| 2013 | James Hansen, a top scientist and professor from NASA, retires in order to concentrate on global warming activism |
| 2013 | The Arms Trade Treaty, the first-ever bill to regulate the global trade in conventional weapons, is passed by the U.N. General Assembly |
| 2012 | Data from the 1940 U.S. census is released including information on 132 million people |
| 2012 | Three widows and two daughters of Osama bin Laden were charged with illegally living in Pakistan; they were sentenced with 45 days in jail and fined $114 each |
| 2011 | Pro- and anti-carbon tax rallies are attended by thousands in Sydney, Australia |
| 2011 | Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, visits areas devastated by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami |
| 2010 | Two men on motorcycles fatally shot Pedro Alcantara de Souza, a Brazilian land reform activist, five times in the head while he tried to ride his bicycle in Para |
| 2009 | At the 21st NATO Summit, new Secretary General, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is appointed |
| 2007 | 8.1 earthquake triggers tsunami in the Solomon Islands |
| 2001 | 63rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Metrodome Minneapolis |
| 2000 | 19th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Corel State Spectrum |
| 1998 | World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota |
| 1997 | "Doll's House," opens at Belasco Theater New York City |
| 1996 | Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1,097th career game |
| 1996 | Sri Lanka 9-349 in 50 overs beat Pakistan 315 all out, Singapore Jayasuriya hits ton in 48 balls, world ODI record at Singapore |
| 1995 | 14th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: University of Ct Huskies beats Tennessee 70-64 |
| 1995 | 7th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus |
| 1995 | Baseball season opener delayed until April 26 |
| 1995 | New York Police Department and New York Transit Police merge into one organization |
| 1995 | North and Western Colorado begins using new area code 970 |
| 1995 | Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4/26 |
| 1995 | Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50 |
| 1995 | Wrestlemania XI in Conn-Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow |
| 1994 | 1st exhibition game played at Jacobs Field, Pirates beat Indians, 6-4 |
| 1993 | 1st test flight of Fokker 70 in Amsterdam |
| 1993 | Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10 |
| 1992 | "Hamlet" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| 1992 | Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns |
| 1992 | John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos |
| 1992 | Space Shuttle STS-45, Atlantis 11, lands |
| 1991 | Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing |
| 1990 | 52nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Nevada-LV beats Duke 103-73 |
| 1989 | 18th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster |
| 1989 | 8th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Auburn 76-60 |
| 1989 | Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats "Macho Man" Savage |
| 1989 | Yankees beat Mets 4-0, sweeping 1989 mayor's trophy series in 2 games |
| 1988 | Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45 |
| 1988 | Test Cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, WI vs. Pakistan, Georgetown |
| 1987 | "Mikado" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 46 performances |
| 1987 | Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation |
| 1987 | IBM introduces PS/2 and OS/2 |
| 1986 | 4 U.S. passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece |
| 1986 | George Corley Wallace, Governor, Democrat, Alabama, announces retirement plans |
| 1986 | NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance) |
| 1985 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1984 | 46th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Georgetown beats Houston 84-75 |
| 1982 | Argentina seizes Malvinas, also known as the Falkland Islands |
| 1982 | In exhibition game A's pitcher Steve McCatty comes to bat using a 15" toy bat (under Billy Martins orders), protesting disallowing of DH |
| 1981 | Belgium's 4th government of Martens resigns |
| 1981 | Heavy battle between Christian militia and Syrian army in East Lebanon |
| 1980 | Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season |
| 1979 | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo |
| 1978 | 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post |
| 1978 | Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, vs. Australia Georgetown |
| 1978 | TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series) |
| 1978 | Velcro was 1st put on the market |
| 1977 | Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks |
| 1977 | Mont Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a lose |
| 1976 | Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier |
| 1976 | Portuguese constitution assumed |
| 1976 | A's trade prospective free agents Reggie Jackson and Ken Holtzman, to Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez and Paul Mitchell |
| 1974 | 46th Academy Awards - "Stng," Glenda Jackson and Jack Lemmon win |
| 1974 | Arganat Commission publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War |
| 1974 | Tony Greig takes 8-86 vs. WI Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inn) |
| 1973 | CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day |
| 1973 | Ed Kemper stuffs mother's throat in disposal |
| 1973 | ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean President election |
| 1972 | 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection," G Hackman and Jane Fonda win |
| 1972 | Tennessee Williams' "Small Craft Warnings," premieres in New York City |
| 1971 | Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run |
| 1970 | Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state |
| 1970 | Qatar gains independence from Britain |
| 1970 | 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world |
| 1969 | Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) |
| 1968 | Beatles form Python Music Ltd. |
| 1968 | Chad creates Union of Central African States |
| 1968 | Senator Mccarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin |
| 1967 | Actress Lynn Redgrave marries John Clark |
| 1967 | Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational |
| 1966 | Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon |
| 1966 | WJET TV channel 24 in Erie, Pennsylvania (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy |
| 1964 | Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria |
| 1964 | Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted |
| 1964 | U.S.S.R. launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned |
| 1963 | Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km) |
| 1963 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km |
| 1960 | Cuba buys oil from U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma, WA (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1958 | Antillean Brewery, maker of Amstel beer, opens |
| 1958 | National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA |
| 1958 | Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, Texas (record) |
| 1956 | Peter Ustinovs' "Romanoff and Juliet," premieres in Manchester |
| 1956 | Soap operas "As the World Turns" and "Edge of Night" premieres on TV |
| 1955 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
| 1955 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins |
| 1955 | Pancho Gonzales retains tennis title by winning a tournament playing under table tennis rules |
| 1954 | Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced |
| 1953 | Raab forms his 1st government in Austria |
| 1950 | WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk, Virginia (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | Carlo Terron's "Il diamente del profeta," premieres in Rome |
| 1945 | 1st U.S. units reach east coast of Okinawa |
| 1944 | CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy |
| 1944 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 8th Symphony, premieres in New York |
| 1944 | Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania |
| 1941 | USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from SF |
| 1939 | 6th Golf Masters Championship: Ralph Guldahl wins, shooting a 279 |
| 1935 | Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer |
| 1935 | Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR |
| 1932 | Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son |
| 1931 | Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| 1930 | 1st NewYork - Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda |
| 1926 | Riots between Moslems and Hindus in Calcutta |
| 1921 | Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new theory of relativity |
| 1917 | Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of U.S. House of Representatives |
| 1917 | President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany |
| 1916 | German troops overtake Bois de Caillette |
| 1912 | Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China |
| 1912 | Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power |
| 1908 | Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday |
| 1906 | South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England |
| 1905 | Cairo-Capetown railway opens |
| 1902 | 1st motion picture theater opens in Los Angeles |
| 1902 | Soccer team MVV '02 forms in Maastricht |
| 1900 | 1st edition of The Volk published in Amsterdam |
| 1884 | London prison for debtors closed |
| 1883 | Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack |
| 1878 | 1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper |
| 1877 | 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn |
| 1876 | Philadelphia A's and Boston Red Caps play 1st NL game, in Phila |
| 1872 | George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine |
| 1870 | Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for U.S. president |
| 1866 | President Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia |
| 1865 | Battle of Petersburg, Virginia (Ft. Gregg, Sutherland's Station) |
| 1865 | CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia |
| 1865 | Battle of Ft. Blakely AL and Selma AL |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Crump's Hill (Piney Woods), Louisiana |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Spoonville/Antoine, Arkansas |
| 1863 | Bread revolt in Richmond Virginia |
| 1860 | 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin |
| 1845 | H L Fizeau and J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun |
| 1827 | Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils |
| 1819 | 1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") begins |
| 1800 | 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C |
| 1792 | Congress establishes Philadelphia mint |
| 1792 | U.S. authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle and 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins and silver dollar, dollar, quarter, dime and half-dime |
| 1745 | Austria and Bavaria sign peace |
| 1645 | Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander |
| 1595 | Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope |
| 1590 | States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht |
| 1559 | England/France signs 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambresis |
| 1550 | Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy |
| 1513 | Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon |
| 1416 | Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragon |
| 999 | Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope |
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