- 30 Scholars' estimate for Jesus' crucifixion by Roman troops in Jerusalem [or April 3]
- 451 Attila's Huns plunder Metz
Event of Interest
529 First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (fundamental work in jurisprudence) issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I
Justinian I
- 1118 Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
- 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
Event of Interest
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan's fleet reaches Cebu
Ferdinand Magellan
- 1541 Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies
- 1584 Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma
- 1625 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander
- 1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
- 1652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa
- 1655 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
- 1712 Slave revolt in New York kills 6 white men, 21 African Americans executed
- 1739 Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
- 1776 Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward
- 1788 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
- 1798 Mississippi Territory organized
Historic Expedition
1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition leaves Fort Maden beginning their journey to the Pacific Ocean
William Clark
Sacagawea
Meriwether Lewis
Victory in Battle
1818 General Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks, Florida from Seminole indians
Andrew Jackson
- 1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
- 1831 Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil
- 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
Fridtjof Nansen
- 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 De Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos" premieres in Madrid
- 1917 James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her" premieres in London
- 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
Sun Yat-sen
Event of Interest
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
Harry Ford Sinclair
Warren G. Harding
Albert B. Fall
Event of Interest
1926 Mussolini is shot at 3 times by Violet Gibson in Rome, she only hits him once in the nose
Benito Mussolini
- 1927 Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington, D.C. to NYC
- 1931 Seals Stadium opens in San Francisco
- 1933 1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service
- 1933 'National Beer Day" Cullen-Harrison act comes into effect legalising sale of low alcohol beer
- 1933 University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
Event of Interest
1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience
Mahatma Gandhi
- 1939 Italy invades Albania
Event of Interest
1940 US Post Office issues first postage stamp of African American educator Booker T. Washington
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
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
D-Day
1944 World War II: General Montgomery speaks to generals at St. Paul's School about his vision for the upcoming D-Day landings
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- 1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan after the US invasion of Okinawa; he is replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
- 1945 Battle of Okinawa: Massive kamikaze attack of around 110 Japanese aircraft damages three US battleships off Okinawa island
- 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
- 1945 Battle of Okinawa: US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission, super battleship Yamato and four destroyers are sunk
- 1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
- 1946 Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
- 1948 World Health Organization formed by the United Nations
- 1948 A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
- 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
- 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
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1956 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
- 1957 Last of NY's electric trolleys completes its final run
- 1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
- 1959 Radar 1st bounced off Sun, Stanford Calif
- 1962 Umrigar slams 172* v WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes
- 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 lost H-bomb from Mediterranean 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.
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Event of Interest
1971 US President Richard Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free
Richard Nixon
- 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
Event of Interest
1976 Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping
Event of Interest
1978 US President Jimmy Carter defers production of neutron bomb
Jimmy Carter
- 1978 US Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976
- 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 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 runs 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 Netherland
- 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 Farm Aid IV concert
- 1990 John Poindexter (National Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
- 1990 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
- 1990 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
- 1991 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
- 1991 George Washington Bridge 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
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Event of Interest
2003 U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
Saddam Hussein
- 2005 The Head of government of the Federal District, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, faces an impeachment process at the Mexican Congress.
Event of Interest
2009 Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces
Alberto Fujimori
- 2012 Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi
- 2012 130 Pakistani Army soldiers are buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier
- 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 Truck driven into a department store in Stockholm, killing 4 in a terror attack
Event of Interest
2017 US President Donald Trump orders missile strike on Syrian airfield after chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun
Donald Trump
- 2018 Suspected gas attack on Douma by Syrian government airforce kills more than 40 people and injuries more than 500
- 2019 Rwanda marks 25 years and the beginning of 100 days of mourning since the genocide that killed 800,000 people
- 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 US President Donald Trump announces Kisrtjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security is leaving her position
- 2020 China ends its lockdown of Wuhan, the city at the center of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic after 76 days as the country reports no new deaths for the 1st time
- 2020 Australia's highest court overturns the child sexual abuse conviction of Catholic Cardinal George Pell
- 2020 US acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigns after calling Capt. Brett Crozier of the USS Thomas Roosevelt "too naive and too stupid" in address to the 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