| 2012 | In recognition of democratic reforms, the European Union opens an office in Burma |
| 2012 | Syria accuses Ban Ki-moon, Secretary of the United Nations, of 'encouraging attacks on the government' |
| 2011 | According to the WHO, leading causes of death in the world include chronic illnesses such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes |
| 2011 | Panasonic Corporation reportedly plans to announce it will cut 40,000 jobs |
| 2010 | John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator announces Niger faces total crop failure worse than that of 2005 |
| 2001 | Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist by paying $20 million to fly on a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station. |
| 1997 | "Jekyll and Hyde" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City |
| 1996 | "Big," opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 193 performances |
| 1996 | Martin Bryant shoots and kills 35 in Port Arthur Tasmania |
| 1996 | Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
| 1995 | Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die |
| 1995 | Sri Lankaan BAE748 crashes at Palaly, 52 die |
| 1994 | 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days] |
| 1994 | Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer and wife Rosario plead guilty to spying |
| 1994 | Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels Belgium |
| 1994 | Lisa Marie Presley separates from Danny Keough |
| 1993 | "Tango Passion" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1993 | Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists |
| 1993 | Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die |
| 1993 | New York Islanders beat Washington Caps 4 to 1 in playoffs, Caps Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot |
| 1992 | Brewers beat Blue Jays 22-2 with AL record 31 hits in 9 innings |
| 1992 | Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns |
| 1991 | "Gypsy" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 105 performances |
| 1991 | "Taking Steps" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 78 performances |
| 1991 | Space Shuttle STS-39 (Discovery 12) launched |
| 1990 | "Chorus Line" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 6,137 performances |
| 1990 | Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat New York Knicks 157-128 |
| 1990 | Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Dave Ferraro |
| 1990 | Guns and Roses' Axl marries Erin Everly (annulled same year) |
| 1990 | Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth) |
| 1989 | Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money |
| 1989 | Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie |
| 1988 | "Chess" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 68 performances |
| 1988 | Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess |
| 1988 | Baltimore Orioles lose AL record 21 games in a row |
| 1988 | New Jersey Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes |
| 1987 | NBA announces expansion to Charlotte North Carolina and Miami Florida in 1988 and Minneapolis Minnesota and Orlando Florida in 1989 |
| 1986 | Chernobyl, U.S.S.R. site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster |
| 1985 | Alice Miller wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
| 1985 | Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 4th time |
| 1985 | Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless inn to start season |
| 1984 | "La Tragedie de Carmen" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 187 performances |
| 1983 | Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead |
| 1983 | Bruins 4-Isles 1-Wales Conference Championship-Series tied 1-1 |
| 1983 | NASA launches Geos-F |
| 1980 | Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns |
| 1980 | Reunion Arena in Dallas opens |
| 1977 | Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets |
| 1977 | Andreas Baader and members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1975 | John Lennon appears on "Tonight" and Ringo on "Smother Brothers" |
| 1975 | South-Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30 |
| 1974 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
| 1972 | Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given drugs before race |
| 1971 | Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election |
| 1971 | Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. becomes 1st black Admiral in U.S. Navy |
| 1969 | Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France |
| 1969 | King Crismson with Greg Lake and Ian McDonald debuts |
| 1968 | 11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old |
| 1968 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies' Golf Invitational |
| 1967 | Expo 67 opens in Montreal |
| 1967 | Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title |
| 1966 | 20th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
| 1966 | 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music," Julie Christie and L Marvin win |
| 1966 | Cleveland ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day |
| 1966 | OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms |
| 1965 | Barbra Streisand stars on "My Name is Barbra" special on CBS |
| 1965 | Lindsey Nelson broadcasts game at Astrodome from a hanging gondola |
| 1965 | Richard Helms replaces Marshall S. Carter as deputy director of CIA |
| 1965 | U.S. Marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966 |
| 1965 | William F. Raborn, Jr. replaces John A. McCone as 7th head of CIA |
| 1964 | Japan joins OECO |
| 1963 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1963 | 17th Tony Awards: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum win |
| 1961 | Lieutenant Colonel Gueorgui Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 m altitude |
| 1961 | Warren Spahn pitches 2nd no hitter at 41 beats San Francisco Giants, 1-0 |
| 1960 | "Christine" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| 1960 | WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1959 | KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1959 | KPLR TV channel 11 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 1958 | Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
| 1958 | Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America |
| 1957 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| 1957 | WSOC TV channel 9 in Charlotte, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Last French troop leave Vietnam |
| 1956 | Reds Frank Robinson hits his 1st of 586 home runs |
| 1955 | WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open |
| 1952 | St. Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan |
| 1952 | WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect |
| 1947 | Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki sail from Peru to Polynesia |
| 1945 | British commands attack Elbe and occupies Lauenburg |
| 1945 | U.S. 5th army reaches Swiss border |
| 1944 | Stalin meets Polish/U.S. priest S Orlemanski |
| 1944 | Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 U.S. soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats |
| 1943 | 1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning" |
| 1943 | German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa |
| 1943 | U.S. 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia |
| 1942 | "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll |
| 1942 | Nightly "dim-out" begins along East Coast |
| 1941 | Last British troops in Greece surrenders |
| 1940 | Glenn Miller records "Pennsylvania 6-5000" |
| 1940 | Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz |
| 1939 | Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect |
| 1938 | King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary |
| 1937 | 1st animated cartoon electric sign displayed (New York City) |
| 1937 | 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am |
| 1935 | Moscow underground opens (81 km long) |
| 1934 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Home Owners Loan Act |
| 1934 | Soccer team Blue White '34 forms |
| 1934 | Spanish government of Samper forms |
| 1934 | Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays |
| 1932 | 1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC-radio |
| 1932 | Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced |
| 1931 | Program for woman athletes approved for 1932 Olympics track and field |
| 1930 | 1st night organized baseball game Independence. Kansas |
| 1925 | Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army |
| 1925 | Netherlands and Great Britain return to gold standard |
| 1924 | 119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster |
| 1923 | Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup) |
| 1922 | WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station |
| 1920 | Azerbaijan SSR joins U.S.S.R. (1st time) |
| 1919 | 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin) |
| 1914 | 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles, West Virginia |
| 1914 | W. H. Carrier patents air conditioner |
| 1910 | 1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England) |
| 1901 | 1st soccer game between Belgium (8) and Netherlands (0) |
| 1901 | Cleveland's Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues!) 13-1 |
| 1892 | 1st performance of Antonin Dvorak's overture "Carneval" |
| 1865 | Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine," premieres in Paris |
| 1865 | Opera "L'Africaine" is produced (Paris) |
| 1855 | 1st veterinary college in U.S. incorporated in Boston |
| 1848 | Free last slaves in French colonies |
| 1847 | George B. Vashon becomes 1st black to enter New York State Bar |
| 1829 | Dutch parliament accepts new press laws |
| 1818 | Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes and Lake Champlain |
| 1804 | 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony |
| 1796 | Cease fire of Cherasco |
| 1789 | Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty and Captain William Bligh |
| 1788 | Maryland becomes 7th state to ratify constitution |
| 1770 | Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia |
| 1655 | English Admiral Blake beats Tunen pirate fleet |
| 1635 | Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason and removed from office |
| 1550 | Powers of Dutch inquisition extends |
| 1521 | Treaty of Worms: Emperor Charles names his brother Ferdinand Arch duke of Netherlands-Austria |
| 1503 | Battle at Cerignalo: Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France |
| 1376 | English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay |
| 1202 | King Philip II throws out John without Country, from France |
| 585 | War between Lydia and Media ended by solar eclipse |
| 357 | Emperor Constantius II visits Rome |
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