| 2012 | U.S. company Google, Inc., announces its 2012 first quarter earnings rose by more than 24%, and net profits increased to $8.14 billion |
| 2012 | Mali swears in Dioncounda Traore, an interim president, marking the country's transition back to civilian rule following last month's coup |
| 2011 | Following the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, Japan raises the crisis level to 7, equal to the disaster in Chernobyl |
| 2011 | As part of a crackdown on dissent in China, 169 Chinese Christians attempting to hold an outdoor prayer session were detained, then released |
| 2010 | Hungary's parliamentary election results in 28 regional seats for the left-wing Hungarian Socialist Party, and 26 regional seats for the far-right Movement for a Better Hungary |
| 1998 | 62nd Golf Masters Championship: |
| 1992 | "Streetcar Named Desire" opens at Ethel Barrymore New York City for 137 performances |
| 1992 | 2nd lowest NBA scoring game - Detroit Piston 72, New York Knicks 61 |
| 1992 | 53rd PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Lee Trevino |
| 1992 | 56th Golf Masters Championship: Fred Couples wins, shooting a 275 |
| 1992 | Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from singer Lenny Kravitz |
| 1992 | Earthquake rocks Germany |
| 1992 | Lynn Gunther of California threatens to blow herself up in front of U.N. |
| 1992 | Matt Young no-hits Cleveland, but loses 2-1 |
| 1992 | New York Mets lose 1st 3 home games for 1st time since 1962 |
| 1992 | Trump Shuttle becomes U.S. Air Shuttle |
| 1991 | 2,500th episode of Entertainment Tonight airs |
| 1991 | Nepalese Congress party wins general elections |
| 1991 | U.S. announces closing of 31 major U.S. military bases |
| 1990 | Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers |
| 1990 | James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months |
| 1990 | 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust and asks for forgivenesss |
| 1989 | 3rd Soul Train Music Awards: Anita Baker |
| 1989 | Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through |
| 1988 | Devils 4-2 over Islanders-Devils lead 3-2 in 1st round |
| 1988 | Frank Robinson replaces Cal Ripken as manager of Baltimore Orioles |
| 1988 | Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse |
| 1988 | Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs California |
| 1987 | 51st Golf Masters Championship: Larry Mize wins, shooting a 285 |
| 1987 | Ahmed Salah wins 2nd World Cup marathon (2:10:55) |
| 1987 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic |
| 1987 | Texaco files for bankruptcy |
| 1986 | 20,000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines |
| 1985 | 16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn |
| 1985 | U.S. Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of Moscow games |
| 1983 | Harold Washington becomes Chicago's 1st black mayor |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1982 | 3 CBS employees shot to death in New York City parking lot |
| 1981 | 45th Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 280 |
| 1981 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic |
| 1981 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1981 | Maiden voyage of space shuttle Columbia |
| 1980 | BCMA, Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, forms |
| 1980 | Milwaukee beats Boston Red Sox, 18-1 (Cooper and Money hit grand slams) |
| 1979 | Soyuz 33 returns to Earth |
| 1976 | India set 403 to win by WI They get them, 6 wkts 7 overs spare |
| 1975 | Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved" |
| 1973 | France recognizes North Vietnam |
| 1973 | Sudan adopts constitution |
| 1973 | Swaziland suspends constitution |
| 1970 | Yankees dedicate plaques to Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio |
| 1969 | Simon and Garfunkel releases "Boxer" |
| 1966 | 1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam |
| 1966 | Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium opens; Pirates beat Braves 3-2 |
| 1966 | Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck |
| 1964 | 28th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 276 |
| 1964 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies' Golf Open Invitational |
| 1963 | Beatles "From Me to You" is released in UK |
| 1963 | Birmingham police use dogs and cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators |
| 1962 | San Mateo County withdraws from BART district, San Francisco Bay area |
| 1961 | 3rd Grammy Awards: Theme From a Summer Place, Ray Charles wins 4 |
| 1961 | Douglas MacArthur declines offer to become baseball commissioner |
| 1961 | Yuri Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth in Vostok 1 |
| 1960 | Bert Haanstra wins Oscar for "Glass" |
| 1960 | Bill Veeck and Chicago Comiskey Park debuts "Exploding Scoreboard" |
| 1959 | 13th Tony Awards: J B and Redhead win |
| 1959 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1959 | France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria |
| 1958 | 12th NBA Championship: St. Louis Hawks beat Bost Celtics, 4 games to 2 |
| 1958 | Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk |
| 1957 | Jim Spalding set a 2088 pin nine-game bowling record |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| 1956 | Bandaranaike government forms in Ceylon |
| 1955 | 1st game in Kansas City, Kansas City A's beat Detroit Tigers, 6-2 |
| 1955 | Salk polio vaccine safe and effective; 4 billion dimes marched |
| 1954 | 18th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 289 |
| 1954 | 8th NBA Championship: Minnesota Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 3 |
| 1954 | Belgian Van Houtte government resigns |
| 1954 | Bill Haley and Comets records "Rock Around Clock" |
| 1954 | Joe Turner releases "Shake, Rattle and Roll" |
| 1953 | 17th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 274 |
| 1953 | KFDX TV channel 3 in Wichita Falls, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Keizo Yamada runs fastest marathon to date, at Boston |
| 1952 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Houston Weathervane Golf Tournament |
| 1952 | Salaheddine Baccouche forms Tunisian government |
| 1951 | Israeli Knesset officially designated April 13 as Holocaust Day |
| 1946 | Syria gains independence from France |
| 1945 | Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands |
| 1945 | Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd president |
| 1945 | Richard Strauss completes his "Metamorphosis" |
| 1945 | U.S. liberates Buchenwald concentration camp |
| 1944 | Lillian Hellman's "Searching Wind," premieres in New York City |
| 1943 | Allies conquer Soussa, North-Africa |
| 1943 | Dutch Catholic University Nijmegen closed |
| 1942 | 9th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 280 |
| 1942 | Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan |
| 1941 | Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games |
| 1941 | Vichy-France's head of government Admiral Dalan consults with Hitler |
| 1940 | Italy annexes Albania |
| 1940 | NFL cuts clipping penalty from 25 yards to 15 yards |
| 1938 | 1st U.S. law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses |
| 1938 | Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1 |
| 1935 | "Your Hit Parade," debuts on radio |
| 1935 | Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers |
| 1935 | Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar |
| 1934 | Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, 231 mph |
| 1933 | Moffatt Field commissioned |
| 1932 | Emmanuel Chabriers and Balanchines ballet premieres in Monte Carlo |
| 1931 | Joe McCarthy debuts as New York Yankee manager |
| 1931 | Spanish voters reject the monarchy |
| 1930 | 4th Test Cricket WI vs. England ends in a draw after nine days |
| 1930 | Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days |
| 1928 | Assassination attempt on king Victor Emmanuel II of Italy |
| 1927 | General Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai |
| 1926 | Dutch Catholic Radio Broadcast (KRO) forms |
| 1919 | British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages |
| 1917 | Bijou Theater opens at 222 W 45th St. New York City (Demolished 1982) |
| 1917 | Domenico Scarlatti and Jeab Cocteaus ballet premieres in Rome |
| 1911 | 1st non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3h56m) |
| 1909 | Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens |
| 1908 | Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts |
| 1907 | Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer, resigns |
| 1905 | French Dufaux brothers test helicopter |
| 1905 | Hippodrome arena opens in New York City |
| 1898 | Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay to Navy |
| 1896 | Stamasia Portrisi is 1st woman to win a marathon (5:30 in Athens) |
| 1894 | British and Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa |
| 1893 | Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa: German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi |
| 1892 | George C. Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter |
| 1887 | Henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm," premieres in Oslo |
| 1883 | French troops under Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal |
| 1877 | British annex Transvaal, in South Africa |
| 1877 | Catcher's mask 1st used in a baseball game |
| 1872 | Jesse James gang robs bank in Columbia, Kentucky (1 dead/$1,500) |
| 1869 | North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law |
| 1864 | Battle of Blair's Landing Louisiana |
| 1864 | Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tennessee |
| 1862 | James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, Georgia |
| 1862 | Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski Georgia |
| 1861 | Fort Sumter, South Carolina is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War |
| 1859 | Hibernia Savings and Loan Society of San Francisco incorporates |
| 1858 | 1st U.S. billiards championship (Michael J Phelan wins in Detroit) |
| 1857 | Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" published |
| 1844 | Texas became a U.S. territory |
| 1826 | Weber's opera "Oberon," premieres in London |
| 1811 | 1st U.S. colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA |
| 1787 | Philadelphia's Free African Society forms |
| 1782 | Battle at Les Saintes West-Indies: British fleet beats French |
| 1776 | Halifax resolution for independence adopted by North Carolina |
| 1770 | Townsend Acts repealed |
| 1713 | Dutch State-General signs peace with France: Netherlands loses Orange Princedom |
| 1709 | 1st edition of Tattler magazine in England |
| 1654 | England, Ireland and Scotland united |
| 1648 | University of Harderwijk Netherlands solemn opens |
| 1606 | England adopts Union Jack as its flag |
| 1583 | William of Orange marries Louise de Coligny |
| 1545 | French king Francois I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed |
| 1385 | John without Fear marries Margaretha of Brabant |
| 1385 | Willem van Oostervant weds Philip the Stouts daughter Margaretha (10) |
| 1229 | Queen Blanche of Castilie and earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace |
| 1204 | 4th Crusade occupies and plunders Constantinople |
| 1111 | Pope Paschalis II crowns Henry V, Roman emperor |
| 1065 | Pilgrims under bishop Gunther of Bamberg reach Jerusalem |
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