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1.4.374Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth
1.4.527Justinianus becomes compassionate emperor of Byzantium
1.4.705Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI
1.4.1064Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik
1.4.1504English guilds/corp goes under state control
1.4.1572Bloys van Treslong conquers Brielle
1.4.1578William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation
1.4.1581Portugese Cortes subjects himself on Philip II
1.4.1663Gemert fines unwed motherhood (50 guilder penalty)
1.4.1724Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War
1.4.1724Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters
1.4.1748Ruins of Pompeii found
1.4.1776"Friedrich von Klinger's ""Sturm und Drang,"" premieres in Leipzig"
1.4.1778"Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates ""$"" symbol"
1.4.1789"House of Representatives 1st full meeting, New York City, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker"
1.4.1792Gronings feminist Etta Palm demands women's right to divorce
1.4.1793"Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000"
1.4.1803French law rules the use of intention
1.4.1826Samuel Mory patents internal combustion engine
1.4.1836Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Cocos Islands
1.4.1850San Francisco County Government established
1.4.1853Cincinnati became 1st U.S. city to pay fire fighters a regular salary
1.4.1862"Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA"
1.4.18631st wartime conscription law in U.S. goes into effect
1.4.1865"Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army"
1.4.1866U.S. Congress rejects presidential veto gives all equal rights in US
1.4.1867"Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama"
1.4.1867International Exhibition opens in Paris
1.4.1867"Singapore, Penang and Malakka become British crown colonies"
1.4.1868Hampton Institute opens
1.4.18721st edition of The Standard
1.4.1873"British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die"
1.4.1873"Mehmed Kemals play ""Vatan"" premeres in Constantinople"
1.4.1876"1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Phila-5)"
1.4.1881Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem
1.4.1881Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens
1.4.1888Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam
1.4.18891st dishwashing machine marketed in Chicago
1.4.1891London-Paris telephone connection opens
1.4.1891Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti
1.4.1899North Carolina Mutual opens doors for business
1.4.1900"1st edition of Dutch newspaper ""The People"""
1.4.1905British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya
1.4.1910"Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk"
1.4.1914UVS Soccer team forms in Lead
1.4.19161st U.S. national women's swiming championships held
1.4.1918England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force
1.4.1918Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St. New York City
1.4.1920Church disforms in Wales
1.4.1920"Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle (PCHA), 3 games to 2"
1.4.1924Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co
1.4.1924Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but Gen Ludendorff acquitted
1.4.1924Imperial Airways forms in Britain
1.4.19251st transmission of Danish state radio
1.4.1925"Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated"
1.4.1926Halsteren Soccer team forms in Halsteren
1.4.19271st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice
1.4.1928Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse
1.4.1929Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls
1.4.1929Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens
1.4.1929Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
1.4.1929"Luis Bunuel releases ""Un Chien Andalou,"" 24-minute film"
1.4.1929"Morehouse College, Spellman College and Atlanta University affiliate"
1.4.1930"""Blue Angel,"" starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America"
1.4.1931"Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000"
1.4.1931Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball
1.4.1933"Hammond scores 336* vs. NZ at Auckland, 47 fours 10 sixes"
1.4.1933Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany
1.4.1933Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses
1.4.1934Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers
1.4.1935"1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, New York"
1.4.1936Orissa constituted a province of British India
1.4.1937Aden becomes British crown colony
1.4.1938"Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York"
1.4.1938Joe Louis KOs Harry Thomas in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1.4.1939U.S. recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain
1.4.1941"Lillian Hellman's ""Watch on the Rhine,"" premieres in New York City"
1.4.1941"Navy takes over Treasure Island, in San Francisco Bay"
1.4.1941Nazi's forbid Jews access to cafes
1.4.1941Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq
1.4.1942Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor
1.4.1942Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2
1.4.1944"German Abwehr ends England spiel, after 132 killed"
1.4.1944"Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India"
1.4.19451st edition of Indonesia Merdeka publishes
1.4.1945"Canadian troop free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo and Eibergen"
1.4.1945Ruhrgebied sealed off by U.S. 1st and 9th army
1.4.1945Sons of Elburger Soccer team forms in Elburg
1.4.1945U.S. forces invade Okinawa during WW II
1.4.1946"400,000 U.S. mine workers strike"
1.4.1946"Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo, Hawaii"
1.4.1946Van Acker forms Belgian government (without CVP)
1.4.1946Weight Watchers forms
1.4.19471st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat
1.4.1948H H H Johnson bowls WI to win vs. England 10-96 match on debut
1.4.1952U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1.4.1953J van Bale appointed governor of New Guinea
1.4.1953"KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting"
1.4.1953Walcott Worrell and Weekes all make centuries in innings vs. India
1.4.1954"1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC"
1.4.1954"1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens"
1.4.1954"Earthquake and tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed"
1.4.1954U.S. Air Force Academy forms
1.4.1954"WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting"
1.4.1955Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam
1.4.1955EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus
1.4.1955"WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (CBS) 1st broadcast"
1.4.195610th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank and Damn Yankees win
1.4.1956"KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting"
1.4.1956"Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380"
1.4.1957Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising
1.4.1957World's biggest glass oven used
1.4.1957"WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, Louisiana (PBS) begins broadcasting"
1.4.1958"KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, California (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting"
1.4.1958Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank
1.4.1960"2nd French atom bomb explodes in the Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria"
1.4.1960Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee
1.4.1960RCA TIROS (TV and Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched
1.4.1960U Nu elected premier of Burma
1.4.1961Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye
1.4.1963New York City's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
1.4.1963"New York Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Dodgers for $40,000"
1.4.1963"Soap operas ""General Hospital"" and ""Doctors"" premier on TV"
1.4.196410 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
1.4.1964John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years
1.4.1964"Robert Lowell's ""Benito Cereno,"" premieres in New York City"
1.4.1965South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years
1.4.1965"Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control"
1.4.19661st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
1.4.1966"China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts ""Cultural revolution"""
1.4.19671st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work
1.4.1968"KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast"
1.4.1969Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corp
1.4.1969Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals
1.4.1970Bud Selig becomes CEO of Milwaukee Brewers
1.4.1970John and Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations
1.4.1970"Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bank"
1.4.1970President Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements on 1/1/71
1.4.1971U.S. and Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
1.4.1971United Kingdom lifts all restrictions on gold ownership
1.4.1972"30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico"
1.4.1972Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike
1.4.1973Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Classic
1.4.1973Japan allows its citizens to own gold
1.4.1973"John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence"
1.4.1974Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran
1.4.1974Pioneer Hall opens
1.4.1974"Yourdon, Inc forms"
1.4.1975Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer
1.4.1976Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer
1.4.1977Attempt for Moslem state in Chad fails
1.4.1977NFL decides to experiment with a 7th official in some preseason games
1.4.1979Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
1.4.1979Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1.4.1980Baseball Players Association votes to cancel 92 remaining exhibition games
1.4.1980Failed assassination attempt on Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz
1.4.1980France performs nuclear test
1.4.1980Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's record with 103rd assist
1.4.1981CNN airs a videotape that shows that Tamara Rand predicted that Reagan is in danger from someone named Jack Humley (a hoax)
1.4.1982"Anguilla, dependent territory of U.K., adopts constitution"
1.4.1982U.S. formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama
1.4.1983Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England
1.4.1983New York Islander Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons seasons
1.4.1984"14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000"
1.4.19843rd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: Southern California beats Tenn 72-61
1.4.19848 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours
1.4.198547th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Villanova beats Georgetown 84-75
1.4.1986Delhi beat Haryana by innings and 141 to win Ranji Trophy
1.4.1986U.S. submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea
1.4.1986World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel
1.4.1989"1st New York Mets - New York Yankee game in New York City since 1983, Yanks win 4-3"
1.4.1989A Bartlett Giamatti replaces Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of baseball
1.4.199019th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1.4.19902nd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus wins
1.4.19909th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn 88-81
1.4.1990CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger
1.4.1990"Guns and Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames"
1.4.1990"""Ha!"" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting"
1.4.1990It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers
1.4.1990Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour
1.4.1990"Wrestlemania VI, 67,678 in Toronto, Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan"
1.4.199153rd NCAA Mens Basketball Champion: Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65
1.4.1991Dwight Goodin signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with New York Mets
1.4.1991Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years
1.4.1991Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race
1.4.1991U.S. minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour
1.4.1991Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
1.4.1992"5th Largest wrestling crowd (64,287-Toronto SkyDome)"
1.4.1992"Battleship USS Missouri, on which, Japan surrendered, decommissioned"
1.4.1992Last defendant in St. John sex assault case sentenced to 3 years prob
1.4.1992NFL decides to stay with 17 week sched instead of expanded 18 games
1.4.1992NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history
1.4.1992"Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman"
1.4.1992WA beat NSW by 44 runs to win the Sheffield Shield Final
1.4.1992World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former U.S.S.R.
1.4.1993"Alan Bennett's ""Madness of George III,"" premieres in London"
1.4.1993Stephane Powers weds Patrick de la Chenais
1.4.1994"Bob Feller Statue on Indians Plaza, dedicated"
1.4.1995Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee
1.4.1995New York Islanders retire Bobby Nystrom's uniform #23
1.4.199658th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Syracuse 76-67
1.4.1996Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Boston MA on WBCN 104.1 FM
1.4.199769 year old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse Crunch
1.4.1997Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU)
1.4.1998World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Minn
1.4.200120th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at St. Louis
1.4.200264th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Georgia Dome Atlanta
2.4.999Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope
2.4.1416Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragon
2.4.1513"Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon"
2.4.1550Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
2.4.1559England/France signs 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambresis
2.4.1590"States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht"
2.4.1595Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope
2.4.1645Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander
2.4.1745Austria and Bavaria sign peace
2.4.1792Congress establishes Philadelphia mint
2.4.1792"U.S. authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle and 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins and silver dollar, dollar, quarter, dime and half-dime"
2.4.18001st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C
2.4.1819"1st successful agricultural journal (""American Farmer"") begins"
2.4.1827Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils
2.4.1845H L Fizeau and J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun
2.4.18601st Italian Parliament met at Turin
2.4.1863Bread revolt in Richmond Virginia
2.4.1864"Skirmish at Crump's Hill (Piney Woods), Louisiana"
2.4.1864"Skirmish at Spoonville/Antoine, Arkansas"
2.4.1865Battle of Ft. Blakely AL and Selma AL
2.4.1865"Battle of Petersburg, Virginia (Ft. Gregg, Sutherland's Station)"
2.4.1865"CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA"
2.4.1866"President Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia"
2.4.1870Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for U.S. pres
2.4.1872George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine
2.4.1876"Philadelphia A's and Boston Red Caps play 1st NL game, in Phila"
2.4.18771st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
2.4.18781st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper
2.4.1883Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack
2.4.1884London prison for debtors closed
2.4.19001st edition of The Volk published in Amsterdam
2.4.19021st motion picture theater opens in Los Angeles
2.4.1902Soccer team MVV '02 forms in Maastricht
2.4.1905Cairo-Capetown railway opens
2.4.1906South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England
2.4.1908Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
2.4.1912Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China
2.4.1912Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
2.4.1916German troops overtake Bois de Caillette
2.4.1917Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of U.S. House of Representatives
2.4.1917President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
2.4.1921Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new theory of relativity
2.4.1926Riots between Moslems and Hindus in Calcutta
2.4.19301st NewYork - Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
2.4.1931"Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee"
2.4.1932"Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son"
2.4.1935"Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer"
2.4.1935Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR
2.4.1939"6th Golf Masters Championship: Ralph Guldahl wins, shooting a 279"
2.4.1941USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from SF
2.4.1944CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy
2.4.1944"Dmitri Shostakovitch' 8th Symphony, premieres in NY"
2.4.1944Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
2.4.19451st U.S. units reach east coast of Okinawa
2.4.1947"Carlo Terron's ""Il diamente del profeta,"" premieres in Rome"
2.4.1950"WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk, Virginia (CBS) begins broadcasting"
2.4.1953Raab forms his 1st government in Austria
2.4.1954Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced
2.4.1955Pancho Gonzales retains tennis title by winning a tournament playing under table tennis rules
2.4.1955U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
2.4.1955U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
2.4.1956"Peter Ustinovs' ""Romanoff and Juliet,"" premieres in Manchester"
2.4.1956"Soap operas ""As the World Turns"" and ""Edge of Night"" premieres on TV"
2.4.1958"Antillean Brewery, maker of Amstel beer, opens"
2.4.1958National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
2.4.1958"Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, Texas (record)"
2.4.1960Cuba buys oil from U.S.S.R.
2.4.1960"KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma, WA (PBS) 1st broadcast"
2.4.1963Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km)
2.4.1963"U.S.S.R. launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km"
2.4.1964Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria
2.4.1964"Military coup in Brazil by Gen Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted"
2.4.1964U.S.S.R. launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
2.4.1965"Hochhuths play ""Stellvertreter"" banned in Italy"
2.4.1966Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
2.4.1966"WJET TV channel 24 in Erie, Pennsylvania (ABC) begins broadcasting"
2.4.1967Actress Lynn Redgrave marries John Clark
2.4.1967Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational
2.4.1968Beatles form Python Music Ltd.
