| 2012 | China announces its plan to phase-out the practice of taking and selling organs from executed prisoners |
| 2012 | U.S. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum wins the caucuses in the state of Louisiana |
| 2011 | Kenya opens The Africa Carbon Exchange, the first carbon exchange in Africa to exchange carbon credits |
| 2011 | The U.S. Census conducted April 1, 2010 reveals that New York city is the country's most populated city, with 8,175,133 residents |
| 2010 | Denisova hominin - a previously unknown type of ancient human, is identified by scientists through DNA analysis from a finger discovered in a cave near Siberia, Russia |
| 2008 | Bhutan holds it's first public election |
| 2002 | 74th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Whoopi Goldberg hosts, A Beautiful Mind wins Best Picture, Denzell Washington and Hallie Berry win lead acting awards |
| 1997 | 69th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, The English Patient wins Best Picture, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win lead acting awards |
| 1997 | Australian parliament overturns world's 1st and only euthanasia law |
| 1996 | 16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls wins |
| 1996 | Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual |
| 1996 | Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament |
| 1996 | Metropolitan Transportation Authority raises New York City bridge tolls to $3.50 each way |
| 1994 | "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 322 performances |
| 1994 | "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 53 performances |
| 1994 | Robert F Kennedy, Jr. divorces Emily Black |
| 1993 | Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel |
| 1992 | "Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater New York City for 245 performances |
| 1992 | Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space |
| 1992 | 1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space |
| 1991 | "Les Miserables," opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago |
| 1991 | 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane and Ghosts Can't Do It wins |
| 1991 | Barcelona Dragons beat NY/New Jersey Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game |
| 1991 | Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament |
| 1991 | Banks reopen in liberated Kuwait |
| 1991 | New York Yankees beat New York Mets, 9-3 |
| 1991 | Wrestlemania VII in LA, Hulk Hogan pins Sergeant Slaughter |
| 1990 | Indian troops leave Sri Lanka |
| 1990 | Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec) |
| 1989 | Mary Martin in "Peter Pan," 1st seen on TV since 1973 |
| 1989 | Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska |
| 1988 | "Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 61 performances |
| 1988 | Quarterback Dan Fouts retires |
| 1987 | 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross |
| 1987 | WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria |
| 1986 | 58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa," William Hurt and G Page win |
| 1986 | Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling |
| 1986 | U.S. and Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra |
| 1986 | NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status" |
| 1985 | 5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins |
| 1985 | Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins) |
| 1985 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic |
| 1985 | Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Australia, Sharjah) |
| 1984 | Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52) |
| 1984 | IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics |
| 1984 | Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51) |
| 1982 | U.S. submarine Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia |
| 1981 | "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC |
| 1981 | Bombay beat Delhi by innings and 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy |
| 1981 | Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba |
| 1980 | 42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54 |
| 1980 | ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline" |
| 1980 | Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks |
| 1979 | "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 116 performances |
| 1979 | 1st appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes |
| 1979 | Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center |
| 1979 | 10 rebounds and 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts |
| 1978 | Wings release "With a Little Luck" |
| 1976 | Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military |
| 1975 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1974 | 36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Marquette 76-64 |
| 1973 | Harley Race beats Dory Funk, Jr. in Kansas City, to become NWA champ |
| 1973 | Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title |
| 1973 | Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile |
| 1973 | San Francisco 49er President Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams |
| 1972 | Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland |
| 1970 | Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors and Sjimmie" strip |
| 1968 | Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational |
| 1967 | University of Michigan holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam |
| 1966 | Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance |
| 1965 | U.S. Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus |
| 1964 | Kennedy half-dollar issued |
| 1962 | 24th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cincinnati beats Ohio State 71-59 |
| 1962 | Benny Paret, KOed in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later |
| 1962 | Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue and Blue Boys |
| 1961 | New York Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows |
| 1960 | U.S. appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene |
| 1959 | Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact |
| 1958 | Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761) |
| 1955 | 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service |
| 1955 | Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances |
| 1953 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1952 | Great demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa |
| 1950 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman |
| 1950 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
| 1949 | 21st Academy Awards - "Hamlet," Laurence Olivier and Jane Wyman win |
| 1949 | Walter and John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win |
| 1947 | Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency |
| 1947 | John D Rockefeller, Jr. donates New York City East River site to the U.N. |
| 1945 | General Eisenhower, Montgomery and Bradley discuss advance in Germany |
| 1945 | Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports and 1300 gliders |
| 1945 | Operation Varsity: British, U.S. and Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine |
| 1945 | U.S. minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa |
| 1944 | 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape) |
| 1944 | 811 British bombers attack Berlin |
| 1944 | In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians |
| 1941 | British troops defeat British Somalia |
| 1941 | German troops occupy El Agheila Libya |
| 1941 | Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox |
| 1941 | LIU beats Ohio U 56-42 for NIT basketball championship |
| 1941 | Richard Wright and Paul Green's "Native Son," premieres in New York City |
| 1937 | Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois) |
| 1937 | National Gallery of Art established by Congress |
| 1936 | Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 minutes and 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 minutes), ends 1-0 |
| 1935 | Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network |
| 1934 | U.S. declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945 |
| 1933 | Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency |
| 1932 | 1st U.S. radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD) |
| 1930 | 1st religious services telecast in U.S. (W2XBS New York City) |
| 1930 | Planet Pluto named |
| 1930 | Ronsburgse Boys soccer team forms |
| 1927 | Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie |
| 1927 | Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian and Netherlands Wielingen Treaty |
| 1926 | The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands |
| 1925 | KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions |
| 1924 | Greece becomes a republic |
| 1922 | Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish |
| 1920 | 1st U.S. coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC) |
| 1913 | Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England |
| 1913 | Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway New York City |
| 1910 | 83 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March |
| 1906 | "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world |
| 1898 | 1st automobile sold |
| 1894 | 37 miners killed at Franklin, Washington |
| 1890 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" |
| 1887 | Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from U.S. (to Turkey) |
| 1883 | 1st telephone call between New York and Chicago |
| 1882 | German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB |
| 1882 | Dr. Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis |
| 1880 | Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut |
| 1878 | British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost |
| 1877 | University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat |
| 1868 | Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms |
| 1860 | Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY |
| 1855 | Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas |
| 1848 | State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam |
| 1837 | Canada gives blacks the right to vote |
| 1832 | Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio |
| 1828 | Philadelphia and Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized |
| 1801 | Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia |
| 1792 | Benjamin West (U.S.) becomes president of Royal Academy of London |
| 1765 | Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers |
| 1734 | Netherlands William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover |
| 1721 | Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts |
| 1664 | Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island |
| 1645 | Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beats RC emperor Ferdinand III |
| 1629 | 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia |
| 1603 | Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England |
| 1550 | France and England sign Peace of Boulogne |
| 1545 | German Parliament opens in Worms |
| 1379 | End of Gelderse war victory |
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