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Today in History for 4th March 2023

Historical Events

1863 – Territory of Idaho established
1925 – US President Coolidge’s inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
1968 – Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1979 – US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter’s rings
1980 – Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) comes to power, winning the parliamentary election in Zimbabwe, making Mugabe Zimbabwe’s first black prime minister
2019 – US Democrats announce a wide-ranging corruption investigation into President Donald Trump

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Famous Birthdays

1900 – Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
1931 – Wally Bruner, American broadcast journalist (ABC News), and TV host (What’s My Line?, 1968-72), born in Ames, Iowa (d. 1997)
1936 – Jim Clark, Scottish auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1965; F1 World Champion 1963, 65), born in Kilmany, Fife, Scotland (d. 1968)
1948 – James Ellroy, American crime writer (L.A. Confidential), born in Los Angeles, California
1962 – Brant Ian Woodward, New Zealand trap shooter (Olympics 1996), born in Hurstville, New Zealand
1966 – Grand Puba [Maxwell Dixon], American rapper (Grand Nubian), born in New Rochelle, New York

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Famous Deaths

1866 – Alexander Campbell, Irish-American clergyman and Founder of Disciples of Christ, dies at 77
1915 – William Willett, British inventor of Daylight Saving Time, dies of influenza at 58
1945 – Mark Sandrich [Goldstein], American film director, writer and producer (The Gay Divorcee; Top Hat; Holiday Inn), dies of a heart attack at 44
1977 – Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
2009 – George McAfee, American football player, NFL halfback (Chicago Bears), dies at 90
2011 – Arjun Singh, Indian politician (b. 1930)

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Famous Deaths for 3rd March 2023

1792 – Robert Adam, Scottish architect and designer (Adelphi Terrace, London), dies at 63
1822 – Franz Adam Veichtner, German violinist and composer, dies at 81
1928 – Jan [Jean] T Toorop, Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at 69
1934 – Norman O’Neill, English theatrical composer (Mary Rose) and conductor, dies from injuries sustained after being struck by a package delivery tricycle at 58
1974 – Frank Wilcox, American actor (Beverly Hillbillies), dies from a heart attack at 66
1977 – Percy Marmont, British actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon, Captain Apache), dies at 93
1993 – Carlos Montoya, American flamenco guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966), dies at 89
1994 – Karel Kryl, Czechoslovak folk singer, dies at 49
1995 – Howard Hunter, US leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1994-95), dies at 87
2022 – Tim Considine, American actor (Spin and Marty; My Three Sons, 1960-65 – “Mike”), and photographer, dies at 81

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Historical Events for 3rd March 2023

1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China
1869 – University of South Carolina opens to all races
1873 – US Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps
1920 – Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs
1936 – Clarence Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v South Africa
1945 – US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall
1985 – National Union of Mine Workers in Britain ends a 51 week strike
2015 – “Under the Dome” a documentary on pollution in China by Chai Jing has been viewed over 150 million times in 3 days on Tencent
2020 – Iran releases 54,000 people from prison to avoid spread of COVID-19 as country reports 77 deaths and 2,300 cases including two dozen MPs
2022 – Russian forces seize the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe

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Today in History for 3rd March 2023

Historical Events

1638 – Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden
1821 – American tailor and inventor Thomas L. Jennings (30) receives US patent for his “dry-scouring” process. the forerunner of today’s modern dry-cleaning
1959 – San Francisco Giants rename their stadium Candlestick Park
1962 – British Antarctic Territory forms
1985 – “Moonlighting” with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis premieres on ABC TV in the US
1991 – United Airlines 737 crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25

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Famous Birthdays

1886 – (Reginald Owen) R.O. Morris, British composer and music teacher, born in York, England (d. 1948)
1920 – James Doohan, Canadian actor (Star Trek), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2005)
1933 – Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (The Crach, Sinatra), born in Pamplona, Spain (d. 2013)
1940 – Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist
1951 – Lindsay Cooper, British bassoonist, oboe player, and composer (Henry Cow; News from Babel), born in Hornsey, North London, England (d. 2013)
1981 – Sung Yu Ri, South Korean singer and actress

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Famous Deaths

1965 – Carlo Gatti, Italian musicologist (Verdi), dies at 88
1988 – Lois Wilson, American silent and sound screen actress (Miss Lulu Bett; The Great Gatsby; The Covered Wagon: Bright Eyes), dies of pneumonia at 72
1993 – Carlos Montoya, American flamenco guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966), dies at 89
2004 – Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (b. 1958)
2012 – Leonardo Cimino, Italian-American actor (The Monster Squad, V, Dune, Waterworld, Hudson Hawk), dies from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 94
2012 – Alex Webster, American football coach (NY Giants), dies at 80

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Famous Deaths for 2nd March 2023

855 – Lothair, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 795)
1758 – Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German painter and stucco worker, buried at 78
1868 – Carl Eberwein, German composer and violinist, dies at 81
1887 – Wilhelm Troszel, Polish operatic bass, composer, and voice teacher, dies at 63
1942 – Charlie Christian, American jazz and swing guitarist (Benny Goodman Sextet), dies of tuberculosis at 25
1950 – Rosli Dhobi, pro-Indonesian Malay student, hanged in Kuching for the assassination of Duncan Stewart, British Governor of Sarawak
1981 – Tony Gulotta, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1927 3rd), dies at 78
1995 – Hugo Cole, British composer and critic, dies at 77
2007 – Thomas S. Kleppe, U.S. politician (b. 1919)
2015 – Bettina Graziani [Simone Bodin] French model, one of the first supermodels, Givenchy muse, dies at 89

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Historical Events for 2nd March 2023