2.4.1968Chad creates Union of Central African States
2.4.1968Senator Mccarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin
2.4.1969Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)
2.4.1970"2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final stage in a wall climb in world"
2.4.1970Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state
2.4.1970Qatar gains independence from Britain
2.4.1971"Sci-fi soap opera ""Dark Shadows"" concludes an almost 5 year run"
2.4.1972"44th Academy Awards - ""French Connection,"" G Hackman and Jane Fonda win"
2.4.1972"Tennessee Williams' ""Small Craft Warnings,"" premieres in New York City"
2.4.1973CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day
2.4.1973Ed Kemper stuffs mother's throat in disposal
2.4.1973ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean President election
2.4.1974"46th Academy Awards - ""Stng,"" Glenda Jackson and Jack Lemmon win"
2.4.1974Arganat Commission publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
2.4.1974Tony Greig takes 8-86 vs. WI Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inn)
2.4.1976"A's trade prospective free agents Reggie Jackson and Ken Holtzman, to Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez and Paul Mitchell"
2.4.1976Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier
2.4.1976Portuguese constitution assumed
2.4.1977"Fleetwood Mac's ""Rumors,"" album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks"
2.4.1977Mont Canadiens set NHL record of 34 straight home games without a lose
2.4.19787th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
2.4.1978"Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, vs. Aust Georgetown"
2.4.1978"TV show ""Dallas"" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)"
2.4.1978Velcro was 1st put on the market
2.4.1979Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo
2.4.1980Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season
2.4.1981Belgium's 4th government of Martens resigns
2.4.1981Heavy battle between Christian militia and Syrian army in East Lebanon
2.4.1982"Argentina seizes Malvinas, also known as the Falkland Islands"
2.4.1982"In exhibition game A's pitcher Steve McCatty comes to bat using a 15"" toy bat (under Billy Martins orders), protesting disallowing of DH"
2.4.198446th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Georgetown beats Houston 84-75
2.4.1985U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
2.4.19864 U.S. passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece
2.4.1986George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans
2.4.1986NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance)
2.4.1987Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation
2.4.1987IBM introduces PS/2 and OS/2
2.4.1987"""Mikado"" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 46 performances"
2.4.1988Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45
2.4.1988"Test Cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, WI vs. Pakistan, Georgetown"
2.4.198918th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
2.4.19898th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Auburn 76-60
2.4.1989"Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats ""Macho Man"" Savage"
2.4.1989"Yanks beat Mets 4-0, sweeping 1989 mayor's trophy series in 2 games"
2.4.199052nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Nevada-LV beats Duke 103-73
2.4.1991Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing
2.4.1992"Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns"
2.4.1992"""Hamlet"" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances"
2.4.1992John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
2.4.1992Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands
2.4.19931st test flight of Fokker 70 in Amsterdam
2.4.1993"Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10"
2.4.1994"1st exhibition game played at Jacobs Field, Pirates beat Indians, 6-4"
2.4.199514th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: University of Ct Huskies beats Tennessee 70-64
2.4.19957th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
2.4.1995Baseball season opener delayed until April 26
2.4.1995New York Police Department and New York Transit Police merge into one organization
2.4.1995North and Western Colorado begins using new area code 970
2.4.1995"Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4/26"
2.4.1995Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
2.4.1995Wrestlemania XI in Conn-Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow
2.4.1996"Sri Lanka 9-349 in 50 overs beat Pakistan 315 all out, Singapore Jayasuriya hits ton in 48 balls, world ODI record at Singapore"
2.4.1996"Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1,097th career game"
2.4.1997"""Doll's House,"" opens at Belasco Theater New York City"
2.4.1998World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota
2.4.200019th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Corel State Spectrum
2.4.200163rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Metrodome Minneapolis
3.4.419[Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
3.4.1043Edward the Confessor crowned king of England
3.4.13122nd council of Vienna
3.4.1376"Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France"
3.4.1559Spain and France signs 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambresis
3.4.1582French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen
3.4.1645English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance
3.4.1657English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
3.4.1679Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig
3.4.1721Robert Walpole becomes England's 1st Lord of the Treasury
3.4.1764Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king
3.4.1776Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
3.4.1783Sweden and U.S. sign a treaty of Amity and Commerce
3.4.1790"Revenue Marine Service, U.S. Coast Guard, created"
3.4.1848Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher
3.4.1856"Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos"
3.4.1860Pony Express began between St. Joseph Missouri and Sacramento California
3.4.1864"Skirmish at Okolona, Arkansas"
3.4.1865"Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)"
3.4.1865Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Virginia and Petersberg
3.4.1868"An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave"
3.4.1882"Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks"
3.4.1889"Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Virginia"
3.4.1893"1st NSW vs. Queensland F-C game, at Brisbane Exhibition Ground"
3.4.1908Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hrs
3.4.1910"Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed"
3.4.1911"Harry James Smith' ""Mrs. Bumsted-Leigh,"" premieres in New York City"
3.4.1913British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
3.4.1917Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd
3.4.1918House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
3.4.1919Austria expels all Habsburgers
3.4.1922Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
3.4.1923"2 ""Black Sox"" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary"
3.4.1925Great Britain goes back to gold standard
3.4.1925Netherlands and Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
3.4.19261st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C
3.4.19262nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
3.4.1926Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
3.4.1927Interstate Commerce Commission transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
3.4.1929Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
3.4.1930Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
3.4.1930Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games
3.4.19331st airplane flight over Mt. Everest
3.4.1933Then longest North American hockey game requires a 1:44:46 overtime as Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0
3.4.1935Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44)
3.4.1936"Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch, :07 of 1st round"
3.4.1936Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds
3.4.1941Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
3.4.1941Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq
3.4.1941"Waltons overture ""Scapino,"" premieres in Chicago"
3.4.1943Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested
3.4.1944British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz
3.4.1944"Supreme Court (Smith vs. Allwright) ""white primaries"" unconstitutional"
3.4.1945Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army
3.4.1945Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald
3.4.1945U.S. 1st army conquers Hofgeismar
3.4.1947"""Barefoot Boy with Cheek"" opens at Martin Beck New York City for 108 performances"
3.4.19481st U.S. figure skating championships held
3.4.1948Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
3.4.1948U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
3.4.1948U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
3.4.1949"KQW-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KCBS"
3.4.1949"North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by U.S., Britain, France and Canada"
3.4.1949"WLWS (now WCMH) TV channel 4 in Columbus, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting"
3.4.1951"Christopher Fry's ""Sleep of Prisoners,"" premieres in Oxford"
3.4.1952Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to U.S. Congress
3.4.1954Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record)
3.4.1954"""Me and Juliet"" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 358 performances"
3.4.1955Baltimore Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs Kansas City Athletics)
3.4.1955"Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39"
3.4.1955Louise Suggs wins LPGA Oklahoma City Golf Open
3.4.1955"Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300"
3.4.1956Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated
3.4.1956German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed
3.4.1956"""Silk Stockings"" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 461 performances"
3.4.1957"Samuel Beckett's ""Endgame,"" premieres in London"
3.4.1957U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test
3.4.1958Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
3.4.1958"""Say, Darling"" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 332 performances"
3.4.1960"Earthquake at Havre, Belgium"
3.4.1961Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia is sold to J Schleifer Properties
3.4.1961"""Happiest Girl in the World"" opens at Martin Beck New York City for 97 performances"
3.4.1962"Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)"
3.4.1962"Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA"
3.4.1964Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts
3.4.1964U.S. and Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations
3.4.19651st atomic powered spacecraft launched
3.4.1966Luna 10 orbits Moon
3.4.1966Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open
3.4.1966"Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus"
3.4.1967"113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum"
3.4.1967"WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting"
3.4.1968North Vietnam agrees to meet U.S. reps to set up preliminary peace talks
3.4.1970Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try
3.4.1974148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states
3.4.1974Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris
3.4.1975Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it
3.4.1975James Rupers kills his family to inherit
3.4.1976France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
3.4.1976Philadelphia Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game
3.4.19776th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
3.4.1977"Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point"
3.4.1977Egyptian President Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter
3.4.1977Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time
3.4.1978"50th Academy Awards - ""Annie Hall,"" Rich Dreyfuss and Diane Keaton win"
3.4.1978European market and China signs trade agreement
3.4.1978Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington D.C.
3.4.1979Belgium's Martens government forms
3.4.1979"Jane Byrne, elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois"
3.4.1980France performs nuclear test
3.4.1980U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
3.4.1981"Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25,"" with 1 leg"
3.4.1981Race riots in London's Brixton area
3.4.1982"Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point"
3.4.1982U.N. Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands
3.4.198312th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
3.4.19832nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South California beats LA Tech 69-67
3.4.1984Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
3.4.1984Guinea suspends constitution after coup
3.4.1984Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
3.4.1985French government adopts equal electoral system
3.4.1985Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games
3.4.1985"Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London"
3.4.1986"U.S. national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000"
3.4.1987Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega
3.4.1987Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers
3.4.1987"Duchess of Windsors jewels auctioned for 31,380,197 pounds"
3.4.1987U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
3.4.198817th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
3.4.19887th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Louisiana Tec beat Auburn 56-54
3.4.1988"Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Gretzky's 7 year streak"
3.4.1988"New Jersey Devils beat Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time"
3.4.1988Somalia and Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert
3.4.1988U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
3.4.198951st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Mich beats Seton Hall 80-79 (OT)
3.4.1989Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St. Louis at Shea Stad
3.4.1989"""Sunrise"" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx"
3.4.199112th Emmy Sports Award presentation
3.4.1991Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox
3.4.1991"""Penn and Teller - Refrigerator Tour"" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City"
3.4.1991Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16)
3.4.1991U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
3.4.19921st exhibition game at Camden Field-Orioles beat New York Mets
3.4.199413th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech 60-59
3.4.1994"1st roster of Silver Bullets, all-female pro baseball team, announced"
3.4.19946th Seniors Golf Tradition: Ray Floyd
3.4.199557th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78
3.4.1995Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena
3.4.1996South Australia grab exciting draw vs W A to win Sheffield Shield
3.4.1996St. Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1
3.4.1997"""Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical,"" opens at Royale New York City for 109 performance"
3.4.1998World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minnesota
3.4.200062nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at RCA Dome Indianapolis
4.4.1081Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne
4.4.1460University of Basle in Swizerland forms
4.4.1541Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st superior-general of Jesuits
4.4.1552Mauritius van Saksen begins alliance with Karel Anikita Stroganov
4.4.1558Czar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders
4.4.1581Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of world
4.4.1588Christian IV succeeds Frederik II as king of Denmark
4.4.1625Viceroy Frederik Henry marries Amalia countess von Solms-Braunfels
4.4.1655"Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbarian pirates"
4.4.1660English king Charles II ends Decl of Breda (freedom of religion)
4.4.1686English king James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence
4.4.1687King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church
4.4.1716Russian and Prussian troops occupy Wismar
4.4.1737Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor
4.4.1818Congress decided U.S. flag is 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars
4.4.1828Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)
4.4.1832Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro
4.4.1850City of Los Angeles incorporated
4.4.1859"Opera ""Dinorah"" is produced (Paris)"
4.4.1862Battle of Yorktown begins
4.4.1862U.S. begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond
4.4.1864"Skirmish at Elkin's Ford Little Missouri River, Arkansas"
4.4.1865Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse
4.4.1870Golden Gate Park forms by City Order #800
4.4.1887"Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st U.S. woman mayor (Argonia, Kansas)"
4.4.1896Announcement of Gold in Yukon
4.4.1899"South Africa all out 35 vs England (Trott 4-19, Haigh 6-11)"
4.4.1900Assassination attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII
4.4.1900British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet
4.4.1902Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million
4.4.1905"Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000"
4.4.1911"Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP"
4.4.1912Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia
4.4.1912Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet
4.4.1914"""Perils of Pauline"" shown for 1st time in Los Angeles"
4.4.1916U.S. Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I
4.4.1918"Battle of Somme, ends"
4.4.1918Food riot in Amsterdam
4.4.1920Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem
4.4.1921"Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2"
4.4.1922"WAAB (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) becomes 1st U.S. radio station with ""W"" calls"
4.4.1926Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president
4.4.19291st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held
4.4.1929"""New Moon"" musical opens in London"
4.4.1930Andrew Sandham makes Test Cricket 1st triple century
4.4.1930Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149)
4.4.1932"George Bernard Shaw's ""Too True to be Good,"" premieres in New York City"
4.4.1932"Vitamin C 1st isolated, CC King, University of Pittsburgh"
4.4.1933"U.S. Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die"
4.4.1937"4th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283"
4.4.1938"5th Golf Masters Championship: Henry Picard wins, shooting a 285"
4.4.1939Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
4.4.1940"R Rodgers/Lorenz Hart's ""Higher and Higher,"" premieres in New York City"
4.4.1941German troops conquer Banghazi
4.4.1944British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia
4.4.1944"De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists"
4.4.1945Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
4.4.1945U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany
4.4.1945U.S. tanks and infantry conquer Bielefeld
4.4.1947Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect
4.4.1947Largest group of sunspots on record
4.4.1947U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization forms
4.4.194884-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie
4.4.1949Israel and Jordan sign armistice agreement
4.4.1949North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington D.C.)
4.4.1949"WKRC TV channel 12 in Cincinnati, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting"
4.4.1950Dirk Stikker becomes chairman of OES
4.4.1951Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Juan and Eva Peron in Buenos Aires
4.4.1953"KFDA TV channel 10 in Amarillo, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting"
4.4.1954Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open
4.4.1955British government signs military treaty with Iraq
4.4.1956"Enid Bagnold's ""Chalk Garden,"" premieres in London"
4.4.1957"Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris"
4.4.19581st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
4.4.1958"Eugene Ionesco's ""Tueur sans Gages"" premieres in Darmstadt"
4.4.1959"Federation of Mali, consisting of Senegal and French Sudan (dissolved 1960)"
4.4.1960"32nd Academy Awards - ""Ben-Hur,"" Charlton Heston and Simone Signoret win"
4.4.1960Oscar awarded to Netherlands director Bert Haanstra
4.4.1960Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center
4.4.1960Senegal declares independence from France
4.4.1964"""Anyone Can Whistle"" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 9 performances"
4.4.1964"Beatles' ""Can't Buy Me Love,"" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks"
4.4.1965Mickey Wright wins LPGA Baton Rouge Golf Invitational
4.4.1966U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
4.4.1967"Amsterdam Marines chase out ""nozems"" of Central Station"
4.4.1967Dutch De Young government forms
4.4.1967"Marines chase ""Nozems"" out of Amsterdam Central Station"
4.4.1968Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
4.4.1968"""Education of Hyman Kaplan"" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 28 performances"
4.4.1969Denton Cooley gets 1st temporary artificial heart
4.4.1970Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson
4.4.1971"""Follies"" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 524 performances"
4.4.1971"Marine clay under houses liquefies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Quebec)"
4.4.19721st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
4.4.1974Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
4.4.1975Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes
4.4.1975USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155
4.4.19765th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Judy Rankin
4.4.1976Seni Pramoj's Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand
4.4.1980U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
4.4.1981Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)
4.4.198211th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sally Little
4.4.198345th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Houston 54-52
4.4.1983"6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched"
4.4.1984"Michael Frayn's ""Benefactors"" premieres in London"
4.4.1984"Winston Smith in Orwell's ""1984"" begins his secret diary"
4.4.1985Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
4.4.1986Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
4.4.1987"Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts"
4.4.198850th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beat Oklahoma 83-79
4.4.1988"Largest crowd (55,438) at a season game at Riverfront (Reds vs. Cards)"
4.4.1988"Last broadcast of ""Crossroads"" on British TV"
4.4.1988Mets set Opening Day record with 6 HRs
4.4.1989Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle
4.4.1989"New York Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th win puts him 19th overall as Yanks beat Twins on opening day 4-2"
4.4.1990Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident
4.4.1990"""Marshall Chronicles"" premieres on ABC-TV"
4.4.1990Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody
4.4.1991"""Lucifer's Child"" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 28 performances"
4.4.1992Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - New York Yankees beat New York Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad
4.4.1992John Tesh (Entertainment Tonight) marries actress Connie Selleca
4.4.1992Jury deliberations begin in Noriega case
4.4.1992Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania
4.4.199312th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Texas Tech beats OH State 84-82
4.4.19935th Seniors Golf Tradition: Tom Shaw
4.4.1993Trish Johnson wins Las Vegas LPGA at Canyon Gate Golf Tournament
4.4.1993"Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, Hulk Hogan pins Yokozuna"
4.4.1994"1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 inn"
4.4.199456th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Arkansas Razorbacks beats Duke 76-72
4.4.1994"Cubs Karl ""Tuffy"" Rhodes, hit 3 home runs in 1993 hits 3 home runs on opening"
4.4.1994"KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed"
4.4.1994"Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706"
4.4.1994Los Angeles Dodger Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment
4.4.1994Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications
4.4.1994Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery
4.4.1996Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Austin Texas on KJFK 98.9 FM
4.4.1996"""Inherit the Wind"" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 45 performances"
4.4.1997Anaheim Ducks clinch their 1st-ever playoff berth
4.4.1997Braves officially open Turner Field against Cubs
4.4.1997DMSP Titan 2 launched
4.4.1997"STS 83 (Columbia 22), launches"
4.4.1998"NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season"
5.4.823"Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I, co-emperor of France"
5.4.1058"Bishop John ""Minchio,"" [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X"
5.4.1242Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights
5.4.1242Battle on the More of Pskov Estonia
5.4.1566200 Brussel nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition
5.4.1585Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch
5.4.1603New English king James I departs Edinburgh for London
5.4.16142nd parliament of King James I begin session (no enactments)
5.4.1614Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
5.4.1621Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
5.4.1648Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples
5.4.1722Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island
5.4.1739French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty
5.4.1751Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden
5.4.1753British Museum forms and opens in 1759
5.4.1762"British take Grenada, West Indies, from French"
5.4.17681st U.S. Chamber of Commerce forms (New York City)
5.4.1792George Washington casts 1st presidential veto
5.4.18031st performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D
5.4.1806Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
5.4.1812"Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French and Spanish"
5.4.1814Netherlands Bank issues it's 1st banknotes
5.4.1815Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java)
5.4.1861"Federals abandon Ft. Quitman, Texas"
5.4.1862"Siege of Yorktown, Virginia"
5.4.1865Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
5.4.1874"""Die Fledermaus"" 1st performed, in Vienna"
5.4.1874"Johann Strauss Sr's opera ""Die Fledermaus,"" premieres in Vienna"
5.4.1881Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
5.4.1887"Anne Sullivan teaches ""water"" to Helen Keller"
5.4.1889"Start of Sherlock Holmes ""Adventure of Copper Beeches"""
5.4.1893Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks)
5.4.1894"11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn"
5.4.1894"Start of Sherlock Holmes ""Adventure of Empty House"""
5.4.1895"Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices"
5.4.1895"Start of Sherlock Holmes' ""Adventure of 3 Students"""
5.4.18961st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens
5.4.1900"Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails"
5.4.1902"Maurice Ravel's ""Pavane pour une infante defunte,"" premieres in Paris"
5.4.1902Soccer match riot between Scotland and England kills 25
5.4.1905"James Barrie's ""Alice-sit-by-the-fire,"" premieres in London"
5.4.1906"St. Pius X encyclical ""On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland"""
5.4.1908British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
5.4.1911MCC tour match vs. Jamaica finishes in a tie
5.4.1911Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer
5.4.1915French begin Woevre-offensive
5.4.1915Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title
5.4.1916French troops occupy Bois de Caillette
5.4.1919Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann
5.4.1919Heavyweight Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in Havana
5.4.1919Polish Army executes 35 young Jews
5.4.1922"KOB-AM in Albuquerque, New Mexico begins radio transmissions"
5.4.1922"WDZ-AM in Decatur, Illinois begins radio transmissions"
5.4.1923Firestone puts their inflatable tires into production
5.4.1925Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election
5.4.1925Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in North Carolina due to an ulcer
5.4.1927Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 and 200 m free style
5.4.1929Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact
5.4.1930"England out for 849 vs. WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325"
5.4.1932Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions
5.4.1935Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election
5.4.1936"Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die"
5.4.1938Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland
5.4.1939Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory
5.4.1941"In San Francisco, Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses"
5.4.1943Allies bomb Mortsel
5.4.1943Japanese troops conquer Indin
5.4.1943Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days
5.4.1944140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse
5.4.1945Almelo Netherlands freed
5.4.1945Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
5.4.19461st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony
5.4.1948"WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, Illinois (IND) begins broadcasting"
5.4.1950Prague espionage trial against bishops and priests begins
5.4.1951"Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death"
5.4.1952Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title
5.4.1953Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
5.4.1953"WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting"
5.4.1954"Elvis Presley records his debut single, ""That's All Right"""
5.4.1955"Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him"
5.4.1959"23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall, Jr. wins, shooting a 284"
5.4.1961"Barbra Streisand appears on ""Jack Paar Show"""
5.4.1961Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
5.4.1962"Herb Gardner's ""Thousand Clowns,"" premieres in New York City"
5.4.1962Mgr J Daems appointed bishop of Antwerp
5.4.1962"NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m"
5.4.1962"St. Bernard Tunnel finished, Swiss and Italian workers shake hands"
5.4.1963Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
5.4.1963Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
5.4.19641st driverless trains run on London Underground
5.4.1964Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open
5.4.1965"37th Academy Awards - ""My Fair Lady,"" Rex Harrison and J Andrews win"
5.4.1965Lava Lamp Day celebrated
5.4.1965U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
5.4.1966"WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft. Pierce-Vero Beach, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast"
5.4.196776er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds
5.4.1967ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit
5.4.1968Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens
5.4.1968"U.S. marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled"
5.4.1970"WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, Illinois (IND) begins broadcasting"
5.4.1971Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
5.4.1971Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy
5.4.1971U.S. Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life
5.4.1971"WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton, New Jersey (PBS) begins broadcasting"
5.4.1972Baseball season is delayed due to a strike
5.4.1972Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub
5.4.1973"NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs, 1-19)"
5.4.1973Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
5.4.1974Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers and Rohan Kanhai
5.4.1974"Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in New York City (110 stories)"
5.4.1975"""Letter for Queen Victoria"" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 18 performances"
5.4.1975Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
5.4.1976Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes PM of England
5.4.1976"Tom Stoppard's ""Dirty Linen,"" premieres in London"
5.4.1977U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
5.4.1979"Baltimore manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper"
5.4.1979Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia
5.4.198110th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez
5.4.1981"Philadelphia Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes"
5.4.1982British fleet sails to Falkland Islands
5.4.1982"Cards' Jim Kaat, pitches in record 24th consecutive season"
5.4.1982"Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war"
5.4.1983France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats
5.4.1983New York Met Tom Seaver's sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment
5.4.1984"""Human Comedy"" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 13 performances"
5.4.1984"Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421)"
5.4.1986Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
5.4.1986U.S. soldier and Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
5.4.198716th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
5.4.1987Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children
5.4.1987Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title
5.4.1988Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their President candidate
5.4.1989David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo
5.4.1989Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak
5.4.1989Solidarity grants legal status in Poland
5.4.1990John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 years in a row
5.4.1990New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
5.4.1990"Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity"
5.4.1991Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games
5.4.1991Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan
5.4.1991"Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23"
5.4.1991Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched
5.4.1991U.S. begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq
5.4.1992"Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome, Hulk Hogan DQs Sid Justice"
5.4.199211th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62
5.4.19924th Seniors Golf Tradition: Lee Trevino
5.4.1992Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka
5.4.1992Dana Lofland wins Las Vegas LPGA Golf International
5.4.1992Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - New York Yankees sweep New York Mets 6-5 at Shea
5.4.1992Peru's President Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution and dissolved Congress
5.4.1992"""Search and Destroy"" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 46 performances"
5.4.1992Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president
5.4.199355th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Michigan 77-71
5.4.1993"73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1"
5.4.1993Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to New York Mets 3-0
5.4.1993Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
5.4.1993Florida Marlins 1st game - beat Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3
5.4.1993Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad
5.4.1994"""Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect"" opens at Golden New York City for 347 performances"
5.4.1994Miami Heat beat New York Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
5.4.1996John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days
5.4.1996Marlon Brando makes anti-semetic remarks about hollywood on Larry King
5.4.1997"Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7)"
6.4.402Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten
6.4.610"Lailat-ul Qadar, night koran descended to Earth"
6.4.774Charles the Great affirms Pippins promise of Quiercy
6.4.1327Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura
6.4.1362Robber bastion Tard-Venus strikes at Brignais France
6.4.1516A Willaert installed as singer of cardinal Ippolito I d'Este
6.4.1634"Heeren XIX asks ""to secure Eylands Curaeao"""
6.4.1652"Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established"
6.4.1652John of Riebeeck lands/establishes VOC-post in Capetown
6.4.1663King Charles II signs Carolina Charter
6.4.1664France and Saksen sign alliance
6.4.1672France declares war on Netherlands
6.4.1712Slave revolt in New York
6.4.1722Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards
6.4.1724Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs
6.4.1727Denmark signs Covenant of Hannover
6.4.1757"English king George II fires minister William Pitt, Sr."
6.4.1789"1st U.S. Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, New York City"
6.4.1815"English militia shoots prisoners, 100's killed"
6.4.1830"Joseph Smith and 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, New York"
6.4.1841"Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri"
6.4.1848Jews of Prussia granted equality
6.4.1849"Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera ""Le Prophete,"" premieres in Paris"
6.4.1859U.S. recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform
6.4.1862"Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee"
6.4.1865"Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off"
6.4.1868Brigham Young marries his 27th and final wife
6.4.1869"1st plastic, Celluloid, patented"
6.4.1883"Start of Sherlock Holmes ""Adventure of Speckled Band"""
6.4.1886City of Vancouver BC incorporated
6.4.1886Declaration of Berlin neutralizes Tonga
6.4.1889George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time
6.4.1890"French troops under capt Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan"
6.4.1893Andy Bowen and Jack Burke box 7 hours 19 mins to no decision (111 rounds)
6.4.1893"Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah dedicated"
6.4.1896"1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history"
6.4.1900James J Jeffries KOs Jack Finnegan in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
6.4.1903"General railroad strike against ""worgwetten"" (anti-strike laws)"
6.4.19061st animated cartoon copyrighted
6.4.19091st credit union forms in US
6.4.1909North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
6.4.1912Electric starter 1st appeared in cars
6.4.1916German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare
6.4.1917"U.S. declares war on Germany, enters World War I"
6.4.1920French troop attacks Main/Darmstadt/Hanau
6.4.19244 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
6.4.1924Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament
6.4.1924Volkische Block (Nazi's) receives 17.8% of vote in Bayern
6.4.19251st film shown on an British Air flight
6.4.1926"Stanley Cup: Montl Maroons beat Victoria Cougars (WHL), 3 games to 1"
6.4.19301st transcontinental glider tow completed
6.4.1930Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
6.4.1931"1st broadcast of ""Little Orphan Annie"" on NBC-radio"
6.4.19311st Scottsboro trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape
6.4.1934418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
6.4.1935"H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses and sinks 371 more"
6.4.1936"3rd Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 285"
6.4.1936ANP begins telex service in Amsterdam
6.4.1936"Tornado, kills 203 and injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia"
6.4.1938Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett
6.4.1939Great Britain and Poland sign military pact
6.4.1939U.S. and U.K. agree on joint control of Canton and Enderbury Island in the Pacific
6.4.1941"8th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Wood wins, shooting a 280"
6.4.1941"Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die)"
6.4.1941British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa
6.4.1941German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes)
6.4.1941Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British and Ethiopian forces
6.4.1943British and U.S. Army link up in Africa during WW II
6.4.1943"British offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia"
6.4.1943"Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested"
6.4.1944Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis
6.4.1945Coevorden freed from nazis
6.4.1945Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa
6.4.1945Massive kamikaze-attack on U.S. battle fleet near Okinawa
6.4.1945U.S. Marines explore Tsugen Shima near Okinawa
6.4.1947"11th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 281"
6.4.1947"1st Tony Awards: Arthur Miller, David Wayne and Patricia Neal win"
6.4.1950John F. Dulles becomes advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Acheson
6.4.1952"16th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 286"
6.4.1954Montreal Canadians score 3 goals in 56 sec in playoff game against Detroit
6.4.1954TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson and Sons
6.4.1954U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
6.4.1955"""3 for Tonight"" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 85 performances"
6.4.1955U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
6.4.1955Yemen: failed coup by Abdullah Seif el-Islam
6.4.1956Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison
6.4.1957New York City ends trolley car service
6.4.1957U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
6.4.1958Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-Masters
6.4.1959"31st Academy Awards - ""Gigi,"" Susan Hayward and David Niven win"
6.4.1964Egypt and Belgium restore diplomatic relations
6.4.1965"Intelsat 1 (""Early Bird"") 1st coml geosynchronous communication satellite"
6.4.1966Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India
6.4.1967Premier Pompidou forms new French government
6.4.196894.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution
6.4.1968Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Dave Davis
6.4.1968"Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va)"
6.4.1968"HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas"
6.4.1972Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
6.4.1973"Harbor strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium"
6.4.1973Indies troops invade Sikkim
6.4.1973Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter and Saturn
6.4.1973"Roberto Clemente Day, Pirates retire his number"
6.4.1973"Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks"
6.4.1974"200,000 attend rock concert ""California Jam"""
6.4.1974Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 11/16
6.4.1974"Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium, beat Indians 6-1"
6.4.1975Fastest hat trick by a Washington Capitals 3 mins 26 secs (Stan Gilbertson)
6.4.1975"""Night... Made America Famous"" closes at Barrymore New York City after 75 performances"
6.4.1975"""Rocky Horror Show"" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 45 performances"
6.4.1976"1st quadrophonic movie track: ""Ladies and Gentlemen the Rolling Stones"""
6.4.1977Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
6.4.1977"Kingdome opens, Seattle Mariners 1st game, loses to Angels 7-0"
6.4.1978Karnataka beat Uttar Pradesh by inn and 193 to win Ranji Trophy
6.4.1979Rod Stewart and Alana Collins wed
6.4.19809th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
6.4.1980Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season
6.4.1980"Post It Notes, introduced"
6.4.1981Yugoslav government sends troops to Kosovo
6.4.1982Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands
6.4.1982"Largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in Minnesota 52,279"
6.4.1983Caps 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Semifinals- Isles hold 1-0 lead
6.4.19841st time 11 people in space
6.4.1985Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale
6.4.1985Bombay beat Delhi by 90 runs to win the Ranji Trophy final
6.4.1985Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab
6.4.1985U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
6.4.198615th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley
6.4.1986Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hrs
6.4.198722nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis and Hank Williams Jr
6.4.1987"Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy"
6.4.1987Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler
6.4.1988Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington
6.4.1988New Jersey Devils' 1st playoff game; lose to Isles 4-3 (OT) in 1st round
6.4.1989Orel Hershiser ends his record 59 consecutive scoreless streak
6.4.1991Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use
6.4.1991Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
6.4.1991New York - New Jersey Knights 1st home game (Giant Stadium) lose to Frankfurt 27-17
6.4.1991"Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher"
6.4.1992"1st game at Camden Field, Baltimore Orioles beat Indians 2-0"
6.4.199254th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Duke beats Michigan 71-51
6.4.1992Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin and TV-AM radio licenses
6.4.1992"Microsoft announced Windows 3.1, upgrading Windows 3.0"
6.4.1992"Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens, beating Cleveland 2-0"
6.4.1992Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo
6.4.1992U.S. Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornography
6.4.1992Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps
6.4.19931st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow)
6.4.1993Florida Marlins 1st lost ever (4-2 to Los Angeles Dodgers)
6.4.19941st scheduled Indians night game at Jacobs Field is rained out
6.4.1994Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home
6.4.1994Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe vs. Wade) resigns
6.4.1994Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis and himself
6.4.1994Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records
6.4.1995"""Having Our Say"" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 308 performances"
6.4.1996Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game
6.4.1997"""3 Sisters"" closes at Criterion Theater New York City"
6.4.19979th Seniors Golf Tradition: Gil Morgan wins
6.4.1997Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge
6.4.1997Brad Faxon wins Freeport-McDermott Golf Classic
6.4.1997Progress M-34 Launch (Russia)
6.4.1997Twelve Bridges LPGA Classic
7.4.451Attila's Hun's plunder Metz
7.4.1118"Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor"
7.4.1348"Prague University, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV"
7.4.1456Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
7.4.1498"Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy"
7.4.1509France declares war on Venice
7.4.1521Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
7.4.1521Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu
7.4.1625Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander
7.4.1645Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
7.4.1652"Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa"
7.4.1655Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
7.4.1724"Johann S Bach's ""John Passion"" premieres in Leipzig"
7.4.1788"1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta"
7.4.1798Mississippi Territory organized
7.4.1805"Premiere of Beethoven's ""Eroica"" (conducted by himself)"
7.4.1818Gen Andrew Jackson conquers St. Marks Florida from Seminole indians
7.4.1827English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
7.4.1831"Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil"
7.4.1860Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
7.4.1862"Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, Island #10 falls"
7.4.1863"Battle of Charleston, South Carolina, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter"
7.4.1865"Battle of Farmville, Virginia"
7.4.1888"Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure ""Yellow Face"""
7.4.1891Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
7.4.1901SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber
7.4.1902"Texas Oil Company, Texaco, forms"
7.4.1906Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police and banking business
7.4.1917"De Falla's ballet ""El Sombrero de tres Picos,"" premieres in Madrid"
7.4.1917"James Barries' ""Old Lady Shows Her,"" premieres in London"
7.4.19191st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks
7.4.1922"Naval Reserve #3, ""Teapot Dome,"" leased to Harry F Sinclair"
7.4.19231st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in New York City) by Dr. K Winfield Ney
7.4.1923Workers Party of America (New York City) becomes official Communist Party
7.4.1926"Forest fire burns 900 acres and kills 2 in San Luis Obispo, California"
7.4.1926Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose
7.4.1927Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington D.C. to New York City
7.4.1928"44-yr old New York Ranger GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game, and beats Montreal Maroons 2-1"
7.4.1931Seals Stadium opens in San Francisco
7.4.1933"1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal and public service"
7.4.1933"Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment"
7.4.1933"University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic"
7.4.1934"In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience"
7.4.1939Italy invades Albania
7.4.1940"7th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 280"
7.4.1940"Booker T. Washington, 1st black to appear on U.S. stamp"
7.4.1941British generals O'Connor and Neame captured in North Africa
7.4.1942Heavy German assault on Malta
7.4.1943Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg
7.4.1943"British and U.S. troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia"
7.4.1943Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid
7.4.1943NFL adopts free substitution rule
7.4.1944General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan
7.4.19451st and last assault of German Rammkommando on U.S. bombers
7.4.1945U.S. B-17's bombs range at Luneburg
7.4.1945U.S. planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato and four destroyers were sunk
7.4.1946"10th Golf Masters Championship: Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282"
7.4.1946Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
7.4.1948World Health Organization forms by U.N.
7.4.1949"""South Pacific"" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1928 performances"
7.4.1951"15th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280"
7.4.1951American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
7.4.1951U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
7.4.19531st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
7.4.1953Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden elected 2nd United Nations general-secretary
7.4.1954German government refuses to recognize DDR
7.4.1954"President Eisenhower fears ""domino-effect"" in Indo-China"
7.4.1954"WALB TV channel 10 in Albany, Georgia (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting"
7.4.1956"10th NBA Championship: Ph Warriors beat Ft. Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1"
7.4.1956Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
7.4.1957"21st Golf Masters Championship: Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283"
7.4.1958"Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line"
7.4.1959"Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years"
7.4.1959"Radar 1st bounced off Sun from Stanford, California"
7.4.1962Umrigar slams 172* vs. WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes
7.4.1962Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
7.4.1963"27th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286"
7.4.1963"Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors"
7.4.1963Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
7.4.1965Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man NZ vs. Pakistan
7.4.1966U.S. recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor
7.4.1967Israeli/Syrian border fights
7.4.1967"Tom Donahue, San Francisco dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM)"
7.4.1969"Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds"
7.4.1969Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
7.4.1969"Ted Williams begins managing Washington Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4"
7.4.1970"42nd Academy Awards - ""Midnight Cowboy,"" John Wayne and Maggie Smith win"
7.4.1970"""Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds,"" premieres in New York City"
7.4.1970"Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0"
7.4.1971Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by
7.4.1971President Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free
7.4.1971"WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, Florida (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals"
7.4.1973"Cleveland sets day-game and opening-game attendance records of 74,420"
7.4.1973"Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 vs. WI Georgetown"
7.4.1974"Herb Gardner's ""Thieves,"" premieres in New York City"
7.4.1976Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
7.4.1977"Consumer Product Safety Comn bans ""TRIS"" flame-retardant"
7.4.1977"Toronto Blues Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5"
7.4.1978"Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in New York City"
7.4.1978President Carter defers production of neutron bomb
7.4.1978U.S. Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976
7.4.1979"Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8"" of water"
7.4.1979"Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0"
7.4.1979Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers
7.4.1980Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
7.4.1981Belgium Eyskens government forms
7.4.1981Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec
7.4.1982Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
7.4.1982Penguins 1-Isles 8-Preliminary-Isles hold 1-0 lead
7.4.1983Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1
7.4.1983"Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt"
7.4.1983STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
7.4.1983"WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480 women bowlers for 83-day event"
7.4.1984"Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0"
7.4.198514th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller
7.4.19851st live telecast of Easter Parade
7.4.1985New Jersey General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards
7.4.1986"Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy"
7.4.1987"Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on ""Nightline"""
7.4.1987National Museum of Female Physician opens in Washington D.C.
