1796 – Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is 1st US-African church.
1797 – Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine.
1834 – Senate censure President Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US.
1845 – Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US.
1866 – 1st ambulance goes into service.
1881 – “Greatest Show on Earth” was formed by PT Barnum & James A Bailey.
1920 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
1924 – WGN-AM in Chicago, IL begins radio transmissions.
1935 – Robert Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket.
1946 – Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
1963 – AFL’s NY Titan’s become the NY Jets.
1972 – Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game.
1977 – 49th Academy Awards: “Rocky”, Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win.
1982 – 12th Easter Seal Telethon raises $19,500,000.
1990 – Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 points in a game.
1990 – US President George H.W. Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal.
2000 – A Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die in the accident)
2013 – Pope Francis becomes the first Pope to wash the feet of women in the Maundy Thursday service.
2017 – US confirms likely it is behind the air strike in Mosul, Iraq that led to collapse of a building that killed more than 100 civilians.
2017 – US President Donald Trump signs Energy Independence executive order undoing Obama climate-control measures.