| 2012 | Progress is made on the U.K. and European Union's tallest building when the spire of the Shard London Bridge is put in place |
| 2012 | In the U.S., the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists merge to create the SAG-AFTRA union |
| 2011 | Amid unrest in the Mideast, activists claim China has launched the largest crackdown on dissenters in recent years |
| 2011 | At a meeting in Nanjing, China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the main problem in the world's monetary system is countries that inhibit the free flow of the value of their currency |
| 2010 | Tear gas is fired on more than 200 Palestinians and their allies protesting outside the gates of Ofer Prison over the recent detainment of colleagues |
| 2002 | 21st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at San Antonio |
| 1998 | Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1st game they host Detroit Tigers |
| 1997 | "Daytime to Remember" a series showing old soaps premieres on ABC-TV |
| 1997 | 59th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Ariz beats Kentucky 84-79 (OT) |
| 1997 | Pioneer 10, ends its mission |
| 1996 | "Getting Away With Murder" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 17 performances |
| 1996 | "Midsummer Night's Dream" opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 66 performances |
| 1996 | 15th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Georgia 83-65 |
| 1996 | 1st Opening Day in history in March takes place in Seattle |
| 1996 | 25th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
| 1996 | Karnataka defeat Tamil Nadu on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy |
| 1996 | Radio Canada International's final shortwave broadcast |
| 1996 | Space Shuttle STS-76 (Atlantis 16), lands |
| 1996 | Wrestlemania XII - Shawn Michaels beats Brett Hart for WWF title |
| 1995 | 1st game at Coors Stadium Colorado (replacement Rockies beat Yankees 4-1) |
| 1995 | Bombay beat Punjab on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy |
| 1995 | Federal judge orders injunction to end baseball strike |
| 1994 | James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking ex-girl Tina Sinatra |
| 1994 | Walkway from Cleveland's Tower City to Jacobs Field officially opens |
| 1992 | Delhi beat Tamil Nadu on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy |
| 1992 | U.N. Security Council voted to ban flights and arms sales to Libya |
| 1991 | 10th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Tennessee beats Virginia 70-67 |
| 1991 | 20th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott |
| 1991 | Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years |
| 1991 | Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix Az |
| 1991 | Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union |
| 1991 | Musical "Will Rogers Follies," premieres in New York City |
| 1991 | Soviet Republic of Georgia endorsed independence, Warsaw Pact dissolves |
| 1991 | St. Louis Blues Brett Hull scores his 86th goal |
| 1990 | "Carol and Company" starring Carol Burnette premieres on NBC-TV |
| 1990 | Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (57:18.4) |
| 1990 | Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws |
| 1989 | Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle |
| 1988 | Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Gent Belgium |
| 1988 | New York Islanders celebrate Denis Potvin night |
| 1988 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved" |
| 1987 | 49th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse 74-73 |
| 1986 | 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes |
| 1986 | 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke 72-69 |
| 1986 | English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead |
| 1985 | 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000 |
| 1985 | 4th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Old Dominion beats Georgia 70-65 |
| 1985 | El Salvador's President Duartes Christian-Democrats win election |
| 1985 | Wrestlemania I at MSG NY, Hogan and Mr. T beat Piper and Orndorf |
| 1984 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1983 | Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people |
| 1983 | Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother," premieres in New York City |
| 1982 | Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil |
| 1982 | Rock group Doobie Brothers split up |
| 1981 | 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins |
| 1981 | 53rd Academy Awards - "Ordinary People," R De Niro and Sissy Spacek win |
| 1980 | Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1980 | Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1980 | President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry |
| 1978 | Red Rum wins 3rd consecutive Grand National and retires |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite |
| 1978 | Wings release "London Town" album |
| 1977 | Michael Cristofer's "Shadow Box," premieres in New York City |
| 1976 | Cleveland Cavaliers clinch their 1st ever NBA playoff bearth |
| 1976 | New Jersey Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator |
| 1975 | 37th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Kentucky 92-55 |
| 1975 | John Wooden's final game, UCLA, wins 10th NCAA championship in 12 yrs |
| 1973 | Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs. Islanders, on 60 shots |
| 1973 | Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12 round split decision |
| 1972 | Official Beatles Fan Club, closes down |
| 1971 | South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion |
| 1971 | William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre |
| 1970 | Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee |
| 1969 | George Harrison and Patti Boyd are fined 250 pounds each for illegal drugs |
| 1968 | Lyndon Baines Johnson announces he will not seek re-election |
| 1968 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Palm Beach County Golf Open |
| 1968 | Seattle's AL club is named Pilots |
| 1967 | 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London) |
| 1966 | 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York City |
| 1966 | Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
| 1966 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter |
| 1965 | U.S. ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam |
| 1964 | President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military |
| 1963 | Los Angeles ends streetcar service after 90 years |
| 1961 | Aklilou Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia |
| 1960 | Gore Vidal's "Best Man," premieres in New York City |
| 1959 | Dalai Lama fled China and was granted political asylum in India |
| 1958 | U.S. Navy forms atomic sub division |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. suspends nuclear weapons tests, and urges U.S. and Britain to do same |
| 1955 | Collie Smith scores 104 on cricket debut WI vs. Australia, Kingston |
| 1955 | U.S. Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes Chase National (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan |
| 1954 | U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, established |
| 1954 | U.S.S.R. offers to join NATO |
| 1953 | Department of Health, Education and Welfare established |
| 1953 | U.N. Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjold secretary-general |
| 1951 | U.S. tanks exceed 38 degrees of latitude in Korea |
| 1949 | Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province |
| 1948 | Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe |
| 1946 | Belgian government of Acker, forms |
| 1945 | 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine |
| 1945 | Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen |
| 1945 | Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie," premieres in New York City |
| 1945 | U.S. artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa |
| 1944 | Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars |
| 1943 | U.S. errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326 |
| 1941 | Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa |
| 1941 | Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San Francisco |
| 1940 | Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956) |
| 1939 | Britain and France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany |
| 1935 | Fusahige Suzuki runs world record marathon (2:27:49) |
| 1934 | Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia) |
| 1933 | 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Georgia) |
| 1933 | Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps |
| 1933 | German Republic gives power to Hitler |
| 1932 | 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall |
| 1932 | Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine |
| 1926 | German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands |
| 1925 | WOWO-AM, Ft. Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts) |
| 1924 | Croydon Airport: 1st British mig aircraft Imperial established |
| 1924 | London public transport strike ends |
| 1923 | 1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hours |
| 1923 | French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die |
| 1923 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) sweep Edm Eskimos (WCHL) in 2 games |
| 1922 | KFI-AM in Los Angeles California begins radio transmissions |
| 1922 | Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam |
| 1921 | Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity |
| 1921 | British coal miners goes on strike |
| 1920 | British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law |
| 1919 | Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann |
| 1918 | 1st daylight savings time in U.S. goes into effect |
| 1917 | U.S. purchases Danish West Indies for $25M and renames them Virgin Islands |
| 1916 | Dutch government ends all miltary engagements |
| 1909 | Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years |
| 1909 | Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his 1st time |
| 1907 | Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt |
| 1906 | GB Shaws German version of "Caesar and Cleopatra," premieres in Berlin" |
| 1905 | German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger |
| 1903 | Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand) |
| 1900 | Brigadier General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands |
| 1896 | Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening, also known as the zipper |
| 1889 | 300m Eiffel Tower officially opens, commemorates French Revolution |
| 1885 | Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate |
| 1883 | 1st performance of Cesar Franck's "Le Chasseur Maudit" |
| 1883 | Utrecht begins water pipe system |
| 1880 | 1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, Indiana) |
| 1878 | Jack Johnson is 1st black to hold a heavyweight boxing title |
| 1877 | British high director/governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown |
| 1877 | Test Cricket debut of Fred "Demon" Spofforth, Australia vs. England MCG |
| 1870 | 1st black to vote in U.S. (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy New Jersey) |
| 1868 | Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China |
| 1865 | Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H) |
| 1865 | General Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg |
| 1863 | Battle of Grand Gulf MS and Dinwiddie Court House VA |
| 1862 | Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River |
| 1861 | Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans |
| 1854 | Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to U.S. |
| 1850 | U.S. population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%)) |
| 1849 | Col John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of SF |
| 1841 | 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B |
| 1831 | Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends |
| 1831 | Quebec and Montreal incorporated |
| 1814 | Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris |
| 1808 | French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names |
| 1796 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont," premieres in Weimar |
| 1745 | Jews are expelled from Prague |
| 1683 | Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey |
| 1667 | France/England signs anti-Dutch military accord |
| 1657 | English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown |
| 1651 | Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru |
| 1644 | Pope Urbanus VIII and duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara |
| 1547 | Henry II succeeds Francois I as king of France |
| 1521 | Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St. Lazarus |
| 1504 | France and Spain signs ceasefire |
| 1492 | Queen Isabella of Castilia and Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews |
| 1084 | Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV |
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