| 2012 | The nearly finished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State Building as the tallest building in New York City |
| 2012 | After Chen Guangcheng flees house arrest, U.S. President Barack Obama refuses to comment on the blind Chinese dissident who reportedly went to the U.S. embassy |
| 2010 | The Deepwater Horizon oil spill reaches the Louisiana Coast; weather is projected to impede cleanup efforts |
| 1997 | "London Assurance," opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 72 performances |
| 1997 | 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay |
| 1997 | Atlanta Braves win record 19 games in April |
| 1997 | Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes |
| 1997 | President Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College |
| 1997 | Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt |
| 1997 | Tino Martinez hits record 34 RBIs in April05270801 |
| 1996 | "Buried Child," opens at Atkinson Theater New York City for 77 performances |
| 1996 | Dutch/Italian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral |
| 1996 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Grand Rapids, Michigan on WKLQ 94.5 FM |
| 1995 | "Blood Brothers" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 839 performances |
| 1995 | "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 24 performances |
| 1995 | "Rose Tattoo" opens at Circle in the Square Theater New York City for 80 performances |
| 1995 | After 120 years the last 15 A and S department stores close |
| 1995 | Val Skinner wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship |
| 1994 | Soccer great Pele (53) weds psychologist Assiria Seixas Lemos (36) |
| 1992 | 208th and final episode of Cosby Show on NBC-TV |
| 1991 | In Bangladesh a cyclone killed over 131,000 and left 9 million homeless |
| 1990 | As Met pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Braves score |
| 1990 | Seattle's Brian Holman's perfect game broken up with 2 outs in 9th |
| 1990 | U.S. 66th manned space mission STS-31 (Discovery 10) returns from space |
| 1990 | U.S. hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians |
| 1989 | Critics Siskel and Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show |
| 1989 | Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
| 1989 | Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo of Madagascar |
| 1989 | U.S. beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
| 1988 | Baltimore Orioles win record 14th straight from beginning of season |
| 1988 | New Jersey Devils beat Caps 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final |
| 1988 | New York Knights 1st arena football game beats Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in Los Angeles) |
| 1988 | New York Yankees Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April - Sets AL and ties ML Record |
| 1988 | World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane, Australia |
| 1987 | Lou Lamoriello is named New Jersey Devils President |
| 1987 | New York Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game |
| 1986 | Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles |
| 1986 | Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games |
| 1985 | Dale Murphy drives in record tying 28th and 29th runs of April |
| 1985 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1985 | Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa |
| 1984 | 1700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are Sweden |
| 1984 | Strong winds cause a 30 minnutes delay in Toronto Blue Jays game |
| 1983 | Bruins 3-Isles 7-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 2-1 lead |
| 1982 | Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as President of El Salvador |
| 1982 | Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season |
| 1982 | Iranian offensive in Khusistan |
| 1981 | "Can-Can" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1981 | 16th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell and George Jones |
| 1980 | "Barnum" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 854 performances |
| 1980 | Ronald Harwood's "Dresser," premieres in London |
| 1980 | Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London |
| 1980 | Beatrix, Wilhelmina Armgard, crowned queen of Netherlands |
| 1980 | Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, abdicates |
| 1979 | Mary Therese Friel, New York, crowned 28th Miss USA |
| 1978 | "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace New York City after 101 performances |
| 1978 | Janet Coles wins LPGA Natural Light Lady Tara Golf Classic |
| 1977 | "Party with Comden and Green" closes at Morosco New York City after 92 performances |
| 1977 | Billy Graham beats Bruno Sammartino in Baltimore, to become WWF champ |
| 1977 | Ron Cey sets record of 29 RBIs in April |
| 1976 | Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1976 | Royal Canadian Mint opens a branch in Winnipeg Manitoba |
| 1976 | Wings release "Silly Love Songs" |
| 1975 | Last U.S. helicopter leaves U.S. embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders |
| 1974 | President Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings |
| 1973 | Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman |
| 1973 | Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love" |
| 1973 | Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments |
| 1972 | "Arthur Godfrey Time" ends a 27 year run on radio |
| 1972 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Open |
| 1971 | 25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee beat Baltimore Bullets in 4 games |
| 1970 | Cubs Billy Williams is 1st NLer to play in 1,000 consecutive games |
| 1969 | Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 3rd no-hitter beats Houston Astros, 10-0 |
| 1969 | WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin, New Hampshire (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | 3 Oriole pitchers walk 14 New York Yankees in a 9 inning game |
| 1967 | Highest tower to the world finished, 537m (U.S.S.R.) |
| 1967 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
| 1967 | New York Met pitcher Tom Seaver wins hist 1st game |
| 1967 | Orioles' Stu Miller and Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Tigers |
| 1962 | NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m |
| 1962 | Willie Mays hits 4 home runs |
| 1961 | 1st shuttle flights between Washington D.C., Boston and New York City begin (Eastern) |
| 1961 | Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1961 | Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize |
| 1961 | San Francisco Giant Willie Mays hits 4 home runs in a game |
| 1958 | Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits |
| 1955 | Element 101, Mendelevium, announced |
| 1955 | Imperial Bank of India nationalized |
| 1955 | Perez Prado's "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" goes #1 for 10 weeks |
| 1955 | West German unions protest for 40-hour work week and more wages |
| 1954 | Darius Milhauds 4th Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Haifa |
| 1953 | Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League |
| 1952 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Stockton Golf Open |
| 1952 | Mr. Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television |
| 1950 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA 144-hole Golf Weathervane |
| 1948 | "Inside USA" opens at Century Theater New York City for 339 performances |
| 1948 | Org of American States charter signed at Bogota, Colombia |
| 1948 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| 1947 | Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover |
| 1946 | Cleveland Indian Bob Feller's 2nd no-hitter beats New York Yankees, 1-0 |
| 1945 | "Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio |
| 1945 | Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed |
| 1945 | Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolsheviks |
| 1945 | Red Army occupies Demmin |
| 1945 | Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin |
| 1945 | Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp |
| 1945 | U.S. troops attack the Elbe |
| 1944 | New York Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs |
| 1944 | New York Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th time |
| 1943 | Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms |
| 1943 | Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry |
| 1943 | Noel Coward's "This Happy Breed," premieres in London |
| 1942 | 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi |
| 1941 | Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia |
| 1940 | Brooklyn Dodger Tex Carleton no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 3-0 |
| 1939 | NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with Franklin D. Roosevelt at opening of New York World's Fair |
| 1939 | Tropicana ballet of Havana Cuba, forms |
| 1938 | Bradman scores 258 Australia vs. Worcs, 293 minutes, 33 fours 1 five |
| 1937 | General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth |
| 1935 | World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul |
| 1934 | Austrian gets "Austrian facist" constitution |
| 1929 | Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austria |
| 1928 | Cherkess Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1957) |
| 1927 | Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State |
| 1922 | Chicago White Sox Charles Robertson perfect games Detroit Tigers, 2-0 |
| 1921 | American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron |
| 1921 | Pope Benedict XV encyclical "On Dante" |
| 1919 | Phillies beat Brooklyn Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings |
| 1918 | Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen |
| 1916 | Chicago Cubs play 1st game at Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) beat Reds |
| 1911 | Portugal approves woman suffrage |
| 1910 | Cleveland Indian Addie Joss wins 2nd no-hitter beating White Sox |
| 1905 | 1st official soccer game between Belgium-Netherlands (1-4) |
| 1904 | Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St. Louis |
| 1904 | Ice cream cone makes its debut |
| 1903 | New York Highlanders (Yankees) 1st home game, (Hilltop Park-168th St. and Broadway, Manhattan), they beat Washington Senators, 6-2 |
| 1902 | Debussy's opera "Pelleas et Melissande," premieres in Paris |
| 1900 | 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match |
| 1900 | U.S. annexes Hawaii |
| 1898 | Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl |
| 1889 | 1st U.S. national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration |
| 1888 | Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi |
| 1887 | 1st game played at Broad and Huntingdon St. Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Phillies beat Giants 19-10 |
| 1885 | Boston Pops Orchestra forms |
| 1871 | Apaches in Arizona surrender to white and Mexican adventurers; 144 die |
| 1869 | Hawaiian YMCA organized |
| 1865 | General Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia |
| 1864 | Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; General W R Scurry is killed |
| 1864 | New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee |
| 1862 | Swift Run Gap, West Virginia skirmishes |
| 1861 | President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory |
| 1860 | Navaho indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby) |
| 1859 | Paul Morphy returns from 10-month chess tour of Europe, retires |
| 1857 | San Jose State University forms |
| 1852 | Anton Rubinsteins opera "Dmitri Donskoi," premieres in St. Petersburg |
| 1838 | Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation |
| 1812 | Eastern Louisiana admitted as 18th U.S. state |
| 1808 | 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri |
| 1804 | Hague's Theater opens |
| 1803 | U.S. doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase |
| 1798 | Department of Navy forms |
| 1790 | Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village |
| 1789 | George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of the United States |
| 1774 | Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee |
| 1772 | John Clais patents 1st scale |
| 1763 | London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower |
| 1748 | Ceasefire at Aken ends |
| 1748 | French troops occupy Maastricht |
| 1725 | Emperor Charles VI and King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna |
| 1722 | Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant |
| 1695 | William Congreve's "Love for Love," premieres in London |
| 1661 | Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa |
| 1650 | French rebel Henri de la Tour Turenne signs treaty with Spain |
| 1616 | English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen |
| 1598 | 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande) |
| 1563 | Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI |
| 1562 | 1st French colonists in US: Jean Ribaut and Hugenots at Parris Is NC |
| 1527 | England and France sign treaty of Westminster |
| 1506 | Philip of Bourgondy and England sign trade agreement |
| 1492 | Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet |
| 1492 | Spain announces it will expels all Jews |
| 1396 | Crusaders and earl of Nevers depart from Dijon |
| 1349 | Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated |
| 1064 | German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland |
| 311 | Emperor Galerius legal recognizes Christians in the Roman Empire |
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