| 2013 | Queen Elizabeth of the U.K. is named 'the most memorable Bond girl' for her appearance at the London Olympics. BAFTA, gave her the honorary award for her support of British film and television |
| 2013 | In Japan, optimism for economic revival sparked Bank of Japan's stimulus plan, impacts Japan's stock market index; following its release, the Nikkei 225 hits its highest level in nearly five years |
| 2012 | As part of a continued tightening on world sanctions on Iran, a Chinese company that insures ships will stop indemnifying tankers carrying Iranian oil |
| 2012 | SkyNews admits it illegally hacked emails that belonged to members of the public on two separate occasions |
| 2011 | The U.S. Democratic National Committee appoints Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Chairwoman |
| 2011 | A bill banning the abortion of a fetus more than 20 weeks old passes in the Idaho House of Representatives |
| 2010 | 60 countries are invited to participate in Iran's two-day nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran April 17 - 18; China says it will attend |
| 1997 | Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7) |
| 1996 | John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days |
| 1994 | "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden New York City for 347 performances |
| 1994 | Miami Heat beat New York Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak |
| 1993 | 55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Michigan 77-71 |
| 1993 | 73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1 |
| 1993 | Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to New York Mets 3-0 |
| 1993 | Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| 1993 | Florida Marlins 1st game - beat Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3 |
| 1993 | Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad |
| 1992 | "Search and Destroy" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 46 performances |
| 1992 | 11th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62 |
| 1992 | 4th Seniors Golf Tradition: Lee Trevino |
| 1992 | Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka |
| 1992 | Dana Lofland wins Las Vegas LPGA Golf International |
| 1992 | Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - New York Yankees sweep New York Mets 6-5 at Shea |
| 1992 | Peru's President Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution and dissolved Congress |
| 1992 | Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president |
| 1992 | Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome, Hulk Hogan DQs Sid Justice |
| 1991 | Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games |
| 1991 | Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan |
| 1991 | Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23 |
| 1991 | Space Shuttle STS-37, Atlantis 8, launched |
| 1991 | U.S. begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq |
| 1990 | John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 years in a row |
| 1990 | New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary |
| 1990 | Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity |
| 1989 | David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo |
| 1989 | Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak |
| 1989 | Solidarity grants legal status in Poland |
| 1988 | Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their President candidate |
| 1987 | 16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King |
| 1987 | Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children |
| 1987 | Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title |
| 1986 | Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m) |
| 1986 | U.S. soldier and Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing |
| 1984 | "Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 13 performances |
| 1984 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421) |
| 1983 | France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats |
| 1983 | New York Met Tom Seaver's sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment |
| 1982 | British fleet sails to Falkland Islands |
| 1982 | Cards' Jim Kaat, pitches in record 24th consecutive season |
| 1982 | Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war |
| 1981 | 10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez |
| 1981 | Philadelphia Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes |
| 1979 | Baltimore manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper |
| 1979 | Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia |
| 1977 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1976 | Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of England |
| 1976 | Tom Stoppard's "Dirty Linen," premieres in London |
| 1975 | "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 18 performances |
| 1975 | Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely |
| 1974 | Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers and Rohan Kanhai |
| 1974 | Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in New York City (110 stories) |
| 1973 | NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie quarterbacks, 1-19) |
| 1973 | Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter |
| 1972 | Baseball season is delayed due to a strike |
| 1972 | Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub |
| 1971 | Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole |
| 1971 | Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy |
| 1971 | U.S. Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life |
| 1971 | WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton, New Jersey (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, Illinois (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens |
| 1968 | U.S. marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled |
| 1967 | 76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds |
| 1967 | ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit |
| 1966 | WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft. Pierce-Vero Beach, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1965 | 37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison and J Andrews win |
| 1965 | Lava Lamp Day celebrated |
| 1965 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1964 | 1st driverless trains run on London Underground |
| 1964 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open |
| 1963 | Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me) |
| 1963 | Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa |
| 1962 | Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns," premieres in New York City |
| 1962 | NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m |
| 1962 | St. Bernard Tunnel finished, Swiss and Italian workers shake hands |
| 1961 | Barbra Streisand appears on "Jack Paar Show" |
| 1961 | Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council |
| 1959 | 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall, Jr. wins, shooting a 284 |
| 1955 | Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden succeeds him |
| 1954 | Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right" |
| 1953 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1953 | WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title |
| 1951 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death |
| 1950 | Prague espionage trial against bishops and priests begins |
| 1948 | WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, Illinois (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1946 | 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony |
| 1945 | Almelo Netherlands freed |
| 1945 | Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki |
| 1944 | 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse |
| 1943 | Allies bomb Mortsel |
| 1943 | Japanese troops conquer Indin |
| 1943 | Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days |
| 1941 | In San Francisco, Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses |
| 1939 | Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory |
| 1938 | Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland |
| 1936 | Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die |
| 1935 | Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election |
| 1932 | Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions |
| 1930 | England out for 849 vs. WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325 |
| 1929 | Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact |
| 1927 | Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 and 200 m free style |
| 1925 | Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election |
| 1925 | Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in North Carolina due to an ulcer |
| 1923 | Firestone puts their inflatable tires into production |
| 1922 | KOB-AM in Albuquerque, New Mexico begins radio transmissions |
| 1922 | WDZ-AM in Decatur, Illinois begins radio transmissions |
| 1919 | Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann |
| 1919 | Heavyweight Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in Havana |
| 1919 | Polish Army executes 35 young Jews |
| 1916 | French troops occupy Bois de Caillette |
| 1915 | French begin Woevre-offensive |
| 1915 | Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1911 | MCC tour match vs. Jamaica finishes in a tie |
| 1911 | Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer |
| 1908 | British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns |
| 1906 | St. Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland" |
| 1905 | James Barrie's "Alice-sit-by-the-fire," premieres in London |
| 1902 | Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante defunte," premieres in Paris |
| 1902 | Soccer match riot between Scotland and England kills 25 |
| 1900 | Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails |
| 1896 | 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens |
| 1895 | Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students" |
| 1895 | Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices |
| 1894 | 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn |
| 1894 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Empty House" |
| 1893 | Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks) |
| 1889 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Copper Beeches" |
| 1887 | Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller |
| 1881 | Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty |
| 1874 | "Die Fledermaus" 1st performed, in Vienna |
| 1874 | Johann Strauss Sr's opera "Die Fledermaus," premieres in Vienna |
| 1865 | Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville Virginia (Appomattox Campaign) |
| 1862 | Siege of Yorktown, Virginia |
| 1861 | Federals abandon Ft. Quitman, Texas |
| 1815 | Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java) |
| 1814 | Netherlands Bank issues it's 1st banknotes |
| 1812 | Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French and Spanish |
| 1806 | Isaac Quintard patents apple cider |
| 1803 | 1st performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D |
| 1792 | George Washington casts 1st presidential veto |
| 1768 | 1st U.S. Chamber of Commerce forms (New York City) |
| 1762 | British take Grenada, West Indies, from French |
| 1753 | British Museum forms and opens in 1759 |
| 1751 | Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden |
| 1739 | French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty |
| 1722 | Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island |
| 1648 | Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples |
| 1621 | Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England |
| 1614 | 2nd parliament of King James I begin session (no enactments) |
| 1614 | Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe |
| 1603 | New English king James I departs Edinburgh for London |
| 1585 | Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch |
| 1566 | 200 Brussel nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition |
| 1242 | Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights |
| 1242 | Battle on the More of Pskov Estonia |
| 1058 | Bishop John "Minchio," [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X |
| 823 | Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I, co-emperor of France |
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