| 2013 | The U.S. TV network NBC announces Jay Leno, host of 'The Tonight Show' will leave in the spring of 2014, and be replaced by comedian Jimmy Fallon |
| 2013 | A scientific study determines that common drugs taken for reducing cholesterol can prevent macular degeneration |
| 2012 | Part of the April 3, 2012 tornado outbreak, tornadoes impact the Dallas, Texas area |
| 2012 | Following the News International phone hacking scandal, James Murdock resigns as Chairman of BskyB |
| 2011 | The Academy of Country Music Awards 2010 selects Taylor Swift winner of the 2010 Entertainer of the Year award |
| 2011 | Kazakhstan holds a presidential election; President Nursultan Nazarbayev wins 95% of the vote |
| 2010 | Rescuers in Shanxi, China, enter a flooded mine to help over 153 workers who have been trapped for over a week |
| 2000 | 62nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at RCA Dome Indianapolis |
| 1998 | World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota |
| 1997 | "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," opens at Royale New York City for 109 performance |
| 1996 | South Australia grab exciting draw vs W A to win Sheffield Shield |
| 1996 | St. Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1 |
| 1995 | 57th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78 |
| 1995 | Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena |
| 1994 | 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech 60-59 |
| 1994 | 1st roster of Silver Bullets, all-female pro baseball team, announced |
| 1994 | 6th Seniors Golf Tradition: Ray Floyd |
| 1992 | 1st exhibition game at Camden Field-Orioles beat New York Mets |
| 1991 | "Penn and Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City |
| 1991 | 12th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 1991 | Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox |
| 1991 | Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16) |
| 1991 | U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution |
| 1989 | "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx |
| 1989 | 51st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Michigan beats Seton Hall 80-79 in overtime |
| 1989 | Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St. Louis at Shea Stad |
| 1988 | 17th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott |
| 1988 | 7th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Louisiana Tec beat Auburn 56-54 |
| 1988 | Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Gretzky's 7 year streak |
| 1988 | New Jersey Devils beat Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time |
| 1988 | Somalia and Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert |
| 1988 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1987 | Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega |
| 1987 | Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers |
| 1987 | Duchess of Windsors jewels auctioned for 31,380,197 pounds |
| 1987 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1986 | U.S. national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000 |
| 1985 | French government adopts equal electoral system |
| 1985 | Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games |
| 1985 | Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London |
| 1984 | Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy |
| 1984 | Guinea suspends constitution after coup |
| 1984 | Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7 |
| 1983 | 12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott |
| 1983 | 2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South California beats LA Tech 69-67 |
| 1982 | Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point |
| 1982 | U.N. Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands |
| 1981 | Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25," with 1 leg |
| 1981 | Race riots in London's Brixton area |
| 1980 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1980 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1979 | Belgium's Martens government forms |
| 1979 | Jane Byrne, elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois |
| 1978 | 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall," Rich Dreyfuss and Diane Keaton win |
| 1978 | European market and China signs trade agreement |
| 1978 | Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington D.C. |
| 1977 | 6th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
| 1977 | Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point |
| 1977 | Egyptian President Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter |
| 1977 | Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time |
| 1976 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1976 | Philadelphia Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game |
| 1975 | Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it |
| 1975 | James Rupers kills his family to inherit |
| 1974 | 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states |
| 1974 | Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris |
| 1970 | Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try |
| 1968 | North Vietnam agrees to meet U.S. reps to set up preliminary peace talks |
| 1967 | WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum |
| 1966 | Luna 10 orbits Moon |
| 1966 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open |
| 1966 | Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus |
| 1965 | 1st atomic powered spacecraft launched |
| 1964 | Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts |
| 1964 | U.S. and Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations |
| 1962 | Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races) |
| 1962 | Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| 1961 | "Happiest Girl in the World" opens at Martin Beck New York City for 97 performances |
| 1961 | Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia is sold to J Schleifer Properties |
| 1960 | Earthquake at Havre, Belgium |
| 1958 | "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 332 performances |
| 1957 | Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," premieres in London |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| 1956 | "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 461 performances |
| 1956 | Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated |
| 1956 | German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed |
| 1955 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs Kansas City Athletics) |
| 1955 | Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39 |
| 1955 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Oklahoma City Golf Open |
| 1955 | Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300 |
| 1954 | "Me and Juliet" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 358 performances |
| 1954 | Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record) |
| 1952 | Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to U.S. Congress |
| 1951 | Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners," premieres in Oxford |
| 1949 | KQW-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KCBS |
| 1949 | North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by U.S., Britain, France and Canada |
| 1949 | WLWS (now WCMH) TV channel 4 in Columbus, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | 1st U.S. figure skating championships held |
| 1948 | Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries) |
| 1948 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
| 1948 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
| 1947 | "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" opens at Martin Beck New York City for 108 performances |
| 1945 | Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army |
| 1945 | Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald |
| 1945 | U.S. 1st army conquers Hofgeismar |
| 1944 | British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz |
| 1944 | Supreme Court (Smith vs. Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional |
| 1943 | Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested |
| 1941 | Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion |
| 1941 | Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq |
| 1941 | Waltons overture "Scapino," premieres in Chicago |
| 1936 | Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch, :07 of 1st round |
| 1936 | Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds |
| 1935 | Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44) |
| 1933 | 1st airplane flight over Mount Everest |
| 1930 | Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
| 1930 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games |
| 1929 | Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact |
| 1927 | Interstate Commerce Commission transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone |
| 1926 | 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C |
| 1926 | 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard |
| 1926 | Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions |
| 1925 | Great Britain goes back to gold standard |
| 1925 | Netherlands and Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde |
| 1923 | 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary |
| 1922 | Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party |
| 1919 | Austria expels all Habsburgers |
| 1918 | House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler |
| 1917 | Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd |
| 1913 | British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail |
| 1911 | Harry James Smith' "Mrs. Bumsted-Leigh," premieres in New York City |
| 1910 | Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mount McKinley climbed |
| 1908 | Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hours |
| 1893 | 1st NSW vs. Queensland F-C game, at Brisbane Exhibition Ground |
| 1889 | Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Virginia |
| 1882 | Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks |
| 1868 | An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave |
| 1865 | Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign) |
| 1865 | Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Virginia and Petersberg |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Okolona, Arkansas |
| 1860 | Pony Express began between St. Joseph Missouri and Sacramento California |
| 1856 | Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos |
| 1848 | Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher |
| 1790 | Revenue Marine Service, U.S. Coast Guard, created |
| 1783 | Sweden and U.S. sign a treaty of Amity and Commerce |
| 1776 | Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College |
| 1764 | Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king |
| 1721 | Robert Walpole becomes England's 1st Lord of the Treasury |
| 1679 | Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig |
| 1657 | English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown |
| 1645 | English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance |
| 1582 | French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen |
| 1559 | Spain and France signs 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambresis |
| 1376 | Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France |
| 1312 | 2nd council of Vienna |
| 1043 | Edward the Confessor crowned king of England |
| 419 | [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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