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- 1145 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
- 1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil
- 1500 Portuguese navigator Pedro lvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil.
- 1509 Henry VIII ascended to throne of England
- 1529 Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere in Treaty of Saragosa
- 1529 Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17 east of the Moluccas.
- 1769 Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress
- 1778 Captain John Paul Jones of Ranger led landing party raid on Whitehaven, England
- 1836 Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna.
- 1861 Robert E Lee named commander of Virginia forces
- 1863 American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins troops under Union Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
- 1864 US mints $2. coin (1st appearance of "In God We Trust")
- 1876 The Boston Red Stockings defeat the Philadelphia Athletics 6-5 in the first National League Baseball game
- 1884 Thomas Stevens starts first bike trip around the world (2 yrs 9 mos)
- 1889 At high noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
- 1889 Oklahoma Territory lands formerly reserved for Native Americans are opened to white homesteaders by President Harrison at high noon
- 1889 Oklahoma land rush officially started
- 1897 NYC Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (stiil active)
- 1898 Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship
- 1898 U.S. warships begin blockade of Cuba
- 1903 American Power Boat Association forms
- 1906 Olympic games held in Athens are not accepted by the IOC
- 1911 H E Wood discovers asteroid #715 Transvaalia
- 1912 Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publications in Saint Petersburg.
- 1915 Firt military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
- 1915 The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
- 1922 South Ossetian Autonomous Region established in Georgian SSR
- 1930 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1226 Golia
- 1930 The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
- 1930 US, Britain & Japan agree to reduce naval forces
- 1937 NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike
- 1940 Rear Adm Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable (He was right)
- 1945 General Eisenhower invites eight U.S. congressmen to visit death camps.
- 1945 World War II: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
- 1946 The first installment of the popular Japanese comic strip, Sazae-san, is published in the Fukunichi Shimbun.
- 1949 Visitor posting - Vincent Narus was born in Dorchester Massachusetts
- 1952 The first atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada
- 1954 Red Scare: Army-McCarthy Hearings begin.
- 1954 Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began
- 1955 Congress orders all US coins bear motto "In God We Trust"
- 1962 Tor Maple Leafs beat Black Hawks 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup
- 1964 World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY) opens
- 1964 Visitor posting - Andrew "Buttsy" Butterworth was born - Australia
- 1964 Visitor posting - Greg "Slash" Cummings was born! - USA
- 1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Beatles - Ticket To Ride
- 1967 Tom Conway actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show), dies at 62
- 1969 Joe Frazier KOs Dave Zygiewicz in 1:36
- 1970 Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources
- 1970 First Earth Day celebrated.
- 1971 Soyuz 10 launched
- 1972 Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on the Moon
- 1972 Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts antiwar protests in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
- 1972 Visitor posting - Jeff S. F. is born to Catherine E.A. - USA
- 1974 Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of the Today Show
- 1977 Charles Sanford orch leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71
- 1978 Will Geer actor (Grandpa-The Waltons), dies at 75
- 1979 Mick Jaggar & Keith Richards give a benefit concert in Canada
- 1980 Jane Froman singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), dies at 72
- 1981 Visitor posting - the love of my life Julian Crawford was born!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love you Julian - USA
- 1981 Brailsford Reese Brazeal (76) dean (Morehouse College), dies at 76
- 1982 Launch of STS-3-Lousma & Fullerton [03/23]
- 1983 Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth
- 1983 Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolph Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)
- 1983 The German magazine, Der Stern claims that Adolf Hitler's diaries were found in a wreckage in East Germany.
- 1986 Consumer Price Index drops .04% for 2nd month in a row
- 1987 U.S. Navy ordered to provide assistance to neutral vessels under Iranian attack outside the exclusion zone and that requested help
- 1989 Huey Newton black activist, shot dead at 47
- 1989 Nolan Ryan strikesout his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)
- 1990 Lebanon releases hostage Robert Polhill
- 1991 Intel releases the 486SX chip
- 1991 Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from Tonight Show
- 1991 Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn & Queens
- 1992 1992 explosion in Guadalajara, Mexico ; 206 people were killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 were left homeless
- 1993 The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC is dedicated.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Sulsabeel Akram was born on this day!!!!! - USA
- 1993 The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released.
- 1994 Former President Richard Nixon dies
- 1997 A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru ends after government commandos storm and capture the building, rescuing 71 hostages. One hostage dies of a heart attack, two soldiers are killed from rebel fire, and all 14 rebels are slain.
- 1997 Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria; 93 villagers killed.
- 1998 Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
- 2000 In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elin Gonzlez from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida.
- 2000 The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
- 2004 Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
- 2006 243 people were injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces opened fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.
- 2006 Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War.
- 2006 Jalal Talabani sworn in for a second term as President of Iraq.
- 2008 US government has arrested Eighty-Four Year Old Ben-Ami Kadish for Spying for Israel Over Twenty Year Ago
- 2009 Visitor posting - Kristy and Justin's 6 month anniversary and first date!!!
- 2009 Visitor posting - April 22, 2009 The love of my life Elmer Adonay Reyes passed away.
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