1138 – Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
1621 – John Pieterszoon Coen’s troops land on Lontor, East Indies
1696 – English King William III departs Netherlands
1872 – -8°F (-22°C) in Boston, Massachusetts
1896 – W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s 14th and final comic opera together “The Grand Duke” premieres at the Savoy Theatre, London
1929 – First nonstop flight made from America to Asia across the Bering Strait (Nome to North Cape) by Noel Wien and Calvin Cripe for Wien Air Alaska
1951 – Lillian Hellman’s play “Autumn Garden” premieres on Broadway in NYC
1970 – Ladies’ Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
1981 – 28th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Maryland, 61-60
1994 – ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
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Today in History for 7th March 2023
Historical Events
1801 – Massachusetts enacts first state voter registration law
1866 – 28th Grand National: 1852 winner Alec Goodman wins his second GN aboard Irish 40/1 outsider Salamander
1925 – American Negro Congress organizes
1969 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 – WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
2017 – 19 girls killed in a fire at a government-run care center in San José Pinula, Guatemala
Famous Birthdays
1866 – Paul Ernst, German writer, born in Elbingerode, Kingdom of Hanover (d. 1933)
1915 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician, French Prime Minister and President of the National Assembly, born in Paris, France (d. 2000)
1936 – Georges Perec, French writer (Seire Noire, Retour a la bien-aimee)
1940 – Viktor Savinykh, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-4, T-13, TM-5), born in Berezkiny, Kirov
1944 – Elton Gallegly, American politician (Rep-R-California 1987-2013), born in Huntington Park, California
1954 – Matt Frenette, Canadian rock drummer (Loverboy)
Famous Deaths
851 – Nominoe, first Duke of Brittany “father of the country” (Tad ar Vro)
1928 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist, dies at 76
1955 – Tom Dugan, Irish actor (Circus Clown, Drag, Skyway), dies at 66
1966 – Mike Millward, English musician (The Fourmost), dies of leukemia at 23
2006 – Ansen [Nancy Ann] Dibble, Dutch sci-fi author (Summerfair), dies at 63
2013 – Peter Banks [Brockbanks], British rock guitarist and singer-songwriter described as “the architect of progressive music” (Yes, the Syn, Flash), dies of heart failure at 65
Famous Deaths for 6th March 2023
1764 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England, dies at 73
1899 – Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
1924 – Meyer van Beem, Dutch actor (Mottige Janus, Black Venus), dies at 85
1945 – Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm
1948 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (Raintree County), dies at 33
1962 – Rezső Kókai, Hungarian pianist, composer, musicologist, and pedagogue, dies at 56
1967 – Oscar Shaw, actor (Rhythm on the River, Marianne), dies at 76
1989 – Harry Andrews, English actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at 77
1992 – Elvia Allman, actress (Night at Earl Carroll’s), dies of pneumonia
1998 – Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed
Historical Events for 6th March 2023
1628 – Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict
1646 – Joseph Jenkes receives the 1st patent in North America for making scythes from the General Court of Massachusetts
1664 – King Louis XIV and Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant
1831 – Vincenzo Bellini’s opera “La Sonnambula” premieres at Teatro Carcano in Milan, Italy
1853 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “La Traviata” premieres at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
1915 – Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
1943 – Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
2018 – Pope Francis announces that murdered Salvadorean Archbishop Óscar Romero will be made a saint
2018 – “Highest overdose death rates ever recorded in the US”, 142,000 overdoses in 2016-17 period according to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2018 – American WWII aircraft carrier USS Lexington rediscovered in Australia’s Coral Sea, lost during 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea
Today in History for 6th March 2023
Historical Events
1886 – 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
1945 – Erich Honnecker and Erich Hanke flee Nazis
1951 – Trial of Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg begins for providing top-secret information to the Soviet Union
1967 – Former union leader Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison
1974 – An unnamed Italian industrialist loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette over 5 hours in Monte Carlo Casino
1994 – Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.
Famous Birthdays
1918 – Howard McGhee, American be-bop jazz trumpeter, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 1987)
1941 – Ann Winterton, British MP
1951 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch road cyclist (World Road Race Champion 1978; Amstel Gold Race 1974, 85), born in Amsterdam, New Holland (d. 2004)
1962 – Alison Nicholas, English golfer (US Open 1997), born in Gibraltar
1971 – Roger Salkeld, pitcher (Cincinnati Reds), born in Burbank, California
1977 – Marcus Thames, American baseball player
Famous Deaths
1836 – Davy Crockett, American frontiersman, adventurer and politician, killed at the Battle of the Alamo at 49
1878 – Julius Caesar, English cricket batsman (first English tours to North America 1859-60, Australia and NZ 1864-5; Surrey CCC), dies from dropsy at 47
1962 – Rezső Kókai, Hungarian pianist, composer, musicologist, and pedagogue, dies at 56
1984 – Ian Cromb, New Zealand cricketer (5 Tests for NZ, 123 runs, 8 wkts), dies at 78
1994 – Tengiz Abuladze, Soviet Georgian filmmaker (Repentence), dies at 70
1996 – Stanley Booth-Clibborn, British Anglican Bishop of Manchester, dies at 71
Famous Deaths for 5th March 2023
1611 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
1815 – Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician and hypnotist (Mesmerism), dies at 80
1893 – Richard Samuel Hughes, Welsh composer, dies at 37
1895 – Nikolai Leskow, writer, dies at 64
1944 – Max Jacob, French poet and writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67
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
1984 – Michael Sklar, American comedian (Laugh-In; Sha Na Na), dies at 39
1997 – Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. 1909)
2017 – Anthony Beilenson, American politician (Rep-D-California, 1977-97), dies at 84
2018 – Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer, dies at 92
Historical Events for 5th March 2023
1684 – Emperor Leopold I, Poland and Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz
1743 – 1st US religious journal, The Christian History, published in Boston
1746 – Jacobite troops leave Aberdeen
1845 – 7th Grand National: William Loft aboard outsider Cure-All wins in record time of 10 minutes, 47 seconds
1853 – Piano company Steinway and Sons founded by Heinrich Steinweg (later Henry Steinway) in New York City
1856 – Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads
1978 – “Hello, Dolly!” opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 performances
1989 – 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000
1995 – Graves of Tsar Nicholas II and family found in St Petersburg
2013 – Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro assumes the presidency after the death of Hugo Chávez
Today in History for 5th March 2023
Historical Events
1820 – Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
1912 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1935 – 1st premature baby health law in US (Chicago)
1936 – Spitfire makes its 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton)
1985 – 38th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs): “The Killing Fields” Best Film, Wim Wenders Best Director
1994 – PBA National Championship won by David Traber
Famous Birthdays
1870 – Frank Norris, journalist and writer (McTeague, Octopus), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1902)
1897 – Soong Mei-ling [Madame Chiang Kai-shek], Chinese political figure and First Lady of the Republic of China (1948-75), born in Shanghai (d. 2003)
1922 – James Noble, American actor (Benson, 1776, Airplane II: The Sequel), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 2016)
1939 – Terry Curry, English multi-millionaire
1942 – Felipe González, Prime Minister of Spain, 1982-96, born in Seville
1946 – Richard Bell, Canadian musician (Full Tilt Boogie Band), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2007)
Famous Deaths
1576 – Don Luis de Requesens y Zuniga, viceroy of Neth (1573-76), dies at 70
1611 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
1873 – Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, French composer, dies at 34
1955 – Antanas Merkys, President of Lithuania (b. 1888)
1991 – Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 109
2018 – Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer, dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 4th March 2023
561 – Pelagius I, Italian Pope (556-61), dies
1825 – Raphaelle Peale, American painter (After the Rain, 1823), dies at 51
1936 – Ruben Liljefors, Swedish composer, dies at 64
1984 – Shalva Mikhailovich Mshvelidze, Russian composer, dies at 79
1993 – Richard Sale, American pulp writer and director (Oscar, Torpedo Run), dies at 80
1997 – Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916)
2007 – Thomas Eagleton, American politician (38th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri), dies at 77
2009 – John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1930)
2011 – Johnny Preston, American pop singer (Running Bear), dies at 71
2022 – Maryan Wisniewski, French soccer striker (33 caps; Lens, Sampdoria, Saint-Étienne, Sochaux, Grenoble), dies at 85
Historical Events for 4th March 2023
51 – Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth)
1238 – Battle of the Sit River: Mongol forces of Batu Khan overcome Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal near Yaroslavl in Russia, ending Russian resistance
1793 – French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands
1853 – Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands
1970 – NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
1972 – Abercorn Restaurant bombing: a bomb explodes in a crowded restaurant in Belfast, killing two civilians and wounding 130
1974 – Harold Wilson replaces resigning Edward Heath as British premier
1976 – John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
1979 – 200th episode of “All in the Family”
1983 – U.S. Public Health Service’s publishes its guidelines for blood donors and AIDS