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- 0515 BC - Construction is completed on the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
- 0538 Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius.
- 0641 A.D. Chinese Princess Wen Cheng goes to Tibet to marry the Tibetan ruler and the marriage becomes the basis for China's claim to sovereignty over the region
- 1572 Luos Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os Lusíados" in Portugal
- 1594 Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
- 1597 England routes troops to Amiens
- 1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony
- 1619 Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
- 1622 Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
- 1642 Abel Tasman is first European in New Zealand
- 1664 First naturalization act in American colonies
- 1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony
- 1664 New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain.
- 1689 Former English King James II lands in Ireland
- 1737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
- 1755 First steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
- 1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
- 1814 British troops under Wellington capture Bordeaux in France
- 1848 Second republic established in France
- 1849 The first gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California
- 1850 US $20 gold piece first issued
- 1857 A Great Western Railway train breaks an axle while crossing a swing bridge and plunges into the Desjardins Canal near Hamilton. 59 people are killed.
- 1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill; free land in West for colonists
- 1868 Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
- 1868 Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa
- 1868 Henry James O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
- 1881 Andrew Watson made his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
- 1884 Mississippi establishes first US state college for women
- 1888 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in northeast US (400 die)
- 1889 Battle at Metema (Gallabad); Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
- 1889 Ethiopia's Johannes IV is killed in the Battle of Metemma fighting the Mahdists
- 1889 Start of South Africa's first Test, vs England, Port Elizabeth
- 1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
- 1896 The first movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
- 1900 President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein
- 1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
- 1904 The first main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
- 1906 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
- 1907 At Toulon, France, the battleship Iena explodes, killing at least 118 men
- 1908 The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in Athens to support the Greek Struggle for Macedonia.
- 1912 Captain Albert Berry performs first parachute jump from an airplane
- 1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
- 1912 The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the U.S..
- 1913 Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia was officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remained temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital was still under construction.)
- 1913 Canberra becomes the capital of Australia when the foundation stone of the Federal Parliament building is laid.
- 1913 Foundation stone of the Australian capitol in Canberra laid
- 1916 French airship sinks British submarine D3
- 1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
- 1917 Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrive in St Petersburg
- 1918 Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint-Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
- 1919 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
- 1925 Death of Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary leader.
- 1926 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
- 1928 In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing 400 people.
- 1930 Mahatma Gandhi began a march to the sea, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India
- 1930 Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
- 1932 The so-called "Swedish Match King", Ivar Kreuger, commits suicide in Paris, leaving behind a financial empire that turns out to be worthless
- 1933 FDR announces the "New Deal."
- 1933 FDR conducts his first "fireside chat"
- 1933 Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats."
- 1934 Acting President Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia
- 1934 Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
- 1935 England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
- 1935 UK hist Hore-Belisha introduces pedestrian crossings and speed limits for built-up areas in Britain
- 1938 Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day.
- 1938 Germans enter Vienna, and 183,000 Jews in Austria fall under Nazi control. Within one month, 500 Jews commit suicide.
- 1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
- 1939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
- 1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WWII, giving up Karelische Isthmus
- 1940 Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and remaining population are immediately evacuated.
- 1941 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
- 1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
- 1945 30 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers
- 1945 Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
- 1945 New York is the first to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
- 1945 The British Empire celebrates its first British Empire Day
- 1945 USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
- 1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
- 1947 President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
- 1947 The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
- 1948 -5ºF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
- 1950 Visitor posting - Pamela Turner was born. - USA
- 1950 Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
- 1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul
- 1952 Mercedes introduced the 300 SL to the press on this day. With a sleek rounded body, gull-wing doors and a detachable steering wheel, the 300 SL created quite a buzz
- 1954 Sahitya Akademi is founded in India.
- 1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
- 1959 US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
- 1962 Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
- 1963 Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
- 1963 Bob Dylan cancels "Ed Sullivan Show" television appearance
- 1964 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Streisand win
- 1964 Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
- 1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
- 1966 Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
- 1966 Love's first album released "Love"
- 1967 Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
- 1967 Indonesian congress deprives President Sukarno of authority
- 1967 Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia.
- 1968 Mauritius achieves independence.
- 1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- 1969 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix win
- 1969 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
- 1969 Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
- 1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
- 1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca Pérez Morena de Macias
- 1971 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected President
- 1971 Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
- 1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
- 1974 Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia WA
- 1975 Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam
- 1976 South African troops leave Angola
- 1977 Chile President Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
- 1977 Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
- 1977 Number one hit on UK music charts - Manhattan Transfer - Chanson D'Amour
- 1978 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:14.99)
- 1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
- 1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
- 1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond VA
- 1982 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica vs Leeward Islands
- 1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
- 1983 Number one hit on UK music charts - Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
- 1984 British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become first skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
- 1986 210.25 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
- 1986 Giotto encounters Comet Halley
- 1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
- 1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ performances
- 1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
- 1989 15th People's Choice Awards
- 1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
- 1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
- 1990 Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
- 1991 5th Soul Train Music Awards
- 1991 Visitor posting - Deontae Cratic was born
- 1992 Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1993 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
- 1993 Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
- 1993 Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech
- 1993 North Korea announced its withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
- 1993 North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Alexus was born as a beautiful child to her mother and father
- 1993 Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
- 1994 Church of England ordains first 33 women priests
- 1994 The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
- 1995 Congress party loses India national election
- 1995 Lara scores 139 in ODI vs Australia at Port-of-Spain
- 1995 Sprinter Melinda Gainsford becomes the first Australian to win a world sprint title in more than 30 years
- 1996 Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
- 1997 Visitor posting - March 12 1997 Madeleine Novak was born
- 1997 Visitor posting - Jerry Alvarez arrived.. - USA
- 1998 "Sound of Music", opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
- 1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
- 2003 Zoran ini, Prime Minister of Serbia, assassinated in Belgrade.
- 2004 Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
- 2005 Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
- 2007 Van Halen is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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