1836 – Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico in Columbia
1896 – Best 9-wicket haul in cricket history; George Lohmann takes 9-28 as England beats South Africa by an innings and 197 runs in 2nd Test at Johannesburg
1944 – Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocate 521 in Italy
1966 – After suffering a hairline fracture of his right hind foot, 5-time US Horse of the Year Kelso is immediately retired; racing’s all-time leading money winner with lifetime earnings of $1,977,896
1969 – 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde
1993 – Actress Claudette Colbert suffers a stroke at 89
2000 – America’s Cup, Auckland: Team New Zealand beats Italian yacht Prada Challenge by 0.48s for a 5-0 series sweep; NZ only the 2nd country in 150 years to successfully defend the Cup
2019 – FESPACO, Africa’s largest film festival in its 50th year awards the Golden Stallion of Yennenga to “The Mercy of the Jungle” by Joel Karekezi, in Burkina Faso
2019 – Australian wonder horse Winx sets world record for Group 1 wins in the Chipping Norton Stakes in Sydney; stretches unbeaten run to 31 races, and her 23rd in the highest class of thoroughbred racing
2020 – American singer-songwriter Garth Brooks receives Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

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Today in History for 2nd March 2023

Historical Events

1121 – Dirk VI becomes count of Holland
1903 – Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in NYC
1941 – World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
1946 – Kingman Douglass becomes deputy director of CIA
1959 – Ceremony to mark the start of construction of the Sydney Opera House at Bennelong Point, Sydney
1970 – American Airlines’ 1st flight of a Boeing 747

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Famous Birthdays

1481 – Franz von Sickingen, German knight, born in Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg, Germany (d. 1523)
1908 – Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (d. 1968)
1917 – John Gardner, English classical composer, born in Manchester, England (d. 2011)
1963 – Tanyu Kiryakov, Bulgarian pistol shooter (Olympic gold 10m air pistol 1988, 50m pistol 2000), born in Ruse, Bulgaria
1970 – Alexander Armstrong, British comedian, TV presenter and baritone singer (Armstrong and Miller, Pointless), born in Rothbury, Northumberland
1982 – Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish ice hockey goaltender (Olympic gold 2006; NHL Vezina Trophy 2012; NY Rangers), born in Åre, Sweden

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Famous Deaths

986 – Lotharius, King of France (954-86), dies at 44
1797 – Horace Walpole, British horror writer (Castle of Otranto), dies at 79
1822 – Friedrich Christian Hermann Uber, composer, dies at 40
1868 – Carl Eberwein, German composer and violinist, dies at 81
1970 – Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebec painter (b. 1888)
1975 – Jean Kurt Forest, German composer, dies at 65

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Famous Deaths for 1st March 2023

1546 – George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer, martyred at 33
1773 – Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian, dies at 63
1804 – Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, German composer, dies at 63
1884 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician, dies at 63
1914 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, dies at 63
1970 – Ed Hoornik, Dutch writer and poet (Na jaren), dies at 59
1980 – Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model and founder of Wilhelmina Models, dies at 40
1993 – Luis Kutner, American co-founder (Amnesty International), dies at 84
1994 – Manmohan Desai, Indian filmmaker (Amar Akbar Anthony, Suhaag), dies at 57
2013 – Sammy Guillen, West Indian cricket wicket-keeper (5 Tests West Indies and 3 Tests New Zealand), dies at 88

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Historical Events for 1st March 2023

1831 – Lord John Russell introduces the Reform Bill in the British House of Commons on the government’s behalf to revamp the electoral system of England and Wales and increase the franchise
1864 – Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
1867 – Howard University, Washington, D.C., chartered
1914 – Dutch Minister of War Hendrikus Colijn named director of British Petroleum
1941 – Former University of Notre Dame star fullback Elmer Layden is named first Commissioner of the NFL
1944 – U-358 sinks in Atlantic
1972 – Two Catholic teenagers shot dead by the Royal Ulster Constabulary while ‘joy riding’ in a stolen car in Belfast
1996 – New toll-free 888 area code introduced in USA
2002 – The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 miles) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (9.5 tons).
2006 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station

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Today in History for 1st March 2023

Historical Events

1780 – Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for newborns only)
1886 – The Anglo-Chinese School in Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
1953 – KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins
1974 – Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides
1980 – Commonwealth Trade Union Council established
1999 – Daryll Cullinan scores South African cricket record 275no in the drawn 1st Test against New Zealand at Eden Park, Auckland; Gary Kirsten 128

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Famous Birthdays

1924 – Donald “Deke” Kent Slayton, Sparta Wisc, Major USAF/astro (Apollo 18)
1933 – Joan Hackett, American stage and screen actress (Will Penny; Only When I Laugh; Mourning Becomes Electra), born in East Harlem, NYC (d. 1983)
1952 – Steven Barnes, American writer
1966 – Paul Hollywood, English baker and TV judge (The Great British Bake Off), born in Wallasey, England
1974 – Mark-Paul Gosselaar, actor (Zack-Saved by the Bell)
1990 – Harry Eden, English actor, born in Old Harlow, Essex

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Famous Deaths

1244 – Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Welsh leader Llywelyn the Great, dies trying to escape from the Tower of London (b. 1200)
1788 – Orazio Mei, Italian organist, and composer, dies at 56
1859 – Josef Theodor Krov, Bohemian composer, singer and teacher, dies at 61
1928 – Jacob Adolf Hägg, Swedish composer, dies at 77
1932 – Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist, killed in a car accident at 25
2022 – Warner Mark [McPherson], American country music singer-songwriter (Sittin’ on a Rock (Cryin’ in a Creek)); Talkin’ to the Wall), dies at 86

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