April 2, 2001 63rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Metrodome Minneapolis April 2, 2000 19th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Corel State Spectrum April 2, 1998 World Mens Figure Skating Championship in Minn April 2, 1997 Tomoyuki Tanaka, producer (Godzilla), dies of a stroke at 86 April 2, 1996 Sri Lanka 9-349 in 50 overs beat Pakistan 315 all out, Singapore Jayasuriya hits ton in 48 balls, world ODI record at Singapore April 2, 1996 Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals 1st base in 1,097th career game April 2, 1995 14th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: University of Ct Huskies beats TN 70-64 April 2, 1995 7th Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus April 2, 1995 Baseball season opener delayed until April 26 April 2, 1995 Hannes Alfven, physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86 April 2, 1995 Harvey Penick, premier golf instructor/author, dies at 90 April 2, 1995 Julius Arthur Hemphill, saxophonist, dies at 57 April 2, 1995 North & Western Colorado begins using new area code 970 April 2, 1995 NY Police Dept & New York Transit Police merge into one organization April 2, 1995 Owners accept baseball players proposal, agree to start season 4/26 April 2, 1995 Sunday New York Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50 April 2, 1995 Wrestlemania XI in Conn-Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow April 2, 1994 1st exhibition game played at Jacobs Field, Pirates beat Indians, 6-4 April 2, 1994 Richard Davies, actor (Pvt Buckaroo), dies of heart attack at 79 April 2, 1993 1st test flight of Fokker 70 (Amsterdam)