1525 Swiss & German mercenaries desert François I’s army
1547 King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII
1613 Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch Governor-General of East-Indies
1653 Defeat of Dutch fleet under Admiral Van Tromp by Admiral Blake off Portsmouth
1673 1st recorded wine auction held (London)
1710 Johan Willem Friso becomes viceroy of Groningen Netherlands
1725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100/scalp bounty
1732 Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna
1737 French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie’s troops occupy Fort August, Scotland
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness
1768 1st American chartered fire insurance company receives charter (Pennsylvania)
1792 US postal service created; postage 6¢-12½¢, depending on distance
1809 Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state
1811 Austria declares bankruptcy
1816 Rossini’s opera “The Barber of Seville” premieres in Rome
1823 English Captain James Weddell reaches 74º 15’ S, 1520 km from South Pole
1831 Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
1832 Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean
1835 Concepción, Chile destroyed by earthquake
1839 Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
1846 British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
1856 John Rutledge, Liverpool-New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die
1861 Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms
1861 Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm
1864 Civil War Battle of Olustee, Florida
1865 M I T establishes 1st US collegiate architectural school
1869 Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
1872 Metropolitan Museum of Art opens (New York NY)
1872 Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
1873 University of California gets its 1st Medical School (University of California/San Francisco)
1877 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY
1877 International Association (minor baseball league) organizes
1887 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)
1887 Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance
1890 Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
1895 Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver CO
1899 Illinois Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
1901 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes
1902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco
1903 Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge
1912 Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture
1915 Panamá-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco
1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die
1917 Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse’s musical “Oh, Boy!” premieres in New York NY
1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
1921 Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
1922 WOR-AM in New York City NY begins radio transmissions
1922 Marc Connelly & George Kaufman’s “To the Ladies” premieres in New York NY
1922 Vilnius, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland
1923 Christy Mathewson becomes president of Boston Braves
1927 Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
1929 American Samoa organized as a territory of US
1929 Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field
1930 Capelle soccer team forms
1931 Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge
1932 Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
1933 House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
1933 Curom, Curaçaose Broadcast System starts Princess Juliana’s speech
1933 Sidney Howard’s “Alien Corn” premieres in New York NY
1934 Virgil Thomson’s opera “4 Saints in 3 Acts” opens in New York NY
1935 Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica
1937 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica CA
1938 UK Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
1940 Larry Clinton & his Orchestra record “Limehouse Blues”
1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
1941 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland
1941 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
1942 Lieutenant E H O’Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
1943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer’s corn patch (México)
1943 Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia
1943 Phil Wrigley & B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League
1944 Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
1944 US takes Eniwetok Island
1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles CA
1947 Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India
1948 Czechoslovakia’s non-communist minister resigns
1949 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal KS)
1950 Dylan Thomas arrives in New York NY for his 1st US poetry reading tour
1950 WOL-AM in Washington DC swaps calls with WWDC
1952 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)
1952 “African Queen” opens at Capitol Theater in New York NY
1953 August A Busch buys the Cardinals for $3.75 million
1953 US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling
1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1954 General Zahedi wins election in Persia
1955 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1956 WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 vs England, 13 wickets for match
1958 Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner
1958 Los Angeles Coliseum Committee approves 2-year pact allows Dodgers to use facility
1962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
1963 Willie Mays (San Francisco Giants) signs a record $100,000 per year contract
1963 End of the Test Cricket careers of Neil Harvey & Alan Davidson
1965 Beatles record “That Means a Lot”
1965 Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data
1965 Turkish government of Uergüplü forms
1966 Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR
1968 State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M
1968 John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth
1971 National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air; The mistake wasn’t resolved for 30 minutes
1971 Bruin Phil Esposito is NHL’s quickest to score 50 goals in a season
1971 Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself President of Uganda
1972 1st time Cleveland Cavaliers beat New York Knicks (111-109)
1972 Ard Schenk becomes world champion skater
1972 Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee
1973 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins
1974 Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1 million from Houston Aeros, WHA
1974 Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono
1975 Leonard Baichan scores 105 on Test Cricket debut, vs Pakistan Lahore
1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 Muhammad Ali KOs Jan Pierre Coopman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1977 “My Fair Lady” closes at St James Theater NYC after 384 performances
1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1978 Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
1978 4th People’s Choice Awards Star Wars, Carol Burnett & Bob Hope
1978 Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in New York, to become WWF wrestling champion
1978 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1979 “Comin’ Uptown” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 45 performances
1980 Actress Susan Dey of “LA Law” weds producer Bernard Sofronski
1981 Flight readiness firing of Columbia’s main engines; 20 seconds
1981 James Sanford equals 50 meter indoor world record (5.61 seconds)
1982 New York Islanders win record 15th straight NHL game
1983 Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)
1983 Roland Liboton becomes world champion cross-country cycling
1985 After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada’s check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
1986 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany NY
1986 Los Angeles Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1 million salary by arbitration
1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City
1987 David Hartman quits ABC’s “Good Morning America”, after 11 years
1988 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
1988 Brian Boitano wins Olympics gold medal in figure skating
1988 Kelly Hrudy’s 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0
1988 Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million
1988 André Hoffmann skates world record 1500 meter (1:52.06)
1988 Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50 meter (6.58 seconds)
1988 Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000 meter (2:16.2)
1988 Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 meters)
1989 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of the deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players
1989 Total eclipse of the Moon
1991 “Taking Steps” opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC for 78 performances
1991 33rd Grammy Awards Another Day in Paradise, Mariah Carey
1992 “Private Lives” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 37 performances
1992 Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands
1992 Ross Perot says he’ll run for President on Larry King Show
1993 Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp
1993 Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1993 New York Islanders retire Billy Smith’s number 31
1994 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
1994 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
1994 Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
1997 “Stanley” opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC
1997 San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds signs record $22.9 million 2 year contract
1998 Tara Lipinski wins Olympics figure skating gold medal
1998 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations
1998 US movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)