| 2005 | Steve Fossett flys the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer to a world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world |
| 2005 | Garry Kasparov retires professionally from chess |
| 2002 | Earthquake kills at least 150 100 miles north of Kabul, Afghanistan |
| 1998 | Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee |
| 1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville, North Carolina on WRCQ 103.5 FM |
| 1996 | 26th Easter Seal Telethon |
| 1996 | Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final |
| 1995 | Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorce |
| 1994 | "Damn Yankees" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 510 performances |
| 1994 | "Philoktetes Variations," with Ron Vawter, premieres in Brussels |
| 1994 | IRS investigates Darryl Strawberry |
| 1992 | Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die |
| 1992 | Mike Bossy's #22 is 2nd # retired by New York Islanders |
| 1991 | "Big Love" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 41 performances |
| 1991 | 25 die as United Airlines Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs |
| 1991 | Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* vs. WI at Kingston |
| 1991 | Iraqi generals and General Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire |
| 1991 | Four Los Angeles Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video |
| 1991 | Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the U.S.S.R. |
| 1991 | Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec) |
| 1991 | Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tome e Principal |
| 1991 | Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18 |
| 1991 | United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25 |
| 1990 | Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan 1st black), crowned 39th Miss USA |
| 1989 | Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines |
| 1989 | Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 years probation for Iran-Contra |
| 1985 | "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis, premieres |
| 1985 | "My One and Only" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 767 performances |
| 1985 | Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic |
| 1985 | Bill (Willie) Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million |
| 1985 | National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike |
| 1984 | New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6) |
| 1984 | Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1) |
| 1982 | Senate begins debate on expulsion of Senator Harrison Williams D-New Jersey |
| 1981 | Isle's Mike Bossy 9th and final hat trick of season-4 goals |
| 1981 | New York Islanders and Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie |
| 1980 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1978 | 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI vs. Australia) |
| 1978 | Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland |
| 1977 | Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS) |
| 1977 | Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal |
| 1977 | Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms |
| 1977 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (U.S.S.R.) |
| 1977 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA) |
| 1976 | Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia |
| 1975 | "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 104 performances |
| 1975 | Linda McCartney is charged in U.S. with possession of marijuana |
| 1974 | "Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| 1974 | Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4 |
| 1974 | George Foreman KOs Ken Norton |
| 1974 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| 1974 | World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die) |
| 1973 | "Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 31 performances |
| 1973 | White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000 |
| 1972 | Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia |
| 1971 | South African Broadcasting lifts its ban on the Beatles |
| 1971 | Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa |
| 1969 | Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days) |
| 1968 | "Here's Where I Belong" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City |
| 1968 | Greece, Portugal and Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague |
| 1968 | Jean Beliveau (Mont) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 pts |
| 1967 | Grenada gains partial independence from Britain |
| 1967 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1967 | White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game) |
| 1966 | Buffalo Springfield form, Steven Stills, Neil Young |
| 1966 | James Goldman's "Lion in Winter," premieres in New York City |
| 1966 | Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinee |
| 1966 | Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms |
| 1966 | Twister hits Jackson, Mississippi; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die |
| 1966 | WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, Virginia (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1 |
| 1965 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1965 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1963 | Senegal adopts constitution |
| 1962 | British Antarctic Territory forms |
| 1961 | King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco |
| 1960 | 9th largest snowfall in New York City history, 14.5" |
| 1959 | 1st U.S. probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched |
| 1959 | British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis |
| 1959 | San Francisco Giant's rename their stadium Candlestick Park |
| 1958 | KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1958 | Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq |
| 1957 | Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then" |
| 1957 | Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Markham and Jones (GRB) |
| 1957 | Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner and Paul (CAN) |
| 1957 | Men's Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins (USA) |
| 1957 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| 1957 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss (U.S.) |
| 1956 | Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2) |
| 1956 | Indonesian government of Harahap resigns |
| 1956 | Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne) |
| 1956 | Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY |
| 1955 | Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance on "Louisiana Hayride" show |
| 1953 | Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed |
| 1953 | Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St. Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee |
| 1952 | Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution |
| 1951 | Bill Mlkvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts |
| 1950 | 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name |
| 1946 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
| 1946 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
| 1945 | Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarters |
| 1945 | RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511 |
| 1945 | U.S. and Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor |
| 1945 | U.S. 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall |
| 1944 | 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony |
| 1943 | Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die |
| 1943 | F Ryerson and Cohn Claues' "Harriet," premieres in New York City |
| 1943 | U.S. defeats Japan and wins Battle of Bismark Sea |
| 1942 | 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane |
| 1941 | Netherlands NSB-leader Mussert visits Goring in Berlin |
| 1940 | Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label |
