| 2012 | In Mexico, thousands in Guanajuato, come out to greet Pope Benedict XVI at the start of his first visit to Spanish-speaking Latin America |
| 2012 | Pope Benedict XVI says Cuba needs to find ways to move away from Communism, and that he will help them find a peaceful way to make the transition |
| 2011 | In China, the yuan reaches a record level against the U.S. dollar |
| 2011 | In Tokyo, the Metropolitan Government Bureau of Waterworks reports that radioactive iodine in city tap water is two times the recommended level for infants |
| 2010 | In Washington, D.C, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tells a lobby group that 'Jerusalem is not a settlement' and Israel has a 'right' to build there |
| 2003 | 75th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Steve Martin hosts, Chicago wins Best Picture, Adrian Brody and Nicole Kidman win lead acting awards |
| 2001 | Russian Mir space station is crashed into the Pacific during a controlled re-entry |
| 1998 | 70th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, Titanic wins eleven Oscars, including Best Picture, Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt win lead acting awards |
| 1997 | "Mandy Patinkin in Concert," closes at Lyceum Theater New York City |
| 1997 | 17th Golden Raspberry Awards: Striptease wins |
| 1997 | Betsy King wins LPGA Standard Register PING |
| 1997 | Liberty Legends of Senior Golf |
| 1997 | Phil Mickelson wins Bay Hill Golf Invitiational |
| 1997 | Wrestlemania XIII in Chicago, Undertaker beats Psycho Sid for title |
| 1995 | "How To Succeed in Business..." opens at R Rodgers New York City for 548 performances |
| 1995 | Dollar equals 88.41 yen (record) |
| 1994 | Amy Fisher's lover Joey Buttafuoco is released from jail |
| 1994 | Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11:28) |
| 1994 | Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for New York governor |
| 1994 | Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months and 9 days |
| 1994 | Last day of Test cricket for Kapil Dev |
| 1994 | Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed) |
| 1994 | Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored |
| 1994 | Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field) |
| 1994 | F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in North Carolina, 120 die |
| 1993 | Belgian government of Dehaene, resigns |
| 1993 | New York Knicks and Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl |
| 1992 | Florida Marlins begin selling tickets |
| 1991 | 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee |
| 1991 | Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m) |
| 1991 | 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 and Mont beats Birmingham 20-5 |
| 1990 | Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill |
| 1989 | 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature |
| 1989 | Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 years for killing his adopted daughter |
| 1987 | Soap "Bold and Beautiful" premieres |
| 1987 | U.S. offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf |
| 1987 | West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns |
| 1986 | 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: Rambo: First Blood Part II wins |
| 1986 | Heavyweight Trevor Berbick KOs Pinklon Thomas |
| 1986 | Penny Pulz wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open |
| 1985 | Billy Joel weds supermodel Christie Brinkley |
| 1985 | Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-51-D mission |
| 1985 | Julian Lennon's 1st concert (San Antonio Texas) |
| 1985 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1984 | Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (4:20.91) |
| 1984 | Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa won by J Torvill and Chris Dean (GRB) |
| 1984 | Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Underhill and Paul Martini (CAN) |
| 1984 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (GDR) |
| 1984 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Scott Hamilton (USA) |
| 1983 | U.S. president Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars" missile defense plan (SDI) |
| 1982 | Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees |
| 1982 | Isle's Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick-4 goals |
| 1981 | Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions |
| 1980 | Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket vs. Pakistan |
| 1980 | Donna Caponi Young Pro-Am wins LPGA National Golf Tournament |
| 1980 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1980 | Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt |
| 1979 | Larry Holmes TKOs Osvaldo Ocasio in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1979 | Wings release "Goodnight Tonight" |
| 1978 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1976 | International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying) |
| 1975 | Sue Roberts wins LPGA Bing Crosby International Golf Classic |
| 1973 | After a 5 year run soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ends |
| 1973 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1973 | Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in U.S. |
| 1972 | Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars |
| 1972 | New York Yankees agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx |
| 1971 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1969 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Charlotte Golf Invitational |
| 1969 | Rally for Decency (Miami) |
| 1968 | 30th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats North Carolina 78-55 |
| 1968 | Reverend Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from DC |
| 1966 | 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic and Anglican Church |
| 1965 | Gemini 3 launched, 1st U.S. 2-man space flight (Grissom and Young) |
| 1965 | Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed |
| 1964 | UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva |
| 1963 | 25th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Loyola beats Cincinnati 60-58 (OT) |
| 1963 | Rolf Hochhuth's "Der Stellvertreter," premieres in Berlin |
| 1962 | John F. Kennedy visits SF |
| 1962 | Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket vs. WI age 21 years 77 days |
| 1962 | Wake Forest coach "Bones" McKinney becomes 2nd person to play and coach |
| 1962 | William DeWitt buys Cincinnati Reds for $4,625,000 |
| 1960 | Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit |
| 1957 | 19th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Kansas 54-53 (3 OTs) |
| 1957 | U.S. Army sells last homing pigeons |
| 1956 | 18th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: San Francisco beats Iowa 83-71 |
| 1956 | Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day) |
| 1956 | Sudan becomes independent |
| 1952 | Rangers with less than 14 minutes to go blow a 6-2 lead, losing 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks. Mosienko scores 3 times in 21 seconds |
| 1951 | Wages in France increase 11% |
| 1950 | "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 52 performances |
| 1950 | 22rd Academy Awards - "All King's Men," Crawford and De Havilland win |
| 1950 | Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greeks government |
| 1950 | U.N. World Meteorological Organization established |
| 1949 | Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in New York City |
| 1948 | John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m)) |
| 1946 | 8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats North Carolina 43-40 |
| 1945 | British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine |
| 1945 | Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 U.S. Navy ships bomb Okinawa |
| 1945 | Premier Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen |
| 1944 | Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die |
| 1944 | Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute and lives |
| 1943 | German counter attack on U.S. lines in Tunisia |
| 1942 | 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported |
| 1942 | Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean |
| 1942 | U.S. move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers |
| 1940 | 1st radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS |
| 1940 | All-India-Moslem League calls for a Moslem homeland |
| 1938 | Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St. L Cardinals minor leaguers |
| 1937 | Los Angeles Railway Co. starts using PCC streetcars |
| 1936 | Italy, Austria and Hungary sign Pact of Rome |
| 1934 | U.S. Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945 |
| 1933 | Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers |
| 1933 | Kroll Opera in Berlin opens |
| 1930 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| 1930 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
| 1929 | 1st telephone installed in White House |
| 1926 | NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Pitt Pirates, 6-4 in 2 games |
| 1925 | Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution |
| 1923 | Frank Silver and Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas" |
| 1922 | 1st airplane lands at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. |
| 1922 | KMJ-AM in Fresno California begins radio transmissions |
| 1922 | WEW-AM in Saint Louis Missouri begins radio transmissions |
| 1920 | Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms |
| 1919 | Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted |
| 1919 | Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan, Italy |
| 1919 | Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms |
| 1918 | Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River |
| 1918 | Crepy-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris, 256 killed |
| 1918 | Lithuania proclaims independence |
| 1918 | Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp) |
| 1917 | Tornadoes kills 211 over 4 days in Midwest U.S. |
| 1915 | Zion Mule Corp forms |
| 1912 | Dixie Cup invented |
| 1910 | 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st U.S. auto speedway) |
| 1903 | Wright brothers obtain airplane patent |
| 1901 | Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast |
| 1896 | Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Chenier," premieres in Milan |
| 1889 | President Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization |
| 1881 | Boers and Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war |
| 1881 | Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die |
| 1880 | Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin) |
| 1873 | Slavery abolished in Puerto Rico |
| 1868 | University of California founded (Oakland California) |
| 1867 | Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto |
| 1865 | General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro North Carolina |
| 1864 | Encounter at Camden AR |
| 1862 | Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign |
| 1861 | London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr. Train of New York, begins operating |
| 1858 | Streetcar patented (E A Gardner of Philadelphia) |
| 1857 | Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, New York City) |
| 1849 | Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic) |
| 1840 | Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype) |
| 1839 | 1st known use of term OK (Boston) |
| 1839 | 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post) |
| 1836 | Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale |
| 1835 | Charles Darwin reaches Los Arenales, in the Andes |
| 1832 | British Parliament passes reform bill |
| 1808 | Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain |
| 1806 | Lewis and Clark reach Pacific coast |
| 1801 | Murder attempt on Czar Paul I |
| 1794 | 1st U.S. patent (Joseph G Pierson for a riveting machine) |
| 1794 | Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine |
| 1794 | Lieutenant-General Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland |
| 1775 | Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" |
| 1752 | Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later |
| 1743 | English premiere of Handel's "Messiah" |
| 1743 | George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London |
| 1708 | English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth |
| 1657 | France and England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk |
| 1630 | French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont |
| 1593 | English Congressionalist Henry Barrow accused of slander |
| 1579 | Friesland joins Union of Utrecht |
| 1568 | Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike |
| 1490 | 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published |
| 1490 | Maimonides Mishneh Torah published |
| 1153 | Treaty of Konstanz between Frederik I "Barbarossa" and Pope Eugene III |
| 1066 | 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
| 1026 | Koenraad II crowns himself king of Italy |
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