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Today in History for 5th March 2021

Historical Events

1651 – South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm
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
1948 – US rocket flies record 4800 kph to 126km height
1956 – “King Kong” 1st televised
1982 – Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners
1985 – NY Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons

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Famous Birthdays

1935 – Billy Tubbs, American college basketball coach (Southwestern Uni, Lamar Uni, Uni of Oklahoma, Texas Christian Uni), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2020)
1948 – Richard Hickox, English musical conductor
1956 – Mark Handley, writer (Nell)
1972 – Luca Turilli, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1972 – Hernan Gumy, tennis star, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1988 – Bjarni Viðarsson, Icelandic footballer

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Famous Deaths

1576 – Don Luis de Requesens y Zuniga, viceroy of Neth (1573-76), dies at 70
1893 – Richard Samuel Hughes, Welsh composer, dies at 37
1955 – Antanas Merkys, President of Lithuania (b. 1888)
1967 – Georges Vanier, French-Canadian soldier and 19th Governor General of Canada, dies at 78
1998 – Donald Woods, Canadian actor (True Grit, Craig Kennedy; Criminologist), dies at 91
2013 – Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela, dies from respiratory failure at 58

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Famous Deaths for 4th March 2021

1805 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter, dies at 79
1868 – Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
1938 – Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1944 – Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855)
1984 – Shalva Mikhailovich Mshvelidze, Russian composer, dies at 79
1993 – Art Hodes, Russ/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies
2001 – Jim Rhodes, Governor of Ohio (b. 1909)
2008 – Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Yugoslavian-born Croatian actress (b. 1935)
2010 – Nan Martin, American actress (b. 1927)
2017 – Valerie Carter, American folk-rock singer-songwriter, and session vocalist, dies of a heart attack at 64

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Historical Events for 4th March 2021

1789 – US House of Representatives 1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
1837 – Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
1861 – US President Abraham Lincoln opens Government Printing Office
1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland – over 300 dead.
1903 – Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal HC beats Winnipeg Victorias, 4-1 for a 2-1 challenge series victory
1929 – Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP
1964 – Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
1973 – 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
1982 – NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 504
2013 – 40 Syrian soldiers are killed in an ambush in Western Iraq

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Today in History for 4th March 2021

Historical Events

1665 – English King Charles II declares war on Netherlands
1830 – Vincenzo Bellini’s opera “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” premieres in Venice
1970 – Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
1991 – Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British and 1 Italian POW
1994 – 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
2013 – British TV drama “Broadchurch” created by Chris Chibnall, starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman premieres on ITV

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Famous Birthdays

1921 – Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player (Australian C’ship 1947), born in Nottingham, England (d. 1986)
1949 – Carroll Baker, Canadian country singer and songwriter, born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
1975 – Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player
1976 – Vic Wunderle, American archer
1984 – Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress
1992 – Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco

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Famous Deaths

1805 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter, dies at 79
1872 – Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
1973 – Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907)
1984 – Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914)
1993 – Nicholas Ridley, Lord Ridley of Liddesdale, English politician, Minister of Finance, dies at 64
2020 – Robert Shavlakadze, Georgian high jumper (Olympic gold high jump for Soviet Union 1960), dies at 86

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Famous Deaths for 3rd March 2021

1765 – William Stukeley, English physician and archaeologist (pioneered investigation of Stonehenge and Avebury), dies at 77
1943 – George Thomson, cricketer (all-rounder-6 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies
1990 – Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86
1994 – Ezra Stone [Chaim Feinstone], American director, actor and producer (My Living Doll, Henry Aldrich), dies in a road accident at 76
1996 – Meyer Schapiro, Lithuanian-born American art historian, dies at 91
2001 – Louis Edmonds, American actor (b. 1923)
2002 – Harlan Howard, American country music songwriter, dies at 74
2003 – Peter Smithson, English architect, dies at 79
2006 – Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (b. 1923)
2018 – David Ogden Stiers, American actor (Winchester-M*A*S*H, Doc), dies of bladder cancer at 75

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Historical Events for 3rd March 2021

1791 – 1st US internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits and carriages)
1794 – Richard Allen founded African Methodist Episcopal Church
1847 – 9th Grand National: Denny Wynne wins aboard 10/1 Mathew; regarded as the first Irish-trained horse to win the race
1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China
1865 – US Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established by Abraham Lincoln to help destitute free blacks
1894 – “NY Atlantis” 1st Greek-language publication in US begins
1920 – Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs
1923 – US Senate rejects membership of the International Court of Justice, The Hague
1937 – Australia snatches series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down
1946 – US Men’s Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button

