2015 The U.S. will support the Ukraine in its fight against separatist militants by providing $75 million in non-lethal aid in the form of drones, ambulances and radios; Humvees will also be sent under a separate agreement 2014 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves an electric nerve stimulating device for treatment of migraine headaches 2014 The menswear industry consolidates as Men's Wearhouse announces a merger with JoS. A. Bank Clothiers 2013 The Falkland Islands sovereignty referendum resulted in 99.8% of voters supporting that the Islands remain an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom 2013 In China, more than 9,000 pigs were found rotting in the Huangpu river, threatening to contaminate Shanghai's drinking supply; the government said the water quality in the city tested as normal 2012 Krasna Horka, a historic Slovakian castle, is heavily damaged in a fire 2012 Russians stage protests in response to last week's election of Vladimir Putin as President for a third term 2011 Sendai, a major 9.0 earthquake strikes offshore of Japan's Miyagi Prefecture; 10-meter high tsunami's are produced near its epicenter, reaching land through the Pacific ocean 2011 Japan's Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant suffers a radiation leak after the earthquake; thousands of nearby residents are evacuated 2010 The second day of conflict between Somali government troops and opposition forces in Mogadishu results in more than 20 civilian deaths 2006 Slobodan Milosevic found dead in cell in the Hague 2004 At least 170 die in train bombings in Madrid 1997 3rd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space 1997 Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by the Queen 1997 San Francisco Giant J. T. Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch 1996 Chris Harris scores 130 in losing New Zealand side vs. Australia, World Cup 1996 Mark Waugh scores 110 vs. New Zealand for his third century of the World Cup 1995 -36.8 degrees F (-38.2 degrees C) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67 degrees N 1995 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament 1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in U.S. 1995 Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m 1994 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile 1993 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN 1991 Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records 1991 John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award 1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked first 1990 16th People's Choice Awards 1990 Lithuania declares it's Independence 1990 Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International 1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire 1987 Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point 1986 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC 1986 12th People's Choice Awards 1986 187.27 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange 1986 Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons 1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km 1986 NFL adopts instant replay rule 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader 1984 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic 1983 Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki Finland won by Torvill and Dean (GRB) 1983 Ice Pairs Championship at Helsinki won by Valova and Vasiliev (URS) 1983 Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA) 1983 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA) 1982 Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname 1981 Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins 1981 Johnny Mize and Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1980 Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Australia vs. Pak cricket draw 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic 1979 Randy Hold receives 67 minutes in penalties in a 60 minutes NHL hockey game 1978 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed 1978 USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC 1977 Moslems hold 130 hostages in Washington D.C. 1975 Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails 1975 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupted 1974 Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album 1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic 1972 "Inner City" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 97 performances 1970 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills and Nash, Peggy Lee win 1970 Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation 1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting 1968 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 12nd string quartet 1968 Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for 'Dock of the Bay' 1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out 1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto 1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain 1961 Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks and Maple Leafs (20 each) 1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth and Venus 1959 "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens 1959 Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little Bit" 1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21" 1958 Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets 1956 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1954 U.S. Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics 1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams) 1953 American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches 1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed 1948 Reginald Weit became the 1st black to play in the U.S. Tennis Open 1948 WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, MD (CBS) begins broadcasting 1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs 1945 Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death 1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested 1943 Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands 1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp 1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia 1942 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra 1941 Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minn, to become wrestling champ 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Bill to lend money to Britain 1938 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country 1935 Bank of Canada opens 1935 Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe 1934 Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer 1930 President and Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington 1928 Netherlands and Belgium tie 1-1 (soccer match in Amsterdam) 1927 1st armored commercial car hold-up in U.S., Pittsburgh 1927 1st golden gloves tournament 1927 Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (New York City) 1926 Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein 1924 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins 1924 Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife," premieres in London 1924 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games 1922 Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in 2 games 1919 General strike in Germany, crushed 1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia 1918 Save the Redwoods League founded 1917 British troops occupy Baghdad 1917 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13) 1912 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-minute periods, formerly played in 30-minute halfs, Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep 1910 Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 vs. SAfr), his only Test hit wicket 1905 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles, 2 games to 1 1904 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games 1901 Cincinnati Enquirer reports Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant 1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed 1892 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachuetts) 1888 Great blizzard of '88 strikes the North East U.S. 1882 Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton New Jersey 1867 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos," premieres in Paris 1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano) 1865 General Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina 1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee 1862 General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac, General Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief 1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution 1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto," premieres in Venice 1850 Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school) 1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile 1824 U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1823 1st normal school in U.S. opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt 1812 Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews 1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise 1795 Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols 1794 Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens 1791 Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia, is 1st to obtain more than 1 U.S. patent 1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington D.C. 1779 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time) 1702 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant," publishes 1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000 1665 NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights 1649 Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising 1598 Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille 1597 Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France 1567 Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel 1563 League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II 1513 Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X 1502 Tebriz, shah Ismail I of Persia crowned 1302 Romeo and Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare 843 Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople 537 Goths lay siege to Rome 417 Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome
