| 2005 | Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are married |
| 2000 | 64th Golf Masters Championship: |
| 1997 | Major League Soccer announces Miami and Chicago expansion |
| 1997 | NFL announces it will give $3M to CFL and possible "World Classic Bowl" |
| 1995 | "Translations" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 25 performances |
| 1995 | 59th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 274 |
| 1994 | BPAA U.S. Open by Justin Hromek |
| 1994 | STS-59, Endeavour, launches into orbit |
| 1994 | Singer Wayne Newton (52) weds attorney Kathleen McCrone (30) |
| 1993 | Colorado Rockies 1st home game and 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos |
| 1992 | "Redwood Curtain" opens at Neiderlander theater on Broadway |
| 1992 | John Majors, (C) elected Prime Minister of England |
| 1992 | Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug and racketeering charges |
| 1992 | Record 18 golfers shoot in 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12) |
| 1992 | U.S. Federal court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug crimes |
| 1992 | William O. Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| 1991 | Date of Microsoft MS DOS 5.0 |
| 1991 | Georgia SSR votes to secede from U.S.S.R. |
| 1990 | "Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV |
| 1990 | Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees |
| 1990 | New York Islanders beat New York Rangers 4-3 in double overtime-Rangers lead 2-1 |
| 1990 | World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall in New York City |
| 1989 | 53rd Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 283 |
| 1989 | Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car |
| 1989 | Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic |
| 1989 | Rickey Henderson steals his 800th career base in New York's 4-3 loss to Clev |
| 1989 | Scott Hoch chokes on 18 inch putt and loses Masters golf tournament |
| 1989 | Washington D.C. march supporting 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision |
| 1988 | "Les Miserables," opens at Umeda-Koma Theatre, Osaka |
| 1988 | Devils 3-0 over Islanders-Devils lead 2-1 in 1st round |
| 1988 | U.S. imposes economic sanctions on Panama |
| 1987 | For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game Wayne Gretzky passes Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ |
| 1986 | "Dallas" announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character |
| 1985 | White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game |
| 1984 | 56th Academy Awards - "Terms of Endearment," R Duvall and S Maclaine win |
| 1983 | 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth |
| 1983 | Caps 2-Isles 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penalty shot |
| 1982 | Los Angeles Lakers block 21 Denver shots setting NBA regulation game record |
| 1981 | Los Angeles Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela's 1st start, beats Astros 2-0 |
| 1981 | U.S. submarine George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru |
| 1980 | Belgium's Marten's government resigns |
| 1980 | Kings tie NHL rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Isles |
| 1980 | Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 |
| 1979 | 51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter," Jon Voight and Jane Fonda win |
| 1979 | Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hours, begins |
| 1978 | 42nd Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 277 |
| 1978 | Brewers sweep Orioles 11-3, 16-3, and 13-5 (each with a grand slam) |
| 1978 | David Thompson scores ties 3rd highest total in the NBA - 73 |
| 1978 | Denver's David Thompson scores 73 points and San Antonio's George Gervin scores 63 points in separate NBA games (33 in 1 quarter) |
| 1977 | Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years |
| 1976 | U.S. and Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use |
| 1974 | Padres owner Ray Kroc, addresses fans "Ladies and gentlemen, I suffer with you I've never seen such stupid baseball playing in my life" |
| 1973 | 37th Golf Masters Championship: Tommy Aaron wins, shooting a 283 |
| 1973 | Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam |
| 1973 | Otto Kerner, former governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme |
| 1972 | "Sugar" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 506 performances |
| 1972 | 36th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286 |
| 1972 | Glenn Turner (259) and Terry Jarvis make 387 opening cricket stand vs. WI |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. and Iraq sign friendship treaty |
| 1971 | Ringo releases "It Don't Come Easy" in UK |
| 1970 | Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles |
| 1970 | Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles |
| 1969 | 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol) |
| 1969 | Chicago Cub Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles beat Phillies 11-3 |
| 1968 | East Germany adopts constitution |
| 1968 | Martin Luther King, Jr., buried in Atlanta |
| 1968 | Wayne Connelly is 1st to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot |
| 1968 | Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference |
| 1967 | "At the Drop of Another Hat" closes at Booth New York City after 105 performances |
| 1967 | 1st Boeing 737 rolls out |
| 1967 | 31st Golf Masters Championship: Gay Brewer, Jr. wins, shooting a 280 |
| 1967 | Shortwave broadcaster Radio New York Worldwide's transmitter burns down |
| 1966 | Anaheim Stadium for California Angels opens |
| 1966 | Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris |
| 1965 | Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in U.K. |
| 1965 | India and Pakistan engage in border fight |
| 1965 | 1st game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st indoor homerun |
| 1963 | Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary U.S. citizen, posthumously |
| 1962 | 26th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 280 |
| 1962 | 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story," Sophia Loren and Max Schell win |
| 1962 | John F. Kennedy throws out 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium |
| 1960 | 14th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3 |
| 1960 | South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle |
| 1959 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Washington Senators) |
| 1959 | Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot |
| 1959 | NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury |
| 1959 | 13th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics sweep Minnesota Lakers in 4 games Boston Celtics wins 8th straight title |
| 1957 | Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy," premieres in Washington D.C. |
| 1957 | Suez Canal cleared for all shipping |
| 1955 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1954 | WECT TV channel 6 in Wilmington, North Carolina (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue |
| 1953 | Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to 7 years in Kenya |
| 1952 | Popular uprising in Bolivia |
| 1950 | 14th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 283 |
| 1950 | 4th Tony Awards: Cocktail Party and South Pacific win |
| 1950 | Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance |
| 1949 | U.N. International Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel and awards Britain damages |
| 1947 | Atomic Energy Commission confirmed |
| 1947 | Baseball suspends Brooklyn Dodger Leo Durocher for 1 year |
| 1947 | Tornadoes striking West Texas and Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300 |
| 1946 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 |
| 1945 | Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier |
| 1945 | Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360 |
| 1945 | NFL requires players to wear long stockings |
| 1944 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae |
| 1942 | Battle of Bataan, U.S. and Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan |
| 1941 | PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame |
| 1940 | German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die |
| 1940 | Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WW II, Denmark surrenders |
| 1939 | Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial |
| 1935 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Maroons sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 3 games |
| 1932 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep New York Rangers in 3 games |
| 1931 | Chicago Cy Wentworth beats Mont Canadiens at 13:50 of 6th period |
| 1928 | Eugene O'Neill's "Lazarus Laughed," premieres in Pasadena |
| 1928 | Mae West's New York City debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil" |
| 1928 | Top-Oss soccer team forms in Oss |
| 1928 | Turkey passes separation of church and state |
| 1927 | Italy and U.S. anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti given death sentences |
| 1925 | Babe Ruth rushed to hospital |
| 1923 | Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman," premieres in Dublin |
| 1918 | Latvia proclaims independence |
| 1917 | Battle of Arras begins |
| 1917 | Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops |
| 1914 | "World, the Flesh and the Devil," 1st color film, shown in London |
| 1914 | 1st full color film shown "World, Flesh and Devil" in London |
| 1914 | Tampico incident - U.S. ship crew arrested in Mexico |
| 1913 | Brooklyn Dodger's Ebbets Field opens, Phillies win 1-0 |
| 1912 | 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs. Harvard) |
| 1912 | Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland for New York |
| 1906 | 3rd modern Olympic games opens in Athens |
| 1894 | 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz |
| 1878 | 1st Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn |
| 1872 | Samuel R. Percy patents dried milk |
| 1870 | American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves |
| 1869 | Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada |
| 1866 | Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
| 1865 | Federals capture Ft. Blakely, Alabama |
| 1865 | Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender to U.S. Grant at Appomattox |
| 1864 | Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 2870 causalities |
| 1838 | National Galley opens in London |
| 1833 | 1st tax-supported public library in Peterborough, New Hampshire |
| 1831 | Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain and Spain |
| 1829 | Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200 |
| 1816 | African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes in Philadelphia |
| 1814 | Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance |
| 1808 | Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace |
| 1783 | Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India |
| 1770 | Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia) |
| 1691 | French troops occupy Mons |
| 1682 | Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France |
| 1667 | 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris) |
| 1621 | Spain and Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends |
| 1609 | Spain and Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact |
| 1555 | Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II |
| 1538 | Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union |
| 1483 | Edward I (12) succeeds Edward IV as king of England |
| 1474 | Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians |
| 1454 | Milan/Venice signs peace of Lodi |
| 1388 | Battle of Nafels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army |
| 1241 | Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles and Germans |
| 715 | Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
