1923 – US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes
1923 – German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP (Nazi party)
1923 – Allies accepts Vilnius taking East-Galicia in Poland
1925 – James F. Hanley, Joseph Meyer, and Buddy DeSylva’s musical “Big Boy”, starring Al Jolson, closes at the Winter Garden Theatre, NYC, after 56 performances
1945 – RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm
1971 – Australian Open Men’s Tennis: Ken Rosewall of Australia beats American defending champion Arthur Ashe 6-1, 7-5, 6-3; first man to win an Open era Grand Slam singles title without dropping a set
1991 – Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok and A Dmitriev
1991 – Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel and Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released
2004 – WrestleMania XX, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Chris Benoit wins Triple Threat title match with Triple H and Shawn Michaels
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Today in History for 14th March 2025
Historical Events
1794 – Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin, revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states
1956 – 50-year-old baseball pitching star Satchel Paige signs a contract to play for and manage the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro National League
1966 – British film “Born Free” based on the book “Born Free” by Joy Adamson released starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers
1972 – Two IRA members shot dead by British soldiers in the Bogside area of Derry
1973 – Liam Cosgrave (52) appointed President of Ireland
2022 – PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Australian Cameron Smith wins $3.6m, biggest individual event purse in golf history; beats Anirban Lahiri of India by 1 stroke
Famous Birthdays
1623 – Adam-Nicolas Gascon, Dutch-Walloon composer and kapellmeister (Saint Paul Collegiate Church, 1659-68), born in Liège, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1668)
1815 – Josephine Lang, German composer, born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria (d. 1880)
1831 – Leon Leopold Lewandoski, Polish composer, born in Kalisz, Poland (d. 1896)
1920 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (Dennis the Menace), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 2001)
1921 – Frank Ottersen, Norwegian jazz violinist and saxophonist (Ding, Dong, Dang), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1971)
1989 – Colby O’Donis [Colón] American singer (Lady Gaga -“Just Dance”), songwriter, and record producer, born in Queens, New York
Famous Deaths
1490 – Charles I, Duke of Savoy (1482-90), dies at 21
1903 – Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 88
1933 – Balto, Siberian husky dog who led the sled team delivering diphtheria antitoxin from to Nenana, Alaska to Nome, Alaska in 1925, dies at 14
1961 – Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (openings theorist), dies at 80
2003 – Jean-Luc Lagardère, French publisher (b. 1928)
2007 – Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)
Famous Deaths for 13th March 2025
1839 – Robert Gallenberg, Austrian composer, dies at 55
1903 – Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura) and theologian, dies at 88
1955 – Tribhuwan Bir Bikram Shah, King of Nepal (1911-55), dies under mysterious circumstances at 48
1965 – Vittorio Jano, Italian automobile designer, dies at 73
1975 – Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel 1961), dies at 82
1987 – Bernhard Grzimek, German zoologist (West Germany), dies at 77
1996 – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (The Double Life of Veronique), dies of a heart attack at 54
2006 – Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (b. 1942)
2012 – Jock Hobbs, New Zealand rugby union flanker and captain (21 Tests; Canterbury RU; Chairman NZRFU 2002-10), dies from leukemia at 52
2024 – Dan Wakefield, American novelist (Going All The Way; New York In The Fifties), journalist (The Atlantic, 1968-81), and screenwriter, dies at 91
Historical Events for 13th March 2025
1634 – First meeting of what would become the Academie Francaise in Paris at the house of Valentin Conrart
1925 – NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
1945 – Nazi Sicherheitsdienst arrests Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
1965 – British guitarist Eric Clapton quits the Yardbirds due to the band moving away from traditional blues; Jeff Beck becomes his replacement
1972 – 7th Academy of Country Music Awards: Freddie Hart and Loretta Lynn win
1983 – Peter Stone’s musical “Woman of the Year” closes at Palace Theater, NYC, after 770 performances
1984 – Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
1992 – Martina Navratilova and Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
1995 – Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
2018 – National Geographic magazine admits its past coverage was racist in issue to mark 50 years since death of Martin Luther King Jr.
Today in History for 13th March 2025
Historical Events
1875 – English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Royal Engineers and Old Etonians draw 1-1; replay won by Engineers, 2-0
1938 – In a process known as Anschluss, Austria is annexed into Nazi Germany
1986 – Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
1992 – An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
2005 – 52nd ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats Georgia Tech, 69-64
2019 – Home of civil rights activists Medgar and Myrlie Evers established as a national monument in Jackson, Mississippi, by President Donald Trump
Famous Birthdays
1955 – John Hackett, British rock, classical, and new age flautist, born in Pimlico, London, England
1959 – Ronnie Rogers, British guitarist (T’Pau-Heart and Soul), born in Shrewsbury, England
1963 – Vance Johnson, American NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos), born in Trenton, New Jersey
1970 – Tim Story, American film director and producer (The Story Company), born in Los Angeles, California
1972 – Trent Dilfer, American football quarterback (Super Bowl XXXV Baltimore Ravens; Pro Bowl 1997 TB Bucs), born in Santa Cruz, California
1979 – Cedric Van Branteghem, Belgian athlete, born in Ghent, Belgium
Famous Deaths
1925 – Lucille Ricksen [Ingeborg Ericksen], American silent-film actress, dies of tuberculosis 14
1941 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (The Time of Man), dies at 54
1946 – Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Rembrandt), dies at 90
1992 – Clarence Wright, English actor and singer, dies at 84
1994 – Joop Swart, Dutch journalist, photographer, and publisher (founder of World Press Photo), dies at 69
2001 – John A. Alonzo, American cinematographer (pioneered handheld work, lighting techniques and HD video development), dies at 66
Famous Deaths for 12th March 2025
1608 – Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
1868 – Ernest Doudart de Lagrée, French naval officer and entomologist (led the Mekong River expedition 1866-68), dies during the Mekong Expedition at 44
1944 – Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer, dies at 82
1955 – Theodor Plievier, German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis [The Kaiser’s Coolies]; Stalingrad), dies at 63
1958 – Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, wife of Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, dies at 79
1989 – Maurice Evans, British actor (Planet of the Apes; Bewitched), dies at 87
1992 – Salvatore “Salvo” Lima, Italian politician (Mayor of Palermo, 1958-63 and 65-66; Member of European Parliament, 1979-92) assassinated by the Mafia at 64
1993 – Michael Kanin, American director, writer and actor (Woman of the Year, Teacher’s Pet), dies at 83
2010 – Lesley Duncan (Cox), British session singer (Pink Floyd; Jesus Christ Superstar), and singer-songwriter (“Love Song”; “Sing Children Sing”), dies of cerebrovascular disease at 66
2011 – Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (Dave Brubeck Quartet – “Blue Rondo à la Turk”), dies at 82
Historical Events for 12th March 2025
1849 – 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California
1903 – New York Highlanders (Yankees) baseball franchise is approved as a member of the American League
1926 – Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
1951 – Comic strip “Dennis the Menace,” 1st appears in the British comic magazine The Beano’
1989 – 36th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #9 North Carolina beats #7 Duke, 77-74
1993 – 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
2000 – 41st SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Arkansas beats Auburn, 75-67
2018 – Plane crash of Bangladeshi carrier at Kathmandu airport kills at least 49 after plane approaches runway from wrong end
2022 – Saudi Arabia executes 81 convicted criminals, the country’s largest known mass execution in modern times
2023 – Cyclone Freddy makes landfall for a second time in central Mozambique, Madagascar and Malawi, killing about 200 people and setting records as the longest-lasting cyclone in the southern hemisphere (formed Feb 6)
Today in History for 12th March 2025
Historical Events
1976 – South African troops leave Angola
1981 – Stephen Sondheim’s musical revue “Marry Me a Little” premieres in NYC
1985 – Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
1987 – David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
1995 – 36th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Arkansas, 95-93 (OT)
2012 – “The Hunger Games” directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Jennifer Lawrence premieres in Los Angeles
Famous Birthdays
1647 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727)
1911 – Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Mexican politician (President of Mexico 1964-70), born in San Andrés Chalchicomula, Mexico (d. 1979)
1922 – Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet of the Beat Generation (On the Road, Mexico Blues), born in Lowell, Massachusetts (d. 1969)
1929 – Francisco Pulgar Vidal, Peruvian musicologist and composer, born in Huánuco, Peru (d. 2012)
1948 – Dana Walden, American RandB keyboardist (Champaign – “How ‘Bout Us”), born in Champaign, Illinois
1952 – Naomi Shihab Nye, Arab-American poet (Yellow Glove; Red Suitcase), novelist (Habibi), and songwriter, born in St. Louis, Missouri
Famous Deaths
1608 – Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
1721 – Jan Luyts, Dutch physicist and mathematician, dies at 65
1989 – Maurice Evans, British actor (Planet of the Apes; Bewitched), dies at 87
1992 – Barbara Morrison, British actress (Project Moonbase; From Here To Eternity), dies of heart failure at 84
1992 – Salvatore “Salvo” Lima, Italian politician (Mayor of Palermo, 1958-63 and 65-66; Member of European Parliament, 1979-92) assassinated by the Mafia at 64
1992 – Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies
Famous Deaths for 9th March 2025
1440 – St Frances of Rome, Italian nun (b. 1384)
1649 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman, dies at 42
1706 – Johann Pachelbel, German composer and organist (Canon in D), dies at 52
1800 – Dominique Della-Maria, French composer, dies at 30
1825 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet and writer of hymns (Life! I Know Not What Thou Art), dies at 81
1870 – Theodore Labarre, French composer and harpist, dies at 65
1974 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr, American pharmacologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1971 for discovering mechanisms of the action of hormones), dies at 58
1983 – Faye Emerson, American actress (I’ve Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 65
2004 – Rust Epique, former Crazy Town guitarist (b. 1968)
2015 – James Molyneaux [Baron Molyneaux of Killead], MP (Ulster unionist), dies at 94
Historical Events for 9th March 2025
1276 – Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City
1822 – Charles Graham of NY granted first US patent for artificial teeth
1839 – Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
1841 – US Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish schooner the Amistad are free
1923 – Amsterdam taxi strike ends
1926 – Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle and 1st female mayor of any major US city
1945 – 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs
1948 – Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
1962 – Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
1987 – Chrysler Corp offers to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion