| 2013 | Americans learn the FBI and CIA had previous intelligence from Russia warning U.S. intelligence agencies about Tamerlan Tsarnaev's extremist connections before the Boston Marathon bombings |
| 2013 | Italy's vice-secretary of the Democratic Party , Enrico Letta, receives the mandate for form a new government from president Giorgio Napolitano |
| 2012 | Scientists in Kamchatka, Russia, report sighting the first adult white orca to be seen in the wild |
| 2012 | Organizers of the London Marathon accidentally publish the home and email addresses of 38,000 entrants in the marathon on their website |
| 2011 | A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia's southeastern island of Sulawesi |
| 2011 | Pope Benedict XVI performs Easter Mass at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City; he calls for dialogue and diplomacy to end Libya's unrest |
| 2010 | Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva rejects demands by Thai protesters to dissolve Parliament in 30 days |
| 2009 | Concern about spreading influenza from Mexico and the United States to other countries is expressed by the WHO |
| 1997 | "Steel Peer," opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 76 performances |
| 1996 | "Jack-Night on Town with John Barrymore" opens at Belasco for 12 perf |
| 1996 | 31st Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain |
| 1996 | Highest scoring baseball game in 17 years - Twins 24, Tigers 11 |
| 1995 | Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes |
| 1995 | Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98 |
| 1995 | Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B. Murray |
| 1994 | "Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 73 performances |
| 1994 | "Flowering Peach" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 41 performances |
| 1994 | Actress Kelly Preston (26) weds actor Lou Diamond Phillips (32) |
| 1994 | Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election |
| 1994 | Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed |
| 1994 | David Robinson scores ties 7th highest total in the NBA - 71 |
| 1994 | New York Rangers sweep New York Islanders in NHL playoffs |
| 1993 | 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1 |
| 1993 | ABC news analyst Jeff Greenfield weds Karen Gannett |
| 1993 | Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by George Branham |
| 1992 | "Man of La Mancha" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 108 performances |
| 1992 | David Bowie marries model Iman in Switzerland |
| 1992 | George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball |
| 1992 | Vinson Pike fined 1000 pounds for distributing obscene computer pictures |
| 1991 | 26th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks |
| 1990 | Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa," premieres in Dublin |
| 1990 | Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies |
| 1990 | U.S. 66th manned space mission STS-31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit |
| 1990 | West and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1st |
| 1989 | 10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China |
| 1989 | Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day" |
| 1988 | Rosie Jones wins LPGA USX Golf Classic |
| 1987 | Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza New York City |
| 1985 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin" |
| 1984 | Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot |
| 1983 | "Show Boat" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 73 performances |
| 1983 | Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election |
| 1983 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
| 1982 | 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany |
| 1982 | Cards win 12th game in a row; 7-4 over Phillies |
| 1982 | Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin |
| 1981 | Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey |
| 1981 | IBM-PC computer introduced |
| 1981 | San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA reg game record |
| 1981 | U.S. ends grain embargo against U.S.S.R. |
| 1980 | U.S. military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die |
| 1979 | Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election |
| 1978 | Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time he has 15 in game |
| 1977 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA American Defender Golf Tournament |
| 1975 | Penguins 1-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3 |
| 1975 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1974 | Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion |
| 1974 | NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers |
| 1971 | "Frank Merriwell" opens/closes at Longacre Theater New York City for 1 perf |
| 1971 | Soyuz 10 returns to Earth |
| 1970 | China launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red" |
| 1970 | Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth |
| 1970 | Senegal adopts constitution |
| 1969 | General Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded |
| 1969 | Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians |
| 1969 | Paul McCartney says their is no truth to rumors he is dead |
| 1969 | U.S. B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary |
| 1968 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas |
| 1968 | Leftist students take over Columbia University, New York City |
| 1968 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1967 | 21st NBA Championship: Philadelphia 76ers beat San Francisco Warriors, 4 games to 2 |
| 1966 | Atlanta Braves win NL-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee) |
| 1966 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational |
| 1965 | "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden New York City after 192 performances |
| 1965 | Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic |
| 1965 | New York Met Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager |
| 1963 | 17th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2 |
| 1963 | English princess Alexandra marries sir Angus Ogilvy |
| 1963 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1962 | 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested |
| 1962 | MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA |
| 1962 | Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs |
| 1961 | Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised |
| 1960 | 14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker and Fiorello! win |
| 1960 | Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed |
| 1960 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open |
| 1960 | Record 4 grand slams hit today |
| 1959 | Netherlands Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig and Cut Flier) |
| 1959 | WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | Lee Walls hits 3 home runs, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2 |
| 1957 | Chicago Cub pitchers walk NL record 9 Reds in 5th inning |
| 1956 | AL umpire Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game |
| 1955 | Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination, ends |
| 1955 | Gaullists lose elections in France |
| 1955 | KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina |
| 1954 | Australia and U.S.S.R. break diplomatic relations |
| 1954 | WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II |
| 1951 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Women's Golf Invitational Open |
| 1950 | "Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 320 performances |
| 1950 | Independent republic of South Molukkas declared |
| 1950 | President Truman denies there are communists in U.S. government |
| 1949 | 3rd Tony Awards: Death of a Salesman and Kiss Me Kate win |
| 1946 | 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, and McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame |
| 1945 | Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner |
| 1945 | Delegates of 46 countries gather in San Francisco to discuss U.N. |
| 1944 | 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump" |
| 1944 | RAF bombs Munich |
| 1944 | United Negro College Fund incorporates |
| 1942 | Luftwaffe bombs Exeter |
| 1941 | British army begins evacuation of Greece |
| 1941 | Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot |
| 1938 | Lindenheuvel soccer team forms |
| 1933 | 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell) |
| 1932 | German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia) |
| 1929 | 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off |
| 1929 | Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark |
| 1928 | Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented |
| 1923 | Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers |
| 1923 | General harbor strike begins in New York City |
| 1921 | 1st municipal elections for men and women in Belgium |
| 1920 | British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect, lasts 28 years |
| 1920 | Polish troops attack Ukraine |
| 1917 | Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway |
| 1916 | Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins |
| 1915 | Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day) |
| 1915 | Pittsburghs' Frank Allen no-hits St. Louis (Federal League), 2-0 |
| 1910 | German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms |
| 1909 | Harry Hillman and Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds |
| 1908 | Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across U.S. by car, they leave Los Angeles in a Packard and arrive in New York City in 32d-5h-25m |
| 1905 | 1st-class Cricket debut of Jack Hobbs, Surrey vs. Gentlemen (18 and 28) |
| 1905 | Senators execute a triple-play and beat Yankees 4-3 |
| 1901 | 1st AL game, Chicago beats Cleveland Blues 8-2, 3 other games rained out |
| 1900 | Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer |
| 1899 | Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid |
| 1898 | Spain declares war on U.S. rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba |
| 1898 | U.S. fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines |
| 1897 | 1st reporter, William Price (Washington Star), assigned to White House |
| 1895 | Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat |
| 1894 | French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18 |
| 1894 | Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Brooklyn Dodgers |
| 1891 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem" |
| 1888 | Eastman Kodak forms |
| 1884 | National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes in Atlanta |
| 1883 | 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair |
| 1880 | Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England |
| 1877 | Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south in New Orleans |
| 1877 | Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania |
| 1872 | Volcano Vesuvius erupts |
| 1871 | Opera "Aida" is produced (Cairo) |
| 1867 | Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Virginia streetcars |
| 1865 | Fire alarm and police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson's Raid) |
| 1854 | Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi" |
| 1833 | Jacob Evert and George Dulty patent soda fountain |
| 1833 | Patent granted for 1st soda fountain |
| 1823 | Eugene Scribes "Le Menteur Veridique," premieres in Paris |
| 1801 | 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten" |
| 1800 | Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation |
| 1792 | "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle |
| 1762 | Russia and Prussia signs peace treaty |
| 1704 | "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in U.S., forms |
| 1570 | Battles between Spanish troops and followers of sultan Suleiman |
| 1558 | Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland marries French crown prince Francois |
| 1547 | Battle of Muhlberg: Emperor Karel V vs ruler Johan F the Brave |
| 1524 | Duke of Bourbon drives Admiral Bonnivet out of Milan |
| 1364 | Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht |
| 1311 | General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India |
| 1288 | Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder |
| 1185 | Battle at Danoura: Yoshitsune Minamoto's fleet beats imperial fleet |
| 1061 | Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed |
| 858 | Nicolaas I succeeds Benedict III as pope |
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