- 31 Christians celebrate the first Easter, according to calendar maker Dionysius Exiguus
- 421 City of Venice is founded, at noon on a Friday
- 1857 Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville receives a patent for his phonautograph, a device which created visual images of sound
- 1882 First demonstration of pancake making held at a department store in NYC
- 1936 200-inch mirror blank to build the Hale telescope leaves Corning New York for California (then largest telescopic mirror ever made)
- 1939 Billboard Magazine introduces the hillbilly (country) music chart
- 1954 RCA manufactures the first color TV set, featuring a 12.5-inch screen and costing $1,000
Music Concert
1961 Elvis Presley performs live at Pearl Harbor’s Bloch Arena in a benefit for the USS Arizona Memorial; his return to the concert stage after a stint in the US Army raises $60K and worldwide awareness of the project [1]
- 1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
Sports History
1986 Canadian Kurt Browning becomes the first figure skater to land a quadruple jump
Life After Death
1997 "Life After Death" second studio album by The Notorious B.I.G. is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1997)
- 2002 TV reality show "The Bachelor" hosted by Chris Harrison debuts on ABC in the US
- 2016 Zayn's [Zayn Malik] solo debut album "Mind of Mine" is released, 1st British male artist to debut at No. 1 in US
- 2017 Largest banana split ever, at 8,040 meters long, is made in Innisfail, Australia
- 2018 First scheduled non-stop flight between Australia and the UK, leaves Perth for Heathrow airport in London, arrives after 17 hours
- 2019 British Airways flight from London mistakenly flies to Edinburgh, Scotland, instead of Düsseldorf, Germany, when the wrong flight plan is submitted
Titanic Door Auction
2024 Door from "Titanic" that saved Kate Winslet's character (and killed Leo DiCaprio’s) sells for US$718,750 at Planet Hollywood auction, beating Indiana Jones‘ bullwhip and ax from "The Shining" [1]
- 2024 Europe's centre for particle research, Cern, approves experiment to find evidence for 'ghost particles' by smashing particles against a hard surface [1]
