| 2013 | With a personal fortune of $73 billion dollars, Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim, tops the list of the 'Forbes' list of wealthiest people |
| 2013 | More than 100 Catholic cardinals meet in Rome, Italy, to begin the process of selecting the successor to Pope Benedict XVI |
| 2012 | In 2012, the People's Republic of China will increase its defense spending by 11.2 per cent |
| 2012 | Tornadoes that struck the midwestern and southern United States claimed 39 lives |
| 2011 | The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) states it could save $5.5 billion in 30 years if dollar bills are replaced with coins |
| 2011 | China reports plans to increase its 2011 defense spending by 12.7% |
| 2010 | Taiwan is hit by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake, twelve people are injured, communications and rail services are disrupted |
| 2009 | Eight people are killed, several injured, after gunmen attack a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketeers in Lahore, Pakistan |
| 2009 | An arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is issued for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur |
| 1997 | Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks |
| 1997 | Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU) |
| 1997 | President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research |
| 1997 | Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia) |
| 1995 | 1st New York City Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years |
| 1995 | Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital |
| 1995 | George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker |
| 1995 | Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec) |
| 1995 | Replacement New York Yankees beat New York Mets 2-1 |
| 1994 | 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center |
| 1994 | Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit |
| 1993 | "Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 188 performances |
| 1993 | Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion |
| 1991 | Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of 1st American Bank |
| 1991 | Iraq releases 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian POW |
| 1990 | 20th Easter Seal Telethon |
| 1990 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| 1990 | U.S. 65th manned space mission STS-36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space |
| 1989 | Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline |
| 1989 | Eastern Airlines machinists strike |
| 1989 | Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m) |
| 1986 | Border completes twin Test tons (140 and 114*) vs. New Zealand |
| 1985 | STS-51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled |
| 1985 | Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA |
| 1985 | War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai" |
| 1984 | Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational |
| 1984 | Pee Wee Reese and Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
| 1982 | 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy and D Potvin |
| 1982 | NASA launches Intelsat V |
| 1980 | 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy |
| 1980 | Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe |
| 1979 | "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 61 performances |
| 1979 | 200th episode of "All in the Family" |
| 1979 | Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
| 1979 | U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings |
| 1978 | Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue |
| 1977 | 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico |
| 1977 | Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain |
| 1977 | Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541 |
| 1976 | John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio |
| 1976 | San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth |
| 1974 | David Hares' "Knuckle," premieres in London |
| 1974 | Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier |
| 1973 | 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America |
| 1972 | Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5) |
| 1972 | Last train run between Penrith to Keswick United Kingdom |
| 1972 | Libya and U.S.S.R. signs cooperation treaty |
| 1971 | "City Command" kidnaps 4 U.S. military men at Ankara, Turkey |
| 1970 | French submarine "Eurydice" explodes |
| 1970 | Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game |
| 1970 | New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out |
| 1968 | Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1968 | Martin Luther King, Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign |
| 1968 | Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched |
| 1967 | Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler and Ford (GRB) |
| 1967 | Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova and Protopopov (U.S.S.R.) |
| 1967 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT) |
| 1967 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (U.S.) |
| 1966 | Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die |
| 1966 | John Lennon, says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus" |
| 1966 | North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by British Petroleum |
| 1965 | David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2 |
| 1964 | Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering |
| 1962 | AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation |
| 1961 | Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary-General of NATO |
| 1960 | French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 |
| 1960 | Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz |
| 1959 | U.S. Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes 2nd (U.S. 1st) artificial planet |
| 1955 | 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent |
| 1954 | J. E. Wilkins, appointed 1st Black U.S. sub-cabinet member |
| 1949 | Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister |
| 1949 | Piet Van de Pol (Netherlands) becomes world champion billiard player |
| 1949 | Security Council of United Nations recommends membership for Israel |
| 1947 | WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1945 | Finland declares war on nazi-Germany |
| 1944 | 1st U.S. bombing of Berlin |
| 1944 | Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy |
| 1943 | Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor |
| 1941 | 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague |
| 1941 | NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots |
| 1941 | Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler |
| 1936 | 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany |
| 1934 | Easter Cross on Mount Davidson (SF) dedicated |
| 1933 | Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament |
| 1933 | Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member |
| 1933 | Henderson, DeSylva and Brown's "Strike Me Pink," premieres in New York City |
| 1933 | Noordwijk soccer team forms |
| 1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugrated as 32nd president, pledges to pull U.S. out of Depression and says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." |
| 1931 | Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test |
| 1931 | West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG |
| 1930 | Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated |
| 1930 | Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman |
| 1929 | Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American Vice President |
| 1929 | Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president |
| 1928 | "Bunion Run" race from Los Angeles to New York City begins; It is won by Andy Payne |
| 1926 | De Geer government in Netherlands takes office |
| 1925 | President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations |
| 1925 | Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by U.S. |
| 1924 | "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny |
| 1923 | Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy) |
| 1921 | Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas |
| 1920 | Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece |
| 1918 | Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921) |
| 1913 | 1st U.S. law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed |
| 1913 | Department of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments |
| 1913 | Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope," premieres in Monte Carlo |
| 1913 | New York Yankees are 1st to train outside U.S. (Bermuda) |
| 1913 | Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president |
| 1911 | Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes 1st socialist congressman in U.S. |
| 1909 | President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm |
| 1909 | U.S. prohibits interstate transportation of game birds |
| 1908 | Collingwood Ohio primary school catches fire; 180 die |
| 1905 | Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga," premieres in Berlin |
| 1902 | American Automobile Association, AAA, founded in Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1901 | 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-National Intelligencer) |
| 1901 | President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president |
| 1901 | Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends |
| 1897 | William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US |
| 1895 | Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin |
| 1894 | Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed |
| 1893 | Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe |
| 1893 | Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th U.S. president (2nd term) |
| 1889 | Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president |
| 1885 | Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London |
| 1885 | Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War |
| 1883 | John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi |
| 1881 | California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation |
| 1881 | Holmes and Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet," 1st case together |
| 1881 | James A. Garfield inaugurated as 20th president |
| 1881 | South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire |
| 1880 | New York Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S. H. Horgan |
| 1877 | Tsjaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer," premieres in Moscow |
| 1876 | U.S. Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap |
| 1869 | Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president |
| 1865 | Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag" |
| 1865 | President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president |
| 1863 | Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee |
| 1863 | Territory of Idaho established |
| 1861 | Confederate States adopt "Stars and Bars" flag |
| 1861 | Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th president |
| 1861 | President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office |
| 1853 | Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands |
| 1853 | William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th U.S. Vice President |
| 1849 | U.S. had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Senator David Atchison (President pro tem) term ended March 3rd |
| 1848 | Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution |
| 1845 | James K. Polk inaugrated at 11th president |
| 1841 | Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance," premieres in London |
| 1841 | Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison |
| 1837 | City of Chicago incorporates |
| 1837 | Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president |
| 1837 | Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American |
| 1835 | HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion |
| 1830 | V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice |
| 1829 | Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president |
| 1829 | Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball |
| 1826 | 1st U.S. Railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachsetts |
| 1825 | John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president |
| 1809 | Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes |
| 1801 | Thomas Jefferson is the 1st president inaugurated in Washington D.C. |
| 1798 | Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews |
| 1797 | John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of the United States |
| 1793 | French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Netherlands |
| 1793 | Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words) |
| 1792 | Oranges introduced to Hawaii |
| 1791 | 1st Jewish member of U.S. Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office |
| 1791 | President Washington calls the U.S. Senate into its 1st special session |
| 1791 | Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies) |
| 1789 | 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps) |
| 1774 | 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel) |
| 1741 | English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena |
| 1699 | Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany |
| 1681 | King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Pennsylvania |
| 1675 | John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England |
| 1665 | English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands |
| 1629 | England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| 1621 | Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia |
| 1611 | George Abbot appointed archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1590 | Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda |
| 1570 | King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students |
| 1540 | Protestant count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife |
| 1461 | Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as king of England |
| 1152 | Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king |
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