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What happened in history on this day: March 26?
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- 752 - Pope Stephen II dies only four days after his election.
- 809 - Liudger, missionary/first bishop of Münster/saint, dies at about age 66.
- 1027 - John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor.
- 1147 - Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence.
- 1150 - Tichborne family of Hampshire England started tradition of giving a gallon of flour to each resident to keep deathbed promise.
- 1258 - Floris the Guardian, count-regent of Holland, dies.
- 1350 - Alfonso XI King of Castile and León, dies.
- 1479 - Birth of Vasili III great prince of Moscow (1505-33)/son of Ivan III.
- 1516 - Birth of Konrad von Gesner in Zürich, Switzerland; naturalist (Bibliotheca Universalis).
- 1526 - King François I returns Spanish captivity to France.
- 1534 - Lübeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea.
- 1546 - Thomas Elyot British diplomat, dies.
- 1566 - Antonio de Cabezon composer, dies.
- 1577 - Birth of Elisabeth of Nassau daughter of Willem I and Charlotte of Bourbon.
- 1580 - Captain Francis Drake sets off west from Java to cross the Indian Ocean on circumnavigation of globe from England.
- 1636 - University of Utrecht opening ceremony.
- 1638 - Palamedes "Stevens" Palamedesz painter, dies at about age 30.
- 1668 - England takes control of Bombay India.
- 1671 - Birth of Giacomo Cesare Predieri composer.
- 1692 - King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands.
- 1726 - John Vanbrugh Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at age 62.
- 1753 - Birth of Benjamin Thompson physicist (Royal Institute of Great Britain, Woburn Massachusetts).
- 1773 - Birth of Nathaniel Bowditch mathematician/astronomer/polyglot/author (Marine Sextant).
- 1780 - First British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette and Sunday Monitor).
- 1790 - US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires two-year residency.
- 1793 - Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France.
- 1804 - US Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana.
- 1804 - Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase.
- 1812 - In Venezuela, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurs, destroying 90 percent of the city of Caracas. 26,000 killed.
- 1813 - Birth of Thomas West Sherman; US Brevet Major General (Union Army) (dies 1879).
- 1817 - Birth of Herman Haupt; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (dies 1905).
- 1821 - Birth of Earnest Angel; German statistician (Law of Angel).
- 1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer ("Appassionata"), dies in Wien (Vienna) at age 56.
- 1830 - The Book of Mormon is first published in Palmyra, New York.
- 1840 - Birth of George Smith in London, England; assyriologist (cuneiform (script)).
- 1845 - Joseph Francis, New York City, New York, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat.
- 1845 - Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid.
- 1850 - Birth of Edward Bellamy; author (Looking Backward).
- 1856 - Birth of David Alfred Thomas in Glamorganshire, United Kingdom; first Viscount Rhondda.
- 1856 - New South Wales' first first-class cricket game, versus Victoria at Melbourne; New South Wales wins.
- 1859 - First sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury.
- 1859 - Birth of A[lfred] E[dward] Housman in England; poet (Shropshire Lad).
- 1862 - Battle of La Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch).
- 1863 - Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves.
- 1865 - Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies.
- 1868 - Birth of Fuad I, king of Egypt (1922-36).
- 1871 - Birth of Serafín Alvarez Quintéro; Spanish dramatist/playwright (El Flechazo).
- 1871 - Paris Commune is founded.
- 1872 - In Owens Valley, California, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurs.
- 1872 - Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher.
- 1873 - Birth of [Louise] Sophie de Vries; actress (On Hope of Blessing).
- 1874 - Birth of Gerald du Maurier in London, England; actor (Power, Escape, Masks and Faces).
- 1874 - Birth of Robert Frost in San Francisco, California, USA; poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken) (dies 1963).
- 1875 - Birth of Syngman Rhee AKA Yi Seungman in Whanghai Province, Korea; President of South Korea (1948-60).
- 1878 - Hastings College of Law is founded.
- 1878 - Sabi Game Reserve, world's first official designated game reserve, opens.
- 1880 - Birth of Duncan Hines; US restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens).
- 1884 - Birth of Wilhelm Backhaus in Leipzig, Germany; pianist (Rubinstein 1905).
- 1885 - Eastman Film Company manufactures first commercial motion picture film.
- 1885 - Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Saskatchewan.
- 1886 - First cremation in England.
- 1888 - Birth of Sigurd Erixon; Swedish etnologist (Atlas över Svensk Folk culture).
- 1893 - Birth of Palmiro Togliatti; founder (Communist Party of Italy).
- 1894 - Birth of Will Wright in San Francisco, California, USA; actor (Living Christ Story).
- 1895 - King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day.
- 1897 - Birth of Jean Epstein; French director (Sa tête/Eau vive).
- 1899 - Birth of James B Connant; chemist/college president (Yale).
- 1900 - Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/founder of American Hebrew Congregations, dies at age 80.
- 1902 - Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96), dies at age 48.
- 1904 - Birth of Emilio Fernandez in El Seco, Mexico; director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre).
- 1904 - Birth of Joseph Campbell; mythologist (Mythic Image).
- 1905 - Birth of Viktor Emil Frankl; pyschiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning).
- 1908 - Birth of Betty MacDonald [Anne E Campbell Bard]; US writer (Egg and I).
- 1908 - Birth of Hank Sylvern in Brooklyn, New York, USA; orchestra leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen).
- 1908 - Birth of Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling in Essen, Germany; tennis star (French 1935).
- 1909 - Birth of Chips Rafferty in Broken Hill, Australia; actor (Desert Rats).
- 1910 - US forbid immigration of criminals, anarchists, paupers, and the sick.
- 1911 - Birth of Tennessee Williams in Columbus, Mississippi, USA; dramatist (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) (dies 1983).
- 1913 - Construction work on the Panama Canal peaks with 44,733 workers on site.
- 1913 - Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the first Balkan War.
- 1913 - City of Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, and Muskingum Rivers reach flood stage simultaneously.
- 1914 - Birth of William Westmoreland in Saxon, South Carolina, USA; US army general (Vietnam era).
- 1915 - Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators in 3 games.
- 1916 - Birth of Bill Edrich; cricket player (Middlesex and England bat, Compton's mate).
- 1916 - Birth of Christian B Anfinsen; US chemist (cell physiology, Nobel Prize 1972).
- 1916 - Birth of Mort Abrahams; producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes).
- 1916 - Birth of Sterling Hayden in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA; actor (Dr Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra).
- 1916 - Birth of Vic Schoen in Brooklyn, New York, USA; orchestra leader (Patti Page Olds Show).
- 1917 - Birth of Jean Graham Hall; circuit court judge (England).
- 1917 - Birth of Rufus Thomas in Cayce, Mississippi, USA; singer ("Walking the Dog").
- 1917 - Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1; Seattle is first US team to win Stanley Cup.
- 1918 - César A Cui, Lithuanian fort builder/composer, dies at age 83.
- 1919 - Birth of Strother Martin in Kokomo, Indiana, USA; actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot).
- 1920 - Birth of George E Brown Junior; American politician (Representative-Democrat-California, 1963-71, 1973-).
- 1921 - Birth of George Jefferson; CEO (British Telecom).
- 1921 - Birth of Peter Horsley; CEO (Osprey Aviation).
- 1922 - Birth of William Milliken; actor (Drive-in).
- 1923 - Birth of Bob Elliot in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; comedian (Bob and Ray, Get a Life).
- 1923 - Birth of Clifton Williams in Traskwood, Arkansas, USA; band master (Sinfonians).
- 1923 - Birth of Elizabeth Jane Howard; British novelist (After Julius).
- 1923 - Sarah Bernhardt [Henriette-Rosine Bernard], actress (Queen Elizabeth), dies at age 77.
- 1923 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), three games to one.
- 1925 - Birth of Lord Graham of Edmonton House of Lords (chief opposition whip).
- 1925 - Birth of Lord Hooson; Queen's Council crown court recorder.
- 1925 - Birth of Maqsood Ahmed; cricket player (Pakistani batsman in 16 Tests 1952-56).
- 1925 - Birth of Pierre Boulez in Montbrison, France; composer/conductor (Visage Nuptial).
- 1926 - ACD de Graeff is appointed Governor-General of Dutch East-Indies.
- 1926 - Birth of Ann Curtis; American 400-metre freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-1948).
- 1926 - Georges Vezina, NHL Hall of Fame goalie (Montreal Canadiens), dies.
- 1926 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies at age 74.
- 1927 - Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA.
