* 1932 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1971 – Piyal Wijetunge, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 2010 – The MV Sun Sea docks in CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils.

* 2006 – Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.

* 1971 – Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1951 – Ranjan Gunatilleke, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1952 – Mahes Goonatilleke, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1977 – The 1977 riots in Sri Lanka, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power.

* 1956 – Sidath Wettimuny, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1987 – Sabrina Herft, Sri Lankan model, Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2012

* 1952 – Duleep Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 2000 – Second Battle of Elephant Pass: Tamil Tigers capture a strategic Sri Lankan Army base and hold it for 8 years.

* 1983 – Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately 4 weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.

* 1915 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician and the world's first female head of government ( d. 2000 )

* 1972 – Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer

Sri Lankan astrology is largely based on Hindu astrology with some modifications to bring it in line with Buddhist teachings.

* 1962 – Uvais Karnain, Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1985 – Jacqueline Fernandez, Sri Lankan Model and Bollywood Actress

* 1979 – Dinusha Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer

Composer Dinesh Subasinghe became the first Sri Lankan to write a cappella pieces for SATB choirs.

* 2006 – A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger ( known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF ).

* 1987 – The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo, killing 106 people.

* Basnahira Cricket Dundee, a Sri Lankan cricket team

Lara scored 688 runs ( 42 % of team output, a record for a series of three or more Tests, and the second highest aggregate runs in history for a three-Test series ) in the 2001 – 02 tour of Sri Lanka.

India won the cup by defeating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final in Mumbai on 2 April and became the first team to win the World Cup final on home soil.

Eight teams participated in the first tournament: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the West Indies ( the six Test nations at the time ), together with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa.

Kenya's victories over Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, among others – and a forfeit by the New Zealand team, which refused to play in Kenya because of security concerns – enabled Kenya to reach the semi-finals, the best result by an associate.

Pakistan were stripped of their hosting rights following the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team, with the games originally scheduled for Pakistan redistributed to the other host countries.

** Sri Lanka ' A ' ( or another team designated by Sri Lanka Cricket ) versus a touring ' A ' team

On his return to Sri Lanka he impressed against Allan Border's Australian team in a practice game and then went on to make his Test debut at R. Premadasa Stadium in the Second Test Match of the series.

While the bowler stood with his hands on his hips perplexed, the five calls provoked an immediate response by the Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga who left the field at in order to take advice from his team management.

After scoring 68 * to guide his team to a nine-wicket win in the first match against Sri Lanka in Sharjah, Taylor's form tapered off, scoring only 64 more runs to end the two tournaments with a total of 132 runs at 33. 00.

After the spiteful summer, a Tamil Tiger bombing in Colombo coupled with death threats to some members of the team forced Taylor to forfeit his team's scheduled World Cup match against Sri Lanka in Colombo.

After two first-class matches against Sri Lankan domestic teams over the winter of 1977-78, in which he scored 76 runs at 38. 00 in first-class and a score of 22 in the only one day fixture, Gower topped 1, 000 runs in a season for the first time in his career, scoring 1098 runs at 37. 86 including two hundreds, five fifties and a call up to the national team.

They had been named in the national under-19 team to play a Test and ODI series against the touring Sri Lankan counterparts.

They had been named in the national under-19 team to play a Test and ODI series against the touring Sri Lankan counterparts.

Nearly 4 years later, after just 13 first class matches, he made his Test debut for the Sri Lankan cricket team against Pakistan at Kandy in August 1994.

After a year-long trip with her husband, Dennis Meadows, from England to Sri Lanka and back, she became, along with him, a research fellow at MIT as a member of a team in the department created by Jay Forrester, the inventor of system dynamics as well as the principle of magnetic data storage for computers.

Dravid had a disappointing start to his career making his debut in one-dayers against Sri Lankan cricket team in the Singer Cup in Singapore immediately after World Cup in March 1996, replacing Vinod Kambli.

At the first international game of CWC 2007 at the stadium, Lasith Malinga of the Sri Lankan team performed a helmet trick or double hat-trick ( four wickets in four consecutive deliveries ).

The India national cricket team won the 1983 Cricket World Cup, the 2011 Cricket World Cup and the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, and shared the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy with Sri Lanka.

The Northrop team played in a bracket of international new teams with Korea, Sri Lanka, and Australia.

The U. S. team beat Sri Lanka and Australia to bring home the gold.

The lowest team total is 35 all out by Zimbabwe against Sri Lanka in Harare, 2004.