| 2008 | U.S. Navy destroys a U.S. spy satellite with a missile |
| 2003 | Fire at the Station rock club in Rhode Island kills nearly 100 |
| 2002 | Stove mishap sets Egyption train on fire, kills over 360 people |
| 1998 | Tara Lipinski wins Olympic figure skating gold medal |
| 1998 | U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations |
| 1998 | U.S. movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days) |
| 1997 | "Stanley" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City |
| 1997 | San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds signs record $22.9M 2 year contract |
| 1994 | 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage |
| 1994 | Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55) |
| 1994 | Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals |
| 1993 | Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp |
| 1993 | Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
| 1993 | New York Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31 |
| 1992 | "Private Lives" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 37 performances |
| 1992 | Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands |
| 1992 | Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show |
| 1991 | "Taking Steps" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 78 performances |
| 1991 | 33rd Grammy Awards: Another Day in Paradise, Mariah Carey |
| 1989 | Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players |
| 1988 | 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil |
| 1988 | Andre Hoffmann skates world record 1500m (1:52.06) |
| 1988 | Brian Boitano wins Olympic gold medal in figure skating |
| 1988 | Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50m (6.58 sec) |
| 1988 | Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0 |
| 1988 | Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million |
| 1988 | Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000m (2:16.2) |
| 1988 | Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m) |
| 1987 | Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City |
| 1987 | David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America," after 11 years |
| 1986 | Los Angeles Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1M salary by arbitration |
| 1986 | Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany, New York |
| 1985 | After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket |
| 1983 | Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km) |
| 1983 | Roland Liboton becomes world champ cross-country cycling |
| 1982 | New York Islanders wins then NHL record 15th straight game |
| 1981 | Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds |
| 1981 | James Sanford equals 50m indoor world record (5.61 sec) |
| 1980 | Actress Susan Dey (LA Law) weds producer Bernard Sofronski |
| 1979 | "Comin' Uptown" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| 1978 | 4th People's Choice Awards: Star Wars, Carol Burnett and Bob Hope |
| 1978 | Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ |
| 1978 | Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus |
| 1978 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| 1977 | "My Fair Lady" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 384 performances |
| 1977 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| 1976 | Muhammad Ali KOs Jan Pierre Coopman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1975 | Leonard Baichan scores 105* on Test Cricket debut, vs. Pakistan Lahore |
| 1975 | Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party |
| 1975 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1974 | Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono |
| 1974 | Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1M from Houston Aeros, WHA |
| 1973 | 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins |
| 1972 | 1st time Cleveland Cavaliers beat New York Knicks (111-109) |
| 1972 | Ard Schenk becomes world champ skater |
| 1972 | Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee |
| 1971 | Bruin Phil Esposito is NHL's quickest to score 50 goals in a season |
| 1971 | General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda |
| 1971 | National Emergency Center erroneously orders U.S. radio and TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes |
| 1968 | John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth |
| 1968 | State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A and M |
| 1966 | Author Valery Tarsis banished in U.S.S.R. |
| 1965 | Beatles record "That Means a Lot" |
| 1965 | Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data |
| 1965 | Turkish government of Uerguplu forms |
| 1963 | End of the Test Cricket careers of Neil Harvey and Alan Davidson |
| 1963 | Willie Mays for the San Francisco Giants signs a record $100,000 per year contract |
| 1962 | John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth in Friendship 7 |
| 1958 | Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner |
| 1958 | Los Angeles Coliseum Commission approves 2-yr pact allows Dodgers to use facility |
| 1957 | Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 vs. England, 13 wkts for match |
| 1956 | WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open |
| 1954 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open |
| 1954 | General Zahedi wins election in Persia |
| 1953 | August A. Busch buys the Cards for $3.75 million |
| 1953 | U.S. Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport and not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling |
| 1952 | "African Queen" opens at Capitol Theater in New York City |
| 1952 | 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford) |
| 1950 | Dylan Thomas arrives in New York City for his 1st U.S. poetry reading tour |
| 1950 | WOL-AM in Washington D.C. swaps calls with WWDC |
| 1949 | 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks) |
| 1948 | Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns |
| 1947 | Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles |
| 1947 | Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India |
| 1944 | Batman and Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers |
| 1944 | U.S. takes Eniwetok Island |
| 1943 | Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia |
| 1943 | New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (Mexico) |
| 1943 | Phil Wrigley and B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League |
| 1942 | Lt. E. H. O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers |
| 1941 | 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk, Poland |
| 1941 | Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation |
| 1941 | Romania breaks relations with Netherlands |
| 1940 | Larry Clinton and his Orchestra record "Limehouse Blues" |
| 1938 | U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Germany |
| 1937 | 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca |
| 1935 | Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica |
| 1934 | Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in New York City |
| 1933 | Curom, Curacaose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech |
| 1933 | House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition |
| 1933 | Sidney Howard's "Alien Corn," premieres in New York City |
| 1932 | Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China |
| 1931 | Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge |
| 1930 | Capelle soccer team forms |
| 1929 | American Samoa organizes as territory of U.S. |
| 1929 | Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field |
| 1927 | Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath |
| 1923 | Christy Mathewson becomes President of Boston Braves |
| 1922 | Marc Connelly and George Kaufman's "To the Ladies," premieres in New York City |
| 1922 | Vilinus, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland |
| 1922 | WOR-AM in New York City begins radio transmissions |
| 1921 | Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran |
| 1919 | French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt |
| 1917 | Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die |
| 1917 | Kern, Bolton and Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!," premieres in New York City |
| 1915 | Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco |
| 1912 | Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture |
| 1903 | Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge |
| 1902 | Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco |
| 1901 | 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes |
| 1899 | Ill Tel and Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system |
| 1895 | Congress authorizes a U.S. mint at Denver, Colorodo |
| 1890 | Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire |
| 1887 | 1st minor league baseball association organizes in Pittsburgh |
| 1887 | Germany, Austria-Hungary and France end Triple Alliance |
| 1877 | 1st cantilever bridge in U.S. completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky |
| 1877 | International Association (minor baseball league) organizes |
| 1873 | University of California gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF) |
| 1872 | Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin |
| 1872 | Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags |
| 1872 | Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City |
| 1872 | Silas Noble and JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine |
| 1869 | Tennessee Governor W. C. Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis |
| 1865 | MIT forms 1st U.S. collegiate architectural school |
| 1864 | Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida |
| 1861 | Department of Navy of Confederacy forms |
| 1861 | Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm |
| 1856 | John Rutledge, Liverpool - New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die |
| 1846 | British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore |
| 1839 | Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia |
| 1835 | Concepcion, Chile destroyed by earthquake; 5,000 die |
| 1832 | Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean |
| 1831 | Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow |
| 1823 | English Captain James Weddell reaches 74 degrees 15' S, 1520 km from S pole |
| 1816 | Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome |
| 1811 | Austria declares bankruptcy |
| 1809 | Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state |
| 1792 | U.S. postal service created; postage 6 cents -12 cents, depending on distance |
| 1768 | 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn) |
| 1746 | Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Fort August, Scotland |
| 1737 | French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns |
| 1732 | Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna |
| 1725 | 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for bounty |
| 1710 | Johan Willem Friso becomes viceroy of Groningen, Netherlands |
| 1673 | 1st recorded wine auction held in London |
| 1653 | Defeat of Dutch fleet under Admiral Van Tromp by Adm Blake off Portsmouth |
| 1613 | Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch Governor-General of East-Indies |
| 1547 | King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII |
| 1525 | Swiss and German mercenaries desert Francois I's army |
