- 0311 – Emperor Galerius legal recognizes Christians in the Roman Empire
- 1064 – German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland
- 1349 – Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated
- 1396 – Crusaders & earl of Nevers depart from Dijon
- 1492 – Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
- 1492 – Spain announces it will expels all Jews
- 1506 – Philip of Bourgondy & England sign trade agreement
- 1527 – England & France sign treaty of Westminster
- 1562 – 1st French colonists in US: Jean Ribaut & Hugenots at Parris Is NC
- 1563 – Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI
- 1598 – 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
- 1616 – English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen
- 1650 – French rebel Henri de la Tour Turenne signs treaty with Spain
- 1661 – Tsjeng Tsj’eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa
- 1695 – William Congreve’s “Love for Love,” premieres in London
- 1722 – Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant
- 1725 – Emperor Charles VI & King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna
- 1748 – Ceasefire at Aken ends
- 1748 – French troops occupy Maastricht
- 1763 – London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower
- 1772 – John Clais patents 1st scale
- 1774 – Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
- 1789 – George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US
- 1790 – Colonial troops occupy Bonni’s marroon village
- 1798 – Dept of Navy forms
- 1803 – US doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase ($15 million)
- 1804 – Hague’s Theater opens
- 1808 – 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
- 1812 – (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state
- 1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation
- 1852 – Anton Rubinsteins opera “Dmitri Donskoi,” premieres in St Petersburg
- 1857 – San Jose State University forms
- 1859 – Paul Morphy returns from 10-mo chess tour of Europe, retires
- 1860 – Navaho indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby)
- 1861 – President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory
- 1862 – Swift Run Gap, WV skirmishes
- 1864 – Battle of Jenkin’s Ferry, Arkansas; Gen W R Scurry is killed
- 1864 – New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee
- 1865 – -5/1] Gen Shermans “Haines’s Bluff” at Snyder’s Mill, Virginia
- 1869 – Hawaiian YMCA organized
- 1871 – Apaches in Arizona surrender to white & Mexican adventurers; 144 die
- 1885 – Boston Pops Orchestra forms
- 1887 – 1st game played at Broad & Huntingdon St Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Phillies beat Giants 19-10
- 1888 – Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi
- 1889 – 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington’s inauguration
- 1889 – George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ opens
- 1898 – Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl
- 1900 – 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match
- 1900 – USA annexes Hawaii
- 1902 – Debussy’s opera “Pell‚as et M‚lissande,” premieres in Paris
- 1903 – NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1st home game, (Hilltop Park-168th St & Broadway, Manhattan), they beat Wash Senators, 6-2
- 1904 – Ice cream cone makes its debut
- 1905 – 1st official soccer game between Belgium-Netherlands (1-4)
- 1910 – Cleve Indian Addie Joss wins 2nd no-hitter beating White Sox
- 1911 – Portugal approves woman suffrage
- 1916 – Chic Cubs play 1st game at Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) beat Reds
- 1918 – Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen
- 1919 – Phillies beat Bkln Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings
- 1921 – American Professional Football Assn reorganizes in Akron
- 1921 – Pope Benedict XV encyclical “On Dante”
- 1922 – Chic White Sox Charles Robertson perfect games Detroit Tigers, 2-0
- 1927 – Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State
- 1928 – Cherkess Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1957)
- 1929 – Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austria
- 1934 – Austrian gets “Austrian facist” constitution
- 1935 – World Congress for Women’s Rights concludes in Istanbul
- 1937 – General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth
- 1938 – Bradman scores 258 Aust v Worcs, 293 mins, 33 fours 1 five
- 1939 – NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of NY World’s Fair
- 1939 – Tropicana ballet of Havana Cuba, forms
- 1940 – Bkln Dodger Tex Carleton no-hits Cin Reds, 3-0
- 1941 – Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia
- 1942 – 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi
- 1943 – Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms
- 1943 – Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany’s war industry
- 1943 – No‰l Coward’s “This Happy Breed,” premieres in London
- 1944 – NY Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs
- 1944 – NY Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th time
- 1945 – “Arthur Godfrey Time” begins a 27 year run on CBS radio
- 1945 – Concentration camp Mnchen-Allag freed
- 1945 – Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolsheviks
- 1945 – Red Army occupies Demmin
- 1945 – Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin
- 1945 – Russian Army frees Ravensbrck concentration camp
- 1945 – US troops attack the Elbe
- 1946 – Cleve Indian Bob Feller’s 2nd no-hitter beats NY Yankees, 1-0
- 1947 – Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
- 1948 – “Inside USA” opens at Century Theater NYC for 339 performances
- 1948 – Org of American States charter signed at Bogot , Colombia
- 1948 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
- 1950 – Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA 144-hole Golf Weathervane
- 1952 – Louise Suggs wins LPGA Stockton Golf Open
- 1952 – Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television
- 1953 – Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League
- 1954 – Darius Milhauds 4th Concert for piano/orch premieres in Haifa
- 1955 – Element 101, Mendelevium, announced
- 1955 – Imperial Bank of India nationalized
- 1955 – Perez Prado’s “Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White” goes #1 for 10 weeks
- 1955 – West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & more wages
- 1958 – Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits
- 1961 – 1st shuttle flights between Wash DC, Boston & NYC begin (Eastern)
- 1961 – Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk USSR
- 1961 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
- 1961 – Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize
- 1961 – SF Giant Willie Mays hits 4 HRs in a game
- 1962 – NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m
- 1962 – Willie Mays hits 4 HRs
- 1967 – Highest tower to the world finished, 537m (USSR)
- 1967 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
- 1967 – NY Met pitcher Tom Seaver wins hist 1st game
- 1967 – Orioles’ Stu Miller & Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Tigers
- 1968 – 3 Oriole pitchers walk 14 NY Yankees in a 9 inning game
- 1969 – Cin Red Jim Maloney 3rd no-hitter beats Houston Astros, 10-0
- 1969 – WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1970 – Cubs Billy Williams is 1st NLer to play in 1,000 consecutive games
- 1970 – US troops invade Cambodia
- 1971 – 25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee beat Balt Bullets in 4 games
- 1972 – “Arthur Godfrey Time” ends a 27 year run on radio
- 1972 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Open
- 1973 – Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al
- 1973 – Paul McCartney releases “Red Rose Speedway” including “My Love”
- 1973 – Women’s tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments
- 1974 – Pres Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
- 1975 – Last US helicopter leaves US embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders
- 1976 – Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1976 – Royal Canadian Mint opens a branch in Winnipeg Manitoba
- 1976 – Wings release “Silly Love Songs”
- 1977 – “Party with Comden & Green” closes at Morosco NYC after 92 perfs
- 1977 – Billy Graham beats Bruno Sammartino in Baltimore, to become WWF champ
- 1977 – Ron Cey sets record of 29 RBIs in April
- 1978 – “Elvis: The Legend Lives!” closes at Palace NYC after 101 perfs
- 1978 – Janet Coles wins LPGA Natural Light Lady Tara Golf Classic
- 1979 – Mary Therese Friel, (New York), crowned 28th Miss USA
- 1980 – “Barnum” opens at St James Theater NYC for 854 performances
- 1980 – Ronald Harwood’s “Dresser,” premieres in London
- 1980 – Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London
- 1980 – Beatrix, Wilhelmina Armgard, crowned queen of Netherlands
- 1980 – Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, abdicates
- 1981 – “Can-Can” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances
- 1981 – 16th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell & George Jones
- 1982 – Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as pres of El Salvador
- 1982 – Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season
- 1982 – Iranian offensive in Khusistan
- 1983 – Bruins 3-Isles 7-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 2-1 lead
- 1984 – 1700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are Sweden
- 1984 – Strong winds cause a 30 min delay in Toronto Blue Jays game
- 1985 – Dale Murphy drives in record tying 28th & 29th runs of April
- 1985 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
- 1985 – Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa
- 1986 – Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles
- 1986 – Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games
- 1987 – Lou Lamoriello is named NJ Devils President
- 1987 – NY Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game
- 1988 – Baltimore Orioles win record 14th straight from beginning of season
- 1988 – Largest banana split ever, at 455 miles long, was made in Penns
- 1988 – NJ Devils beat Caps 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final
- 1988 – NY Knights 1st arena football game beats Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in LA)
- 1988 – NY Yank Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets AL & ties ML Rec
- 1988 – World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Australia
- 1989 – Critics Siskel & Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show
- 1989 – Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
- 1989 – Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo of Madagascar
- 1989 – US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
- 1990 – As Met pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Braves score
- 1990 – Seattle’s Brian Holman’s perfect game broken up with 2 outs in 9th
- 1990 – US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space
- 1990 – US hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians
- 1991 – In Bangladesh a cyclone killed over 131,000 & left 9 million homeless
- 1992 – 208th & final episode of Cosby Show on NBC-TV
- 1994 – Soccer great Pele (53) weds psychologist Assiria Seixas Lemos (36)
- 1995 – “Blood Brothers” closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 839 perfs
- 1995 – “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 24 perfs
- 1995 – “Rose Tattoo” opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 80 perfs
- 1995 – After 120 years the last 15 A & S dept stores close
- 1995 – Val Skinner wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship
- 1996 – “Buried Child,” opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 77 performances
- 1996 – Dutch/Itallian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral
- 1996 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Grand Rapids MI on WKLQ 94.5 FM
- 1997 – “London Assurance,” opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 72 performances
- 1997 – 42 million watch “Ellen” admit she is gay
- 1997 – Atlanta Braves win record 19 games in April
- 1997 – Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes
- 1997 – Pres Clinton’s daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College
- 1997 – Tajik Prest Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt
- 1997 – Tino Martinez hits record 34 RBIs in April
