| 1999 | Pluto again becomes outermost planet |
| 1998 | "Cabaret," opens at Club Expo Theater New York City |
| 1998 | Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship |
| 1997 | Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals |
| 1994 | 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win |
| 1994 | Experts from AL certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit |
| 1993 | Vinod Kambli scores 227 vs. Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200 |
| 1992 | Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
| 1992 | U.N. officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation |
| 1991 | 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King |
| 1991 | Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20' |
| 1991 | Territories of Amapa and Roraima become states in Brazil |
| 1990 | Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil |
| 1989 | "Les Miserables," opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto |
| 1989 | Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position |
| 1989 | New York Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform |
| 1988 | Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop |
| 1988 | NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK |
| 1988 | NFL's St. Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix |
| 1987 | "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 761 performances |
| 1987 | "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 368 performances |
| 1987 | 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby |
| 1987 | Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes and Joel Garner |
| 1987 | New Zealand beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket |
| 1987 | U.S. Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay |
| 1986 | Funeral services held for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme |
| 1985 | Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1985 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1984 | 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields |
| 1984 | Tanzania adopts constitution |
| 1983 | Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy |
| 1982 | Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan |
| 1982 | KGB-AM in San Diego, California changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP) |
| 1982 | Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days |
| 1981 | "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater New York City |
| 1981 | Suriname failed coup under Sergeant-Major Wilfred Hawker |
| 1979 | Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80 |
| 1979 | Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick |
| 1979 | Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test |
| 1978 | Operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon |
| 1978 | A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players and $390,000 |
| 1978 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1977 | "Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV |
| 1977 | U.S. House of Representatives begin 90 day test of televising its sessions |
| 1976 | Failed coup in Niger |
| 1975 | Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec) |
| 1974 | Brazilian president Garastazu Medici resigns |
| 1972 | Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112 |
| 1972 | NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle |
| 1971 | CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show" |
| 1971 | Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet |
| 1970 | "Purlie" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 689 performances |
| 1970 | Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan |
| 1970 | Gary Geld and Peter Udell's "Purlie," premieres in New York City |
| 1969 | U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns |
| 1969 | Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute |
| 1968 | Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27' 2.75") |
| 1968 | British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns |
| 1968 | LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world" |
| 1968 | U.S. Mint stops buying and selling gold |
| 1968 | Uprising in South Yemen |
| 1968 | Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept," but wouldn't prohibit rock and roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri |
| 1967 | AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum |
| 1967 | Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil |
| 1967 | WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, Tennessee (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1966 | 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra and Striesand |
| 1966 | Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles |
| 1965 | Lyndon Baines Johnson asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote |
| 1965 | T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in New York City |
| 1965 | WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Lyndon Baines Johnson asks for a War on Poverty |
| 1964 | Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton) |
| 1964 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1963 | WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, D.C. (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | "No Strings" opens at 84th St. Theater New York City for 580 performances |
| 1962 | 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter |
| 1962 | Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump |
| 1962 | KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | Richard Rodger's musical "No Strings," premieres in New York City |
| 1962 | Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season |
| 1961 | South Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth |
| 1960 | Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established, 1st underwater park |
| 1960 | National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated |
| 1959 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1959 | Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens on Broadway |
| 1959 | Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s |
| 1959 | WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | "Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 60 performances |
| 1958 | KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, Montana (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 pts |
| 1958 | Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma and is permanently disabled |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| 1957 | Britain becomes the 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb |
| 1956 | "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 2,715 performances |
| 1956 | Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ |
| 1955 | Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses |
| 1955 | U.S. Air Force unveils self-guided missile |
| 1955 | WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, Kentucky (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite and Jack Paar |
| 1954 | WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1953 | West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1 |
| 1952 | "2 in the Aisle" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 276 performances |
| 1952 | Greatest 24-hour rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean |
| 1951 | Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company |
| 1950 | "Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 269 performances |
| 1950 | Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul," premieres in New York City |
| 1950 | New York City hires Dr. Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker" |
| 1949 | WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, Pennsylvania (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1949 | WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team vs. Western Australia |
| 1948 | Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine |
| 1948 | WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in U.S. Navy |
| 1946 | British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence |
| 1945 | 17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way," Bing Cosby and Ingrid Bergman win |
| 1945 | Bert Shepard (1 legged WW II vet) tries out as a pitcher for Senators |
| 1945 | Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1) |
| 1945 | Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens |
| 1945 | Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain, New York |
| 1944 | Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing |
| 1943 | Allied reconnaissance flight over Java |
| 1943 | Red Army evacuates Kharkov |
| 1941 | Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151 |
| 1940 | Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest |
| 1939 | Hitler occupies Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independ |
| 1937 | 1st blood bank forms (Chicago, Illinois) |
| 1937 | 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh North Carolina) |
| 1935 | George Headley completes 270 in cricket vs. England at Kingston |
| 1934 | U.S. Information Service opens |
| 1933 | NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination |
| 1930 | 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, New York |
| 1930 | 1st streamlined submarine of U.S. navy, USS Nautilus, launched |
| 1928 | Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose) |
| 1926 | Belgium's "black monday," franc falls |
| 1923 | Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke |
| 1922 | 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia) |
| 1919 | American Legion forms (Paris) |
| 1917 | Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate |
| 1916 | General Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos |
| 1916 | University of Gent goes under Dutch control |
| 1915 | Netherlands merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed and sinks in North Sea |
| 1913 | 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson) |
| 1913 | Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court |
| 1912 | Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins |
| 1908 | 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole" |
| 1907 | Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote |
| 1906 | Brits Rolls, Royce and Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd. |
| 1903 | Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa |
| 1901 | Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th |
| 1897 | 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden |
| 1892 | 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W. Reno (New York City) |
| 1892 | New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine) |
| 1889 | 6 U.S. and German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die |
| 1887 | 1st salaried fish and game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan) |
| 1885 | 1st performance of Cesar Franck's "Lesson Djinns" |
| 1877 | Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia vs. England at MCG |
| 1875 | 1st U.S. cardinal (John McCloskey) invested |
| 1869 | Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team |
| 1869 | Cincinnati Red Stockings beat Antioch 41-7 |
| 1867 | Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university |
| 1864 | Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana |
| 1862 | General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, Tennessee |
| 1855 | Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine |
| 1827 | Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes |
| 1827 | University of Toronto is chartered |
| 1820 | Maine admitted as 23rd state |
| 1812 | 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River |
| 1781 | Battle of Guilford Court House, North Carolina (British suffer heavy losses) |
| 1778 | Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Captain Cook |
| 1744 | French King Louis XV declares war on England |
| 1729 | Sister St. Stanislas Hachard, 1st U.S. nun, takes her vows, N Orleans |
| 1672 | King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence |
| 1580 | Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange |
| 1562 | General Francois de Guise enters Paris |
| 1560 | Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise France |
| 1493 | Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage |
| 1391 | Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews |
| 1382 | Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy |
| 1360 | France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel |
| 933 | Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren |
| 493 | Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy |
