| 2013 | Italy re-elects President Giorgio Napolitano |
| 2013 | Saudi Arabia appoints Fahd bin Abdullah as its new deputy defense minister |
| 2012 | Less than three years after accepting the position of Chairman of Disney Studios, Rich Ross, resigns |
| 2012 | Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Tahrir Square against continuing military rule in Egypt |
| 2011 | Nigeria's presidential election, held April 16, 2011, declares the winner is President Goodluck Jonathan |
| 2011 | China releases two prominent human rights lawyers, Liu Xiaoyuan and Jiang Tianyong |
| 2010 | Planes return to the air in Germany, France and Italy after being grounded by ash clouds from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano |
| 2010 | BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico |
| 2005 | Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan suffers a 5.8 magnitude earthquake |
| 1999 | Two disaffected students brought guns to their high school in Columbine, Colorado and murdered twelve students, one teacher and then killed themselves |
| 1998 | Federal court rules that Monica Lewinsky does not have an immunity agreement with Kenneth Starr |
| 1997 | "Gin Game," opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 144 performances |
| 1997 | "Present Laughter," closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City |
| 1997 | 1st baseball game in Hawaii, Cards beat Padres in doubleheader |
| 1997 | 27th Easter Seal Telethon raises $47,392,682 |
| 1997 | 58th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Hale Irwin |
| 1997 | Cubs beat New York Mets ending NL worst opening, lost 14 straight games |
| 1997 | Karrie Webb wins LPGA Susan G Komen International |
| 1997 | Myrtle Beach LPGA Classic |
| 1997 | Nick Price wins golf MCI Classic |
| 1997 | PGA Seniors Championship |
| 1997 | Mark McGwire, is 4th to home run on Detroit Tiger left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, and Cecil Fielder) |
| 1996 | Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season |
| 1994 | Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5 |
| 1994 | Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed |
| 1994 | Sohail and Inzamam make world record ODI partnership of 263 |
| 1994 | Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands |
| 1993 | Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years) |
| 1992 | 100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs |
| 1992 | 21st Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:23:43 |
| 1992 | 96th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:14 |
| 1992 | All star concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadium |
| 1992 | Expo '92 opens in Seville Spain |
| 1992 | Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse |
| 1992 | Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner |
| 1991 | "Les Miserables," opens at Odense Teater, Odense |
| 1991 | 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire |
| 1991 | Mark Lenzi is 1st diver to score 100 pts on a dive (101.85) |
| 1991 | Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million |
| 1990 | Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income |
| 1990 | 8 2/3 inning perfect game pitched by Brian Holman of Oakland A's is spoiled by a home run hit by Ken Philips |
| 1988 | Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21) |
| 1988 | New Jersey Devils 1st playoff hat trick-Eric Broten |
| 1988 | U.S. accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians |
| 1988 | Yankees home run 9,999 (D Winfield) 10,000 (C Washington) 10,001 (J Clarke) |
| 1987 | 16th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21 |
| 1987 | 91st Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:11:50 |
| 1987 | Sri Lanka: Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead |
| 1987 | U.S. deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to U.S.S.R. |
| 1986 | "Jerry's Girls" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 139 performances |
| 1986 | Michael Johnson sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game |
| 1986 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1986 | Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland |
| 1985 | Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12) |
| 1985 | Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams |
| 1985 | Karyn Marshall of New York City lifted 303 lbs in a clean and jerk lift |
| 1984 | Russian offensive in Panshirvallei, Afghanistan |
| 1983 | President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security |
| 1983 | Rangers 2-Isles 7-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 3-2 lead |
| 1983 | Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock |
| 1982 | Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season |
| 1981 | 10th Boston Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe of New Zealand in 2:26:46 |
| 1981 | 85th Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:09:26 |
| 1981 | Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs |
| 1981 | Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession |
| 1980 | Cubans begin to arrive in U.S. from Mariel boatlift |
| 1977 | Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on New Hampshire licenses |
| 1977 | Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres |
| 1976 | George Harrison sings lumberjack song with Monty Python |
| 1975 | 29th Tony Awards: Equus and Wiz win |
| 1975 | 4th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer |
| 1975 | Penguins 1-Isles 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead |
| 1974 | Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" |
| 1973 | Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit |
| 1972 | Apollo 16's Young and Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2 |
| 1972 | Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket |
| 1971 | Barbra Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun" |
| 1971 | U.S. Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation |
| 1970 | 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30 |
| 1970 | Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria |
| 1970 | Ron Hill's 2:10:30 at Boston, sets new U.S. marathon record |
| 1969 | 23rd Tony Awards: Great White Hope and 1776 win |
| 1969 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 1968 | Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM |
| 1968 | South Africa Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed |
| 1967 | French author Regis Debray caught in Bolivia |
| 1967 | New York Met Tom Seaver's 1st victory, beats Cubs, 6-1 |
| 1967 | U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1966 | WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington, D.C. (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid |
| 1964 | 68th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:19:59 |
| 1964 | 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools |
| 1963 | "Sophie" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| 1963 | All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda |
| 1962 | NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m |
| 1962 | New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North |
| 1962 | OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers |
| 1961 | American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight |
| 1960 | "From A to Z" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 21 performances |
| 1959 | 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42 |
| 1958 | Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM |
| 1958 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1958 | Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup |
| 1958 | Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops |
| 1957 | 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Connecticut in 2:20:05 |
| 1957 | Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway |
| 1955 | "Saint of Bleecker St" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 92 performances |
| 1954 | "Golden Apple" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 125 performances |
| 1953 | 57th Boston Marathon won by Keizo Yamada of Japan in 2:18:51 |
| 1951 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| 1951 | Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators |
| 1950 | Baltimore's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League |
| 1949 | Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany, California |
| 1948 | New York City hikes subway fare from 5 cents to 10 cents |
| 1948 | Walter P Reuther UAW President shot and wounded at his home in Detroit |
| 1947 | Frederik IX becomes king of Denmark |
| 1946 | 1st baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs Cubs |
| 1946 | 50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27 |
| 1945 | Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur "Mickey" McBride |
| 1945 | German occupiers flood Beemster and Fencer |
| 1945 | Soviet troops enter Berlin |
| 1945 | U.S. 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg |
| 1945 | U.S. forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa |
| 1944 | Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death |
| 1944 | NFL legalizes coaching from bench |
| 1943 | Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg |
| 1942 | German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach |
| 1942 | Heavy German assault on Malta |
| 1941 | 100 German bombers attack Athens |
| 1941 | Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps |
| 1940 | 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa |
| 1939 | New York World's Fair opens |
| 1939 | Ted Williams' 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double |
| 1936 | 40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of RI in 2:33:40.8 |
| 1936 | Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine |
| 1935 | "Your Hit Parade" begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly) |
| 1934 | Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police |
| 1931 | 35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan of Mass in 2:46:45.8 |
| 1931 | British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday |
| 1926 | 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic |
| 1925 | 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor of Illinois in 2:33:00.6 |
| 1920 | 7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp Belgium |
| 1920 | Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate |
| 1920 | Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio |
| 1920 | Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama and Mississippi |
| 1920 | Phillies manager Gravvy Cravath puts himself in as pinch hitter, his 3- run homer beats New York Giants 3-0 |
| 1919 | Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army |
| 1917 | Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world") |
| 1916 | German-British sea battle off Belgian coast |
| 1916 | Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) in Chicago opens, Cubs beat Cincinnati Reds 7-6 |
| 1914 | 18th Boston Marathon won by James Duffy of Canada in 2:25:01.2 |
| 1914 | 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colorado |
| 1912 | Fenway Park officially opens, Red Sox beat New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11 |
| 1912 | Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleveland Indians 6-5 |
| 1910 | Cleveland Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0 |
| 1910 | Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km |
| 1908 | 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of New York in 2:25:43.2 |
| 1904 | George Bernard Shaw's "Candida," premieres in London |
| 1903 | 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Mass in 2:41:29.8 |
| 1903 | New York Highlanders play their 1st game, with Jack Chesbro losing 3-1 to Al Orth and Washington |
| 1902 | Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium |
| 1898 | U.S. Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens |
| 1896 | 1st public film showing in U.S. John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in New York City |
| 1894 | 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase |
| 1888 | 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India |
| 1884 | Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry" |
| 1879 | 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London and Cyprus |
| 1872 | SF Bar Association organized |
| 1871 | 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus) |
| 1865 | Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens |
| 1861 | Battle of Norfolk, Virginia |
| 1861 | Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army |
| 1853 | Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad |
| 1841 | 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published |
| 1836 | Territory of Wisconsin created |
| 1809 | Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria |
| 1799 | Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod," premieres in Weimar |
| 1799 | Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews |
| 1792 | France declares war on Austria, Prussia and Sardinia |
| 1777 | New York adopts new constitution as an independent state |
| 1775 | British begin siege of Boston |
| 1770 | Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales |
| 1715 | Nicholas Rowe's "Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray," premieres in London |
| 1702 | Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 AUs of Earth |
| 1657 | Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet |
| 1653 | Cromwell routes English parliament to house |
| 1650 | VOC-management sets new guidelines |
| 1551 | John Dudley becomes English Earl Marshal |
| 1505 | Jews are expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg |
| 1139 | 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome |
| 850 | Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne |
| 295 | 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
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