| 2013 | Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England announces that the 5 pound bank note, to be circulated in 2016, will feature Winston Churchill |
| 2013 | In Birmingham, United Kingdom, eleven members of a terror cell are jailed for planning an attack to exceed the atrocities committed on July 7 and 9/11 |
| 2012 | During the second day of evidence at the Leveson Inquiry, Rupert Murdock reveals there was a 'cover-up' at 'News of the World' but that he had no knowledge of it |
| 2012 | Argentina's Senate passes President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's bill to nationalize 51% of oil company YPF with overwhelming majority |
| 2011 | U.S. nightly news host Katie Couric announces she will will no longer host the 'CBS Evening News' |
| 2011 | The 25th anniversary of the disaster in Chernobyl is commemorated by the Ukraine |
| 2010 | Timothy Torlot, British ambassador to Yemen, survives an attempted suicide bombing |
| 2005 | Syria withdraws troops from Lebanon, ending its 29 year military occupation |
| 1997 | "Life," opens at Barrymore Theater New York City |
| 1996 | Shaun Pollock takes 4 wkts in 4 balls for Warwickshire in B&H |
| 1996 | Sotherby ends 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million |
| 1995 | Baseball season begins after lengthy strike |
| 1995 | Coors Field, opens in Denver, Rockies beat Mets 11-9 in 14 innings |
| 1994 | 26.9 degrees C in Prestebakke Norway (Norwegian April high temp record) |
| 1994 | Mad About You actress Leila Kenzel (33) weds Neil Monaco (34) |
| 1994 | Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed |
| 1994 | 1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr. Nomaza Paintin is 1st black South African to vote |
| 1993 | "Shakespeare for My Father" opens at Helen Hayes New York City for 266 performances |
| 1993 | Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56 |
| 1993 | NBC announces Conan O'Brien to replace David Letterman |
| 1993 | STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit |
| 1992 | "Grand Hotel" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 1,018 performances |
| 1992 | "Growing Pains," final episode on ABC TV |
| 1992 | "Jelly's Last Jam" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 569 performances |
| 1992 | "Master Builder" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| 1992 | "Metro" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 13 performances |
| 1992 | "Who's The Boss," final episode after 8 years on ABC TV |
| 1992 | Alex Haley, (Roots), wins 1992 Ellis Island Award, posthumously |
| 1992 | Maggie Will wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
| 1992 | Ozzie Smith steals his 500th base |
| 1991 | "Dinosaurs" premieres on ABC-TV |
| 1991 | 23 killed in Kansas and Oklahoma by tornadoes |
| 1991 | Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics |
| 1990 | "Accomplice" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 52 performances |
| 1990 | 126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China |
| 1990 | Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal and twists his ankle |
| 1990 | New York court of appeals ends 2 year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of case |
| 1990 | Nolan Ryan ties Bob Feller's record of pitching 12 1-hitters |
| 1989 | AT&T announces New Jersey's 201 area code will split into 908 and 201 |
| 1989 | Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 MPH in 30 mile zone in Albany |
| 1988 | 1st TNN Viewers choice awards - Randy Travis wins in 5 categories |
| 1988 | NBA approves addition of 3rd referee in 1988-89 season |
| 1988 | New York Met Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory in 1st 4 years (Al Lopez did it 1st) |
| 1987 | "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." closes at Ambassador New York City after 13 performances |
| 1986 | Actor/body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shriver |
| 1986 | Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman |
| 1986 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1986 | Game between Angels and Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds |
| 1986 | Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl U.S.S.R. explodes, 31 die |
| 1984 | Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens |
| 1984 | President Reagan visits China |
| 1983 | Bruins 2-Isles 5-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
| 1983 | Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1,200 for 1st time |
| 1983 | San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game |
| 1982 | Argentina surrenders to Britain on S Georgia near Falkland Island |
| 1982 | CBS radio begins youth oriented broadcast Radio Radio |
| 1982 | Gene Michael becomes New York Yankee manager for 2nd time |
| 1982 | Rod Stewart is mugged, gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche |
| 1981 | "Copperfield" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 13 performances |
| 1981 | Largest U.S. bank robbery in Tucson, Arizona, more than $33 million stolen |
| 1980 | Gerard Nijboer runs Dutch record marathon (2:09:01) |
| 1980 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1980 | Iran begins scattering U.S. hostages from U.S. Embassy |
| 1980 | Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120' |
| 1980 | Phillies' Steve Carlton pitches his 6th 1-hitter (beats Cards) |
| 1978 | France sends troops to Chad |
| 1978 | NASA launches space vehicle S-201 |
| 1977 | New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens |
| 1976 | Pan Am begins non-stop flights New York City - Tokyo |
| 1975 | Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal |
| 1975 | Penguins 0-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Isles win series 4-3 |
| 1975 | Phillies Mike Schmidt's 2 home runs ties NL record of 11 home runs in April |
| 1974 | Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam |
| 1974 | Malta adopts constitution |
| 1974 | Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline and Buskey to Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow and Upshaw |
| 1973 | "2 Gentlemen of Verona," musical opens in London |
| 1973 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1971 | Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hours |
| 1971 | Turkey state of siege proclaimed |
