- 30 Scholars' estimate for Jesus' crucifixion by Roman troops in Jerusalem [or April 3]
Historic Event
529 First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (fundamental work in jurisprudence) issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I
- 1118 Pope Gelasius II excommunicated by Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, forcing him to flee Rome and rule in exile
- 1348 Prague University, first university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV
- 1456 Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
- 1498 Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy
- 1509 France declares war on Venice
- 1521 Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
Historic Event
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan's fleet reaches Cebu
Appointment of Interest
1625 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander
- 1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
Historic Event
1655 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
Historic Event
1794 English chemist and theologian Joseph Priestley departs England for America on board Sansom at Gravesend
- 1798 Mississippi Territory organized
Historic Expedition
1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition leaves Fort Mandan (on the Missouri River near what is now Washburn, North Dakota), beginning their journey to the Pacific Ocean
Victory in Battle
1818 General Andrew Jackson conquers Spanish Fort San Marcos (St Marks), in Spanish Florida during his pursuit of the Native American Seminole Tribe, in what would become known as the First Seminole War
Historic Event
1853 Queen Victoria asks John Snow to administer chloroform during the delivery of her eighth child, Leopold, leads to wider acceptance of obstetrical anesthesia
- 1860 Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
- 1862 Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn, Island #10 falls
- 1863 Battle of Charleston, South Carolina failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter
- 1865 Battle of Farmville, Virginia
- 1868 Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and only federal politician
- 1890 Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal, Japan
- 1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
Historic Expedition
1895 Polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen reaches record 86°13.6′N latitude north, expedition closest to the North pole
- 1901 SDAP demands general voting right, abolishing First Chamber
- 1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
- 1906 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business
- 1917 J.M. Barrie's play "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" premieres in London
- 1917 Manuel de Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos" ("The Three-Cornered Hat") premieres at Teatro Eslava in Madrid, Spain
- 1919 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks
Election of Interest
1921 Revolutionary leader, Sun Yat-sen is elected President of China at Canton, though China remains divided into north and south and subject to rivalries of warlords
Historic Event
1922 Warren G. Harding's Interior Secretary, Albert B. Fall, leases the Teapot Dome oil reserves to Harry Sinclair, setting in motion the Teapot Dome scandals
Historic Event
1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience
- 1939 Italy invades Albania
Historic Event
1940 US Post Office issues first postage stamp of African American educator Booker T. Washington
- 1941 British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa
Conference of Interest
1943 Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg
- 1943 British and US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
- 1943 German Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid
- 1945 Battle of Okinawa: Massive kamikaze attack of around 110 Japanese aircraft damages three US battleships off Okinawa island
- 1945 Battle of Okinawa: US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission, super battleship Yamato and four destroyers are sunk
- 1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan after the US invasion of Okinawa; he is replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
- 1945 Sonderkommando Elbe, special Luftwaffe units designed to destroy Allied planes by ramming them mid-air, are sent on their first and only mission of World War II
- 1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
- 1946 Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
- 1948 A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead
- 1948 World Health Organization formed by the United Nations
- 1951 American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
- 1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
- 1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
Election of Interest
1953 UN General Assembly begins session that will elect Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden as Secretary-General
- 1954 German government refuses to recognize DDR
Conference of Interest
1954 US President Dwight D. Eisenhower in news conference is first to voice fear of a "domino-effect" of communism in Indo-China
Historic Event
1962 Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
- 1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
- 1964 IBM announces the System/360.
- 1965 Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man NZ v Pakistan
- 1966 US recovers a lost hydrogen bomb from the Mediterranean sea floor (whoops)
- 1967 Israeli Syrian border fights
- 1967 Tom Donahue, San Francisco DJ begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM)
Martin Luther King Assassination Riots
1968 Riots continue in over 100 US cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
- 1969 The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1
Historic Event
1971 US President Richard Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free
- 1972 Three members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature bomb explosion in Belfast
- 1973 Cleveland sets day-game & opening-game attendance records of 74,420
- 1974 Herb Gardner's "Thieves" premieres in NYC
- 1975 Preliminary meeting in Paris on world economic crisis between oil-exporting, oil-importing, and non-oil Third World countries
Historic Event
1976 Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
Historic Event
1978 US President Jimmy Carter defers production of neutron bomb
- 1979 Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water
- 1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
- 1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec
- 1982 Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
- 1983 Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
- 1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson perform the 1st STS spacewalk
- 1983 WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480 women bowlers for 83-day event
- 1985 1st live telecast of Easter Parade in New York
- 1985 New Jersey General Hershel Walker rushes for USFL record 233 yards
- 1987 National Museum of Female Physicians opens in Washington, D.C.
- 1988 Murderer of Gerrit Jan Heijns, Ferdi Elsas, arrested in the Netherlands
- 1988 Russia announces it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
- 1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1989 Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
- 1990 BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr
- 1990 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
- 1990 John Poindexter (US National Security Advisor) found guilty of five counts of lying to Congress and obstruction regarding the Iran-Contra scandal
- 1990 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
- 1991 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
- 1991 George Washington Bridge (connecting New York City with Fort Lee, New Jersey, over the Hudson River) raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
- 1992 Republika Srpska (aka the Bosnian Serb Republic) announces its independence.
- 1993 Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colo Rockie HR (Shea Stadium NY)
- 1994 1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2
Rwandan Genocide
1994 Beginning of the Rwandan Genocide; the Presidential Guard begins killing moderate politicians and public figures in Kigali, including Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana
Historic Event
2003 U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
Historic Event
2005 Head of government of the Federal District, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, faces an impeachment process at the Mexican Congress
Historic Event
2009 Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces
- 2012 130 Pakistani Army soldiers are buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier
- 2012 Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi
- 2013 15 people, including 9 children, are killed by an air strike on Aleppo by the Syrian Air Force
- 2016 Longest-ever captured python found on Penang in Malaysia (26ft/8m)
- 2017 Smurfs: The Lost Village is released in the United States
- 2017 Truck driven into a department store in Stockholm, killing 4 in a terror attack
Historic Event
2017 US President Donald Trump orders missile strike on Syrian airfield after chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun
- 2018 Suspected gas attack on Douma by Syrian government airforce kills more than 40 people and injuries more than 500
- 2019 Rebel force the Libyan National Army under General Khalifa Haftar begins advancing on Tripoli with 21 killed and 27 injured over next few days as they try to take the capital
- 2019 Rwanda marks 25 years and the beginning of 100 days of mourning since the genocide that killed 800,000 people
- 2019 US President Donald Trump announces Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security is leaving her position
- 2020 Australia's highest court overturns the child sexual abuse conviction of Catholic Cardinal George Pell
- 2020 China ends its lockdown of Wuhan, the city at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic after 76 days as the country reports no new deaths for the 1st time
- 2020 US Acting-Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns after calling USN Capt. Brett Crozier of aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN71) "too naive and too stupid", in an address to the ship's crew
- 2020 Wisconsin holds its Democratic primary with in-person voting in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, after a mail-in voting rejected by the Wisconsin Legislature
- 2021 UK COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 (Alpha) now the dominant variant in the US according to the CDC, as 108 million Americans have received at least one vaccine dose [1]
- 2022 Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes the first black woman to be confirmed by the US Senate to the Supreme Court in 53-47 vote [1]
- 2022 Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi transfers power to an eight-member council to negotiate with the Houthis in attempt to end country's seven-year civil war [1]