| 1938 | American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors) |
| 1937 | Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down |
| 1936 | Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test vs. South Africa |
| 1935 | Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms |
| 1934 | John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol |
| 1933 | German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested |
| 1933 | Mount Rushmore dedicated |
| 1933 | New York City premiere of "King Kong" |
| 1931 | "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes U.S. national anthem |
| 1931 | Cab Calloway records "Minnie Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller) |
| 1926 | International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Florida) |
| 1924 | German and Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed |
| 1924 | Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock," premieres in Dublin |
| 1923 | U.S. Senate rejects membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague |
| 1922 | Italian fascists occupy Fiume and Rijeka |
| 1922 | WWJ-AM in Detroit Michigan begins radio transmissions |
| 1921 | Toronto's Dr. Banting and Dr. Best announce discovery of insulin |
| 1920 | Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs |
| 1919 | 1st international air mail service from U.S., Seattle-Victoria, British Columbia |
| 1919 | Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike |
| 1918 | Richard Goring's "Seeschlacht," premieres in Berlin |
| 1918 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria and Russia sign |
| 1917 | Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations |
| 1917 | Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar |
| 1917 | Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (OS) |
| 1915 | National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created |
| 1913 | Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington D.C. |
| 1911 | 1st U.S. federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri |
| 1909 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montreal Wanderers, 8-3 |
| 1906 | Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France |
| 1905 | U.S. Forest Service forms |
| 1903 | North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses |
| 1901 | Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce |
| 1900 | U.S. Steel Corporation organizes |
| 1899 | Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar |
| 1899 | George Dewey becomes 1st in U.S. with rank of Admiral of the Navy |
| 1894 | 1st Greek-language publication in U.S. begins, "NY Atlantis" |
| 1894 | 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns |
| 1893 | Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized |
| 1893 | Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture |
| 1892 | 1st cattle tuberculosis test in U.S. made, Villa Nova, Penn |
| 1891 | Congress creates U.S. Courts of Appeal |
| 1891 | Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Department) created |
| 1887 | American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa |
| 1887 | Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller |
| 1885 | 1st U.S. state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission |
| 1885 | American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates |
| 1885 | Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of federal government) |
| 1885 | U.S. Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail |
| 1883 | Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in U.S. navy |
| 1882 | New York Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings |
| 1879 | 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood) |
| 1879 | U.S. Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior |
| 1878 | Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano) |
| 1877 | Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as the 19th president |
| 1875 | 1st recorded hockey game (Montreal) |
| 1875 | Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years |
| 1875 | Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris) |
| 1873 | Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps |
| 1873 | U.S. Congress and government raise own salary, retroactively |
| 1871 | Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent |
| 1871 | Congress establishes the civil service system |
| 1869 | University of South Carolina opens to all races |
| 1865 | Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established |
| 1865 | Freedmen's Bureau is created to help destitute free blacks |
| 1863 | 1st U.S. wartime military conscription bill enacted |
| 1863 | Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences |
| 1863 | Congress authorizes a U.S. mint at Carson City, Nevada |
| 1863 | Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia |
| 1863 | Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired |
| 1863 | Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress |
| 1863 | Idaho Territory forms |
| 1863 | Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences |
| 1862 | Battle of New Madrid MO-captured by Union forces |
| 1862 | General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid |
| 1861 | Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom |
| 1855 | Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use |
| 1855 | Congress authorizes registered mail |
| 1853 | Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress |
| 1853 | U.S. Assay Office in New York City authorized |
| 1851 | Congress authorizes smallest U.S. silver coin (3 cent piece) |
| 1849 | Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin |
| 1849 | Home Department (Interior Department), forms |
| 1849 | Minnesota Territory is organizes |
| 1849 | Territory of Minnesota organizes |
| 1849 | U.S. Department of the Interior established by Congress |
| 1847 | Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps |
| 1845 | 1st time, U.S. Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto |
| 1845 | Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery |
| 1845 | Florida becomes 27th state |
| 1843 | Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US |
| 1842 | 1st U.S. child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass) |
| 1842 | 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony |
| 1838 | Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario Canada |
| 1837 | Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9 |
| 1837 | U.S. president Andrew Jackson and Congress recognizes Republic of Texas |
| 1835 | Congress authorizes a U.S. mint at New Orleans Louisiana |
| 1820 | Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri |
| 1817 | Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi |
| 1815 | U.S. declares war on Algiers for taking U.S. prisoners and demanding tribute |
| 1813 | Office of surgeon general of the U.S. Army forms |
| 1812 | U.S. passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims) |
| 1805 | Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms |
| 1803 | 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins |
| 1801 | 1st U.S. Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia |
| 1794 | 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D |
| 1794 | Richard Allen founded AME Church |
| 1791 | 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits and carriages) |
| 1791 | Congress establishes U.S. Mint |
| 1776 | U.S. commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas |
| 1746 | Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness |
| 1638 | Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden |
| 1634 | 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole) |
| 1627 | Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil |
| 1431 | Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV |
| 1409 | Austrian civil war ends |
| 493 | Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker |
| 468 | St. Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius |
| 78 | Origin of Saka Era (India) |
