King James I
of England
Aleksandr
RomanovHarry Houdini
Sherlock Homes begins a quest
1st Automobile Sold
Thomas E Dewey
England Rules
Clyde Barrow
1st Coast Guard Air Station
Steve McQueen
Yuri Anatoyevich Ponomaryov
The Great Escape
Laurence Olivier
Jane Wyman
Kennedy Half Dollar
Peyton Manning
Exxon Valdez Spill
Space Shuttle Atlantis
| Year | Event |
| 1188 | Born: Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I |
| 1379 | End of Gelderse war victory |
| 1441 | Born: Ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86) |
| 1494 | Born: Georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica) |
| 1545 | German Parliament opens in Worms |
| 1550 | France & England sign Peace of Boulogne |
| 1603 | Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England |
| 1607 | Born: Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune) |
| 1628 | Born: Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685) |
| 1629 | 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia |
| 1630 | Born: Jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal |
| 1645 | Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS RC emperor Ferdinand III |
| 1657 | Born: Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725) |
| 1664 | Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island |
| 1693 | Born: John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776) |
| 1703 | Born: Jose F de Isla, [Francisco de Salazar], Spanish Jesuit/writer |
| 1714 | Born: Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer |
| 1721 | Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts |
| 1725 | Born: Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813) |
| 1725 | Born: Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788) |
| 1731 | Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed. |
| 1732 | Born: Gian Francesco de Majo, composer |
| 1734 | Neth's William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover |
| 1740 | Born: John Antes, composer |
| 1749 | Born: Bernard Jumentier, composer |
| 1755 | Born: Rufus King, framer of US constitution |
| 1762 | Born: Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer (Portogallo) |
| 1765 | Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers |
| 1782 | Born: Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836) |
| 1792 | Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London |
| 1796 | Born: John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878) |
| 1797 | Born: Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher/founder (Institute of Charity) |
| 1801 | Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia |
| 1802 | Born: Jacob van Lennep, attorney/Dutch MP |
| 1808 | Born: Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer (d. 1836) |
| 1809 | Born: Joseph Liouville, France, discover of transcendental numbers |
| 1814 | Born: Galen Clark, US, naturalist/discovered Mariposa Grove |
| 1817 | Born: Aime Maillart, composer |
| 1820 | Born: A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891) |
| 1820 | Born: Fanny Crosby, American hymnist (d. 1915) |
| 1821 | Born: Elisa Felix, [Rachel], tragedienne |
| 1821 | Born: [George] Hector Tyndale, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) |
| 1828 | Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized |
| 1829 | Born: George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904) |
| 1829 | Born: Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862) |
| 1830 | Born: Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (d. 1889) |
| 1832 | Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio |
| 1834 | Born: John Wesley Powell, US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist |
| 1834 | Born: William Morris, England, designer/craftsman/poet/socialist |
| 1835 | Born: Josef Stefan, Austria, physicist (Stefan-Boltzmann law) |
| 1837 | Born: Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium |
| 1837 | Canada gives blacks the right to vote |
| 1848 | State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam |
| 1848 | Born: Honoré Beaugrand, Quebec journalist and newspaper publisher (La Patrie) (d. 1906) |
| 1850 | Born: Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935) |
| 1855 | Born: Andrew W Mellon, founder (Mellon Bank)/US Sec of Treasury |
| 1855 | Born: Olive Schreiner, S African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman) |
| 1855 | Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas |
| 1860 | Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY |
| 1866 | Born: Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer |
| 1868 | Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms |
| 1874 | Born: Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist |
| 1874 | Born: Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy (1948-55) |
| 1877 | University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat |
| 1878 | British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost |
| 1878 | Born: Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff], Dutch writer |
| 1880 | Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in CT |
| 1882 | German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB |
| 1883 | 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago |
| 1883 | Born: James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop |
| 1884 | Born: Gino Marinuzzi, composer |
| 1884 | Born: Peter Debye, Holland, physical chemist (Nobel 1936) |
| 1885 | Born: Charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08) |
| 1886 | Born: Athenagoras I, Greek Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972) |
| 1886 | Born: Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958) |
| 1887 | Born: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies) |
| 1887 | Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey) |
| 1888 | Born: Jameson Thomas, London England, actor (Farmer's Wife) |
| 1888 | Born: Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922) |
| 1889 | Born: Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969) |
| 1890 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" |
| 1891 | Born: Annie "Charley" Toorop, Dutch painter (3 Generations) |
| 1891 | Born: John Knittel, writer |
| 1891 | Born: Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951) |
| 1893 | Born: George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973) |
| 1894 | 37 miners killed at Franklin, WA |
| 1895 | Born: Arthur Murray, dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party) |
| 1895 | Born: Sid Saylor, Chicago Ill, actor (Wally-Waterfront) |
| 1896 | Born: Gianna Manzini, writer |
| 1897 | Born: Charles Eyck, Dutch painter/sculptor |
| 1897 | Born: Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-US psycho analysist (character analysis) |
| 1898 | Born: Dorothy Stratton, organizer (SPARS-women's branch of US Coast Guard) |
| 1898 | Born: George Alpert, railroad executive |
| 1898 | 1st automobile sold |
| 1900 | New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. |
| 1900 | Born: June [Algeria Junius] Clark, musician trumpet |
| 1901 | Born: Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971) |
| 1902 | Born: Thomas E Dewey, Oh, 1st Catholic Pres candidate 1944, 1948 (R) |
| 1903 | Born: Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939) |
| 1903 | Born: John Patrick Sutton Ludlow, actor (Agatha) |
| 1903 | Born: Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer (Observer of Life) |
| 1905 | Born: Andre Christiaens, Flemish writer (Unfindable Country) |
| 1905 | Born: Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (d. 2007) |
| 1906 | Born: John Cameron Swayze, news correspondent/spokesman (Timex) [OS] |
| 1906 | Born: Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984) |
| 1906 | "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world |
| 1907 | The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published. |
| 1907 | Born: Janet Harmon Bragg, US pilot/columnist (Chicago Defender) |
| 1907 | Born: Lauris Norstad, US gen (NATO commander)/CEO (Owens-Corning Fiberglass) |
| 1907 | Born: Lucia Chase, US ballerina/co-founder (American Ballet Theater) |
| 1907 | Born: Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer |
| 1907 | Born: Martin Kosleck, Germany, actor (Pursuit to Algiers) |
| 1907 | Born: Paul Sauvé, Quebec politician (d. 1960) |
| 1909 | Born: Clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame) |
| 1909 | Born: Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English radio comic/actor (Phoenix) |
| 1910 | Born: Jacques Chailley, composer |
| 1910 | Born: Richard Conte, Jersey City NJ, actor (4 Just Men, Tony Rome, Hotel) |
| 1910 | 83°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March |
| 1911 | Born: Herman W "Fritz" Liebert, US OSSer/librarian (Yale curator) |
| 1911 | Born: Jane Beverly Drew, architect |
| 1911 | Born: Joseph Barbera, animator (Hanna-Barbera) |
| 1913 | Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England |
| 1913 | Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway NYC |
| 1914 | Born: Lilli Palmer, Posen Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil, Sebastian) |
| 1915 | Born: Gorgeous George, American professional wrestler (d. 1963) |
| 1916 | Born: Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American novelist (d. 2006) |
| 1917 | Born: John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997) |
| 1917 | Born: Constantine Andreou, Greek-Brazilian artist (d. 2007) |
| 1918 | Born: Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter |
| 1919 | Born: John J Duncan Jr, (Rep-R-TN, 1965- ) |
| 1919 | Born: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author (Coney Island of the Mind) |
| 1919 | Born: Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005 |
| 1920 | Born: Gene Nelson, [Berg], Seattle Wash, actor (Tea For 2, Oklahoma) |
| 1920 | 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC) |
| 1921 | Born: Wilson Harris, Guayanese author |
| 1922 | Born: Dave Appell, singer/musician/songwriter (In the Midnight Hour) |
| 1922 | Born: Dorothy Irene Height, president (national council of negro women) |
| 1922 | Born: Onna White, Canadian choreographer (d. 2005) |
| 1922 | Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish |
| 1923 | Greece becomes a republic. |
| 1923 | Born: Edna Jo Hunter, expert on military families & prisoners of war |
| 1923 | Born: Murray Hamilton, Washington NC, actor (Rich Man Poor Man) |
| 1924 | Born: Lois Andrews, actress (Ganster, Rustlers, Desert Hawk) |
| 1924 | Born: Lorraine Gourley, LA CA |
| 1924 | Born: Norman Fell, Phila, actor (Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate) |
| 1924 | Greece becomes a republic |
| 1925 | KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions |
| 1925 | Born: Duncan Wood, TV director/producer |
| 1925 | Born: Mai Zetterling, Vaeras Sweden, actress (Hidden Agenda, Ringer) |
| 1925 | Born: Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (d. 1994) |
| 1926 | Born: Dario Fo, Leggiuno Sangiano VA, playwright (Nobel-1997) |
| 1926 | The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands |
| 1927 | Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie |
| 1927 | Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Neth's Wielingen Treaty |
| 1927 | Born: Janos Decsenyi, composer |
| 1927 | Born: Martin Walser, writer |
| 1928 | Born: Byron "Yanks" Janis, McKeesport Pa, pianist (NBC Symphony Orch) |
| 1928 | Born: Vanessa Brown, Vienna Austria, actress (My Favorite Husband) |
| 1929 | Born: Cuan McCarthy, cricketer (36 Test wkts for S Africa, 1 career no-ball) |
| 1930 | Born: Kenneth Nelson, Rocky Mount NC, actor (Henry Aldrich-Aldrich Family) |
| 1930 | Born: Steve McQueen, Slater Mo, actor (Wanted, Dead or Alive, Blob, Bullitt) |
| 1930 | 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC) |
| 1930 | Planet Pluto named |
| 1931 | Born: Thelma Kalama, US, 4 X 100m relay swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948) |
| 1932 | Born: William Smith, Columbia Mo, actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Hawaii 5-0) |
| 1932 | Born: Yuri Anatoyevich Ponomaryov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 18 backup) |
| 1932 | 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD) |
| 1933 | Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency |
| 1933 | Born: David Harries, composer |
| 1934 | Born: William Smith, American actor |
| 1934 | US declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945 |
| 1934 | U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act. |
| 1935 | Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network |
| 1935 | Born: Peter Bichsel, writer |
| 1936 | Born: Fredrick Kaufmamn, composer |
| 1936 | Born: David Suzuki, Canadian scientist and environmentalist |
| 1936 | Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins & 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 mins), ends 1-0 |
| 1937 | Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois) |
| 1937 | National Gallery of Art established by Congress |
| 1937 | Born: Benjamin Luxon, Redruth England, baritone (Owen Wingrave) |
| 1937 | Born: Bill Tillman, basebal player |
| 1937 | Born: Billy Stewart, US R&B singer (I Do Love You) |
| 1937 | Born: Erskine Sandiford, premier (Barbados, 1987-94) |
| 1938 | Born: Larry Wilson, NFL back (Cardinals) |
| 1938 | Born: Holger Czukay, German musician (Can) |
| 1938 | Born: David Irving, British historian |
| 1940 | Born: Bob Mackie, Monterey Parks Calif, designer (Streisand, Cher) |
| 1940 | Born: Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006) |
| 1941 | British troops defeat British Somalia |
| 1941 | German troops occupy El Agheila Libya |
| 1941 | Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox |
| 1941 | LIU beats Ohio U 56-42 for NIT basketball championship |
| 1941 | Richard Wright & Paul Green's "Native Son," premieres in NYC |
| 1943 | Born: H Martin Lancaster, (Rep-D-NC) |
| 1943 | Born: Jesus Alou, baseball outfielder (SF Giants) |
| 1943 | Born: Marika Kilius, German FR, ice skating pair (Olympic-silver-1960, 64) |
| 1944 | Born: Denny McLain, baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers, 31 wins in 1968) |
| 1944 | Born: Patti Labelle, singer (Phoenix, Tasty, Chameleon) |
| 1944 | Born: R. Lee Ermey, American actor |
