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- 0202 BC - this day marks the coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule over China
- 0364 Valentinian I is elevated as Roman Emperor.
- 0870 The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
- 1570 Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas
- 1638 Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convenant, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
- 1646 Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church
- 1653 3 Day Sea battle English beats Dutch
- 1667 English colony Suriname in Dutch hands
- 1692 Salem witch hunt begins
- 1700 Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
- 1704 Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in New York NY
- 1704 Indians attack Deerfield MA, kill 40, kidnap 100
- 1708 Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die
- 1710 In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jrgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock.
- 1730 Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy
- 1749 First edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published
- 1759 Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
- 1778 Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves
- 1784 John Wesley charters Methodist Church
- 1784 John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
- 1787 Charter granted establishing the institution now known as the University of Pittsburgh.
- 1794 US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
- 1810 First US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia
- 1826 M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet
- 1827 The B& O Railroad is incorporated (and forever remembered on Monopoly game boards ).
- 1827 The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first railroad incorporated for the commercial transportation of people and freight
- 1828 Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Treuer Diener," premieres in Vienna
- 1835 Dr Elias Lönnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala"
- 1838 Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaim the independence of Lower Canada (today Qubec)
- 1844 A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing two United States Cabinet members and several others.
- 1844 US Secretary of State Abel Upshur, Navy Secretary Thomas Gilmer, and several others die when a 12-inch gun aboard the USS Princeton explodes.
- 1847 US defeats México in battle of Sacramento
- 1849 Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 21 days after leaving New York Harbor.
- 1849 The first gold-seekers arrived in San Francisco, aboard the ship California.
- 1850 The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- 1854 Republican Party formally organized at Ripon WI
- 1854 Slavery opponents meet in Ripon, WI, calling for a new political group (which became the Republican Party).
- 1859 Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
- 1861 Colorado is organized as a United States territory.
- 1861 The Colorado Territory is organized.
- 1862 The opera "La Reine de Saba" premieres (Paris)
- 1863 Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister GA
- 1864 Raid at Kilpatrick's Richmond
- 1864 Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford)
- 1870 The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1871 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections
- 1878 US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate
- 1879 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
- 1883 First US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)
- 1883 The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1885 The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
- 1888 Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes
- 1888 Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres
- 1893 Edward Acheson, Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"
- 1896 France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar
- 1897 Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch in Madagascar, was deposed by a French military force.
- 1900 General Buller's troops relieve Ladysmith Natal
- 1900 The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
- 1904 Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
- 1912 Victor Trumper's last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50
- 1913 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (South Atlantic)
- 1916 SS Normanby.built in 1889 for the Ropner Company, the ship was mined and sunk off the Shipwash Lightship.
- 1917 AP reports México & Japan will ally with Germany if US enters WWI
- 1917 Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
- 1922 Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
- 1922 English princess Mary marries viscount Lascelles
- 1922 The United Kingdom accepts the independence of Egypt.
- 1923 Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands
- 1924 US begins intervention in Honduras
- 1925 "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1
- 1925 Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms
- 1931 Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
- 1931 Oswald Mosley founds his New Party
- 1933 Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
- 1933 Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)
- 1935 Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
- 1935 Nylon discovered by Dr Wallace H Carothers
- 1939 Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
- 1939 The first issue of Serbian weekly magazine Politikin zabavnik was published.
- 1939 The word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
- 1940 Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
- 1940 Mario Andretti, auto racer and Indianapolis 500 Hall of Famer was born
- 1940 Richard Wright's "Native Son" published
- 1940 US population at 131,669,275 (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%))
- 1941 British-Italian dogfight above Albania
- 1942 HMAS PERTH (RAN) sunk in Sunda Strait, western Java by torpedoes and 8in gunfire of Japanese cruiser force.
- 1942 Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
- 1942 Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit
- 1942 The heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30) is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed.
- 1943 "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan
- 1947 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down at a loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
- 1947 Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan
- 1951 French government of Pleven dissolves
- 1951 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates
- 1953 James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; formal announcement April 25 following publication in April Nature (pub. April 2).
- 1953 Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev & Malenkov
- 1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
- 1956 A Chatham Ontario restaurant is fined $50 for refusing to serve two black students
- 1956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
- 1958 West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket
- 1959 "Goldilocks" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances
- 1959 Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit
- 1960 8th winter Olympics games close at Squaw Valley CA
- 1960 The United States defeats Czechoslovakia 9-4 in ice hockey to win the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California.
- 1960 US wins Olympics hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4
- 1961 JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor
- 1962 Rae Dawn Chong wasborn at Edmonton Alberta, daughter of actor Tommy Chong. Chong, she appeared in the film Quest for Fire
- 1964 The opening of Toronto International Airport terminal building, much later this event confirms the fact that Toronto is the center of the universe
- 1966 Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes
- 1968 Number one hit on UK music charts - Esther & Abi Ofarim - Cinderella Rockefella
- 1968 Visitor posting - A daughter,Dolores Ann Hawkins was born at 6:50 p.m. at the home of her parents, Virginia and Dewey Hawkins in Chicago,IL. Delivery was assisted by Samuel L Andelman M.D - USA
- 1968 Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air
- 1970 Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
- 1971 53rd PGA Championship Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA National to win his 2nd golf grand slam
- 1972 George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
- 1972 Sino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqu.
- 1974 After seven years, the United States and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations.
- 1974 Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms
- 1974 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
- 1974 Taiwan police shoot into crowd
- 1974 The US and Egypt re-establish diplomatic ties for the first time since 1967.
- 1975 A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
- 1975 EG signs accord of Lomé with 46 developing countries
- 1976 18th Grammy Awards Love Will Keep Us Together, Natalie Cole win
- 1976 Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession
- 1977 A killer whale born in captivity at Marineland, Los Angeles CA
- 1977 Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends
- 1978 The Department of Defense authorized fullscale development of the Sikorsky Aircraft's SH-60B LAMPS MK III helicopter. The aircraft was designed primarily for antisubmarine and antiship missions and to be deployed aboard frigates, destroyers and cruisers.
- 1979 Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond," premieres in New York NY
- 1980 "The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 hours 12 minutes)
- 1981 China PR throws out Netherlands ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan
- 1982 AT&T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day
- 1982 FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street
- 1983 Final TV episode of "MASH" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch
- 1983 The final episode of M*A*S*H is broadcast in the USA, becoming the most watched television episode in history, with 106125 million viewers in the U.S. (estimate varies by source).
- 1984 26th Grammy Awards Beat It, Michael Jackson wins 8
- 1985 In Toronto Ontario, publisher Ernst Zundel convicted for distributing hate literature in a book that said the mass extermination of Jews in Germany in World War II never occurred
- 1986 European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade
- 1986 Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
- 1986 Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated in Stockholm.
- 1988 Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed
- 1989 Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA
- 1989 Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public
- 1990 Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine
- 1990 The space shuttle Atlantis launches from Cape Canaveral, to place a spy satellite in orbit.
- 1991 First Gulf War ends.
- 1991 Visitor posting - LeAnne Jayne Robinson is Born to Mardy and Wes Robinson, Havre MT
- 1991 US & allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire
- 1993 7th American Comedy Award Seinfeld wins
- 1993 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents attempt to serve warrants on the Branch Davidians at a compound near Waco, TX, triggering a 51-day siege.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Ryan M. The Man I Love, Now And Forever, Was Born.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Anthony Campa the 2nd best baseball player to ever live after Babe Ruth was Born
- 1993 Visitor posting - Nicole Boylan born - United Kingdom
- 1993 Visitor posting - Sean Tyrrell of Ballymun, Dublin is Born - Ireland
- 1993 Tony Curtis weds Lisa Deutsch as his 4th wife
- 1994 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect
- 1995 Denver International Airport opens.
- 1995 In Fredericton New Brunswick, a judicial report on sexual abuse of boys at Kingsclear Training Centre released; critical of bureaucratic indifference that allowed abuse to continue for almost 30 years
- 1995 US Marines land in Somalia to protect the retreating UN peacekeeping force.
- 1996 38th Grammy Awards Jagged Little Pill-Alanis Morisette wins
- 1997 Earthquake in Pakistan, kills 45
- 1997 FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia
- 1997 Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US
- 1997 The North Hollywood shootout takes place.
- 1998 "View From the Bridge," closes at Criterion Theater NYC
- 1998 Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
- 1998 Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points
- 2000 A 6.8 earthquake shook the Pacific Northwest resulting in injuries and over 1 billion dollars damage.
- 2001 Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
- 2001 The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington.
- 2002 At least 55 are killed in Ahmadabad, India when Hindus burn Muslim homes.
- 2004 Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
- 2005 A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
- 2005 Lebanon's pro-Syrian prime minister, Omar Karami, resigns amid large anti-Syria street demonstrations in Beirut.
- 2007 Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft.
- 2010 Visitor posting - leo harley gillard was born 22.57pm - United Kingdom
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