| 2012 | U.S. CEO of Oracle Corp, Larry Ellison, agrees to purchase 98 percent of Hawaii's island of Lanai |
| 2012 | Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, reported to be in a coma, is removed from life support |
| 2011 | Australian travelers are warned they may face more disruption from the 2011 Puyehue-Cordon Caulle eruption in Chile |
| 2011 | The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers grants private companies the right to create new website domain suffixes |
| 2010 | Presidential elections take place in Poland after the death of President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash April 10, 2010 |
| 1999 | 99th U.S. Golf Open: at Pinehurst CC New Jersey |
| 1997 | Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry |
| 1996 | Space Shuttle STS-78, Columbia 20, launches into space |
| 1995 | Space probe Ulysses begins 2nd passage behind the Sun |
| 1994 | Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran, 70 killed |
| 1994 | Ernie Els win's 1994 Golf U.S. Open |
| 1994 | Howard Stern begins 30-minute (Radio) TV show on E! cable network |
| 1994 | O. J. Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman |
| 1993 | 47th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2 |
| 1993 | 93rd U.S. Golf Open: Lee Janzen shoots a 272 at Baltusrol Golf Club New Jersey |
| 1993 | Tammie Green wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament |
| 1992 | Kelly Saunders is 1st female baseball announcer for the Baltimore Orioles |
| 1990 | 50,000 die in a 7.6 earthquake in Iran |
| 1990 | Nelson Mandela lands in New York City to begin a tour of U.S. |
| 1988 | Curtis Strange wins U.S. Open golf tournament |
| 1988 | Haiti's general assembly dissolves |
| 1988 | New York City WABC-AM becomes flagship radio station of New Jersey Devils |
| 1988 | "Price is Right" model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera |
| 1988 | WABC officially becomes the New Jersey Devils new home radio |
| 1988 | Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and minorities |
| 1987 | Chuti Tiu, 17, of Wisconsin, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| 1987 | Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass |
| 1986 | Doctors at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon |
| 1986 | Jim Fregosi replaces Tony LaRussa as White Sox manager |
| 1984 | A's Dave Kingman hits his 3rd grand slam and 14th lifetime |
| 1984 | Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| 1983 | 83rd U.S. Golf Open: Larry Nelson shoots a 280 at Oakmont CC PA |
| 1983 | New York Yankee Bobby Murcer retires |
| 1982 | 82nd U.S. Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach GL California |
| 1982 | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington |
| 1982 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1982 | Pete Rose is 5th to appear in 3,000 games (Cobb, Musial, Aaron, Yaz) |
| 1981 | Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats |
| 1981 | Mudjahedin uprises against Iran regime |
| 1981 | Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection |
| 1980 | California Angels Freddie Patek, hits 3 home runs and double to beat Red Sox 20-2 |
| 1980 | Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous decision |
| 1978 | 1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, New Jersey, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota and Dayton |
| 1977 | Menahem Begin forms Israeli government |
| 1977 | Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez |
| 1976 | 76th U.S. Golf Open: Jerry Pate shoots a 277 at Atlanta AC in Duluth Ga |
| 1976 | Carl Fugate, Starkwether accomplice, paroled |
| 1976 | Czechoslovakia becomes European soccer champ |
| 1976 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
| 1973 | Chicago's Cy Acosta is 1st AL pitcher to bat since DH rule (strikeout) |
| 1973 | Juan Peron returns to Argentina |
| 1973 | San Francisco Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off home runs |
| 1971 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Heritage Golf Open |
| 1970 | "Ray Stevens Show," debuts on NBC-TV |
| 1970 | British government of Edward Heath forms, with Margaret Thatcher |
| 1970 | Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run home run |
| 1969 | 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear |
| 1969 | Georges Pompidou sworn in as president of France |
| 1969 | White Rhodesia agrees to race separation |
| 1968 | Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds |
| 1967 | Phillies Larry Jackson beats New York Mets for 18th straight time |
| 1966 | 66th U.S. Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic CC in SF |
| 1966 | Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman |
| 1965 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
| 1964 | 64th U.S. Golf Open: Ken Venturi shoots a 278 at Congressional CC MD |
| 1963 | 1st Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 6-2 |
| 1963 | Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income |
| 1963 | U.S. and U.S.S.R. agree to set up Hot Line |
| 1960 | 12nd Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack and Jane Wyatt |
| 1960 | Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France |
| 1960 | Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavywgt boxing title |
| 1960 | Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johnstown (New York City) |
| 1958 | New Zealand all out 47 vs. England at Lord's Laker 4-13, Lock 5-17 |
| 1956 | Venezuelan Super Constellation crashes in New Jersey, 74 killed |
| 1956 | At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers (no else hits 1 there) |
| 1955 | "Almost Crazy" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| 1953 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| 1951 | Cleveland Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 home runs, double and single vs Red Sox |
