1901 – Amidst increasing anti-gambling sentiment, wagering on horse racing is banned in San Francisco, CA; Ingleside Race Track closes March 15
1922 – NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games
1961 – Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of US Communist Party
1973 – “Irene” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
1979 – NHL New York Islanders Mike Bossy’s 5th career hat trick
1982 – Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess and Thierbach (GDR)
1985 – Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko in Moscow
2019 – British MPs vote to reject a no-deal Brexit, defeating Theresa May’s government 321 votes to 278
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 12th March 2026
1755 – 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1910 – Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin Dutchmen (ON), 7-3
1912 – Helen Hayes Theater (Little Theatre) opens at 240W 44th St, NYC
1933 – Franklin D. Roosevelt conducts his first “fireside chat” as US President via radio, speaking directly to 60 million listening Americans, eight days after his inauguration
1958 – 3rd Eurovision Song Contest: Andre Claveau for France wins singing “Dors, mon amour” in Hilversum
1977 – Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bans the Christian-Democratic Party
1985 – Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
2006 – 47th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Florida beats South Carolina, 49-47
Historical Events for 11th March 2026
1779 – US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1862 – Confederate Army General Stonewall Jackson begins evacuation of Winchester, Virginia
1919 – General strike in Germany crushed
1991 – 17th People’s Choice Awards: Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts win (Motion Picture star) and Bill Cosby and Kirstie Alley win (TV)
2000 – 21st Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament: St. John’s beats Connecticut, 80-70
2001 – 48th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats #6 North Carolina, 79-53
2011 – 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills thousands and causes the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
2013 – Falkland Islands’ sovereignty referendum: 99.8% choose to remain an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom
Historical Events for 10th March 2026
1900 – Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Shamrocks outclass Halifax Crescents, 11-0 to sweep challenge series, 2-0
1925 – Cyprus becomes a British crown colony
1927 – Albania mobilizes due to threats from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
1928 – Christine Collins’ son, Walter Collins, disappears in Los Angeles
1931 – Oswald Mosley leaves British Labour party and founds the “New Party”
1956 – General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of Archbishop Makarios
1981 – “Bette Davis Eyes” single released by Kim Carnes (Billboard Song of the Year 1981)
1990 – Prosper Avril resigns as President of Haiti
Historical Events for 9th March 2026
1842 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Nabucco” premieres in Milan
1849 – Carl Nikolais opera “Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor” premieres
1918 – Russian Bolshevik Party is renamed the All-Russian Communist Party
1954 – WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester, NH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 – US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
1984 – Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
2011 – Bonham’s Auctions in New York City conducts sale of Eric Clapton and friends’ guitars and amplifiers to benefit Crossroads Centre at Antigua, a drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation facility he co-founded in 1997, raising over $1.75M
2021 – Brazil records its highest daily COVID-19 death toll to date of 1,972 deaths with 168,370 deaths overall
Historical Events for 8th March 2026
1711 – Antoin de Guiscard, a French and English spy, fails in an attempt to murder English Chancellor of the Exchequer Robert Harley; Harley survives stabbing, and Guiscard dies later from injuries sustained in the fracas
1722 – Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
1924 – Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate, Utah
1967 – New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)
1973 – Paul and Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis
1979 – China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
1981 – “Shakespeare’s Cabaret”, Lance Mulcahy’s settings of words of William Shakespeare, closes at the Bijou Theater, NYC, after 54 performances
2021 – US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says COVID-9 pandemic has had an “extremely unfair” effect on income and economic opportunities for women
Historical Events for 7th March 2026
1573 – Turkey and Venice sign a peace treaty
1801 – Massachusetts enacts first state voter registration law
1930 – NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in “Negro”
1935 – Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 276.71 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car; last record set at Daytona Beach, Florida
1939 – Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians 1st record “Auld Lang Syne”
1953 – South African cricket opening batsman Jackie McGlew scores an unbeaten 255 in 1st Test win against New Zealand in Wellington
1963 – John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman record their self-titled album “John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman” at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
2021 – Oprah Winfrey interview with Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex broadcast on CBS, alleges Meaghan was made suicidal and subject to racist treatment by the palace
Historical Events for 6th March 2026
1454 – Thirteen Years’ War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, Casimir IV, who agrees to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights
1665 – Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication
1946 – France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation
1967 – WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1974 – Australian cricketing brothers Ian (145 and 121) and Greg Chappell (247no and 133) score unique twin centuries in drawn 1st Test vs New Zealand in Wellington
1990 – SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
2018 – American WWII aircraft carrier USS Lexington rediscovered in Australia’s Coral Sea, lost during 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea
2021 – Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama is vaccinated against COVID-19 in Dharamsala, India and urges others to do so
Historical Events for 5th March 2026
1579 – Betuwe joins the Union of Utrecht
1820 – Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
1942 – World première of Dmitri Shostakovich’ 7th Symphony in Kuybyshev, Russia
1966 – 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die
1969 – Price of gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris
1974 – First performance in 3,000 years of world’s oldest known song “Hymn to Nikkal” a 3,400 year old Hurrian hymn to moon god Nikkal from Ugarit in Syria, played at Berkeley University by Anne Kilmer and Richard Crocker
1981 – Michael Stewart’s musical “Bring Back Birdie” opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC for 4 performances
1997 – Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox and Willie Wells inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Historical Events for 4th March 2026
1665 – English King Charles II declares war on Netherlands
1824 – The “National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck” founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.
1918 – Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)
1925 – Swain’s Island, a remote coral atoll, is annexed by the United States and incorporated into American Samoa
1962 – AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
1973 – 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
2001 – Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people
2002 – Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos leftover from fertility treatments or abortions