1915 – Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson after 26 rounds to win the heavyweight boxing title in front of 25,000 fans at Oriental Park Racetrack in Havana, Cuba.
1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts producing inflatable tires.
1925 – Babe Ruth collapses due to an ulcer and is unable to play in an exhibition game April 7 in Asheville, North Carolina. The New York Yankees whip the Brooklyn Dodgers 16-9 at McCormick Stadium.
1934 – Baseball superstar Babe Ruth agrees to do three 15-minute broadcasts a week over NBC for $39,000 for 13 weeks which was $4,000 more than his New York Yankees playing contract.
1941 – Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses in San Francisco.
1949 – Fireside Theater debuts on television.
1951 – Atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death in United States courts.
1961 – Barbra Streisand appears on “Jack Paar Show”
1963 – Beatles receive their first silver disc for “Please, Please Me.”
1965 – 37th Academy Awards: “My Fair Lady”, Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady) and Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) win.
1969 – Massive anti-Vietnam War demonstrations occur in many American cities.
1975 – Top-ranked Chris Evert wins her third Women’s Tennis Association Tour Championship, beating Martina Navratilova 6-4, 6-2 at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
1982 – 43-year-old St. Louis reliever Jim Kaat pitches 1 inning for the Cardinals in a season-opening 14-3 rout of Houston. Kaat sets a Major League Baseball record for pitchers by playing in his 24th consecutive season.
1987 – Fox TV network premieres showing “Married With Children” and “The Tracey Ullman Show.”
1991 – Southeast Airlines Embraer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23.
1998 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf Championship at Desert Mountain Golf Club: Defending champion Gil Morgan wins by 2 strokes over Tom Wargo.
2005 – The Washington Nationals lose their inaugural season opener 8-4 to the Philadelphia Phillies. The Nationals are the first baseball team to represent the nation’s capital since the Washington Senators left after the 1971 season.
2014 – Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire picks up the 1,000th win of his Major League Baseball career as the Twins score a 7-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians.
2016 – PayPal announces it is canceling a $3.6 million investment in North Carolina after the state passes anti-gay legislation.
2022 – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urges United Nations Security Council to act against Russia, accusing Russian military of the worst war crimes since World War II, including execution, rape and torture of civilians.
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