7.4.1988"Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1"
7.4.1988"Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested"
7.4.1988Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
7.4.1988U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
7.4.1989New York Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from San Diego Yacht Club for using a catamaran against New Zealand. Appeals court eventually overrules
7.4.1989"Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths"
7.4.1990BPAA U.S. Open by Ron Palombi Jr
7.4.1990Farm Aid IV concert
7.4.1990"Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma"
7.4.1990John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
7.4.1990Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
7.4.1990"New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary"
7.4.19913rd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
7.4.1991"""Big Love"" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 41 performances"
7.4.1991Chris Johnson wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
7.4.1991Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
7.4.1991George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
7.4.1991"""Shadowlands"" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 169 performances"
7.4.1991"Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24"
7.4.1993Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colorado Rockie HR (Shea Stadium New York)
7.4.1994"1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2"
7.4.1994"""Medea"" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 82 performances"
7.4.1994New York Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6
7.4.1994Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton
7.4.1994Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
7.4.1995Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike
7.4.19968th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
7.4.1996Kelly Robbins wins Sacramento 12 Bridges LPGA Golf Classic
7.4.1996Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore
7.4.1997Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft. Myers Florida on WRXK 96.1 FM
8.4.1195Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isaak II as Byzantine emperor
8.4.1341Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome
8.4.1378Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI
8.4.1455Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III
8.4.1500Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza
8.4.1513Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain
8.4.1716Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia and marries Czar Peter the Great's niece
8.4.1730"1st Jewish congregation in U.S. forms synagogue, ""Shearith Israel, New York City"""
8.4.1759British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India
8.4.1766"1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley and chain"
8.4.1781Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379
8.4.1783Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim
8.4.1789House of Representives 1st meeting
8.4.1801"Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews"
8.4.1802French Protestant church becomes state-supported and -controlled
8.4.1832Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro
8.4.1838"Steamship ""Great Western"" maiden voyage (Bristol England to New York City)"
8.4.18481st battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
8.4.1848"Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru: Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro"
8.4.1861"U.S. Mint at Dahlonega, Georgia seized by confederacy"
8.4.1862John D. Lynde patents aerosol dispenser
8.4.1864"Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana Federals routed by Gen Richard Taylor"
8.4.1865General Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia
8.4.1869American Museum of Natural History opens (New York City)
8.4.1876"Amiliare Ponchielli's opera ""La Gioconda,"" premieres in Milan"
8.4.1879Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers
8.4.1879Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time
8.4.1893The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink
8.4.1898"Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese"
8.4.1904Great Britain and France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter
8.4.1908Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier
8.4.1912"Steamers collide in Nile, drowning 200"
8.4.1913"17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified"
8.4.1913Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing)
8.4.1914U.S. and Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone
8.4.1916Norway approves active and passive female suffrage
8.4.1920LONGA soccer team forms in Tilburg
8.4.1931"Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet ""The Arrow,"" premieres"
8.4.1931"""White Horse Inn"" opens in London"
8.4.1933Manchester Guardian warns of unknown nazi terror
8.4.1935"2nd Golf Masters Championship: Gene Sarazen wins, shooting a 282"
8.4.1935Bartoks 5th String quartet premieres in Washington D.C.
8.4.1935"Works Progress Administration, WPA, approved by Congress"
8.4.1939ACV soccer team forms in Axes
8.4.1939"King Zog I of Albania, flees"
8.4.1940Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
8.4.1941Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
8.4.1942"A Schoenberg and Tudor's ballet ""Pillar of Fire,"" premieres in New York City"
8.4.1943"Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma"
8.4.1943Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau
8.4.1943Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games
8.4.1945"Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands"
8.4.1946League of Nations assembles for last time
8.4.1947"Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) observed"
8.4.1948Soen Nakagawa and Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in SF
8.4.1950"""Miss Liberty"" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 308 performances"
8.4.1952President Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike
8.4.1954"""By the Beautiful Sea"" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 270 performances"
8.4.1956"20th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Burke, Jr. wins, shooting a 289"
8.4.19566 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Is SC
8.4.1956M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon
8.4.1960Netherlands and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties
8.4.1961"British liner ""Dara"" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236"
8.4.1961"""Show Girl"" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 100 performances"
8.4.1962Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France
8.4.1963"35th Academy Awards - ""Lawrence of Arabia,"" A Bancroft and G Peck win"
8.4.1963"Tigers claim young pitcher Denny McLain from the White Sox for $25,000"
8.4.1964Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
8.4.1966AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner
8.4.1966Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of Communist Party
8.4.1966"OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched"
8.4.196840th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of Martin Luther King
8.4.1968Baseball's Opening Day is postponed because of Martin Luther King assassination
8.4.1968Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms
8.4.1968New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect
8.4.1968"WKPI TV channel 22 in Pikeville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting"
8.4.19691st Baseball game in Canada - Mont Expos beats New York Mets 10-9
8.4.1969"Expansion teams Royals, Expos, Padres and Pilots win their 1st games"
8.4.1970"""Cry for Us All"" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 8 performances"
8.4.1970Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court
8.4.19711st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York)
8.4.1972Alvin Kallicharran scores 100* in his 1st Test Cricket innings vs. NZ
8.4.1974Discovery Island opens
8.4.1974"Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th HR, breaks Babe Ruth's record"
8.4.1975"47th Academy Awards - ""Godfather II,"" Ellen Burstyn and Art Carney win"
8.4.1975"Frank Robinson debuts as 1st black baseball mgr (Cleve, beats New York 5-3)"
8.4.1977Israel premier Rabin resigns
8.4.1979"204th and final episode of ""All in the Family"""
8.4.19798th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
8.4.1979"""Carmelina"" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 17 performances"
8.4.1979People's Republic of China joins IOC
8.4.1980Islander Potvin's 2 shorthanded goals tie NHL record vs Kings and set NHL rec of 2 shorthanded playoff goals in 1 period
8.4.1981Islanders scored 9 goals against Toronto in playoffs
8.4.1982Penguins 2-Isles 4-Preliminary-Isles hold 2-0 lead
8.4.1982"Tracy Caulkins, 19, wins her 36th U.S. swimming title"
8.4.198413th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
8.4.19844th Golden Raspberry Awards: Lonely Lady wins
8.4.1985"Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix"
8.4.1985India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster
8.4.1985"""Leader of the Pack"" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 120 performances"
8.4.1986"Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California"
8.4.19891-handed pitcher Jim Abbott debut but lasts only 4 2/3 inn
8.4.1989Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart marries producer Burt Sugarman
8.4.1990"54th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 278"
8.4.1990"""Aspects of Love"" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 377 performances"
8.4.1990King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties
8.4.1990Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
8.4.1990Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die
8.4.1990"""Twin Peaks"" with Peggy Lipton premieres on ABC-TV"
8.4.1991"""I Hate Hamlet"" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 88 performances"
8.4.1991"Jockey, Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed in a car accident"
8.4.1991Major league umpires and baseball reach a 4-year agreement
8.4.1991Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of pancreas
8.4.1991Oakland A's stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena to ban smoking
8.4.1992"""5 Guys Named Moe"" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 445 performances"
8.4.1992"After 151 years Britain's ""Punch Magazine"" final issue"
8.4.1993Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit home runs in same inn (vs Yanks)
8.4.1993STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit
8.4.1994"Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0"
8.4.1994Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford clinic
8.4.1994Japans premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns
8.4.1994Smoking banned in Pentagon and all U.S. military bases
8.4.1995BPAA U.S. Open won by Dave Husted
8.4.1995Oliver McCall beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
8.4.1996Bruce Seldon TKOs Tony Tucker in 7 to win vacated WBA boxing title
8.4.1997Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0
8.4.1997"STS 83 (Columbia 22), lands"
8.4.200165th Golf Masters Championship:
9.4.715Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
9.4.1241Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles and Germans
9.4.1388Battle of Nafels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army
9.4.1454Milan/Venice signs peace of Lodi
9.4.1474Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians
9.4.1483Edward I (12) succeeds Edward IV as king of England
9.4.1538Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union
9.4.1555Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II
9.4.1609Spain and Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact
9.4.1621Spain and Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends
9.4.1667"1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris)"
9.4.1682Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
9.4.1691French troops occupy Mons
9.4.1770Capt James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)
9.4.1783Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India
9.4.1808Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace
9.4.1814Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance
9.4.1816African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes in Philadelphia
9.4.1829"Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200"
9.4.1831"Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain and Spain"
9.4.1833"1st tax-supported public library in Peterborough, New Hampshire"
9.4.1838National Galley opens in London
9.4.1864"Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 2870 causalities"
9.4.1865"Federals capture Ft. Blakely, Alabama"
9.4.1865"Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender to U.S. Grant at Appomattox"
9.4.1866Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto
9.4.1869Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada
9.4.1870American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves
9.4.1872Samuel R. Percy patents dried milk
9.4.18781st Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn
9.4.18941st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz
9.4.19063rd modern Olympic games opens in Athens
9.4.19121st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs. Harvard)
9.4.1912"Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland for New York"
9.4.1913"Brooklyn Dodger's Ebbets Field opens, Phillies win 1-0"
9.4.1914"1st full color film shown ""World, Flesh and Devil"" in London"
9.4.1914Tampico incident - U.S. ship crew arrested in Mexico
9.4.1914"""World, the Flesh and the Devil,"" 1st color film, shown in London"
9.4.1917Battle of Arras begins
9.4.1917Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops
9.4.1918Latvia proclaims independence
9.4.1923"Sean O'Casey's ""Shadow of a Gunman,"" premieres in Dublin"
9.4.1925Babe Ruth rushed to hospital
9.4.1927Italy and U.S. anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti given death sentences
9.4.1928"Eugene O'Neill's ""Lazarus Laughed,"" premieres in Pasadena"
9.4.1928"Mae West's New York City debut in a daring new play ""Diamond Lil"""
9.4.1928Top-Oss soccer team forms in Oss
9.4.1928Turkey passes separation of church and state
9.4.1931Chicago Cy Wentworth beats Mont Canadiens at 13:50 of 6th period
9.4.1932Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep New York Rangers in 3 games
9.4.1935Stanley Cup: Montreal Maroons sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 3 games
9.4.1939"Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial"
9.4.1940"German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die"
9.4.1940"Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WW II, Denmark surrenders"
9.4.1941PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
9.4.1942"Battle of Bataan, US and Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan"
9.4.1944Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae
9.4.1945Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier
9.4.1945"Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360"
9.4.1945NFL requires players to wear long stockings
9.4.1946"Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1"
9.4.1947Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
9.4.1947Baseball suspends Brooklyn Dodger Leo Durocher for 1 year
9.4.1947"Tornadoes striking West Texas and Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300"
9.4.1949U.N. International Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel and awards Britain damages
9.4.1950"14th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 283"
9.4.19504th Tony Awards: Cocktail Party and South Pacific win
9.4.1950Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
9.4.1952Popular uprising in Bolivia
9.4.1953Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to 7 years in Kenya
9.4.1953"""TV Guide"" publishes 1st issue"
9.4.1954"WECT TV channel 6 in Wilmington, North Carolina (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting"
9.4.1955U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
9.4.1957"Howard Hanson's ""Song of Democracy,"" premieres in Washington D.C."
9.4.1957Suez Canal cleared for all shipping
9.4.195913th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics sweep Minnesota Lakers in 4 games Boston Celtics wins 8th straight title
9.4.1959Baltimore Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Washington Senators)
9.4.1959Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot
9.4.1959NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury
9.4.1960"14th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3"
9.4.1960South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle
9.4.1962"26th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 280"
9.4.1962"34th Academy Awards - ""West Side Story,"" Sophia Loren and Max Schell win"
9.4.1962John F. Kennedy throws out 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium
9.4.1963"Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary U.S. citizen, posthumously"
9.4.1965"1st game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st indoor homerun"
9.4.1965"Beatles ""Ticket to Ride"" is released in U.K."
9.4.1965India and Pakistan engage in border fight
9.4.1966Anaheim Stadium for California Angels opens
9.4.1966Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris
9.4.19671st Boeing 737 rolls out
9.4.1967"31st Golf Masters Championship: Gay Brewer, Jr. wins, shooting a 280"
9.4.1967"""At the Drop of Another Hat"" closes at Booth New York City after 105 performances"
9.4.1967Shortwave broadcaster Radio New York Worldwide's transmitter burns down
9.4.1968German DR adopts constitution
9.4.1968"Martin Luther King, Jr., buried in Atlanta"
9.4.1968Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference
9.4.1968Wayne Connelly is 1st to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
9.4.19691st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
9.4.1969Chic Cub Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles beat Phillies 11-3
9.4.1970Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles
9.4.1971"Ringo releases ""It Don't Come Easy"" in UK"
9.4.1972"36th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286"
9.4.1972Glenn Turner (259) and Terry Jarvis make 387 opening cricket stand vs. WI
9.4.1972"""Sugar"" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 506 performances"
9.4.1972U.S.S.R. and Iraq sign friendship treaty
9.4.1973"37th Golf Masters Championship: Tommy Aaron wins, shooting a 283"
9.4.1973Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam
9.4.1973"Otto Kerner, former governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme"
9.4.1974"Padres owner Ray Kroc, addresses fans ""Ladies and gentlemen, I suffer with you I've never seen such stupid baseball playing in my life"""
9.4.1976U.S. and Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use
9.4.1977Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years
9.4.1978"42nd Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 277"
9.4.1978"Brewers sweep Orioles 11-3, 16-3, and 13-5 (each with a grand slam)"
9.4.1978David Thompson scores ties 3rd highest total in the NBA - 73
9.4.1978Denver's David Thompson scores 73 points and San Antonio's George Gervin scores 63 points in separate NBA games (33 in 1 quarter)
9.4.1979"51st Academy Awards - ""Deer Hunter,"" Jon Voight and Jane Fonda win"
9.4.1979"Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hrs, begins"
9.4.1980Belgium's Marten's government resigns
9.4.1980Kings tie NHL rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Isles
9.4.1980Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6
9.4.1981"Los Angeles Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela's 1st start, beats Astros 2-0"
9.4.1981U.S. submarine George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
9.4.1982Los Angeles Lakers block 21 Denver shots setting NBA regulation game record
9.4.19836th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth
9.4.1983Caps 2-Isles 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penalty shot
9.4.1984"56th Academy Awards - ""Terms of Endearment,"" R Duvall and S Maclaine win"
9.4.1985White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game
9.4.1986"""Dallas"" announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character"
9.4.1987"For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game Wayne Gretzky passes Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ"
9.4.1988Devils 3-0 over Islanders-Devils lead 2-1 in 1st round
9.4.1988"""Les Miserables,"" opens at Umeda-Koma Theatre, Osaka"
9.4.1988U.S. imposes economic sanctions on Panama
9.4.1989"53rd Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 283"
9.4.1989Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car
9.4.1989Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
9.4.1989Rickey Henderson steals his 800th career base in New York's 4-3 loss to Clev
9.4.1989Scott Hoch chokes on 18 inch putt and loses Masters golf tournament
9.4.1989Washington D.C. march supporting 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision
9.4.1990"""Capital News"" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV"
9.4.1990Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees
9.4.1990New York Islanders beat New York Rangers 4-3 in double overtime-Rangers lead 2-1
9.4.1990World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall in New York City
9.4.1991Date of Microsoft MS DOS 5.0
9.4.1991Georgia SSR votes to secede from U.S.S.R.
