1881 – “Greatest Show On Earth” formed by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey.
1920 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
1922 – A microfilm device introduced.
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 Titans become the NY Jets.
1971 – Last original edition of “The Ed Sullivan Show” broadcasts on CBS-TV.
1972 – Elvis Presley records his final Top ten hit, a cover of “Burning Love”, written by Dennis Linde, and first recorded by Arthur Alexander.
1977 – 39th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Marquette beats North Carolina, 67-59. Warriors’ first title; coach Al McGuire retires.
1979 – A partial meltdown at Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US results in the release of radioactive gas and iodine into the atmosphere but no deaths.
1982 – 12th Easter Seal Telethon raises $19,500,000.
1990 – Michael Jordan scored 69 points, 4th time he scored 60 points in a game.
1997 – “City” soap opera’s final episode on ABC-TV.
1999 – Nabisco Championship Women’s Golf, Mission Hills CC: 1992 champion Dottie Pepper wins the last of her 2 major titles, 6 strokes ahead of runner-up Meg Mallon.
2000 – A Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by CSX freight train (3 children die in accident)
2009 – The first cases of H1N1 swine flu in the United States occur in two people in California.
2014 – Russia increases the price of gas to Ukraine by 80%.
2017 – President Donald Trump signs Energy independence executive order undoing Obama climate-control measures.
2022 – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs so called “Don’t Say Gay” bill limiting instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in grades kindergarten through third grade.
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