | 1st baseball game at LA's Dodger Stadium, they lose 6-3 to Reds |
| 1962 | 1st major league game in Houston, Colt .45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2 |
| 1962 | New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th home run |
| 1961 | 25th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 280 |
| 1961 | Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel |
| 1961 | Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to John F. Kennedy about New Guinea |
| 1961 | New Washington Senators loses 1st regular-season game 4-3 to White Sox |
| 1960 | 24th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 282 |
| 1960 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1960 | Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill |
| 1959 | Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda |
| 1958 | Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco |
| 1957 | John Osborne's "Entertainer," premieres in London |
| 1957 | Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns |
| 1957 | Suez canal reopens for all traffic |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| 1956 | Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs |
| 1956 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1 |
| 1955 | 19th Golf Masters Championship: Cary Middlecoff wins, shooting a 279 |
| 1955 | 9th NBA Championship: Syrac Nats beat Ft. Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 3 |
| 1955 | Dr. Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine |
| 1955 | Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely |
| 1954 | KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | "House of Wax," 1st 3-D movie, released (New York City) |
| 1953 | 7th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 1 |
| 1949 | 13th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 282 |
| 1948 | Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek |
| 1947 | Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers) |
| 1947 | King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned |
| 1946 | 1st election for Japanese Diet |
| 1945 | Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald, Czechoslovakia |
| 1945 | Canadian troops conquer Deventer |
| 1945 | General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland" |
| 1945 | German troops attack Ijsselbrug |
| 1945 | NFL's Boston Yankees and Brooklyn Tigers merge |
| 1945 | U.S. troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa |
| 1945 | U.S. troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany |
| 1945 | William Schuman and Antony Tudors ballet premieres in New York City |
| 1944 | "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously |
| 1944 | Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis |
| 1943 | 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis |
| 1943 | General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia |
| 1942 | Cigarettes and candy rationed in Holland |
| 1941 | German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica |
| 1940 | Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government" |
| 1939 | Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews |
| 1939 | Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania |
| 1938 | 2nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France |
| 1938 | Austria becomes a state of Germany |
| 1938 | New York makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license |
| 1936 | 200" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena |
| 1935 | Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London |
| 1934 | Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 3 games to 1 |
| 1930 | George Headley scores 223 vs. England at Kingston |
| 1930 | Synthetic rubber 1st produced |
| 1925 | Czarina re-christened Stalingrad (now Volgograd) |
| 1925 | Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald |
| 1924 | Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play |
| 1923 | Hitler demands "hatred and more hatred" in Berlin |
| 1917 | Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers |
| 1916 | 1st professional golf tournament held |
| 1913 | President Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1 |
| 1913 | Walter Johnson begins string of 56 consecutive scoreless innings |
| 1912 | RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st and last voyage |
| 1896 | Spiridon Louis wins 1st Olympic marathon (2:58:50) |
| 1887 | President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Illinois |
| 1887 | Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen |
| 1884 | U.S. Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo |
| 1882 | Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco and Hawaii) |
| 1878 | California St. Cable Car RR Co starts service |
| 1877 | 1st human cannonball act performed in London |
| 1877 | Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia, South Carolina |
| 1872 | 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans |
| 1872 | Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22 |
| 1871 | William Hammond Hall's maps and surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted |
| 1869 | Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9 |
| 1868 | 1st performance of John Brahms' "Ein german Requiem" |
| 1868 | Brits defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala |
| 1866 | American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms |
| 1865 | At Appomattox, General Lee issues General Order #9, his last |
| 1864 | Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of Mexico |
| 1863 | Rebel General Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tennessee |
| 1849 | Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (New York City); sold rights for $100 |
| 1845 | More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa |
| 1841 | New York "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley |
| 1835 | Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile |
| 1825 | 1st hotel in Hawaii opens |
| 1825 | Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Leon |
| 1816 | 2nd Bank of U.S. chartered |
| 1815 | Austria declares war on realm of Naples |
| 1790 | Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth |
| 1790 | U.S. Patent system forms |
| 1741 | Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz |
| 1739 | Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing |
| 1694 | Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale |
| 1656 | Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon |
| 1589 | Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg |
| 1552 | Henri II of France occupies Metz |
| 1516 | 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice |
| 1512 | Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen |
| 1500 | France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan |
| 879 | Louis III, crowned King of France |
| 847 | St. Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 837 | Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 AUs of Earth |
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