0069 - Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy
1045 - British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp
1205 - Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople
1250 - Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue
1450 - French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War
1493 - -20/4 Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand and Isabella
1581 - Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal
1594 - Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)
1595 - Willem I's daughter of Elisabeth of Nassau marries duke Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne of Broth
1605 - Boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies
1621 - Hugo the Great arrives in France
1632 - Swedish and Saxon army beat Earl Tilly
1654 - England and Netherlands signs peace treaty
1689 - French King Louis XIV declares war on Spain
1697 - Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden
1715 - Uprising of Yamasse-indians in South Carolina
1716 - Russian and Prussian troops occupy Wismar
1738 - Bottle opener invented
1776 - Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy
1784 - First balloon flight in Ireland
1788 - England, Netherlands and Prussia sign peace treaty
1793 - Bank of England hands out first �5-note
1800 - James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole
1817 - First American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)
1850 - City of San Francisco incorporated
1851 - Earl G Andrassy sentenced to death in Hungary
1853 - Protestant church questions king Willem III RC bishops
1858 - Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists
1861 - Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by President Lincoln
1864 - General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansa
1865 - Otto von Bismarck elevated to earl
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln, at 7:22 am, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater
1870 - Last day US silver coins allow to circulate in Canada
1874 - NY legislature passes compulsory education law
1877 - First telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Massachusetts
1878 - Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
1892 - General Electric Company, forms and is incorporated in NY
1895 - Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
1896 - First Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1900 - An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hrs
1900 - International Exposition opens in Paris
1901 - First British motorized burial
1902 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Church in US"
1909 - Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo
1909 - NY Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers
1910 - Taft is first President to throw out a first ball at a baseball game
1911 - Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St NYC
1911 - Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning
1912 - RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland after hitting an iceberg as band plays on
1915 - NY Giant Rube Marquard no-hits Bkln, 2-0
1918 - Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents
1920 - New Canadian small cent coin is released
1921 - Black Friday- Labour Party strike of mine workers fails
1922 - Banting, MacLeod and Best discover insulin
1922 - Poodle Dog Restaurant closes
1923 - First sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
1923 - Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
1924 - Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain Belgium, 1 dead
1925 - NHL's NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) first game, lose 3-1
1927 - Babe Ruth hits first of 60 HRs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)
1927 - Switzerland and USSR agree to diplomatic relations
1928 - Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf (SF) forms
1931 - First walk across American backwards begins
1937 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 3 games to 2
1939 - Albert Lebrun elected president of France
1940 - British troops land at Narvik, Norway
1941 - First helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct
1942 - George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta
1943 - Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase
1945 - British and Canadian troops liberate Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen
1945 - FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
1945 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum
1945 - US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz
1947 - Jackie Robinson goes hitless in his major league debut
1947 - Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio
1948 - First Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated
1948 - Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created
1948 - KCPX (now KTVX) TV channel 4 in Salt Lake City, UT (ABC) first broadcast
1949 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Redemptoris nostri
1951 - Michael Gorsira is first person in charge of Curacao
1952 - First B-52 prototype test flight
1952 - Franklin National Bank issues first bank credit card
1952 - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Montreal Canadiens in 4 games
1952 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 - Malans National Party wins South African elections
1954 - Orioles first game in Baltimore beat White Sox 3-1
1954 - Yankees dedicate a plaque to Edward Barrow
1955 - Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois)
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1956 - Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1957 - Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery
1957 - Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress gives Post Office $41 million
1958 - 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young and Jane Wyatt
1958 - First baseball game in Calif, SF Giants beat LA Dodgers, 8-0
1959 - Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour
1959 - US Secretary of States John Foster Dulles resigns
1960 - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U
1964 - Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (world's longest)
1964 - Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
1965 - NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold
1966 - Rolling Stones release "Aftermath"
1968 - Houston Astros beat NY Mets, 1-0, in 24 innings
1969 - North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea
1970 - Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution"
1971 - 43rd Academy Awards - "Patton," George C Scott and Glenda Jackson win
1972 - Barbra Striesand, James Taylor, Carole King and Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President
1973 - 2nd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1973 - Walt Disney Story opens
1974 - 3rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of Calif in 2:47:11
1974 - 78th Boston Marathon won by Neil Cusack of Ireland in 2:13:39
1974 - Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed
1975 - First appearance of San Diego Chicken
1975 - Gabon amends constitution
1975 - Penguins 3-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 2-0 lead
1976 - Yankee stadium reopens, Yanks beat Twins after trailing 4-0
1977 - First baseball game at Montreal's Olympic Stadium
1978 - 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna, Italy
1978 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1979 - 43rd Golf Masters Championship: Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280
1981 - Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Wash Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
1982 - Apollo Computer announces DN400, DN420, and landscape display
1983 - Rangers 0-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1983 - Tokyo Disneyland opens
1984 - 48th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 277
1984 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA JandB Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1984 - Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - 14th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lisa Larsen Weidenbach in 2:34:06
1985 - 89th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:14:05
1985 - Challenger moves to launch pad for 51-B missing
1985 - South Africa will repeal sex and marriage laws against whites and non-whites
1986 - US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing
1988 - Meteorite explode above Indonesia
1989 - 95 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England
1989 - South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries
1989 - Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests
1989 - Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48)
1989 - Then largest lottery in North America ($69M) drawn in Illinois
1990 - "In Living Color" premieres on FOX-TV
1991 - 20th Boston Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil of Poland in 2:24:18
1991 - 95th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:11:06
1991 - Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against S Afr
1991 - Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary
1991 - Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assistswith 9,898
1991 - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $280 per week
1991 - Sacramento Kings set NBA record, losing 35th consecutive game on road
1991 - Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)
1992 - Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion
1992 - Jay Leno's final appearance as permanent guest host of Tonight
1992 - Lincoln Hospital in Bronx loses its accreditation
1992 - NY Islander, Al Arbour, coaches most NHL games (1,438)
1992 - William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame
1994 - Indians loses first game at Jacobs Field, KC wins 2-1
1994 - Robert F Kennedy Jr (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson
1994 - WMMS-FM's Jeff and Flash, and entire station staff, are fired
1996 - 100th Boston Marathon won by Moses Tanui of Kenya in 2:09:15.9
1996 - 25th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:27:12.6
1997 - America On Line, begins service in Japan
1997 - Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring #42 for all teams
1998 - Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge regime that killed an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians in the 1970s, died at age 73
2000 - Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles became the 24th major league player to reach 3,000 hits
2002 - Retired Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White died at age 84
2003 - Looters and arsonists ransacked and gutted Iraq's National Library, as well as Iraq's principal Islamic library
2004 - In a videotape, a man identifying himself as Osama bin Laden offered a truce to European countries that did not attack Muslims, saying it would begin when their soldiers left Islamic nations
