| 2012 | In an effort to curb binge drinking and other alcohol related problems, the United Kingdom's Home Office begins a 10-week consultation on whether to introduce a minimum price on the sale of alcohol of 45p a unit |
| 2012 | Egyptian President Morsi plans to address the nation about the decree he enacted which greatly increases his powers |
| 2011 | Protesters storm the national Parliament in Kuwait; Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah and his cabinet, resign |
| 2011 | Outbreaks of violence are reported as voters in the Democratic Republic of the congo go to the polls for a general election |
| 2010 | Wikileaks releases 250,000 classified documents and sensitive national security information sent by U.S. embassies; the U.S. condemns the unauthorized disclosure |
| 2010 | Turkey's historic Haydarpa a Terminal is damaged in a fire in Istanbul |
| 1997 | Final episode of "Beavis and Butt-head," on MTV |
| 1995 | James Brady, former white house press sect, suffers a heart attack |
| 1994 | Norway votes against joining European Union |
| 1993 | "Gray's Anatomy" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 13 performances |
| 1993 | "Mixed Emotions" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| 1993 | 81st CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 33-23 |
| 1993 | Carlos Reina wins Honduras presidential election |
| 1990 | Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Majors |
| 1989 | Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 per year Oak A's contract |
| 1989 | Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci flees to Hungary |
| 1988 | Picasso's "Acrobat and Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million |
| 1987 | South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die |
| 1986 | Hilbert van der Duim skates 1 hour world record 39.4928 km |
| 1986 | Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time |
| 1986 | NBC's Ahmad Rashad marriage proposal is accepted by Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of Det Lions-New York Jets football game |
| 1985 | 6th Belgium government of Martens forms |
| 1983 | 9th Space Shuttle Mission Columbia 6 is launched |
| 1982 | "Pirates of Penzance" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 772 performances |
| 1982 | 70th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Toronto Argonauts, 32-16 |
| 1982 | 71st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Grenoble (4-1) |
| 1981 | "Merrily We Roll Along" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| 1981 | Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg and become college football's winningest coach |
| 1979 | "King of Schnorrers" opens at Playhouse Theater New York City for 63 performances |
| 1979 | Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on Antarctica kills 257 |
| 1979 | Los Angeles Dodger Rick Sutcliffe wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1978 | 44th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Sims, Oklahoma (RB) |
| 1978 | Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after 9 years |
| 1976 | 64th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 23-20 |
| 1975 | Democratic Republic East-Timor proclaimed |
| 1975 | Test Cricket debut of Michael Anthony Holding, WI vs. Australia Brisbane |
| 1975 | Wings release "Venus and Mars/Rock Show" medley |
| 1974 | Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years |
| 1974 | John Lennon's last concert appearance (Elton John concert in MSG New York City) |
| 1973 | Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine |
| 1973 | Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry wins AL Rookie of Year |
| 1972 | "Via Galactica" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| 1972 | Los Angeles Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to California Angels |
| 1971 | "Me Nobody Knows" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 587 performances |
| 1971 | 59th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-11 |
| 1970 | 58th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 23-10 |
| 1969 | Ted Sizemore becomes 7th Dodger to win NL Rookie of Year |
| 1968 | John Lennon is fined 150 pounds for unauthorized drug possession |
| 1967 | 33rd Heisman Trophy Award: Gary Beban, UCLA (quarterback) |
| 1967 | The 1st pulsating radio source (pulsar) detected |
| 1966 | Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared |
| 1966 | Dominican Republic adopts constitution |
| 1965 | Browns' Leroy Kelly sets club record for most punt return yards (109) |
| 1965 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1964 | 52nd CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 34-24 |
| 1964 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| 1964 | Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars |
| 1963 | 1st million copy record prior to release "I Want to Hold Your Hand" |
| 1963 | Beatles "She Loves You" returns to #1 on U.K. record chart |
| 1963 | Crusher beats Verne Gagne in St. Paul, to become NWA champ |
| 1963 | WHNT TV channel 19 in Huntsville, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | Telegraph between Netherlands and Indonesia restored |
| 1961 | Ernest Davis is 1st black to win Heisman Trophy |
| 1961 | General Meeting of United Nations debates about New-Guinea |
| 1961 | Martin Walser's "Der Abstecher," premieres in Munich |
| 1960 | CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes |
| 1960 | Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day) |
| 1959 | 47th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 21-7 |
| 1959 | KOMC (now KSNK) TV channel 8 in McCook - Oberlin, NB (NBC) begins |
| 1959 | Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Princeps Pastorum |
| 1958 | AL announces Opening Day in 1959 will be earliest ever, April 9 |
| 1958 | Chad becomes an autonomous republic within French community |
| 1958 | Congo and Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community |
| 1958 | George "Punch" Imlach becomes coach of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs |
| 1958 | KCOO (now KABY) TV channel 9 in Aberdeen, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | Test Cricket debut for Wes Hall, vs. India at Bombay |
| 1958 | U.S. reports 1st full-range firing of an ICBM |
| 1957 | "Look Homeward, Angel" with Anthony Perkins premieres in New York City |
