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.
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 28th February 2023
1653 – -Mar 3] 3 Day Sea battle English beat Dutch
1849 – 11th Grand National: Tom Cunningham wins aboard 20/1 Peter Simple; 2nd consecutive year there are 3 equine fatalities during the race
1912 – Australian batting great Victor Trumper scores 50 in his final Test innings in 5th Test loss v England at Sydney Cricket Ground
1933 – On Adolf Hitler’s advice, German President Paul von Hindenburg signs the Reichstag Fire Decree after the building is destroyed by fire in Berlin; this eliminates many civil liberties in Germany
1970 – WUTR TV channel 20 in Utica-Rome, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 – WDRB TV channel 41 in Louisville, Kentucky (IND) begins broadcasting
1981 – People’s Republic of China throws out the Netherlands ambassador due to Dutch sales of submarines to Taiwan
1997 – FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia
1998 – First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
2001 – The US Environmental Protection Agency announces that it intends to proceed with implementation of tighter restrictions on sulfur content in diesel fuel; the rule is opposed by many in the refining industry
Historical Events for 27th February 2023
1626 – Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci
1670 – Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
1813 – US Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
1864 – 6th and last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
1943 – The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
1960 – US Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal
1966 – 8th Daytona 500: Polesitter Richard Petty comes from 2 laps down to win the event after 198 laps were completed because of rain
1970 – NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
1980 – Israel and Egypt exchange ambassadors
2012 – Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor
Historical Events for 26th February 2023
1917 – 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)
1924 – Trial against Adolf Hitler for treason in “Beer Hall Putsch” begins in Munich, Germany
1930 – Play “Green Pastures” opens at Mansfield Theater
1935 – RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt
1953 – Allen Dulles officially promoted from deputy director to become the 5th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
1981 – 84 penalties (406 mins) assessed for a brawl between NHL Minn and Bost
1991 – Coalition planes bomb Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait during the Gulf War, killing hundreds and creating the so-called ‘Highway of Death’
1998 – Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09)
2018 – Cold weather nicknamed “the Beast from the East” hits Europe, killing 7 and covering Pompeii in snow
2019 – Catholic Cardinal George Pell convicted of child sexual abuse in Melbourne, Australia. As treasurer at the Vatican, the highest-ranking church official to be convicted; overturned in 2020
Historical Events for 25th February 2023
1799 – US Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
1904 – Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games
1910 – Dalai Lama flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops
1919 – Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)
1957 – Buddy Holly and the Crickets record their smash hit “That’ll Be the Day” in Clovis, New Mexico
1962 – India Congress Party wins elections
1981 – Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue
1986 – 28th Grammy Awards: “We Are the World”, Sade, Phil Collins win
1992 – 34th Grammy Awards: “Unforgettable”;, Marc Cohn win
1999 – British chef Gordon Ramsay comes to prominence appearing in the TV documentary “Boiling Point” detailing the opening of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay
Historical Events for 24th February 2023
1552 – Privileges of Hanseatic League in England are abrogated
1894 – Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras
1917 – German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
1943 – Major General Omar Bradley flies to Algiers
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 – American radio and television personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
1997 – Qatar inaugurates the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporting facility and formally launches Qatar Liquefied Gas Co.
2002 – 55th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs): “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” Best Film, Peter Jackson Best Director
2018 – Men’s big air snowboarding event makes Olympic debut at Pyeongchang; Canada’s Sébastien Toutant is inaugural gold medallist
2019 – 91st Academy Awards: Best Picture “Green Book”, Best Director Alfonso Cuarón, Best Actor Rami Malek, Best Actress Olivia Colman
Historical Events for 23rd February 2023
1660 – Charles XI becomes king of Sweden
1778 – Baron von Steuben joins Continental Army at Valley Forge
1910 – 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)
1945 – US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Pulitzer Prize winning photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture
1969 – Groundbreaking TV documentary series “Civilisation” presented by art historian Kenneth Clark premieres on BBC2 in the UK
1979 – Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps
1985 – Goaltender Patrick Roy makes his NHL debut for the Montreal Canadiens
2007 – A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
2016 – US primary elections: Nevada Republican Primary – Donald Trump wins with 45.9.5%
2019 – Clashes on Venezuelan border kills two as its country’s officials try to stop aid getting in
Historical Events for 22nd February 2023
303 – 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued by Emperor Diocletian at Nicomedia, ordering all churches to be closed and scriptures burnt
1288 – Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV
1927 – Baruch Spinosa’s house of mourning opened as a museum
1927 – ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
1941 – German assault on El Agheila Libya
1941 – Arthur “Bomber” Harris becomes British Air Marshal
1951 – 4th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs): “All About Eve” Best Film
1979 – Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s Primate and Cat Building is dedicated (Cleveland, Ohio)
2014 – 45th NAACP Image Awards: “12 Years a Slave” wins Outstanding Motion Picture
2014 – Snowboard Olympic parallel special slalom event debuts and is run for the only time at the Sochi Winter Games; Russian Vic Wild and Julia Dujmovits of Canada win unique gold medals
Historical Events for 21st February 2023
1795 – Freedom of worship established in France under constitution
1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish “The Communist Manifesto” in London
1866 – Lucy B. Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree
1911 – Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto, Berceuse élégiaque, in New York City
1922 – Airship “Rome” explodes at Hampton Roads, Virginia; 34 die
1945 – Operation Veritable: British Army captures Goch from Germany, forcing German retreat away from the Rhineland
1946 – Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt
1991 – Neil Simon’s stage comedy “Lost in Yonkers” opens at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC; runs for 780 performances
2019 – Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 touches down on asteroid Ryugu on mission to collect rock samples
2019 – The Lunar Library, a 30 million page digital library launched on board Israel’s Beresheet Lunar Lander, aiming to be stored on the Moon