| 2013 | Google agrees to settle a privacy lawsuit, paying a $7 million fine over its handling of wireless data from early 2008 until the spring of 2010 |
| 2013 | In Rome, Italy, Roman Catholic Cardinals meet in a conclave to appoint a successor to Pope Benedict XVI |
| 2012 | The U.S. Census Bureau reports the world now has 7 billion people |
| 2012 | A section of China's high-speed railway collapses after it underwent test runs; the collapse may have resulted from heavy rains |
| 2011 | Analysts report a nuclear meltdown may be occurring at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant; a state of emergency is declared at five plants |
| 2011 | Following the earthquake and tsunami, Japan deploys 50,000 Self-Defense Forces personnel in search and rescue efforts |
| 2010 | Residents of Mogadishu are instructed to leave the war zone after more than 50 are killed in three days of violence |
| 1998 | "Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City |
| 1996 | Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy |
| 1995 | Congress party loses India national election |
| 1995 | Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship |
| 1995 | Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham U.K. won by Gritshuk and Platov (RUS) |
| 1995 | Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova and Rene Novotny |
| 1995 | Lara scores 139 in ODI vs. Australia at Port-of-Spain |
| 1995 | Letitia Vriesde runs S American indoor record 800m (2:00.35) |
| 1995 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (CAN) |
| 1995 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (CHN) |
| 1994 | Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests |
| 1993 | 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay |
| 1993 | Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney |
| 1993 | Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show |
| 1993 | Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2 week speech |
| 1991 | 5th Soul Train Music Awards |
| 1990 | Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland |
| 1989 | 15th People's Choice Awards |
| 1989 | 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found in Philadelphia |
| 1989 | Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election |
| 1987 | "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial New York City for 4000+ performances |
| 1987 | David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game |
| 1987 | Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North |
| 1987 | Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS) |
| 1987 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (CAN) |
| 1987 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1986 | 210.25 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 1986 | Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race |
| 1985 | Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points |
| 1984 | National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike |
| 1984 | British ice dancing team, Torvill and Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships |
| 1983 | Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49) |
| 1982 | 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica vs. Leeward Islands |
| 1982 | PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline" |
| 1981 | Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station |
| 1981 | Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in New York City |
| 1981 | Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, Virginia |
| 1980 | Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago |
| 1980 | New York Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin |
| 1978 | Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99) |
| 1978 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic |
| 1977 | Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party |
| 1977 | Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel |
| 1976 | South African troops leave Angola |
| 1975 | Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam |
| 1972 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open |
| 1972 | NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons |
| 1971 | Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias |
| 1971 | Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president |
| 1971 | Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army |
| 1970 | U.S. lowers voting age from 21 to 18 |
| 1969 | 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs. Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins |
| 1969 | Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London |
| 1968 | Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1967 | Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet |
| 1967 | Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority |
| 1966 | Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record |
| 1966 | Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins) |
| 1966 | Love's 1st album released "Love" |
| 1966 | Pioneer Plaza dedicated |
| 1966 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1964 | 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine and Roses, Striesand wins 2 |
| 1964 | Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years |
| 1964 | Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam |
| 1964 | SN Behrmann's "But for Whom Charlie," premieres in New York City |
| 1964 | WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1963 | Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold |
| 1963 | Bob Dylan cancels "Ed Sullivan Show" television appearance |
| 1962 | Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia |
| 1961 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open |
| 1959 | Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections |
| 1959 | U.S. House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood |
| 1958 | British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day" |
| 1957 | East Germany accepts 22 Russian divisions |
| 1956 | Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24) |
| 1954 | 1st performance of Arnold Schonberg's "Moses und Aaron" |
| 1951 | Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office |
| 1951 | Communist troops driven out of Seoul |
| 1950 | Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III |
| 1950 | Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda" |
| 1948 | -5 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March |
| 1947 | "Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater New York City for 69 performances |
| 1947 | Belgian government of Huysmans resigns |
| 1947 | President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism |
| 1946 | Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland |
| 1945 | 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers |
| 1945 | British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day |
| 1945 | Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy |
| 1945 | New York is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment |
| 1945 | U.S.S.R. returns Transylvania to Romania |
| 1943 | Soviet troops liberate Wjasma |
| 1942 | British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal |
| 1941 | German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands |
| 1940 | Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus |
| 1939 | Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies |
| 1938 | Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss) |
| 1935 | England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns and villages |
| 1934 | Acting President Constantine Pats commits coup in Tallinn Estonia |
| 1934 | Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail |
| 1934 | Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Berlin |
| 1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt conducts his 1st fireside chat |
| 1930 | Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax |
| 1930 | Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1) |
| 1926 | Denmark begins unilateral disarmament |
| 1926 | Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium |
| 1925 | British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement |
| 1919 | Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany) |
| 1919 | George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit," premieres in New York City |
| 1917 | Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets |
| 1917 | Stalin, Kamenev and Muranov arrives in St. Petersburg |
| 1916 | French airship sinks British submarine D3 |
| 1913 | Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid |
| 1912 | Captain Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane |
| 1912 | Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low |
| 1912 | Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th St. New York City |
| 1910 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3 |
| 1908 | Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers sweep Win Maple Leafs in 2 games |
| 1906 | Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast |
| 1904 | 1st main line electric train in U.K. (Liverpool to Southport) |
| 1904 | Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund |
| 1903 | New York Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of AL |
| 1901 | Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds) |
| 1900 | President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein |
| 1897 | Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal," premieres in Brussel |
| 1896 | 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220) |
| 1894 | Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday and Friday |
| 1889 | Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated |
| 1889 | Start of South Africa's 1st Test, vs. England, Port Elizabeth |
| 1888 | 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE U.S. (400 die) |
| 1884 | Mississippi establishes 1st U.S. state college for women |
| 1877 | British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa |
| 1877 | Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony |
| 1868 | Britain annexed Basutoland in Africa |
| 1868 | Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax |
| 1868 | Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa |
| 1867 | Last French troops leave Mexico |
| 1865 | Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri |
| 1860 | Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists |
| 1857 | Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice |
| 1850 | 1st U.S. $20 gold piece issued |
| 1849 | 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California |
| 1848 | 2nd republic established in France |
| 1799 | Austria declares war on France |
| 1789 | U.S. Post Office established |
| 1773 | Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago |
| 1755 | 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine |
| 1737 | Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy |
| 1689 | Former English King James II lands in Ireland |
| 1664 | 1st naturalization act in American colonies |
| 1664 | New Jersey becomes a British colony |
| 1642 | Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand |
| 1622 | Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint |
| 1619 | Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia |
| 1609 | Bermuda becomes an English colony |
| 1597 | England routes troops to Amiens |
| 1594 | Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies |
| 1587 | English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower |
| 1572 | Luis Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os Lusiados" in Portugal |
| 1496 | Jews are expelled from Syria |
| 1365 | University of Vienna founded |
| 1350 | Orvieto city says it will behead and burn Jewish-Christian couples |
| 1144 | Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II |
| 1054 | Pope Leo IX escapes captivity and returns to Rome |
| 1000 | Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III |
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