| 2013 | As part of its effort to protect America from an attack by North Korea, the U.S. invests $1 billion in ground-based missile interceptors on the West Coast |
| 2013 | In Vatican City, Italy, Pope Francis delivers his first message at the Vatican, telling journalists wants "a poor Church, for the poor" |
| 2012 | After three years without an elected head of state, Nicolae Timofti is named President of Moldova |
| 2012 | In a gesture to honor North Korean founder Kim II-Sung's birthday in April, North Korea plans to launch a new satellite that reportedly will be used to study crops and natural resources |
| 2011 | U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, publicly announces she will retire rather than serve a second term in 2012 if President Obama is reelected |
| 2011 | The Japanese yen hits a postwar hight against the U.S. dollar |
| 2010 | Real blood is spilled at the gates of government by the Thai redshirts, in a third day of protests |
| 1997 | Donna Andrews wins LPGA Welch's/Circle K Championship |
| 1997 | New Jersey Devils' Dave Andreychuk is 26th NHL to score 500 goals |
| 1997 | Stuart Appleby wins Honda Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Toshiba Senior Golf Classic |
| 1996 | Mike Tyson KOs Frank Bruno in 2nd round |
| 1995 | Dow-Jones hits record 4069.15 |
| 1995 | Manhattan upsets 4th seeded Oklahoma 77-67 |
| 1995 | Mississippi House of Representatives formally abolishes slavery and ratifies 13th Amendment |
| 1995 | World best 7th wkt stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh, Jr. and P Dharmani |
| 1994 | Moravcik forms Slovakia government |
| 1992 | Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball |
| 1991 | 7 of Reba McEntire band members are killed in a plane crash |
| 1991 | Members of Irish Gay and Lesbian Organization march in New York City parade |
| 1991 | New Jersey Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games |
| 1991 | New York Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner, with the numbers 18-21-32-33-35-38 |
| 1991 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi |
| 1988 | Federal grand jury indicts North and Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair |
| 1988 | North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed |
| 1988 | U.S. sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras |
| 1986 | Chris Johnson wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic |
| 1985 | Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut |
| 1985 | Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs |
| 1984 | Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut |
| 1984 | South Africa and Mozambique sign non attack treaty |
| 1983 | Smallest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Nets-1,814) |
| 1980 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic |
| 1979 | CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney |
| 1978 | Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast |
| 1978 | Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed |
| 1978 | Soyuz 26 returns to Earth |
| 1978 | U.S. Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty |
| 1978 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1977 | U.S. president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland |
| 1976 | British premier Harold Wilson resigns |
| 1975 | "Lieutenant" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 9 performances |
| 1975 | U.S. Mariner 10 makes 3rd and final fly-by of Mercury |
| 1974 | 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville |
| 1972 | John and Yoko are served with deportation papers |
| 1971 | 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win |
| 1971 | KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, Texas (IND) suspends broadcasting |
| 1970 | New English Bible published |
| 1970 | WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | "1776" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 1217 performances |
| 1969 | Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period |
| 1969 | Peter Stone and Sherman Edward's "1776," premieres in New York City |
| 1969 | Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155 |
| 1968 | My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die |
| 1968 | Robert F. Kennedy announces presidential campaign |
| 1966 | Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong and Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits |
| 1966 | Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London |
| 1964 | KCOY TV channel 12 in Santa Maria, California (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Paul Hornung and Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension |
| 1962 | 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket |
| 1962 | U.S. Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167 |
| 1959 | Iraq and U.S.S.R. sign economic/technical treaty |
| 1958 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1957 | 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young and Loretta Young |
| 1957 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1957 | Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating New York Rangers 14-1 |
| 1956 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
| 1956 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins |
| 1955 | Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge |
| 1955 | President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war |
| 1953 | AL rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St. Louis Browns to Baltimore |
| 1952 | 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, Reunion (world record) |
| 1952 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1950 | 1st annual National Book Awards |
| 1949 | KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, California (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | Convair Liner, 1st U.S. twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested |
| 1946 | "Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 77 performances |
| 1945 | Allies secure Iwo Jima |
| 1944 | Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death |
| 1943 | Elin K (No) and Zaanland (Netherlands) torpedoed and sinks |
| 1941 | Blizzard hits North Dakota and Minnesota killing 60 |
| 1941 | Dmitri Shostakovich receives the Stalin Prize |
| 1941 | National Gallery of Art opens in Washington D.C. |
| 1940 | German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow |
| 1939 | Germany occupies Czechoslovakia |
| 1939 | Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine |
| 1939 | NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-New York Rangers (7), New York Americans (3) and a record 26 points in the 3rd period |
| 1938 | Noel Coward's musical "Operette," premieres in London |
| 1938 | Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT |
| 1937 | All but one senior fouls out of a scrimmage game between seniors and sophomores, but he holds on to win the game 35-32 |
| 1935 | Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty |
| 1934 | Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act |
| 1933 | Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany |
| 1931 | Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Netherlands) |
| 1930 | USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine |
| 1929 | WHP-AM in Harrisburg Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions |
| 1926 | Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters) |
| 1923 | Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche," premieres in Vienna |
| 1922 | Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt |
| 1922 | WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions |
| 1920 | 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park |
| 1919 | Frank Wedekind's "Elius Erweckung," premieres in Hamburg |
| 1918 | Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published |
| 1916 | James Barries' "Kiss for Cinderella," premieres in London |
| 1916 | U.S. and Canada sign migratory bird treaty |
| 1915 | British battle cruisers Inflexible and Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle |
| 1915 | Federal Trade Commission organizes |
| 1912 | Mrs. William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Washington D.C. |
| 1911 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ont) 13-4 |
| 1910 | Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona |
| 1907 | 1st 1st-class cricket game between NSW and Western Australia |
| 1900 | Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus |
| 1897 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" |
| 1896 | Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" |
| 1894 | Jules Massenet's opera "Thais," premieres in Paris |
| 1882 | U.S. Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross |
| 1881 | Barnum and Bailey Circus debuts |
| 1877 | Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 vs. Eng |
| 1876 | Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY) |
| 1872 | 1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton |
| 1871 | 1st fertilizer law enacted |
| 1869 | Hiram R. Revels makes 1st official speech by a black in the Senate |
| 1865 | Battle of Averasboro North Carolina (1,500 casualities) |
| 1862 | Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles |
| 1861 | Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union |
| 1861 | Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain |
| 1850 | Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published |
| 1836 | Texas approves a constitution |
| 1834 | HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands |
| 1833 | Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st U.S. woman grad of a pharmacy college |
| 1830 | London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) |
| 1830 | New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded) |
| 1829 | Ohio authorizes high school night classes |
| 1827 | 1st U.S. black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (New York City), begins publishing |
| 1822 | Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano |
| 1815 | Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium |
| 1802 | U.S. Academy at West Point founded |
| 1802 | Law signed to establish U.S. Miltary Academy (West Point, New York) |
| 1802 | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time) |
| 1792 | Murder attempt on King Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera |
| 1731 | Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England and Netherlands |
| 1730 | Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe |
| 1690 | French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland |
| 1660 | English Long Parliament disbands |
| 1641 | General court declares RI a democracy and adopts new constitution |
| 1621 | Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth Mass |
| 1527 | Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen |
| 1521 | Magelhaes' fleet discovers Zamal (Samar) |
| 1521 | Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines |
| 1517 | Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen |
| 1345 | Holy spirit glides above fire: "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend) |
| 1190 | Crusades begin massacre of Jews of York England |
| 1079 | Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar |
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