1877 – English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers beat Oxford University, 2–1 (a.e.t.); Wanderers’ 4th title
1878 – British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
1899 – 61st Grand National: George Williamson aboard 1897 winner Manifesto wins by 4 lengths from Ford Of Fyne
1941 – German troops occupy El Agheila Libya
1967 – University of Michigan holds 1st “Teach-in” after bombing of North Vietnam
1980 – ABC’s nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed “Nightline”
1985 – Third straight WTA Tour Championship for tennis legend Martina Navratilova; beats Helena Suková 6–3, 7–5, 6–4 at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1989 – Worst US oil spill, Exxon’s Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska
2006 – Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his Pontificate
2019 – Investigation headed by Special Council Robert S. Mueller finds no evidence President Trump colluded with Russia in 2016 election
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 23rd March 2021
1808 – Napoleon’s brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain
1918 – Alick Wickham dives 200′ into Australia’s Yarra River
1921 – Germany announces it will be unable to meet its Great War reparation payments
1943 – German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia
1993 – NY Knicks and Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl
1999 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay’s Vice President Luis María Argaña
2000 – Joe Sakic records his 400th career goal and becomes the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche all-time leading point scorer
2002 – 22nd Golden Raspberry Awards: “Freddy Got Fingered” wins
2007 – Iranian Navy seize Royal Navy personnel in Iraqi waters
2013 – 20 people are killed and 200 are injured by a tornado in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh
Historical Events for 22nd March 2021
1943 – Dutch SS police chief Hans Albin Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
1958 – 20th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle, 84-72; Seattle’s future Hall of Fame small forward Elgin Baylor is named tournament MOP
1972 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP
1981 – Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
1984 – Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL record scores 5 seconds into game
1989 – US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate
1996 – Cheryl Depew of Florida crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International
2011 – Lawrence Taylor pleads guilty for misdemeanors of sexual misconduct and is sentenced to six years probation
2012 – Ireland returns to recession as GDP falls by 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2011 following a fall of 1.1% in the third quarter
2014 – Guinea confirms Ebola outbreak has already killed 59 people
Historical Events for 21st March 2021
1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
1872 – 34th Grand National: John Page wins his second GN aboard 20/1 shot Casse Tete
1944 – General Eisenhower postpones invasion of the south of France until after Normandy
1948 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg wins her 4th Titleholders title by 1 stroke ahead of Babe Zaharias and Peggy Kirk
1990 – “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opens at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC for 149 performances
2014 – Canadian freestyle skier (moguls) and two-time Olympic gold medalist Alexandre Bilodeau retires at 26
2018 – China announces greater controls over the media, including merging state-run radio and television broadcasters into a single conglomerate called “Voice of China”
2018 – Suicide bomber kills 31 in crowd celebrating Persian New Year in Kabul, Afghanistan
2019 – Governor of Missouri Mike Parson declares a state of emergency as flooding from Nebraska and Iowa flows downstream into the state
2019 – A huge blast from a chemical factory in Chenjiagang Chemical Industry Park in eastern China is so big it registers as an earthquake, kills 78 people and injuries 617
Historical Events for 20th March 2021
1815 – Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1897 – France signs treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
1920 – Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis, Adelaide: Pat O’Hara Wood beats fellow Australian Ronald Thomas 6-3, 4-6, 6-8, 6-1, 6-3
1922 – WIP-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
1923 – Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent
1956 – E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st secretary of Polish CP
1965 – Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 v NZ at Delhi
1967 – WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1993 – IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington, England
1995 – Beatles song, “Baby It’s You”, with late John Lennon as lead singer, released, 1st Fab Four single in nearly 10 years
Historical Events for 19th March 2021
1227 – Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX
1524 – Giovanni de Varrazano, a Florentine explorer in the service of King Francis I of France, lands around area of Carolinas
1644 – 200 members of Peking imperial family and court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor
1864 – Opera “Mireille” premieres in Paris
1915 – Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)
1937 – Astronomer Fritz Zwicky publishes his research on stellar explosion in which he coins the term “supernova” and hypothesizes that they were the origin of cosmic rays
1956 – Biggest NBA margin of victory – Minn Lakers-133, St Louis Hawks-75
1991 – St Louis Blues Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season
1993 – Ice Pairs Championship in Prague won by I Brasseur and L Eisler (CAN)
1995 – Finnish Social Democratic Party wins parliamentary election
Historical Events for 18th March 2021
1608 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia
1834 – 1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Pennsylvania (275 m long)
1903 – Following through on its attacks on Roman Catholic institutions, the French Government dissolves the Catholic religious orders
1909 – Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast
1915 – Failed British attack in Dardanelles
1920 – Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
1972 – Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for 1st time in 225 games (Boston U)
1977 – Vietnam hands over MIA to US
2002 – The Ramones are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
2019 – Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi makes national radio address to the nation after Cyclone Idai, saying more than 1,000 people feared dead with 100,000 at risk
Historical Events for 17th March 2021
1521 – Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines
1800 – British warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
1842 – Indians land in Ohio, a 12 square mile area in Upper Sandusky
1898 – John Philip Holland achieves successful test run for the first modern submarine off Staten Island, submerging for 1 hour 40 minutes
1918 – US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford
1942 – General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
1947 – Arnold J. Toynbee appears on the front cover of Time magazine
1966 – South Africa’s government bans Defense and Aid Fund
1985 – Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623′
1995 – British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
Historical Events for 16th March 2021
1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot by Count Jacob Johan Anckarström at a masked ball at the Opera; he dies on March 29
1815 – Willem I proclaimed King of the Netherlands, including Belgium
1830 – New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
1917 – Russian Grand Duke Michael, brother of Tsar Nicholas II declines the Russian throne [OS Mar 3]
1949 – 6th Golden Globes: Johnny Belinda, Laurence Olivier, and Jane Wyman win
1956 – US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1962 – 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket
1978 – US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty
1978 – Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
1984 – Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
Historical Events for 15th March 2021
1889 – 6 US and German warships sunk by a typhoon in Apia harbour, Samoa, 200 die
1912 – Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1949 – WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 – US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
1958 – “Body Beautiful” musical closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
1962 – KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 – 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Frank Sintra and Barbra Streisand
1982 – Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
1987 – US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
1992 – 13th Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats Georgetown, 56-54