1881 – Horatia Nelson, the illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (b. 1801)
1961 – Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright and director (Tivoli), dies at 59
1968 – Isa Krejci, Czech composer, dies at 63
1984 – Martin Niemöller, German theologian who supported then opposed the Nazi regime, famous for his widely quoted poem “First they came …”, dies at 92
2009 – David Williams, American RandB, pop and rock session and touring guitarist (Michael Jackson; Madonna; Rod Stewart; Bryan Ferry), dies of cardiac arrest following a stroke at 58
2012 – Jaap Boersma, Dutch politician (Minister for Social Affairs (ARP)), dies at 82
2012 – Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese President, dies at 75
2014 – Sheila MacRae, British-born actress (Jackie Gleason Show), dies at 92
2014 – Ron Murphy, Canadian NHL player, dies at 80
2018 – Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet and academic (Noctuary), dies at 61
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Historical Events for 6th March 2024
1853 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “La Traviata” premieres at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
1855 – Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to the poet Louise Colet
1906 – Heavy storm bursts dike, flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands
1909 – Dutch film distributor Jean Desmet opens his first permanent cinema, the Cinema Parisien in Rotterdam
1921 – Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
1923 – MLB St. Louis Cardinals announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms
1962 – US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression
1965 – The Temptations’ single “My Girl” reaches #1 on the Billboard Pop Chart; written and produced by the Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Ronald White
1982 – Susan Birmingham makes then world’s loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)
2018 – British health officials tells the country it’s time “to get on a diet” and urging manufacturers to reduce calories in foods
Today in History for 6th March 2024
Historical Events
1900 – After a meeting in Indianapolis, USA, a group forms the Social Democratic Party and nominates Eugene Debs as its candidate for President in the forthcoming election (becomes the Socialist Party in 1901)
1972 – Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf’s all-time money winner
1974 – Australian cricketing brothers Ian (145 and 121) and Greg Chappell (247no and 133) score unique twin centuries in drawn 1st Test vs New Zealand in Wellington
1983 – US Football League begins its 1st season
1986 – USSR’s Vega 1 flies by Halley’s Comet at 8,889 km
1992 – Founding of the Council of the Baltic Sea States.
Famous Birthdays
1475 – Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance (David, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel), born in Caprese, Tuscany (d. 1564)
1926 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (Ashes and Diamonds, Man of Iron), born in Suwalki (d. 2016)
1933 – Ted Abernathy, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1955-72 (Washington Senators, Chicago Cubs, and 5 other teams), born in Stanley, North Carolina (d. 2004)
1946 – Tony Klatka, rocker (Blood, Sweat and Tears)
1972 – Shaquille O’Neal, American Basketball Hall of Fame center (4-time NBA champion, 3-time NBA Finals MVP, Olympic gold 1996), born in Newark, New Jersey
1973 – Greg Ostertag, NBA center (Utah Jazz)
Famous Deaths
1936 – Rubin Goldmark, American composer, dies at 63
1962 – Rezső Kókai, Hungarian pianist, composer, musicologist, and pedagogue, dies at 56
1986 – Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier’s Story), dies
1994 – Tengiz Abuladze, Soviet Georgian filmmaker (Repentance), dies at 70
1998 – Frank Barrett, American baseball player (b. 1913)
2016 – Nancy Reagan [Anne Frances Robbins], US First Lady (1981-89), dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 5th March 2024
1605 – Clement VIII [Ippolito Aldofireini], Italian Pope (1592-1605), dies at 69
1726 – Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
1950 – Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian nationalist and military leader, dies at 42
1967 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, Prime Minister of Iran (1951-53) who was overthrown in a coup d’état aided by the CIA and the British SIS, dies at 84
1982 – John Belushi, American comedian (SNL, 1975-80), actor (Animal House), and singer (The Blues Brothers), dies of a drug overdose at 33
1984 – Michael Sklar, American comedian (Laugh-In; Sha Na Na), dies at 39
1995 – (Victor) “Vivian” Stanshall, British singer and comic songwriter (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – “I’m The Urban Spaceman”; Magical Mystery Tour), dies in a fire at his home, at 51
1996 – Nicolás Cotoner, 23rd Marquess of Mondéjar, Spanish nobleman and military officer, dies at 90
2018 – Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer, dies at 92
2021 – Michael Stanley [Gee], American rocker (Michael Stanley Band- “My Town”), dies of lung cancer at 72
Historical Events for 5th March 2024
1179 – 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1713 – Handel’s “Jubilate” first performance in a public rehearsal at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
1821 – Monroe is 1st US President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sunday
1864 – 1st track meet between Oxford and Cambridge
1897 – American Negro Academy forms
1924 – Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games
1954 – “Girl in Pink Tights” opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 115 performances
1960 – The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase.
1981 – Ice Pairs Champ at Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva and I Lisovski (URS)
2012 – Tropical Storm Irina kills 65 in Madagascar
Today in History for 5th March 2024
Historical Events
1774 – John Hancock delivers the fourth annual Massacre Day oration, a commemoration of the Boston Massacre, and denounces the presence of British troops in Boston, enhancing Hancock’s stature as a leading Patriot
1784 – Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, is named President of the Board of Trade.
1928 – Karl Zuckmayer’s “Der Hauptmann von Köpenick” premieres in Berlin
1966 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 – Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot
1982 – Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data
Famous Birthdays
1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-German Marxist revolutionary and founder of the Spartacus League, born in Zamość, Poland (d. 1919)
1893 – Emmett J. Culligan, American entrepreneur (founder of water treatment organization Culligan Inc.), born in Yankton, South Dakota (d. 1970)
1934 – James B Sikking, American actor (Hill Street Blues – “Lt. Howard Hunter”; Star Trek 3; Doogie Howser), born in Los Angeles, California
1939 – Norman Seeff, South African-American photographer, filmmaker, and album cover artist (Joni Mitchell; Captain and Tenille; Fleetwood Mac), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
1948 – Jacques Kloes, Dutch rock singer (Dizzy Man’s Band – “The Show”; “Matter of Facts”), born in Heemskerk, Holland (d. 2015)
1961 – Dan Stuart, American singer-songwriter (Green on Red), poet, and author (The Unfortunate Demise of Marlowe Billings), born in Los Angeles, California
Famous Deaths
1940 – Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
1967 – Mischa Auer [Ounskowsky], Russian actor (My Man Godfrey), dies from a heart attack at 61
1967 – Georges Vanier, French Canadian soldier and 19th Governor General of Canada, dies at 78
1979 – Vicente Ascone, Italian composer, dies at 81
1984 – Harry Salter, orchestra leader (Stop the Music), dies at 85
2010 – Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 1999, dies at 103
Famous Deaths for 4th March 2024
1733 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander, dies at 76
1903 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68
1976 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (Thermodynamik), dies at 89
1978 – Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909)
1990 – Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
2004 – Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer (b. 1953)
2006 – Jan Felderhof, Dutch violinist and composer, dies at 98
2010 – Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect (b. 1933)
2011 – Johnny Preston, American pop singer (Running Bear), dies at 71
2011 – Vivienne Harris, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher (b.c. 1921)
Historical Events for 4th March 2024
1793 – Washington’s 2nd inauguration as US President, shortest speech (133 words)
1881 – California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
1894 – Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
1901 – Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction US congressmen, ends
1910 – Avalanche at Bear Creek in Rogers Pass, British Columbia, kills 58 railway line workers – Canada’s worst avalanche disaster
1925 – US President Coolidge’s inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
1931 – West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
1933 – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss dissolves Austrian parliament
1947 – WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1995 – Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec)
Today in History for 4th March 2024
Historical Events
1804 – The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland’s Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony’s only significant convict uprising.
1868 – 30th Grand National: George Ede victorious aboard Irish 9/1 shot The Lamb; horse wins second GN in 1871
1881 – California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
1970 – Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
1977 – 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico
2020 – “Once in a century” winter in Moscow the hottest in 140 years, with 7.5° C (13.5° F) above average temperatures and virtually no snow
Famous Birthdays
1754 – Benjamin Waterhouse, American physician co-founder of Harvard Medical School, and smallpox vaccine pioneer, born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1846)
1765 – Charles Dibdin, British composer, author (Sea Songs), and actor, baptized in Hampshire, England (d. 1814)
1877 – Garrett Morgan, American inventor (gas mask and traffic signal), born in Claysville, Kentucky (d. 1963)
1917 – Clyde McCullough, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1932 – Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, American custom hot rod car designer, born in Beverly Hills, California (d. 2001)
1947 – Jan Garbarek, Norwegian jazz saxophonist, born in Mysen, Norway
Famous Deaths
1733 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander, dies at 76
1858 – Matthew C. Perry, Commodore of the United States Navy who opened Japan to Western influence and trade, dies of rheumatism at 63
1866 – Alexander Campbell, Irish-American clergyman and Founder of Disciples of Christ, dies at 77
1989 – James A. Parsons, American metallurgist and inventor (stainless steel), dies at 88
2007 – Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian, assassinated by Communist rebels at 41
2012 – Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer, dies in a traffic collision at 33
Famous Deaths for 3rd March 2024
1855 – Robert Mills, American engineer and architect (Washington Monument on the National Mall), dies at 73
1953 – James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer, dies at 77
1961 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born left-handed pianist, dies at 72
1983 – Hergé [Georges Prosper Remi], Belgian comic book creator (The Adventures of Tintin), dies at 75
1988 – Sewall Wright, US geneticist (evolution model), dies at 98
1991 – Arthur Murray [Moses Teichman], American ballroom dancer and businessman (Arthur Murray Dance Party), dies at 95 of pneumonia
1995 – Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar (Professor of French) and Wartime resister, dies at 84
1996 – Meyer Schapiro, Lithuanian-born American art historian, dies at 91
2007 – Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian cartoonist and creator of “La Linea” animated cartoons, dies at 87
2016 – Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer and batsman, dies of cancer at 53