1944 Mont Canadiens sweep Chicago Black Hawks for the Stanley Cup

1945 Allies occupy Wien (Vienna)

1945 President Roosevelt dies.

1949 In the Puget Sound area, Washington region a 6.9 earthquake occured between Olympia and Tacoma, along the southern edge of Puget Sound. Property damage in Olympia, Seattle, and Tacoma was estimated at $25 million; eight people were killed

1955 20.33" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record)

1957 Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in the US is halted

1959 USAF launches Discover II into polar orbit

1959 Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)

1959 Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists

1960 France becomes the 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara

1960 Navy's navigation satellite, Transit, placed into orbit from Cape Canaveral, FL and demonstrates ability to launch another satellite

1960 Transit 1B, first navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit

1961 UN General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid

1964 New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day

1964 Sidney Poitier became first black man to win Oscar for best actor

1965 Beatles record "Help"

1965 Lawrence Bradford Jr, 16 of NYC became first black congressional page

1966 Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s

1966 Soviet Liner Alexandr Pushkin leaves Leningrad for Montreal as the USSR launches North Atlantic passenger service.

1970 Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon

1972 Baseball players' strike ends after 13 days

1975 Jack Nicklaus wins his 5th Masters golf tournament

1976 $2 bill re-introduced as US currency

1976 Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes

1977 Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #2382 Nonie

1977 Statistics Canada reports March unemployment figures at 90,000, or 8.1% of the workforce; highest since figures first collected in 1953

1978 Paul McGrath actor (The Witness), dies at 73

1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours

1980 Steve Ballesteros becomes youngest winner of the Masters

1980 Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2568 Maksutov

1981 Wash Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)

1982 Republic of South Africa a 5.0 earthquake killed 1 and and 20 injured in rockslides in a gold mine near Welkom.

1983 Dedication of the Rats of Tobruk Memorial on Anzac Parade by the Governor-General, the Rt Hon Sir Ninian Stephen The memorial commemorates Australian and other Allied servicemen who fought and died during the siege of Tobruk in 1941

1983 Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault

1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth

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