- 2007 160th Grand National: 33–1 shot Silver Birch, ridden by Robbie Power, edges out McKelvey to win by three-quarters of a length
Event of Interest
2007 At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
CMT Music Awards
2008 42nd CMT Music Awards: Taylor Swift and Trace Adkins win
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
2012 27th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: The Beastie Boys; Donovan; Guns N' Roses; Laura Nyro; The Red Hot Chili Peppers; The (Small) Faces; The Blue Caps; The Comets; The Crickets; The Famous Flames; The Midnighters; The Miracles; Freddie King; Don Kirshner; Tom Dowd; Glyn Johns; and Cosimo Matassa
Event of Interest
2012 J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, launches her website "Pottermore"
- 2013 11 people are killed and 50 are injured after a hotel fire in Xiangyang, China
- 2013 20 people are killed in attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia
- 2013 33 people are killed after a bus tumbled off a cliff in Trujillo, Peru
- 2013 77th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Adam Scott wins his first major title and becomes first Australian Masters champion with a 2nd hole sudden death playoff win against Ángel Cabrera
Film & TV History
2013 Comedian Kevin Hart is arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in California
Election of Interest
2013 Justin Trudeau, son of long-serving Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
- 2015 Archaeologists announce they have found at Lomekwi in Kenya 3.3 million-year old stone tools, the oldest ever discovered and which pre-date the earliest humans
The Fate of the Furious
2017 "The Fate of the Furious" directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Vin Diesel and The Rock opens worldwide - highest-grossing weekend at $532 million
DAMN.
2017 Kendrick Lamar releases his fourth studio album "DAMN." (2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music)
- 2017 Meethotamulla rubbish dump collapses onto houses in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing 26
- 2018 171st Grand National: Davey Russell wins aboard 10/1 Tiger Roll in a photo finish from Pleasant Company
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
2018 33rd Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Nina Simone; Sister Rosetta Tharpe; Bon Jovi; The Cars; Dire Straits; and Moody Blues
- 2018 National Gardening Day, since 2018 and according to the National Day Calendar
- 2018 US, UK and French forces carry out airstrikes on sites associated with Syria's chemical weapons program, in response to Douma gas attack
- 2019 11 tornadoes hit US southern states killing eight in Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana
US Masters Golf
2019 83rd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Tiger Woods wins his 5th Masters title by 1 stroke from Xander Schauffele, Dustin Johnson & Brooks Koepka; Woods' 15th major and first in 11 years
Event of Interest
2019 Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at center of controversy over comments about 9/11 at speech to Council on American-Islamic Relations after tweet by Donald Trump, defended by Nancy Pelosi
- 2019 Seychelles President Danny Faure makes first-ever live speech from a submersible pleading for better marine protection
- 2019 South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg officially announces his presidential campaign in Indiana, first openly gay candidate to run for US president
Obama Endorses Biden
2020 Former President Barack Obama endorses his former Vice President Joe Biden for president
- 2020 IMF warns the global economy expected to contract by 3% in 2020 due to COVID-19 "Great Lockdown", steepest downturn since the Great Depression
- 2020 Parts of Europe begin to ease lockdown restrictions after 5-6 weeks with some shops opening in Austria and parts of Italy
Modi Extends Lockdown
2020 PM Narendra Modi extends India's COVID-19 lockdown until May 3
- 2020 US President Donald Trump freezes funding for the World Health Organization pending a review, for mistakes in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and for being "China-centric", prompting international criticism
- 2021 Chicago White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodón no-hits the Cleveland Indians, 8-0 at Guaranteed Rate Field, Chicago
- 2021 Coinbase becomes the first major cryptocurrency company to trade shares on the New York stock exchange
- 2021 Former Minnesota police officer who shot Daunte Wright with a gun instead of a taser is arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter,
- 2021 Human cells grown in monkey cells for 20 days reported by US-Chinese team at the Salk Institute in "Cell" [1]
- 2022 Russian ship Moskva, flagship of its Black Sea fleet, sinks in the Black Sea during the invasion of Ukraine amid conflicting accounts [1]
- 2022 The biggest surge in years of attacks by Arab militants in Israel leaves 14 dead, leading to Israel army operations that kill a further 20 [1]
- 2023 European Space Agency's mission to Jupiter's moons, the Juice satellite launches on an Ariane-5 rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana [1]
- 2023 Royal Bank of Canada named the world's largest financier of fossil fuels, bypassing JPMorgan, according to the Banking on Climate Chaos report by a group of environmental organizations [1]
