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- 1379 End of Gelderse war victory
- 1401 Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
- 1545 German Parliament opens in Worms
- 1550 France & England sign Peace of Boulogne
- 1603 After forty-four years of rule, Queen Elizabeth I of England dies and King James VI of Scotland ascends to the throne, uniting England, Scotland, and Ireland under a single British monarch.
- 1603 James VI of Scotland also becomes James I King of England.
- 1645 Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS Roman Catholic emperor Ferdinand III
- 1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
- 1721 Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts
- 1731 An Act to naturalize Hieronimus De Salis Esquire, passed.
- 1734 Netherlands' William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover
- 1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers
- 1792 Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London
- 1801 Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia
- 1828 Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
- 1832 In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..
- 1832 Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio
- 1837 Canada gives blacks the right to vote
- 1855 Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston KS
- 1860 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in San Francisco, 89 days out of New York
- 1863 Bushrangers Charles Robardi and Auguste Rivet stand trial at Goulburn, NSW, for murdering mail carrier Daniel Crotty. (
- 1868 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms
- 1877 University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat
- 1878 British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
- 1878 HMS Eurydice, a training ship, sank in a freak squall off Ventnor, Isle of Wight with the loss of 330 lives. Only 2 were saved.
- 1878 The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
- 1880 Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut
- 1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
- 1882 Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis).
- 1887 Oscar Straus appointed first Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
- 1894 37 miners killed at Franklin WA
- 1898 Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania becomes the first person to buy an American-built automobile when he buys a Winton automobile that was advertised in Scientific American.
- 1898 The first recoreded sale of an automobile
- 1900 New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
- 1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world - how things will change!
- 1910 83ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
- 1913 Netherlands soccer team's first victory over England
- 1920 US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
- 1923 Greece becomes a republic.
- 1923 In China a 7.3 earthquake resulted in 5,000 dead. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.
- 1926 The Beehive in the Hague opens first escalator in Netherlands
- 1927 Cuban chess champion, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie
- 1927 Dutch first Chamber condemns Belgian & Netherlands' Wielingen Treaty
- 1929 Visitor posting - Mary Katherine Hudson was born.
- 1930 Planet Pluto named
- 1934 U.S. Congress passes Tydings-McDuffie Act.
- 1934 US declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945
- 1935 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
- 1937 Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem IL)
- 1941 British troops defeat British Somalia
- 1941 German troops occupy El Agheila Libya
- 1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his first movie for 20th Century Fox
- 1944 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape) later made into a movie
- 1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin
- 1944 German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in the Ardeatine Massacre in Rome.
- 1944 In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
- 1944 In occupied Rome, Nazis executed more than 300 civilians
- 1945 150 bombers fly from Italy to bomb Berlin.
- 1945 Cpl. Frederick G. Topham (1st Cdn. Parachute Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Diersfordt Wood, Germany
- 1945 General Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany
- 1945 Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders
- 1945 Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine
- 1945 US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
- 1947 Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the Presidency
- 1947 John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN
- 1949 21st Academy Awards: "Hamlet", Laurence Olivier & Jane Wyman win
- 1949 Walter & John Huston become first father-and-son team to win Oscars (actor & director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre")
- 1952 Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa
- 1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
- 1955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway for 694 performances
- 1955 The first seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
- 1957 Visitor posting - Terri Patterson-Leonard was born - USA
- 1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)
- 1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact
- 1962 Benny Paret, KO'd in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later
- 1962 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys
- 1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued
- 1965 NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash-landing.
- 1965 US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of crater Alphonsus
- 1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
- 1970 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piët ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip
- 1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
- 1972 The United Kingdom imposes "Direct Rule" over Northern Ireland.
- 1973 Kenyan track runner Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, sanctioned by the International Track Association.
- 1973 Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile
- 1974 Uganda crushes coup attempt against President Idi Amin following machine-gun and mortar battle with rebels.
- 1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 to retain the heavyweight boxing title
- 1976 Argentina's military forces depose president Isabel Pern and start the National Reorganization Process.
- 1976 Argentine President Isabel Perón deposed by country's military
- 1976 British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery dies. He defeated the Germans at El Alamein
- 1977 Former Australian cabinet minister Don Chipp resigns from the Liberal Party; later he establishes the Australian Democrats
- 1978 Wings release "With a Little Luck"
- 1979 Columbia flown on aircraft carrier lands at Kennedy Space Center
- 1979 First appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes
- 1980 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"
- 1980 Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks
- 1981 "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC
- 1981 Bombay beat Delhi by innings & 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy
- 1981 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba
- 1982 US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
- 1984 IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics
- 1984 Number one hit on UK music charts - Lionel Richie - Hello
- 1985 Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins)
- 1985 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Australia, Sharjah)
- 1986 Visitor posting - Jessica Lynn H. is born in detroit MI - USA
- 1986 58th Academy Awards: "Out of Africa", William Hurt & Geraldine Page win
- 1986 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
- 1986 Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
- 1986 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
- 1987 First Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win
- 1987 Western Australia win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
- 1988 Quarterback Dan Fouts retires
- 1988 Visitor posting - Jasmin Alexandra Taylor was born in Evansville, IN - USA
- 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (42,000 m) of petroleum after running aground.
- 1989 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan", first time seen on TV since 1973
- 1989 The worst oil spill to ever occur in U.S. territory begins after the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by the Exxon Corporation, runs aground on a reef in Prince William Sound in southern Alaska
- 1990 Indian troops leave Sri Lanka
- 1991 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It win
- 1991 In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen
- 1991 Wrestlemania VII in Los Angeles, Hulk Hogan pins Sergeant Slaughter for championship
- 1992 First Belgian in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
- 1992 Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens; 5-6 die
- 1992 Visitor posting - Mathew Harroun was born - USA
- 1993 Ezer Weizman elected President of Israel
- 1993 Visitor posting - Jessica Lynn Is born
- 1993 Visitor posting - Susej Maria Taveras Urena was born. - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - Kyle Morrison was born - USA
- 1994 "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances
- 1994 F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in North Carolina, 120 die
- 1994 Visitor posting - Elesia Garcia was born. - USA
- 1994 Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black
- 1996 16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls wins
- 1996 Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual
- 1996 MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way
- 1996 U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid safely transfers to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay.
- 1997 69th Academy Awards: "The English Patient", Tom Cruise & Frances McDormand win
- 1997 Australian parliament overturns world's first & only euthanasia law
- 1998 Jonesboro massacre: In Jonesboro, Arkansas, two boys (aged 11 and 13 years) fire upon students at Westside Middle School; four students and one teacher are killed and 10 injured.
- 1998 Visitor posting - carly was born! - USA
- 1998 Tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
- 1999 Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
- 1999 Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people died when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in Mont Blanc Tunnel.
- 2000 The S&P 500 reaches an all-time high of 1527.46.
- 2000 Two 18-year-old boys are arrested in Britain on charges of breaking into e-commerce Internet sites in five countries, stealing information on more than 26,000 credit card accounts and posting some of it on the Web
- 2003 The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
- 2006 Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police.
- 2006 Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his Pontificate.
- 2010 Visitor posting - my birthday - Canada [email protected]
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