| 1998 |
"Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City |
| 1998 |
"Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC |
| 1996 |
Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy |
| 1995 |
Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship |
| 1995 |
Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS) |
| 1995 |
Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny |
| 1995 |
Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain |
| 1995 |
Letitia Vriesde runs S Amer indoor record 800m (2:00.35) |
| 1995 |
Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (CAN) |
| 1995 |
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (CHN) |
| 1995 |
Congress party loses India national election |
| 1995 |
Lara scores 139 in ODI vs. Australia at Port-of-Spain |
| 1995 |
Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova and Rene Novotny |
| 1995 |
Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham U.K. won by Gritshuk and Platov (RUS) |
| 1994 |
Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests |
| 1993 |
Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2 week speech |
| 1993 |
Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2? week speech |
| 1993 |
317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay |
| 1993 |
Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney |
| 1993 |
Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show |
| 1991 |
5th Soul Train Music Awards |
| 1990 |
Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland |
| 1990 |
LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland |
| 1989 |
Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election |
| 1989 |
15th People's Choice Awards |
| 1989 |
2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia) |
| 1989 |
2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found in Philadelphia |
| 1987 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial New York City for 4000+ performances |
| 1987 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS) |
| 1987 |
U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 1987 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ perfs |
| 1987 |
David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game |
| 1987 |
Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North |
| 1987 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS) |
| 1987 |
Men's Fig Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (CAN) |
| 1987 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
| 1987 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (CAN) |
| 1986 |
210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |
| 1986 |
Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race |
| 1986 |
210.25 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 1985 |
Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points |
| 1984 |
National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike |
| 1984 |
Coal Miners' strike ended |
| 1984 |
British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships |
| 1984 |
British ice dancing team, Torvill and Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships |
| 1983 |
Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49) |
| 1982 |
PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline" |
| 1982 |
1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica vs. Leeward Islands |
| 1982 |
1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica v Leeward Islands |
| 1981 |
Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, Virginia |
| 1981 |
Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in New York City |
| 1981 |
Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in NYC |
| 1981 |
Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station |
| 1981 |
Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA |
| 1980 |
NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin |
| 1980 |
New York Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin |
| 1980 |
Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago |
| 1978 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic |
| 1978 |
Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99) |
| 1977 |
Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel |
| 1977 |
Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel |
| 1977 |
Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party |
| 1976 |
South African troops leave Angola |
| 1975 |
Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam |
| 1974 |
Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Wash |
| 1972 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open |
| 1972 |
NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons |
| 1971 |
Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias |
| 1971 |
Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army |
| 1971 |
Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president |
| 1971 |
Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca P?rez Morena de Macias |
| 1970 |
U.S. lowers voting age from 21 to 18 |
| 1970 |
US lowers voting age from 21 to 18 |
| 1969 |
11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins |
| 1969 |
120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home |
| 1969 |
11th Grammy Awards: Mrs. Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins |
| 1969 |
Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London |
| 1969 |
120 joints found at George and Patti Harrison's home |
| 1968 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1968 |
Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1968 |
U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1967 |
Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet |
| 1967 |
Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority |
| 1966 |
Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record |
| 1966 |
Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins) |
| 1966 |
Love's 1st album released "Love" |
| 1966 |
Pioneer Plaza dedicated [SF?] |
| 1966 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1966 |
U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1966 |
Pioneer Plaza dedicated |
| 1964 |
WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 |
SN Behrmann's "But for Whom Charlie," premieres in NYC |
| 1964 |
Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam |
| 1964 |
Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years |
| 1964 |
6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Striesand wins 2 |
| 1964 |
6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine and Roses, Striesand wins 2 |
| 1964 |
SN Behrmann's "But for Whom Charlie," premieres in New York City |
| 1963 |
Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold |
| 1963 |
Bob Dylan cancels "Ed Sullivan Show" television appearance |
| 1962 |
Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia |
| 1961 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open |
| 1959 |
U.S. House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood |
| 1959 |
US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood |
| 1959 |
Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections |
| 1958 |
British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day" |
| 1957 |
German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions |
| 1956 |
Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24) |
| 1954 |
1st performance of Arnold Sch?nberg's "Moses und Aaron" |
| 1954 |
1st performance of Arnold Schonberg's "Moses und Aaron" |
| 1951 |
Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office |
| 1951 |
Communist troops driven out of Seoul |
| 1950 |
Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda" |
| 1950 |
Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III |
| 1948 |
-5 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March |
| 1948 |
-5?F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March |
| 1947 |
"Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances |
| 1947 |
Pres Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism |
| 1947 |
President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism |
| 1947 |
Belgian government of Huysmans resigns |
| 1947 |
Belgian govt of Huysmans resigns |
| 1947 |
"Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater New York City for 69 performances |
| 1946 |
Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland |
| 1945 |
Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy |
| 1945 |
USSR returns Transylvania to Romania |
| 1945 |
NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment |
| 1945 |
New York is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment |
| 1945 |
British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day |
| 1945 |
30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers |
| 1945 |
U.S.S.R. returns Transylvania to Romania |
| 1943 |
Soviet troops liberate Wjasma |
| 1942 |
British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal |
| 1941 |
German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands |
| 1940 |
Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus |
| 1939 |
Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies |
| 1938 |
Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss) |
| 1935 |
England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns and villages |
| 1935 |
England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages |
| 1934 |
Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Berlin |
| 1934 |
Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail |
| 1934 |
Acting President Constantine Pats commits coup in Tallinn Estonia |
| 1934 |
Acting Pres Constantine P?ts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia |
| 1933 |
FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat" |
| 1933 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt conducts his 1st fireside chat |
| 1930 |
Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1) |
| 1930 |
Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax |
| 1926 |
Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium |
| 1926 |
Denmark begins unilateral disarmament |
| 1925 |
British govt of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement |
| 1925 |
British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement |
| 1919 |
Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany) |
| 1919 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit," premieres in New York City |
| 1919 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit," premieres in NYC |
| 1917 |
Stalin, Kamenev and Muranov arrives in St. Petersburg |
| 1917 |
Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrives in St Petersburg |
| 1917 |
Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets |
| 1916 |
French airship sinks British submarine D3 |
| 1913 |
Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid |
| 1912 |
Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low |
| 1912 |
Capt Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane |
| 1912 |
Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th St NYC |
| 1912 |
Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th St. New York City |
| 1910 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3 |
| 1908 |
Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers sweep Win Maple Leafs in 2 games |
| 1906 |
Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast |
| 1904 |
Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund |
| 1904 |
1st main line electric train in U.K. (Liverpool to Southport) |
| 1904 |
1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport) |
| 1903 |
New York Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of AL |
| 1903 |
NY Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of AL |
| 1901 |
Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds) |
| 1900 |
President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein |
| 1897 |
Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal," premieres in Brussel |
| 1896 |
1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220) |
| 1894 |
Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday |
| 1894 |
Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday and Friday |
| 1889 |
Start of South Africa's 1st Test, vs. England, Port Elizabeth |
| 1889 |
Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth |
| 1889 |
Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated |
| 1888 |
2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE U.S. (400 die) |
| 1888 |
2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE US (400 die) |
| 1884 |
Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women |
| 1884 |
Mississippi establishes 1st U.S. state college for women |
| 1877 |
Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony |
| 1877 |
British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa |
| 1868 |
Britain annexed Basutoland in Africa |
| 1868 |
Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax |
| 1868 |
Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa |
| 1867 |
Last French troops leave Mexico |
| 1865 |
Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri |
| 1860 |
Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists |
| 1857 |
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice |
| 1850 |
1st US $20 gold piece issued |
| 1850 |
1st U.S. $20 gold piece issued |
| 1849 |
1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif |
| 1849 |
1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California |
| 1848 |
2nd republic established in France |
| 1799 |
Austria declares war on France |
| 1789 |
U.S. Post Office established |
| 1789 |
US Post Office established |
| 1773 |
Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago |
| 1755 |
1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine |
| 1737 |
Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy |
| 1689 |
Former English King James II lands in Ireland |
| 1664 |
1st naturalization act in American colonies |
| 1664 |
New Jersey becomes a British colony |
| 1642 |
Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand |
| 1622 |
Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint |
| 1619 |
Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia |
| 1609 |
Bermuda becomes an English colony |
| 1597 |
England routes troops to Amiens |
| 1594 |
Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies |
| 1587 |
English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower |
| 1572 |
Luis Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os Lusiados" in Portugal |
| 1572 |
Lu?s Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os Lus?ados" in Portugal |
| 1496 |
Jews are expelled from Syria |
| 1365 |
University of Vienna founded |
| 1350 |
Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples |
| 1350 |
Orvieto city says it will behead and burn Jewish-Christian couples |
| 1144 |
Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II |
| 1054 |
Pope Leo IX escapes captivity and returns to Rome |
| 1054 |
Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome |
| 1000 |
Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III |
| 1996 |
John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher, dies at 67 |
| 1996 |
Gyula Kallai, PM of Hungry (1965-67), dies at 85 |
| 1996 |
Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine, dies at 92 |
| 1994 |
Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59 |
| 1993 |
Andreas J A I Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Leiderdorp), dies at 62 |
| 1993 |
June Valli, singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies of cancer at 62 |
| 1993 |
Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83 |
| 1993 |
Wang Zhen, marxist/vice-premier of China (1988), dies |
| 1992 |
Barbara Morrison, actress (Proj Moonbase), dies of heart failure at 84 |
| 1992 |
Hans G Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (Eric the Viking), dies at 70 |
| 1992 |
Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies |
| 1992 |
Karel Poons, father of Paul Deen, dies |
| 1992 |
Philippe Soupault, writer, dies |
| 1992 |
Salvo Lima, mayor (Palermo)/MP (chr-dem), murdered |
| 1991 |
Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92 |
| 1989 |
Maurice Evans, actor (Bewitched, MacBeth), dies at 87 |
| 1988 |
William Camp, dies at 74 |
| 1988 |
Billie Rhodes, dies |
| 1985 |
Eugene Ormandy [Blau], Hungarian/US conductor, dies at 85 |
| 1984 |
Arnold Riley, playwright/actor, dies at 88 |
| 1983 |
Jevsei G Liberman, Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at 85 |
| 1982 |
Elisabeth Zernike, Dutch writer (Course of Events), dies at 90 |
| 1978 |
Tolchard Evans, composer/conductor, dies |
| 1978 |
John Cazale, actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter), dies at 41 |
| 1974 |
Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated |
| 1973 |
Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies at 77 |
| 1973 |
Frankie "Fordham Flash" Frisch, baseball player, dies at 74 |
| 1973 |
Esther Williamson Ballou, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1966 |
Estelita Rodriguez, actor (Golden Stallion, Susanna Pass), dies at 37 |
| 1961 |
Belinda Lee, actress (Joseph & his Brethren), dies in car crash at 25 |
| 1958 |
Ingeborg, Princess of Sweden, dies at 79 |
| 1957 |
Josephine Hull, actress (Harvey), dies at 71 |
| 1957 |
Harry Dean, cricketer (England left-arm bowler in 3 Tests, 1912), dies |
| 1955 |
Theodor Plievier, writer, dies |
| 1955 |
Charlie "Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 34 in NYC |
| 1950 |
L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at 78 |
| 1949 |
Maria "Beppie" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at 95 |
| 1946 |
Philip Merivale, dies at 59 |
| 1945 |
Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp |
| 1942 |
Enrique Morera, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1941 |
Charles Sanford Skilton, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1937 |
Jeno Hubay, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1937 |
Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor, French organist/composer, dies at 93 |
| 1932 |
Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide |
| 1925 |
Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58 |
| 1924 |
Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies |
| 1916 |
M v Ebner-Eschenbach, writer, dies at 39 |
| 1914 |
George Westinghouse, US engineer (Westinghouse Electric), dies at 67 |
| 1913 |
Joseph Bayer, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1909 |
Johanna "Lena" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach, dies at 34 |
| 1908 |
Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61 |
| 1905 |
Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter, dies at 92 |
| 1902 |
John Peter Altgeld, German/US governor of Illinois, dies at 54 |
| 1889 |
Yohannes IV, [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle |
| 1888 |
Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA), dies at 76 |
| 1883 |
Murrumgunarriman, [Twopenny], cricketer (Aboriginal team 1868), dies |
| 1877 |
Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1852 |
Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1840 |
Friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1834 |
Karl W Feuerbach, mathematician (circle of Feuerbach), dies at 33 |
| 1832 |
Daniel Friedrich Kuhlau, German/Danish opera composer, dies at 45 |
| 1831 |
Johann Franz Volkert, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1824 |
Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1753 |
George Berkeley, philosopher/bishop (Cloyne), dies on 68th birthday |
| 1734 |
Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer, dies at 74 |
| 1681 |
French van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch genre painter, dies at 45 |
| 1648 |
Tirso de Molina, Spanish author, dies at about 63 |
| 1628 |
John Bull, English organist/composer, dies |
| 1570 |
Jacob van den Eynden, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies |
| 1563 |
John Bull, composer of British natl anthem (God Save The King), dies |
| 1507 |
Cesare Borgia, cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at 31 |
| 1496 |
Johannes de Lapide, [Johan Heynlin], German philosopher, dies |
| 1471 |
Dionysius the Carthusian/van Rijkel, Dutch scholastic theologist, dies |
| 1209 |
Djamal al-din Abu Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies |
| 604 |
Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604), dies at 64 |
| 417 |
Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies |
