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** NASCAR Championship-Richard Petty wins his first of seven titles.
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** Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Ambassador to South Vietnam, wins the New Hampshire Republican primary.
** Senator Barry Goldwater wins the California Republican Presidential primary, making him the overwhelming favorite for the nomination.
** The Labour Party wins the parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom, ending 13 years of Conservative Party rule.
** The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, led by Brian Mulroney, wins 211 seats in the House of Commons, forming the largest majority government in Canadian history.
** The Sandinista Front wins the Nicaraguan general elections.
** Yemeni parliamentary election, 1993: The General People's Congress wins a plurality of 121 seats.
** Andrew Wiles wins worldwide fame after presenting his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that had been unsolved for more than 3 centuries.
** Miguel Indurain wins the 1993 Tour de France.
** Norwegian parliamentary election, 1993: The Labour Party wins a plurality of the seats, and Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland retains office.
** Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
** The 23rd Academy Awards ceremony is held ; All About Eve wins Best Picture and 4 others.
** Gloria Diaz wins the Miss Universe Pageant, with the Philippines receiving its first title.
** The 14th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Los Angeles ; How Green Was My Valley wins Best Picture.
** Romanian general election, 1946: The Romanian Communist Party wins 79. 86 % of the vote through widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud.
** In the Hungarian parliamentary election, Hungary's first multiparty election since 1948, the Hungarian Democratic Forum wins the most seats.
** In the Greek legislative election, the conservative New Democracy wins the most seats in the Hellenic Parliament ; its leader, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, becomes Prime Minister of Greece on April 11.
** In the Burmese general election, Burma's first multiparty election in 30 years, the National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi wins in a landslide, but the State Law and Order Restoration Council nullifies the election results.
** In the Algerian local election, Algeria's first multiparty election since 1962, the Islamic Salvation Front wins control of more than half of municipalities and 32 of Algeria's 48 provinces.
** Lech Wałęsa wins the 2nd round of Poland's first presidential election.
** Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni wins a landslide victory in the country's first direct presidential elections, securing 75 % of the vote.
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