0837 Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
0847 St Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0879 Louis III, crowned King of France
1500 France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan
1512 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen
1516 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice
1552 Henri II of France occupies Metz
1589 Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg
1656 Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon
1694 Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale
1739 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
1741 Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz
1790 US Patent system is established
1790 Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth
1815 Austria declares war on realm of Naples
1816 2nd Bank of US chartered
1825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
1825 Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at León
1835 Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile
1841 New York “Tribune” begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley
1845 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh PA
1849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (New York NY); sold rights for $100
1863 Rebel General Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin TN
1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of México
1865 At Appomattox, General Lee issues General Order #9, his last
1866 American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
1868 British defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala
1868 1st performance of John Brahms’ “Ein german Requiem”
1869 Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9
1871 William Hammond Hall’s maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted
1872 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans
1872 Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to April 22
1877 Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia SC
1877 1st human cannonball act performed in London
1878 California State Cable Car Railroad Company starts service
1882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
1884 US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo
1887 President Abraham Lincoln is re-buried with his wife in Springfield IL
1887 Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen
1896 Greek runner Spiridon Loues wins 1st modern Olympic marathon in Athens (2:58:50)
1912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st & last voyage
1913 President Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1
1913 Walter Johnson begins string of 56 consecutive scoreless innings
1916 1st professional golf tournament held
1917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
1923 Hitler demands “hatred & more hatred” in Berlin
1924 Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play
1925 F Scott Fitzgerald publishes “The Great Gatsby”
1925 Czarina re-christens Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
1925 Scribners publishes “The Great Gatsby” by F Scott Fitzgerald
1930 Synthetic rubber 1st produced
1930 George Headley scores 223 vs England at Kingston
1932 Paul von Hindenburg re-elected President of Germany
1934 Stanley Cup Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 3 games to 1
1935 Vaughan Williams’ 4th Symphony premieres in London
1936 200" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena
1938 Austria becomes a state of Germany
1938 2nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France
1938 New York makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
1939 Colijn’s Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
1939 Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
1940 Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian “national government”
1941 German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica
1942 Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
1943 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape Nazi’s
1943 General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia
1944 “Patrolling the Ether” is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously
1944 Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazi’s
1945 NFL’s Boston Yanks & Brooklyn Tigers merge
1945 Canadian troops conquer Deventer
1945 General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of “Fort Holland”
1945 German troops attack Ijsselbrug
1945 US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa
1945 William Schuman & Antony Tudors ballet “Undertow” premieres in NYC
1946 1st election for Japanese Diet
1947 Jackie Robinson became the 1st black in modern major league baseball (Dodgers)
1947 King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned
1948 Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
1949 13th Golf Masters Championship Sam Snead wins, shooting a 282
1953 “House of Wax”, 1st 3-D movie is released (New York NY)
1953 7th NBA Championship Minneapolis Lakers beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 1
1954 KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely
1955 19th Golf Masters Championship Cary Middlecoff wins, shooting a 279
1955 9th NBA Championship Syracuse Nationals beat Fort Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 3
1955 Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine
1956 Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs
1956 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1
1957 John Osborne’s “Entertainer”, premieres in London
1957 Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns
1957 Suez canal reopens for all traffic
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
1959 Japan’s Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda
1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1960 24th Golf Masters Championship Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 282
1960 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1961 25th Golf Masters Championship Gary Player wins, shooting a 280
1961 Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel
1961 Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to President John F Kennedy about New Guinea
1961 New Washington Senators loses 1st regular-season game 4-3 to Chicago White Sox
1962 1st major league game in Houston, Colt 45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2
1962 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th homerun
1962 1st baseball game at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium, they lose 6-3 to Cincinnati Reds
1963 Thresher, US atomic-powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)
1964 Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project
1967 39th Academy Awards - “Man For All Seasons”, E Taylor & P Scofield win
1968 “George M!” opens at Palace Theater NYC for 435 performances
1968 40th Academy Awards - “Heat of the Night”, Rod Steiger & Katharine Hepburn win
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 1st baseball game at Philadelphia’s Veterans Stadium, Phillies beat Montréal Expos 4-1
1971 US table tennis team arrives in People’s Rebublic of China
1972 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
1972 US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
1973 BEA Vanguard Turboprop flight to Basel Switzerland, crashes into wooded hillside during landing, killing 107 of 143
1973 Kansas City opens its new park, Royals Stadium, with 12-1 rout of Texas Rangers
1973 Pakistan suspends constitution
1974 American Boccaccio Association is established
1974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir
1974 Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet
1975 New York Rangers score 8 goals against New York Islanders in playoffs
1976 Brewers’ Don Money’s grand slammer disallowed-Yankees win 9-7
1976 Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title
1977 41st Golf Masters Championship Tom Watson wins, shooting a 276
1977 Beverly Klass wins LPGA Women’s International Golf Satellite
1977 Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inning game (3:17)
1978 Formation of the Major Indoor Soccer League is announced
1979 Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
1979 J R Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome
1981 “Caveman” with Ringo premieres
1981 Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament
1981 France performs nuclear test
1982 Los Angeles Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton Oilers in the 3rd period, win in OT 6-5
1982 Pittsburgh Penguins 2-New York Islanders 1 (OT) - Preliminary - Islanders hold 2-1 lead
1983 Washington Capitals 3-New York Islanders 6 - Patrick Division Semifinals - Islanders win series 3-2
1983 Baltimore’s Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit
1983 Hennie Kuiper (Netherlands) wins Paris-Roubaix cycle race
1983 Jordan’s King Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO
1983 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1984 Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
1984 John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1984 US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
1985 At 80, Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game
1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission
1985 Washington Capitals 4-New York Islanders 3 (OT) - Patrick Division Semifinals - Capitals hold 1-0 lead
1986 “Big Deal” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 70 performances
1986 Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan
1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 Herschel Walker performs the Fort Worth Ballet
1988 New York Islanders beat New Jersey Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2
1988 52nd Golf Masters Championship Sandy Lyle wins, shooting a 281
1988 8th Golden Raspberry Awards Leonard Part 6 wins
1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA San Diego Inamori Golf Classic
1989 Intel corp announces shipment of the 80486 chip
1989 10th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1989 24th Academy of Country Music Awards Hank Williams Jr, Alabama win
1989 H J Heinz, Van Camp Seafood & Bumble Bee Seafood say they will not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins
1990 CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan
1990 Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown
1991 Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, New York NY)
1991 Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138
1991 Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores NHL record 93rd playoff goal
1991 Martin Zubero swims world record 200 meter backstroke (1:52.51)
1992 Floriade (Flower Show) opens at the Hague, Netherlands
1992 NHL strike ends after 10 days
1992 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka
1993 BPAA US Open by Del Ballard Jr
1993 Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (New York Islanders) after 38 straight loses
1993 Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak
1994 “Les Miserables”, opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka Japan
1994 58th Golf Masters Championship Jose M Olazabal wins, shooting a 279
1995 “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 24 performances
1995 NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more