1864 – Skirmish at Spoonville, Antoine, Arkansas
1865 – Battle of Selma, Alabmaa, Union forces break Confederates defenses to secure the town
1908 – Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by in 1839 by future American Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York; known as ‘the Doubleday myth’
1932 – Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for his kidnapped son
1942 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta CC: Dorothy Kirby retains title by 5 strokes ahead of Eileen Stulb
1995 – WrestleMania XI, Hartford Civic Centre, CT: NFL linebacker Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow
1995 – Sunday NY Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
1996 – Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minnesota Timberwolves, 105-103 at General Motors Place Arena to end their NBA single-season record 23-game consecutive loss streak
2012 – 74th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kentucky defeats Kansas, 67-59; Wildcats guard Doron Lamb, 22 points
2018 – 80th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Villanova defeats Michigan, 79–62; Wildcats guard Donte DiVincenzo 31 points
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 1st April 2020
1778 – New Orleans businessman Oliver Pollock creates the “$” symbol
1873 – British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die
1927 – 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master’s Voice
1934 – Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers
1936 – Charles “Lucky” Luciano” is arrested in Arkansas on a criminal warrant from New York
1942 – Allied air raid on harbor city Kupang Timor
1948 – Fast bowler Hines Johnson has match figures of 10-96 on debut in West Indies 4th cricket Test win v England in Kingston, Jamaica; first fast bowler to take 10 wickets in a single Test for West Indies
1955 – EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus
1957 – Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising
1990 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Jack Nicklaus wins his first start on the Senior PGA Tour by 4 strokes from Gary Player
Historical Events for 25th March 2020
1609 – Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Company to find a passage to Asia
1846 – German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt arrives in Sydney to a hero’s welcome after completing his exploration of Australia’s Northern Territory
1937 – Washington Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
1937 – It is revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads
1961 – Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona
1967 – 29th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton, 79-64; Bruins center Lew Alcindor (later named Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) tournament MOP
1969 – Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president
1973 – AIAW Women’s Basketball Tournament, Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52, Immaculata 1st undefeated team in New York
1983 – Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58)
1990 – “Lettice and Lovage” opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances
Historical Events for 24th March 2020
1877 – English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers beat Oxford University, 2–1 (a.e.t.); Wanderers’ 4th title
1962 – 24th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Cincinnati beats Ohio State, 71-59; Bearcats win back-to-back National titles
1973 – San Francisco 49er pres Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams
1979 – 1st appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes
1985 – Third straight WTA Tour Championship for tennis legend Martina Navratilova; beats Helena Suková 6–3, 7–5, 6–4 at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1986 – Men’s International Professional Tennis Council announces Jimmy Connors’ 10 week suspension and $20,000 fine for storming off the court after defaulting against Ivan Lendl at Boca Raton, Florida in February
1988 – Quarterback Dan Fouts retires
1998 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
2006 – Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police.
2013 – 17 soldiers are killed by a suicide bomber at a military checkpoint in North Waziristan, Pakistan
Historical Events for 22nd March 2020
1765 – Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on American colonists, organized by Prime Minister George Grenville
1929 – 88th Grand National: Robert W. H. Everett wins aboard 100/1 outsider Gregalach
1943 – Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
1952 – Wales wins Five Nations Rugby Championship, Grand Slam and Triple Crown with a 9-5 win over France at St. Helen’s Ground, Swansea
1958 – 20th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle, 84-72; Seattle’s future Hall of Fame small forward Elgin Baylor is named tournament MOP
1968 – Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
1968 – Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone
1975 – 20th Eurovision Song Contest: Teach-In for Netherlands wins singing “Ding-a-dong” in Stockholm
1975 – “Dr Jazz” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances
2009 – Cricket Women’s World Cup: England defeats New Zealand by 4 wickets
Historical Events for 21st March 2020
1821 – First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
1824 – Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
1916 – JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
1934 – Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
1946 – Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933
1952 – “3 Wishes for Jamie” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 94 performances
1952 – -22] Tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky cause 343 deaths
1955 – Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus to join Greece
1963 – Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed
1986 – 199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
Historical Events for 20th March 2020
1800 – French army defeats Turks at Helipolis and advance to Cairo
1897 – France signs treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
1922 – WIP-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
1932 – Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR
1956 – Tunisia gains independence from France
1965 – Civil and Women’s Rights Activist Dorothy Height has her first column published in the weekly African-American newspaper called the “New York Amsterdam News”
1987 – NASA launches Palapa B2P
1995 – Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured
1996 – “Love Thy Neighbor” opens at Booth Theater NYC
1997 – World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Elvis Stojko of Canada
Historical Events for 19th March 2020
1861 – The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand
1906 – Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s “Quattro Rusteghi” premieres in Munich
1910 – Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis, Adelaide: Rodney Heath wins his 2nd and last Australasian title; beats fellow Australian Horace Rice 6-4, 6-3, 6-2
1937 – Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini redemptoris against communism
1954 – US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1960 – “Redhead” closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances
1978 – PGA Tournament Players Championship, Sawgrass CC: Jack Nicklaus wins his 3rd TPC title, 1 stroke ahead of Lou Graham; 4th straight start for Nicklaus that ends with a top-2 finish
1994 – Lara scores 167 for WI v England at Georgetown
2004 – A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in the 1950s is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the crew are left in place, pending further investigations.
2014 – Russia captures the Ukrainian naval base in Sevastopol
Historical Events for 18th March 2020
1123 – 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical council) opens in Rome, agreements of the Concordat of Worms ratified
1773 – Oliver Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer” premieres in London
1902 – Turkey grants Germany syndicate the first concession to construct a railroad through Turkish territory to Baghdad, to be linked to Berlin
1920 – Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
1950 – “Touch and Go” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances
1966 – General Suharto forms government in Indonesia
1987 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 – Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games
2007 – Former England Test cricket batsman, and Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer is found dead one day after his team’s defeat to Ireland puts them out of the World Cup in the West Indies; cause of death remains suspicious
2018 – African American Stephon Clark shot 20 times by police in his Grandmother’s backyard in Sacramento, California during vandalism investigation
Historical Events for 17th March 2020
432 – Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date)
1824 – Britain and Netherlands sign a trade agreement
1860 – Six years after the forcible ending of Japan’s isolationist policy by US Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry, the Japanese Embassy arrives in San Francisco to sign a Treaty of Friendship
1876 – General Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux Indian camps
1908 – Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 88 seconds in the quickest world heavyweight boxing title fight
1926 – Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
1953 – Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M
1970 – US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
1975 – Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92)
1985 – Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623′