On this day in 1770 The Boston Massacre took place when British troops fired on a crowd in Boston killing five people. Two British troops were later convicted of manslaughter, in 1900 two U.S. battleships left for Nicaragua to halt revolutionary disturbances, in 1901 Germany and Britain began negotiations with hopes of creating an alliance, in 1912 the Italians became the first to use dirigibles for military purposes. They used them for reconnaissance flights behind Turkish lines west of Tripoli, in 1918 The Soviets moved the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow, in 1922 Annie Oakley (Phoebe Ann Moses) broke all existing records for womens trap shooting. She hit 98 out of 100 targets, in 1933 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered a four-day bank holiday in order to stop large amounts of money from being withdrawn from banks and The Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections, in 1953 Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died. He had been in power for 29 years, in 1956 The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ban on segregation in public schools, in 1997 North Korea and South Korea met for first time in 25 years for peace talks, and in 1998 NASA announced that an orbiting craft had found enough water on the moon to support a human colony and rocket fueling station and it was announced that Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins would lead crew of Columbia on a mission to launch a large X-ray telescope. She was the first woman to command a space shuttle mission. Eva Mendes and Kevin Connolly turn 40 today.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:12:11 +0000