| 2013 | Zillur Rahman, age 84, the President of Bangladesh, dies in office after a long illness at a hospital in Singapore; the government declared three days of mourning |
| 2012 | The movie 'John Carter' becomes one of the biggest losses in film history; Disney takes a $200 million writedown on the film |
| 2012 | A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes near the border of Mexico's states Guerrero and Oaxaca |
| 2011 | In Morocco, thousands rally to demand and end to corruption and more civil rights for the Moroccan people |
| 2011 | Exiles in Tibet vote for a new Prime Minister, and also for 43 members of the Tibetan parliament |
| 2010 | Nepal declares a national day of mourning in honor of Girija Prasad Koirala, the 'elder statesman of South Asia' who dies in Kathmandu at age 86 |
| 2005 | Magnitude 7 earthquake strikes west of Kyushu Island, Japan |
| 2003 | United States, Briain, Australia and Poland invade Iraq without United Nations sanction |
| 1997 | "Play On!," opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 61 performances |
| 1997 | Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive |
| 1997 | Mens Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Elvis Stojko (CAN) |
| 1996 | "Love Thy Neighbor," opens at Booth Theater New York City |
| 1996 | Erik and Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents |
| 1996 | U.K. admits humans can catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease) |
| 1995 | Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record) |
| 1995 | Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured |
| 1995 | Beatles song, "Baby It's You," with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single in more than 30 years |
| 1994 | "Cyrano - The Musical" closes at Neil Simon New York City after 137 performances |
| 1994 | "Flowering Peach" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 41 performances |
| 1994 | "No Man's Land" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 61 performances |
| 1994 | 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal wins |
| 1994 | Brett Hart wins WWF championship at Wrestlemania X |
| 1994 | El Salvador's 1st President election following 12-year-old civil war |
| 1994 | Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament |
| 1994 | Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on 1st inn to win Logan Cup |
| 1994 | Wrestlemania X at MSG NY, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna |
| 1994 | Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa |
| 1993 | Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (36.02 sec) |
| 1993 | IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England |
| 1993 | Morton Downey, Jr. weds Lori Krebs |
| 1992 | Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set |
| 1992 | Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses |
| 1991 | Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in suit against Disney |
| 1991 | Michael Jackson signs $65M 6 album deal with Sony records |
| 1991 | Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus |
| 1991 | U.S. forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland |
| 1990 | Los Angeles Lakers retires Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33 |
| 1990 | Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident |
| 1989 | Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation |
| 1989 | Richard J. Kerr replaces Robert M. Gates as deputy director of CIA |
| 1988 | David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly," premieres in New York City |
| 1988 | Laura Davies wins Circle K LPGA Tucson Golf Open |
| 1988 | Mike Tyson KOs Tony Tubbs in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1987 | FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment) |
| 1987 | NASA launches Palapa B2P |
| 1987 | Soap opera "Capitol" final episode |
| 1987 | Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit |
| 1987 | Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.36) |
| 1986 | 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (U.K. record) |
| 1986 | Jacques Chirac forms French government |
| 1985 | Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race |
| 1984 | Andy Kaufman and Fred Blassie's "My Breakfast With Blassie" premieres |
| 1984 | Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools |
| 1983 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| 1982 | 1st-class debut of Richie Richardson, Leeward Is vs. Barbados |
| 1982 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1982 | Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" goes #1 for 7 wks |
| 1982 | Reverend A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa |
| 1981 | Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron sentenced to 8 years |
| 1981 | Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr |
| 1980 | U.S. appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran |
| 1979 | Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center |
| 1978 | Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th penalty shot against Islanders |
| 1977 | Communists/socialists win French municipal elections |
| 1977 | Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century |
| 1977 | Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India |
| 1976 | Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.70) |
| 1976 | Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery |
| 1973 | Roberto Clemente elected to Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death |
| 1972 | 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche |
| 1972 | S Mansholt succeeds Malfatti as chairman of European Committee |
| 1971 | Boston Bruins win 13th straight NHL game |
| 1969 | Abebe Bikila's auto-accident, near Addis Ababa |
| 1969 | Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar |
| 1969 | U.S. president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970 |
| 1968 | Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from U.S. paper money |
| 1968 | Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign) |
| 1967 | Supremes release "The Happening" |
| 1967 | WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open |
| 1965 | 27th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Michigan 91-80 |
| 1965 | Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs. New Zealand at Delhi |
| 1964 | ESRO established, European Space Research Organization |
| 1963 | 1st "Pop Art" exhibition (New York City) |
| 1963 | Sikkim crown prince Paldan Thondup Namgyal marries Hope Cooke |
| 1962 | Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater |
| 1958 | 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line |
| 1958 | Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting |
| 1958 | Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission |
| 1957 | Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it |
| 1956 | 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends |
| 1956 | E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st secretary of Polish CP |
| 1956 | Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (U.S.S.R.) explodes |
| 1956 | Tunisia gains independence from France |
| 1956 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1956 | Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp |
| 1955 | KXTV TV channel 10 in Sacramento, California (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | "King and I" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 1246 performances |
| 1954 | 16th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: La Salle beats Bradley 92-76 |
| 1954 | 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania) |
| 1952 | 24th Academy Awards - "American in Paris," H Bogart and Vivian Leigh win |
| 1952 | Final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan |
| 1952 | U.S. senate ratifies peace treaty with Japan |
| 1951 | Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java |
| 1948 | 1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90 |
| 1948 | 20th Academy Awards - "Gentleman's Agreement," L Young, R Colman win minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC |
| 1947 | 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic |
| 1946 | Belgian government of Spaak, resigns |
| 1945 | U.S. 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar |
| 1944 | Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River New Jersey, killing 16 |
| 1944 | Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes |
| 1943 | British offensive against Mareth-line |
| 1943 | German U-384 bombed and sinks |
| 1942 | Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia |
| 1942 | General MacArthur vows, "I shall return" |
| 1942 | Major German assault on Malta |
| 1941 | Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn |
| 1940 | Paul Reynoud becomes French premier |
| 1939 | 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania |
| 1937 | Franco-offensive at Guadalajara Spain |
| 1935 | "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio |
| 1934 | Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany |
| 1934 | Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Germany |
| 1934 | Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Philadelphia A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers |
| 1933 | Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed |
| 1932 | Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR |
| 1931 | Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin |
| 1930 | Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph |
| 1924 | Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn |
| 1924 | Stanley Cup: Mont Canadiens (NHL) sweep Vanc Millionaires (PCHA) in 2 |
| 1923 | Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA |
| 1923 | Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent |
| 1922 | USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier |
| 1922 | WIP-AM in Philadelphia Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions |
| 1920 | 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (1 month) |
| 1920 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld |
| 1920 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger |
| 1916 | Allies attack Zeebrugge Belgium |
| 1914 | 1st international figure-skating tournament held in U.S., New Haven |
| 1911 | National Squash Tennis Association forms (New York City) |
| 1911 | Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634 Broadway New York City |
| 1906 | George B. Shaws "Captain Brassbound's Conversion," premieres in London |
| 1897 | 1st U.S. orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorporates in New York |
| 1897 | 1st known intercollegiate basketball game, Yale beats Penn 32-10 |
| 1897 | France signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia |
| 1896 | Marines land in Nicaragua to protect U.S. citizens |
| 1896 | Uprising in Matabeleland |
| 1890 | General Federation of Womans' Clubs founded |
| 1890 | German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck |
| 1888 | Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia" |
| 1886 | 1st AC power plant in U.S. begins commercial operation, Massachusetts |
| 1885 | John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine |
| 1885 | Yiddish theater opens in New York with Golldfaden operetta |
| 1883 | Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property |
| 1868 | Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville Kentucky of $14,000 |
| 1865 | 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville North Carolina |
| 1865 | Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives |
| 1863 | Battle of Pensacola Florida - evacuated by Federals |
| 1852 | Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston) |
| 1848 | King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez |
| 1833 | U.S. and Siam sign commercial treaty |
| 1816 | U.S. Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions |
| 1815 | Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule |
| 1814 | Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands |
| 1800 | French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, and advance to Cairo |
| 1760 | Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings |
| 1697 | Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land" |
| 1627 | France and Spain signs accord for fighting protestantism |
| 1616 | Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana |
| 1602 | United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms |
| 1598 | French king Henri IV and duke van Mercour sign treaty |
| 1569 | Duke van Alva leads "tenth penning" in Ponts the Ce |
| 1525 | Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants |
| 1345 | Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic" |
| 141 | 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
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