| 2013 | Australian diplomat Peter Woolcott's draft for the first-ever treaty to regulate the conventional arms trade is discussed by members of the United Nations |
| 2013 | Attracting NATO criticism, Russia conducts unscheduled military exercises in the Black Sea |
| 2012 | The Mega Millions jackpot in the U.S. reaches a world record in lottery history - $500 million dollars |
| 2012 | The Government of Fiji takes over controlling interest in Australia's Qantas airline subsidiary Air Pacific |
| 2011 | New South Wales swears in its new Premier, Barry O'Farrell, following its state election |
| 2011 | The International Atomic Energy Agency calls for a summit to discuss concerns about nuclear safety following radiation leaks at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant |
| 2010 | The BBC finds evidence of a massacre in the Democratic Republic of Congo carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army last December, in which 321 people, including children, were killed |
| 2005 | Sumatran earthquake with a magnitude of 8.7, the second largest earthquake since 1965 |
| 1999 | 18th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at San Jose |
| 1997 | "City" soap opera's final episode on ABC-TV |
| 1996 | "7 Guitars" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City |
| 1996 | "Seven Guitars," opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City |
| 1996 | Katie Beam, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 35th Miss Teenage America |
| 1995 | Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovette split-up |
| 1995 | Queensland beat S Australia to win 1st ever cricket Sheffield Shield |
| 1995 | World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank and Bank of Tokyo merge |
| 1994 | Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed |
| 1994 | Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election |
| 1993 | 13th Golden Raspberry Awards: Shining Through wins |
| 1993 | 22nd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Helen Alfredsson |
| 1993 | Conservatives win French parliamentary election |
| 1993 | Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031) |
| 1992 | 6th American Comedy Award: Cathy Ladman, Judy Watkins, Billy Crystal |
| 1992 | Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3:35:31) |
| 1992 | PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel |
| 1991 | Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son |
| 1990 | Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient |
| 1990 | Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 points in a game |
| 1990 | President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal |
| 1989 | New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars and Stripes, in a New York court |
| 1987 | Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway |
| 1986 | Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India |
| 1986 | John N. McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| 1985 | International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley |
| 1985 | Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues," premieres in New York City |
| 1985 | STS-51-D vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 1982 | 12th Easter Seal Telethon raises $19,500,000 |
| 1982 | 1st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: LA Tech beats Cheney 76-62 |
| 1982 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| 1982 | JN Duartes christian-democrats win elections in El Salvador |
| 1981 | Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 m 40.18 sec |
| 1981 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1981 | Gabi Schonbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:21.70) |
| 1981 | Viv Richards scores century in the 1st Test at his home Antigua |
| 1981 | Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (36.91 seconds) |
| 1979 | British government of Callaghan falls |
| 1979 | Lazarus and Vosburgh's "Day in Hollywood and night in Ukraine," premieres |
| 1979 | Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pennsylvania (no deaths) |
| 1977 | 39th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Marquette beats North Carolina 67-59 |
| 1977 | 49th Academy Awards - "Rocky," Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway win |
| 1977 | Morarji Desai forms government in India |
| 1975 | Washington Caps win 1st game on road after 37 straight road loses also |
| 1974 | Rock group Raspberries breakup |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1972 | Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game |
| 1971 | 25th Tony Awards: Sleuth and Company win |
| 1970 | 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey) |
| 1969 | Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal |
| 1967 | "Sherry!" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 65 performances |
| 1967 | U.N. Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam |
| 1965 | Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA All State Ladies' Golf Invitational |
| 1964 | 9.2 earthquake shakes Prince William Sound, Alaska |
| 1963 | AFL's New York Titan's become the New York Jets |
| 1962 | Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives WI cricket victory over India |
| 1962 | Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees |
| 1960 | Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African and 1st Filipino cardinal |
| 1960 | Scotch factory explodes burying 20 fire fighters (Glasgow Scotland) |
| 1959 | 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government and installs Panchen Lama |
| 1957 | 1st National Curling Championship held |
| 1955 | New Zealand cricket all out for 26 vs. England at Eden Park |
| 1954 | 8th Tony Awards: Teahouse of the August Moon and Kismet win |
| 1954 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open |
| 1954 | WKAQ TV channel 2 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (TM) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | "New Faces (of 1952)" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 365 performances |
| 1953 | 7th Tony Awards: Crucible and Wonderful Town win |
| 1953 | KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
| 1953 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins |
| 1952 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
| 1952 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
| 1950 | 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: CCNY beats Bradley 71-68 New York City college becomes 1st to win NCAA and National Inv Basketball in same year |
| 1948 | 2nd Tony Awards: Mister Roberts win |
| 1945 | Last German V-2 (buzz bomb) attack on London |
| 1944 | 6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40 |
| 1944 | Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle and begins writing Pippi Longstocking |
| 1944 | NBA rookie of the year in 1966, Rick Barry |
| 1942 | 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck |
| 1942 | 4th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38 |
| 1942 | British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St. Nazaire |
| 1942 | Raid on lock/dock St. Nazaire |
| 1941 | Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy |
| 1939 | Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down |
| 1939 | Philip Barry's "Philadelphia Story," premieres in New York City |
| 1939 | Renaissance Big 5 win 1st pro basketball championship |
| 1939 | Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco |
| 1935 | Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket |
| 1933 | German Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler |
| 1930 | 1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston) |
| 1930 | Constantinople and Angora changes names to Istanbul and Ankara |
| 1929 | Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador |
| 1927 | Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St. New York City |
| 1924 | WGN-AM in Chicago, Illinois begins radio transmissions |
| 1922 | 1st microfilm device introduced |
| 1922 | Stanley Cup: Toronto St. Pats (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2 |
| 1920 | Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford |
| 1920 | Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia |
| 1917 | Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv and Jaffa by Turkish authorities |
| 1917 | Puccini's "La Rondine," premieres in Monte Carlo |
| 1910 | 1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre) |
| 1905 | Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used |
| 1902 | 27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville, Tennessee (state record) |
| 1896 | The opera "Andrea Chenier" is produced (Milan) |
| 1891 | 1st world weightlifting championship held |
| 1885 | U.S. Salvation Army officially organized |
| 1881 | Greatest Show On Earth was formed by PT Barnum and James A Bailey |
| 1871 | San Francisco Art Association holds open reception at 430 Pine |
| 1866 | 1st ambulance goes into service |
| 1862 | Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia |
| 1859 | 1st performance of John Brahms' 1st Serenade for orchestra |
| 1854 | During the Crimean War, Britain and France declare war on Russia |
| 1849 | Dutch princess Marianne and Prince Albert of Prussia separate |
| 1845 | Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US |
| 1844 | Jose Zorilla's "Don Juan Tenorio," premieres in Madrid |
| 1837 | Felix Mendelssohn marries Cecile Jeanrenaud |
| 1834 | Senate censure President Jackson for taking federal deposits from Bank of U.S. |
| 1804 | Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804 |
| 1799 | New York State abolished slavery |
| 1797 | Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine |
| 1796 | Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is 1st US-African church |
| 1794 | Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August) |
| 1774 | Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts |
| 1738 | English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear) |
| 1556 | Karel V's son Philip II crowned king of Spain |
| 1556 | Origin of Fasli Era (India) |
| 1535 | Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked and destroyed |
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