1953 – WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke, MA (ABC) begins
1956 – Cole Porter’s final Broadway musical “Silk Stockings”, loosely based on the Melchior Lengyel’s “Ninotchka”, closes at the Imperial Theatre, NYC, after 478 performances
1961 – 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union
1962 – Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France after the resignation of Michel Debré
1969 – First regular-season MLB game played outside the United States; Montreal Expos beat St. Louis Cardinals, 8-7 at Parc Jarry, Montreal
1971 – US President Richard Nixon ends blockade against People’s Republic of China
1996 – 60th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Englishman Nick Faldo wins his 3rd Masters and 6th and final major title, 5 strokes ahead of Greg Norman of Australia
1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed
2012 – J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, launches her website “Pottermore”
2018 – US, UK and French forces carry out airstrikes on sites associated with Syria’s chemical weapons program, in response to Douma gas attack