0451 Attila’s Hun’s plunder Metz
1118 Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
1348 Prague U, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV
1456 Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
1498 Crowd storms Savonarola’s convent San Marco Florence Italy
1509 France declares war on Venice
1521 Inquisitor-General Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
1521 Magelhaes’ fleet reaches Cebu
1584 Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma
1625 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander
1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
1652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa
1655 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
1712 Slave revolt (New York NY)
1724 Johann S Bach’s “John Passion” premieres in Leipzig
1788 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
1798 Territory of Mississippi is organized
1805 Premiere of Beethoven’s “Eroica” (conducted by himself)
1818 General Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks FL from Seminole Indians
1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
1831 Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil
1860 Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
1862 Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee; Island #10 falls
1863 Battle of Charleston SC, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter
1865 Battle of Farmville VA
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Yellow Face” (BG)
1891 Nebraska introduces the 8 hour work day
1901 SDAP demands General voting right/abolishing First Chamber
1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
1906 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business
1917 De Falla’s ballet “El Sombrero de tres Picos”, premieres in Madrid
1917 James Barries’ “Old Lady Shows Her”, premieres in London
1919 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks
1922 Naval Reserve #3, “Teapot Dome”, leased to Harry F Sinclair
1923 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
1923 Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo CA)
1926 Mussolini’s Irish wife breaks his nose
1927 Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington DC to New York NY
1928 44-year old New York Ranger General Manager Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game, & beats Montréal Maroons 2-1
1931 Seals Stadium opens in San Francisco
1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
1933 University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
1933 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bar Jews from legal & public service
1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience
1939 Italy annexes Albania
1940 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T Washington)
1940 7th Golf Masters Championship Jimmy Demaret beats Lloyd Mangrum, shooting a 280
1941 British Generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 NFL adopts free substitution rule
1943 Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet for an Axis conference in Salzburg
1943 British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1943 Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded in allied air raid
1944 General Montgomery speaks to Generals about invasion plan
1945 1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers
1945 US B-17’s bombs range at Lüneburg
1945 US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission; superbattleship Yamato & four destroyers are sunk
1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
1946 10th Golf Masters Championship Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282
1948 World Health Organization established by UN
1949 Rogers & Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” opens at Majestic Theater (for 1928 performances)
1951 American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
1951 15th Golf Masters Championship Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280
1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1953 Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden elected 2nd UN General-Secretary
1954 German government refuses to recognize DDR
1954 President Dwight Eisenhower fears “domino-effect” in Indo-China
1954 WALB TV channel 10 in Albany GA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
1956 10th NBA Championship Philadelphia Warriors beat Fort Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1
1957 21st Golf Masters Championship Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283
1957 Last of New York’s electric trolleys completes its final run
1958 Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at Los Angeles Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line
1959 Radar 1st bounced off sun, Stanford CA
1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
1962 Umrigar slams 172 vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes
1962 Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
1963 27th Golf Masters Championship Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286
1963 Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors
1965 Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man New Zealand vs Pakistan
1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
1967 Israeli/Syrian border fights
1967 Tom Donahue, San Francisco dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM)
1969 Dodgers’ Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds
1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
1969 Ted Williams begins managing Washington Senators, they lose to Yankees 8-4
1970 “Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds”, premieres in NYC
1970 42nd Academy Awards - “Midnight Cowboy”, John Wayne & Maggie Smith win
1970 Milwaukee Brewers (former Seattle Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0
1971 Dismissal of Curt Flood’s suit against baseball is upheld by Supreme Court
1971 President Richard Nixon orders Lieutenant Calley (My Lai) free
1971 WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge US Circuit Court of Appeals
1973 Cleveland sets day-game & opening-game attendance records of 74,420
1973 Doug Walters’ best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 vs West Indies Georgetown
1974 Herb Gardner’s “Thieves”, premieres in NYC
1976 Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
1977 Consumer Product Safety Commission bans the flame-retardant chemical “TRIS”
1977 Toronto Blues Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5
1978 President Jimmy Carter defers production of the neutron bomb
1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
1978 US Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn’s voiding of attempted player sales by A’s owner Charlie Finley in June 1976
1979 Henri La Mothe dives 28’ into 12 3/8" of water
1979 Houston Astro Ken Forsch pitches no-hitter against Atlanta Braves, 6-0
1979 Islander’s Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers
1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 seconds
1981 Belgium Eyskens government forms
1982 Pittsburgh Penguins 1-New York Islanders 8-Preliminary-Islanders hold 1-0 lead
1982 Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
1983 Washington Capitals 4-New York Islanders 2-Patrick Division Semifinals-series tied 1-1
1983 WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480 women bowlers for 83-day event
1983 Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
1984 Detroit Tiger Jack Morris pitches no-hitter against Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1985 1st live telecast of Easter Parade
1985 14th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller
1985 New Jersey General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards
1986 Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy
1987 National Museum of Female Physicians opens in Washington DC
1988 New Jersey Devils 3-2 over New York Islanders, 1st NHL playoff round tied 1-1
1988 Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested
1988 Russia announces it will withdraw its troops from Afghánistán
1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 New York Supreme Court takes America’s Cup away from San Diego Yacht Club for using a catamaran against New Zealand; Appeals court eventually overrules
1989 Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
1990 Farm Aid IV concert
1990 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
1990 John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
1990 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
1990 New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary NHL playoff
1990 BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr
1991 George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
1991 Wrestlemania VII scheduled in Los Angeles CA, actually performed 03/24
1991 “Big Love” closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 41 performances
1991 “Shadowlands” closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 169 performances
1991 3rd Seniors Golf Tradition Jack Nicklaus
1991 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Ping/Welch’s Golf Championship
1991 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
1993 Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colorado Rockie homerun (Shea Stadium, New York)
1994 “Medea” opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 82 performances
1994 1st night game at Cleveland’s Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2
1994 New York Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6
1994 Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton
1994 Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
1994 Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi’s killing Jews) for 1st time
1995 Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike
1996 8th Seniors Golf Tradition Jack Nicklaus wins
1996 Jayasuriya hits fastest ODI fifty off 17 balls vs Pakistan, Singapore
1996 Kelly Robbins wins Sacramento 12 Bridges LPGA Golf Classic
1996 Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fort Myers FL on WRXK 96.1 FM