2012 President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez recovers after a tumor is removed from his pelvis 2012 The midwestern United States is hit by tornadoes, killing 12 people 2004 76th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King sweeps all eleven nominations, including Best Picture, Sean Penn and Charlize Theron win lead acting awards 2000 At least 700 died in flooding in Mozambique 1996 Kenya defeat West Indies (all out 93) in Cricket World Cup 1992 Dawn Coe wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1992 Professional Spring Football League begins 1988 KWK-FM in St. Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG 1988 Mark Greatbatch scores 107* vs. England on Test Cricket debut 1988 New York City Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs 1988 Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WW II deportations 1984 Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down 1980 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHL player to score 800 career goals 1980 Michael Bracey ends 59 h 55 m trapped in an elevator, England 1972 Hank Aaron becomes 1st baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year 1972 Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party 1968 1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) 1968 Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy 1968 Howard Hanson's 6th Symphony, premieres 1968 U.S. end regular flights with nuclear bombs 1968 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks 1964 "Rugantino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 28 performances 1964 Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 m 1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson reveals U.S. secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter 1964 North Carolina high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime 1960 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts 1960 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago 1960 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec 1960 John F. Kennedy makes missile gap the presidential campaign issue 1960 KRET TV channel 23 in Richardson, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting 1956 Islamic Republic forms in Pakistan 1956 President Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term 1952 Ice Dance Championship at Paris France won by Westwood and Demmy GRB 1952 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Ria Falk and Paul Falk of GER 1952 Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Paris won by Jacqueline du Bief of FRA 1952 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button USA 1948 Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died 1944 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death 1944 U.S. troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands 1940 45 U boats sunk this month (170,000 ton) 1940 Frederic from G and S "Pirates of Penzance" finally released by pirate 1940 'Gone with the Wind' wins 8 Oscars 1940 Hattie McDaniel becomes 1st black woman to win an Oscar 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs 2nd neutrality act 1932 Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland 1908 Dutch scientists produce solid helium 1904 Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal 1892 Britian and U.S. sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea 1880 Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland and Italy completed 1868 1st British government of Disraeli forms 1856 Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease 1848 Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland 1836 Giacomo Meyerbeers opera "Les Huguenots," premieres in Paris 1832 Charles Darwin visits jungle near Bahia Brazil 1816 Dutch King Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna 1796 Jay's Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences with England 1784 Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille 1720 Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden resigns 1704 French and Indians attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, kill 50, abduct 100 1692 Sarah Good and Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem 1504 Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians
