On This Day
Historical Events on March 19
- 1227 Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX
- 1279 A Mongolian victory at the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China
- 1452 Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Nicholas V in Rome
- 1524 Giovanni de Varrazano, a Florentine explorer in the service of King Francis I of France, lands around area of Carolinas
- 1540 Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic"
- 1563 Peace of Amboise: Rights for Huguenots
- 1571 Spanish troops occupy Manila
- 1628 Massachusetts Bay Colony granted land by England
- 1644 200 members of Peking imperial family and court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor
- 1682 Assembly of the French clergy issues a declaration stating, among other things, that the power of the King is not subject to papal authority
- 1687 Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men
- 1748 Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize North American colonies
- 1775 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)
- 1775 Poland & Prussia sign trade agreement
- 1799 Joseph Haydn's "Die Schöpfung" premieres in Vienna
- 1803 Friedrich Schiller's "Die Braut von Messina" premieres in Weimar
- 1812 The first Spanish constitution is enacted, one of the earliest constitutions ever promulgated
- 1822 Boston, Massachusetts incorporated as a city
- 1831 1st US bank robbery, the City Bank in New York robbed of $245,000
- 1859 Opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris
- 1861 The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand
- 1863 Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, and medicines then valued over $1,000,000. Wreck discovered exactly 102 years later by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.
- 1864 Opera "Mireille" premieres in Paris
- 1865 Battle of Bentonville, Confederates retreat from Greenville North Carolina
- 1866 Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die
- 1870 The opera "Guarany" premieres in Milan
- 1877 Australia beat England by 45 runs in very first Test match
- 1880 42nd Grand National: Tommy Beasley aboard Irish 8/1 chance Empress wins by 2 lengths from defending champion The Liberator
- 1883 Jan Matzeliger invents first machine to manufacture entire shoes
- 1907 18.8 cm precipitation at Lewer's Ranch, Nevada (state record)
- 1910 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Adelaide: Rodney Heath wins his 2nd and last Australasian title; beats fellow Australian Horace Rice 6-4, 6-3, 6-2
- 1911 1st International Women's Day sees over 1 million men and women attend rallies in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. Issues discussed included women's right to vote and to hold public office, the right to work, to vocational training and an end to discrimination on the job.
- 1914 Stanley Cup, Arena Gardens, Toronto ON: Toronto HC (NHA) defeat Victoria Aristocrats (PCHA), 2-1 for a 3-0 series sweep; final series of the "challenge" era
- 1915 Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)
- 1915 VI Summer (Modern) Olympic Games: IOC President Pierre de Coubertin writes to Associated Press indicating 1916 Berlin Games won't take place because of WWI
- 1917 US Supreme Court uphoelds 8-hr work day for railroad employees
- 1917 Victor Herbert and Harry Blossom's operetta "Eileen", loosely based on a novel by Herbert's grandfather, premieres at Shubert Theater, New York City
- 1918 S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane
- 1918 US Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time
- 1921 Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed, two mangled and three wounded
- 1927 Bloody battles between communists & Nazis in Berlin
- 1928 "Amos & Andy" debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago)
- 1930 Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
- 1931 Nevada legalizes gambling
- 1932 England beats Scotland, 16-3 at Twickenham, London to force a 3-way share with Wales and Ireland of renewed Home Nations Rugby Championship; France expelled, alleged professionalism
- 1932 The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened in Sydney, Australia
- 1937 96th Grand National: With King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in attendance, aptly-named Royal Mail ridden by jockey Evan Williams wins at odds of 100/6; estimated crowd, 300,000
- 1937 Astronomer Fritz Zwicky publishes his research on stellar explosion in which he coins the term "supernova" and hypothesizes that they were the origin of cosmic rays
- 1938 NHL Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Americans combine to score 8 goals in just under 5 minutes; Toronto wins game 8-5
- 1938 Scotland beats England, 21-16 at Twickenham, London to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup
- 1940 Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt
- 1941 Jimmy Dorsey & orchestra record "Green Eyes" & "Maria Elena"
- 1942 Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago
- 1943 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia
- 1943 Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard
- 1945 British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine)
- 1945 US Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure
- 1946 French Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique & Reunion become overseas "departments" of France
- 1946 Nikolai Mikhailovich Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
- 1947 Belgian government of Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium Socialist Party) forms
- 1951 Herman Wouk's novel "The Caine Mutiny" published (Pulitzer Prize 1952)
- 1954 1st color telecast of a prize fight, Giardello vs Troy in Madison Square Garden, NYC
- 1954 1st rocket-driven sled on rails tested in Alamogordo, NM
- 1954 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
- 1954 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
- 1958 Gary Sobers completes a century in each innings for WI vs. Pakistan
- 1960 "Redhead" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances
- 1962 "All American" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
- 1962 Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal
- 1965 Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies
- 1965 Rembrandt's "Titus" sells for then record 7,770,000 guilders
- 1965 Stoica becomes president & Ceausescu party leader of Romania
- 1965 The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000, said to have been most powerful Confederate cruiser, discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction.
- 1966 "Poussé Cafe" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 3 performances
- 1966 28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Kentucky, 72-65; Miners first title in first title game
- 1966 Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins
- 1967 French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France
- 1968 Howard University, Washington, D.C., students seize administration building
- 1969 British invade Anguilla
- 1969 Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention
- 1969 The 385 metre tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build- up.
- 1970 W German chancellor & E German premier meet
- 1971 Philadelphia 76ers outscore Cincinnati Royals 90-80 in 2nd half enroute to a 147-127 victory
- 1972 "To Live Another Summer" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 173 performances
- 1972 1st AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48 in Normal
- 1972 India & Bangladesh sign friendship treaty
- 1972 LA Lakers beat Golden State Warriors, 162-99, by then record 63 pts
- 1973 Dean tells Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency"
- 1974 Jefferson Starship begins their 1st tour
- 1975 "Dr Jazz" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5 performances
- 1975 Pennsylvania is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports
- 1977 France beats Ireland, 15-6 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to clinch its 6th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 2nd Grand Slam
- 1977 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- 1977 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.33)
- 1978 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb
- 1979 US House of Representatives begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN
- 1981 2 workers killed in space shuttle Columbia accident
- 1981 Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4
- 1982 Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the U.K.
- 1982 National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27
- 1983 France (16-9 v Wales) and Ireland (25-15 v England) win final round matches to finish level and share the Five Nations Rugby Championship; no tie-break procedure exists before 1993
- 1984 John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop of New York
- 1984 KSD-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA
- 1984 Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River
- 1984 STS 41-C vehicle moves to launch pad
- 1985 "Spin Magazine" begins publishing
- 1985 NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket
- 1985 US Senate votes 55-45 to authorize production of the MX "Peacekeeper" intercontinental ballistic missile
- 1987 Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company
- 1987 Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad & Tobago
- 1988 France edges Wales, 10-9 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with the Welsh with 3-1 records
- 1988 Two British Army corporals are attacked during a funeral procession, beaten and shot dead by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, North Ireland
- 1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15:25.25)
- 1989 Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
- 1989 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USSR)
- 1989 Ice Pairs World Championship at Paris won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
- 1989 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Tom Kite wins the title in gusty conditions, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Chip Beck
- 1989 Wales beats England, 12-9 at Cardiff Arms Park to allow France to claim it's 9th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship
- 1989 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Paris won by Midori Ito (Japan)
- 1990 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa)
- 1991 Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses
- 1992 "Master Builder" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
- 1992 Britain's Prince Andrew & Sarah, Duchess of York, announce separation
- 1993 Ice Dance Championship in Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (RUS)
- 1993 Ice Pairs Championship in Prague won by I Brasseur & L Eisler (CAN)
- 1993 US Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire
- 1994 2,500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde, Netherlands
- 1994 England beats Wales, 15-8 at Twickenham, London but the Welsh take the Five Nations Rugby Championship as title decided by using points difference for the first time
- 1994 Largest omelette (1,383sq ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan
- 1994 NJ Devils club record 41st win of the season
- 1995 "Translations" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances
- 1995 "Uncle Vanya" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances
- 1995 Arizona outside of Phoenix begins using new telephone area code 520
- 1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)
- 1995 Finnish Social Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
- 1995 NBA NY Knicks beat NY Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
- 1995 Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3:54.08)
- 1997 Ice Pairs won by Mandy Woetzel & Ingo Steuer (GER)
- 1997 Major League Baseball announces 5 year/$50M deal with Pepsi
- 1997 US Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
2001 16th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Aerosmith; Solomon Burke; The Flamingos; Michael Jackson; Queen; Paul Simon; Steely Dan; Ritchie Valens; James Burton; Johnnie Johnson; and Chris Blackwell
- 2001 The Bank of Japan issued a monetary policy known as quantitative easing, which stimulated the Japanese economy after the burst of the dot-com bubble.
- 2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities
Invasion of Iraq
2003 Airstrikes by an American and British-led coalition signal the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion
- 2004 A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in the 1950s is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the crew are left in place, pending further investigations.
- 2004 A truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
- 2004 Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
- 2005 Wales beats Ireland, 32-20 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to win the Six Nations Rugby Championship and become the 1st team to complete a Grand Slam playing more games away than at home
- 2008 GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed
- 2011 Despite a final round 24-8 defeat to Ireland at the new Aviva Stadium in Dublin, England wins the Six Nations Rugby Championship courtesy of their opening 4 straight victories
- 2012 Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become the second best-selling hamburger chain
- 2013 16 people are killed by mudslides in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 141 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
- 1627 France & Spain sign accord for fighting protestantism
Appointment of Interest
1664 Scientist Robert Hooke is appointed Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London
- 1697 Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land"
- 1703 Akō incident: 46 of the 47 surviving Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death in Edo
- 1739 Iranian ruler Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne
- 1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
- 1774 The British parliament passes first of the Intolerable Acts: the Boston Port Act, which closed Boston harbor until colonists would pay for damages following the Boston Tea Party
- 1816 US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
- 1833 US & Siam sign commercial treaty
- 1854 Anti-slavery activists within the US Whig political party opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Act form new Republican Party; notable politicians who switched allegiance include Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Benjamin Harrison
- 1854 Boston Public Library opens in Boston, Massachusetts as the first large free municipal library in the US [1]
- 1861 An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina
- 1865 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina
- 1865 Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives
Event of Interest
1868 Jesse James Gang robs a bank in Russellville, Kentucky, of $14,000
- 1883 Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property
- 1885 Jan Ernst Matzeliger received patent number 274,207 for his lasting machine which creates wood or stone molds of customers' feet
- 1885 Yiddish theater opens in NY with Goldfaden operetta
- 1886 1st AC power plant in US begins commercial operation in Massachusetts
- 1888 The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta staged in Moscow, Russia.
- 1890 General Federation of Women's Clubs founded in the United States
- 1891 53rd Grand National: Irish jockey, trainer Harry Beasley wins aboard 4/1 Come Away
- 1892 54th Grand National: Capt. Roddy Owen wins aboard 20/1 chance Father O'Flynn
- 1896 Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens
- 1896 Uprising in Matabeleland
- 1897 1st US orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorporates in NY
Treaty of Interest
1897 France signs treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
- 1900 US Secretary of State John Hay announces that all nations to whom he sent notes calling for an 'open door' policy in China have essentially accepted his stand
- 1902 France and Russia issue a joint declaration that approves the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, but stipulates that they have the right to protect interests in China and Korea
Meeting of Interest
1917 After the sinking of 3 more American merchant ships, US President Woodrow Wilson meets with cabinet, who agree that war is inevitable
- 1920 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (took 1½ months)
- 1920 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Adelaide: Pat O'Hara Wood beats fellow Australian Ronald Thomas 6-3, 4-6, 6-8, 6-1, 6-3
- 1920 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld
- 1921 Upper Silesia votes for amalgamation with Germany in a plebiscite that is 63% in favor
- 1922 USS Langley is commissioned, US Navy's 1st aircraft carrier
- 1922 WIP-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
- 1923 Bavarian minister of interior refuses to forbid Nazi Sturm Abteilung
- 1923 Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent
- 1924 Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn
Event of Interest
1930 American fast food restaurant chain "KFC" [Kentucky Fried Chicken] is founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in North Corbin, Kentucky
Sports History
1934 American all-round female super athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias pitches a hitless inning for Philadelphia A's in their exhibition pre-season baseball game against Brooklyn Dodgers
- 1934 Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany
- 1937 England beats Scotland, 6-3 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to clinch the Home Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown
Battle of Interest
1937 Franco offensive at Guadalajara, Spain
- 1942 Major German assault on Malta
- 1943 German U-384 bombed & sinks
- 1944 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois department store
- 1944 Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16
- 1945 US 70th Infantry Division captures Saarbrucken, immediately prior the invasion of Germany by the western Allies
- 1947 180 tonne blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic
- 1948 102nd Grand National: 50/1 chance Sheila's Cottage first mare to win the GN for 46 years; ridden by Irish jockey Arthur Thompson
- 1948 1st live televised symphony performances: Eugene Ormandy leads Philadelphia Orchestra on CBS, followed 90 minutes later by Arturo Toscanini leading the NBC Orchestra on NBC
Golf Tournament
1949 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Amateur Peggy Kirk wins her only major title by 2 strokes from Patty Berg and Dorothy Kirby
- 1951 Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded
- 1951 Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java
- 1952 Final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan by US Senate
- 1954 "King & I" closes at St James Theater NYC after 1246 performances
- 1954 16th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: La Salle beats Bradley, 92-76; Explorers' small forward Tom Gola is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
- 1954 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania)
- 1955 KXTV TV channel 10 in Sacramento, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1956 Edward Ochab succeeds Bolesław Bierut as 1st secretary of the Polish Communist Party
- 1956 Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) erupts
- 1956 Tunisia gains independence from France when the Protocol agreement signed between the two countries
- 1956 Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp
- 1956 USSR performs nuclear test
- 1957 Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it
- 1958 50 inches of snow falls across the Mason–Dixon line
- 1958 Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting
- 1958 Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission
- 1962 Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater
- 1963 1st "Pop Art" exhibition (NYC)
- 1964 ESRO established, European Space Research Organization
- 1965 10th Eurovision Song Contest: France Gall of Luxembourg wins singing "Poupee de cire, poupee de son" written by Serge Gainsbourg in Naples
- 1965 27th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Michigan, 91-80; Bruins' back-to-back National titles; Gail Goodrich 42 points
Historic Publication
1965 Civil and Women's Rights Activist Dorothy Height has her first column published in the weekly African-American newspaper called the "New York Amsterdam News"
- 1965 Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 v NZ at Delhi
- 1965 Wales misses out on a 4th Grand Slam after losing to France, 22-13 at Stade Colombes, Paris despite winning the Five Nations Rugby Championship
- 1967 WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1968 Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign)
Sports History
1969 Ethiopian double Olympic marathon gold medallist Abebe Bikila is paralysed in an auto-accident near Addis Ababa; regained upper-body mobility, but never walked again
- 1971 Boston Bruins win 13th straight NHL game
Event of Interest
1971 Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark resigns in protest at what he views as a limited security response by the British government
- 1972 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche
- 1972 Donegall Street bombing: the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonate its first car bomb on Donegall Street in Belfast; four civilians, two RUC officers and a UDR soldier killed while 148 people were wounded
- 1972 S Mansholt succeeds Malfatti as chairman of European Committee
- 1973 NBC TV premiere of pilot episode of "Police Story", based on Los Angeles Police Dept. Joseph Wambaugh's writings
Hall of Fame
1973 Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder Roberto Clemente elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death in a plane crash
- 1974 "The Super Cops" directed by Gordon Parks premieres in NYC, New York
Historic Publication
1976 American publishing heiress Patty Hearst convicted of armed robbery for her part in a 1974 California heist
- 1976 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.70)
- 1977 Communists and socialists win French municipal elections
- 1977 PGA Tournament Players Championship, Sawgrass CC: Mark Hayes wins in windy conditions, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Mike McCullough
- 1978 Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th penalty shot against Islanders
- 1980 The Mi Amigo ship containing England's pirate radio Caroline sinks
- 1980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran
- 1981 Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron sentenced to 8 years
- 1981 Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Dr
- 1982 1st-class debut of Richie Richardson, Leeward Is v Barbados
- 1982 France beats Ireland, 22-9 at the Parc des Princes, Paris but the Irish take the Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-1 record and also their 5th Triple Crown
- 1982 France performs nuclear test
- 1982 Joan Jett & Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" goes #1 for 7 weeks
- 1982 Rev Andries Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa
Sports History
1983 In a clash of tennis legends, Martina Navratilova outclasses Chris Evert Lloyd 6-2, 6-0 to win her first of 5 straight WTA Tour Championships at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- 1984 Andy Kaufman and Fred Blassie's film "My Breakfast With Blassie" premieres
- 1984 Nigerian Major-General Babatunde Idiagbon launches a campaign on ‘National Consciousness and Enlightenment’
- 1984 US Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools
- 1985 Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race
- 1986 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record)
- 1986 Jacques Chirac forms French government
- 1986 New York City passes its first lesbian and gay rights legislation
- 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
- 1988 David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly," premieres in NYC
Boxing Title Fight
1988 Defending champion Mike Tyson beats Tony Tubbs by TKO in round 2 at the Tokyo Dome, Tokyo for the undisputed world heavyweight boxing title
- 1988 Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
- 1989 Richard J Kerr replaces Robert M Gates as deputy director of CIA
Music History
1990 Singer Gloria Estefan fractures her spine when a truck hits her tour bus near Scranton, Pennsylvania
- 1991 Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus
- 1991 US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland
- 1992 Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set
- 1993 France beats Wales, 26-10 at Parc des Princes, Paris for it's 10th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship
- 1993 IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington, England
- 1994 "Cyrano - The Musical" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 performances
- 1994 "Flowering Peach" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 41 performances
- 1994 "No Man's Land" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
- 1994 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Indecent Proposal" wins
- 1994 El Salvador's 1st presidential election following 12-year-old civil war
- 1994 Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on 1st inning to win Logan Cup
- 1994 WrestleMania X, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Bret Hart beats Yokozuna to win WWF Championship
- 1994 Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa
Music Single
1995 Beatles release single, a cover of Shirelles song, "Baby It's You" (written by Burt Bacharach & Mack David), with late John Lennon as lead singer; 1st Fab Four single in nearly 10 years
- 1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4083.68
- 1995 Members of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo release sarin gas on three lines of the Tokyo subway, killing 13 people and injuring over 1,000
- 1996 "Love Thy Neighbor" opens at Booth Theater NYC
- 1996 Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents
- 1996 UK admits humans can catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease)
Theater Premiere
1997 Cheryl L. West and Shelden Epp's musical "Play On!", an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" set in 1940s Harlem, featuring music of Duke Ellington, opens at Brooks Atkinson Theatre, NYC; runs for 61 performances
- 1997 Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive
- 1997 World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Elvis Stojko of Canada
- 1999 19th Golden Raspberry Awards: An Alan Smithee Film "Burn Hollywood Burn" wins
- 1999 Legoland, California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California
- 2000 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff's deputy dead
- 2001 Petrobras 36 Oil Platform, the world's largest oil rig, sinks with 400,000 US gallons of fuel and crude oil aboard, after suffering three explosions on March 15
Event of Interest
2004 Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada, becoming the party's first leader.
Event of Interest
2006 Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby.
- 2010 56th National Film Awards (India): "Antaheen" wins the Golden Lotus
- 2010 France edges England, 12-10 at Stade de France, Saint Denis to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship; France's 17th title
- 2012 50 people are killed and 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq
- 2012 Disney movie John Carter records one of the largest losses in cinema history with a $200 million dollar write down
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- 630 Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem
- 717 Battle of Vincy fought in the Cambrai during Frankish Civil War; Charles Martel's forces defeat those of King Chilperic II and his mayor Ragenfrid
- 1188 Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku
James I Addresses Parliament
1610 King James I of England and VI of Scotland addresses English House of Commons
- 1681 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London
- 1788 Fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana
Event of Interest
1788 Olaudah Equiano (aka Gustavus Vassa), a freed slave, petitions King George III and Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
- 1791 Captain Hopley Yeaton becomes 1st commissioned officer in the Revenue Marine, later the Revenue Cutter Service, the forerunner of the modern US Coast Guard
- 1804 Napoleonic Code adopted in France, stresses clearly written and accessible law
- 1821 First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
- 1824 Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
Event of Interest
1860 English novelist George Eliot finishes her novel "The Mill on the Floss" in Wandsworth, London
- 1860 US extradition treaty with Sweden
- 1863 Naval Engagement at Havana, Cuba: USS Henrick Hudson vs Confederate blokcade runner Wild Pigeon
- 1864 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
- 1865 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
- 1866 US Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
- 1868 1st US professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in NYC
- 1871 33rd Grand National: Irish 1868 winner The Lamb claims second GN at 11/2; ridden by Tommy Pickernell
- 1872 34th Grand National: John Page wins his second GN aboard 20/1 shot Casse Tete
- 1885 2nd French government of Ferry resigns
- 1888 Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender" premieres in London
- 1890 Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law
- 1899 British & French accord over West Africa
- 1902 64th Grand National: David Read aboard 20/1 chance Shannon Lass wins by 3 lengths from Matthew
- 1907 US sends troops to Honduras to halt the Nicaraguan army takeover
- 1909 Germany sends Russia a diplomatic notes requesting recognition of the Austrian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and cessation of support to Serbia in the controversy
- 1909 Moran & MacFarland (US) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin)
- 1913 -26] Flood in Ohio, kills 400
- 1914 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld
- 1914 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Norman M Scott
- 1916 JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
- 1917 Loretta Walsh becomes US Navy's 1st female Petty Officer
- 1918 World War I: Germany launches Somme offensive
- 1921 Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St NYC
- 1922 KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
- 1923 US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition
- 1924 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC)
- 1924 Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US
- 1925 Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
- 1925 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijri calendar
- 1925 Tennessee governor Austin Peay passes the "Butler Act," making Tennessee the 1st state to outlaw teaching the theory of evolution (repealed 1967)
- 1927 Guomindang Army conquers Shanghai as British marines flee
- 1931 KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
- 1931 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
- 1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
- 1942 Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
- 1943 Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
Event of Interest
1944 US General Eisenhower postpones invasion of the south of France until after Normandy
- 1945 1st Japanese kamikaze "flying bombs" (MXY-7 Ohka) attack Okinawa
- 1945 During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
- 1945 Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police
- 1946 Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933
- 1946 UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)
- 1947 Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, NZ v England at Christchurch
- 1947 U.S. President Harry Truman signs executive order 9835 requiring "complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States" of Federal employees
Event of Interest
1947 US President Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States
- 1948 "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
Golf Tournament
1948 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg wins her 4th Titleholders title by 1 stroke ahead of Babe Zaharias and Peggy Kirk
Music Concert
1952 20,000 attempt to attend the 1st rock & roll concert ever when Alan Freed presents "The Moondog Coronation Ball" at old 12.000 seat Cleveland Arena; performers include: Paul Williams and the Hucklebuckers; Tiny Grimes and the Rocking Highlanders; The Dominoes; and Varetta Dillard
- 1953 England beats Scotland, 26-8 at Twickenham, London to clinch their 14th Five Nations Rugby Championship
- 1953 NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse)
- 1954 KFBB TV channel 5 in Great Falls, MT (ABC/CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1955 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus to join Greece
- 1955 Brooklyn Bulletin ask Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums"
- 1956 "The Rose Tattoo" wins 3 Academy awards, including Anna Manini for Best Actress and Cinematography (Black & White)
Sports History
1959 21st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: California beats West Virginia, 71-70; WV future Hall of Fame point guard Jerry West is named MOP
- 1960 Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC
- 1961 Art Modell purchases Cleveland Browns for then record sum ($3,925,000)
- 1961 The Beatles' first appearance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool
- 1962 Dutch RC bishop Beckers declares himself in favor of birth control
- 1962 Philadelphia Phillies retire pitcher Robin Roberts' # 36
- 1962 Yogi the bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds by the US military testing ejection seats
- 1963 David Hendon & Douglas Cross' musical premieres in London
- 1964 118th Grand National: Willie Robinson aboard American-owned 12-year-old Team Spirit wins at odds of 18/1
- 1964 26th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Duke, 98-83; Bruins first title in first title game; undefeated season (30-0)
- 1964 9th Eurovision Song Contest: Gigliola Cinquetti for Italy wins singing "Non ho l'eta" in Copenhagen
- 1964 Beatles' single "She Loves You" goes #1 in the US & stays #1 for 2 weeks
- 1964 Wales draws 11-11 with France in Cardiff, whilst Scotland beats England, 15-6 at Murrayfield to leave the Five Nations Rugby Championship shared by Wales and Scotland on 6 competition points
Event of Interest
1965 Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
- 1965 US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
- 1966 American medical drama series "Ben Casey", starring Vince Edwards and Sam Jaffe, ends a five season run on ABC-TV
- 1966 US Supreme Court reverses Massachusetts ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
- 1968 "Royals" chosen as the name of new KC AL franchise
- 1968 Hill, Hawkins & Coghill's musical premieres in London
- 1968 Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases
- 1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1970 15th Eurovision Song Contest: Dana for Ireland wins singing "All Kinds of Everything" in Amsterdam
- 1970 1st San Diego Comic-Con International opens at U.S. Grant Hotel
- 1970 32nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Jacksonville, 80-69; Bruins' 4th straight title under coach John Wooden
- 1970 Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.
Cricket History
1971 Indian cricket great Sunil Gavaskar scores first of his 34 Test Cricket centuries; 116 in drawn 3rd Test at Georgetown, Guyana
- 1971 Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2"
- 1971 WCPB TV channel 28 in Salisbury, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1972 US Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote
Sports History
1973 Montreal Canadiens' left wing Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHL player to score 500 goals
- 1974 Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall
- 1975 Ethiopia abolishes its monarchy after 3,000 years
- 1978 Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training)
- 1978 San Francisco passes its and the U.S.' most comprehensive homosexual rights bill
- 1979 Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel
Television Finale
1980 On season finale cliffhanger of TV show "Dallas", villain J.R. Ewing is shot by unknown assailant
- 1981 9-time World Grand Prix motor cycle champion Mike Hailwood along with his 9-year old daughter Michelle are killed when his Rover SD1 collides with a truck near their home in Tanworth-in-Arden in England
- 1981 France beats England 16-12 at Twickenham, London for it's 7th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 3rd Grand Slam title
- 1982 "Little Johnny Jones" opens & closes at Alvin Theater NYC
- 1982 Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard
- 1982 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Jerry Pate shoots a final round 67 to win by 2 strokes over runners-up Scott Simpson and Brad Bryant
- 1983 Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled
Cricket History
1984 Australian Allan Border scores 100* vs West Indies in a cricket test at Trinidad after scoring a 98* in his 1st innings
- 1984 NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule
Music History
1984 Part of Central Park in New York City is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon
- 1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
Hall of Fame
1985 Arthur Ashe is nominated for the International Tennis Hall of Fame
- 1985 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed
- 1986 199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
- 1986 Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) & 3 km (4:18.02)
- 1986 Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
- 1987 France beats Ireland, 19-13 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin the clinch the outright Five Nations Rugby Championship for the 8th time and 4th Grand Slam title
- 1987 PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (Ÿ17 million)
- 1989 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral, Florida
- 1990 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 149 performances
- 1990 "Normal Life" starring Max Gail, Moon Unit & Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV
- 1990 Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president
- 1991 27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide
- 1991 Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome
- 1991 Quebec Nordiques goaltender Ron Tugnutt sets NHL modern-day record for most saves in a regular season non-loss game (70 of 73 shots in 3-3 tie with the Boston Bruins
- 1991 UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
- 1992 Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul NZ in exciting World Cup cricket semi
Beatification
1993 Pope John Paul II beatifies Duns Scotus, a philosopher-theologian of the Middle Ages
- 1993 South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl
- 1994 Anne P Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of National History
- 1994 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) enters into force after being ratified by the required number of nations
Film & TV History
1995 New Jersey officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295
- 1995 NYC agrees to sell its 2 owned radio stations (WNYC AM & FM)
- 1996 "Night of the Iguana" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 performances
Film Release
1997 Film "Selena" is released based on the life of singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, starring Jennifer Lopez in her breakthrough role, directed by Gregory Nava
- 1997 Ice Dance Championship in Lausanne, Switzerland won by Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov (Rus)
- 1999 Swiss aviator Bertrand Piccard and British aviator Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
- 2000 NSYNC release their 4th studio album “No Strings Attached” (2000 Billboard Album of the Year)
- 2002 In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
- 2002 Schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is abducted in broad daylight on her way home from Heathside School in Walton-on-Thames, England
- 2004 In Malaysia, the 11th Federal and State elections are held, returning the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional to power with an increased majority
Event of Interest
2006 First ever tweet sent out by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey "just setting up my twttr"
- 2006 Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M in damage.
- 2009 Ireland completes a Grand Slam with a 17-15 win over Wales at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to win the Six Nations Rugby Championship
- 2012 Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries are sentenced to 7,710 years in jail for their role in the Plan de Sanchez massacre in 1982
- 2012 Greek Parliament votes in favour of an international bailout deal
- 2012 Sergio Agüero & Samir Nasri score to give Manchester City 2-1 win over Chelsea at City of Manchester Stadium; EPL record 20th consecutive home win; streak ends with 3-3 draw v Sunderland 31/3
- 2013 12 people are killed and 30 are injured by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
- 2013 24 people are killed and 100 are injured by a tornado and hail storm in southern China
- 2013 42 people are killed and 84 are injured by a bombing in a mosque in Damascus, Syria
- 2013 A barter dispute loses control and results in 10 people being killed, 20 injured, and 4 mosques being burnt to the ground in Myanmar
- 2013 At least 45 people drown and 60 are missing after a Nigerian boat sinks off the shore of Gabon
- 2013 Martin Gould defeats Ali Carter to win the snooker 2013 Championship League
- 2013 The European Space Agency reveals new data that indicates that the universe is 13.82 billion years old
- 2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation
- 2015 Ireland retains Six Nations Rugby Championship with 40-10 win over Scotland at Murrayfield; England needs 26 point win over France for title but can only beat Les Bleus, 55-35 at Twickenham
- 2017 Singer Wyclef Jean wrongly identified as a suspect, handcuffed and detained by LA county sheriff’s department
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- 238 Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor
- 752 Stephen II elected Catholic Pope (or 23rd)
- 871 Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army
Event of Interest
1621 Dutch jurist Hugo de Groot (Hugo Grotius) escapes in book chest from Loevestein Castle in the Netherlands
- 1622 First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans in Jamestown Virginia, 347 killed
- 1630 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)
- 1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony
- 1680 Parliament of Breisach accepts French sovereignty over Elzas
- 1692 Emperor Leopold I names Duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king
Event of Interest
1765 Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on American colonists, organized by Prime Minister George Grenville
- 1775 British MP Edmund Burke makes a speech to the English Parliament advocating for peace with the American colonies
Historic Discovery
1778 Captain James Cook sights Cape Flattery, now in Washington state
- 1794 Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
Event of Interest
1832 British Parliament, led by Charles Grey, passes the Reform Act, introducing wide-ranging changes to electoral system of England and Wales, increasing electorate from about 500,000 voters to 813,000
- 1841 A method for alkali starch extraction is patented in the US by Orlando Jones, which is later applied to corn (cornstarch)
- 1861 1st US nursing school chartered
- 1862 San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation
- 1865 Wilson's Raid: 13,480 cavalry troops led by Union General James H. Wilson destroys most of Confederate Alabama and Georgia's arms-manufacturing and rail capabilities; raid lasts through mid-April [1] [2]
- 1871 William Holden of North Carolina becomes 1st governor removed by impeachment
- 1872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
- 1873 Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico, celebrated as Emancipation Day
- 1874 Young Men's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
- 1888 English Football League established
- 1894 Stanley Cup, Victoria Rink, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Hockey Club defeats Ottawa HC, 3-1 to win 3-team challenge tournament
- 1895 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience
- 1896 Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18 at the Panhellenic Games
- 1903 Niagara Falls runs out of water due to a drought
Event of Interest
1903 US Anthracite Coal Commission, set up by President Theodore Roosevelt, submits its recommendations for shorter hours, a 10-per cent wage increase, and an 'open shop'
Event of Interest
1913 Song Jiaoren, leader of the Chinese Kuomintang Party, shot at Shanghai Railway Station, dies 2 day later (thought orchestrated by Kuomintang President Yuan Shikai)
- 1917 The USA is the first nation to recognize the new government of Russia
- 1922 The Rand Rebellion in Southern Africa, which started as a strike by white mineworkers and became an armed rebellion against the state, is brought to a brutal end by the police
- 1927 Federico Garcia Lorca's first play "El Maleficio" (The Butterfly's Evil Spell) premieres in Madrid
Music Premiere
1928 Noël Coward's musical "This Year of Grace" premieres in London
- 1929 88th Grand National: Robert W. H. Everett wins aboard 100/1 outsider Gregalach
- 1929 KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions
- 1929 US Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
Film Premiere
1936 "The Great Ziegfeld" directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring William Powell and Luise Rainer premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1937
Film & TV History
1941 James Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II
- 1943 Dutch SS police chief Hans Albin Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
- 1943 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
- 1943 Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium
- 1944 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin
- 1944 American movie star Jimmy Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin
- 1945 Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt
- 1945 US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein
- 1946 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
- 1946 Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan
- 1952 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44
- 1952 Wales wins Five Nations Rugby Championship, Grand Slam & Triple Crown with a 9-5 win over France at St. Helen's Ground, Swansea
- 1953 Antonín Zápotocký chosen as President of Czechoslovakia
- 1954 Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens
- 1954 Northland Center, the world's largest shopping mall at the time, opens in Oakpark, Michigan
Music Premiere
1956 Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis, Jr. and father Sammy Davis, Sr. opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances
- 1957 Earthquake shakes San Francisco
- 1957 Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
Sports History
1958 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle, 84-72; Seattle's future Hall of Fame small forward Elgin Baylor is named tournament MOP
- 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Music Premiere
1962 Musical "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" starring Barbra Streisand in her Broadway debut, opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 300 performances
- 1963 British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
- 1963 The Beatles release their 1st album, "Please Please Me"
- 1964 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section
- 1964 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Scenic Hills CC: Carol Mann her 1st of 2 major titles by 2 shots from Ruth Jessen and Judy Kimball
- 1965 Dudley Senanayake wins his third in general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
- 1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
- 1968 Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
- 1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone
- 1968 Student riot in Nanterre near Paris
- 1969 "Billy" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance
- 1969 "Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances
- 1969 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72; Bruins' 3-peat; center Lew Alcindor tournament Most Outstanding Player for 3rd consecutive year
- 1970 "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC
- 1971 Brian Faulkner becomes the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
- 1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1972 In Eisenstadt v. Baird the US Supreme Court rules unmarried people have same right to contraception as married people.
- 1972 Musical "The Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 5 performances
- 1972 Nick Mileti purchases Cleveland Indians for $9 million
- 1972 Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
- 1973 Joffrey Ballet revives Diaghilev's "Parade" at The City Center, NYC
- 1975 "Dr Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater, NYC, after 5 performances
- 1975 "Letter for Queen Victoria" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 18 performances
- 1975 20th Eurovision Song Contest: Teach-In for Netherlands wins singing "Ding-a-dong" in Stockholm
- 1975 A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels
- 1975 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Delta State beats Immaculata 90-81 in Harrisonburg
- 1975 Netherlands' "Ding-a-dong" performed by Tech-In wins Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden
- 1975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
- 1977 Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) government under Joop den Uyl falls
- 1978 France performs nuclear test
- 1978 Karl "The Great" Wallenda, German acrobat (The Flying Wallendas) dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at 73
Event of Interest
1978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, San Francisco, dedicated
- 1978 The Rutles mockumentary "All You Need is Cash" debuts on NBC television
- 1979 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
- 1979 NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers)
- 1979 Provisional Irish Republican Army assassinates Richard Sykes, the British ambassador to the Netherlands, in The Hague
- 1979 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode 24 bombs in various locations across Northern Ireland
- 1981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
- 1981 Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8)/30k (1:29:18.8)
- 1981 US 1st class postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents
- 1982 3rd NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 3 launches
- 1982 Iran offensive against Iraq
- 1983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president
- 1984 Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
- 1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA F-10
- 1986 "On My Own" single released by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald (Billboard Song of the Year 1986)
- 1986 Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99)
- 1986 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
- 1986 Heart's "These Dreams" single goes #1
- 1986 Ice Pairs World Championship at Geneva won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
Boxing Title Fight
1986 Jamaican boxer Trevor Berbick upsets Pinklon Thomas by unanimous decision in Las Vegas to win WBC heavyweight title
- 1986 Kania skates ladies' world record 1500m (1:59.30)
- 1986 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA)
- 1988 WA beat Queensland by 5 wkts to win the Sheffield Shield Final
- 1989 Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
Sports History
1989 Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years
- 1989 US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate
- 1990 "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances
- 1990 Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood not guilty of Valdez oil spill
- 1990 The ML umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games
- 1991 Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginaa, seizing drugs
- 1991 NY Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY"
- 1991 Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in NH of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband
- 1992 "Private Lives" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 37 performances
- 1992 England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final
Theater Premiere
1992 Herb Gardner's stage drama "Conversations with My Father", starring Judd Hirsch and Tony Shalhoub, opens at Royale Theatre, NYC, runs for 462 performances and a Tony Award for Hirsch
- 1992 Joseph A Molloy elected NY Yankee general partner
- 1992 US Air NY to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die
Hall of Fame
1993 André the Giant's induction into inaugural WWE Hall of Fame is announced; no ceremony takes place and he is inducted posthumously
Album Release
1994 "Not a Moment Too Soon" second studio album by Tim McGraw is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1994)
- 1994 Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton)
- 1994 Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid is the first woman to win architecture's Pritzker Prize [1]
- 1994 South African government and ANC take power in Ciskei homeland
- 1994 Soyuz TM-21 lands
- 1995 Deputy Governor of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist
- 1996 Cheryl Depew of Florida crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International
- 1996 STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit
Musical Finale
1997 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton's musical "Sunset Boulevard", based on the film, and starring Glenn Close closes at Minskoff, NYC, after 977 performances and 7 Tony Awards
- 1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)
- 1997 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Tara Lipinski (USA)
- 1998 18th Golden Raspberry Awards: The Postman wins
- 1999 "Amazed" single released by Lonestar (Billboard Song of the Year 1999)
- 2003 23rd Golden Raspberry Awards: "Swept Away" wins
- 2004 Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles
- 2006 BC Ferries' M/V Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia and sinks; 101 on board, 2 presumed deaths
- 2006 ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire
- 2006 Three Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox
- 2008 French Swimmer Alain Bernard sets world record of 47.50 for 100m freestyle long course after winning the European LC Championships 2008
- 2009 Cricket Women's World Cup: England defeats New Zealand by 4 wickets
- 2009 Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest
- 2010 NASA's rover 'Spirit' gets caught in a sand trap on Mars and ceases communications with Earth [1]
Sports History
2011 Lawrence Taylor pleads guilty for misdemeanors of sexual misconduct and is sentenced to six years probation
- 2012 Australia's most wanted man, Malcolm Naden, is captured after seven years on the run in Gloucester, New South Wales
- 2012 Ireland returns to recession as GDP falls by 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2011 following a fall of 1.1% in the third quarter
- 2012 Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education
- 2012 Massive fire devours thousands of hectares of ancient forests and threatens wildlife on Mount Kenya
- 2013 37 people are killed and 200 are injured in a refugee camp fire in Ban Mae, Thailand
- 2014 251 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Lake Albert, Uganda
- 2014 43 people are killed by a mudslide in Oso, Washington
- 2014 Guinea confirms Ebola outbreak has already killed 59 people
- 2014 The US and EU impose sanctions on Russia
- 2016 Suicide bombings at Brussel's Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station, leave around 28 victims dead and 260 injured, ISIS claim responsibility
- 2017 Arctic records its lowest ever winter ice cover according to US National Snow and Ice Data Center, 5.5 million square miles
- 2017 Terrorist attack on London's Westminster Bridge and Houses of Parliament kills 4 including a police officer and injures 40
- 2017 Tomb of Jesus reopens after restoration in Jerusalem
- 2018 Musical "Frozen" opens on Broadway based on the film, starring Patti Murin and Caissie Levy
- 2018 The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between Hawaii and California has 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic and increasing rapidly according to new research
Event of Interest
2018 US President Donald Trump imposes $60 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese imports
- 2019 "Mind-blowing" discovery announced of 518 million year old fossil site in near Danshui river, Hubei province, China, with thousands of unknown fossils well preserved
- 2019 US Special Council Robert S. Mueller submits his findings on the 2016 election (The Mueller Report) to Deputy US Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and US Attorney William Barr
- 2020 India puts 1 billion people under a daytime curfew to curb COVID-19
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Treaty of Interest
1153 Treaty of Konstanz between Frederick I "Barbarossa" & Pope Eugene III
- 1174 Jocelin, abbot of Melrose, is elected bishop of Glasgow
- 1490 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishneh Torah", a code of Jewish religious law is published
- 1534 Aragonese legal code formally recognised
- 1568 Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike
- 1579 Friesland joins Union of Utrecht
- 1593 English Separatist Puritans John Greenwood and Henry Barrowe tried and sentenced to death on the charge of devising and circulating seditious books
- 1630 French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont
- 1657 France & England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
- 1708 Pretender to the English throne James III attempts to land at Firth of Forth, Scotland, but is turned away by the British Royal Navy
- 1752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, dies 2 days later
Event of Interest
1775 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" in speech in favour of Virginian troops joining US Revolutionary war
- 1821 Battle and fall of city of Kalamata, Greek War of Independence
- 1839 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
- 1840 John William Draper takes 1st successful photo in US of the Moon (daguerreotype), in New York City
- 1848 The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
- 1849 Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic)
- 1856 18-year-old English chemist William Perkin accidentally produces the first synthetic aniline dye ‘mauveine’ (purple) during his Easter holiday [1]
Event of Interest
1857 Elisha Otis installs his 1st elevator at 488 Broadway in New York City
Event of Interest
1867 Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto
- 1868 University of California founded in Oakland, California
- 1877 39th Grand National: Fred Hobson aboard 15/1 shot Austerlitz wins by 4 lengths from Congress
- 1878 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers beat Royal Engineers, 3–1; Wanderers' back-to-back and 5th title overall
- 1879 War of the Pacific fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully takes over Arica and Tarapacá, leaving Bolivia a landlocked country.
- 1880 Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin)
- 1881 Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war
- 1881 Gas lamp sets fire to Théâtre Municipal” opera house in Nice, France; 70 die, and building completely destroyed
- 1882 The Edmunds Act (Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act) is adopted by the US to suppress polygamy. 1300 men are later imprisoned under the act
Music Premiere
1886 Tchaikovsky's "Manfred" symphony premieres in Moscow, Russia, conducted by Max Erdmannsdörfer
- 1888 50th Grand National: George Mawson aboard 40/1 outsider Playfair easily wins by 10 lengths from Frigate
- 1889 The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London
- 1896 The Raines Law is passed by the New York State Legislature, restricting Sunday sale of alcohol to hotels
- 1896 Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Chénier" premieres in Milan
Music History
1901 Australian opera star Dame Nellie Melba reveals secret of her now famous toast
- 1903 The Wright brothers 1st file a patent for a flying machine, which is granted 3 years later
- 1908 American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in hospital two days later
- 1915 Zion Mule Corp formed by the British Army
- 1917 Tornadoes kills 211 over 4 days in Midwest US
- 1918 Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River
- 1918 German forces advance 14 miles to the Somme River (WW1)
- 1918 Germany begins using long-range gun, the 'Kaiser Wilhelm Geschütz' ('Emperor William Gun'), aka 'Paris Gun' to shell Paris from Crépy-en-Laonnais, 75 miles away; over several days, 303 rounds kill 256 and wound over 600
- 1918 Lithuania proclaims independence
Event of Interest
1919 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party re-establishes a five-member Politburo which becomes the center of political power in the Soviet Union. Original members Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Krestinsky
- 1919 Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
- 1920 Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms
- 1921 Germany announces it will be unable to meet its Great War reparation payments
- 1922 1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C.
- 1922 KMJ-AM in Fresno CA begins radio transmissions
- 1922 WEW-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
- 1923 82nd Grand National: Capt. Tuppy Bennett wins aboard 13-year-old 100/6 shot Sergeant Murphy; first US bred horse to win race
- 1923 Frank Silver and Irving Conn publish their hit song "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
- 1930 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
Execution
1931 Indian independence fighters Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged after conducting an assassination and a bombing. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
Event of Interest
1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
Event of Interest
1936 Physician Joseph G. Hamilton injects a leukemia patient with a sodium radioisotope, first intravenous injection of a human with a radioisotope
- 1937 LA Railway Co starts using PCC streetcars
Music Premiere
1939 1st performance of Béla Bartók's 2nd Violin Concerto at the Concertgebow, Amsterdam with Zoltán Székely on violin and Willem Mengelberg conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra
- 1940 1st radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS
- 1940 The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Lahore), calling for independent Muslim state(s), is adopted by the All-India Muslim League
- 1942 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deported
- 1942 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
- 1943 German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia
- 1944 Italian resistance group bombs occupying German police at Via Rasella, Rome; killing 33 and wounding 110 of the 156 man force; retaliation kills 335 civilians
- 1945 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine into Germany
- 1945 British Prime Minister Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen
Event of Interest
1945 Lt. Gen. Miles Dempsey becomes the first British commander to cross the Rhine during the Allied invasion of Germany
Event of Interest
1945 The Swallow Sidecar Company headed by William Lyons agrees to change its name to Jaguar
- 1946 8th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats North Carolina, 43-40; Cowboys' back-to-back titles and center Bob Kurland MOP for 2nd straight year
- 1948 10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor, 58-42; Wildcats' first victory in first title game
- 1948 John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m))
- 1949 Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story" premieres in NYC
- 1950 "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 performances
- 1950 Frances Farmer is released from Western State Hospital
- 1950 Sophocles Venizelos forms liberal Greek government
- 1950 UN World Meteorological Org established
- 1951 Wages in France increase 11%
- 1952 NY Rangers blow 6-2 lead, lose 7-6 to Chicago Black Hawks; Bill Mosienko scores fastest hat trick in NHL history, 21 seconds
- 1956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day)
- 1956 Sudan becomes independent
Sports History
1957 19th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Kansas, 54-53 (3 OT); Wilt Chamberlain of Kansas 4th player to be named tournament MOP despite not playing for the championship team
- 1957 US army sells last homing pigeons
- 1960 NASA's Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
- 1962 Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket v 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
- 1963 25th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Loyola-Chicago beats Cincinnati, 60-58 (OT); Ramblers' first title in first title game
- 1963 8th Eurovision Song Contest: Grethe and Jorgen Ingmann for Denmark win singing "Dansevise" in London
- 1963 Rolf Hochhuth's play "Der Stellvertreter" (The Representative) premieres in Berlin
Historic Publication
1964 "In His Own Write", a book of short stories, poems and drawings by John Lennon is published
- 1964 UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva
- 1965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
- 1965 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed
- 1966 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church
- 1968 30th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats North Carolina, 78-55; Bruins back-to-back titles; Lew Alcindor tournament Most Outstanding Player for the 2nd of 3 consecutive years
- 1968 France retains the Five Nations Rugby Championship with an 14-9 win over Wales at the National Stadium, Cardiff; first Grand Slam victory for France
Album Release
1968 Reprise Records releases "Song To A Seagull", Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's debut studio album
- 1968 Rev Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from DC
- 1969 Rally for Decency in Miami
- 1970 "Hello Darlin'" single released by Conway Twitty (Billboard Song of the Year, 1970)
- 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1971 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept simplified divorce
- 1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- 1972 Geoge Harrison and Friends' "The Concert for Bangladesh" concert film, directed by Saul Swimmer released in the US
- 1972 NY Yankees agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx
- 1973 After a 5½ year run soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ends
- 1973 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Boxing Title Fight
1979 Larry Holmes TKOs Osvaldo Ocasio in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1979 Wings release "Goodnight Tonight"
- 1980 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Old Dominion beat Tennessee 68-53 at Mount Pleasant
Cricket History
1980 Australian cricketer Allan Border becomes the first and only batsman to reach 150 in each innings of a test, in the 3rd test vs Pakistan in Lahore
- 1980 France performs nuclear test
- 1980 Nicaraguan National Literary Crusade begins: crusade teachers swear in plazas across the country to exterminate ignorance in just five months (will successfully reduce illiteracy from 50% to 12%) [1]
- 1981 PGA Tournament Players Championship, Sawgrass CC: Raymond Floydbeats Barry Jaeckel and Curtis Strange on the first hole of a sudden death playoff in a rain affected Monday finish
- 1981 US Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions
- 1981 US Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men
Coup d'état
1982 Guatemala military coup under General Efraín Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees
Event of Interest
1983 US President Ronald Reagan introduces Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")
- 1984 Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (4:20.91)
- 1984 Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Underhill & Paul Martini (CAN)
- 1984 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
Sports History
1986 First of 2 WTA Tour Championships of the year; change of tennis schedule; Martina Navratilovawins 4th straight and 7th overall title 6–2, 6–0, 3–6, 6–1 against Hana Mandlíková in NYC
Event of Interest
1987 Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns as chairman of the Social Democratic Party
- 1987 Soap "Bold & Beautiful" premieres
- 1987 US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf
- 1988 Geffen Records releases "Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm", Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's 13th studio album
- 1989 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
- 1989 Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 yrs for killing his adopted daughter
- 1990 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
- 1991 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 & Mont beats Birmingham 20-5
- 1991 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee
- 1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m)
- 1992 Florida Marlins begin selling tickets
- 1993 Belgian government of Jean-Luc Dehaene resigns
- 1993 NY Knicks & Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl
Event of Interest
1994 Amy Fisher's lover Joey Buttafuoco is released from jail after 4 months & 9 days
- 1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11:28)
Film & TV History
1994 Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for NY governor
- 1994 Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field)
- 1994 Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed)
- 1995 Dollar equals 88.41 yen (record)
- 1995 Revival of Frank Loesser's musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC; runs for 548 performances
- 1996 Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
- 1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
- 1997 17th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Striptease" wins
- 1997 WrestleMania XIII, Rosemont Horizon, IL: Undertaker beats Sycho Sid for WWF Heavyweight title
Music Single
1999 "Livin' la Vida Loca" sung by Ricky Martin released - goes on to sell over 8 million copies
- 1999 Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña
Cricket World Cup
2003 Cricket World Cup, Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, RSA: Ricky Ponting scores 140 no as defending champions Australia beat India by 125 runs; Sachin Tendulkar, Player of Series
- 2003 In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom
- 2004 Andhra Pradesh Federation of Trade Unions holds its first conference in Hyderabad, India
- 2005 Major explosion and fire at the BP's Texas City Refinery kills 15 workers in Texas City, Texas
- 2005 The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, refuses to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube
- 2006 The Federal Reserve discontinues publishing M3 money supply
Film & TV History
2007 After some initial hesitation, Emma Watson signs on to appear as Hermione in the final three Harry Potter films
- 2007 Burnley Tunnel catastrophe occurs in Melbourne, Australia
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