| 2013 | China reports it will open the South China Sea's Paracel Islands to tourism before the May Day holiday. Vietnam voices strong opposition this move, as ownership of the Islands is in dispute |
| 2013 | In Doha, Qatar, hundreds of delegates meet as Qatar pledges $500 million in aid to rebuild Sudan's Darfur, a region racked by a decade-long conflict |
| 2012 | The Anonymous computer hacking group is credited with launching an attack on the United Kingdom Home Office |
| 2012 | Following the death of Bingu wa Mutharika, Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi |
| 2011 | Bolstered by strong employment figures for March, the Australian dollar reaches a 28-year high against the U.S. dollar |
| 2010 | The 2010 Kyrgyzstani riots continue as President Kurmanbek Bakiyev reportedly flees the country, the government steps down and protesters control the parliament building |
| 2009 | Former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, receives 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces |
| 1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft. Myers, Florida on WRXK 96.1 FM |
| 1996 | 8th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus |
| 1996 | Kelly Robbins wins Sacramento 12 Bridges LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1996 | Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore |
| 1995 | Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike |
| 1994 | "Medea" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 82 performances |
| 1994 | 1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2 |
| 1994 | New York Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6 |
| 1994 | Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton |
| 1994 | Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion |
| 1993 | Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colorado Rockie home run (Shea Stadium New York) |
| 1991 | "Big Love" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 41 performances |
| 1991 | "Shadowlands" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 169 performances |
| 1991 | 3rd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus |
| 1991 | Chris Johnson wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
| 1991 | Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth |
| 1991 | George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00 |
| 1991 | Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24 |
| 1990 | BPAA U.S. Open by Ron Palombi Jr |
| 1990 | Farm Aid IV concert |
| 1990 | John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal |
| 1990 | Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations |
| 1990 | New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary |
| 1990 | Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma |
| 1989 | Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths |
| 1989 | New York Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from San Diego Yacht Club for using a catamaran against New Zealand. Appeals court eventually overrules |
| 1988 | Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1 |
| 1988 | Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested |
| 1988 | Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan |
| 1988 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1987 | National Museum of Female Physician opens in Washington D.C. |
| 1987 | Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline" |
| 1986 | Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy |
| 1985 | 14th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller |
| 1985 | 1st live telecast of Easter Parade |
| 1985 | New Jersey General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards |
| 1984 | Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0 |
| 1983 | Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1 |
| 1983 | Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt |
| 1983 | STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk |
| 1983 | WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480 women bowlers for 83-day event |
| 1982 | Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested |
| 1982 | Penguins 1-Isles 8-Preliminary-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
| 1981 | Belgium Eyskens government forms |
| 1981 | Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec |
| 1980 | Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis |
| 1979 | Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water |
| 1979 | Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0 |
| 1979 | Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers |
| 1978 | Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in New York City |
| 1978 | President Carter defers production of neutron bomb |
| 1978 | U.S. Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976 |
| 1977 | Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant |
| 1977 | Toronto Blues Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5 |
| 1976 | Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping |
| 1974 | Herb Gardner's "Thieves," premieres in New York City |
| 1973 | Cleveland sets day-game and opening-game attendance records of 74,420 |
| 1973 | Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 vs. WI Georgetown |
| 1971 | Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by |
| 1971 | President Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free |
| 1971 | WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, Florida (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals |
| 1970 | "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds," premieres in New York City |
| 1970 | 42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy," John Wayne and Maggie Smith win |
| 1970 | Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0 |
| 1969 | Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds |
| 1969 | Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material |
| 1969 | Ted Williams begins managing Washington Senators, they lose to Yankees 8-4 |
| 1967 | Israeli/Syrian border fights |
| 1967 | Tom Donahue, San Francisco dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM) |
| 1966 | U.S. recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor |
| 1965 | Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man New Zealand vs. Pakistan |
| 1963 | 27th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286 |
| 1963 | Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic |
| 1963 | Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors |
| 1962 | Umrigar slams 172* vs. WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes |
| 1962 | Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail |
| 1959 | Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years |
| 1959 | Radar 1st bounced off Sun from Stanford, California |
| 1958 | Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line |
| 1957 | 21st Golf Masters Championship: Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283 |
| 1956 | 10th NBA Championship: Ph Warriors beat Ft. Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1 |
| 1956 | Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco |
| 1954 | German government refuses to recognize DDR |
| 1954 | President Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China |
| 1954 | WALB TV channel 10 in Albany, Georgia (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight |
| 1953 | Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden elected 2nd United Nations general-secretary |
| 1951 | 15th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280 |
| 1951 | American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament |
| 1951 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| 1949 | "South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1928 performances |
| 1948 | World Health Organization forms by U.N. |
| 1946 | 10th Golf Masters Championship: Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282 |
| 1946 | Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR |
| 1945 | 1st and last assault of German Rammkommando on U.S. bombers |
| 1945 | U.S. B-17's bombs range at Luneburg |
| 1945 | U.S. planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato and four destroyers were sunk |
| 1944 | General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan |
| 1943 | Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg |
| 1943 | British and U.S. troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia |
| 1943 | Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid |
| 1943 | NFL adopts free substitution rule |
| 1942 | Heavy German assault on Malta |
| 1941 | British generals O'Connor and Neame captured in North Africa |
| 1940 | Booker T. Washington, 1st black to appear on U.S. stamp |
| 1940 | 7th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 280 |
| 1939 | Italy invades Albania |
| 1934 | In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience |
| 1933 | 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal and public service |
| 1933 | University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic |
| 1931 | Seals Stadium opens in San Francisco |
| 1928 | 44-yr old New York Ranger General Manager Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game, and beats Montreal Maroons 2-1 |
| 1927 | Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington D.C. to New York City |
| 1926 | Forest fire burns 900 acres and kills 2 in San Luis Obispo, California |
| 1926 | Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose |
| 1923 | 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in New York City) by Dr. K Winfield Ney |
| 1923 | Workers Party of America (New York City) becomes official Communist Party |
| 1922 | Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair |
| 1919 | 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks |
| 1917 | De Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos," premieres in Madrid |
| 1917 | James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her," premieres in London |
| 1906 | Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police and banking business |
| 1902 | Texas Oil Company, Texaco, forms |
| 1901 | SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber |
| 1891 | Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day |
| 1888 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face" |
| 1865 | Battle of Farmville, Virginia |
| 1863 | Battle of Charleston, South Carolina, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter |
| 1862 | Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, Island #10 falls |
| 1860 | Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe |
| 1831 | Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil |
| 1827 | English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches |
| 1818 | General Andrew Jackson conquers St. Marks Florida from Seminole indians |
| 1805 | Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself) |
| 1798 | Mississippi Territory organized |
| 1788 | 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta |
| 1724 | Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig |
| 1655 | Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII |
| 1652 | Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa |
| 1645 | Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil |
| 1625 | Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander |
| 1521 | Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books |
| 1521 | Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu |
| 1509 | France declares war on Venice |
| 1498 | Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy |
| 1456 | Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik |
| 1348 | Prague University, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV |
| 1118 | Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor |
| 451 | Attila's Hun's plunder Metz |
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