| 0 | | Feast of St. Agnes of Rome, Virgin and Martyr, Patron of the Girl Guides and the Girl Scouts |
| 763 | | Battle of Bakhamra: Decisive victory of the Sunni Abbasids over the Shiite Alids in central Iraq |
| 1276 | | Peter of Tarentais elected Pope as Innocent V (Jan 21-Jun 22, 1286), later beatified |
| 1277 | | Battle of Desio: The Visconti defeat the Torriani |
| 1287 | | King Alfons III "the Liberal" captures Minorca |
| 1495 | | Alfonso II of Naples (1494-1495) abdicates in favor of his son Ferrante II (1495-1496) -- Learn More |
| 1824 | | The First Battle of Accra: The Ashante annihilate a British expeditionary column |
| 1896 | | Battle of Makalle: Abyssinians defeat the Italians |
| 1903 | | The "Dick Act" creates the modern National Guard -- Learn More |
| 1910 | | The British and Russians begin moving troops into Persia, to secure their "zones of influence" |
| 1918 | | New York Philharmonic refuses to play music by living German composers |
| 1942 | | Bataan: Heavy fighting continues |
| 1942 | | British CV 'Indomitable' & a strong task force arrives at Addu Atoll, in the Indian Ocean |
| 1942 | | Malaya: the Japanese begin to dislocate the Johore line. |
| 1942 | | Rabaul and Kavieng bombed by Japanese aircraft. |
| 1943 | | Guadalcanal: U.S. troops pause to resupply. |
| 1943 | | Papua: Allied troops mop up Japanese remnants in the Sanananda area. |
| 1943 | | Soviet forces recapture Worosjilowsk |
| 1944 | | Northern Burma: Chinese New 38th Div advances slowly. |
| 1945 | | Burma: British amphibious landing near Ramree |
| 1945 | | TF 38 raids Japanese on Okinawa and Formosa |
| 1945 | | The Red Army destroys the German Tannenberg monument in East Prussia |
| 1954 | | USS 'Nautilus' (SSN-571) launched, Groton, Conn. |
| 1961 | | Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship 'Santa Maria' |
| 1968 | | B-52 bomber with nuclear weapons crashes in Greenland |
| 1968 | | Battle of Khe Sanh begins -- ends Apr 8 |
| 1227 | | Galeazzo I Visconti, Lord of Milan (1322-1327), deposed, d. 1328 |
| 1338 | | King Charles V "the Wise" of France (1364-80) |
| 1612 | | Count Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz (1632- 1640), Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen, and Drenthe, d/w 1640 |
| 1788 | | William Henry Smyth, British astronomer, admiral, d. 1865 |
| 1813 | | John C. Frémont, soldier, explorer, politician, d. 1890 |
| 1824 | | Thomas J "Stonewall" Jackson, Lt Gen, C.S.A., d. 1863 -- Learn More |
| 1829 | | King Oscar II Frederik of Sweden (1872-1907) and Norway (1872-1905), d. 1907 - the Sardine Man |
| 1855 | | John M Browning, inventor of fine firearms, d. 1926 |
| 1867 | | Gen. Maxime Weygand, French general, who lost the big one in 1940, d. 1965 -- Learn More |
| 1885 | | Umberto Nobile, Italian general and aeronaut, d. 1978 |
| 1918 | | Richard Winters, who led "The Band of Brothers," E, 506th Parachute Infantry, d. 2011 |
| 1919 | | Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, later Captain, RN, who flew 487 different types of aircraft, made 2,407 deck landings at sea and 2,721 take offs, d. 2016 |
| 1922 | | Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas. WW II "Voice of America" announcer, actor ("Battle of the Bulge"), d. 1994 |
| 420 | | Shah Yazdegerd I of Sassanid Persia (399-420) |
| 917 | | Duke Erchanger of Swabia (Sept 915-Jan 21, 917), c. 37 |
| 1118 | | Pope Paschal II (1099-1118), the monk Rainerus |
| 1519 | | Vasco Núñez de Balboa, c. 44, Spanish explorer |
| 1670 | | Claude Du Vall. c. 23, French-born, English gentleman highwayman, executed |
| 1774 | | Ottoman Sultan & Caliph of Islam Mustafa III (1757-1774), at c. 57 |
| 1775 | | Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev , c. 33, the false "Tsar Peter III', Russian usurper, decapitated, drawn, and quartered |
| 1793 | | King Louis XVI of France (1774-1792) - "Citizen Capet", beheaded by the Revolutionaries for treason |
| 1859 | | Henry Hallam, historian ("View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages"), 71 |
| 1885 | | Hermione Baker (18), of typhoid, fiancé of Horatio Kitchener (33), who never marries |
| 1924 | | V.I. Lenin, intellectually-inclined mass murderer, 53 |
| 1928 | | George Washington Goethals, 69, US Army engineer who built the Panama Canal |
| 1950 | | George Orwell (born Eric Arthur Blair ), 46, British journalist, author ("1984", "Homage to Catalonia), Volunteer for the Spanish Republic |