Today in history brought to you by HistoryOrb gc 202 BC - Coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynastys rule over China 364 - Valentinian I becomes Roman Emperor. 870 - 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople 1570 - Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas 1638 - Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh 1646 - Roger Scott was tried in Mass for sleeping in church 1653 - -Mar 3] 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 NYC 1704 - Indians attack Deerfield, Mass, kill 40, kidnap 100 1708 - Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die 1710 - In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. 1728 - George F Handels opera Siroe, re di Persia, premieres in London 1730 - Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy 1749 - 1st 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 Evangelist John Wesley 1784 - John Wesley charters Methodist Church 1787 - The charter establishing the institution now known as the University of Pittsburgh is granted. 1794 - US Senate voids Pennsylvanias election of Abraham Gallatin 1810 - 1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia 1819 - 1st public performance of a Franz Schubert song, Schäfers Klageleid 1826 - M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Bielas Comet 1827 - 1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered 1828 - Franz Grillparzers Ein Treuer Diener, premieres in Vienna 1835 - Dr Elias Lnnrot publishes Finnish poem Kalevala 1838 - Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Québec) 1844 - 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes 1847 - US defeats Mexico in battle of Sacramento 1849 - 1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in SF from east coast 1850 - The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah. 1854 - Republican Party formally organized at Ripon, Wisc Composer Franz Schubert 1859 - Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery 1861 - Territories of Nevada & Colorado created 1862 - Opera La Reine de Saba, premieres in Paris 1863 - Confederate raider Nashville sinks near Fort McAllister Georgia 1864 - -Mar 3rd] Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burtons Ford) 1864 - -Mar 4th) Raid at Kilpatricks Richmond 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 1882 - 1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard U 1883 - 1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston) 1888 - Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes 1888 - Vincent dIndys Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres 1891 - Oscar Grundén skates world record 500m (50.8 sec) 1893 - Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names carborundum 1896 - France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar 1900 - General Bullers troops relieve Ladysmith Natal 1902 - Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo 1903 - Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buys Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000 1904 - Vincent dIndys 2nd Symphony in B, premieres 1906 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Queens U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games 1908 - Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran 1912 - Victor Trumpers last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50 1913 - 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic) 1914 - Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (SF) 1917 - AP reports Mexico & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I 1917 - Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets 1920 - Maurice Ravels Le tombeau de Couperin, premieres 1922 - Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain 1922 - KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions 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 - Congress authorizes a special handling stamp 1925 - Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games) 1925 - Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms 1929 - Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home 1931 - Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass 1931 - Oswald Mosley founds his New Party 1933 - 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor 1933 - German Pres Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1933 - Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD) 1935 - Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit 1935 - Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon polymer 1939 - Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain 1939 - The first issue of Serbian weekly magazine Politikin zabavnik is published. 1939 - The erroneous word Dord is discovered in the Websters New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation. 1940 - 1st televised basketball game (U of Pitts beats Fordham U, 50-37) 1940 - Richard Wrights Native Son published 1940 - US population at 131,669,275 (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%)) 1941 - 39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month 1941 - British-Italian dogfight above Albania 1942 - 1st weapon drop on Netherlands 1942 - Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies 1942 - Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit 1943 - Porgy & Bess opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan 1943 - 63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month 1947 - Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan 1947 - 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives. 1950 - Alive & Kicking closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 46 perfs 1951 - French government of Pleven dissolves 1951 - Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin 1953 - Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev & Malenkov 1954 - Patty Berg/Pete Cooper wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament 1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 265 1155 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (d. 1183) 1261 - Margaret of Scotland, queen of Norway (d. 1283) 1409 - Elisabeth II of Bohemia (d. 1442) 1533 - Michel de Montaigne, France, essayist/philosopher 1552 - Jost/Jobst Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (d. 1632) 1573 - Elias Hill, German architect/city builder (Augsburg) 1612 - John Pearson, English theologian (d. 1686) 1616 - Kaspar Forster, composer 1663 - Thomas Newcomen, English co-inventor (steam engine) 1670 - Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (d. 1737) 1675 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726) 1683 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757) 1690 - Aleksei P Romanov, Russia, son of Peter the Great 1704 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760) 1712 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (d. 1759) 1724 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807) 1747 - Justin Morgan, composer 1750 - Ignacy Potocki, Polish foreign minister 1764 - Robert Haldane, Scottish theologist/philanthropist 1771 - French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter 1786 - D Francois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist/politician 1792 - Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist 1797 - Mary Lyon, US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame) 1797 - W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral (10 day campaign) 1810 - Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian 1817 - James Craig, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888 1820 - John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland) 1822 - Matthew Duncan Ector, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879 1823 - Ernest Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion 1824 - Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist 1824 - John Creed Moore, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910 1825 - Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1888 1833 - Alfred von Schlieffen, Count/Prussian general-fieldmarshal 1838 - Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910) 1840 - Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892) 1841 - Adrien Albert Marie de Mun, French politician (d. 1914) 1850 - Hermann Schell, German theologist/philosopher (Gott und Geist) 1851 - Samuel W. McCall, 47th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1923) 1854 - Juliusz Zarebski, composer 1857 - Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer 1858 - Jacob P Vis, Dutch industrialist (founder NV Royal Salt Industries) 1865 - Arthur Symons, Welsh poet/critic/co-founder (Savoy) 1865 - Wilfred Grenfell, England, medical missionary 1866 - Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [OS=2/16] 1874 - Soledad Jiminez, Santander Spain, actor (Phantom ofthe Range) 1875 - Viliam Figus, composer 1876 - John Alden Carpenter, Chicago Illinois, composer (Sea Drift) 1877 - Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer 1878 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929) 1878 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1952) 1882 - Geraldine Farrar, US soprano/actress (Story of American Singer) 1882 - Jose Vasconcelos, Oaxaca Mexico, politician/essayist/philosopher 1882 - Richard Heinrich Stein, composer 1886 - Jose Gutierrez Solana, Spanish painter/author (Madrid Escenas) 1886 - Max Vasmer, German slavic (La Tertulia de Pombo) 1887 - William Zorach, Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance) 1889 - Victor Sutherland, Paducah KY, actor (Captive City) 1890 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer (3/12 NS) 1893 - Ben Hecht, NYC, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (Front Page) 1895 - Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit) 1895 - Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire) 1896 - Philip Showalter Hench, Pittsburgh, physician (cortisone-Nobel) 1898 - Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey) 1899 - Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist 1900 - Laura Z Hobson, writer 1900 - Wolfram Hirth, German pilot (d. 1959) Chemist & Peace Activist Linus Pauling (1901) 1901 - Linus Pauling, Portland, Oregon, American chemist/peace activist (Nobel 1954, 1962) 1901 - Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen) 1903 - Vincente Minnelli, American film director (d. 1986) 1905 - Glyn Jones, writer 1906 - Bugsy Siegel, gangster created casinos in Las Vegas 1907 - Milton Caniff, Hillsboro Ohio, Dutch cartoonist (Terry & Pirates) 1908 - Billie Bird, American actress (d. 2002) 1908 - Alexander Golitzen, American art director (d. 2005) 1909 - Olan Soule, La Harpe Ill, actor (My 3 Sons, Arnie) 1909 - Stephen Harold Spender, England, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness) 1910 - Roman Maciejewski, composer 1910 - Vincente Minnelli, Chicago IL, director (American in Paris, Gigi) 1911 - Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Njanji Sunji) 1912 - Helmut Coing, German lawyer/director (Max-Planck-institute) 1912 - Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (d. 1945) 1914 - Jim Boles, Lubbock Tx, actor (Joe-One Mans Family) 1915 - Peter Medawar, England, zoologist, immunologist (Nobel 1953) 1915 - Zero Samuel Mostel, Brooklyn, actor (Fiddler on the Roof) 1917 - Hans Deutgen, Sweden, world champion archer 1917 - John B Connally, (Gov/Sen-D/R-Tx), took a bullet with JFK 1918 - Alfred Burke, London England, actor (Backfire) 1920 - Edward Kassner, music publisher 1920 - Jim Olin, (Rep-D-VA, 1983- ) 1920 - Marjorie M Sweeting, English geomorphologist 1921 - John Bouber, [Blom], actor/author (Fool of Heideloo) 1921 - Vladimir Sommer, composer 1921 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006) 1923 - Charles Durning, Highland Falls NY, actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie), (d. 2012) 1924 - Robert A Roe, (Rep-D-NJ, 1969- ) 1925 - Harry H Corbett, Rangoon Burma, actor (Steptoe & Son, Jabberwacky) 1926 - Seymour Shifrin, composer 1926 - Stanley Glasser, composer 1926 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin/author (My Life) 1927 - Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer 1 2 3 ▶ Famous Weddings Weddings 1 - 3 of 3 1496 - Joanna of Aragon marries King Ferdinand II 1922 - English princess Mary marries Viscount Lascelles at Westminster Abbey 1993 - Tony Curtis weds Lisa Deutsch as his 4th wife Famous Divorces Divorces 1 - 1 of 1 1998 - Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson (31) divorces Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee (35) after 3 years of marriage Famous Deaths Deaths 1 - 100 of 129 642 - Oswald, English missionary/saint, dies in battle 1261 - Hendrik, duke of Brabant (1248-61), dies 1326 - Duke Leopold I of Austria (b. 1290) 1453 - Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400) 1485 - Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441) 1510 - Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer 1525 - Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec Emperor (1520 - 1521), tortured and killed by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés 1572 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505) 1573 - Jan Hans Liefrinck, Flemish engraver/publisher, dies at about 54 1609 - Paul Sartorius, composer, dies at 39 1618 - Filips Willem, Prince of Orange, dies at 63 1621 - Cosimo II de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590) 1626 - Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51 1638 - Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/poet, dies at 56 1638 - Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier/Huguenot leader, dies 1665 - Lodewijk van Nassau, Dutch governor (Bois-le-Duc), dies 1737 - Hercule Brehy, composer, dies at 63 1742 - Willem J s-Gravesande, Dutch physicist, dies at 53 1746 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660) The Last Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc (1525) 1781 - Richard Stockton, US attorney (signed Decl of Ind), dies at 50 1784 - Phillis Wheatly, poetess, dies 1786 - John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713) 1788 - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (b. 1725) 1796 - Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 56 1818 - Adriaan Loosjes Pzn, Dut publisher/writer (Moral Stories), dies at 56 1844 - Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton 1844 - Thommas W Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton 1857 - André Dumont, Belgian geologist (b. 1809) 1876 - Charles Edward Horsley, composer, dies at 53 1903 - Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet, dies at 88 1905 - Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, dies at 85 1912 - Bill Storer, English cricket wicketkeeper (6 Tests 1897-99), dies 1913 - Elephant seal, 6.8-m, 4000-kg, killed in S Georgia (South Atlantic) 1916 - Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72 1922 - Vicente Lleo, composer, dies at 51 1925 - Friedrich Ebert, soc-dem president Germany, dies 1929 - Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (React of P), dies at 54 1929 - John Ebenezer West, composer, dies at 65 1931 - Ban Johnson, created (baseballs AL), dies after a long illness 1932 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851) 1935 - Alexander W F Idenburg, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1909-16), dies at 73 1935 - Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (b. 1847). 1936 - Pedro Munoz Seca, La Caraba/La oca, dies at 55 1936 - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866) 1940 - Johan C Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist, dies at 81 1941 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886) 1949 - Stanley Robert Marchant, composer, dies at 65 1956 - Emile Buisson, French murderer executed (b. 1902) 1959 - Maxwell Anderson, US dramatist (Key Largo, Bath Seed), dies at 70 1960 - F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74 1960 - Jonathan Hale, actor (Blondie), shoots himself at 68 1961 - Joris Vriamont, Flemish writer/music publisher, dies at 64 1962 - Harold Ogden Chic Johnson, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70 1963 - Theodore Newton, actor (Voltaire, Ace of Aces), dies at 58 1963 - Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884) 1964 - Dirk HW Filarski, painter/lithographer (Bergen School), dies at 78 1965 - Adolf Scharf, president of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74 1966 - Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, dies at 34, in a crash of T-38 jet 1966 - Elliot McKay See Jr, astronaut, dies at 38 in T-38 jet crash 1967 - Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898) 1968 - Doretta Morrow, actress (Because Youre Mine), dies at 41 1968 - Juanita Hall, actress (Capt Billy), dies at 66 1972 - Victor Barna, table tennis champ, dies 1973 - Cecil Kellaway, actor (Guess Whos Coming to Dinner), dies at 78 1973 - Hope Landin, actress (I Remember Mama, Sugarfoot), dies at 79 1974 - Mees Toxopeus, Dutch rescue-vessel captain, dies at 89 1975 - Istvan Kardos, composer, dies at 83 1977 - Eddie Rochester Anderson, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 71 1978 - Eric Frank Russell, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space), dies at 73 1978 - Philip Ahn, Los Angeles California, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu), dies at 66 1978 - Philip Ahn, American actor (b. 1905) 1979 - Jane Hylton, English actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 52 1979 - Mr Ed, talking horse, dies 1979 - Paul Alverdes, German writer (b. 1897) 1980 - Ian Alexander Ross Peebles, cricketer (45 wkts for England), dies 1984 - Leslie Walcott, cricketer (Test for WI v England 1930), dies 1985 - Charita Bauer, actress (Mary-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 in NYC 1985 - David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947) 1985 - Ray Ellington, English singer (b. 1916) 1986 - Sven Olof Palme, Swedish PM (1969-76, 82-86), assassinated at 59 1986 - Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (b. 1900) 1987 - Anny Ondra, actress (Blackmail), dies at 83 1987 - Nora Kaye, US ballet dancer, dies at 67 1988 - Mikha`il Naimah, Lebanese playwright, dies at 99 1989 - Hermann Burger, writer, dies at 46 1990 - Colin Milburn, cricketer (9 Tests for England, 654 runs), dies 1990 - Fabia Drake, actress (Nice Girl Like Me), dies at 86 1990 - Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African cricketer (batsman v England 1929), dies 1991 - Guillermo Ungo, member of El Salvador junta (1979-80), dies 1991 - Wassily Hoeffding, American statistician (b. 1914) 1992 - Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek), dies at 49 1992 - Emilla Sherman, choreographer/rockette, dies 1992 - La Lupe, Cuban singer, dies of a heart attack in the Bronx at 53 1993 - Fer A Olthoff, Dutch WW II resistance fighter (Het Parool), dies 1993 - Franco Brusati, Italian dir/writer (Bread & Chocolate), dies at 70 1993 - Ishiro Honda, Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81 1993 - Joyce Carey, [Lawrence], English actress (Number 27), dies at 94 1993 - Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer (42nd Street, Dames), dies of cancer at 82 1994 - Aisin Giorro Pu Chieh, brother of Last Emperor of China, dies at 86 1994 - Buster Holmes, chef/restaurateur, dies at 88
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