0222 - Varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18 0417 - Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome 0537 - Goths lay siege to Rome 0843 - Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople 1302 - Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare 1502 - Tebriz] shah Ismail I of Persia crowned 1513 - Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X 1563 - League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II 1567 - Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel 1597 - Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France 1598 - Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille 1649 - Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising 1665 - NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights 1669 - Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000 1702 - 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant," publishes 1779 - US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time) 1789 - Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC 1791 - Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent 1794 - Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens 1795 - Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols 1810 - Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise 1812 - Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews 1823 - 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vermont 1824 - US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile 1845 - John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], dies in Allen County Indiana 1850 - Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school) 1861 - Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution 1862 - Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief 1862 - 12] General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief 1864 - Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee 1865 - General Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC 1867 - Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano) 1882 - Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton, New Jersey 1888 - Great blizzard of '88 strikes northeast US 1892 - 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachusetts) 1895 - Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed 1901 - Cincinnati Enquirer reports Balt mgr John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant 1904 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games 1905 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles, 2 games to 1 1912 - 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-min periods, formerly played in 30-min halfs, Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep 1917 - British troops occupy Baghdad 1917 - 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13) 1918 - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia 1918 - Save the Redwoods League founded 1919 - General strike in Germany, crushed 1922 - Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in 2 games 1924 - 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins 1924 - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games 1926 - Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein 1927 - 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh 1927 - 1st golden gloves tournament 1930 - President & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington 1934 - Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer 1935 - Bank of Canada opens 1935 - Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe 1938 - Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country 1941 - Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minn, to become wrestling champ 1941 - FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain) 1942 - 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp 1942 - General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia 1942 - Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra 1943 - Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands 1944 - Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested 1945 - 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs 1945 - Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death 1948 - 1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir) 1948 - Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed 1948 - Reginald Weit became the 1st black to play in the US Tennis Open 1953 - 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams) 1953 - American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches 1954 - US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics 1956 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1958 - Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21" 1958 - Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets 1960 - Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus 1961 - Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks & Maple Leafs (20 each) 1963 - Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain 1965 - Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto 1966 - Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out 1967 - Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne) 1968 - Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay" 1970 - 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills & Nash, Peggy Lee win 1970 - Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation 1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic 1974 - Mount Etna in Sicily erupted 1975 - Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails 1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1977 - Moslems hold 130 hostages in Washngton, DC 1978 - Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed 1978 - USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC 1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic 1979 - Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game 1981 - Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins 1981 - Johnny Mize & Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1982 - Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname 1982 - Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion 1982 - Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington, DC 1984 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic 1985 - Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader 1986 - 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC 1986 - 12th People's Choice Awards 1986 - 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange 1986 - Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons 1986 - Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km 1986 - NFL adopts instant replay rule 1987 - Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point 1988 - Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire 1990 - 16th People's Choice Awards 1990 - Lithuania declares it's Independence 1990 - Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International 1991 - Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records 1991 - John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award 1991 - Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1 1994 - Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile 1995 - President Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament 1995 - Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US 1995 - Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m 1997 - 3rd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 1997 - Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space 1997 - Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen 1997 - SF Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch 2002 - Israel lifted Yasser Arafat's three-month confinement in the West Bank 2005 - A man being escorted to court for trial in Atlanta took a gun from a sheriff's deputy and went on a deadly rampage, killing four people, including a judge. A suspect, Brian Nichols, surrendered the next day 2006 - Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead of a heart attack in his prison cell in the Netherlands, abruptly ending his four-year U.N. war crimes trial for orchestrating a decade of conflict that killed a quarter of a million people
