| 2013 | In southwest China, environmental and health concerns among residents are raised when 1,000 dead ducks pulled from the Sichuan River |
| 2013 | President of China, Xi Jinping addresses leaders in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, vowing to strengthen ties with Africa |
| 2012 | In Orlando, Golf pro Tiger Woods wins the Arnold Palmer Invitational tournament; this is his first PGA Tour victory since 2009 |
| 2012 | U.S. President Barack Obama begins a three-day visit to South Korea, as tensions rise over North Korea's proposed missile tests |
| 2011 | Iran's Government rejects an investigation into alleged human rights abuses called for by the United Nations Human Rights Council |
| 2011 | The Tibetan parliament will seek the Tibetan community's opinion after the Tibetan government in-exile accepts the Dalai Lama's resignation from politics |
| 2010 | Somali troops demolish 500 homes near the airport in Mogdishu |
| 2008 | 160 square mile part of the Antarctic ice shelf disintegrates |
| 2002 | Earthquake kills at least 1,000 100 miles north of Kabul, Afghanistan |
| 2001 | 73rd Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Steve Martin hosts, Gladiator wins Best Picture, Russell Crowe and Julia Roberts win lead acting awards |
| 1997 | "Barrymore," opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 240 performances |
| 1997 | Indians trade Lofton and Embree to Braves for Grissom and Justice |
| 1996 | 68th Academy Awards - "Braveheart," Nicholas Cage and Susan Sarandon win |
| 1996 | Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 AUs of Earth |
| 1996 | Freedom Shoemakers on Maryport's Solway Estate closes |
| 1996 | Ice Dance Championship at Edmonton won by Gritshuk and Platov (RUS) |
| 1996 | Ice Pairs Championship at Edmonton won by Eltsova and Bushkov (RUS) |
| 1996 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Michelle Kwan (USA) |
| 1996 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Todd Eldredge (USA) |
| 1996 | U.S. issues newly-redesigned $100 bill |
| 1995 | Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years |
| 1994 | Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32) |
| 1994 | Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 m (1:12.37) |
| 1993 | "Candida" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| 1992 | Imran Khan scores 72 and takes 1-43 off 6 2 overs in last ODI |
| 1992 | Pakistan defeats England by 22 runs to win World Cup |
| 1992 | Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands |
| 1991 | 63rd Academy Awards - "Dance with Wolves," Kathy Bates and J Irons win |
| 1991 | Allan Border takes 5-68 vs. WI at Bourda (!), Georgetown |
| 1990 | "Lettice and Lovage" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 284 performances |
| 1990 | 10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins |
| 1990 | Fire in illegal New York City social club, kills 87 |
| 1990 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic |
| 1989 | "Les Miserables," opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago |
| 1988 | "Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya Japan |
| 1988 | NASA launches space vehicle S-206 |
| 1988 | Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money |
| 1987 | Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified |
| 1986 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA) |
| 1986 | Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes |
| 1986 | Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump |
| 1985 | 57th Academy Awards - "Amadeus," F Murray Abraham and Sally Field win |
| 1985 | Edwin Meese III becomes U.S. Attorney General |
| 1984 | Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| 1983 | Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec) |
| 1983 | Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58) |
| 1982 | Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season |
| 1979 | Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest |
| 1979 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
| 1976 | "My Fair Lady" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 384 performances |
| 1976 | "Rex" opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater New York City for 48 performances |
| 1976 | Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties |
| 1975 | Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arab (1964-75), shot by nephew |
| 1974 | Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly" |
| 1973 | 27th Tony Awards: That Championship Season and Little Night Music win |
| 1973 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic |
| 1973 | Majid Khan and Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test vs. Eng |
| 1972 | "Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1972 | 34th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Florida 81-76 |
| 1972 | America's LP "America" goes #1 |
| 1972 | Bobby Hull becomes the 2nd NHLer to score 600 goals |
| 1972 | UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title |
| 1971 | Boston Patriots become New England Patriots |
| 1971 | European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers |
| 1971 | Tom Jones, "She's a Lady," goes gold |
| 1970 | Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH) |
| 1969 | Andes Pact signed in Peru |
| 1969 | John and Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam) |
| 1969 | Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president |
| 1968 | KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, Nevada (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1967 | 29th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton 79-64 |
| 1967 | The Turtle's "Happy Together" goes #1 |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1967 | Who and Cream make U.S. debut at Murray the K's Easter Show |
| 1966 | U.S. Supreme Court rules the poll tax unconstitutional |
| 1966 | Beatles pose with mutilated dolls and butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday and Today" album, It is later pulled |
| 1965 | Martin Luther King, Jr. led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama |
| 1965 | West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution |
| 1964 | Britain sets memorial for the late President John F. Kennedy |
| 1964 | Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64) |
| 1963 | KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, California (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | "Family Affair" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 65 performances |
| 1962 | French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested |
| 1961 | "13 Daughters" closes at 54th St. Theater New York City after 28 performances |
| 1961 | "Gypsy" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 702 performances |
| 1961 | 23rd NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Cincinnati beats Ohio State 70-65 (OT) |
| 1961 | Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona |
| 1961 | Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km) |
| 1961 | Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered |
| 1961 | 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St. Joseph's defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes |
| 1960 | 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut) |
| 1960 | DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (New York City) |
| 1960 | Ford Frick voids Indians - Red Sox deal as Sam White retires |
| 1960 | Italian government Tambroni forms |
| 1959 | Bill White traded to St. Louis for pitchers Sam Jones and Don Choate |
| 1959 | French President De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary |
| 1958 | Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times |
| 1958 | West German parliament desires German atomic weapons |
| 1957 | NBA modifies the free-throw rule |
| 1957 | Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community, known as the Common Market |
| 1955 | East Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, U.S.S.R. |
| 1954 | 26th Academy Awards - "From Here to Eternity," Holden and A Hepburn win |
| 1954 | Pope Pius XII encyclical "Sacra virginitas" (On consecrated virginity) |
| 1954 | RCA manufactures 1st color TV set, a 12-inch screen for $1,000 |
| 1951 | 5th Tony Awards: Guys and Dolls and Rose Tattoo win |
| 1951 | E Purcell and EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab |
| 1949 | SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied |
| 1947 | 9th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Holy Cross beats Oklahoma 58-47 |
| 1947 | Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia |
| 1947 | Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois, claims 111 |
| 1947 | Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (vs. New Zealand, Christchurch) |
| 1946 | 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto" |
| 1945 | U.S. 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen |
| 1945 | U.S. 4th Armored div arrives at Hanau and Aschaffenburg |
| 1945 | U.S. Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa |
| 1944 | RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute |
| 1943 | 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt nazi registration |
| 1943 | Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore premiere on radio |
| 1942 | 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp |
| 1941 | Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon South Carolina, incorporated |
| 1939 | Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart |
| 1938 | 1st U.S. bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase |
| 1937 | It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads |
| 1937 | Italy and Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade) |
| 1937 | Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot |
| 1937 | Washington Daily News is 1st U.S. newspaper with perfumed advertising page |
| 1936 | 200" mirror blank leaves for California to be ground |
| 1936 | Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in NHL longest game (2h56m30s) |
| 1935 | 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns |
| 1934 | 1st Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 284 |
| 1931 | Hal Kemp and his Orchestra record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis |
| 1931 | Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama |
| 1924 | Greek parliament selects Admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier |
| 1924 | Stanley Cup: Mont Canadiens (NHL) sweep Calgary Tigers (WCHL) in 2 |
| 1923 | British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy |
| 1920 | Greek Independence Day |
| 1916 | Heavyweight Jess Willard and Franc Moran fight to no decision in New York City |
| 1916 | Jess Willard fights Frank Moran to no decision in 10 for boxing title |
| 1916 | Women are allowed to attend a boxing match |
| 1915 | 1st submarine disaster; a U.S. F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21 |
| 1915 | German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea |
| 1913 | Great Dayton Flood |
| 1913 | Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (New York City) starring Ed Wynn |
| 1911 | L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay |
| 1911 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls |
| 1910 | Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ |
| 1907 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but outscore them in 2 game set but outscore them 12-8 and win cup |
| 1905 | Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South |
| 1902 | Irving W. Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine |
| 1901 | 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa |
| 1900 | U.S. Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis |
| 1898 | Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in New York City |
| 1896 | Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece |
| 1895 | Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
| 1894 | Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon Oh for Wash |
| 1889 | 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town vs. England |
| 1888 | Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber |
| 1882 | 1st demonstration of pancake making (Department store in New York City) |
| 1876 | Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0) |
| 1865 | Battle of Bluff Spring, Florida |
| 1865 | Battle of Fort Stedman, Virginia - in front of Petersburg |
| 1865 | Battle of Mobile, Alabama (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely) |
| 1865 | SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire and sinks, killing 400 |
| 1864 | Battle of Paducah, Kentucky (Forrest's raid) |
| 1863 | 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Brentwood Tennessee |
| 1857 | Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse |
| 1856 | A. E. Burnside patents Burnside carbine |
| 1852 | Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer," premieres in Munich |
| 1847 | Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland" |
| 1821 | Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day) |
| 1820 | Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack |
| 1817 | Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians |
| 1814 | Netherlands Bank established |
| 1813 | 1st U.S. flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex |
| 1807 | 1st railway passenger service began in England |
| 1807 | British Parliament abolishes slave trade |
| 1807 | George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs |
| 1802 | France, Netherlands, Spain and England signs Peace of Amiens |
| 1776 | Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington |
| 1774 | English Parliament passes Boston Port Bill |
| 1753 | Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia |
| 1700 | England, France and Netherlands ratify 2nd Extermination treaty |
| 1669 | Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000 |
| 1668 | 1st horse race in America takes place |
| 1655 | Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite) |
| 1647 | Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay |
| 1634 | Lord Baltimore founded Catholic colony of Maryland |
| 1609 | Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co. |
| 1598 | Cornelis de Houtman's fleet departs for East-Indies |
| 1584 | Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore N Amer |
| 1581 | Portugese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal |
| 1571 | Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland |
| 1409 | Council of Pisa opens |
| 1306 | Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland |
| 1133 | William the Conqueror orders 1st Domesday Survey of England |
| 708 | Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 421 | Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded |
| 31 | 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus |
| 1 | Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word |
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