- 1927 - Birth of Jonathan Tod; Vice-Admiral (England).
- 1927 - Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms.
- 1928 - Birth of Carole Carr; singer/actress (Down Among the Z Men).
- 1929 - Birth of Amédée Turner; Queen's Council/MEP.
- 1930 - Birth of Gregory Corso; beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man).
- 1930 - Birth of Sandra Day O'Connor in El Paso, Texas, USA; US Supreme Court Justice (1981-).
- 1930 - US Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway.
- 1931 - Birth of Leonard Nimoy in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; American actor and director (Mr. Spock - Star Trek, Mission Impossible).
- 1931 - Iraq and Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty.
- 1931 - Leo Bentley bowls three consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio.
- 1931 - New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capitol of British-Indies.
- 1934 - Birth of Alan Arkin in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark).
- 1934 - Birth of G T Pryce; CEO (Dalgety).
- 1934 - Birth of Gino Cappelletti; ORFU, AFL running back (AFL Player of Year 1964).
- 1934 - The automobile driving test is first introduced in the United Kingdom.
- 1936 - First parliamentary debate airs on New Zealand radio.
- 1936 - Corning Glass Works ships a 20-ton, 200-inch cast Pyrex mirror-blank from Corning, New Tork, to Pasadena, California, to be finished for the Hale telescope.
- 1936 - Birth of Fred Paris; rocker (Five Satins).
- 1936 - Mary Joyce ends a 1,000-mile trip by dog in Alaska.
- 1937 - Albert Relf, cricket player (13 Tests for England 1903-14), commits suicide.
- 1937 - Birth of Barbara Pearl Jones in Chicago, Illinois, USA; 4X100 metre relayer (Olympics-gold-1952, 1960).
- 1937 - Birth of Wayne Embry; holder of 7 basketball records (Miami of Ohio).
- 1937 - Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice and replaces his 40 with 36 ounce bat.
- 1937 - Spinach growers of Crystal City, Texas, USA erect statue of Popeye.
- 1939 - Birth of Colin Webb; general manager (Press Association).
- 1939 - Birth of James Caan in the Bronx, New York, USA; actor (Brian's Song, Killer Elite, Godfather).
- 1939 - Birth of Phillip R Allen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Harry - Hardy Boys Mystery, Mitch - Alice).
- 1939 - Birth of Stuart Sutherland; Professor Emeritus (Sussex University).
- 1940 - Birth of Bill Indiana; Bishop-designate (Truro).
- 1940 - Birth of Braulio Baeza; jockey (National Horse Racing Hall of Famer).
- 1940 - Birth of Nancy Pelosi; American politician (Representative-Democrat-California).
- 1940 - Birth of Rod Lauren; rocker ("If I Had a Girl").
- 1940 - Birth of Servaes [J S] Huys; Dutch Member of Parliament (PvdA).
- 1941 - (0020 hours) A military revolt in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, lead by General Dusan Simovic, overthrows the Regency and pro-Axis government.
- 1942 - First "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz and Birkenau Camps.
- 1942 - 20 tons of gelignite kills 21 in a stone quarry in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1942 - Birth of Erica Jong [Mann] in New York City, New York, USA; author (Fear of Flying).
- 1942 - German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel-General Erwin Rommel.
- 1943 - Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean.
- 1943 - Birth of Robert Woodward; investigative reporter (Watergate, US Central Intelligence Agency crimes).
- 1944 - 705 British bombers attack Essen, Germany.
- 1944 - Benjamin Crémieux, French author (In Buchenwald), dies at age 55.
- 1944 - Birth of Diana Ross [Earle] in Detroit, Michigan, USA; singer (The Supremes, Lady Sings the Blues, Mahogany).
- 1945 - Birth of Mikhail Voronin in USSR; horse vault gymnast (Olympics-gold-1968).
- 1945 - David Lloyd George, British (Liberal) premier (1916-22), dies at age 82.
- 1945 - De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34.
- 1945 - Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen on the Rhine.
- 1945 - Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at age 29.
- 1945 - The last Japanese defenders on Iwo Jima are wiped out. Only 200 of the original 22,000 Japanese defenders were captured alive. More than 6,000 Americans died taking Iwo Jima, and some 17,000 were wounded.
- 1945 - Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto.
- 1945 - US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms.
- 1946 - Birth of Johnny Crawford in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Mark - The Rifleman).
- 1948 - Birth of Kyung-Wha Chung in Seoul, Korea; violinist (Chung Sisters).
- 1948 - Birth of Richard Tandy; rock bassist (Electric Light Orchestra).
- 1948 - Birth of Steven Tyler in New York City, New York, USA; rock vocalist (Aerosmith - "Janie's Got a Gun", "Dream On", "Walk This Way").
- 1948 - Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about age 43.
- 1949 - 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Oklahoma State 46-36.
- 1949 - Birth of Fran Sheehan in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; rock bassist (Boston - "More than a Feeling").
- 1949 - Birth of Vicki Lawrence in Inglewood, California, USA; actress (Carol Burnett Show, Mama's Family).
- 1950 - Birth of Ernest Thomas in Gary, Indiana, USA; actor (Roger - What's Happening!).
- 1950 - Birth of Graham Barlow; cricket player (England batsman in three Tests 1976-77).
- 1950 - Birth of Martin Short in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; comedian (Saturday Night Live, SCTV, Three Amigos).
- 1950 - Birth of Ronnie McDowell in Fountain Head, Tennessee, USA; country singer ("King is Gone").
- 1950 - Birth of Teddy Pendergrass in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; singer ("Turn Off the Lights").
- 1950 - Birth of Tony Papenfuss in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; actor (Daryl - Newhart).
- 1951 - Birth of Richard B Shull; American actor (Hail to the Chief, Big Bus).
- 1951 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women's Golf Open.
- 1951 - US Air Force flag approved.
- 1952 - 14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats Saint Johns 80-63.
- 1952 - Birth of David Amess; British Member of Parliament.
- 1953 - Birth of Michael Bonagura in Newark, New Jersey, USA; country singer (Baille and Boys - "Oh Heart").
- 1953 - Birth of Tatyana Providokhina; Russian 1000m runner (world record).
- 1953 - Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine to prevent polio [myelitis].
- 1954 - Birth of Curtis Sliwa; founder (Guardian Angels)/radio personality (WABC).
- 1954 - Birth of Piers Gardner; director (British Institute of International and Comparative Law).
- 1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island.
- 1955 - "Ballad of Davy Crockett" becomes the #1 record in US.
- 1955 - Birth of Dean Dillon in Lake City, Tennessee, USA; country singer (Chair).
- 1956 - Birth of Charly McClain in Jackson, Tennessee, USA; country singer (Radio Heart).
- 1956 - Birth of Tatyana Kochergina in the USSR; team handball (Olympics-gold-1976, 1980).
- 1956 - Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One.
- 1957 - Birth of Leeza Gibbons in Hartsville, South Carolina, USA; TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza).
- 1957 - Birth of Walter Rohlfing in Dusseldorf, Germany; WLAF defensive line coach (Rhein Fire).
- 1957 - Max Ophüls [Maximilian Oppenheimer], German/French director (Caught, Exile), dies.
- 1958 - The 30th Annual Academy Awards celebration is televised with Rosalind Russell, James Stewart, David Niven, Jack Lemmon, Bob Hope and Donald Duck (on film) co-hosting. The Bridge on the River Kwai wins 7 Oscars, Sayonara wins 5. Best Music/Song goes to James Van Heusen (music), and Sammy Cahn (lyrics) for "All the Way" from The Joker Is Wild.
- 1958 - Birth of Philip Brown in Coalinga, California, USA; actor (Doris Day Show, Colbys).
- 1958 - Phil Mead, cricket player (55061 first-class runs 1905-36), dies.
- 1958 - US Army launches America's third successful satellite, Explorer III.
- 1959 - Birth of David Delong in Portland, Oregon, USA; Canadian Tour golfer (1988 British Columbia Open).
- 1959 - Raymond T Chandler, US detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies at age 71.
- 1959 - Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad versus West Indies age 15 years 124 days.
- 1960 - Birth of Billy Warlock in Hawthorne, California, USA; actor (Flip - Happy Days, Baywatch).
- 1960 - Birth of Marcus Allen; NFL running back (Los Angeles Raiders, Kansas City Chiefs, Heisman 1981).
- 1960 - Birth of Michael Evans in Fontana, California, USA; US water polo player (Olympics-silver-1988).
- 1960 - Iraq executes 30 after attack on President Kassem.
- 1960 - Baltimore Orioles-Cincinnati Reds series for Havana, Cuba is moved to Miami, Florida.
- 1960 - USC captures NCAA swimming title.
- 1961 - Birth of William Hague; Secretary of State for Wales.
- 1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Golden Circle of Golf Festival.
- 1962 - Birth of John Stockton in Spokane, Washington, USA; NBA guard (Utah Jazz, Olympics-gold-1996).
- 1962 - Birth of Kevin Seitzer in Springfield, Illinois, USA; infielder (Milwaukee Brewers).
- 1962 - Birth of Maarten de Young; soccer player (SC Heerenveen).
- 1962 - Birth of Richard Coles; rocker (Communards - "Don't Leave Me This Way").
- 1962 - Birth of Yuri Pavlovich in Gidzenko, Russia; Lieutenant-Colonel/cosmonaut.
- 1962 - Marjorie Colton, inventor of wax paper, dies at age 64.
- 1962 - US Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legislature.
- 1963 - Birth of Paul de Leeuw; Dutch TV host (Cry of the Lion).
- 1963 - Birth of Rebecca Twigg in Seattle, Washington, USA; 79K cyclist (Olympics-silver-1984, 1992, 1996).
- 1964 - Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand opens at Winter Garden Theater in New York City for 1,348 performances.
- 1964 - Birth of Ab Plugboer; soccer player (FC Utrecht).
- 1964 - Birth of Ulf Samuelsson in Fagersta, Sweden; NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, New York Rangers).
- 1966 - Birth of Lee Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA; Nike golfer (1992 Texarkana Open-5th).
- 1966 - Birth of Mike Remlinger in Middletown, New York, USA; pitcher (Cincinnati Reds).
- 1966 - Birth of Wesley Walls; NFL tight end (New Orleans Saints).
- 1967 - 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming and Cabaret win.
- 1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open.
- 1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio.
- 1968 - Birth of Ian Hutchings in Zimbabwe; Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Klondike Klassic).
- 1968 - Birth of Jose Vizcaino in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic; infielder (New York Mets).
- 1968 - Birth of Kari Gronroos; WLAF kicker (Scotland Claymores).
- 1968 - Birth of Mike Trevathan; Canadian Football League slot back (British Columbia Lions).
- 1968 - Birth of Shane Reynolds in Bastrop, Louisiana, USA; pitcher (Houston Astros).
- 1968 - Death of Little Willie John AKA William Edward John at age 30 in Washington State Prison, USA; singer ("Sleep", "Talk to Me Talk to Me", "Fever").
- 1968 - Death of Roy W. Allen, founder of the A & W Root Beer business in 1919.
- 1969 - B[runo] Traven, writer (Sierra Madre), dies at age 87.
- 1969 - Birth of Elizabeth Howell in Clinton, Mississippi, USA; Miss Mississippi-America (1990).
- 1969 - Birth of Luke Richardson in Ottawa, Canada; NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers).
- 1969 - Birth of Vikram Rathour; cricket player (Indian Test opening batsman 1996-).
- 1969 - Günther Weisenborn, German/Argentine writer (Illegals), dies at age 66.
- 1969 - Marcus Welby M.D., a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV.
- 1969 - Nuclear reactor Dodewaard in Netherlands goes into use.
- 1969 - Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched.
- 1970 - 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945.
- 1970 - Birth of Evan Richards in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Frankie - Mama Malone).
- 1970 - Birth of Paul Bosvelt; soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles/FC Twente).
- 1971 - CBS-TV airs TV movie Cannon as a pilot for the TV series, starring William Conrad.
- 1971 - Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence.
- 1971 - Birth of Dave DeGraaf in Lansing, Michigan, USA; team handball circle (Olympics-1996).
- 1971 - Birth of Jesus Tavarez in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; outfielder (Florida Marlins).
- 1971 - Birth of Tommy Fagan; Canadian Football League/NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
- 1972 - Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic.
- 1972 - Birth of Naoko Kijimuta in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; tennis star (1996 Jakarta).
- 1972 - Birth of Steve Anderson; Canadian Football League defensive linebacker (Calgary Stampeders).
- 1972 - Los Angeles Lakers break NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games.
- 1973 - 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76; this is UCLA's 7th consecutive NCAA basketball title.
- 1973 - Birth of Marshall Faulk; running back (Indianapolis Colts).
- 1973 - Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at age 73.
- 1973 - CBS TV debuts the soap opera TV show The Young and the Restless.
- 1974 - Birth of Alfred Shipman; Canadian Football League slot back (British Columbia Lions).
- 1974 - Birth of Hakeem Abdul-samad; rocker (Boys).
- 1974 - Birth of Irina Spirlea in Bucharest, Romania; tennis star (1996 Amelia Island).
- 1974 - Birth of Mike Peca in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; NHL center (Buffalo Sabres).
- 1974 - George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in two rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
- 1974 - Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President.
- 1975 - Rock opera Tommy by The Who premieres in London, England.
- 1975 - Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win and NHL record of 17 straight losses.
- 1975 - The biological weapons convention enters into force.
- 1976 - American League approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for US$7 million.
- 1976 - Richard Arlen, actor (Apache Uprising, Wings), dies at age 75.
- 1977 - Elvis Costello releases his first record "Less Than Zero".
- 1978 - The control tower and some other facilities of New Tokyo International Airport are occupied and damaged by terrorist attack by New Left activists.
- 1979 - 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Michigan State Spartans beat Indiana State Sycamores, 75-64 as Magic Johnson outscores Larry Bird, 24-19; this snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak.
- 1979 - Birth of Heidi Zeigler, actress (Sherry - Just the 10 of Us).
- 1979 - Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat sign a peace treaty in Washington DC.
- 1979 - Jean Stafford, American author (Boston Adventure), dies at age 63 (born 1915).
- 1979 - San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo, but Giants' players reject it.
- 1980 - Bombay, India, gets its first rock concert in ten years (The Police).
- 1980 - Jon-Jon Poulos, rocker (Buckinghams), dies from drugs at age 32.
- 1981 - Police and Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo, Yugoslavia.
- 1981 - Soyuz T-4 lands.
- 1981 - Tim Wall, cricket player (SA versus New South Wales 1933 is Sheffield Shield record), dies.
- 1981 - The British Social Democratic Party is launched at the Connaught Rooms in London.
- 1981 - Cyril Dean Darlington, biologist (hereditary mechanisms), dies at age 77.
- 1982 - TV soap opera Capitol premieres.
- 1982 - A ground breaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, DC.
- 1982 - Agathe "Henriëtte" de Beaufort, writer (Dolly of Arnhem), dies at age 91.
- 1983 - Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for USSR, dies at age 75.
- 1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1986 - Bartlett Robinson, actor (Wendy and Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at age 73.
- 1986 - An article in the New York Times charges that Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations Secretary General and candidate for president of Austria, may have been involved in German war crimes during World War II.
- 1987 - Hyderabad beats Delhi on first innings to win Ranji Trophy.
- 1987 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it fails to reach orbit.
- 1987 - National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet).
- 1987 - Walter Abel, actor (Suspicion), dies at age 88.
- 1988 - Birth of José Vizcaíno in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic, infielder (New York Mets).
- 1988 - Janet B Evans swims 1500 metre freestyle female world record (15:02.10).
- 1988 - U.S. presidential candidate Jesse Jackson defeats Michael Dukakis in the Michigan Democratic caucuses, becoming the temporary front-runner for the party's nomination.
- 1989 - NBC airs the first episode of TV show Quantum Leap.
- 1989 - Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic.
- 1990 - 62nd Academy Awards: Driving Miss Daisy, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Tandy win.
- 1990 - Roy "Halston" Frowick, fashion designer, dies of AIDS at age 68.
- 1991 - Frans Dohmen, union leader (Netherlands Catholic Mine Workers), dies at age 81.
- 1991 - Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street and Lexington Ave, New York City, New York.
- 1991 - Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their first WLAF game 35-34.
- 1991 - Victoria beats New South Wales by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final.
- 1992 - NHL New York Rangers clinch first NHL regular season championship in 50 years.
- 1993 - Luis Falco, US choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies at age 50.
- 1993 - Roy Riegels, University of California football player who ran wrong way, dies at age 84.
- 1994 - Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 metre ladies (38.99 seconds).
- 1994 - Constantine Koukouchkine, Russian diplomat, murdered in Algeria at age 41.
- 1994 - Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:02.60).
- 1994 - Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26).
- 1995 - 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins.
- 1995 - 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen.
- 1995 - Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup.
- 1995 - Animated TV series Johnny Bravo first airs.
- 1995 - The Schengen Agreement easing cross-border travel goes into effect in several European countries.
- 1996 - (Elizabeth Cissie) Charlton, football matriarch, dies at age 83.
- 1996 - David Packard, American electronic engineer/businessman (co-founder of Hewlett-Packard), dies at age 83 (born 1912).
- 1996 - Edmund S Muskie, US Vice Presidential candidate/(Governor-Democrat- Maine), dies at age 81.
- 1996 - Last day of first-class cricket for Allan Border (Queensland versus Victoria).
- 1996 - The International Monetary Fund approves a US$10.2 billion loan to Russia for economic reform.
- 1997 - NHL announce Mighty Ducks and Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 in Japan.
- 1997 - In San Diego, California, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.
- 1997 - The survey of a claimed gold site of Bre-X Minerals in Indonesia reveals it is worthless; Bre-X complains and accuses Internet rumours.
- 1997 - Julius Chan resigns as prime minister of Papua New Guinea.
- 1998 - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people are killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
- 1999 - A Michigan jury finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
- 1999 - The computer virus "Melissa" attacks about 250,000 PCs worldwide in about three days, using Microsoft Outlook to mail the virus to email addresses in the address book. This is the first virus capable of jumping from computer to computer on its own.
- 2000 - 72nd Academy Awards, with Billy Crystal as host.
- Best Picture: American Beauty,
- Best Original Song: "You'll Be In My Heart" by Phil Collins, from Disney animated feature Tarzan.
- 2000 - Presidential elections in Russia: Vladimir Putin is elected President.
- 2000 - In Seattle, Washington, the Kingdome sports arena is demolished into a mound of rubble over 65 feet high, to make way for a new stadium.
- 2003 - Death of Daniel Patrick Moynihan at age 76 (born 1926); U.S. politician, ambassador to India and the United Nations, Democratic Senator for New York (1977-).
- 2005 - The Taiwanese government calls on one million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.
- 2005 - Death of James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1912).
- 2005 - Death of Paul Hester by suicide in Australia; drummer (Crowded House - "Skin Feeling").
- 2006 - The ban on smoking in public places such as bars and restaurants comes into effect in Scotland.
- 2007 - In the Canadian province of Québec, the Liberal Party wins a National Assembly election with 48 seats out of 125 and forms a minority government.
- 2008 - Tata Motors of India announces it will buy Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford Motor of the USA for US$2.3 billion.
- 2008 - Top commander Pedro Antonio Marín (Manuel Marulanda) of Colombian leftist rebel group FARC dies of a heart attack at age 78.
- 2008 - US space shuttle Endeavour returns to Earth, landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission delivered the first part of the Japanese Kibo research laboratory and a Canadian maintenance robot to the International Space Station. Space station flight engineer Leopold Eyharts returned with the shuttle, after spending seven weeks setting up the Columbus lab.
- 2008 - Advanced Micro Devices unveils the "Phenom" microprocessor for desktop personal computers.
- 2009 - Mount Redoubt volcano in Alaska erupts, shooting a plume of ash and smoke into the atmosphere, up to 20,000m.
- 2010 - Near Baengyeong Island off South Korea, an explosion rips a hole in the bottom of a South Korean Navy ship, sinking it, with the loss of 46 marines.
- 2010 - US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agree to a new nuclear arms reduction treaty. The treaty limits both sides to 1,550 warheads, a cut of 25 percent for the Americans and 30 percent for the Russians. Once the treaty is ratified, each side would have seven years to carry out the reductions.
- 2018 - More than 100 Russian diplomats are expelled by more than 20 countries in the wake of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
- 2019 - The European Parliament votes by 348 to 278 in favour of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which expands legal liability for websites.
- 2020 - Militants in the Philippines, Syria, Yemen, and Libya agree to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres' call for a ceasefire; some accept medical aid for themselves and civilians in their communities.
- 2020 - Global COVID-19 cases reach 500,000, with nearly 23,000 deaths confirmed. The U.S. surpasses China and Italy in total number of known COVID-19 cases, with at least 81,321 cases and more than 1,000 deaths.
- 2020 - Death of Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish-French royal (born 1933).
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