0999 Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope
1416 Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragón
1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain
1550 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
1559 England/France signs 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis
1590 States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht
1595 Cornelis de Houtman’s ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope
1645 Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander
1745 Austria & Bavaria sign peace
1792 Congress establishes Philadelphia mint; US authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & $2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime
1800 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven’s 1st Symphony in C
1819 1st successful agricultural journal (“The American Farmer”) begins
1827 Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils
1845 H L Fizeau & J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun
1860 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin
1863 Bread revolt in Richmond VA
1864 Skirmish at Crump’s Hill (Piney Woods), Louisiana
1864 Skirmish at Spoonville/Antoine AR
1865 CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond VA
1865 General A P Hill is killed by a Federal Picket
1865 Lee’s line is broken at Petersberg
1865 Battle of Fort Blakely AL & Selma AL
1865 Battle of Petersburg VA (Fort Gregg, Sutherland’s Station)
1866 President Andrew Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee & Virginia
1870 Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for US President
1872 George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine
1876 Philadelphia A’s & Boston Red Caps play 1st National League game, in Philadelphia
1877 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
1878 1st issue of Rotterdam’s Newspaper
1883 Battle at Bamako French assault on Fabous arm forces attack
1884 London prison for debtors closed
1900 1st edition of The Volk published (Amsterdam)
1902 1st motion picture theater opens (Los Angeles CA)
1902 Soccer team MVV ‘02 forms in Maastricht
1905 Cairo-Capetown railway opens
1906 South Africa completes a 4-1 series drubbing of England
1908 Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
1912 Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China
1916 German troops overtake Bois de Caillette
1917 President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
1917 Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st woman member of US House of Representatives
1921 Professor Albert Einstein lectures in NYC on his new theory of relativity
1926 Riots between Moslems & Hindus in Calcutta
1930 1st New York-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
1931 Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga TN
1932 Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son
1935 Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer
1935 Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR
1939 6th Golf Masters Championship Ralph Guldahl wins, shooting a 279
1941 German occupier disallows Dutch scouting association
1941 USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from San Francisco
1944 CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy
1944 Dmitri Shostakovitch’s 8th Symphony, premieres in New York
1944 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
1945 1st US units reach east coast of Okinawa
1947 Carlo Terron’s “Il diamente del profeta”, premieres in Rome
1950 WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 Raab forms his 1st government in Austria
1954 Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced
1955 Pancho Gonzales retains tennis title by winning a tournament playing under table tennis rules
1955 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1955 US male Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1956 Soap operas “As the World Turns” & “Edge of Night” premiere on TV
1956 Peter Ustinov’s “Romanoff & Juliet” premieres in Manchester England
1958 National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
1958 Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado in Wichita Falls TX (record)
1958 Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens
1960 Cuba buys oil from USSR
1960 KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma WA (PBS) 1st broadcast
1963 Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km)
1963 USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km
1964 USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
1964 Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria
1964 Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted
1965 Hochhuths play “Stellvertreter” banned in Italy
1966 Soviet Union’s Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
1966 WJET TV channel 24 in Erie PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 Actress Lynn Redgrave marries John Clark
1967 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational
1968 Beatles form Python Music Ltd
1968 Chad creates Union of Central African States
1968 Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin
1969 Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)
1970 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, the highest final stage in a wall climb in the world
1970 Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India’s Assam state
1970 Qatar gains independence from Britain
1971 Sci-fi soap opera “Dark Shadows” concludes an almost 5 year run
1972 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt
1972 44th Academy Awards - “French Connection”, Gene Hackman & Jane Fonda win
1972 Tennessee Williams’ “Small Craft Warnings” premieres in NYC
1973 Ed Kemper stuffs mother’s throat in disposal
1973 CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day
1973 ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean presidential election
1974 Arganat Committee publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
1974 46th Academy Awards - “The Sting”, Glenda Jackson & Jack Lemmon win
1974 Tony Greig takes 8-86 vs West Indies Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inning)
1976 A’s trade prospective free agents Reggie Jackson & Ken Holtzman, to Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez & Paul Mitchell
1976 Cambodia’s Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier
1976 Portuguese constitution assumed
1977 Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors”, album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
1977 Montréal Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a loss
1978 TV show “Dallas” premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
1978 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
1978 Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, vs Australia Georgetown
1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market
1979 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt/meets President Sadat
1980 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season
1981 Belgium’s 4th government of Martens resigns
1981 Heavy battle between Christian militia & Syrian army in East Lebanon
1982 In exhibition game A’s pitcher Steve McCatty comes to bat using a 15” toy bat (under Billy Martins orders), protesting disallowing of DH
1982 Several thousand Argentine troops seize disputed Falkland (Malvinas) Islands
1984 46th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Georgetown beats Houston 84-75
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece
1986 George Corley Wallace (Governor-Democrat-AL) announces retirement plans
1986 NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance)
1987 "Mikado" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 46 performances
1987 Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation
1987 IBM introduces PS/2 & OS/2
1988 Simply Majestic sets horse racing’s 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45
1988 Test Cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, West Indies vs Pakistan, Georgetown
1989 Yankees beat Mets 4-0, sweeping 1989 mayor’s trophy series in 2 games
1989 18th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
1989 8th NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship Tennessee beats Auburn 76-60
1989 Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats “Macho Man” Savage
1990 52nd NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Nevada-Las Vegas beats Duke 103-73
1991 Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing
1992 Country singer Wynonna Judd’s 1st appearance as a single act
1992 John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
1992 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands
1992 "Hamlet" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 Edith Cresson, France’s 1st female premier, resigns
1993 1st test flight of Fokker 70 (Amsterdam)
1993 Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10
1994 1st exhibition game played at Jacobs Field, Pirates beat Indians, 6-4
1995 14th NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship University of Connecticut Huskies beats Tennessee 70-64
1995 7th Seniors Golf Tradition Jack Nicklaus
1995 New York Police Department & New York Transit Police merge into one organization
1995 North & Western Colorado begins using new area code 970
1995 Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to delay start of season until April 26
1995 Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
1995 Wrestlemania XI in Connecticut-Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow
1996 Sri Lanka 9-349 in 50 overs beat Pakistan 315 all out, Singapore Jayasuriya hits ton in 48 balls, world ODI record at Singapore
1996 Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1,097th career game
1997 "Doll’s House", opens at Belasco Theater NYC
1998 World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minneapolis MN; Russian Alexei Yagudin wins
2000 19th NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship at Corel State Spectrum
2001 63rd NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship at Metrodome Minneapolis