1. 65th Golf Masters Championship: - 2001
2. Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0 - 1997
3. STS 83 (Columbia 22), lands - 1997
4. Bruce Seldon TKOs Tony Tucker in 7 to win vacated WBA boxing title - 1996
5. BPAA U.S. Open won by Dave Husted - 1995
6. Oliver McCall beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title - 1995
7. Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0 - 1994
8. Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford clinic - 1994
9. Japans premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns - 1994
10. Smoking banned in Pentagon and all U.S. military bases - 1994
11. Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit home runs in same inn (vs Yanks) - 1993
12. STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit - 1993
13. "5 Guys Named Moe" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 445 performances - 1992
14. After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue - 1992
15. "I Hate Hamlet" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 88 performances - 1991
16. Jockey, Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed in a car accident - 1991
17. Major league umpires and baseball reach a 4-year agreement - 1991
18. Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of pancreas - 1991
19. Oakland A's stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena to ban smoking - 1991
20. 54th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 278 - 1990
21. "Aspects of Love" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 377 performances - 1990
22. King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties - 1990
23. Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic - 1990
24. Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die - 1990
25. "Twin Peaks" with Peggy Lipton premieres on ABC-TV - 1990
26. 1-handed pitcher Jim Abbott debut but lasts only 4 2/3 inn - 1989
27. Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart marries producer Burt Sugarman - 1989
28. Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California - 1986
29. Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix - 1985
30. India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster - 1985
31. "Leader of the Pack" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 120 performances - 1985
32. 13th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster - 1984
33. 4th Golden Raspberry Awards: Lonely Lady wins - 1984
34. Penguins 2-Isles 4-Preliminary-Isles hold 2-0 lead - 1982
35. Tracy Caulkins, 19, wins her 36th U.S. swimming title - 1982
36. Islanders scored 9 goals against Toronto in playoffs - 1981
37. Islander Potvin's 2 shorthanded goals tie NHL record vs Kings and set NHL rec of 2 shorthanded playoff goals in 1 period - 1980
38. 204th and final episode of "All in the Family" - 1979
39. 8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post - 1979
40. "Carmelina" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 17 performances - 1979
41. People's Republic of China joins IOC - 1979
42. Israel premier Rabin resigns - 1977
43. 47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II," Ellen Burstyn and Art Carney win - 1975
44. Frank Robinson debuts as 1st black baseball mgr (Cleve, beats New York 5-3) - 1975
45. Discovery Island opens - 1974
46. Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th HR, breaks Babe Ruth's record - 1974
47. Alvin Kallicharran scores 100* in his 1st Test Cricket innings vs. NZ - 1972
48. 1st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York) - 1971
49. "Cry for Us All" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 8 performances - 1970
50. Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court - 1970
51. 1st Baseball game in Canada - Mont Expos beats New York Mets 10-9 - 1969
52. Expansion teams Royals, Expos, Padres and Pilots win their 1st games - 1969
53. 40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of Martin Luther King - 1968
54. Baseball's Opening Day is postponed because of Martin Luther King assassination - 1968
55. Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms - 1968
56. New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect - 1968
57. WKPI TV channel 22 in Pikeville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1968
58. AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner - 1966
59. Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of Communist Party - 1966
60. OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched - 1966
61. Unmanned Gemini 1 launched - 1964
62. 35th Academy Awards - "Lawrence of Arabia," A Bancroft and G Peck win - 1963
63. Tigers claim young pitcher Denny McLain from the White Sox for $25,000 - 1963
64. Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France - 1962
65. British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236 - 1961
66. "Show Girl" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 100 performances - 1961
67. Netherlands and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties - 1960
68. 20th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Burke, Jr. wins, shooting a 289 - 1956
69. 6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Is SC - 1956
70. M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon - 1956
71. "By the Beautiful Sea" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 270 performances - 1954
72. President Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike - 1952
73. "Miss Liberty" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 308 performances - 1950
74. Soen Nakagawa and Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in SF - 1948
75. Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) observed - 1947
76. League of Nations assembles for last time - 1946
77. Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands - 1945
78. Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma - 1943
79. Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau - 1943
80. Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games - 1943
81. A Schoenberg and Tudor's ballet "Pillar of Fire," premieres in New York City - 1942
82. Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title - 1941
83. Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious - 1940
84. ACV soccer team forms in Axes - 1939
85. King Zog I of Albania, flees - 1939
86. 2nd Golf Masters Championship: Gene Sarazen wins, shooting a 282 - 1935
87. Bartoks 5th String quartet premieres in Washington D.C. - 1935
88. Works Progress Administration, WPA, approved by Congress - 1935
89. Manchester Guardian warns of unknown nazi terror - 1933
90. Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "The Arrow," premieres - 1931
91. "White Horse Inn" opens in London - 1931
92. LONGA soccer team forms in Tilburg - 1920
93. Norway approves active and passive female suffrage - 1916
94. U.S. and Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone - 1914
95. 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified - 1913
96. Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing) - 1913
97. Steamers collide in Nile, drowning 200 - 1912
98. Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier - 1908
99. Great Britain and France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter - 1904
100. Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese - 1898
101. The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink - 1893
102. Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers - 1879
103. Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time - 1879
104. Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda," premieres in Milan - 1876
105. American Museum of Natural History opens (New York City) - 1869
106. General Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia - 1865
107. Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana Federals routed by Gen Richard Taylor - 1864
108. John D. Lynde patents aerosol dispenser - 1862
109. U.S. Mint at Dahlonega, Georgia seized by confederacy - 1861
110. 1st battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians - 1848
111. Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru: Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro - 1848
112. Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to New York City) - 1838
113. Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro - 1832
114. French Protestant church becomes state-supported and -controlled - 1802
115. Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews - 1801
116. House of Representives 1st meeting - 1789
117. Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim - 1783
118. Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379 - 1781
119. 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley and chain - 1766
120. British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India - 1759
121. 1st Jewish congregation in U.S. forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, New York City" - 1730
122. Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia and marries Czar Peter the Great's niece - 1716
123. Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain - 1513
124. Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza - 1500
125. Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III - 1455
126. Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI - 1378
127. Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome - 1341
128. Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isaak II as Byzantine emperor - 1195
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