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- 0364 Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
- 1266 Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
- 1531 Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000
- 1534 Pope Paul II affirms George van Egmond as bishop of Utrecht
- 1564 Christopher Marlowe, dramatist (Dr Faustus), baptized
- 1590 Mauritius of Nassaus sails to Breda
- 1616 Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo
- 1732 Mass first celebrated in American Catholic church, (St Joseph's Church, Philadelphia)
- 1773 Construction authorized for Walnut St jail (Philadelphia) (1st solitary)
- 1794 Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen burns down.
- 1797 Bank of England issues first £1-note
- 1798 David Thompson 1770-1857 sets off up Red River to explore headwaters of Mississippi
- 1804 Vice-Admiral William Bligh ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad
- 1815 Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France
- 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
- 1832 Polish constitution abolished/replaced by Czar Nicholas I
- 1838 Rensselaer Van Rensselaer invades Pelee Island in Lake Erie with 500 American sympathizers of the Canadian rebels
- 1839 Visitor posting - First Grand National steeplechase held at Aintree - United Kingdom
- 1839 Jem Mason on Lottery wins first Grand National Steeplechase (Britain)
- 1848 2nd French Republic forms
- 1848 Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto"
- 1848 The second French Republic is proclaimed.
- 1852 British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die
- 1859 Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins
- 1862 Battle of Woodburn, KY
- 1863 Lincoln signs National Currency Act
- 1866 New York Legislature establishes NYC Metropolitan Board of Health
- 1869 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states
- 1869 Franz Schubert's "4th Tragic," premieres
- 1870 First NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered)
- 1881 Natal British troops under General-Major Colley occupy Majuba Hill
- 1881 SS Ceylon begins first round-the-world cruise from Liverpool
- 1884 British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II
- 1885 Congress of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to England
- 1885 The Berlin Act, which resulted from the Berlin Conference regulating European colonization and trade in Africa, was signed
- 1887 At the SCG, George Lohmann becomes the first bowler to take eight wickets in a Test innings.
- 1887 George Lohmann took first 8-wicket haul in Test Crickets, 8-35 at SCG
- 1891 First buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park
- 1891 Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler," premieres in Oslo
- 1893 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Michigan
- 1895 Michael Owens of Toledo OH patents a glass-blowing machine
- 1897 Sigma Pi Fraternity, International was founded at Vincennes University.
- 1903 Richard Gattling, rapid-fire gun inventor, dies.
- 1907 Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
- 1907 US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500
- 1912 Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01)
- 1914 New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated
- 1915 Malancourt, Argonnen - first (German) flame-thrower
- 1916 Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930
- 1916 Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract
- 1917 First Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)
- 1917 The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first ever Jazzrecord for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
- 1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604
- 1918 Visitor posting - Leonard Bolnick was born - USA
- 1919 Acadia National Park established (as Lafayette National Park), Maine
- 1919 An act of the U.S. Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park).
- 1919 Grand Canyon National Park is established.
- 1923 Italian nationalist & fascists merge (blue-shirts & black-shirts)
- 1924 Trial against Hitler in Munich begins
- 1925 Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government
- 1925 Oregon adopts its state flag.
- 1929 Grand Teton National Park is established.
- 1929 The Grand Teton National Park is created.
- 1930 The first red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)
- 1930 West Indies make first Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England
- 1933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field
- 1935 Germany began Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering
- 1935 RADAR-Radio Detection & Ranging first demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt)
- 1935 The Daventry Experiment, Robert Watson-Watt carried out a demonstration near Daventry which led directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.
- 1935 The Luftwaffe is reformed.
- 1936 Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
- 1936 In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
- 1936 Military coup in Japan
- 1938 First passenger ship equipped with radar
- 1940 The US Air Defense Command is created.
- 1941 Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California)
- 1941 Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews
- 1941 Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory
- 1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bombs
- 1942 Government starts evacuating 21,000 Japanese Canadians from coastal regions of British Columbia to interior work camps; under War Measures Act
- 1942 Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies
- 1942 WWII Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"
- 1942 Werner Heisenberger informs Nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen"
- 1943 German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia
- 1944 First female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
- 1945 Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force
- 1946 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia TN
- 1949 USAF plane began first nonstop around-the-world flight
- 1949 Visitor posting - Author Elizabeth George born - USA
- 1950 Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety," premieres in New York NY
- 1951 Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia
- 1951 The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, which limits a president to two terms of office, is ratified.
- 1952 Britain announces that it has its own atomic bomb.
- 1952 Netherlands-Indonesian Unity conference
- 1952 United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb.
- 1953 Allen W Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA
- 1954 First typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy MA
- 1954 Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records
- 1955 "Peter Pan" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 149 performances
- 1955 The first aviator to bail out at supersonic speed - G F Smith
- 1956 Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
- 1959 Visitor posting - Ronald M. Rodriguez born in Houston, Texas - USA
- 1959 Visitor posting - Roger Wertheimer is born (Cleveland, Ohio) - USA
- 1960 Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia
- 1960 USA's David Jenkins wins the Olympics Gold for men's figure skating
- 1960 Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champion
- 1961 Mohammed V, King of Morocco, dies.
- 1961 Visitor posting - Feb 26 1961 Lord Michael Scott was born in Winnipeg
- 1962 US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
- 1964 Visitor posting - Kenneth B Forbes was born in Miami FL - USA
- 1965 Dutch Government of Marijnen falls
- 1965 West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania
- 1966 Visitor posting - Estela and Carlos Veale are born - USA
- 1966 Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
- 1967 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champion
- 1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission
- 1969 Number one hit on UK music charts - Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely?
- 1969 Visitor posting - Feb. 26, 1969 J. Mendicino is born
- 1971 Ottawa starts program to raise Francophone numbers in the Canadian Armed Forces to at least 28%
- 1971 Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
- 1971 Visitor posting - Michael Gonyea was born
- 1972 Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia.
- 1972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125
- 1973 Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m
- 1974 Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris
- 1975 "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore NYC for 75 performances
- 1975 A televised kidney transplant is shown
- 1977 First flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
- 1978 Ira Levin's "Deathtrap," premieres in New York NY
- 1979 A total eclipse of the sun casts a huge shadow from Oregon to North Dakota.
- 1979 Total solar eclipse crosses western Canada, casting a moving shadow 250 km wide
- 1980 Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for the first time
- 1980 Military coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname
- 1980 R Hadlee scores Test Cricket century vs Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft
- 1981 3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since August 1980 are released
- 1981 French Train à Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run
- 1982 Visitor posting - February 26 1982 Herman J Nunez was born
- 1983 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks
- 1983 Visitor posting - Joshua Snyder born
- 1983 Visitor posting - Edward Snook, the world's finest non league footballer is born - United Kingdom
- 1984 Last US marines in multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon left Beirut
- 1984 Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse
- 1984 Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown"
- 1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named first US poet laureate
- 1984 US troops withdraw from Beirut. President Ronald Reagan had sent the troops as a peacekeeping force in August 1982.
- 1985 27th Grammy Awards What's Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper win
- 1986 Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos fled in defeat
- 1986 Goaltending great Jacques Plante 1929-1986 dies at his home near Geneva at age 57
- 1986 People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
- 1987 Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes American President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
- 1987 NASA launches GEOS-H
- 1987 The Tower Commission report is issued, chiding President Reagan for his national security staff's actions in the Iran-Contra affair.
- 1987 The first release of Beatles compact discs
- 1987 USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1988 Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000 meter (1:17.65)
- 1989 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 performances
- 1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs
- 1990 President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua concedes defeat to election opponent, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.
- 1990 The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections.
- 1990 USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991
- 1991 Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons vs New Zealand (119 & 102)
- 1991 Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- 1991 Gulf War: On Baghdad Radio Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
- 1991 Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital
- 1991 Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser.
- 1992 Visitor posting - Tawnie l JUlian born - USA
- 1992 Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion
- 1993 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die
- 1993 Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123
- 1993 Visitor posting - Crystal Flores from Texas birthday
- 1993 Six people die and more than a thousand are injured when Islamic extremists explode a bomb in the parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Personal - Kaitlynn Manning of Amarillo, TX date of birth - USA
- 1993 World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center goes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.
- 1994 Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm
- 1994 Visitor posting - Bridgette Irene is Born - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Claudia was born !!!!
- 1994 Visitor posting - Brianna was born!!!
- 1995 Barings, England's oldest investment banking company, fails after a securities broker loses over $1 billion gambling on Tokyo stock prices.
- 1995 The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Parker Reid Olmstead is born
- 1996 Visitor posting - Toni-Marie Hackett was born. - United Kingdom
- 1997 39th Grammy Awards Change the World Babyface, Beck & LeAnn Rimes win
- 1997 Visitor posting - Lisa was born :) - USA
- 1998 Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial
- 1998 Visitor posting - zishan bashir was born - United Kingdom
- 1998 Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean
- 1999 Ontario Southland commenced operation over the CP Port Burwell subdivision from Ingersoll to Tillsonburg, ON.
- 1999 Visitor posting - alex birthday - United Kingdom
- 2001 The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
- 2004 Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 2004 The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.
- 2005 Hosni Mubarak the president of Egypt orders the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 2005 by asking Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76 of the constitution.
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