| 1970 | "Company" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 690 performances |
| 1969 | "Celebration" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 110 performances |
| 1969 | "George M!" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 435 performances |
| 1969 | Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman |
| 1968 | Students seize administration building at Ohio State |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1968 | U.S. underground nuclear test, "Boxcar," 1 megaton device |
| 1967 | "Hallelujah, Baby!" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 293 performances |
| 1967 | KSPS TV channel 7 in Spokane, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | San Marco 2 Launch (1st Equatorial Launch) |
| 1966 | Arnold "Red" Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach |
| 1965 | Ives' 4th Symphony premieres |
| 1964 | 18th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat San Francisco Warriors, 4 games to 1 |
| 1964 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1964 | Tanganyika and Zanzibar form United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar |
| 1962 | 1st Lockheed A-12 flies |
| 1962 | Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon |
| 1962 | Red Sox Bill Monbouquette no-hits White Sox 1-0 |
| 1962 | U.S. and U.K. launch Ariel; 1st international payload |
| 1961 | French paratroopers' revolt suppressed in Algeria |
| 1961 | Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961 |
| 1959 | Cuba invades Panama |
| 1959 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open |
| 1957 | Jamestown, Virginia 350th Anniversary Festival opens |
| 1954 | Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva |
| 1954 | Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins |
| 1952 | Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman |
| 1952 | U.S. minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp," kills 176 |
| 1951 | Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum |
| 1950 | Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run |
| 1950 | University of Miami ends William and Mary straight tennis match victories at 82 |
| 1947 | "Bless the Bride" musical opens in London |
| 1945 | Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason |
| 1944 | 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down |
| 1944 | Papandreou government in Greece forms |
| 1942 | Coal mine explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria |
| 1942 | Luftwaffe bombs Bath |
| 1941 | A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium for the Chicago Cubs |
| 1941 | Potatoes rationed in Holland |
| 1938 | Austrian Jews required to register property above 5,000 Reichsmarks |
| 1937 | German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain |
| 1936 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 4th Symphony |
| 1935 | Frank Boucher is given NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years |
| 1933 | Jewish students are barred from school in Germany |
| 1932 | Jean Anouilh's "L'Ermine," premieres in Paris |
| 1931 | Lou Gehrig hits a home run but is called out for passing a runner, mistake costs him AL home run crown; he and Babe Ruth tie for season |
| 1929 | 1st non-stop England to India flight lands |
| 1928 | Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition opens in London |
| 1926 | Germany and Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty |
| 1926 | Karachai Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1943) |
| 1925 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big" |
| 1923 | English prince Albert (George VI) marries lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon |
| 1920 | H Shapley and H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae |
| 1915 | Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France and Russia |
| 1913 | Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco |
| 1913 | Sun Yet San calls for revolt against President Yuan Shikai in China |
| 1912 | 1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox) |
| 1907 | Jamestown, Virginia Tercentenary Exposition opens |
| 1906 | 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii |
| 1905 | Cubs Jack McCarthy becomes only major league player to throw out 3 runners at plate in 1 game, all were ends of a double play |
| 1904 | Bell Telephone Company of Antwerp Belgium forms |
| 1900 | AL opener in Cleveland draws 6,500 |
| 1893 | 1st Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners forms |
| 1890 | Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in London |
| 1887 | Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity |
| 1865 | Battle of Durham Station, North Carolina (Greensboro) |
| 1865 | Battle of Ft. Tobacco, Virginia |
| 1865 | Confederate General J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee, at Durham North Carolina |
| 1855 | Composer Gioacchino Rossini leaves Italy |
| 1853 | Dutch King William III disbands 2nd Chamber |
| 1841 | "Bombay Gazette" begins publishing on silk |
| 1835 | Frederic Chopins "Grand Polonaise Brillante," premieres in Paris |
| 1828 | Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence |
| 1819 | Odd Fellows Lodge forms |
| 1814 | King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England |
| 1803 | Meteorites fall in L'Aigle, France |
| 1777 | Sybil Ludington, 16, rode from New York to Ct rallying her fathers militia |
| 1755 | 1st Russian university opens (Moscow) |
| 1721 | Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated |
| 1709 | Frisian viceroy Johan Willem Friso marries countess Maria Louisa |
| 1677 | Emperor Leopold I forms University of Innsbruck |
| 1655 | Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam |
| 1654 | Jews are expelled from Brazil |
| 1607 | 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va |
| 1564 | William Shakespeare baptized |
| 1532 | Sultan Suleiman through Hungary on away to Vienna |
| 1514 | Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn |
| 1478 | Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo and kill Giuliano de'Medici |
| 1220 | German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights |
| 757 | Paolo Orsini replaces his brother Pope Stephen II, as Paul I |
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