1379 End of Gelderse war victory
1545 German Parliament opens in Worms
1550 France & England sign Peace of Boulogne
1603 Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England
1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
1645 Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS Roman Catholic emperor Ferdinand III
1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
1721 Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts
1734 Netherlands’ William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover
1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers
1792 Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London
1801 Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia
1828 Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
1832 Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio
1837 Canada gives blacks the right to vote
1848 State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam
1855 Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston KS
1860 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in San Francisco, 89 days out of New York
1868 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms
1877 University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat
1878 British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
1880 Tobacco Growers’ Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut
1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
1883 1st telephone call between New York & Chicago
1887 Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes “The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge” (BG)
1894 37 miners killed at Franklin WA
1898 1st automobile sold
1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world
1910 83ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1913 Netherlands soccer team’s 1st victory over England
1913 Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway NYC
1920 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
1922 Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish
1924 Greece becomes a republic
1925 KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions
1926 The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands
1927 Cuban chess champion, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie
1927 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Netherlands’ Wielingen Treaty
1930 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS, New York NY)
1930 Planet Pluto named
1930 Rÿnsburgse Boys soccer team forms
1932 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker, WABC from Maryland)
1933 Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
1934 US declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945
1935 Major Bowes’ Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
1936 Red Wings beat Montréal Maroons in 16 minutes & 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 minutes), ends 1-0
1937 Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem IL)
1937 National Gallery of Art established by Congress
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 Long Island University beats Ohio University 56-42 for NIT basketball championship
1941 Richard Wright & Paul Green’s “Native Son” premieres in New York NY
1944 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape)
1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 In occupied Rome, Nazis executed more than 300 civilians
1945 General 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 East of Rhine
1945 US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
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 Oscars (actor & director of “Treasure of Sierra Madre”)
1950 Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship
1950 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1950 US Men’s Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button
1952 Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa
1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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 on Broadway for 694 performances
1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)
1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact
1960 US appeals court rules novel, “Lady Chatterly’s Lover”, not obscene
1961 New York Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows
1962 24th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Cincinnati beats Ohio State 71-59
1962 Benny Paret, KO’d in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later
1962 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys
1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued
1965 US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of crater Alphonsus
1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
1967 University of Michigan holds 1st “Teach-in” after bombing of North Vietnam
1968 Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational
1970 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piët ends “Sjors & Sjimmie” strip
1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
1973 Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA champion
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 San Francisco 49er president Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams
1974 36th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Marquette 76-64; this ends UCLA’s 7 year reign as NCAA basketball champions
1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 to retain the heavyweight boxing title
1976 Argentine President Isabel Perón deposed by country’s military
1978 Wings release “With a Little Luck”
1979 "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances
1979 10 rebounds & 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by University of Pennsylvania; Michigan State’s Earvin “Magic” Johnson registers triple-double 29 points
1979 1st appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes
1979 Columbia flown on aircraft carrier lands at Kennedy Space Center
1980 42nd NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54
1980 ABC’s nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed “Nightline with Ted Koppel”
1980 Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks
1981 Bombay beat Delhi by innings & 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy
1981 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba
1982 US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1984 Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7 :4.52)
1984 Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14 :1.51)
1984 IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics
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 Australia, Sharjah)
1986 58th Academy Awards: “Out of Africa”, William Hurt & Geraldine Page win
1986 NASA publishes “Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status”
1986 Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
1986 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
1987 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win
1987 Western Australia win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
1988 "Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 performances
1988 Quarterback Dan Fouts retires
1989 Mary Martin in “Peter Pan”, 1st time seen on TV since 1973
1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon’s Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons off Alaska
1990 Indian troops leave Sri Lanka
1990 Tom Hunter swims world record 50 meter freestyle (21.81 seconds)
1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
1991 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can’t Do It win
1991 Barcelona Dragons beat New York/New Jersey 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 New York Yankees beat New York Mets, 9-3
1991 Wrestlemania VII in Los Angeles, Hulk Hogan pins Sergeant Slaughter for championship
1992 "Jake’s Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 245 performances
1992 1st Belgian in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
1992 Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens; 5-6 die
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 North Carolina, 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
1997 69th Academy Awards: “The English Patient”, Tom Cruise & Frances McDormand win
1997 Australian parliament overturns world’s 1st & only euthanasia law