April 4, 2005 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina defeats Illinois 75-70
April 4, 1998 NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season
April 4, 1997 STS 83 (Columbia 22), launches
April 4, 1996 "Inherit the Wind" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 45 performances
April 4, 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Austin Texas on KJFK 98.9 FM
April 4, 1994 Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706
April 4, 1994 Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications
April 4, 1994 Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery
April 4, 1993 Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, Hulk Hogan pins Yokozuna
April 4, 1992 Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - New York Yankees beat New York Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad
April 4, 1991 "Lucifer's Child" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 28 performances
April 4, 1990 "Martian Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV
April 4, 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle
April 4, 1989 New York Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th win puts him 19th overall as Yanks beat Twins on opening day 4-2
April 4, 1988 Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV
April 4, 1988 Mets set Opening Day record with 6 HRs
April 4, 1987 Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts
April 4, 1986 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
April 4, 1985 Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
April 4, 1984 Michael Frayn's "Benefactors" premieres in London
April 4, 1984 Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary
April 4, 1983 45th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Houston 54-52
April 4, 1983 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched
April 4, 1982 11th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sally Little
April 4, 1981 Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)
April 4, 1980 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
April 4, 1976 5th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Judy Rankin
April 4, 1976 Seni Pramoj's Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand
April 4, 1975 Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes
April 4, 1975 USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155
April 4, 1974 Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
April 4, 1970 Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson
April 4, 1969 Denton Cooley gets 1st temporary artificial heart
April 4, 1968 "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 28 performances
April 4, 1968 Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
April 4, 1967 Amsterdam Marines chase out "nozems" of Central Station
April 4, 1967 Dutch De Young government forms
April 4, 1960 32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston and Simone Signoret win
April 4, 1960 Oscar awarded to Netherlands director Bert Haanstra
April 4, 1960 Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center
April 4, 1960 Senegal declares independence from France
April 4, 1959 Federation of Mali, consisting of Senegal and French Sudan (dissolved 1960)
April 4, 1958 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
April 4, 1957 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris
April 4, 1956 Enid Bagnold's "Chalk Garden," premieres in London
April 4, 1955 British government signs military treaty with Iraq
April 4, 1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open
April 4, 1953 KFDA TV channel 10 in Amarillo, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting
April 4, 1951 Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Juan and Eva Peron in Buenos Aires
April 4, 1950 Dirk Stikker becomes chairman of OES
April 4, 1949 Israel and Jordan sign armistice agreement
April 4, 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington D.C.)
April 4, 1949 WKRC TV channel 12 in Cincinnati, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
April 4, 1948 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie
April 4, 1947 Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect
April 4, 1945 U.S. tanks and infantry conquer Bielefeld
April 4, 1944 British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia
April 4, 1944 De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists
April 4, 1941 German troops conquer Banghazi
April 4, 1940 R Rodgers/Lorenz Hart's "Higher and Higher," premieres in New York City
April 4, 1939 Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
April 4, 1938 5th Golf Masters Championship: Henry Picard wins, shooting a 285
April 4, 1937 4th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283
April 4, 1933 U.S. Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die
April 4, 1932 George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good," premieres in New York City
April 4, 1929 "New Moon" musical opens in London
April 4, 1929 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held
April 4, 1926 Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president
April 4, 1922 WAAB (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) becomes 1st U.S. radio station with "W" calls
April 4, 1921 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
April 4, 1920 Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem
April 4, 1918 Battle of Somme, ends
April 4, 1918 Food riot in Amsterdam
April 4, 1916 U.S. Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I
April 4, 1914 "Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in Los Angeles
April 4, 1912 Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia
April 4, 1912 Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet
April 4, 1911 Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP
April 4, 1905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000
April 4, 1902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million
April 4, 1900 Assassination attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII
April 4, 1900 British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet