Events in History! March-April

March on this day...
Day	Year	Event
1	1780	Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery.
	1803	Ohio becomes 17th state.
	1941	1st US commercial FM radio station on the air, Nashville, Tenn.
2	1836	Texas declares independence from Mexico.
	1927	Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year).
	1969	1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde.
3	1845	Florida becomes 27th state.
	1875	1st recorded hockey game (Montreal).
	1885	AT&T incorporated.
	1931	"Star Spangled Banner" officially became US national anthem.
	1959	Lou Costello comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52.
	1966	William Frawley actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 89.
	1991	LA Police severly beat Rodney King captured on amateur video.
4	1936	1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany.
	1960	Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz.
	1966	John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus".
5	1956	"King Kong," 1st televised.
	1982	John Belushi comedian (Sat Night Live), dies of drug overdose at 32.
6	1896	1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage".
	1967	Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted.
	1978	Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Ga.
	1981	Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News".
7	322 BC	Aristotle dies.
8	1930	Babe Ruth signs $80,000 contract with the Yankees.
	1972	1st flight of the Goodyear blimp.
9	1989	Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy.
10	1876	1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson).
	1988	Andy Gibb singer, dies at 30 of heart infection.
11	1302	Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare.
12	1969	Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London.
	1970	US lowers voting age from 21 to 18.
13	1923	Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures, NYC.
14	1950	FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins.
15	1956	"My Fair Lady" opens on Broadway (NYC).
16	1881	Barnum & Baily Circus debuts.
17	1753	1st official St Patrick's Day.
18	1930	Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh (US).
19	1931	Nevada legalizes gambling.
20	1991	Conor Clapton 5, son of Eric Clapton, falls out of 53rd floor window.
21	1980	On TV show Dallas, J.R. is shot.
22	1990	Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill.
23	1983	Dr Barney Clark 1st artificial heart recipient, dies after 112 days.
24	1958	Elvis Presley inducted into army in Memphis Tenn.
	1989	Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska.
25	1668	1st horse race in America takes place.
	1954	RCA manufactures 1st color TV set.
26	1992	Mike Tyson is sentenced to 10 years for rape.
27	1884	1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY.
	1977	583 killed when a KLM Boeing 747 runs into a Pan Am Boeing 747 on the runway in Tenerife, Canary Islands (worst in aviation history).
28	1969	Dwight D Eisenhower the 34th pres, dies in Washington at 78.
	1979	Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pa (no deaths).
29	1886	Coca-Cola created (with cocaine).
	1932	Jack Benny debuts on radio.
	1976	8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students.
30	1981	Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr.
	1986	James F Cagney actor, dies at his Stanfordville NY farm at 86.
	1991	William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman.
31	1932	Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine.
	1980	Jesse Owens of 1936 Berlin Olympics fame, dies in Ariz at 66.

April on this day...
Day	Year	Event
1	1889	1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago).
	1984	Marvin Gaye shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA.
2	1912	Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power.
	1956	Soap operas "As the World Turns" & "Edge of Night" premieres on TV.
	1978	TV show "Dallas" premiers on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series).
3	1882	Jesse James shot dead in St Joseph Mo by Robert Ford.
4	1968	Rev Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis (Dream continues).
5	1964	Douglas MacArthur US general (Pacific theater-WW II), dies at 84.
	1976	Howard Hughes reclusive billionaire, dies at 72.
	1992	Sam Walton Billionaire CEO (Walmart), dies of cancer at 74.
6	1968	HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas.
7	30	Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem (scholars' estimate).
8	1986	Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California, Make his day.
9	1865	Robert E Lee & 26,765 troops, surrender to US Grant at Appomattox.
	1953	"TV Guide" publishes 1st issue.
	1959	Frank Lloyd Wright US architect, dies at 89.
	1968	Martin Luther King Jr, buried.
	1970	Paul McCartney announces official split of the Beatles.
10	1849	Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC) sold rights for $100.
	1992	Sam Kinison loud mouth comedian, dies at 38 in a car crash.
11	1951	Pres Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur.
	1981	Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him.
12	1945	Franklin Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga.
	1989	Sugar Ray Robinson heavyweight Boxing Champ, dies at 67 of Alzheimer.
13	1902	JC Penney opened his 1st store in Kemmerer, Wyo.
	1970	Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon.
14	1865	Pres Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
	1912	The Titanic, in route from Southampton to New York with 2200 passengers, strikes Iceburg off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and sinks. (1500+ death toll).
15	1865	Pres Abraham Lincoln dies, 7:22 am, John Wilkes Booth responsible.
	1941	1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct.
	1955	Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants.
	1992	Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion.
16	1789	George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration.
	1922	Annie Oakley shot 100 clay targets in a row, a women's record.
	1962	Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News.
17	1964	Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2,368 base price).
	1970	Apollo 13 limps back safely, Beech-built oxygen tank no help.
18	1955	Albert Einstein developer of relativity theory, dies.
19	1934	Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up & Cheer".
	1980	Alfred Hitchcock dies in Calif at 80.
	1993	FBI tear-gas assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, which came to a fiery end with more than 80 people dead.
	1995	Oklahoma City bombing killed 167 people, including 19 children.
20	1916	Wrigley Field in Chicago opens.
	1999	Columbine H.S. massacre in Littleton CO. leaves 15 dead and 23 wounded.
21	1836	Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from Mexico.
	1918	"Red" Baron Manfred von Richtofen, killed in WW I.
	1963	Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time.
	1986	Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing.
22	1991	Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from Tonight Show.
23	1616	William Shakesphere English author, dies, on his 52nd birthday.
	1985	New Coke debuts to replace original Coke and is a flop.
24	1833	Patent granted for 1st soda fountain.
	1974	Bud Abbott dies at 78.
	1981	IBM-PC introduced.
25	1980	Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran.
26	1865	John Wilkes Booth assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green, VA.
	1986	Maria Shriver & Arnold Schwarzenegger marry.
	1989	Lucille Ball comedienne/actress dies at 78 of a massive heart attack.
27	1937	US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment.
28	1914	W H Carrier patents air conditioner.
29	1813	Rubber is patented.
	1852	1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published.
	1988	Burt Reynolds & Loni Anderson marry.
30	1945	Adolph Hitler & wife Eva Braun commit suicide.
	1947	Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover.
	1991	Cyclone kills 125,000 in Bangladesh.