Historical Events In April - 05
1992 Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome Randy "Macho Man" Savage beats Ric Flair for title, Hulk Hogan disqualifies Sid Justice
1992 Wrestlemania VIII-Randy "Macho Man" Savage beats Ric Flair for title
1993 55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship North Carolina beats Michigan 77-71
1993 Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to New York Mets 3-0
1993 Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1993 Crowd of 73,293 watches New York Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 9-1
1993 Florida Marlins 1st game - beat Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3
1993 Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad
1994 "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden NYC for 347 performances
1994 Miami Heat beat New York Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
1996 John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days
1996 Marlon Brando makes anti-semitic remarks about hollywood on Larry King
1997 Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7)
2063 Earth's 1st contact by extra-terrestrials (Vulcan); according to Star Trek
1895 Writer Oscar Wylde is arrested for "Gross Behavior"
1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for allegedly giving American atomic secrets to the USSR
1955 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigns
1981 The Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev goes to Czechoslovakia to discuss Polish crisis
1982 A British Naval Task Force leaves for the Falkland Islands, which have been invaded by Argentina
1588 The birth of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher
1649 The birth of Elihu Yale, Founder of American Yale University
1900 The birth of Spencer Tracy, American actor
1908 The birth of Bette Davis, American actress
1916 The birth of Gregory Peck, American actor
1920 The birth of Arthur Halley, British author
2006 A swan with Avian Flu is discovered in Cellardyke in Fife, Scotland (the first case in the United Kingdom).
2007 The Greek cruise ship M/S Sea Diamond strikes a reef off the harbor of Santorini; the ship sinks the next day.
2009 Nor Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyongsong-2 rocket. e satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from e United Nations Security Council, as well as participating ates of Six-party talks.
2009 Nor Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyongsong-2 rocket. e satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from e United Nations Security Council, as well as participating ates of Six-party talks.
