| 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 |
| 1982 | Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington D.C. |
| 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" |
| 1967 | Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne) |
| 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 |
