1743 – 1st American town meeting is held in Boston’s Faneuil Hall
1801 – Henry Addington becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after his friend William Pitt the Younger resigns after being unable to persuade King George III of the need for Catholic Emancipation
1821 – African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY)
1888 – Second largest snowfall in NYC history (21″)
1968 – CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn’t make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
1971 – The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1978 – NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
1993 – 14th Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Syracuse, 103-70
1993 – “Conversations with My Father” closes at Royale NYC after 462 performances
1994 – Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov and N Thagard
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 13th March 2021
1852 – Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly
1877 – American Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs after inventing them at age 15
1918 – American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
1943 – Baseball approves official ball (with cork and balata)
1957 – Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba
1967 – Robert Anderson’s “You Know I Can’t Hear You …” premieres in NYC
1993 – Blizzard of ’93 hits north-east USA
2011 – 52nd SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Florida, 70-54
2015 – Cyclone Pam causes widespread damage in Vanuatu and the South Pacific, including 15-16 deaths.
2020 – Elite football in Britain, including England’s Premier League, EFL, Women’s Super League plus in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is suspended until at least 3 April because of COVID-19 pandemic
Historical Events for 12th March 2021
1862 – 24th Grand National: Harry Lamplugh wins aboard The Huntsman; first French trained winner; only human fatality recorded in the event, jockey Joe Wynne
1897 – Vincent d’Indy’s opera “Fervaal” premieres in Brussels
1981 – Walter R T Witschey installs world’s largest sundial in Richmond, Virginia
1983 – Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49)
1993 – Entertainment Tonight’s 3,000th show
1995 – Ice Pairs Championship at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova and Rene Novotny
1996 – Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
2012 – 45 people, including children, are massacred by the Syrian Army in Homs
2013 – JOGMEC becomes the first to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits
2019 – Theresa May’s British government suffers a second defeat on a Brexit deal with the EU, 391 votes to 242
Historical Events for 11th March 2021
1791 – Samuel Mulliken is 1st to obtain more than one US patent
1888 – Great blizzard of ’88 strikes northeastern USA
1919 – General strike in Germany crushed
1953 – 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
1966 – Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out
1968 – Otis Redding is the first person in the US to posthumously receive gold record for his single “Sittin’ On the Dock of the Bay”
1978 – Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
1986 – 1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21st, 753 BC
2003 – The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
2017 – At least 65 killed in landslide at rubbish dump near Addis Ababa, Ethopia
Historical Events for 10th March 2021
1847 – 1st money minted in Hawaii
1925 – Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran
1933 – Major earthquake in Long Beach, California
1949 – Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949
1956 – General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios
1964 – US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
1974 – Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
1990 – Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
1991 – 12th Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Georgetown, 74-62
2009 – Billy Corgan testifies in front of Congress, on behalf of the musicFIRST Coalition, in support of H.R. 848, the Performance Rights Act
Historical Events for 9th March 2021
1914 – Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
1918 – Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1943 – Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown
1958 – George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season
1961 – Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
1964 – Creighton’s Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Okla
1974 – 21st ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Maryland, 103-100 (OT)
1996 – Javed Miandad’s last international in Pakistan’s Cricket World Cup Quater Final loss to India
2007 – The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens
2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights
Historical Events for 8th March 2021
1722 – Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
1945 – “Kiss Me Kate” opens in Britain
1966 – “Golden Boy” closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 569 performances
1968 – Bill Graham’s New York rock venue Fillmore East opens in Manhattan
1973 – Paul and Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis
1983 – House Foreign Affairs Com endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR
1986 – Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley’s Comet at 109,800 km
1986 – 27th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Alabama, 83-72
1989 – Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 secs)
1995 – Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
Historical Events for 7th March 2021
1696 – English King William III departs Netherlands
1808 – Portugal’s regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
1850 – Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
1902 – Boers beat British troops at Tweebosch, Transvaal
1945 – Cologne taken by allied armies
1965 – Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after ton
1967 – Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)
1970 – Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)
2010 – 82nd Academy Awards: “The Hurt Locker”, Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock win
2017 – Malta’s famous landmark the Azure Window collapses into the sea after a storm
Historical Events for 6th March 2021
1895 – England beats Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2
1945 – Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio
1966 – Barry Sadler’s “Ballad of the Green Berets” becomes #1 (13 weeks)
1972 – Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes
1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1976 – European Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden won by John Curry (Great Britain)
1981 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1985 – Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of “The King and I”
2013 – Microsoft is fined €561 by the Euro Commission for the EU for not providing option to chose an alternative web browser
2020 – Russia refuses to reduce oil production over COVID-19 fears, breaking with Saudi Arabia and OPEC and prompting a price war
Historical Events for 5th March 2021
1046 – Persian scholar Naser Khosrow begins the 7 year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama
1179 – 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1836 – Samuel Colt manufactures first pistol, 34-caliber “Texas” model
1942 – World première of Dmitri Shostakovich’ 7th Symphony in Kuybyshev, Russia
1945 – Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton and Alexander Patch meet in Lunéville, France
1953 – 6th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): “The Sound Barrier” Best Film
1958 – KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
1962 – 19th Golden Globes: “The Guns of Navarone”, Maximilian Schell, and Geraldine Page win
2015 – -8th Islamic State militants ransack and destroy ancient cities of Nimrud, Hatra and Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq
2019 – Major study into the MMR vaccine involving over 650,000 children in Denmark finds it does not increase the risk of autism