| 2013 | In China, Premier Wen Jiabao addresses the National People's Congress announcing the country's 2013 goal of a 7.5% growth rate in GDP |
| 2013 | President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, dies in office in the nation's capital, Caracas; he was 58 |
| 2012 | The animated film, 'The Lorax' earns $70.7 million dollars at the box office, the fifth highest returns ever for an animated film |
| 2012 | The U.S. requests New Zealand extradite Kim Dotcom and three of his MegaUpload associates, forcing them to face charges for breaching copyright |
| 2011 | Saudi Arabia bans all protests after demonstrations have taken place east of the country |
| 2011 | In the Battle of Az Zawiyah, rebels successfully overcome pro-Gaddafi forces trying to push into the city |
| 2010 | Gordon Brown, United Kingdom's Prime Minister, gives evidence to the Iraq Inquiry |
| 1997 | Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox and Willie Wells for Hall of Fame |
| 1996 | Earl Weaver and Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1995 | 21st People's Choice Awards: Tim Allen wins |
| 1995 | Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election |
| 1995 | Graves of czar Nicholas and family found in St. Petersburg |
| 1995 | Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26) |
| 1994 | Dottie Mochrie wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Championship |
| 1994 | Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa) |
| 1994 | PBA National Championship won by David Traber |
| 1994 | Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop |
| 1993 | Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery |
| 1993 | Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die |
| 1993 | Former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi |
| 1993 | Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game |
| 1992 | Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks |
| 1991 | Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait |
| 1991 | Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games |
| 1989 | 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000 |
| 1989 | Blains McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266 |
| 1989 | Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 m indoor (8:33.82) |
| 1986 | "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper) |
| 1985 | New York Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons |
| 1984 | Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene |
| 1984 | U.S. accuse Iraq of using poison gas |
| 1983 | Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (Cons) |
| 1983 | NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield |
| 1982 | Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners |
| 1982 | Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands and sends back data from Venus |
| 1981 | "Bring Back Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| 1981 | Ice Dance Championship at Hartford won by Jayne Torvill and C Dean (GRB) |
| 1981 | Ice Pairs Champ at Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva and I Lisovski (URS) |
| 1981 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Hartford won by Scott Hamilton (USA) |
| 1981 | U.S. government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer |
| 1980 | Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49 |
| 1979 | Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles) |
| 1978 | "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 152 performances |
| 1978 | Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California |
| 1976 | British pounds falls below $2 for 1st time |
| 1974 | "Candide" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 740 performances |
| 1974 | Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot |
| 1973 | Yankee pitchers Peterson and Kekich announce they swapped wives |
| 1972 | Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves Communist Party |
| 1970 | Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St. New York City |
| 1970 | Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect |
| 1970 | SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St. in New York City |
| 1969 | Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris |
| 1969 | Gustav Heinemann elected president of West-Germany |
| 1969 | Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw," premieres in London |
| 1968 | U.S. launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun |
| 1967 | WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die |
| 1966 | Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record |
| 1966 | Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as executive director of Players' Association |
| 1966 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1965 | 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony |
| 1965 | Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1964 | Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., announces a baseball team is moving there |
| 1964 | Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest |
| 1963 | Beatles record "From Me to You" and "Thank You Girl" |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1960 | Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in U.S. Army |
| 1960 | Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny and Jones (GRB) |
| 1960 | Ice Pairs Championship at Vancouver won by Wagner and Paul (CAN) |
| 1960 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (FRA) |
| 1960 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Vanc won by Carol E Heiss (USA) |
| 1959 | Iran and U.S. sign economic / military treaty |
| 1958 | Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit |
| 1958 | KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| 1957 | Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland |
| 1957 | Sergeant Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvis Pelvin) |
| 1956 | "King Kong," 1st televised |
| 1956 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| 1955 | WBBJ TV channel 7 in Jackson, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | "Girl in Pink Tights" opens at Mark Hellinger New York City for 115 performances |
| 1952 | Terence Rattigan's "Deep Blue Sea," premieres in London |
| 1949 | Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30 |
| 1948 | Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson |
| 1948 | U.S. rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height |
| 1946 | Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri |
| 1945 | Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands |
| 1945 | Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Patch meet in Luneville |
| 1945 | U.S. 7th Army Corps captures Cologne |
| 1945 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
| 1944 | 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony |
| 1943 | Anti fascist strikes in Italy |
| 1943 | RAF bombs Essen Germany |
| 1942 | Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia |
| 1942 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia |
| 1942 | Japanese troop march into Batavia |
| 1936 | Spitfire makes it's 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton) |
| 1935 | 1st premature baby health law in U.S. (Chicago) |
| 1934 | Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Texas) |
| 1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims 10-day bank holiday |
| 1933 | Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes) |
| 1931 | Gandhi and British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact |
| 1928 | Karl Zuckmayer's "Der Hauptmann von Kopenick," premieres in Berlin |
| 1927 | 1,000 U.S. Marines land in China to protect American property |
| 1924 | Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM |
| 1924 | Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games |
| 1924 | King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief |
| 1923 | 1st old age pension plans in U.S. established by Montana and Nevada |
| 1922 | "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin |
| 1919 | Louis Hirsch and Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in New York City |
| 1917 | 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released |
| 1912 | Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die |
| 1910 | Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon," premieres |
| 1910 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1 |
| 1908 | 1st ascent of Mount Erebus, Antarctica |
| 1907 | 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired |
| 1903 | Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn |
| 1900 | American Hall of Fame found |
| 1899 | 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Concerto in D |
| 1896 | Italian premier Crispi resigns |
| 1896 | Italians governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa |
| 1894 | Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in U.S. |
| 1877 | Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as 19th U.S. president |
| 1872 | George Westinghouse, Jr. patents triple air brake for trains |
| 1868 | Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele," premieres in Milan |
| 1868 | Stapler patented in England by C. H. Gould |
| 1868 | U.S. Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson |
| 1864 | 1st track meet between Oxford and Cambridge |
| 1862 | Union troops under Brigadier-General Wright occupy Fernandina Florida |
| 1856 | Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire |
| 1856 | Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads |
| 1849 | Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th president |
| 1845 | Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western U.S. |
| 1836 | Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model |
| 1821 | Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun |
| 1820 | Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays |
| 1807 | 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B |
| 1795 | Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution |
| 1795 | Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France |
| 1783 | King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno |
| 1770 | Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a U.S. Senator (Mississippi) |
| 1770 | Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom |
| 1766 | Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French |
| 1760 | Princess Carolina marries General Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg |
| 1750 | 1st American Shakespearean production-"altered" Richard III, New York City |
| 1746 | Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen |
| 1743 | 1st U.S. religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston |
| 1684 | Emperor Leopold I, Poland and Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz |
| 1651 | South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm |
| 1623 | 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia |
| 1616 | Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index |
| 1579 | Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht |
| 1558 | Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes |
| 1528 | Utrecht governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague |
| 1496 | English king Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore |
| 1461 | Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses |
| 1179 | 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome |
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