9.4.1992"Florida drops rape charges against New York Mets Gooden, Boston and Coleman"
9.4.1992"John Majors, (C) elected PM of England"
9.4.1992Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug and racketeering charges
9.4.1992Record 18 golfers shoot in 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12)
9.4.1992"""Redwood Curtain"" opens at Neiderlander theater on Broadway"
9.4.1992U.S. Federal court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug crimes
9.4.1992"William O. Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA"
9.4.1993"Colorado Rockies 1st home game and 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos"
9.4.1994BPAA U.S. Open by Justin Hromek
9.4.1994Singer Wayne Newton (52) weds attorney Kathleen McCrone (30)
9.4.1994STS-59 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
9.4.1995"59th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 274"
9.4.1995"""Translations"" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 25 performances"
9.4.1997Cleveland Indians closer Jose Mesa found guilty of rape
9.4.1997Major League Soccer announces Miami and Chicago expansion
9.4.1997"NFL announces it will give $3M to CFL and possible ""World Classic Bowl"""
9.4.200064th Golf Masters Championship:
10.4.837Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 AUs of Earth
10.4.847St. Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
10.4.879"Louis III, crowned King of France"
10.4.1500France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan
10.4.1512Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen
10.4.1516"1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice"
10.4.1552Henri II of France occupies Metz
10.4.1589Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg
10.4.1656Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon
10.4.1694Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale
10.4.1739Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
10.4.1741Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz
10.4.1790Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth
10.4.1790U.S. Patent system forms
10.4.1815Austria declares war on realm of Naples
10.4.18162nd Bank of U.S. chartered
10.4.18251st hotel in Hawaii opens
10.4.1825Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Leon
10.4.1835"Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile"
10.4.1841"New York ""Tribune"" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley"
10.4.1845"More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa"
10.4.1849Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (New York City); sold rights for $100
10.4.1863"Rebel Gen Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tennessee"
10.4.1864Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of Mexico
10.4.1865"At Appomattox, Gen Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last"
10.4.1866American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
10.4.1868"1st performance of John Brahms' ""Ein german Requiem"""
10.4.1868Brits defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala
10.4.1869Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9
10.4.1871William Hammond Hall's maps and surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted
10.4.18721st National black convention meets in New Orleans
10.4.1872"Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22"
10.4.18771st human cannonball act performed in London
10.4.1877"Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia, South Carolina"
10.4.1878California St. Cable Car RR Co starts service
10.4.1882Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco and Hawaii)
10.4.1884U.S. Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo
10.4.1887"President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Illinois"
10.4.1887Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen
10.4.1896Spiridon Louis wins 1st Olympic marathon (2:58:50)
10.4.1912RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st and last voyage
10.4.1913"President Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1"
10.4.1913Walter Johnson begins string of 56 consecutive scoreless innings
10.4.19161st professional golf tournament held
10.4.1917"Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers"
10.4.1923"Hitler demands ""hatred and more hatred"" in Berlin"
10.4.1924Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play
10.4.1925Czarina re-christened Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
10.4.1925"Scribners publishes ""The Great Gatsby"" by F Scott Fitzgerald"
10.4.1930George Headley scores 223 vs. England at Kingston
10.4.1930Synthetic rubber 1st produced
10.4.1932Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd)
10.4.1934"Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 3 games to 1"
10.4.1935Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London
10.4.1936"200"" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena"
10.4.19382nd government of Blum replaced by Daladier government in France
10.4.1938Austria becomes a state of Germany
10.4.1938New York makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
10.4.1939Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
10.4.1939Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
10.4.1940"Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian ""national government"""
10.4.1941German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica
10.4.1942Cigarettes and candy rationed in Holland
10.4.194312 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis
10.4.1943General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia
10.4.1944"""Patrolling the Ether"" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously"
10.4.1944Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis
10.4.1945"Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech)"
10.4.1945Canadian troops conquer Deventer
10.4.1945"General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of ""Fort Holland"""
10.4.1945German troops attack Ijsselbrug
10.4.1945NFL's Boston Yanks and Brooklyn Tigers merge
10.4.1945U.S. troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa
10.4.1945"U.S. troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany"
10.4.1945William Schuman and Antony Tudors ballet premieres in New York City
10.4.19461st election for Japanese Diet
10.4.1947Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers)
10.4.1947King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned
10.4.1948Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
10.4.1949"13th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 282"
10.4.1953"7th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat New York Knicks, 4 games to 1"
10.4.1953"""House of Wax,"" 1st 3-D movie, released (New York City)"
10.4.1954"KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting"
10.4.1955"19th Golf Masters Championship: Cary Middlecoff wins, shooting a 279"
10.4.1955"9th NBA Championship: Syrac Nats beat Ft. Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 3"
10.4.1955Dr. Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine
10.4.1955Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely
10.4.1956Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs
10.4.1956"Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1"
10.4.1957"John Osborne's ""Entertainer,"" premieres in London"
10.4.1957Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns
10.4.1957Suez canal reopens for all traffic
10.4.1957U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test
10.4.1958Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
10.4.1959Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda
10.4.1960"24th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 282"
10.4.1960Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
10.4.1960Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
10.4.1961"25th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 280"
10.4.1961Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel
10.4.1961Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to John F. Kennedy about New Guinea
10.4.1961New Washington Senators loses 1st regular-season game 4-3 to White Sox
10.4.1962"1st baseball game at LA's Dodger Stadium, they lose 6-3 to Reds"
10.4.1962"1st major league game in Houston, Colt .45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2"
10.4.1962New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th HR
10.4.1963"Thresher, U.S. atomic-powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston"
10.4.1963U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
10.4.1964Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project
10.4.1964Iranian motor launch catches fire and sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)
10.4.1967"39th Academy Awards - ""Man For All Seasons,"" E Taylor and P Scofield win"
10.4.1968"40th Academy Awards - ""Heat of the Night,"" Rod Steiger and K Hepburn win"
10.4.1968"""George M!"" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 435 performances"
10.4.1968U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
10.4.1971"1st baseball game at Phila's Veterans Stadium, Phils beat Expos 4-1"
10.4.1971U.S. table tennis team arrives in China PR
10.4.19727.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
10.4.1972"U.S., U.S.S.R. and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons"
10.4.1973"BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143"
10.4.1973"Kansas City opens its new park, Royals Stadium, with 12-1 rout of Rangers"
10.4.1973Pakistan suspends constitution
10.4.1974American Boccaccio Association forms
10.4.1974Magicians Penn and Teller 1st meet
10.4.1974Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir
10.4.1975Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
10.4.1976Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed-Yanks win 9-7
10.4.1976Cleveland Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title
10.4.1977"41st Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 276"
10.4.1977Beverly Klass wins LPGA Women's International Golf Satellite
10.4.1977"Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inn game (3:17)"
10.4.1978Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced
10.4.1979J. R. Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome
10.4.1979Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian and a Bulgarian
10.4.1981"""Caveman"" with Ringo premieres"
10.4.1981Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
10.4.1981France performs nuclear test
10.4.1981Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament
10.4.1982"Los Angeles Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton in 3rd period, win in OT 6-5"
10.4.1982Penguins 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Preliminary- Isles hold 2-1 lead
10.4.1983"Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit"
10.4.1983Caps 3-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isles win series 3-2
10.4.1983Hennie Kuiper (Neth) wins Paris-Roubaix cycle race
10.4.1983Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO
10.4.1983Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
10.4.1984Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
10.4.1984John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games
10.4.1984U.S. Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
10.4.1985At 80 Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game
10.4.1985Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals-Caps hold 1-0 lead
10.4.1985Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission
10.4.1986Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan
10.4.1986"""Big Deal"" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 70 performances"
10.4.1986U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
10.4.1988"52nd Golf Masters Championship: Sandy Lyle wins, shooting a 281"
10.4.19888th Golden Raspberry Awards: Leonard Part 6 wins
10.4.1988Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA San Diego Inamori Golf Classic
10.4.1988Herschel Walker performs Fort Worth Ballet
10.4.1988Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2
10.4.198910th Emmy Sports Award presentation
10.4.1989"24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, Alabama"
10.4.1989"H. J. Heinz, Van Camp Seafood and Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins"
10.4.1989Intel corp announces shipment of 80-486 chip
10.4.1990"CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan"
10.4.1990Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown
10.4.1991"Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138"
10.4.1991"Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd and 42nd St, New York City)"
10.4.1991Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores NHL record 93rd playoff goal
10.4.1991Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51)
10.4.199225 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka
10.4.1992"Floriade (Flower Show) opens at Hague, Netherlands"
10.4.1992NHL strike ends after 10 days
10.4.1993BPAA U.S. Open by Del Ballard Jr
10.4.1993Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (Islanders) after 38 straight loses
10.4.1993Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak
10.4.1994"58th Golf Masters Championship: Jose M Olazabal wins, shooting a 279"
10.4.1994"""Les Miserables,"" opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka"
10.4.1995"""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 24 performances"
10.4.1995New York City bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more
11.4.672Deusdedit III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
11.4.1471King Edward IV of England conquers London from Henry VI
11.4.1512Battle at Ravenna: France under Gaston de Foix beat Spanish Army
11.4.1551English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland
11.4.1564England and France sign Peace of Troyes
11.4.1564Liege prince-bishop Robert van Bergen resigns
11.4.1567Dutch prince William of Orange flees from Antwerp to Breda
11.4.1579Venlo joins Union of Utrecht
11.4.1580Drenthe joins Union of Utrecht
11.4.1677"Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III"
11.4.1689William III and Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain
11.4.1713"Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese and French peace treaty"
11.4.1801"Johann von Schiller's ""Die Jungfrau von Orleans,"" premieres in Leipzig"
11.4.18141st abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba
11.4.1830Robert Schumann attends piano concerto by Paganini
11.4.1848Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under king Ferdinand of Aust
11.4.1856Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans
11.4.1862"Rebels surrender Ft. Pulaski, Georgia-Rebels surrender"
11.4.1863"Battle of Suffolk, Virginia (Norfleet House)"
11.4.1865"Battle of Mobile, Alabama - evacuated by Confederates"
11.4.1865Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction
11.4.1876Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organizes
11.4.1876Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan
11.4.1881"River ferry ""Princess Victoria"" sinks in Thames River Ont, 180 die"
11.4.1881Spelman College founded
11.4.1890Ellis Island designated as an immigration station
11.4.1891"8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumor spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews"
11.4.1895Anaheim completes it's new electric light system
11.4.1898President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration
11.4.1899Treaty of Paris ratifies ends war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US
11.4.1900U.S. Navy's 1st submarine made its debut
11.4.1902"Battle at Rooiwal, South-Africa"
11.4.1906Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity
11.4.1907New York Giant Roger Bresnahan becomes 1st catcher to wear shin guards
11.4.1911"Bob Dylan's 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village"
11.4.1912Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid
11.4.1914"George Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion,"" premieres"
11.4.1917"Babe Ruth beats New York Yanks, pitching 3-hit 10-3 win for Red Sox"
11.4.1921Iowa imposed 1st state cigarette tax
11.4.1921"KDKA broadcast 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee)"
11.4.1921Turkestan ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
11.4.19241st men's college swimming championships begin
11.4.1924Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections
11.4.1924"WLS-AM in Chicago, Illinois begins radio transmissions"
11.4.1925Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco
11.4.1926Flemish Economic Covenant (VEV) forms in Ghent
11.4.1927Chilean gen Carlos Ibanez names himself president
11.4.1929"KLO-AM in Ogden, Utah begins radio transmissions"
11.4.1929Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam
11.4.1933Hermann Goering becomes premier of Prussia
11.4.1936"Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical ""On Your Toes,"" premieres in New York City"
11.4.1936"Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1"
11.4.1939Hungary leaves League of Nations
11.4.1941"Germany blitzes Conventry, England"
11.4.1941Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis
11.4.1941Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets
11.4.1942Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized
11.4.1943"Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft"
11.4.1944RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague
11.4.1945Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum
11.4.1945"SS burns and shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen"
11.4.1945U.S. captures Tsugen Shima
11.4.1945"U.S. soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp ""Buchenwald"""
11.4.1945"U.S. troops conquers Mulheim, Oberhausen, Bochum, Unna, Essen"
11.4.1947Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in modern major-league baseball
11.4.1948"12th Golf Masters Championship: Claude Harmon wins, shooting a 279"
11.4.1950Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco
11.4.1950U.S. B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia
11.4.1951President Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur
11.4.1953"Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, and Welfare"
11.4.1954Marlene Bauer wins LPGA New Orleans Golf Open
11.4.1955Sobers starts run of 85 Test Cricket appearances for WI uninterrupted
11.4.1956"French government decides to sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria"
11.4.1956Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites
11.4.1957Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires
11.4.1957Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off and land vertically
11.4.1958Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated in San Francisco
11.4.1959Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale hits his 2nd Opening Day HR
11.4.1959Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory
11.4.1959"""Jamaica"" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 558 performances"
11.4.19601st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)
11.4.1961"15th NBA Championship: Bos Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 1"
11.4.1961Austrian 4th and last government of Raab resigns
11.4.1961Israel begins Adolf Eichmann WW II war crimes trial
11.4.1962New York Mets make a losing debut
11.4.1963"John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty"
11.4.1963U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
11.4.1963Warren Spahn beats Mets 6-1 for his 328th win (most by a lefty)
11.4.1964"""Anyone Can Whistle"" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 9 performances"
11.4.1965"29th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 271"
11.4.1965"40 tornadoes strike U.S. midwest killing 272 and injuring 5,000"
11.4.1966"30th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 288"
11.4.1966Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire
11.4.1967Harlem (New York City) voters defy Congress and reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr
11.4.1967"""Illya Darling"" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 320 performances"
11.4.1967"Tom Stoppard's ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,"" premieres"
11.4.1968Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president
11.4.1968President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
11.4.1968West Berlin student Rudi Dutschke seriously wounded at demonstration
11.4.1968"WHED TV channel 15 in Hanover, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting"
11.4.1969South African president Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse
11.4.1970"Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days"
11.4.1970"Beatles' ""Let It Be,"" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks"
11.4.1970"San Francisco beats Cincinnati 2-1, only day Reds aren't in 1st place in 1970"
11.4.1971"35th Golf Masters Championship: Charles Coody wins, shooting a 279"
11.4.1971"""Johnny Johnson"" opens/closes at Edison Theater New York City for 1 performance"
11.4.1971"WBFF TV channel 45 in Baltimore, MD (IND) begins broadcasting"
11.4.1972"Benjamin L Hooks, named to FCC"
11.4.1972U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
11.4.1974WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested
11.4.1975JP Parise 11 sec OT goal-Isles 1st playoff advance eliminates Rangers
11.4.1975Hank Aaron returns as a Milwaukee player (Brewer)
11.4.1976"40th Golf Masters Championship: Ray Floyd wins, shooting a 271"
11.4.1977Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 mile
11.4.1979Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala
11.4.1980Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment
11.4.1980"Paul McCartney releases ""Coming Up"""
11.4.1981Larry Holmes beats Trevor Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
11.4.1981Race riot in London area of Brixton
11.4.1981Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him
11.4.1981Valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen
11.4.1982"46th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Stadler wins, shooting a 284"
11.4.1982Penguins 5-Isles 2-Preliminary-Series tied at 2-2
11.4.19833rd Golden Raspberry Awards: Inchon! wins
11.4.1983"47th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 280"
11.4.1983"55th Academy Awards - ""Gandhi,"" Ben Kingsley and Meryl Streep win"
11.4.1983NASA launches RCA-F
11.4.1984Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair
11.4.1984Chinese troops invade Vietnam
11.4.1984Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union
11.4.1984Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth
11.4.1984U.S.S.R. party leader Chernenko elected president
11.4.1985Caps 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-0 lead
11.4.1986"A Canadain 1921 50 cent piece auctioned in New York City for $22,000"
11.4.1986Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days
11.4.1986"Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km"
11.4.1986"KXA-AM in Seattle, Washington changes call letters to KRPM"
11.4.1987Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs Kansas City Royals
11.4.1987Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39)
11.4.1988Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens
11.4.1989"1st playoff goal scored by a goalie, Ron Hextall of Phila"
11.4.1989"Flyers, scores short-handed into an empty net beating Caps 8-5"
11.4.1990"Angels Mark Langston and Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle, 1-0"
11.4.1990New York Lotto pays $35 million to two winner (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51)
11.4.1990"New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 6-1, Rangers lead 3-1 in preliminary"
11.4.1991"""Miss Saigon,"" opens at Broadway Theater New York City"
11.4.1991"New York City's Museum of Broadcasting becomes ""Museum of Radio and Television"""
11.4.1991Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands
11.4.1991U.N. Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration
11.4.1992BPAA U.S. Open by Robert Lawrence
11.4.1992Country singer Lee Greenwood weds Miss Tennessee 1989 (Kimberly Payne)
11.4.1992Euro-Disney opens near Paris
11.4.1992Indians set team record for long game lose to Red Sox (19 inn - 6 hr)
11.4.1992"Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3"
11.4.1993"57th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 277"
11.4.1993Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec)
11.4.1993Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie
11.4.1996Detroit Red Wings become 2nd NHL team to win 60 games in a season
11.4.1996"""King and I,"" premieres at Neil Simon Theater in New York City for 781 perform"
11.4.199963rd Golf Masters Championship:
12.4.1065Pilgrims under bishop Gunther of Bamberg reach Jerusalem
12.4.1111"Pope Paschalis II crowns Henry V, Roman emperor"
12.4.12044th Crusade occupies and plunders Constantinople
12.4.1229Queen Blanche of Castilie and earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace
12.4.1385John without Fear marries Margaretha of Brabant
12.4.1385Willem van Oostervant weds Philip the Stouts daughter Margaretha (10)
12.4.1545French king Francois I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed
12.4.1583William of Orange marries Louise de Coligny
12.4.1606England adopts Union Jack as its flag
12.4.1648University of Harderwijk Netherlands solemn opens
12.4.1654"England, Ireland and Scotland united"
12.4.17091st edition of Tattler magazine in England
12.4.1713Dutch State-Gen signs peace with France: Netherlands loses Orange Princedom
12.4.1770Townsend Acts repealed
12.4.1776Halifax resolution for independence adopted by North Carolina
12.4.1782Battle at Les Saintes West-Indies: British fleet beats French
12.4.1787Philadelphia's Free African Society forms
12.4.1811"1st U.S. colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA"
12.4.1826"Weber's opera ""Oberon,"" premieres in London"
12.4.1844Texas became a U.S. territory
12.4.1857"Gustave Flaubert's ""Madame Bovary"" published"
12.4.18581st U.S. billiards championship (Michael J Phelan wins in Detroit)
12.4.1859Hibernia Savings and Loan Society of San Francisco incorporates
12.4.1861"Fort Sumter, South Carolina is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War"
12.4.1862"James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, Georgia"
12.4.1862Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski Georgia
12.4.1864Battle of Blair's Landing Louisiana
12.4.1864"Confederate Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tennessee"
12.4.1869North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law
12.4.1872"Jesse James gang robs bank in Columbia, Kentucky (1 dead/$1,500)"
12.4.1877"British annex Transvaal, in South Africa"
12.4.1877Catcher's mask 1st used in a baseball game
12.4.1883French troops under Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal
12.4.1887"Henrik Ibsen's ""Rosmersholm,"" premieres in Oslo"
12.4.1892George C. Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter
12.4.1893Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa: German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi
12.4.1894British and Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa
12.4.1896Stamasia Portrisi is 1st woman to win a marathon (5:30 in Athens)
12.4.1898Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay to Navy
12.4.1905French Dufaux brothers test helicopter
12.4.1905Hippodrome arena opens in New York City
12.4.1907"Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer, resigns"
12.4.1908"Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts"
12.4.1909Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens
12.4.19111st non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3h56m)
12.4.1917Bijou Theater opens at 222 W 45th St. New York City (Demolished 1982)
12.4.1917Domenico Scarlatti and Jeab Cocteaus ballet premieres in Rome
12.4.1919British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages
12.4.1926Dutch Catholic Radio Broadcast (KRO) forms
12.4.1927Gen Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai
12.4.1928Assassination attempt on king Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
12.4.19304th Test Cricket WI vs. England ends in a draw after nine days
12.4.1930Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days
12.4.1931Joe McCarthy debuts as New York Yankee manager
12.4.1931Spanish voters reject the monarchy
12.4.1932Emmanuel Chabriers and Balanchines ballet premieres in Monte Carlo
12.4.1933Moffatt Field commissioned
12.4.1934"Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mt Washington, NH, 231 mph"
12.4.1935"Germany prohibits publishing ""not-Arian"" writers"
12.4.1935Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar
12.4.1935"""Your Hit Parade,"" debuts on radio"
12.4.19381st U.S. law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses
12.4.1938"Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1"
12.4.1940Italy annexes Albania
12.4.1940NFL cuts clipping penalty from 25 yards to 15 yards
12.4.1941Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
12.4.1941Vichy-France's head of government Admiral Dalan consults with Hitler
12.4.1942"9th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 280"
12.4.1942Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan
12.4.1943"Allies conquer Soussa, North-Africa"
12.4.1943Dutch Catholic University Nijmegen closed
12.4.1944"Lillian Hellman's ""Searching Wind,"" premieres in New York City"
12.4.1945"Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands"
12.4.1945Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd pres
12.4.1945"Richard Strauss completes his ""Metamorphosis"""
12.4.1945U.S. liberates Buchenwald concentration camp
12.4.1946Syria gains independence from France
12.4.1951Israeli Knesset officially designated April 13 as Holocaust Day
12.4.1952Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Houston Weathervane Golf Tournament
12.4.1952Salaheddine Baccouche forms Tunisian government
12.4.1953"17th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 274"
12.4.1953"Keizo Yamada runs fastest marathon to date, at Boston"
12.4.1953"KFDX TV channel 3 in Wichita Falls, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting"
12.4.1954"18th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 289"
12.4.1954"8th NBA Championship: Min Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 3"
12.4.1954Belgian Van Houtte government resigns
12.4.1954"Bill Haley and Comets records ""Rock Around Clock"""
12.4.1954"Joe Turner releases ""Shake, Rattle and Roll"""
12.4.1955"1st game in Kansas City, Kansas City A's beat Detroit Tigers, 6-2"
12.4.1955Salk polio vaccine safe and effective; 4 billion dimes marched
12.4.1956Bandaranaike government forms in Ceylon
12.4.1957Jim Spalding set a 2088 pin nine-game bowling record
12.4.1957U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test
12.4.1958"12th NBA Championship: St. Louis Hawks beat Bost Celtics, 4 games to 2"
12.4.1958Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk
12.4.195913th Tony Awards: J B and Redhead win
12.4.1959Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
12.4.1959France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria
12.4.1960"Bert Haanstra wins Oscar for ""Glass"""
12.4.1960"Bill Veeck and Chicago Comiskey Park debuts ""Exploding Scoreboard"""
12.4.1961"3rd Grammy Awards: Theme From a Summer Place, Ray Charles wins 4"
12.4.1961Douglas MacArthur declines offer to become baseball commissioner
12.4.1961Yuri Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth in Vostok 1
12.4.1962"San Mateo County withdraws from BART district, San Francisco Bay area"
12.4.1963"Beatles ""From Me to You"" is released in UK"
12.4.1963Birmingham police use dogs and cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators
12.4.1964"28th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 276"
12.4.1964Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies' Golf Open Invitational
12.4.19651st NL game at Houston's Astrodome (Phillies beat Astros 2-0)
12.4.19661st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam
12.4.1966Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium opens; Pirates beat Braves 3-2
12.4.1966Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck
12.4.1969"Simon and Garfunkel releases ""Boxer"""
12.4.1970Yankees dedicate plaques to Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio
12.4.1973France recognizes North Vietnam
12.4.1973Sudan adopts constitution
12.4.1973Swaziland suspends constitution
12.4.1975"Linda Ronstadt releases ""When Will I Be Loved"""
12.4.1976"India set 403 to win by WI They get them, 6 wkts 7 overs spare"
12.4.1979Soyuz 33 returns to Earth
12.4.1980"BCMA, Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, forms"
12.4.1980"Milwaukee beats Boston Red Sox, 18-1 (Cooper and Money hit grand slams)"
12.4.1981"45th Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 280"
12.4.1981Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
12.4.1981Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
12.4.1981Maiden voyage of space shuttle Columbia
12.4.19823 CBS employees shot to death in New York City parking lot
12.4.1983Harold Washington becomes Chicago's 1st black mayor
12.4.1983U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
12.4.198516th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn
12.4.1985U.S. Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of Moscow games
12.4.1986"20,000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines"
12.4.1987"51st Golf Masters Championship: Larry Mize wins, shooting a 285"
12.4.1987Ahmed Salah wins 2nd World Cup marathon (2:10:55)
12.4.1987Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
12.4.1987Texaco files for bankruptcy
12.4.1988Devils 4-2 over Islanders-Devils lead 3-2 in 1st round
12.4.1988Frank Robinson replaces Cal Ripkin as manager of Baltimore Orioles
12.4.1988Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse
12.4.1988Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs California
12.4.19893rd Soul Train Music Awards: Anita Baker
12.4.1989Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through
12.4.1990"1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust and asks for forgivenesss"
12.4.1990Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers
12.4.1990James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months
12.4.1991"2,500th episode of Entertainment Tonight airs"
12.4.1991Nepalese Congress party wins general elections
12.4.1991U.S. announces closing of 31 major U.S. military bases
12.4.1992"2nd lowest NBA scoring game - Detroit Piston 72, New York Knicks 61"
12.4.199253rd PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Lee Trevino
12.4.1992"56th Golf Masters Championship: Fred Couples wins, shooting a 275"
12.4.1992Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from singer Lenny Kravitz
12.4.1992Earthquake rocks Germany
12.4.1992Lynn Gunther of California threatens to blow herself up in front of U.N.
12.4.1992"Matt Young no-hits Cleveland, but loses 2-1"
12.4.1992New York Mets lose 1st 3 home games for 1st time since 1962
12.4.1992"""Streetcar Named Desire"" opens at Ethel Barrymore New York City for 137 performances"
12.4.1992Trump Shuttle becomes U.S. Air Shuttle
12.4.199862nd Golf Masters Championship:
13.4.837Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years
13.4.989Battle at Abydos: Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas
13.4.1055Bishop Gebhard van Eichstatt named Pope Victor II
13.4.1111Pope Paschalis II crowns Roman catholics-German king Hendrik II
13.4.1180Republic day of Gelnhausen
13.4.1204Crusaders occupy Constantinople
13.4.1241Battle at Theiss: Mongols beat Hungarian King Bela IV
13.4.1346"Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy"
13.4.1367Battle at Najera Spain: Castilie and England beat Aragon and France
13.4.1517Osmaanse army occupies Cairo
13.4.1556Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope
13.4.1598Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots
13.4.1640English Short Parliament forms
13.4.1668John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate
13.4.1741Dutch people protest bad quality of bread
13.4.1741Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich
13.4.1742"George Frederic Handel's ""Messiah"" performed for 1st time (Dublin)"
13.4.1759French beat European Allies in Battle of Bergen
13.4.17961st elephant arrives in U.S. from India
13.4.1796Battle at Millesimo Italy: Napoleon beats Austrians
13.4.1808"William Henry Lane (""Juda"") perfects tap dance"
13.4.1829English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics
13.4.1834"HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia"
13.4.1842"Lord Rosse successfully casts 72"" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope"
13.4.1849Hungarian Republic proclaimed
13.4.1860"1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento, California"
13.4.1861"After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft. Sumter surrenders to Confederates"
13.4.1863"Battle of Irish Bend, Louisiana (Ft. Bisland)"
13.4.1863Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled in New York is 1st orthopedic hospital
13.4.1865"Battle of Raleigh, North Carolina"
13.4.1865Sherman's march through Georgia begins
13.4.1869Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)
13.4.1870Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in New York City
13.4.1873Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed)
13.4.1882Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia
13.4.1883Alfred Packer convicted of cannibalism
13.4.1895"Start of Sherlock Holmes ""Adventure of Solitary Cyclist"""
13.4.1902"J C Penney opens his 1st store in Kemmerer, Wyoming"
13.4.1904Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army
13.4.1904Congress authorizes Lewis and Clark Expo $1 gold coin
13.4.1906Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos and Vasco da Gama
13.4.1908Groundbreaking on Philadelphia's Shibe Park (home of A's and Phillies)
13.4.1911Polo Grounds grandstand and left field bleachers go up in flames
13.4.1912Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)
13.4.19141st Federal League Game: Balt Terrapins beat Buffalo 3-2
13.4.1918Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital
13.4.1919Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India
13.4.1919British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre)
13.4.1920"1st woman U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed"
13.4.1923Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships
13.4.1924Greek plebiscite for a republic
13.4.1925"Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd St. New York City"
13.4.1926"At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout"
13.4.1926Bicyclists without bicycle-tax-stamp rounded up in Amsterdam
13.4.1927"Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Boston Bruins, in 2 games and 2 ties"
13.4.19281st trans atlantic flight Europe-U.S. (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Kohl)
13.4.1932Kozakken Boys soccer team forms in Werkendam forms
13.4.19331st flight over Mount Everest by Lord Clydesdale
13.4.1933"Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1"
13.4.19344.7 million U.S. families report receiving welfare payments
13.4.1934U.S. Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act
13.4.1936Metaxas proclaims himself dictator of Greece
13.4.1938"Clifford Goldsmith' ""What a Life,"" premieres in New York City"
13.4.1939"W Saroyan's ""My Heart's in the Highlands,"" premieres in New York City"
13.4.1940"2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed"
13.4.1940Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft
13.4.1940"Stanley Cup: New York Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 2"
13.4.1941Heavy German assault on Tobruk
13.4.1941Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect
13.4.1943Catholic University Nijegen closes
13.4.1943Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Jefferson Memorial
13.4.1943Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn
13.4.1944South Carolina rejects black suffrage
13.4.1944Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games
13.4.1944Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
13.4.1945Canadian army liberates Teuge and Assen Netherlands from Nazis
13.4.1945Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna)
13.4.1945U.S. Marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa
13.4.1946Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage and price freeze over
13.4.1946"Eddie Klepp, a white pitcher signed by defending Negro League champ Cleveland Buckeyes, is barred from field in Birmingham Alabama"
13.4.194875 scientists ambushed on way to Mount Scopus
13.4.1949"3rd NBA Championship: Minnesota Lakers beat Washington Capitols, 4 games to 2"
13.4.1953"1st game of Milwaukee Braves, they beat Cin Reds 2-0"
13.4.1954"Baltimore Orioles 1st game, loses to Tigers in Detroit 3-0"
13.4.1954Milwaukee Braves' Hank Aaron's 1st game
13.4.1954Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist
13.4.1955"20.33"" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record)"
13.4.1956"KETA TV channel 13 in Oklahoma City, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting"
13.4.1957"11th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3"
13.4.195711th Tony Awards: Long Days Journey into the Night and My Fair Lady win
13.4.1957"Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in U.S. is temp halted"
13.4.1957"""Shinbone Alley"" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 49 performances"
13.4.195812th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello and Music Man win
13.4.1959USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit
13.4.1959Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
13.4.1959Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists
13.4.1960France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara
13.4.1960"Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit"
13.4.1961"""Carnival!"" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 719 performances"
13.4.1961U.N. General Assembly condemns South-Africa's apartheid
13.4.1962"Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new NL record"
13.4.1962U.S. steel industry forced to give up price increases
13.4.1963Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit
13.4.1963Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game
13.4.1964"36th Academy Awards - ""Tom Jones,"" Sidney Poitier and Patricia Neal win"
13.4.1964Ian D. Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
13.4.1964New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day
13.4.1965"1st U.S. Senate black page, Lawrence W. Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by New York Sen Jacob Javits"
13.4.1965"Beatles record ""Help"""
13.4.1966"Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s"
13.4.1969"33rd Golf Masters Championship: George Archer wins, shooting a 281"
13.4.1970"34th Golf Masters Championship: Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279"
13.4.1970"Apollo 13 announces ""Houston, we've got a problem!"" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon"
13.4.1970Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed
13.4.1970Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation
13.4.19721st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days
13.4.1975"39th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 276"
13.4.1975Chad military coup by General Odingar
13.4.1975"Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war"
13.4.1975Penguins 5-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 1-0 lead
13.4.1976"1st NBA playoff game for Cleveland Cavliers, they lose 100-95 to Wash"
13.4.1976Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes
13.4.1978"Jackson slugs a 3-run HR in the 1st inning, and the field is showered"
13.4.1978New York Yanks defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day
13.4.1979Christian Turks occupy St. Jansbasiliek
13.4.1979Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
13.4.1979Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda
13.4.1980"44th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 275"
13.4.1980Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
13.4.1980Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
13.4.1980"""Grease"" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 3,388 performances"
13.4.1980"""Reggae"" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 21 performances"
13.4.1980U.S. boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow
13.4.1981"Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for ""Crimes of the Heart"""
13.4.1981Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)
13.4.1982Penguins 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Preliminary-Isles win series (3-2)
13.4.1983Harold Washington elected 1st black mayor of Chicago
13.4.1983U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
13.4.1983Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault
13.4.198411th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth
13.4.1984India beat Pak by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah
13.4.1984"Pete Rose becomes 1st NL to get get 4,000 hits in a career"
13.4.1985"Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas"
13.4.1985Caps 1-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals- Caps hold 2-1 lead
13.4.1985Katrin Dorre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30)
13.4.1985Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania
13.4.1985"""TASS"" denounced U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics"
13.4.1986"50th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 279"
13.4.1986Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record
13.4.1986Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
13.4.1986Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue
13.4.1986Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second
13.4.19871st 3 San Diego Padres hit home runs off San Francisco starter Roger Mason
13.4.1987Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999)
13.4.1988Italy government of De Mita forms
13.4.1989"""Welcome to the Club"" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 12 performances"
13.4.1990"4th largest NBA crowd (45,458) see Orlando play at Minneapolis"
13.4.1990Final episode of Pat Sajak's late night TV show on CBS
13.4.1990"New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1"
13.4.1991BPAA U.S. Open by Pete Weber
13.4.1992"""2 Trains Running"" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 160 performances"
13.4.19925.5 earthquake hits Netherlands
13.4.1992American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50%
13.4.1992"Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver and Dallas"
13.4.1992Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood
13.4.1992Longest 2 undefeated baseball teams to meet (New York Yanks 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0); Yanks score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2
13.4.1992Lou Conaseca retires as coach of St. John's basketball team
13.4.1992Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie
13.4.199314th Emmy Sports Award presentation
13.4.1993"""3 Men on a Horse"" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 40 performances"
13.4.1993"Tom Stoppard's ""Arcadia,"" premieres in London"
13.4.1994"President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death"
13.4.1994"United Arab Emirates' 1st official ODI, losing to India"
13.4.1995Yankees beat the Mets 2-0
13.4.1996En route to NHL record 62 victories Detroit Red Wings win #61
13.4.1996Ottawa Senators eliminate Stanley Cup Champs New Jersey Devils from playoff
13.4.1997"48th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Carlos Perez (Mon)/Darren Holmes"
13.4.199761st Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods at 21 (270 18 under par)
13.4.1997"""American Daughter"" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 88 performances"
13.4.1997Hartford Whalers last NHL game
13.4.1997NHL Pittsburgh Penguin Mario Lemieux's last NHL regular game
13.4.1997Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets and Oakland A's vs Yankees in NY
14.4.193Lucius Septimus Severus crowned emperor of Rome
14.4.754"Pact of Quierzy: between Pope Stephen II, [III] and Pippin the Korte"
14.4.972Notger becomes bishop of Liege
14.4.979Challenge to throne of King Aethelred II of England
14.4.1028"German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king"
14.4.119185-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III
14.4.1471Battle of Barnet-King Edward IV vs Earl of Warwick
14.4.1536English king Henry VIII expropriate minor monasteries
14.4.1544Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss
14.4.1570Polish Calvinists/Lutherians/Hernhutters unify against Jesuits
14.4.1574Battle of Mookerhei-D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau
14.4.1611"Word ""telescope"" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi)"
14.4.1614"Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan, marries planter John Rolfe"
14.4.1629England and France sign Peace of Susa
14.4.1671Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin
14.4.1756Gov Glen of South Carolina protests against 900 Acadia indians
14.4.17751st abolitionist society in U.S. organizes in Philadelphia
14.4.1777New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
14.4.1792"France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars"
14.4.1799Napoleon called for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
14.4.1809"Napoleon defeated Austria in the Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria"
14.4.1814Napoleon abdicated and was banished to Elba
14.4.1818U.S. Medical Corp forms
14.4.1828"18-gun sloop ""Acorn"" sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard"
14.4.18281st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published
14.4.1836Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin
14.4.1841"Edgar Allen Poe's ""Murders in the Rue Morgue,"" published"
14.4.1847Persia and Osmaanse sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum
14.4.1853"Harriet Tubman began her Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape"
14.4.1859"Charles Dickens' ""A Tale Of Two Cities"" published"
14.4.1860"1st Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco from St. Joseph, Missouri"
14.4.1861Formal Union surrender of Ft. Sumter
14.4.1861Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
14.4.1862Battle of Ft. Pillow Tennessee
14.4.1863William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press
14.4.1865"Mobile, Alabama is captured"
14.4.1865President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth
14.4.1868"South Carolina voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228"
14.4.1871"Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, and mills"
14.4.1872Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act
14.4.1872San Francisco organizes Bar Association
14.4.1883"Leo Delibes' opera ""Lakme,"" premieres in Paris"
14.4.1887"Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure ""Reigate Squires"""
14.4.1890Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Washington D.C.)
14.4.18941st public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
14.4.1894"Thomas Edison presents ""peep show"" device"
14.4.18951st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony
14.4.1896"John Philip Sousa's ""El Capitan,"" premieres (New York City)"
14.4.1900President Loubet opens International Fairs in Paris
14.4.1900Veteran's Hospital at Ft. Miley forms
14.4.1902Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium
14.4.1903Dr. Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid in New York City
14.4.1904"George Bernard Shaw's ""Candida,"" premiered in London"
14.4.1906"President Theodore Roosevelt denounces ""muckrakers"" in U.S. press"
14.4.1909Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London
14.4.1910President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day