| 1950 | Dutch Air Force base Tjililitan given to Indonesia |
| 1950 | Joe Dimaggio's 2,000th hit, Yankees beat Indians 8-2 |
| 1949 | Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes |
| 1948 | "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV |
| 1948 | 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo |
| 1948 | Cleveland draws then record 82,781 for doubleheader |
| 1948 | Deutsche Mark introduced in West-Germany |
| 1947 | President Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act |
| 1946 | New York City transit begins using Pennsylvania system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line |
| 1944 | Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency |
| 1944 | Heavy storm hits the Channel |
| 1944 | Nazi begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz |
| 1944 | Soviet forces conquer Wiborg |
| 1944 | U.S. attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea |
| 1944 | U.S. troops occupy Biak |
| 1943 | Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded |
| 1943 | Detroit race riot kills 35 |
| 1943 | German round up Jews in Amsterdam |
| 1943 | National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes |
| 1943 | New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3 km dia) |
| 1943 | Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track and field championship in NY |
| 1942 | Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews |
| 1942 | German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa |
| 1941 | German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on U.S. battleship Texas |
| 1940 | Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1939 | Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants |
| 1936 | Jesse Owens of U.S. sets 100 meter record at 10.2 |
| 1932 | A's Roger Cramer gets 6 consecutive hits in a game (repeats in 1935) |
| 1931 | Karl Buresch becomes chancellor of Austrian |
| 1930 | 65th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake |
| 1926 | Mordecai W. Johnson becomes president of Howard University |
| 1921 | 11.5" (29.2 cm) of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record) |
| 1920 | Yankees win protest of 1-0 White Sox win and game is replayed |
| 1919 | German government of Scheideman resigns |
| 1919 | Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria |
| 1915 | German offensive in Argonnes |
| 1914 | 46th Belmont: Merritt Buxton aboard Luke McLuke wins in 2:20 |
| 1913 | 3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman |
| 1913 | Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader |
| 1912 | New York Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd and 3rd twice) |
| 1912 | New York Giants lead Bost Braves 14-2 into 9th, Giants win 21-12 |
| 1911 | NAACP incorporates in New York |
| 1910 | "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in New York Journal |
| 1909 | 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham and Eleanor Waring) |
| 1907 | 1st Portland Rose festival |
| 1901 | Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a U.S. college |
| 1895 | 1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin) |
| 1895 | Canal of Smock official opens |
| 1895 | Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras form a short-lived confederation |
| 1893 | Lizzie Borden acquitted in murder of parents in New Bedford Mass |
| 1888 | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Libertas |
| 1874 | 1st U.S. Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons) |
| 1867 | President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska |
| 1866 | Italy declares war on Austria |
| 1864 | Battle of Kinston North Carolina and Battle of Abingdon, Virginia |
| 1864 | Battle of Petersburgs Virginia - in trenches |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Lattermore's Mills/Powder Springs Georgia |
| 1863 | 1st bank chartered in U.S., National Bank of Davenport, Iowa |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Greencastle Pennsylvania |
| 1863 | West Virginia admitted as 35th U.S. state |
| 1855 | Commissioners appointed to lay out San Francisco streets west of Larkin |
| 1840 | Samuel Morse patents his telegraph |
| 1837 | England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria |
| 1837 | Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901 |
| 1826 | Siam/England sign trade/peace treaty |
| 1825 | Coronation of French king Charles X the Bourbon |
| 1819 | 320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic) |
| 1793 | Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin |
| 1791 | King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution |
| 1789 | Oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken |
| 1782 | Congress approves Great Seal of U.S. and eagle as it's symbol |
| 1779 | Battle of Stone Ferry |
| 1756 | 146 British soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die |
| 1756 | India rebels defeat Calcutta on British army |
| 1675 | Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan and Wampanoag indians form anti-English front under Metacom |
| 1656 | Polish King Jan II Casimir recaptures Warsaw |
| 1632 | Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area |
| 1624 | Netherlands and France sign Treaty of Compiegne |
| 1591 | Mauritius and Willem van Nassau occupy Devente |
| 1582 | Bishop Domingo de Salazar of Manila suppresses the Philippines |
| 1567 | Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique |
| 1547 | Count Philip van Hessen captured |
| 1530 | German Parliament joins to Augsburg together |
| 1402 | Battle of Angora, Ankara-Tatars defeat Turkish Army |
| 1212 | French and Spanish crusaders unite against the Almohaden at Toledo |
| 451 | Germans and Romans beat Atiila the Hun at Catalarinische Fields |
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