| 2013 | The running mate of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, claims that votes cast in Kenya's presidential election have been falsified |
| 2013 | Australia swears in Denis Napthine as the Premier of Victoria, replacing Ted Baillieu |
| 2012 | Sweden's media reports the country is helping Saudi Arabia plan the construction of a weapons factory |
| 2012 | The largest solar flare in five years, occurring March 6, 2012, nears the Earth, threatening to disrupt airline flights, GPS systems and power grids |
| 2011 | NATO increases its surveillance flights over Libya, patrolling the area on a 24/7 basis |
| 2011 | The most expensive painting ever auctioned, 'Nude, Green Leaves and Bust', by Pablo Picasso, goes on display in London's Tate Gallery |
| 2010 | Iraqi voters take part in parliamentary elections and a referendum on the Status of Forces Agreement |
| 1997 | 11th Soul Train Music Awards |
| 1997 | Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome and Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site |
| 1997 | 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life |
| 1996 | 1st surface photos of Pluto by Hubble Space Telescope |
| 1996 | British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million pound order |
| 1996 | Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists |
| 1995 | Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record) |
| 1995 | New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty |
| 1994 | 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins |
| 1994 | Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia |
| 1994 | David Platt appointed captain of English football team |
| 1994 | U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship |
| 1994 | ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa |
| 1993 | 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises |
| 1993 | Different Strokes actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant |
| 1992 | Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.78) |
| 1991 | Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait |
| 1990 | 3 passengers killed and 162 injured as subway train derails in Philadelphia |
| 1990 | H. Wayne Huizenga buys Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30M |
| 1989 | Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Rushdie's book |
| 1989 | Partial eclipse of the Sun in Hawaii, North West North America, Greenland |
| 1988 | Howard Stern's 1st pay-per-view "Underpants and Negligee Party" |
| 1988 | Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E. Sullivan Award |
| 1987 | Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs |
| 1987 | Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1986 | South Africa emergency crisis in Brabant and Limburg ends |
| 1986 | Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist |
| 1985 | IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 update released |
| 1983 | TNN, The Nashville Network, begins on Cable TV |
| 1982 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic |
| 1982 | Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 sec) |
| 1982 | NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time |
| 1981 | "Bring Back Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| 1981 | 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death |
| 1979 | Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro and amateur umpires |
| 1979 | Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1978 | Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped |
| 1978 | Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders |
| 1978 | Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb |
| 1977 | Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections |
| 1977 | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter |
| 1976 | Morocco and Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria |
| 1975 | Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate |
| 1975 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1974 | "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina |
| 1974 | 1st general striking in Ethiopia |
| 1973 | Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory |
| 1973 | Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh |
| 1971 | Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire |
| 1970 | Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS) |
| 1970 | Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina and Ulanov (URS) |
| 1970 | Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR) |
| 1970 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA) |
| 1970 | WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1967 | Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, premieres in New York City |
| 1967 | Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971) |
| 1966 | "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 457 performances |
| 1966 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1965 | Alabama state troopers and 600 black protestors clash in Selma |
| 1965 | Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for New Zealand after ton |
| 1965 | Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile |
| 1962 | Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio |
| 1962 | Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data) |
| 1960 | Dutch Builders strike for CLA |
| 1959 | "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 925 performances |
| 1959 | 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow) |
| 1959 | West Indies all out 76 vs. Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34 |
| 1958 | Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo |
| 1955 | 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas and Loretta Young |
| 1955 | Baseball Commish Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter |
| 1955 | Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised |
| 1954 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
| 1954 | Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition |
| 1953 | Jackie McGlew scores 255* vs. New Zealand at Wellington |
| 1951 | Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title |
| 1951 | Lillian Hellman's "Autumn Garden," premieres in New York City |
| 1950 | Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy and P Kennedy (USA) |
| 1950 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE |
| 1950 | Men Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA) |
| 1946 | "Three to Make Ready" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 323 performances |
| 1946 | Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz," premieres in Zurich |
| 1945 | Cologne taken by allied armies |
| 1945 | U.S. 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine |
| 1945 | Yugoslavia government of Tito forms |
| 1944 | Japans begins offensive in Burma |
| 1943 | General-major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia |
| 1942 | 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta |
| 1942 | 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee |
| 1941 | 3rd largest snowfall in New York City history (18.1") |
| 1941 | 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece |
| 1941 | British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
| 1940 | Mont Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home |
| 1940 | Ray Steele beats B. Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ |
| 1939 | Glamour magazine begins publishing |
| 1939 | Guy Lombardo and Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne" |
| 1937 | Bucharin, Jagoda and Rykov pushed out of CPSU in U.S.S.R. |
| 1936 | Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland |
| 1935 | Saar incorporated into Germany |
| 1933 | Game of "Monopoly" invented |
| 1932 | Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4 |
| 1930 | Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball |
| 1927 | Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan |
| 1926 | 1st transatlantic telephone call, London - New York |
| 1922 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard |
| 1922 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger |
| 1921 | Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt |
| 1918 | H. Carroll and J. McCarthy's musical "Oh, Look!," premieres in New York City |
| 1918 | President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal |
| 1917 | 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden, New Jersey |
| 1914 | Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania |
| 1912 | Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole |
| 1911 | U.S. sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border |
| 1911 | Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, California, patents coin-operated locker |
| 1908 | Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles" |
| 1906 | Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor |
| 1902 | Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal |
| 1900 | Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees |
| 1900 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games |
| 1896 | Gilbert and Sullivan's last operette "Grand Duke," premieres in London |
| 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone |
| 1876 | Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians |
| 1872 | -8 degrees F in Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1870 | Cincinnati Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest and East |
| 1865 | Battles round Kinston North Carolina |
| 1862 | Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch and McIntosh killed |
| 1857 | Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs |
| 1854 | Charles Miller patents 1st U.S. sewing machine to stitch buttonholes |
| 1852 | Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law |
| 1851 | Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends |
| 1850 | Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850 |
| 1848 | In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed |
| 1847 | U.S. General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico |
| 1843 | 1st Catholic governor in U.S., Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office |
| 1835 | HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso |
| 1824 | Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto," premieres in Venice |
| 1808 | Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro |
| 1801 | Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law |
| 1778 | Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay |
| 1774 | Boston Port Bill passes, British close port of Boston to all commerce on June 1st 1774 |
| 1696 | English king Willem III departs Netherlands |
| 1644 | Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies |
| 1633 | Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg |
| 1621 | John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies |
| 1573 | Turkey and Venice signs peace treaty |
| 1560 | Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, North Africa |
| 1530 | King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church |
| 1138 | Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king |
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