| 2013 | In retaliation for recently approved U.N. sanctions, generals in North Korea claim they are aiming their long range missiles at the U.S. mainland |
| 2013 | Venezuela holds a funeral for former President Hugo Chavez; following the funeral, they swear in Vice President Nicolas Maduro as Interim President |
| 2012 | The first comprehensive map of the debris field of the RMS Titanic is revealed |
| 2012 | Scientists claim a recent study suggests that donor stem cells may prevent organ rejection in cases of imperfectly matched transplants |
| 2011 | Redondo Beach, California authorities investigate the source of a large fish kill at the King Harbor Marino |
| 2011 | In an interview held before the third anniversary of deadly unrest, Gyaincain Norbu claims Tibetans have 'never been freer' |
| 2010 | 35 suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia are captured by the French Navy, the European Union's most successful mission |
| 1995 | -26 degrees F (-32.2 degrees C) in Bismarck, North Dakota |
| 1995 | Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece |
| 1995 | Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections |
| 1994 | 20th People's Choice Awards |
| 1994 | B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, at least 8 killed |
| 1994 | Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces |
| 1994 | Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47 |
| 1993 | Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion |
| 1993 | Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder |
| 1992 | 22nd Easter Seal Telethon |
| 1992 | Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
| 1991 | 17th People's Choice Awards: Julia Roberts, Bill Cosby, Pretty Woman |
| 1991 | Harry Hamlin and Nicollette Sheridan wed |
| 1991 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1991 | Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured |
| 1989 | "Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 621 performances |
| 1989 | Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 seconds) |
| 1987 | 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425 |
| 1987 | David Hookes (306*) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for South Australia |
| 1987 | FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr. in California |
| 1987 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic |
| 1987 | Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor |
| 1986 | 4 French TV crew members are abducted in Beirut Lebanon |
| 1986 | Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km |
| 1986 | Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million |
| 1985 | Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS) |
| 1983 | House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with U.S.S.R. |
| 1983 | IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0 |
| 1983 | President Reagan calls the U.S.S.R. an "Evil Empire" |
| 1981 | "Shakespeare's Cabaret" closes at Bijou Theater New York City after 54 performances |
| 1981 | Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game |
| 1981 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic |
| 1980 | Greg Chappell 235 and Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad |
| 1980 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1979 | 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Io, a satellite of Jupiter |
| 1979 | 5th People's Choice Awards |
| 1979 | China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam |
| 1979 | Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale |
| 1977 | Henry L. Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond |
| 1977 | Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter) |
| 1976 | 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China |
| 1975 | Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba |
| 1974 | Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris |
| 1973 | Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/U.S. longest, opens |
| 1973 | Paul and Linda McCartney are fined 100 pounds for growing cannabis |
| 1973 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1972 | 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa) |
| 1972 | 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp |
| 1971 | Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title |
| 1971 | Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record) |
| 1971 | Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner" |
| 1970 | WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo |
| 1968 | 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Maryland) |
| 1968 | Fillmore East opens |
| 1968 | Students demonstrate in Warsaw |
| 1967 | New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day) |
| 1966 | "Golden Boy" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 569 performances |
| 1966 | An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin |
| 1966 | Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1965 | 1st U.S. combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines) |
| 1964 | Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement |
| 1963 | Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria |
| 1962 | Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC) |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary," premieres in New York City |
| 1961 | U.S. nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hours |
| 1960 | "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 95 performances |
| 1959 | Groucho, Chico and Harpo's final TV appearance together |
| 1959 | KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson, Arizona (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1959 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| 1959 | Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq |
| 1958 | Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita |
| 1958 | William Faulkner says U.S. school degenerated to become babysitters |
| 1957 | 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston |
| 1957 | Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| 1953 | "Two's Company" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 90 performances |
| 1953 | Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years |
| 1953 | KSWO TV channel 7 in Lawton, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| 1953 | WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Antoine Pinay forms French government |
| 1952 | Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis |
| 1951 | International Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel) |
| 1950 | 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters) |
| 1950 | Marshall Voroshilov of U.S.S.R. announces they developed atomic bomb |
| 1949 | WAGeorgia TV channel 5 in Atlanta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1949 | WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional |
| 1946 | 1st helicopter licensed for commercial use (New York City) |
| 1945 | "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain |
| 1945 | 53 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers |
| 1945 | International Women's Day is 1st observed |
| 1945 | Phyllis M. Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as U.S. Navy ensign |
| 1944 | U.S. resumes bombing Berlin |
| 1943 | 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg |
| 1943 | Limited gambling legalized in Mexico |
| 1943 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
| 1943 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Arthur Vaughn |
| 1942 | Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma |
| 1942 | KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies |
| 1941 | 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies) |
| 1939 | Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowan's "Family Portrait," premieres |
| 1934 | Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars |
| 1930 | Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India |
| 1930 | Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee General Manager Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth" |
| 1929 | U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia |
| 1927 | Pan American Airlines incorporates |
| 1924 | Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah |
| 1920 | Denmark and Cuba join the League of Nations |
| 1917 | Russian revolution breaks out in Petrograd |
| 1916 | U.S. invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime |
| 1915 | 1st U.S. Navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned |
| 1913 | Federal League organizes with 6 teams |
| 1913 | Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect income taxes |
| 1911 | 1st International Woman's Day |
| 1910 | Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot |
| 1908 | Collingwood Elementary, Cleveland, burns, kills 173 kids and 2 teachers |
| 1908 | Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, New York |
| 1906 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ont) in 2 games |
| 1904 | Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match |
| 1902 | 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony |
| 1900 | NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville and Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee) |
| 1898 | Richard Straus' "Don Quixote," premieres in Keulen |
| 1896 | Volunteers of America forms (New York City) |
| 1894 | New York passes 1st state dog license law |
| 1887 | Everett Horton, Connecticut, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes |
| 1884 | 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite |
| 1865 | Battle of Kingston, North Carolina (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks) |
| 1862 | Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal |
| 1862 | Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched |
| 1862 | Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia CSS Virginia, Jamestown and Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress and Monitor |
| 1861 | St. Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies |
| 1858 | Opera "I Pagliacci" is produced (Naples) |
| 1855 | 1st train crosses 1st U.S. railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls |
| 1854 | U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry's 2nd trip to Japan |
| 1838 | U.S. Mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes) |
| 1813 | 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic |
| 1801 | British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt |
| 1782 | Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 indians |
| 1766 | Willem V (18) becomes governor of United Provinces |
| 1754 | Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain |
| 1746 | Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen |
| 1722 | Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia |
| 1711 | Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder |
| 1706 | Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established |
| 1702 | England Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III |
| 1658 | Peace of Roskilde between Sweden and Denmark |
| 1586 | Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch chief legal advisor |
| 1418 | Jacoba van Bayern marries her cousin John IV van Brabant |
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