0197 - Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon 0197 - D Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman bequest in England, dies in battle 0356 - Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples 0607 - Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 0842 - Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches 1401 - William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London 1512 - French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia 1539 - Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled 1574 - Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer & Jisp, Netherlands 1582 - Francis of Valois becomes duke of Brabant 1619 - Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague 1634 - Battle at Smolensk: Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians [NS=Mar 1] 1674 - Netherlands & England sign Peace of Westminster (NYC becomes English) 1771 - Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis & Hydra & galaxy in Virgo) 1797 - 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France 1803 - Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953 1807 - British squadron under Admiral Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle 1807 - Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent 1831 - 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Pennsylvania 1846 - Texas state government formally installed in Austin 1856 - Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio 1859 - Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used 1861 - Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom [NS=Mar 3] 1864 - Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Wash DC (12 members) 1869 - US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized 1878 - Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph) 1881 - Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages 1884 - Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky & Indiana kill 800 people 1906 - WK Kellogg & Ch Bolin found Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company 1913 - 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box 1913 - Mexican General V Huerta takes power with US support 1915 - British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast 1919 - Pan-African Congress, organized by W. E. B. DuBois (Paris) 1920 - Netherlands joins League of Nations 1922 - Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer 1927 - General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai 1928 - 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland 1928 - Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal 1929 - Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY 1933 - Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers 1934 - Bob & Dolores Hope marry 1934 - US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months 1936 - Manuel Azaca becomes Spanish premier 1938 - Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark 1941 - Nazi police attacks & driven away from Koco Amsterdam (by young Jews) 1941 - Nazi raid Amsterdam & round up 429 young Jews for deportation 1942 - About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin 1942 - Bill Longson beats Managoff & Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champ 1942 - Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber 1942 - FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans 1942 - Japanese troop land on Timor 1942 - Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah" 1942 - NY Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games 1943 - German tanks under brig gen Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia 1944 - 823 British bombers attack Berlin 1944 - U-264 sinks off Ireland 1945 - 30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima 1945 - 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days 1945 - Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated 1945 - US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese 1946 - Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the Mexican League 1949 - 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound 1949 - Mass arrests of communists in India 1952 - French offensive at Hanoi 1953 - Georgia approves US 1st literature censorship board 1953 - Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet 1955 - South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect 1956 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open 1958 - Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records 1959 - Britain, Turkey and Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence 1959 - Gabon adopts its constitution 1959 - USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), NM 1960 - Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts 1960 - Protest strike in Poznan Poland 1961 - Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism" 1961 - Henk van der Grift (Neth) becomes world champ all-round skater 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1963 - Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize 1963 - USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba 1964 - UK flies ton of Beatle wigs to US 1965 - NFL adds 6th official 1967 - Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater 1968 - 1st US Teachers strike (Florida) 1969 - 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1970 - AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking 1970 - USSR launches Sputnik 52 and Molniya 1-13 communications satellite 1971 - Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK 1971 - Walt Wesley becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score 50 pts in a game 1972 - Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223* v WI at Kingston 1976 - Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara 1977 - 19th Grammy Awards: This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band 1977 - A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000 1977 - Doug Walters scores 250 v NZ, 217 stand for 7th wicket w/Gilmour 1977 - Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released 1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1977 - Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner 1978 - Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (2:34.8) 1978 - Coleman, Comden & Green's musical premieres in NYC 1980 - Botham a century & 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay 1980 - Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1000m in 1:15.18 1981 - George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine" 1982 - Sharie Langford, Calif, sets women's bowling series record of 853 1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1983 - Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million 1983 - Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m free style swimming record 1984 - 14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia 1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1984 - 1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom) 1985 - 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain 1985 - ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy 1985 - Canned and bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola 1985 - Mickey Mouse welcomed in China 1985 - William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky 1986 - Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO 1986 - US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later 1986 - USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit 1987 - Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner 1987 - Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires 1987 - Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson 1987 - Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland 1989 - Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize 1990 - Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal 1990 - Soyuz TM-9 lands 1992 - Peter Collins discovers nova Cygni 1992 1992 - Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie 1993 - Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA 1995 - Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200m (22.10 sec) 1995 - Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize 1995 - Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec) 1995 - Linford Christie runs European record 60m indoor (6.47 sec) 1997 - FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls 1998 - Soyuz TM-26 lands 1998 - Grandpa Jones, country comic/banjo wizard (Hee Haw), dies at 84 1998 - US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan