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Today in History for 3rd March 2021

Historical Events

1837 – Congress increases US Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
1882 – NY Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
1885 – American Telephone and Telegraph (ATandT) incorporates
1894 – 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns
1965 – The Temptations’ “My Girl” reaches #1
2012 – Lorry crash in east Guinea kills 50 and injures 27

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Famous Birthdays

1678 – Madeleine de Verchères, French Canadian heroine (d. 1747)
1882 – Charles Ponzi [Carlo], Italian con-man (Ponzi scheme in the US), born in Lugo, Italy (d. 1949)
1973 – Tisha Venturini, Modesto California, soccer midfielder (Olympics 1996)
1973 – Jim Mills, tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1979 – Patrick Renna, American actor
1982 – Colton Orr, Canadian ice hockey player

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Famous Deaths

1908 – Karl Josef Rudolph Cornely, German Jesuit biblical scholar, dies at 77
1943 – George Thomson, cricketer (all-rounder-6 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies
1994 – Anita Morris, actress (Nine), dies of cancer at 50
1996 – Leo Malet, French crime novelist, dies at 86
2008 – Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor, dies at 86
2012 – Ronnie Montrose, American rock guitarist (Montrose, Gamma), dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 64

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Famous Deaths for 2nd March 2021

1122 – Floris II, the fat one, count of Holland, dies
1127 – Charles, the Good, Count of Flanders, murdered
1919 – Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (b. 1812)
1937 – Gustav Wohlgemuth, German composer, dies at 73
1957 – Harry E Soref, inventor (padlock), dies at 70
1994 – Donald M. MacKinnon, Scottish philosopher, dies at 80
1996 – Jacobo Majluta Azar, 47th President of the Dominican Republic (1978-82), dies at 61
1998 – Henry Steele Commager, American historian (Atlas of Civil War), dies at 95
2003 – Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer, dies at 71
2015 – Mal Peet, British children’s author, dies at 67

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Historical Events for 2nd March 2021

1717 – The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England
1824 – Interstate commerce comes under federal control
1853 – 15th Grand National: Tom Oliver aboard Peter Simple wins his third GN Steeplechase and the stallion’s second; oldest horse to win event at 15
1865 – Conferate General Early’s army is defeated at the battle of Waynesboro, Virginia, during American Civil War
1867 – US Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico
1940 – The first televised intercollegiate track meet is seen in NYC on W2XBS; NYU wins the meet presented live from Madison Square Garden
1955 – William Inge’s “Bus Stop” premieres in NYC
1984 – Iran offensive against Iraq fails
1994 – Miami begins a Latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefan
2003 – The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics is held at Chung Cheng University.

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Today in History for 2nd March 2021

Historical Events

1868 – University of Illinois opens
1929 – US Congress creates Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
1933 – Sanriku earthquake of 8.4 and tsunami hit Japan, country’s most powerful earthquake in 180 years
1940 – The first televised intercollegiate track meet is seen in NYC on W2XBS; NYU wins the meet presented live from Madison Square Garden
1988 – Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP
2017 – US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from the investigation into Trump campaign contacts with Russia after revelations he met Russian ambassador

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Famous Birthdays

1459 – Adrian VI [Adriaan F Boeyens], Netherlands, Pope (1522-23)
1760 – Camille Desmoulins, French journalist/pamphleteer/revolution leader
1779 – Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist (d. 1851)
1966 – Judith Wiesner, Austrian tennis player (World #12 1997; captain Austria’s Federation Cup team 2001), born in Hallein Austria
1979 – Damien Duff, Irish soccer winger (100 caps, Republic of Ireland; Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, Newcastle United, Fulham), born in Dublin, Ireland
1980 – Lance Cade, American pro wrestler (WWE Tag Team Champion [with Trevor Murdoch] 2005), born in Carroll, Iowa (d. 2010)

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Famous Deaths

1127 – Charles, the Good, Count of Flanders, murdered
1943 – Alexandre Yersin, Swiss French bacteriologist (discovered bubonic plague bacillus), dies at 79
1959 – Eric Blore, British actor (Great Gatsby, Bowery to Baghdad, Abie’s Irish Rose, Love Happy), dies at 70
1977 – Eugénie Brazier, French chef who was the 1st woman to earn 3 Michelin stars (1933), and the 1st person earn 3 Michelin stars for 2 restaurants, dies at 81
2009 – Chris Finnegan, British boxer (Olympic gold middleweight 1968), dies of pneumonia at 64
2012 – Nydia Ecury, celebrated Afro-Dutch writer, translator and actress (Kantika pa Mama Tera), dies at 86

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