| 1944 | Born: Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian Prime Minister |
| 1944 | 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape) |
| 1944 | 811 British bombers attack Berlin |
| 1944 | In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians |
| 1945 | Gen Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany |
| 1945 | Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders |
| 1945 | Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian airborne landings E of Rhine |
| 1945 | US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa |
| 1945 | Born: Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist |
| 1945 | Born: Curtis Hanson, American film director |
| 1946 | Born: Lee Oskar, Denmark, rock harmonicist (War-Why Can't We Be Friends) |
| 1946 | Born: Paul Williams, climber |
| 1946 | Born: Klaus Dinger, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk) |
| 1947 | Born: Alan Sugar, English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer (Amstrad) |
| 1947 | Born: Mike Kellie, rock drummer (Spooky Tooth-It's All About) |
| 1947 | Born: Paul McCandless, rocker (Torches on the Lake) |
| 1947 | Born: Pieter W Coetzer, South African journalist/MP (NP) |
| 1947 | Born: Christine Gregoire, American politician, current governor of Washington |
| 1947 | Born: Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress |
| 1947 | Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency |
| 1947 | John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN |
| 1949 | 21st Academy Awards - "Hamlet," Laurence Olivier & Jane Wyman win |
| 1949 | Walter & John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win |
| 1949 | Born: Steve Lang, Montreal Canada, rock bassist (April Wine) |
| 1950 | Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship |
| 1950 | US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman |
| 1950 | US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
| 1951 | Born: Dougie Thompson, rocker (Supertramp-Bloody Well Right) |
| 1951 | Born: Earl Williams, NBAer |
| 1951 | Born: Kenneth S Reightler Jr, Patuxent R Md, Cmdr USN/astro (STS 48, 60) |
| 1951 | Born: Pat Bradley, Westford MA, LPGA golfer (1981 US Women's Open) |
| 1952 | Born: Nicholas Campbell, Toronto Canada, actor (Nick-Insiders) |
| 1952 | Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa |
| 1953 | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1953 | Born: Steve Lubbers, cricketer (capt of Dutch World Cup team 1996) |
| 1954 | Born: Donna Pescow, Brooklyn, actress (Angie, Out of this World, Rainbow) |
| 1954 | Born: Irina Ratushinskaya, Odessa Ukraine, disident poet (Beyond the Limit) |
| 1954 | Born: Robert Carradine, LA Calif, actor (Slim-The Cowboys, Wavelength) |
| 1955 | Born: Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1955 | 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service |
| 1955 | British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years |
| 1955 | Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances |
| 1956 | Born: Ijaz Faqih, cricketer (Pakistan off-spin all-rounder in 5 Tests 80-88) |
| 1957 | Born: Scott J Horowitz, Phila Pa, PhD/Capt USAF/astronaut (STS 75, 82) |
| 1958 | Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761) |
| 1959 | Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact |
| 1959 | The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita. |
| 1959 | Born: Renaldo Nehemiah, US, hurdler (110m at 12.93)/NFLer (SF 49ers) |
| 1960 | Born: Kelly LeBrock, NYC, actress (Weird Science, Woman in Red) |
| 1960 | Born: Barry Horowitz, American professional wrestler |
| 1960 | Born: Nena, German pop singer |
| 1960 | US appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene |
| 1961 | NY Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows |
| 1961 | Born: Dean Jones, cricketer (dashing Australian batsman & fielder 1984-92) |
| 1961 | Born: James T Gallagher Jr, Johnstown PA, PGA golfer (1990 Greater Milw) |
| 1962 | Born: Penny Hammel, Decatur IL, LPGA golfer (Jamie Farr Toledo-1985, 89) |
| 1962 | Born: Star Jones, attorney/TV hostess (NBC, Inside Edition) |
| 1962 | Born: Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist |
| 1962 | 24th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cin beats Ohio State 71-59 |
| 1962 | Benny Paret, KOed in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later |
| 1962 | Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys |
| 1963 | Born: Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch soccer goalie (Vitesse, Manchester) |
| 1963 | Born: Sammy Giammatva, Houston Tex, tennis star |
| 1964 | Born: Hans Schwaier, West Germany, tennis star |
| 1964 | Kennedy half-dollar issued |
| 1965 | US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus |
| 1965 | Born: Angela Zuckerman, St Louis Mo, speed skater (Olympics-1994) |
| 1965 | Born: Ben Torriero, WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores) |
| 1965 | Born: Jeff Reese, Brantford, NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning) |
| 1965 | Born: Marian Vajda, Czech, tennis star |
| 1965 | Born: Peter Jacobson, American actor |
| 1965 | Born: Gurmit Singh, Singaporean actor |
| 1965 | Born: The Undertaker, American professional wrestler |
| 1966 | Born: Penny Toler, WNBA guard (LA Sparks) |
| 1966 | Born: Tatjana Patitz, Hamburg German FR, model/actress (Rising Sun) |
| 1966 | Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance |
| 1967 | U of Mich holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam |
| 1967 | Born: Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel, Fla, tennis player (Virginia Slims of Ark 1987) |
| 1967 | Born: Richard Gillam, Atlanta Ga, pairs skater (& Erin Moorad) |
| 1968 | Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational |
| 1969 | Born: Yoko Zetterlund, SF Calif, volleyball setter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96) |
| 1969 | Born: Houston, American pornographic actress |
| 1970 | Born: Lara Flynn Boyle, Davenport Iowa, actress (Donna Hayward-Twin Peaks) |
| 1970 | Born: Marques Bragg, NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves) |
| 1970 | Born: Mike Vanderjagt, CFL kicker (Toronto Argonauts) |
| 1970 | Born: Shannon Lemora, Baton Rouge Louisiana, 1.5k runner |
| 1970 | Born: Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer |
| 1970 | Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip |
| 1971 | Born: Megyn Price, American actress |
| 1972 | Born: Steve Karsay, American baseball player |
| 1972 | Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland |
| 1973 | Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA champ |
| 1973 | Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title |
| 1973 | Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile |
| 1973 | SF 49er pres Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams |
| 1973 | Born: Atle Larsen, WLAF kicker (Rhein Fire) |
| 1973 | Born: Chip McCaw, Chicago Ill, volleyball setter (Olympics-96) |
| 1973 | Born: David Moravec, hockey forward (Team Czech Oly-gold-1998) |
| 1973 | Born: Josh Lakatos, Pasadena Calif, trap shooter (Olympics-silver-1996) |
| 1973 | Born: Philippe Boucher, St Apollinaire Ca, NHL defense (LA Kings, Oly-G-98) |
| 1973 | Born: Jacek Bak, Polish footballer |
| 1974 | Born: Terry Killens, linebacker (Tennessee Oilers) |
| 1974 | Born: Chad Butler, American drummer (Switchfoot) |
| 1974 | 36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: NC State beats Marquette 76-64 |
| 1975 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1975 | Born: Debbie Keller, Winfield Ill, soccer forward (Olympics-96) |
| 1975 | Born: Julia Bikbova, Kiev Ukraine, dance skater (& John Lee) |
| 1975 | Born: Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player |
| 1975 | Born: Krisdayanti, Indonesian singer, actress and diva |
| 1976 | Born: Danielle Garrett, Camp Hill Penn, soccer forward (Olympics-96) |
| 1976 | Born: Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer |
| 1976 | Born: Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer |
| 1976 | Born: Aaron Brooks, American football player |
| 1976 | Born: Peyton Manning, American football player |
| 1976 | Argentine Pres Isabel Peron deposed by country's military |
| 1977 | Born: Olivia Burnette, San Clemente Calif, actress (Torkelsons) |
| 1977 | Born: Corneille, Canadian-Rwandan singer |
| 1977 | Born: Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 1978 | Born: Michael Braun, Australian rules footballer |
| 1978 | Wings release "With a Little Luck" |
| 1979 | "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances |
| 1979 | 1st appearance as Australian cricket capt for Kim Hughes |
| 1979 | Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center |
| 1979 | 10 rebounds & 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by Penn Mich State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts |
| 1979 | Born: Periklis Iakovakis, Greek athlete |
| 1979 | Born: Lake Bell, American actress |
| 1979 | Born: Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor |
| 1979 | Born: Norris Hopper, American baseball player |
| 1979 | Born: Graeme Swann, English cricketer |
| 1980 | Born: Luke Edwards, Nevada City Ca, actor (Newsie) |
| 1980 | Born: Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer |
| 1980 | 42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54 |
| 1980 | ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline" |
| 1980 | Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks |
| 1981 | "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC |
| 1981 | Bombay beat Delhi by innings & 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy |
| 1981 | Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba |
| 1981 | Born: Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player |
| 1982 | Born: Corey Hart, American baseball player |
| 1982 | Born: Dustin McGowan, American baseball player |
| 1982 | Born: Nivea, American singer |
| 1982 | US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia |
| 1983 | Born: T. J. Ford, American basketball player |
| 1984 | Born: Chris Bosh, American basketball player |
| 1984 | Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52) |
| 1984 | IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics |
| 1984 | Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51) |
| 1985 | 5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins |
| 1985 | Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins) |
| 1985 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic |
| 1985 | Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust, Sharjah) |
| 1985 | Born: Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model |
| 1986 | Born: Kohei Hirate, Japanese racing driver |
| 1986 | Born: Anthony McMahon, English footballer |
| 1986 | 58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa," William Hurt & G Page win |
| 1986 | Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling |
| 1986 | US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra |
| 1986 | NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status" |
| 1987 | 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross |
| 1987 | WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria |
| 1988 | "Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 perfs |
| 1988 | Quarterback Dan Fouts retires |
| 1988 | Born: Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 1989 | Mary Martin in "Peter Pan," 1st seen on TV since 1973 |
| 1989 | Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska |
| 1990 | Indian troops leave Sri Lanka |
| 1990 | Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec) |
| 1990 | Born: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-born New Zealand actress |
| 1991 | "Les Miserables," opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago |
| 1991 | 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It wins |
| 1991 | Barcelona Dragons beat NY/NJ Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game |
| 1991 | Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament |
| 1991 | In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen |
| 1991 | NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 9-3 |
| 1991 | Wrestlemania VII in LA, Hulk Hogan pins Sgt Slaughter |
| 1992 | "Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 245 performances |
| 1992 | Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space |
| 1992 | Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens: 5-6 die |
| 1992 | 1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space |
| 1992 | Born: Thomas Law, English actor |
| 1993 | Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel |
| 1994 | "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances |
| 1994 | "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 53 performances |
| 1994 | F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in NC, 120 die |
| 1994 | Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black |
| 1996 | 16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls wins |
| 1996 | Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual |
| 1996 | Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament |
| 1996 | MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way (2015 price: $8.00 - $16.00 per car) |
| 1997 | 69th Academy Awards - "English Patient," T Cruise & Brenda Blythen win |
| 1997 | Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law |
| 1998 | Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded. |
| 1998 | A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others. |
| 1999 | Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country. |
| 1999 | Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel. |
| 2003 | The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq. |
| 2006 | Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police. |
| 2006 | Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his Pontificate. |
| 2007 | The Australian Labor Party is reinstated after the New South Wales state elections. |
| 2008 | Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election. |
| 2010 | Lee Kun-hee returns to Samsung Electronics chief executive officer (CEO) position after his resignation in April 21, 2008 |
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