| 2013 | In Beijing, China, a seven-year old girl is confirmed as the first person in the country to catch the Influenza A virus subtype H7N9 bird flu |
| 2013 | The People's Republic of China and the U.S. agree to work towards eliminating nuclear weapons in the Korean Peninsula |
| 2012 | Indian actor Shahrukh Khan is detained by the U.S. at a New York airport for 90 minutes, angering S. M. Krishna, India's External Affairs Minister |
| 2012 | Owner of the New Orleans Saints, Tom Benson, agrees to purchase the New Orleans Hornets from the National Basketball Association for an estimated $338 million |
| 2011 | Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak and sons, Alaa and Gamal, are detained for 15 days of questioning regarding charges of corruption and abuse of power |
| 2011 | Shortages caused by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami cause Toyota to close several plants in Europe |
| 2010 | President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, meets with President Barack Obama to discuss Iran's nuclear program during the Nuclear Security Summit |
| 1997 | "American Daughter" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 88 performances |
| 1997 | 48th time opposing pitchers hit home runs, Carlos Perez (Mon)/Darren Holmes |
| 1997 | 61st Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods at 21 (270 18 under par) |
| 1997 | Hartford Whalers last NHL game |
| 1997 | NHL Pittsburgh Penguin Mario Lemieux's last NHL regular game |
| 1997 | Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets and Oakland A's vs Yankees in NY |
| 1996 | En route to NHL record 62 victories Detroit Red Wings win #61 |
| 1996 | Ottawa Senators eliminate Stanley Cup Champs New Jersey Devils from playoff |
| 1995 | Yankees beat the Mets 2-0 |
| 1994 | President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death |
| 1994 | United Arab Emirates' 1st official ODI, losing to India |
| 1993 | "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 40 performances |
| 1993 | 14th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 1993 | Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," premieres in London |
| 1992 | "2 Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 160 performances |
| 1992 | 5.5 earthquake hits Netherlands |
| 1992 | American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50% |
| 1992 | Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver and Dallas |
| 1992 | Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood |
| 1992 | Lou Conaseca retires as coach of St. John's basketball team |
| 1992 | Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie |
| 1992 | Longest 2 undefeated baseball teams to meet (New York Yankees 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0); Yankees score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2 |
| 1991 | BPAA U.S. Open by Pete Weber |
| 1990 | 4th largest NBA crowd (45,458) see Orlando play at Minneapolis |
| 1990 | Final episode of Pat Sajak's late night TV show on CBS |
| 1990 | New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1 |
| 1989 | "Welcome to the Club" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| 1988 | Italy government of De Mita forms |
| 1987 | 1st 3 San Diego Padres hit home runs off San Francisco starter Roger Mason |
| 1987 | Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999) |
| 1986 | 50th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 279 |
| 1986 | Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record |
| 1986 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic |
| 1986 | Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue |
| 1986 | Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second |
| 1985 | "TASS" denounced U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics |
| 1985 | Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas |
| 1985 | Caps 1-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-1 lead |
| 1985 | Katrin Dorre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30) |
| 1985 | Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania |
| 1984 | 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth |
| 1984 | India beat Pak by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah |
| 1984 | Pete Rose becomes 1st NL to get get 4,000 hits in a career |
| 1983 | Harold Washington elected 1st black mayor of Chicago |
| 1983 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1983 | Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault |
| 1982 | Penguins 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Preliminary-Isles win series (3-2) |
| 1981 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart" |
| 1981 | Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax) |
| 1980 | "Grease" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 3,388 performances |
| 1980 | "Reggae" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 21 performances |
| 1980 | 44th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 275 |
| 1980 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic |
| 1980 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1980 | U.S. boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow |
| 1979 | Christian Turks occupy St. Jansbasiliek |
| 1979 | Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours |
| 1979 | Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda |
| 1978 | Jackson slugs a 3-run home run in the 1st inning, and the field is showered |
| 1978 | New York Yankees defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day |
| 1976 | 1st NBA playoff game for Cleveland Cavliers, they lose 100-95 to Wash |
| 1976 | Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes |
| 1975 | 39th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 276 |
| 1975 | Chad military coup by General Odingar |
| 1975 | Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war |
| 1975 | Penguins 5-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 1-0 lead |
| 1972 | 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days |
| 1970 | 34th Golf Masters Championship: Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279 |
| 1970 | Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed |
| 1970 | Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon |
| 1970 | Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation |
| 1969 | 33rd Golf Masters Championship: George Archer wins, shooting a 281 |
| 1966 | Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s |
| 1965 | Beatles record "Help" |
| 1965 | 1st U.S. Senate black page, Lawrence W. Bradford, Jr., 16, appointed by New York Senator Jacob Javits |
| 1964 | 36th Academy Awards - "Tom Jones," Sidney Poitier and Patricia Neal win |
| 1964 | Ian D. Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia |
| 1964 | New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day |
| 1963 | Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit |
| 1963 | Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game |
| 1962 | Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new NL record |
| 1962 | U.S. steel industry forced to give up price increases |
| 1961 | "Carnival!" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 719 performances |
| 1961 | U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa's apartheid |
| 1960 | France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara |
| 1960 | Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit |
| 1959 | USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit |
| 1959 | Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
| 1959 | Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists |
| 1958 | 12th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello and Music Man win |
| 1957 | "Shinbone Alley" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 49 performances |
| 1957 | 11th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3 |
| 1957 | 11th Tony Awards: Long Days Journey into the Night and My Fair Lady win |
| 1957 | Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in U.S. is temp halted |
| 1956 | KETA TV channel 13 in Oklahoma City, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | 20.33" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record) |
| 1954 | Baltimore Orioles 1st game, loses to Tigers in Detroit 3-0 |
| 1954 | Milwaukee Braves' Hank Aaron's 1st game |
| 1954 | Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist |
| 1953 | 1st game of Milwaukee Braves, they beat Cincinnati Reds 2-0 |
| 1949 | 3rd NBA Championship: Minnesota Lakers beat Washington Capitols, 4 games to 2 |
| 1948 | 75 scientists ambushed on way to Mount Scopus |
| 1946 | Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage and price freeze over |
| 1945 | Canadian army liberates Teuge and Assen Netherlands from Nazis |
| 1945 | Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna) |
| 1945 | U.S. Marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa |
| 1944 | South Carolina rejects black suffrage |
| 1944 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games |
| 1944 | Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1943 | Catholic University Nijegen closes |
| 1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Jefferson Memorial |
| 1943 | Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn |
| 1941 | Heavy German assault on Tobruk |
| 1941 | Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect |
| 1940 | 2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed |
| 1940 | Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft |
| 1940 | Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 2 |
| 1939 | W Saroyan's "My Heart's in the Highlands," premieres in New York City |
| 1938 | Clifford Goldsmith' "What a Life," premieres in New York City |
| 1936 | Metaxas proclaims himself dictator of Greece |
| 1934 | 4.7 million U.S. families report receiving welfare payments |
| 1934 | U.S. Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act |
| 1933 | 1st flight over Mount Everest by Lord Clydesdale |
| 1933 | Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1 |
| 1932 | Kozakken Boys soccer team forms in Werkendam forms |
| 1928 | 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-U.S. (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Kohl) |
| 1927 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Boston Bruins, in 2 games and 2 ties |
| 1926 | At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout |
| 1926 | Bicyclists without bicycle-tax-stamp rounded up in Amsterdam |
| 1925 | Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd St. New York City |
| 1924 | Greek plebiscite for a republic |
| 1923 | Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships |
| 1920 | 1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed |
| 1919 | Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India |
| 1919 | British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre) |
| 1918 | Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital |
| 1914 | 1st Federal League Game: Baltimore Terrapins beat Buffalo 3-2 |
| 1912 | Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF) |
| 1911 | Polo Grounds grandstand and left field bleachers go up in flames |
| 1908 | Groundbreaking on Philadelphia's Shibe Park (home of A's and Phillies) |
| 1906 | Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos and Vasco da Gama |
| 1904 | Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army |
| 1904 | Congress authorizes Lewis and Clark Expo $1 gold coin |
| 1902 | J C Penney opens his 1st store in Kemmerer, Wyoming |
| 1895 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Solitary Cyclist" |
| 1883 | Alfred Packer convicted of cannibalism |
| 1873 | Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed) |
| 1870 | Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in New York City |
| 1869 | Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse) |
| 1865 | Battle of Raleigh, North Carolina |
| 1865 | Sherman's march through Georgia begins |
| 1863 | Battle of Irish Bend, Louisiana (Ft. Bisland) |
| 1863 | Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled in New York is 1st orthopedic hospital |
| 1861 | After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft. Sumter surrenders to Confederates |
| 1860 | 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento, California |
| 1849 | Hungarian Republic proclaimed |
| 1842 | Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope |
| 1834 | HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia |
| 1829 | English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics |
| 1808 | William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects tap dance |
| 1796 | 1st elephant arrives in U.S. from India |
| 1796 | Battle at Millesimo Italy: Napoleon beats Austrians |
| 1759 | French beat European Allies in Battle of Bergen |
| 1742 | George Frederic Handel's "Messiah" performed for 1st time (Dublin) |
| 1741 | Dutch people protest bad quality of bread |
| 1741 | Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich |
| 1668 | John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate |
| 1640 | English Short Parliament forms |
| 1598 | Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots |
| 1556 | Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope |
| 1517 | Osmaanse army occupies Cairo |
| 1367 | Battle at Najera Spain: Castilie and England beat Aragon and France |
| 1346 | Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy |
| 1241 | Battle at Theiss: Mongols beat Hungarian King Bela IV |
| 1204 | Crusaders occupy Constantinople |
| 1180 | Republic day of Gelnhausen |
| 1111 | Pope Paschalis II crowns Roman catholics-German king Hendrik II |
| 1055 | Bishop Gebhard van Eichstatt named Pope Victor II |
| 989 | Battle at Abydos: Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas |
| 837 | Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years |
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