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1118 Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
1348 Prague University, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV
1498 Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy
1509 France declares war on Venice
1521 Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
1521 Magelhaes' fleet reaches Cebu
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
1724 Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1788 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
1798 Mississippi Territory organized
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, Tennessee, Island #10 falls
1865 Battle of Farmville, Virginia
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face"
1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
1902 Texas Oil Company, Texaco, forms
1906 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police and 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
1922 Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair
1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres and kills 2 in San Luis Obispo, California
1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose
1927 Using phone lines TV is sent from Washington D.C. to New York City
1931 Seals Stadium opens in San Francisco
1933 1st 2 Nazi anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal and public service
1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
1933 University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience
1939 Italy invades Albania
1940 Booker T. Washington, 1st black to appear on U.S. stamp
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg
1943 British and U.S. troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1943 NFL adopts free substitution rule
1944 General Montgomery speaks to generals about invasion plan
1945 1st and last assault of German Rammkommando on U.S. bombers
1945 U.S. B-17's bombs range at Luneburg
1946 10th Golf Masters Championship: Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282
1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
1948 World Health Organization forms by U.N.
1951 15th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280
1951 American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1953 Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden elected 2nd United Nations general-secretary
1954 German government refuses to recognize DDR
1954 President Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China
1956 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
1957 21st Golf Masters Championship: Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283
1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
1959 Radar 1st bounced off Sun from Stanford, California
1962 Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
1963 27th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286
1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
1965 Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man NZ vs. Pakistan
1966 U.S. recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor
1967 Israeli/Syrian border fights
1969 Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds
1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
1969 Ted Williams begins managing Washington Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4
1970 "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds," premieres in New York City
1971 Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by
1973 Cleveland sets day-game and opening-game attendance records of 74,420
1973 Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 vs. WI Georgetown
1974 Herb Gardner's "Thieves," premieres in New York City
1976 Chinese Politburo fires Vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
1977 Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
1977 Toronto Blues Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5
1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in New York City
1978 President Carter defers production of neutron bomb
1979 Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0
1979 Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers
1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1981 Belgium Eyskens government forms
1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec
1982 Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
1982 Penguins 1-Isles 8-Preliminary-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1983 Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1
1983 Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
1984 Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1985 14th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller
1985 1st live telecast of Easter Parade
1987 National Museum of Female Physician opens in Washington D.C.
1988 Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1
1988 Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
1988 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
1990 Farm Aid IV concert
1990 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
1990 New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary
1990 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
1991 "Big Love" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 41 performances
1991 3rd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
1991 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
1991 George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
1991 Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24
1994 "Medea" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 82 performances
1994 1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2
1994 New York Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6
1994 Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton
1994 Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
1995 Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike
1996 8th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
1996 Kelly Robbins wins Sacramento 12 Bridges LPGA Golf Classic
1996 Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore

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