| 1999 | 63rd Golf Masters Championship: |
| 1996 | "King and I," premieres at Neil Simon Theater in New York City for 781 perform |
| 1996 | Detroit Red Wings become 2nd NHL team to win 60 games in a season |
| 1993 | 57th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 277 |
| 1993 | Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec) |
| 1993 | Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie |
| 1992 | BPAA U.S. Open by Robert Lawrence |
| 1992 | Country singer Lee Greenwood weds Miss Tennessee 1989 (Kimberly Payne) |
| 1992 | Euro-Disney opens near Paris |
| 1992 | Indians set team record for long game lose to Red Sox (19 inn - 6 hours) |
| 1992 | Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3 |
| 1991 | "Miss Saigon," opens at Broadway Theater New York City |
| 1991 | New York City's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio and Television" |
| 1991 | Space Shuttle STS-37, Atlantis 8, lands |
| 1991 | U.N. Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration |
| 1990 | Angels Mark Langston and Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle, 1-0 |
| 1990 | New York Lotto pays $35 million to two winner (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51) |
| 1990 | New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 6-1, Rangers lead 3-1 in preliminary |
| 1989 | 1st playoff goal scored by a goalie, Ron Hextall of Philadelphia |
| 1989 | Flyers, scores short-handed into an empty net beating Caps 8-5 |
| 1988 | Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens |
| 1987 | Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs Kansas City Royals |
| 1987 | Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39) |
| 1986 | A Canadain 1921 50 cent piece auctioned in New York City for $22,000 |
| 1986 | Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days |
| 1986 | Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km |
| 1986 | KXA-AM in Seattle, Washington changes call letters to KRPM |
| 1985 | Caps 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-0 lead |
| 1984 | Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair |
| 1984 | Chinese troops invade Vietnam |
| 1984 | General Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union |
| 1984 | Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. party leader Chernenko elected president |
| 1983 | 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards: Inchon! wins |
| 1983 | 47th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 280 |
| 1983 | 55th Academy Awards - "Gandhi," Ben Kingsley and Meryl Streep win |
| 1983 | NASA launches RCA-F |
| 1982 | 46th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Stadler wins, shooting a 284 |
| 1982 | Penguins 5-Isles 2-Preliminary-Series tied at 2-2 |
| 1981 | Larry Holmes beats Trevor Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1981 | Race riot in London area of Brixton |
| 1981 | Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him |
| 1981 | Valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen |
| 1980 | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment |
| 1980 | Paul McCartney releases "Coming Up" |
| 1979 | Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala |
| 1977 | Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 mile |
| 1976 | 40th Golf Masters Championship: Ray Floyd wins, shooting a 271 |
| 1975 | Hank Aaron returns as a Milwaukee Brewer player |
| 1975 | JP Parise 11 sec OT goal-Isles 1st playoff advance eliminates Rangers |
| 1974 | WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested |
| 1972 | Benjamin L Hooks, named to FCC |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1971 | "Johnny Johnson" opens/closes at Edison Theater New York City for 1 performance |
| 1971 | 35th Golf Masters Championship: Charles Coody wins, shooting a 279 |
| 1971 | WBFF TV channel 45 in Baltimore, MD (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days |
| 1970 | Beatles' "Let It Be," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks |
| 1970 | San Francisco beats Cincinnati 2-1, only day Reds aren't in 1st place in 1970 |
| 1969 | South African president Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse |
| 1968 | Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president |
| 1968 | President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act |
| 1968 | West Berlin student Rudi Dutschke seriously wounded at demonstration |
| 1968 | WHED TV channel 15 in Hanover, New Hampshire (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | "Illya Darling" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 320 performances |
| 1967 | Harlem (New York City) voters defy Congress and reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr |
| 1967 | Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," premieres |
| 1966 | 30th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 288 |
| 1966 | Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire |
| 1965 | 29th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 271 |
| 1965 | 40 tornadoes strike U.S. midwest killing 272 and injuring 5,000 |
| 1964 | "Anyone Can Whistle" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 9 performances |
| 1963 | John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty |
| 1963 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1963 | Warren Spahn beats Mets 6-1 for his 328th win (most by a lefty) |
| 1962 | New York Mets make a losing debut |
| 1961 | Bob Dylan's 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village |
| 1961 | 15th NBA Championship: Bos Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 1 |
| 1961 | Austrian 4th and last government of Raab resigns |
| 1961 | Israel begins Adolf Eichmann WW II war crimes trial |
| 1960 | 1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1) |
| 1959 | "Jamaica" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 558 performances |
| 1959 | Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale hits his 2nd Opening Day home run |
| 1959 | Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory |
| 1958 | Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated in San Francisco |
| 1957 | Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires |
| 1957 | Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off and land vertically |
| 1956 | French government decides to sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria |
| 1956 | Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites |
| 1955 | Sobers starts run of 85 Test Cricket appearances for WI uninterrupted |
| 1954 | Marlene Bauer wins LPGA New Orleans Golf Open |
| 1953 | Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, and Welfare |
| 1951 | President Truman fires General Douglas McArthur |
| 1950 | Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco |
| 1950 | U.S. B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia |
| 1948 | 12th Golf Masters Championship: Claude Harmon wins, shooting a 279 |
| 1947 | Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in modern major-league baseball |
| 1945 | Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum |
| 1945 | SS burns and shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen |
| 1945 | U.S. captures Tsugen Shima |
| 1945 | U.S. soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald" |
| 1945 | U.S. troops conquers Mulheim, Oberhausen, Bochum, Unna, Essen |
| 1944 | RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague |
| 1943 | Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft |
| 1942 | Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized |
| 1941 | Germany blitzes Conventry, England |
| 1941 | Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis |
| 1941 | Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets |
| 1939 | Hungary leaves League of Nations |
| 1936 | Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "On Your Toes," premieres in New York City |
| 1936 | Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1 |
| 1933 | Hermann Goering becomes premier of Prussia |
| 1929 | KLO-AM in Ogden, Utah begins radio transmissions |
| 1929 | Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam |
| 1927 | Chilean General Carlos Ibanez names himself president |
| 1926 | Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent |
| 1925 | Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco |
| 1924 | 1st men's college swimming championships begin |
| 1924 | Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections |
| 1924 | WLS-AM in Chicago, Illinois begins radio transmissions |
| 1921 | Iowa imposed 1st state cigarette tax |
| 1921 | KDKA broadcast 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee) |
| 1921 | Turkestan ASSR forms in Russian SFSR |
| 1917 | Babe Ruth beats New York Yankees, pitching 3-hit 10-3 win for Red Sox |
| 1914 | George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," premieres |
| 1912 | Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid |
| 1907 | New York Giant Roger Bresnahan becomes 1st catcher to wear shin guards |
| 1906 | Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity |
| 1902 | Battle at Rooiwal, South Africa |
| 1900 | U.S. Navy's 1st submarine made its debut |
| 1899 | Treaty of Paris ratifies ends war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US |
| 1898 | President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration |
| 1895 | Anaheim completes it's new electric light system |
| 1891 | 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumor spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews |
| 1890 | Ellis Island designated as an immigration station |
| 1881 | River ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River Ont, 180 die |
| 1881 | Spelman College founded |
| 1876 | Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organizes |
| 1876 | Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan |
| 1865 | Battle of Mobile, Alabama - evacuated by Confederates |
| 1865 | Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction |
| 1863 | Battle of Suffolk, Virginia (Norfleet House) |
| 1862 | Rebels surrender Ft. Pulaski, Georgia-Rebels surrender |
| 1856 | Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans |
| 1848 | Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under king Ferdinand of Austria |
| 1830 | Robert Schumann attends piano concerto by Paganini |
| 1814 | 1st abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba |
| 1801 | Johann von Schiller's "Die Jungfrau von Orleans," premieres in Leipzig |
| 1713 | Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese and French peace treaty |
| 1689 | William III and Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain |
| 1677 | Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III |
| 1580 | Drenthe joins Union of Utrecht |
| 1579 | Venlo joins Union of Utrecht |
| 1567 | Dutch prince William of Orange flees from Antwerp to Breda |
| 1564 | England and France sign Peace of Troyes |
| 1564 | Liege prince-bishop Robert van Bergen resigns |
| 1551 | English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland |
| 1512 | Battle at Ravenna: France under Gaston de Foix beat Spanish Army |
| 1471 | King Edward IV of England conquers London from Henry VI |
| 672 | Deusdedit III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