| 1957 | Warren Spahn of the Braves wins Cy Young Award |
| 1956 | Photography begins on "... and God Created Women" |
| 1955 | KMVI (now WMAU) TV channel 12 in Wailuku, HI (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | KTHV TV channel 11 in Little Rock, AR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | 1st pro football game in Netherlands |
| 1954 | Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 80-yard punt |
| 1954 | KCKT (now KSNC) TV channel 2 in Great Bend, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1953 | "Wish You Were Here" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 597 performances |
| 1953 | 41st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 12-6 |
| 1951 | John Van Druten's "I am a Camera," premieres in New York City |
| 1951 | Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria |
| 1950 | Walter O'Malley fires Burt Shotton as Dodgers manager |
| 1949 | "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" opens at Mark Hellinger New York City for 293 performances |
| 1948 | "Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV |
| 1948 | 1st Polaroid camera sold |
| 1946 | French government of Bidault, resigns |
| 1946 | Landverrader Anton Mussert to death sentenced |
| 1945 | Australia Services draw second Victory Test Cricket vs. India at Calcutta |
| 1944 | 1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp |
| 1944 | 400 Rotterdammers attack coal warehouse |
| 1944 | Hal Newhouser is named AL MVP |
| 1944 | In reprisal 40 Dutch men are executed by Nazis |
| 1944 | U.S. 121st Infantry regiment occupies Hurtgen |
| 1943 | FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy |
| 1942 | 500 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston |
| 1942 | Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire kills 602 (Boston Mass) |
| 1941 | German troops vacate Rostov |
| 1940 | Cleveringa arrested by nazis |
| 1939 | Nazi Governor-General of Poland, Hans Frank organizes Judenrat |
| 1939 | Soviet government revokes Russian-Finnish non-attack treaty |
| 1938 | 4th Heisman Trophy Award: Davey O'Brien, Texas Christian (quarterback) |
| 1934 | Churchill tells Premier Baldwin not to under estimate German air power |
| 1932 | France and U.S.S.R. signs not-attack treaty |
| 1932 | Groucho Marx performed on radio for 1st time |
| 1931 | Bradman scores 226, the 1st Test Cricket century at Gabba, vs. South Africa |
| 1930 | Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic," premieres |
| 1929 | Admiral Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight |
| 1929 | Ernie Nevers scores all 40 pts for Chicago Cards vs Bears (NFL record) |
| 1927 | J McHugh and D Fields' musical "Delmar's Revels," premieres in New York City |
| 1925 | 7th French government of Briand sworn-in |
| 1925 | Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville Tn |
| 1925 | NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses and dies of TB 4 months later |
| 1924 | Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves 2nd Chamber |
| 1922 | 6 old minsters in Greece, executed |
| 1922 | Captain Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (New York City) Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called |
| 1921 | Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha (Baha'i festival-Qawl 6, 78) |
| 1919 | US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament |
| 1918 | Emperor Wilhelm of Prussia and Germany, abdicates |
| 1917 | Sigmund Rombergs revue "Over the Top," premieres in New York City |
| 1916 | 1st (German) air attack on London |
| 1913 | Heavyweight Jack Johnson KOs Andre Spaul in Paris |
| 1912 | Albania declares it's Indepenence from Turkey |
| 1911 | Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico |
| 1908 | 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna Pa |
| 1906 | Tommy Burns and Jack O'Brien fight to a draw in 20 for hw boxing title |
| 1905 | Arthur Griffith forms Sinn Fein in Dublin |
| 1904 | Germany defeats Hottentotten in Warmbad SW-Africa |
| 1901 | Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony in G, premieres |
| 1899 | Battle of Mud river (Boer General. Cronje beats British General Methuen) |
| 1895 | America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH |
| 1879 | Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: General Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu |
| 1875 | Verney Cameroon reaches East Africa |
| 1871 | Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in SC |
| 1864 | 3rd day of Battles at Waynesboro/Jones's Plantation, Georgia |
| 1864 | Battle of New Creek, WV (Rosser's Raid, Ft. Kelly) |
| 1862 | Battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas (475 casualties) |
| 1862 | Battle of Hooly Spring, MS |
| 1861 | Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederate Army |
| 1854 | Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo |
| 1853 | Olympia forms as capital of Washington Territory |
| 1847 | Bologna: church San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali initiated with premier of Rossini's Tantum ergo |
| 1833 | Charles Darwin rides through Las Pietras, returning to Montevideo |
| 1821 | Panama declares independence from Spain |
| 1813 | Kosacks occupy Utrecht |
| 1795 | U.S. pays $800,000 and a frigate as tribute to Algiers and Tunis |
| 1776 | Washington and his troops cross Delaware River |
| 1775 | 2nd Continental Congress formally establishes U.S. Navy |
| 1757 | England condemns ceasefire of Kloster-Seven |
| 1745 | French troops attack indians of Saratoga, New York |
| 1710 | Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured |
| 1670 | Pierre Corneille's "Tite et Berenice," premieres in Paris |
| 1660 | London Royal Society forms |
| 1582 | Playwright and poet William Shakespeare weds Anne Hathaway |
| 1569 | Duke of Alva forces bishop Nicolaas van Nieuwland of Haarlem to resign |
| 1520 | Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean |
| 1443 | George Kastriotis [Skanderberg] proclaims Albania principality |
| 1340 | Battle of Salado Spain: last Moor invasion driven back |
| 741 | St. Gregory III ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 587 | Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram takes cousin Childebert II as heir |
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