| 2009 | Marc Ravalomanana, President of Madagascar, is overthrown. New President, Andry Rajoelina, is appointed by the military |
| 1998 | USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympic Gold medal |
| 1997 | CNN begins spanish broadcasts |
| 1996 | "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 29 performances |
| 1996 | "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst New York City for 17 performances |
| 1996 | Aravinda De Silva gets 107* and 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory |
| 1996 | Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
| 1996 | Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title |
| 1996 | Montreal Canadian's 1st game in their new arena |
| 1996 | Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup |
| 1995 | British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record) |
| 1995 | Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House |
| 1995 | U.S. approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck |
| 1994 | "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 30 performances |
| 1994 | Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan, 32 killed |
| 1994 | It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark |
| 1993 | 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta |
| 1992 | "Death and the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 159 performances |
| 1992 | 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire |
| 1992 | 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Islamic Jihad |
| 1992 | De Klerk wins a white only referendum |
| 1992 | Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit |
| 1991 | 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty |
| 1991 | Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St. Patrick Day parade |
| 1991 | John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire," premieres in New York City |
| 1991 | New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70% |
| 1991 | Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International |
| 1990 | PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak |
| 1989 | "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater New York City for 44 performances |
| 1989 | Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St. Patrick Day Parade |
| 1988 | "Les Miserables," opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo |
| 1988 | Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115 |
| 1988 | Iran says Iraq uses poison gas in the war |
| 1987 | IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 |
| 1987 | Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 vs. Pak |
| 1986 | Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF |
| 1985 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| 1985 | Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623' |
| 1983 | 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy |
| 1983 | 9th People's Choice Awards |
| 1982 | 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador |
| 1981 | FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms |
| 1979 | Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov U.S.S.R. |
| 1979 | Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia and R Gardner USA |
| 1979 | Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (U.S.S.R.) |
| 1979 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne |
| 1978 | Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast |
| 1978 | Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm |
| 1978 | Reds don green uniforms for St. Patricks Day |
| 1977 | Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877 |
| 1976 | Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76) |
| 1976 | Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried |
| 1976 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1975 | Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92) |
| 1974 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International |
| 1973 | Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge |
| 1973 | St. Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday |
| 1972 | Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK |
| 1970 | Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1970 | U.S. casts their 1st United Nations Security Council veto (Support England) |
| 1969 | Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM |
| 1969 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open |
| 1968 | 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington D.C. by U.S. and 6 European nations |
| 1968 | Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St. Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open |
| 1966 | South Africa government bans Defense and Aid Fund |
| 1966 | U.S. submarine locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean |
| 1965 | Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help) |
| 1963 | Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game |
| 1963 | Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York beatified (canonized in 1975) |
| 1963 | Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese |
| 1961 | New York DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players |
| 1961 | South Africa leaves British Commonwealth |
| 1960 | Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA |
| 1960 | WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1959 | Australia and U.S.S.R. restore diplomatic relations |
| 1959 | Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India |
| 1958 | Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd U.S.), measures Earth shape |
| 1957 | Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted |
| 1957 | Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash |
| 1956 | 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show and Lucy Ball |
| 1955 | Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montreal |
| 1953 | Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St. Louis Browns for $2,475M |
| 1953 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1953 | WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | Government of Drees takes power |
| 1951 | Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England vs. New Zealand Christchurch |
| 1950 | Belgian government of Eyskens resigns |
| 1950 | Element 98 (Californium) announced |
| 1945 | Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra |
| 1944 | Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke |
| 1943 | Aldemarin (Ned) and Fort Cedar Lake (U.S.) torpedoed and sinks |
| 1943 | F. Hugh Herbert's "Kiss and Tell," premieres in New York City |
| 1942 | Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported |
| 1942 | General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander |
| 1941 | National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. opens |
| 1935 | KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR |
| 1934 | Dollfuss, Mussolini and Gombos sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome) |
| 1932 | German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter |
| 1931 | Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee |
| 1929 | General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel |
| 1929 | Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid |
| 1927 | U.S. government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty |
| 1926 | Dutch Calvinists oust Reverend J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3 |
| 1926 | Richard Rodgers and L Hart's musical "Girl Friend," premieres in New York City |
| 1926 | Spain and Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations |
| 1924 | Eugene O'Neill's "Welded," premieres in New York City |
| 1924 | Netherlands and U.S.S.R. begin talks over U.S.S.R. recognition |
| 1924 | Sweden and U.S.S.R. exchange diplomats |
| 1921 | Dr. Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London) |
| 1921 | Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics |
| 1921 | Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die) |
| 1919 | Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hour day and minimum wages |
| 1918 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford |
| 1918 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles |
| 1917 | 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St. Louis |
| 1917 | Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne |
| 1912 | Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick |
| 1910 | DHC soccer team forms in Delft, Netherlands |
| 1908 | Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds) |
| 1908 | Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1906 | President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake" |
| 1906 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game, Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10 |
| 1905 | Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in NY |
| 1902 | Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1 |
| 1901 | Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands |
| 1900 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 |
| 1899 | Windsor luxury hotel in New York City catches fire, 92 die |
| 1898 | 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, New York City (for 1 hour 40 minutes) |
| 1897 | After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" |
| 1894 | U.S. and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering U.S. |
| 1891 | British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574 |
| 1886 | Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed |
| 1884 | John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, California |
| 1877 | Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 vs. Eng |
| 1876 | 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks) |
| 1876 | General Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux indian camps |
| 1871 | National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized |
| 1870 | Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary |
| 1868 | Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued |
| 1863 | Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia (211 casualities) |
| 1861 | Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed |
| 1860 | Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh |
| 1854 | 1st park land purchased by a U.S. city, Worcester, Massachusetts |
| 1847 | "Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence |
| 1845 | Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour |
| 1845 | Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London |
| 1842 | Indians land in Ohio, a 12 mile area in Upper Sandusky |
| 1836 | Texas abolishes slavery |
| 1833 | Phoenix Society forms (New York) |
| 1824 | England and Netherlands sign a trade agreement |
| 1804 | Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," premieres |
| 1800 | English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die |
| 1776 | British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War |
| 1766 | Britain repeals Stamp Act |
| 1762 | 1st St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City |
| 1757 | Prince Mas Said of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java |
| 1756 | St. Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in New York City at Crown and Thistle Tavern |
| 1755 | Transylvania Land Co. buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief |
| 1753 | 1st official St. Patrick's Day |
| 1722 | Willem K. H. Friso appointed mayor of Drente |
| 1672 | England declares war on Netherlands |
| 1658 | Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered |
| 1580 | Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam |
| 1537 | French troops invade Flanders |
| 1526 | French king Francois I freed from Spain |
| 1521 | Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines |
| 1521 | Magelhaes lands on Homohon |
| 1190 | Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England |
| 455 | Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor |
| 432 | St. Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave |
