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Events from History on April 02

1997 : "Doll's House," opens at Belasco Theater NYC
1992 : "Hamlet" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1987 : "Mikado" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 46 performances
1792 : & silver dollar, « dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime
1995 : 14th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: U of Ct Huskies beats TN 70-64
1989 : 18th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
2000 : 19th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Corel State Spectrum
1877 : 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
1900 : 1st edition of The Volk published (Amsterdam)
1878 : 1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper
1860 : 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin
1902 : 1st motion picture theater opens (LA)
1930 : 1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
1800 : 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C
1819 : 1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") begins
1993 : 1st test flight of Fokker 70 (Amsterdam)
1945 : 1st US units reach east coast of Okinawa
1970 : 2 men begin ascent of south face of Annapurna I, highest final
1986 : 4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece
1984 : 46th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Georgetown beats Houston 84-75
1990 : 52nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Nevada-LV beats Duke 103-73
2001 : 63rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Metrodome Minneapolis
1978 : 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
1995 : 7th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
1989 : 8th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Auburn 76-60
1967 : Actress Lynn Redgrave marries John Clark
1416 : Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Arag¢n
1958 : Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens
1974 : Arganat Comm publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
1982 : Argentina seizes Malvinas (Falklands) Islands
1976 : A's trade prospective free agents Reggie Jackson & Ken Holtzman,
1745 : Austria & Bavaria sign peace
1995 : Baseball season opener delayed until April 26
1978 : Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, v Aust Georgetown
1883 : Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack
1865 : Battle of Ft Blakely AL & Selma AL
1865 : Battle of Petersburg, VA (Ft Gregg, Sutherland's Station)
1968 : Beatles form Python Music Ltd
1981 : Belgium's 4th govt of Martens resigns
1863 : Bread revolt in Richmond Virginia
1905 : Cairo-Capetown railway opens
1976 : Cambodia Khieu Sampan succeeds prince Sihanouk as premier
1947 : Carlo Terron's "Il diamente del profeta," premieres in Rome
1973 : CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day
1968 : Chad creates Union of Central African States
1932 : Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son
1792 : Congress establishes Philadelphia mint
1595 : Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope
1902 : Country singer Wynonna Judd's 1st appearance as a single act
1944 : CPI-leader Palmiro Togliatti returns to Italy
1865 : CSA Pres Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA
1960 : Cuba buys oil from USSR
1944 : Dmitri Shostakovitch' 8th Symphony, premieres in NY
1987 : Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation
1973 : Ed Kemper stuffs mother's throat in disposal
1992 : Edith Cresson, France's 1st female premier, resigns
1559 : England/France signs 1st Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambr‚sis
1963 : Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km)
1513 : Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Le¢n
1559 : Genoa Italy, expels Jews
1872 : George B Brayton patents gasoline powered engine
1986 : George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans
1941 : German occupier disallows Dutch scouting assn
1916 : German troops overtake Bois de Caillette
1845 : H L Fizeau & J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun
1981 : Heavy battle between Christian militia & Syrian army in East Lebanon
1965 : Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy
1987 : IBM introduces PS/2 & OS/2
1979 : Israeli PM Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt/meets pres Sadat
1973 : ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean pres election
1996 : Jayasuriya hits ton in 48 balls, world ODI record at Singapore
1917 : Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of US House of Reps
1550 : Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
1992 : John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
1964 : Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria
1827 : Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils
1960 : KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma, WA (PBS) 1st broadcast
1884 : London prison for debtors closed
1935 : Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer
1970 : Meghalaya becomes autonomous state within India's Assam state
1964 : Military coup in Brazil by Gen Castello Branco, Pres Goulart ousted
1908 : Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
1969 : Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)
1958 : National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA
1986 : NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance)
1995 : North & Western Colorado begins using new area code 970
1995 : NY Police Dept & NY Transit Police merge into one organization
1995 : Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4/26
1956 : Peter Ustinovs' "Romanoff & Juliet," premieres in Manchester
1954 : Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced [see Jan 26]
1955 : playing under table tennis rules
1976 : Portuguese constitution assumed
1866 : Pres Johnson ends war in Ala, Ark, Fla, Ga, Miss, La, NC, SC, Tn & Va
1917 : Pres Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
1972 : Prime Minister Begin visits Cairo
1921 : Prof Albert Einstein lectures in NYC on his new theory of relativity
1970 : Qatar gains independence from Britain
1953 : Raab forms his 1st government in Austria
1926 : Riots between Moslems & Hindus in Calcutta
1645 : Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander
1991 : Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing
1971 : Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run
1982 : Several thousand Argentine troops seized disputed Falkland Islands
1988 : Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45
1935 : Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR
1864 : Skirmish at Crump's Hill (Piney Woods), Louisiana
1864 : Skirmish at Spoonville/Antoine, Arkansas
1956 : Soap operas "As the World Turns" & "Edge of Night" premieres on TV
1902 : Soccer team MVV '02 forms in Maastricht
1906 : South Africa complete a 4-1 series drubbing of England
1944 : Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
1966 : Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
1992 : Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands
1996 : Sri Lanka 9-349 in 50 overs beat Pakistan 315 all out, Singapore
1970 : stage in a wall climb in world
1590 : States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht
1912 : Sun Yet Sen forms Guomindang-Party in China
1995 : Sunday NY Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
1931 : Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig in an exhibition
1972 : Tennessee Williams' "Small Craft Warnings," premieres in NYC
1988 : Test Cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, WI v Pakistan, Georgetown
1912 : Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
1976 : to Orioles for Don Baylor, Mike Torrez & Paul Mitchell
1974 : Tony Greig takes 8-86 v WI Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inn)
1978 : TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
1792 : US authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins
1955 : US female Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1955 : US male Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1941 : USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from SF
1963 : USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km
1964 : USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
1978 : Velcro was 1st put on the market
1993 : Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10
1870 : Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for US pres
1980 : Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season
1958 : Wind speed reaches 450 kph in tornado, Wichita Falls, TX (record)
1966 : WJET TV channel 24 in Erie, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1998 : World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minn
1989 : Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats "Macho Man" Savage
1995 : Wrestlemania XI in Conn-Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow
1950 : WTAR (now WTKR) TV channel 3 in Norfolk, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
2003 : Film Actress Aiswarya Rai injured when a vehicle hit as she was rehearsal.

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