1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
1908 – 154 men die in a coal mine explosion at Marianna, Pennsylvania.
1914 – World War l; Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
1925 – Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio, Nashville, Tennessee.
1929 – Richard E. Byrd makes his 1st South Pole flight.
1933 – A Dallas grand jury delivers a murder indictment against Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow for the January 1933 killing of Tarrant County Deputy Malcolm Davis.
1942 – 492 die in a fire that destroyed Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston.
1948 – “Hopalong Cassidy” premieres on TV.
1953 – “Wish You Were Here” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 597 performances.
1958 – American League Opening Day in 1959 will be the earliest ever, April 9.
1958 – US reports 1st full-range firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
1960 – CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 minutes to 10 minutes.
1964 – Mariner 4 launches 1st probe to fly by Mars.
1974 – Bowie Kuhn suspends Yankee owner George Steinbrenner for 2 years.
1981 – Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Almos Alonzo Stagg, becomes college football’s winningest coach.
1994 – Convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium in Portage, Wisconsin.
2010 – 24th Soul train Music Awards: Ron Isley, Anita Baker win.
2019 – European parliament declares a climate emergency.