0493 - Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy 0493 - Odiaker, German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies 0752 - Zachary, Greek/Italian Pope (741-52), dies [or Mar 22] 0933 - Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren 0963 - Romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies at 25 1034 - Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies 1360 - France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel 1382 - Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy 1391 - Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews 1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage 1560 - Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise France 1562 - General Francois de Guise enters Paris 1580 - Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange 1672 - King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence 1729 - Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, New Orleans 1744 - French King Louis XV declares war on England 1778 - Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Captain Cook 1781 - Battle of Guilford Court House, SC (British suffer heavy losses) 1812 - 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River 1820 - Maine admitted as 23rd state 1827 - Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes 1827 - University of Toronto is chartered 1855 - Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine 1862 - Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, Tennessee 1864 - Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana 1867 - Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university 1869 - Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team 1869 - Cincinnati Red Stockings beat Antioch 41-7 1875 - 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested 1887 - 1st salaried fish and game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan) 1889 - 6 US and German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die 1892 - 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC) 1892 - NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine) 1897 - 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden 1901 - Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th 1903 - Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa 1906 - Brits Rolls, Royce and Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd 1907 - Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote 1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins 1913 - 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson) 1913 - Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court 1915 - Neth merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed and sinks in North Sea 1916 - Gen Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos 1916 - University of Gent goes under Dutch control 1917 - Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate [3/3 OS] 1919 - American Legion forms (Paris) 1922 - 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia) 1923 - Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke 1926 - Belgium's "black monday," franc falls 1928 - Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose) 1930 - 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, NY 1930 - 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched 1933 - NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination 1934 - US Information Service opens 1937 - 1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL) 1937 - 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC) 1939 - Hitler occupies Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independ 1940 - G�ring says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest 1941 - Blizzard in ND kills 151 1943 - Allied reconnaissance flight over Java 1943 - Red Army evacuates Kharkov 1944 - Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing 1945 - 17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way," Bing Cosby and Ingrid Bergman win 1945 - Bert Shepard (1 legged WW II vet) tries out as a pitcher for Senators 1945 - Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1) 1945 - Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens 1945 - Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain, NY 1946 - British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence 1947 - John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy 1948 - Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine 1950 - NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker" 1951 - Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1953 - West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1 1954 - "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite and Jack Paar 1955 - Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses 1955 - US Air Force unveils self-guided missile 1956 - Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ 1957 - 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain) 1958 - Oscar Robertson of Cin scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 pts 1958 - Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma and is permanently disabled 1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 1959 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1959 - Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s 1960 - Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park) 1960 - National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated 1961 - South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth 1962 - 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter 1962 - Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump 1962 - Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season 1964 - LBJ asks for a War on Poverty 1964 - Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton) 1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1965 - LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote 1965 - T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC 1966 - 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra and Striesand 1966 - Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles 1967 - AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum 1967 - Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as president of Brazil 1968 - Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27'2-3/4") 1968 - British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns 1968 - LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world" 1968 - US Mint stops buying and selling gold 1968 - Uprising in South Yemen 1968 - Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept," but wouldn't prohibit rock and roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri 1969 - US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns 1969 - Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute (100s dead?) 1970 - Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan 1971 - CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show" 1971 - Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet 1972 - Assassination attempt on governor George Wallace of Alabama 1972 - Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112 1972 - NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle 1974 - Brazilian president Garastazu M�dici resigns 1975 - Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colorado 1975 - Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec) 1976 - Failed coup in Niger 1977 - "Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV 1977 - US House of Reps begin 90 day test of televising its sessions 1978 - -21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon 1978 - A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players and $390,000 1978 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 1979 - Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80 1979 - Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick 1981 - "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC 1981 - Patty Hayes wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic 1981 - Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker 1982 - Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan 1982 - Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days 1983 - Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy 1984 - 10th People's Choice Awards: Brooke Shields 1984 - Tanzania adopts constitution 1985 - Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title 1985 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1986 - Funeral services held for Swedish PM Olaf Palme 1987 - 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby 1987 - US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay 1988 - Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop 1988 - NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK 1988 - NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix 1989 - Dept of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position 1989 - NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform 1990 - Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as president of Brazil 1991 - 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King 1991 - Territories of Amapa and Roraima become states in Brazil 1992 - Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship 1992 - UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation 1994 - 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win 1994 - Experts from AL certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit 1997 - Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals 1998 - Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship 1999 - Pluto again becomes outermost planet 2002 - Andrea Yates of Houston was sentenced to life in prison for drowning her children in a bathtub. (Her conviction was later overturned and she was found not guilty by reason of insanity in a second trial) 2003 - Hu Jintao was chosen to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of China 2004 - Martha Stewart resigned from the board of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia 10 days after she was convicted in a stock scandal 2005 - Former WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers was convicted in New York of engineering the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. (He was later sentenced to 25 years in prison)
