| 2012 | President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez recovers after a tumor is removed from his pelvis |
| 2012 | The midwestern United States is hit by tornadoes, killing 12 people |
| 2004 | 76th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King sweeps all eleven nominations, including Best Picture, Sean Penn and Charlize Theron win lead acting awards |
| 2000 | At least 700 died in flooding in Mozambique |
| 1996 | Kenya defeat West Indies (all out 93) in Cricket World Cup |
| 1992 | Dawn Coe wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| 1992 | Professional Spring Football League begins |
| 1988 | KWK-FM in St. Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG |
| 1988 | Mark Greatbatch scores 107* vs. England on Test Cricket debut |
| 1988 | New York City Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs |
| 1988 | Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WW II deportations |
| 1984 | Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down |
| 1980 | Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHL player to score 800 career goals |
| 1980 | Michael Bracey ends 59 h 55 m trapped in an elevator, England |
| 1972 | Hank Aaron becomes 1st baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year |
| 1972 | Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party |
| 1968 | 1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) |
| 1968 | Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy |
| 1968 | Howard Hanson's 6th Symphony, premieres |
| 1968 | U.S. end regular flights with nuclear bombs |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1968 | National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks |
| 1964 | "Rugantino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 28 performances |
| 1964 | Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 m |
| 1964 | Lyndon Baines Johnson reveals U.S. secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter |
| 1964 | North Carolina high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime |
| 1960 | Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts |
| 1960 | 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago |
| 1960 | Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy makes missile gap the presidential campaign issue |
| 1960 | KRET TV channel 23 in Richardson, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Islamic Republic forms in Pakistan |
| 1956 | President Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term |
| 1952 | Ice Dance Championship at Paris France won by Westwood and Demmy GRB |
| 1952 | Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Ria Falk and Paul Falk of GER |
| 1952 | Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Paris won by Jacqueline du Bief of FRA |
| 1952 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button USA |
| 1948 | Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died |
| 1944 | 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death |
| 1944 | U.S. troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands |
| 1940 | 45 U boats sunk this month (170,000 ton) |
| 1940 | Frederic from G and S "Pirates of Penzance" finally released by pirate |
| 1940 | 'Gone with the Wind' wins 8 Oscars |
| 1940 | Hattie McDaniel becomes 1st black woman to win an Oscar |
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs 2nd neutrality act |
| 1932 | Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland |
| 1908 | Dutch scientists produce solid helium |
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal |
| 1892 | Britian and U.S. sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea |
| 1880 | Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland and Italy completed |
| 1868 | 1st British government of Disraeli forms |
| 1856 | Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease |
| 1848 | Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland |
| 1836 | Giacomo Meyerbeers opera "Les Huguenots," premieres in Paris |
| 1832 | Charles Darwin visits jungle near Bahia Brazil |
| 1816 | Dutch King Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna |
| 1796 | Jay's Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences with England |
| 1784 | Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille |
| 1720 | Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden resigns |
| 1704 | French and Indians attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, kill 50, abduct 100 |
| 1692 | Sarah Good and Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem |
| 1504 | Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians |
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