| 2002 | Iran Air Tours flight 956 crashes into a mountain in Iran killing 119 |
| 1999 | Senate acquits President Clinton of lying under oath and obstruction of justice in the Lewinski case |
| 1998 | "Freak," opens at Cort Theater New York City |
| 1998 | 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die and 50 hurt |
| 1998 | Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their 4th head coach |
| 1998 | Intel unveils its 1st graphics chip i740 |
| 1998 | U.S. district judge T. Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional |
| 1997 | Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O. J. Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement |
| 1995 | 45th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 139-112 at Phoenix |
| 1995 | Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50m butterfly |
| 1995 | Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec) |
| 1995 | Dieter Baumann runs European record 3k indoor (7:37.51) |
| 1995 | Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec) |
| 1995 | Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k indoor (7:35.15) |
| 1995 | PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections |
| 1995 | Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m) |
| 1995 | Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec) |
| 1994 | 17th Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway |
| 1994 | 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston |
| 1994 | Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo) |
| 1994 | Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m |
| 1994 | Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose |
| 1991 | Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence |
| 1991 | North and South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition |
| 1989 | 39th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 143-134 at Houston |
| 1989 | 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel |
| 1989 | 50th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Larry Mowry |
| 1989 | Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a U.S. Episcopal church |
| 1989 | Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick and 10th 40+ goal season |
| 1989 | Thursday's Child sets sailing record, New York-Cape Horn-SF, 80 d 20 h |
| 1989 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman |
| 1986 | 1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is vs. Guyana |
| 1985 | 37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary |
| 1985 | West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket World Series Cup |
| 1984 | Alice Miller wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| 1984 | Cale Yarborough, becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 MPH |
| 1984 | Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at Olympics |
| 1984 | West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup receiving all perfect scores for quality and gold medal |
| 1982 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1982 | Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, tieing NHL record |
| 1981 | Admiral Bobby R. Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| 1981 | Arbitrator Goetz declares Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent |
| 1981 | Cape Verde amends its constitution |
| 1981 | Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Building, 10m |
| 1980 | "Canterbury Tales" opens at Rialto Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| 1980 | New York Islanders 2nd scoreless tie, vs. Winnipeg Jets |
| 1980 | Richard Hadlee becomes New Zealand's top wicket-taker with 117 |
| 1979 | Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched |
| 1978 | "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 96 performances |
| 1978 | Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic |
| 1978 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
| 1978 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
| 1977 | Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0 |
| 1976 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1973 | 1st U.S. POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine |
| 1971 | Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 and 0 Australia vs. England |
| 1970 | Anthony Shaffers "Sleuth," premieres in New York City |
| 1967 | Kees Verkerk becomes world champ all round skater |
| 1967 | Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for drugs |
| 1965 | KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
| 1964 | Beatles 1st New York City concert at Carnegie Hall |
| 1964 | End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test Cricket career |
| 1964 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
| 1964 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen |
| 1963 | Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron |
| 1962 | Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia |
| 1961 | Celtic Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Warriors 136-125 |
| 1961 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| 1961 | Mushtaq Mohammad scores 1st Test Cricket century at 17 years 82 days |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 toward Venus |
| 1960 | Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers |
| 1958 | Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101 |
| 1958 | General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala |
| 1957 | Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed |
| 1956 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open |
| 1955 | McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 and stays #1 for 10 weeks |
| 1955 | President Eisenhower sends 1st U.S. advisors to South Vietnam |
| 1955 | Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan |
| 1955 | WTVY TV channel 4 in Dothan, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | U.S.S.R. breaks relations with Israel |
| 1950 | Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb |
| 1950 | Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees |
| 1949 | "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 1147 performances |
| 1949 | Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio |
| 1949 | Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey |
| 1949 | Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem |
| 1948 | 1st Lt. Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps |
| 1947 | Daytime fireball and meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia |
| 1947 | Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands |
| 1945 | San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference |
| 1944 | Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race |
| 1943 | General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa |
| 1942 | 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany |
| 1941 | Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen |
| 1941 | Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome" |
| 1938 | Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden |
| 1938 | German troops entered Austria |
| 1937 | Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams granted an NFL franchise |
| 1935 | Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean |
| 1934 | Export-Import Bank incorporates |
| 1934 | France hit by a general strike against fascists and royalists |
| 1933 | German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis |
| 1932 | Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees |
| 1929 | Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30) |
| 1927 | British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai |
| 1926 | Barendrecht soccer team forms |
| 1925 | 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress |
| 1925 | E Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo |
| 1925 | Estonia forbids communist Party |
| 1924 | George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at Carnegie Hall (New York City) |
| 1924 | George Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback," premieres in New York City |
| 1921 | Soviet troops invade Georgia |
| 1921 | Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies |
| 1920 | NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission |
| 1916 | 1st edition of Joseph Patterson/Sidney Smith strip "Gumps" |
| 1915 | Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. |
| 1912 | China adopts Gregorian calendar |
| 1912 | Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Hsuan T'ung, abdicates |
| 1909 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms |
| 1909 | Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter and Wijnkoop) |
| 1909 | Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6) |
| 1908 | Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female |
| 1908 | New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia) begins in New York City George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel |
| 1906 | George Cohan's musical "George Washington," premieres in New York City |
| 1901 | Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed |
| 1899 | -47 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record) |
| 1899 | 1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in U.S. begins, MSG, New York City |
| 1889 | Cesar Francks Symphony in D, premieres |
| 1889 | Henrik Ibsens "Fruen fra Haven," premieres in Oslo |
| 1886 | 2nd British government of Salisbury forms |
| 1885 | Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society |
| 1882 | Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam |
| 1880 | National Croquet League organizes in Philadelphia |
| 1879 | 1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Square Garden, New York City) |
| 1879 | News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London |
| 1878 | Frederick Thayer patents catcher's mask (pat # 200,358) |
| 1877 | 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston and Salem, Mass |
| 1877 | U.S. railroad builders strike against wage reduction |
| 1876 | Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop |
| 1874 | King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Is Hawaii, is 1st king to visit U.S. |
| 1873 | Congress abolishes bimetallism and authorizes $1 and $3 gold coins |
| 1870 | Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for U.S. silver coins to circulate in Canada |
| 1865 | Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in U.S. House of Reps |
| 1861 | State troops seize U.S. munitions in Napoleon, Arkansas |
| 1850 | Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300 |
| 1848 | Ballet "Faust" premieres, Milan |
| 1840 | Housatonic Railroad opens |
| 1839 | Aroostock War: Boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick |
| 1832 | Ecuador annexes Gal pagos Islands |
| 1825 | Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and migrate west by Sept 1, 1826 |
| 1821 | Mercantile Library of City of New York opens |
| 1818 | Chile gains independence from Spain |
| 1797 | Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," premieres in Vienna |
| 1793 | 1st U.S. fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves |
| 1772 | Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India |
| 1763 | John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs |
| 1762 | English fleet occupies Martinique |
| 1736 | Maria Theresa Habsburg marries French Stefanus (emperor Francois I) |
| 1733 | Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah |
| 1709 | Alexander Selkirk, Scottish seaman is rescued after 4+ years from Fernandez Island (inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe") |
| 1624 | English parliament comes together |
| 1577 | Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict" |
| 1541 | Santiago, Chile founded (or Feb 24) |
| 1528 | Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor and ecclesiastical power |
| 1130 | Pope Innocent II elected |
| 1111 | German King Hendry V arrives at St. Peter, Rome |
| 1049 | Bruno count of Egesheim and Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX |
