1144 - Celestine II, [Guido], Italian Pope (1143-44), dies in battle 1403 - Bajezid I Jildirim, 4th sultan of Turkey (1389-1403), dies at 42 1418 - Jacoba van Bayern marries her cousin John IV van Brabant 1586 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch chief legal advisor 1658 - Peace of Roskilde between Sweden and Denmark 1702 - William III, Dutch King of England (1689-1702), dies at 51 [NS-Mar 19] 1702 - England Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III 1706 - Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established 1711 - Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder 1722 - Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia 1746 - Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen 1754 - Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain 1766 - Willem V (18) becomes governor of United Provinces 1782 - Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 indians 1801 - British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt 1813 - 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic 1838 - US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes) 1854 - US Commodore Matthew C Perry's 2nd trip to Japan
1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls 1858 - Opera "I Pagliacci" is produced (Naples) 1861 - St Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies 1862 - Nat Gordon, last pirate, hanged in NYC for stealing 1,000 slaves 1862 - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal 1862 - Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched 1862 - Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, VA CSS Virginia, Jamestown and Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress and Monitor 1865 - Battle of Kingston, NC (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks) 1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies of at 74 1884 - 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite 1887 - Everett Horton, CT, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes 1894 - NY passes 1st state dog license law 1896 - Volunteers of America forms (NYC) 1900 - NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville and Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee) 1906 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ont) in 2 games 1908 - Collingwood Elementary (Cleve) burns, kills 173 kids and 2 teachers 1908 - Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, New York 1910 - Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot 1911 - 1st International Woman's Day 1913 - Federal League organizes with 6 teams 1913 - Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect income taxes 1915 - 1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned 1916 - US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime 1917 - Russian revolution breaks out [OS=Feb 24] (in Petrograd) 1920 - Denmark and Cuba join the League of Nations 1924 - Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate, Utah 1927 - Pan American Airlines incorporates 1929 - US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia 1930 - William Howard Taft, 27th US president (1909-13)/Chief Justice, dies at 72 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India 1930 - Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with NY Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth" 1934 - Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars 1941 - 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies) 1942 - Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma 1942 - KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies 1943 - 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg 1943 - Limited gambling legalized in Mexico 1943 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill 1943 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Arthur Vaughn 1944 - US resumes bombing Berlin 1945 - 53 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers 1945 - International Women's Day is 1st observed 1945 - Phyllis M Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as US Navy ensign 1946 - 1st helicopter licensed for coml use (NYC) 1948 - Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional 1950 - 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters) 1950 - Marshall Voroshilov of USSR announces they developed atomic bomb 1951 - Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel) 1952 - Antoine Pinay forms French government 1952 - Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis 1953 - Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years 1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open 1954 - Herb McKinley sets � mile record of 0:46.8 in Melbourne, Australia 1957 - 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston 1957 - Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships 1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test 1958 - Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita 1958 - William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters 1959 - Groucho, Chico and Harpo's final TV appearance together 1959 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open 1959 - Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq 1961 - US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from SC in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs 1962 - Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC) 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1963 - Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria 1964 - Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement 1965 - 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines) 1966 - An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin 1966 - Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame 1967 - New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day) 1968 - 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Md) 1968 - Fillmore East opens 1968 - Students demonstrate in Warsaw 1969 - Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo 1971 - Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title 1971 - Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record) 1971 - Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner" 1972 - 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa) 1972 - 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp 1973 - Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest, opens 1973 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1974 - Charles the Gaulle Airport opens in Paris 1975 - Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba 1976 - 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China 1977 - Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond 1977 - Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter) 1979 - 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io) 1979 - 5th People's Choice Awards 1979 - China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam 1979 - Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale 1980 - Greg Chappell 235 and Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad 1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1981 - Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game 1981 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic 1983 - House Foreign Affairs Com endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR 1983 - IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0 1983 - President Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire" 1985 - Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS) 1986 - 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon 1986 - Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km 1986 - Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million 1987 - 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425 1987 - FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in California 1987 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic 1987 - Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor 1989 - Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 secs) 1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 1st victim, Mario Orosco 1991 - 17th People's Choice Awards: Julia Roberts, Bill Cosby, Pretty Woman 1991 - Harry Hamlin and Nicollette Sheridan wed 1991 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1991 - Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured 1992 - 22nd Easter Seal Telethon 1992 - Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic 1993 - Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion 1993 - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder 1994 - 20th People's Choice Awards 1994 - B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, at least 8 killed 1994 - Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces 1994 - Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47 1995 - Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece 1995 - Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections 1999 - Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio died at age 84 1999 - The Clinton administration directed the firing of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee from his job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory because of alleged security violations 2001 - The Republican-controlled House voted for an across-the-board tax cut of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade 2005 - Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov was killed in northern Chechnya during a raid by Russian forces
