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What happened in history on this day: March 6?
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- 766 - Chrodegang, church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about age 50.
- 1079 - Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar.
- 1205 - Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King.
- 1323 - Treaty of Paris.
- 1405 - Birth of Johan II King of Castille.
- 1447 - Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V.
- 1459 - Birth of Jacob Fugger German banker/merchant.
- 1460 - Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Islands for West Africa.
- 1475 - Birth of Michelangelo Buonarroti; painter/sculptor/architect (David, Pièta) (dies 1564).
- 1483 - Birth of Francesco Guicciardini Italy, attorney/president of Romagna.
- 1492 - Birth of Jean Luis Vives Spanish theory/humanist/reformer.
- 1495 - Birth of Luigi Alamanni Italian poet (Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione).
- 1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan complete crossing the Pacific Ocean (from the Latin word pacificus, meaning "tranquil") in 99 days, landing at the island of Guam.
- 1579 - Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht.
- 1583 - Zacharias Ursinus German theologist (Heidelberger), dies at age 48.
- 1590 - Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda".
- 1615 - Birth of Jan Zoet actor/playwright/poet (Parnasssus aan 't Y).
- 1615 - Pieter Both Dutch Admiral/first Governor-General (East Indies, 1609-14), drowns.
- 1616 - Birth of Malachias Siebenhaar composer.
- 1616 - Francis Beaumont Elizabethan dramatist, dies (birth date unknown).
- 1619 - Birth of Cyrano de Bergerac famous nose, dramatist (A Voyage to the Moon).
- 1628 - Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict.
- 1646 - Joseph Jenkes, Massachusetts, receives first colonial machine patent.
- 1664 - King Louis XIV and Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant.
- 1665 - Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing.
- 1674 - Johann Paul Schor German barok painter, dies at age 58.
- 1698 - Birth of John Alberti Dutch theologist/philologist.
- 1714 - Peace of Rastatt: French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg.
- 1728 - Spain and England sign (first) Convention of Pardo.
- 1740 - Birth of Giovanni Meli Siclian poet (Buccolica).
- 1754 - Henry Pelham English premier (1745, 46-54), Gin Act, dies at about age 57.
- 1761 - Birth of Earl d'Andréossi French General/member of parliament.
- 1775 - First Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston.
- 1787 - Birth of Joseph von Fraunhofer; German physicist (studied Sun's spectrum).
- 1799 - Napoleon captures Jaffa Palestine.
- 1806 - Birth of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; poet ("Sonnets from the Portuguese").
- 1808 - First college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard.
- 1810 - Illinois passes first state vaccination legislation in US.
- 1812 - Birth of Aaron Lufkin Dennison; father of American watchmaking.
- 1816 - Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck, Germany.
- 1820 - Birth of Horatio Gouverneur Wright; US Major General (Union volunteers).
- 1831 - Birth of Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh; German theologist (Home Mission).
- 1831 - Birth of Philip Henry Sheridan in Albany, New York, USA; four-star general, Union Army (dies 1888).
- 1831 - Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy.
- 1834 - Act of legislature under King William IV extends York's limits, incorporates town as City of Toronto (Canada), with William Lyon Mackenzie as its first mayor.
- 1835 - Birth of Charles Ewing; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1883.
- 1836 - Mexican forces storm the Alamo through a gap in the fort's outer wall.
- 1836 - After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort is captured.
- 1836 - Davy Crockett, US pioneer, is killed in battle at the Alamo, at age 49.
- 1857 - Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens.
- 1861 - Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army.
- 1870 - Birth of Oscar Straus in Vienna, Austria; composer (Ein Walzertraum).
- 1882 - Birth of Guy Kibbee in El Paso, Texas, USA; actor (Big Shot).
- 1882 - Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king.
- 1885 - Birth of Ring Lardner; US writer (You Know Me Al).
- 1886 - First US alternating current power plant starts, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
- 1886 - First US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, appears, in New York City, New York.
- 1888 - Louisa May Alcott, US author (Old-fashioned Girl), dies at age 55.
- 1890 - Birth of Fernand Ansseau; Belgian operator/theory (Orfeo).
- 1891 - Birth of Victor Kilian in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; actor (Gentleman's Agreement).
- 1895 - J T Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 minutes) England versus Australia.
- 1895 - England beats Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2.
- 1896 - First automobile in Detroit, Michigan, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage".
- 1897 - Birth of Knudåge Riisager in Port Kunda, Estonia; Danish composer (Quaarrtsiluni).
- 1898 - Birth of Hal Hooker; cricket player (New South Wales pace bowler of 1920s and 1930s).
- 1898 - Birth of Jay C Flippen in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA; actor (Ensign O'Toole, Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay).
- 1898 - Birth of Jimmy Conzelman; NFL quarterback/coach/team owner (Chicago Bears).
- 1898 - Birth of Johanne M Bos-Vincent; Dutch soprano (Matthäus Passion).
- 1899 - German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer registers Aspirin (brand name for acetylsalicylic acid) with the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin.
- 1900 - Birth of John Henry Pyle Pafford; librarian (University of London).
- 1900 - Birth of Ludwig Donath in Vienna, Austria; actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco).
- 1900 - Birth of Robert "Lefty" Grove; baseball pitcher (300 game winner).
- 1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, designed first motorcycle, dies at age 65.
- 1901 - Birth of Mark Donskoy in Odessa, Russia; director (Heart of a Mother).
- 1903 - Birth of Elizabeth Pinkston Becker; US platform diver (Olympics-gold-1928).
- 1904 - Birth of Hugh Williams; actor/writer (Charley's Aunt, Bank Holiday).
- 1904 - Birth of Johannes C "Chris" Baay; Dutch actor (Klatergoud, Surprise Raid).
- 1905 - Birth of Bob Wills in Kosse, Texas, USA; actor (Lone Prairie, Tornado in the Saddle).
- 1906 - Birth of Lou Costello in Paterson, New Jersey, USA; comedian/actor (Abbott and Costello).
- 1906 - Heavy storm bursts dike, flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands.
- 1909 - Birth of Obafemi Awolowo in Nigeria; President of Nigeria (1979-83).
- 1913 - Birth of Ella Logan in Glasgow, Scotland; actress (52nd Street, Goldwyn Follies).
- 1913 - Birth of Stewart Granger; actor (Saraband for Dead Lovers).
- 1914 - Birth of Kirill P Kondrashin in Moscow, Russia; conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981).
- 1915 - Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos.
- 1916 - Birth of Rochelle Hudson in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; actress (That's My Boy).
- 1917 - Birth of J A Mommersteeg; Dutch Assistant Secretary of Defense (KVP).
- 1917 - Birth of Roy Scott; cricket player (one Test New Zealand versus England 1947, 18, 1-74).
- 1917 - Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899), dies at age 73.
- 1918 - US naval collier Cyclops disappears in Bermuda Triangle.
- 1919 - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, three games to one with one tie.
- 1920 - Birth of Lewis Gilbert in London, England; director/actor (You Only Live Twice).
- 1920 - Birth of Roger Price in Charleston, West Virginia, USA; actor/writer (Who's There, Droodles).
- 1921 - Birth of Julius Rudel in Vienna, Austria; conductor (New York City Opera 1957).
- 1921 - Birth of Oliver Wright; British ambassador to US.
- 1921 - Birth of Ross Hunter in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk).
- 1921 - Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring women to wear skirts at least four inches below the knee.
- 1922 - Babe Ruth signs three years at $52,000 a year New York Yankees contract.
- 1922 - Birth of Frankie Howerd in York, England; actor/comedian (Mr Mustard - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, That Was The Week That Was, Runaway Bus).
- 1923 - Birth of Ed McMahon in Detroit, Michigan, USA; TV host (The Tonight Show, Star Search).
- 1923 - Birth of Raymond "Bill" Hoffenberg; college president (Wolfson at Oxford).
- 1923 - Saint Louis Cardinals announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms.
- 1924 - Birth of Sarah Caldwell in Maryville, Missouri, USA; conductor/opera director (Flagstaff).
- 1924 - Birth of William H Webster; American judge/head FBI/US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1924 - British Labour government cuts military budget.
- 1924 - Meyer E van Beem, actor (Moittige Janus), dies at age 85.
- 1925 - Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmédy and Sankt Vith.
- 1926 - Birth of Alan Greenspan; American economist / Presidential advisor / Federal Reserve Board chairman, governor (1992-).
- 1926 - Birth of Andrzej Wajda in Suwalki, Poland; director (Ashes and Diamonds, Lotna).
- 1926 - Birth of Ann Curtis; 400-metre/800-metre US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1948).
- 1926 - Birth of Elwood H [Bud] Hillis; American politician (Representative-Republican-Indiana, 1971-).
- 1926 - China asks for a seat in the League of Nations Security council.
- 1927 - Birth of John Fairchild in Newark, New Jersey, USA; CEO (Fairchild publishing).
- 1927 - Birth of Leroy Gordon Cooper Junior in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA; US Air Force/astronaut (Mercury 9, Gemini 5).
- 1927 - Birth of William J Bell in Chicago, Illinois, USA; TV soap opera creator (The Young and the Restless).
- 1928 - Birth of Gabriel García Márquez in Colombia; novelist (Europa Y America, Nobel Prize 1982).
- 1929 - Birth of David Sheppard; bishop (Liverpool, England)/cricket player (England batsman).
- 1929 - Birth of Günter Kunert; German poet/writer (Kaiser von Hondu).
- 1929 - Birth of Ho Dam; North Korean Secretary of State (1970-83).
- 1929 - Birth of Thomas S Foley; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Washington, 1965-94)/majority whip/Speaker of House.
- 1929 - Turkey and Bulgaria sign friendship treaty.
- 1930 - Clarence Birdseye is first to put frozen individual packaged food products on sale, in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.
- 1930 - William Milton, cricket player (South African Test captain in three Tests 1889-92), dies.
- 1931 - Birth of Carmen Delavallade; American dancer/singer/actress (Aida).
- 1931 - Birth of David Haddon Whitaker; British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack).
- 1931 - Birth of John Smith in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Cimarron City, Laramie, Seven Angry Men).
- 1932 - John Philip Sousa, US composer ("Stars and Stripes Forever"), dies at age 77.
- 1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a 10-day "bank holiday," closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
- 1933 - US President Franklin Roosevelt issues Executive Order 6260, prohibiting further release of gold coins, forbidding private citizens holding gold coins or paper money redeemable in gold, ordering all to turn in gold coins and bullion.
- 1933 - Anton J Cermak, US mayor of Chicago, dies.
- 1933 - Birth of Heiko Wierenga; Dutch social-democrat mayor of Enschede (1977-94).
- 1933 - Birth of Kim Elgie; cricket player (South African bat vs New Zealand 1961-62, Scotland RU international).
- 1933 - Birth of William Davis; author/broadcaster (Battle at Bull Run).
- 1933 - Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk).
- 1935 - Birth of Ronnie Delaney in Ireland; 1500 metre runner (Olympics-gold-1956).
- 1935 - Frank Bartell (Czechoslovakia), cycles record 80.584 mph in Los Angeles.
- 1936 - Belgium ends Locarno-pact.
- 1936 - Birth of A "Bram" Stemerdink; Dutch minister of Defense (PvdA).
- 1936 - Birth of Jean Boht; actress (Arthur's Hallowed Ground).
- 1936 - Birth of Marion S Barry; American politician (Mayor-Democrat-DC, 1979-90, 1995-), drug indictment.
- 1937 - Birth of Doug Dillard; actor (Clem - Popeye).
- 1937 - Birth of Ivan Boesky in Detroit, Michigan, USA; stockbroker, inside trader.
- 1937 - Birth of Valentina V Tereshkova-Nikolayev; cosmonaut (Vostok 6).
- 1937 - Frank Vosper, actor/writer (Jew Suss), dies at age 37.
- 1939 - Birth of Christopher Bond; American politician (Senator-Republican-Missouri).
- 1939 - Birth of David Spielberg in Weslaco, Texas, USA; actor (Jessica Novak, The Practice).
- 1939 - Birth of Jerry Naylor in Stephenville, Texas, USA; rock vocalist (Crickets).
- 1939 - [Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician, dies at age 86.
- 1940 - First US telecast from an airplane, New York City, New York.
- 1940 - Birth of Joanna Miles in Nice, France; actress (Cross Creek, Delta County USA).
- 1940 - Birth of Willie Stargell; outfielder/first baseman (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1971 National League homerun leader).
- 1941 - Birth of Ann Winterton; British Member of Parliament.
- 1941 - Birth of Ben Murphy in Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA; actor (Name of the Game, Winds of War).
- 1941 - Birth of Karyn Kupcinet; actress (Carol - Gertrude Berg Show).
- 1941 - John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, sculptor (Mount Rushmore), dies at age 73.
- 1941 - Leen Schijvenschuurder, Dutch February strike leader, executed.
- 1943 - Battle at Medenine, North-Africa; Rommel's assault attack.
- 1943 - Indonesian leader Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers.
- 1944 - Birth of Kiri Te Kanawa in Gisborne, New Zealand; operatic soprano (Don Giovanni).
- 1944 - Birth of Mary Wilson in Detroit, Michigan, USA; vocalist (Supremes - "Where Did Our Love Go").
- 1944 - (evening) 267 British bombers attack the railway centre at Trappes, south-west of Paris. Enormous damage is inflicted, with no loss of planes. This is the first attack of the Allied Transportation Plan, to disrupt German reinforcement routes prior to an amphibious landing.
- 1944 - US Air Force begins daylight bombing of Berlin.
- 1945 - 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm.
- 1945 - Assassination attempt on Höhere, SS Police führer Rauter.
- 1945 - Birth of Anna Maria Horsford in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Thelma Frye - Amen).
- 1945 - Birth of Hugh Grundy in Winchester, England; drummer (Zombies - "She's Not There").
- 1945 - Birth of Rob Reiner in the Bronx, New York, USA; actor/director (All in the Family, Stand By Me).
- 1945 - Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio.
- 1945 - Erich Honnecker and Erich Hanke flee Germans.
- 1945 - Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm.
- 1946 - Birth of David Jon Gilmour in Cambridgeshire, England; rock guitarist (Pink Floyd - "The Wall").
- 1946 - Birth of Martin Kove in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Victor - Cagney and Lacey).
- 1946 - Birth of Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry in Cameroon; astronaut (STS 18).
- 1946 - Birth of Tony Klatka; rocker (Blood, Sweat and Tears).
- 1946 - France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation.
- 1947 - Birth of Dick Fosbury in Portland, Oregon, USA; high jumper (Olympics-gold-1968).
- 1947 - Birth of Judy Loe in Urmston, Manchester, United Kingdom; actress (Singles, The Meaning of Life).
- 1947 - Birth of Kiki Dee in Yorkshire, England; singer ("Don't Go Breaking My Heart").
- 1947 - XB-45, first US 4-engine jet bomber, makes first test flight, Muroc, California.
- 1949 - Birth of Donald York; rocker (Sha Na Na).
- 1950 - Lew Lehr, comedian (Stop Me If I Heard This One), dies at age 54.
- 1951 - Belgium extends conscription to 24 months.
- 1951 - Beginning of high-profile trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the USA, on charges of spying for the Soviet Union.
- 1951 - Ivor Novello, actor/writer (Lodger, Phantom Fiend), dies at age 58.
- 1952 - Birth of Lyn Perrin; executive administrator (WIC).
- 1953 - Birth of Jackie Zeman in Englewood, New Jersey, USA; actress (Bobbie - General Hospital).
- 1953 - Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR.
- 1954 - Jan Kalf, Dutch literature/art historian, dies at age 80.
- 1955 - ABC airs the last (until 1958) Pantomime Quiz TV show.
- 1955 - Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open.
- 1956 - Birth of Peter Roebuck; cricket player (Somerset opening batsman and SMH writer).
- 1957 - The Dominion of Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1958 - Birth of Mike Gatting in England; cricket player.
- 1959 - Birth of Tom Arnold in Ottuwa, Iowa, USA; actor/comedian (Roseanne, True Lies).
- 1959 - Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles away).
- 1959 - Fred Stone, actor (Hideaway, Westerner), dies at age 85.
- 1960 - Birth of [Eris] Sleepy Floyd; NBA guard.
- 1960 - President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament.
- 1961 - First London minicabs introduced in England.
- 1961 - Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director of Tivoli, dies at age 59.
- 1962 - Birth of Alison Nicholas in Gibraltar; LPGA golfer (1995 LPGA Corning Classic).
- 1962 - Saint Louis, Missouri, votes to build a new downtown stadium for the Saint Louis Cardinals.
- 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1962 - US promises Thailand assistance against communist aggression.
- 1963 - Birth of Suzanne Crough; rocker (The Partridge Family).
- 1963 - Kornelis ter Laan, first Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), dies at age 91.
- 1964 - Birth of Reniet Vrieze; rock singer/guitarist (Pilgrims - "White Men").
- 1964 - King Paul I of Greece (1947-64) dies at age 62.
- 1964 - Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece.
- 1964 - Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:06.4).
- 1965 - How to Succeed in Business closes at 46th Steet theater in New York City after 1415 performances.
- 1965 - First nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford.
- 1965 - Birth of Tammy Liley in Long Beach, California, USA; volleyball mid blocker/captain (Olympics-bronze-1992, 1996).
- 1965 - Bruce Taylor hits 105 for New Zealand versus India in first Test Cricket innings.
- 1965 - Margaret Dumont [Daisy Baker], actress (Animal Crackers), dies at age 75.
- 1966 - Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" song becomes number 1 (for 13 weeks).
- 1966 - Birth of Cliff Meidl in Redondo Beach, California, USA; sprint kayak (alternate-Olympics-1996).
- 1966 - Birth of Michelle Edwards; WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers).
- 1967 - Oscar Shaw, actor (Rhythm on the River, Marianne), dies at age 76.
- 1967 - Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US.
- 1967 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (Háry Janos), dies at age 84.
- 1968 - Birth of Carla McGhee in Peoria, Illinois, USA; American basketball forward (Olympics-gold-1996).
- 1968 - Birth of Connie Britton in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Nikki - Spin City).
- 1968 - Birth of Jon Baker; WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy).
- 1968 - Birth of Marty Morgan in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; 180.5 pounds greco-roman wrestler (Olympics-1996).
- 1968 - Birth of Moira Kelly; actress (Cutting Edge).
- 1968 - Birth of Russell Butler Dandenong in Victoria, Australia; diver (Olympics-28th-1988, 1996).
- 1968 - Joseph Martin Junior, Speaker of the House, dies at age 83.
- 1969 - Birth of Andrea Elson in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Lynn - Alf, Alice - Whiz Kids).
- 1969 - Birth of Deems May; NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers).
- 1970 - Beatles release "Let it Be" in United Kingdom.
- 1970 - Birth of Amy Pietz in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; actress (Annie - Caroline In the City).
- 1970 - Birth of Robbie Tobeck; NFL guard/center (Atlanta Falcons).
- 1970 - Birth of Scott Stahoviak in Waukegan, Illinois, USA; infielder (Minnesota Twins).
- 1970 - William Hopper, actor (Paul Drake - Perry Mason), dies at age 55.
- 1971 - Birth of Darrick Martin; NBA guard (Los Angeles Clippers, Minnesota Timberwolves).
- 1971 - Birth of Roger Salkeld in Burbank, California, USA; pitcher (Cincinnati Reds).
- 1971 - Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Don't Forget to Live), dies at age 74.
- 1971 - Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, versus West Indies at Port-of-Spain.
- 1972 - Birth of Jamal Anderson; fullback (Atlanta Falcons).
- 1972 - Birth of Paul Frlan; Canadian Football League linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders).
- 1972 - Birth of Shaquille O'Neal in Newark, New Jersey, USA; NBA center (Magic, Los Angeles Lakers, Olympics-gold-1996).
- 1972 - Birth of Susan Alexander in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; Miss Maryland-America (1996).
- 1972 - Jack Nicklaus passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner.
- 1972 - Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes.
- 1973 - Birth of Brian Olson in Tallahassee, Florida, USA; middleweight (189 pounds) judoka (Olympics-1996).
- 1973 - Birth of Greg Ostertag; NBA center (Utah Jazz).
- 1973 - Birth of Michael Finley; NBA guard/forward (Phoenix Suns/Dallas Mavericks).
- 1973 - Birth of Terry Adams in Mobile, Alabama, USA; pitcher (Chicago Cubs).
- 1973 - In an exhibition game with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Minnesota Twins' Larry Hisle becomes the first designated hitter (he hits two homeruns and knocks in 7 RBIs).
- 1973 - Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, author (The Good Earth - Nobel Prize 1938), dies at age 80.
- 1973 - Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki), dies at age 67.
- 1974 - An Italian loses a record US$1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo.
- 1974 - Brothers Ian and Greg Chappell score cricket century in each inning ot a Test match, at Wellington.
- 1976 - "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, light-heavyweight boxing champion (1932-34), dies at age 71.
- 1976 - World Ice Dance Championship in Gothenburg won by Liudmila Pakhomova and Alexandr Gorshkov (USSR).
- 1976 - World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by Irina Rodnina and Alexandr Zaitsev (USSR).
- 1976 - World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill (USA).
- 1976 - World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (Great Britain).
- 1978 - American publisher Larry Flynt is shot and paralyzed in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
- 1978 - The 100th episode of TV show The Six Million Dollar Man airs.
- 1979 - Charles Wagenheim, actor (Halligan - Gunsmoke), dies at age 83.
- 1981 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island.
- 1981 - George Geary, English cricket player (14 Tests for England, 46 wickets), dies (born 1893).
- 1981 - Soyuz 39 returns to Earth.
- 1981 - After 19 years hosting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
- 1982 - Ayn Rand, Russian-born author-philosopher (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), dies in New York at age 77 (born 1905).
- 1982 - Jan Lemaire, Dutch actor/writer (Beautiful Juultje), dies at age 97.
- 1982 - NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat Milwaukee Bucks 171-166 (three overtime periods).
- 1982 - Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB).
- 1982 - Birth of Stephen Jordan; English football player Manchester City.
- 1983 - Thelma Pelish, actress (Pajama Game), dies at age 55.
- 1983 - US Football League begins its first season.
- 1983 - The Federal Republic of Germany holds parliamentary elections. The CDU/CSU win 48.8 percent of the vote, the SPD 38.2 percent, the FDP 7 percent and the Green Party 5.6 percent. This is the first time the Greens have had seats in parliament. Helmut Kohl (CDU) continues as chancellor.
- 1983 - Anne-Marie Palli wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic.
- 1984 - National Union of Mine Workers in England begin strike action (lasts 51 weeks).
- 1984 - Death of Martin Niemöller in Wiesbaden, Germany; commander of a submarine in World War I, pastor in Berlin, a leader in the resistance against Adolf Hitler, recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967 and the German "Grand Cross of Merit" in 1971.
- 1984 - Henry Wilcoxon, actor (Cleopatra, Dragnet, Jericho), dies of congessive heart failure at age 78.
- 1984 - Ian Cromb, cricket player (5 Tests for New Zealand, 123 runs, 8 wickets), dies.
- 1985 - Enos Slaughter and Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame.
- 1985 - Eric Sloane, US artist, dies at age 80.
- 1985 - Mexican authorities find body of US drug agent Enrique C Salaazar.
- 1985 - Mike Tyson makes his professional debut in Albany, New York, a match he wins by a first round knockout of Hector Mercedes.
- 1985 - Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of The King and I.
- 1986 - Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies.
- 1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (Flowers), dies at age 98 (born 1887).
- 1986 - USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km.
- 1986 - CBS airs the 100th episode of TV show Simon & Simon.
- 1987 - In the Colombia - Ecuador border region, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs. Approximately 1,000 people killed, 4,000 missing, 20,000 homeless, extensive damage in Ecuador. About 27 km of the oil pipeline in Ecuador destroyed or badly damaged.
- 1987 - British ferry boat Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in the English Channel outside the harbor off Zeebrugge, Belgium; 192 passengers and crew die of 543 on board. Waves cascaded through bow doors that had been mistakenly left open.
- 1987 - Warner Bros. releases the film Lethal Weapon to theaters.
- 1988 - 18th Easter Seal Telethon raises US$35,200,000.
- 1988 - Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am.
- 1988 - Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories).
- 1988 - Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament.
- 1988 - In the Gulf of Alaska, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurs.
- 1988 - The first episode of US TV show In the Heat of the Night airs.
- 1989 - Harry Andrews, British actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at age 77 (born 1911).
- 1989 - New York Yankees beat New York Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (first meeting since 1985).
- 1990 - American SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17.
- 1991 - Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President George H.W. Bush tells US Congress that "aggression is defeated; the war is over".
- 1992 - Elvia Allman, actress (Night at Earl Carroll's), dies of pneumonia.
- 1992 - Emmy Huf, Dutch cabaret performer/writer (I Want Warm Meat), dies.
- 1992 - Maria Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (Mirror Palace), dies at age 83.
- 1992 - New York Yankees' pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for one year due to cocaine use.
- 1992 - The computer virus Michelangelo is activated on personal computers.
- 1993 - Cyril Collard, French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at age 35.
- 1993 - Douglas Marland, soap writer (As the World Turns), dies at age 58.
- 1993 - Nicholas Ridley, English Minister of Finance, dies at age 64.
- 1994 - Colin Jackson runs world record 60 metre hurdles indoor (7.30 seconds).
- 1994 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress (Never on a Sunday), dies at about age 68.
- 1994 - Tengis Abuladze, Georgia SSR Member of Parliament (Penalty), dies at age 71.
- 1994 - United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by two wickets to win ICC Trophy.
- 1994 - A referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.
- 1994 - Oil tanker Visahakit 5 collides with a cargo ship 64.km off the eastern Sriracha coast of Thailand, dumping about 400,000 litres of diesel fuel.
- 1994 - Death of Ray Arcel, American boxing trainer; was active from the 1920s through the 1980s (born 1899).
- 1995 - 9th American Comedy Awards: Rodney Dangerfield wins.
- 1995 - David Beinhoff, mayor, dies at age 24.
- 1995 - Emile van Moerkerken, photographer (Ice Princess), dies at age 78.
- 1995 - Helene Weijel, author (In Two Worlds), dies at age 44.
- 1995 - Adrianus Jacobs, chairman of Internationale Nederlanden Groep Nevada, announces that his company will buy bankrupt Barings PLC Bank for a nominal price.
- 1996 - Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 versus Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lanka score 5-398 in 50 overs in World Cup versus Kenya.
- 1996 - Simon Cadell, actor (Enemy at the Door), dies at age 45.
- 1997 - Death of Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (1953, 1957-64) (born 1918).
- 1997 - Michael Manley, Jamaican Prime Minister (PNP, 1972-80, 1989-92), dies.
- 1997 - Picasso's Tête de Femme painting is stolen from a London gallery (recovered a week later).
- 1997 - In Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers overrun a military base and kill more than 200.
- 1998 - First time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace.
- 1998 - Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, is killed.
- 1998 - Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills four at Connecticut state lottery.
- 2000 - Advanced Micro Devices ships the first commercially-available 1 GHz processor.
- 2002 - France agrees to return the remains of Saartjie Baartman to South Africa.
- 2003 - SCO Group files a lawsuit against IBM, claiming IBM illegally used licensed Unix technology in its Linux software. SCO seeks US$1 billion in damages.
- 2007 - In the USA, Mega Millions sets a new world record for the highest lottery jackpot of US$370 million.
- 2007 - Death of Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher and sociologist (born 1929).
- 2007 - Death of Allen Coage, American professional wrestler (born 1943).
- 2008 - In Baghdad, Iraq, two bomb attacks in a shopping area leave over 50 dead and 130 injured.
- 2008 - Eight Israeli civilians are killed and 9 wounded when a Palestinian attacker opens fire at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem.
- 2008 - Death of Peter Poreku Dery, Ghanaian cardinal (born 1918).
- 2010 - The president of Togo, Faure Gnassingbe, wins re-election.
- 2012 - Death of Francisco Xavier do Amaral, 1st President of East Timor (born 1937).
- 2013 - Death of Alvin Lee at age 68; British guitarist (Ten Years After band, "I'm Going Home" song, "I'd Love to Change the World" song).
- 2015 - NASA's Dawn probe enters orbit around Ceres, becoming the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet.
- 2019 - Venezuela expels German ambassador Daniel Kriener for his alleged meddling in internal affairs.
- 2021 - The Rally of Houphouëtists for Democracy and Peace coalition wins 137 out of 255 seats in the National Assembly of the Ivory Coast.
- 2021 - Pope Francis meets Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf, Iraq. First meeting of a Pope and a Grand Ayatollah.
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