| 2007 | Mega Millions has the highest lottery jackpot ever, $370 million dollars |
| 2003 | Air Algrie flight 6289 crashes at Tamanrasset Airport in Alegeria, killing 103 |
| 1998 | 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace |
| 1998 | Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Connecticut state lottery |
| 1996 | 10th American Comedy Award |
| 1996 | 2nd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards |
| 1996 | Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 vs. Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lanka score 5-398 in 50 overs in World Cup vs. Kenya |
| 1995 | 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield |
| 1995 | American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets |
| 1995 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix, Arizona on KEDJ 106.3/100.3 FM |
| 1994 | Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec) |
| 1994 | United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by 2 wickets to win ICC Trophy |
| 1992 | Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine |
| 1991 | Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over" |
| 1990 | SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17 |
| 1989 | Yankees beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985) |
| 1988 | 18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000 |
| 1988 | 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers |
| 1988 | Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am |
| 1988 | Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories) |
| 1988 | Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament |
| 1987 | 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100 |
| 1987 | Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die |
| 1986 | Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor," premieres in London |
| 1986 | U.S.S.R.'s Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km |
| 1985 | Enos Slaughter and Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1985 | Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight |
| 1985 | Mexican authorities find body of U.S. drug agent Enrique C. Salaazar |
| 1985 | Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King and I" |
| 1983 | "On Your Toes" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 505 performances |
| 1983 | Anne-Marie Palli wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic |
| 1983 | Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections |
| 1983 | U.S. Football League begins its 1st season |
| 1982 | NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT) |
| 1982 | Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB) |
| 1981 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1981 | Soyuz 39 returns to Earth |
| 1981 | Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of CBS Evening News |
| 1981 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Hartford won by Denise Biellmann |
| 1980 | Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time |
| 1980 | Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th New York City |
| 1980 | French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar) |
| 1976 | Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS) |
| 1976 | Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina and Zaitsev (URS) |
| 1976 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (GRB) |
| 1976 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill |
| 1974 | "Over Here" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 341 performances |
| 1974 | An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo |
| 1974 | Ian and Greg Chappell score cricket |
| 1973 | In an exhibition game with the Pirates, Twins Larry Hisle becomes the 1st designated hitter (he hits 2 home runs and knocks in 7 RBIs) |
| 1972 | Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner |
| 1972 | Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes |
| 1971 | Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, vs. West Indies at Port-of-Spain |
| 1970 | Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK |
| 1967 | 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards |
| 1967 | Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison |
| 1967 | Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted |
| 1967 | Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US |
| 1967 | WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks) |
| 1965 | "How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St. New York City after 1415 performances |
| 1965 | 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford |
| 1965 | Bruce Taylor hits 105 for New Zealand vs. India in 1st Test Cricket innings |
| 1964 | Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece |
| 1964 | Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali |
| 1964 | Liz Taylor's 4th divorce (Eddie Fisher) |
| 1964 | Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:56.4) |
| 1962 | St. Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1962 | U.S. promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression |
| 1961 | 1st London minicabs introduced |
| 1961 | Dutch Queen Juliana celebrates 12 year government jubilee |
| 1961 | Dutch guilder revalued 4.74% |
| 1960 | President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament |
| 1959 | 11st Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr |
| 1959 | Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles) |
| 1957 | Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from U.K. |
| 1955 | Dutch premiere of Samuel Becketts' "Waiting for Godot" |
| 1955 | Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| 1953 | Malenkov becomes chairman of the U.S.S.R. |
| 1951 | Belgium extends conscription to 24 months |
| 1947 | XB-45, 1st U.S. 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, California |
| 1946 | France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation |
| 1945 | 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm |
| 1945 | Assassination attempt on Hohere, SS Police fuhrer Rauter |
| 1945 | Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio |
| 1945 | Erich Honnecker andErich Hanke flee nazis |
| 1945 | Federico Garcia Lorca's "La Casa," premieres in Buenos Aires |
| 1944 | USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin |
| 1943 | Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommels assault attack |
| 1943 | Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers |
| 1940 | 1st U.S. telecast from an airplane, New York City |
| 1936 | Belgium ends Locarno-pact |
| 1935 | Frank Bartell, Czechoslovakia, cycles record 80.584 mph in Los Angeles |
| 1934 | Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif's "Yellowjacket," premieres in New York City |
| 1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a nationwide bank holiday |
| 1933 | Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses," premieres in New York City |
| 1933 | Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk) |
| 1930 | Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food |
| 1929 | Turkey and Bulgaria sign friendship treaty |
| 1926 | China asks for a seat in the Security council |
| 1924 | British Labour government cuts military budget |
| 1923 | Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms |
| 1922 | Babe Ruth signs 3 years at $52,000 a year New York Yankee contract |
| 1922 | GB Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV," premieres in New York City |
| 1921 | Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee |
| 1919 | NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie |
| 1918 | U.S. naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle |
| 1915 | Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos |
| 1909 | Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premieres in Vienna |
| 1906 | Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance |
| 1906 | Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands |
| 1906 | Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers |
| 1902 | Census Bureau forms |
| 1899 | "Asprin" patented by Felix Hoffmann |
| 1896 | 1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage" |
| 1895 | England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2 |
| 1895 | J. T. Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 minutes) England vs. Australia |
| 1886 | 1st U.S. alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA |
| 1886 | 1st U.S. nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, New York City |
| 1882 | Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king |
| 1865 | Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida |
| 1865 | President Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Ball |
| 1862 | Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern) |
| 1861 | Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army |
| 1857 | Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens |
| 1855 | Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet |
| 1853 | Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata," premieres in Venice |
| 1851 | Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze," premieres in London |
| 1838 | Franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lugt," premieres in Vienna |
| 1836 | Mexico attacks Alamo in the early morning |
| 1836 | 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight |
| 1836 | HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia |
| 1834 | Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor |
| 1831 | Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan |
| 1831 | Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy |
| 1831 | Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan |
| 1816 | Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany |
| 1810 | Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in U.S. |
| 1808 | 1st college orchestra in U.S. founded, at Harvard |
| 1799 | Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine |
| 1728 | Spain and England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo |
| 1714 | Peace of Rastatt - French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg |
| 1665 | Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing |
| 1664 | King Louis XIV and Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant |
| 1646 | Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent |
| 1628 | Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict |
| 1590 | Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda" |
| 1579 | Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht |
| 1521 | Magellan discovers Guam |
| 1460 | Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Is for W Africa |
| 1447 | Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V |
| 1323 | Treaty of Paris |
| 1205 | Aken, Philips van Zwaben, crowned Roman-Catholic German King |
| 1079 | Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar |
