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1645 - English Long Parliament passes the Self-Denying Ordinance, limiting regional armies, significant step toward New Model Army
1922 - Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
1930 - Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1948 - US President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
1973 - The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City, United States.

Today's Historical Events

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419 - [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1043 - Edward the Confessor crowned king of England
1077 - The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
1312 - 2nd council of Vienna
1376 - Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat French
1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain, 1st known European to reach Florida
1559 - Spain & France sign 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis
1582 - French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen
1645 - English Long Parliament passes the Self-Denying Ordinance, limiting regional armies, significant step toward New Model Army

Explorer and Conquistador Juan Ponce de León1657 - English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
1679 - Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig
1721 - Robert Walpole becomes Britain's 1st Lord of the Treasury - effective Prime Minister, although that term was never officially used (indeed, it was considered an insult) until much later.
1764 - Austrian Archduke Jozef crowned himself Holy Roman Emperor Josef II
1776 - George Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1783 - Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity & Commerce
1790 - Revenue Marine Service (US Coast Guard) created
1834 - The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
1848 - Thomas Douglas becomes 1st SF public teacher
1848 - German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is seen for the last time at McPherson's Station, Coogoon, before he disappears on the same expedition to reach the Swan River

First US President George Washington1856 - Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos
1860 - Pony Express began between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento Calif
1864 - Skirmish at Okolona, Arkansas
1865 - Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
1865 - Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Va & Petersberg
1868 - A Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever - a 50-foot tidal wave
1882 - Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1882 - American Old West: Outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
1889 - Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Va
1893 - 1st NSW v Queensland F-C game, at Brisbane Exhibition Ground
1908 - Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hrs
1910 - Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed
1911 - Harry James Smith's "Mrs Bumsted-Leigh" premieres in NYC
1913 - British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail

Marxist Revolutionary and Russian Leader Vladimir Lenin1917 - Lenin arrives in Petrograd from Switzerland [NS=April 16]
1918 - US House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
1919 - Austria expels all Habsburgers
1922 - Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
1923 - 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary
1925 - Great Britain goes back to gold standard
1925 - Netherlands & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
1926 - 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C
1926 - 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
1926 - Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
1927 - Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
1929 - Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
1929 - RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.

Rocket Pioneer Robert H. Goddard1930 - Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1930 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games
1930 - 2nd Academy Awards - "The Broadway Melody", Warner Baxter & Mary Pickford win
1933 - 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
1933 - Then longest North American hockey game requires a 1:44:46 overtime as Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0
1935 - Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44)
1936 - Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch, :07 of 1st round
1936 - Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds
1941 - Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
1941 - Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq
1941 - Walton's overture "Scapino" premieres in Chicago
1943 - Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested

Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin1944 - British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz
1944 - US Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional
1945 - Hengelo freed from Nazi control by Canadian army
1945 - Nazis begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald
1945 - US 1st army conquers Hofgeismar
1946 - Netherlands-German postal relations resume
1947 - "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 108 perfs
1948 - 1st US figure skating championships held
1948 - US President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)
1948 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1948 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1949 - KQW-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KCBS
1949 - North Atlantic Treaty signed by US, Britain, France & Canada

33rd US President Harry Truman1949 - WLWS (now WCMH) TV channel 4 in Columbus, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 - Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners" premieres in Oxford
1952 - Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress
1954 - "Me & Juliet" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 358 performances
1954 - Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record)
1955 - Balt Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs KC Athletics)
1955 - Fire in cinema in Sclessin, Belgium, kills 39
1955 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Oklahoma City Golf Open
1955 - Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300
1955 - The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
1956 - "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 461 performances
1956 - Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated
1956 - German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed

Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg1956 - Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
1957 - Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" premieres in London
1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 - "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances
1958 - Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
1960 - Earthquake at Havre, Belgium
1961 - "Happiest Girl in the World" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 97 perfs
1961 - Connie Mack Stadium in Phila is sold to J Schleifer Properties
1962 - Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)
1962 - Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
1964 - Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts
1964 - US & Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations

Cuban President Fidel Castro1965 - 1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched
1966 - Luna 10 orbits Moon
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open
1966 - Tom Seaver signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus
1967 - WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum
1968 - N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
1968 - "Planet of the Apes" United States wide premiere
1969 - Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
1970 - Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th attempt
1970 - As part of a new 'get tough' policy in Northern Ireland, Ian Freeland of the British Army, warned that those throwing petrol bombs could be shot dead

LPGA Golfer Mickey Wright1973 - The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City, United States.
1974 - 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states
1974 - Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris
1974 - The Super Outbreak : tornadoes in the east, south & midwest United States killed approximately 315 people, with nearly 5,500 injured
1975 - Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it
1975 - James Rupers kills his family to inherit
1976 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1976 - Phila Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game
1977 - 6th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1977 - Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point
1977 - Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat's 1st meeting with US President Jimmy Carter

39th US President Jimmy Carter1977 - Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time
1978 - 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall", Richard Dreyfuss & Diane Keatonwin
1978 - European market & China signs trade agreement
1978 - Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington DC
1979 - Belgium's Martens government forms
1979 - Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois
1980 - France performs nuclear test
1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25," with 1 leg
1981 - Race riots in London's Brixton area
1982 - Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point
1982 - UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands
1983 - 12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1983 - 2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South Cal beats LA Tech 69-67

Actress Diane Keaton1984 - Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1984 - Guinea suspends constitution after coup
1984 - Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
1985 - French government adopts equal electoral system
1985 - Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games
1985 - Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
1986 - Maureen O'Boyle (future host of Current Affair) is raped
1986 - US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
1987 - Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega
1987 - Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers
1987 - Duchess of Windsor's jewels auctioned for £31,380,197
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - 17th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1988 - 7th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Louisiana Tec beat Auburn 56-54

NHL Legend and Owner Mario Lemieux1988 - Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Gretzky's 7 year streak
1988 - NJ Devils beat Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time
1988 - Somalia & Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx
1989 - 51st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Mich beats Seton Hall 80-79 (OT)
1989 - Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St Louis at Shea Stad
1991 - "Penn & Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC
1991 - 12th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1991 - Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox
1991 - Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16)
1991 - UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
1992 - 1st exhibition game at Camden Field - Orioles beat NY Mets
1994 - 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: NC beats Louisiana Tech 60-59
1994 - 1st roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced

Golfer and Four-Time Major Championship Winner Ray Floyd1994 - 6th Seniors Golf Tradition: Ray Floyd
1995 - 57th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78
1995 - Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena
1996 - South Australia grab exciting draw vs W A to win Sheffield Shield
1996 - St Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1
1997 - "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical" opens at Royale NYC for 109 performance
1997 - Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
1998 - World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minn
2000 - 62nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at RCA Dome Indianapolis
2004 - Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
2006 - Steve Yzerman scores his final NHL goal (#692) against the Calgary Flames

NHL Legend Steve Yzerman2007 - Conventional train world speed record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
2009 - Australia formally adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
2012 - Spanish unemployment reaches record high, youth unemployment stands at 50%
2012 - Moscow fire kills 17 migrant workers
2012 - US President Barack Obama officially secures Democratic presidential nomination
2013 - 46 people are killed and 100 are injured by a court-house suicide bombing in Farah, Afghanistan
2013 - 50 people are killed by flooding across Argentina
2013 - 24 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff in Papa New Guinea