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1972  "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 performances   

1972  A very sad day in the Canadian navy, the last daily rum ration issued to Canadian naval personnel.   

1972  Easter Offensive began in Vietnam   

1972  North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam   

1972  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.   

1972  "Funny Thing Happened..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 perfs   

1972  Gabriel Heather, US news anchor, dies at 81   

1973  Ellsworth Bunker steps down as US ambassador to South Vietnam.   

1974  Labor is swept from office in Western Australian state elections and Liberal leader Charles Court is recorded as becoming premier   

1974  Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Reborn in Freedom), dies at 79   

1975  Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital.   

1975  Peter Bamm, writer, dies   

1976  Israel results in the deaths of 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation.   

1976  Ottawa announces plans to immunize about 12 million Canadians against 'swine flu' in the autumn   

1976  Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99.   

1977  Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer, dies at 88.   

1978  "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 perfs.   

1978  George Paine, lefty cricket spinner (for England in WI 1935), dies.   

1979  In this year, Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility   

1979  Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb.   

1980  Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God", premieres in New York NY   

1981  President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley Jr.   

1981  US President Ronald Reagan wounded in an assassination attempt   

1981  Dewitt Wallace, US founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91.   

1982  John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God", premieres in New York NY.   

1982  The third space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands NM   

1983  Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives", premieres in London.   

1983  USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR   

1984  US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force   

1984  Peter Yarrall, strongest Englishman/weighed 826 lb (374.7 kg), dies   

1985  Sally Anne Atkinson is recorded as becoming Lord Mayor of Brisbane, the inaugural Liberal and inaugural woman to do so   

1985  Harold Peary, actor (Herb-Blondie, Willy), dies of heart attack at 76.   

1986  James Cagney, actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies in NY at 86   

1987  59th Academy Awards "Platoon", Paul Newman and Marlee Matlin win.   

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1135  Maimonedes: Philosopher   

1222  Nichiren: Japan, buddhist priest/saint   

1326  Ivan ii of russia: Grand duke of muscovy   

1432  Mehmed ii: Ottoman sultan   

1640  John trenchard: English politician   

1672  Peter i "the great" romanov: Great tsar of russia (1682-1725)   

1674  Jethro tull: Agricultural writer (basildon), baptised   

1681  Pieter snyers: Flemish painter/engraver   

0988  Death of Arnulf ii: Count of flanders (965-988),   

1202  Joachim van fiore: Italian religious founder (joachimism),   

1486  Death of Thomas bourchier: Archbishop of canterbury   

1526  Konrad mutian: German humanist (b. 1471)   

1540  Matthäus lang von wellenburg: German statesman and archbishop of salzburg (b. 1469)   

1547  Death of Francois i of valois-angouleme: King of france (1515-47),   

1559  Death of Adam ries: German mathematician (b. 1492)   

1587  Ralph sadler: English statesman (b. 1507)