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
Category: Historical Events
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
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.
Historical Events for 1st March 2021
1949 – Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
1969 – Phil Esposito has a goal and assist in Boston Bruins’ 8-5 win over NY Rangers to give him 99 points for the season, breaking the NHL record for most points in a season (97) held by Stan Mikita
1972 – Club of Rome publishes report “Boundaries on the Growth”
1975 – Colour television transmissions begin in Australia.
1994 – Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland
1996 – Atlanta’s Lenny Wilkens becomes first coach in NBA history to reach 1,000 career victories when the Hawks beat Cleveland Cavaliers, 74-68
2000 – Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
2006 – Animated film “Ice Age: The Meltdown” directed by Carlos Saldanha with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo premieres in Belgium
2009 – Steven Holcomb pilots USA-1 sled to victory in the 4-man competition at the World Bobsled Championships at Mt Van Hoevenberg, NY; first American win in the event in 50 years
2014 – 29 people are killed and 130 are injured by a group of knife-wielding terrorists at Kunming Railway Station, China
Historical Events for 28th February 2021
1893 – Edward Acheson of Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names “carborundum” (Silicon carbide)
1935 – Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
1936 – Karl Schäfer of Austria follows up his Winter Olympics victory with his 7th consecutive men’s figure skating World Championship title in Paris, France
1961 – JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor
1967 – A West German court rules that impostor Anna Anderson failed to prove that she was missing Russian duchess Anastasia Romanov, ending a legal case that lasted almost 30 years
1968 – Pirate Radio Hauraki, on a boat floating off coast of NZ, returns to the air
1982 – ATandT looses a record $7 BILLION for the fiscal year ending on this day
1988 – XV Winter Olympic Games close in Calgary, Canada
1995 – Denver International Airport opens
2010 – XXI Winter Olympic Games close in Vancouver, Canada
Historical Events for 27th February 2021
1865 – Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
1919 – American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)
1939 – Britain and France recognize Francisco Franco’s government in Spain
1966 – Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer of Austria
1981 – Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
1990 – “Hold On” single released by Wilson Phillips (Billboard Song of the Year 1990)
1996 – American film production company “Happy Madison Productions” is founded by Adam Sandler
1997 – “Last Night of Ballyhoo” opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
1998 – 12th Soul Train Music Awards: Puff Daddy, Whitney Houston win
2002 – Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya
Historical Events for 26th February 2021
1797 – Bank of England issues first £1 note
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte and his supporters leave Elba to start a 100 day re-conquest of France
1866 – New York Legislature forms NYC Metropolitan Board of Health
1907 – Royal Oil and Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
1942 – German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb
1943 – German assault moves to Beja, North Tunisia
1967 – Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champion
1991 – NY-NJ Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together
1995 – London finance house Barings collapses after huge losses in Singapore by rogue trader Nick Leeson
2012 – Train derailment kills 3 and injures 45 in Burlington, Ontario
Historical Events for 25th February 2021
1751 – 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent)
1793 – 1st US cabinet meeting, held at George Washington’s home
1907 – US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
1916 – Battle of Verdun: German troops conquer Fort Douaumont without firing a shot, the largest and highest fort defending the city of Verdun during World War I
1924 – Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)
1926 – Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government and warlords
1938 – Lord Halifax becomes British Foreign Secretary
1980 – Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
1995 – Muslim fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead
2013 – Cuban President Raúl Castro announces he will not seek another term in 2018
Historical Events for 24th February 2021
1895 – Cuban war for independence begins
1908 – In ‘Muller v Oregon’, the US Supreme Court favors an Oregon law limiting maximum hours a woman may work and denies that it curtails ‘liberty of contract’
1938 – Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
1946 – General Juan Perón first elected President of Argentina
1949 – Israel and Egypt sign an armistice agreement
1952 – Norway goes 1-2 in the men’s ski jumping event at the Oslo Winter Olympics with Arnfinn Bergmann winning gold ahead of teammate Torbjørn Falkanger
1989 – US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die
1997 – Deng Xiaoping the former paramount leader of China is cremated five days after he passed away
1997 – Qatar inaugurates the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporting facility and formally launches Qatar Liquefied Gas Co.
2018 – UN Security Council passes resolution for 30 day ceasefire in Syria
Historical Events for 23rd February 2021
1540 – Francisco Vázquez de Coronado’s expedition sets off from Mexico in search of the 7 cities of Cibola
1847 – Battle of Buena Vista Mexico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans
1886 – Aluminum manufacturing process developed
1944 – Battle of Eniwetok ends as US forces complete the capture of Parry Island from the Japanese 1st Amphibious Brigade
1956 – 13th Golden Globes: “East of Eden”, Ernest Borgnine, and Anna Magnani win
1970 – Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
1990 – “Hold On” single released by En Vogue (Billboard Song of the Year 1990)
2014 – XXII Winter Olympic Games close in Sochi, Russia
2018 – Dutch speed skater Kjeld Nuis wins his second gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the 1,000m; also 1,500m champion
2019 – Sri Lanka becomes first Asian cricket team to clinch a Test series in South Africa chasing down 197 in the 2nd Test in Port Elizabeth; Kusal Mendis 84no, Oshada Fernando 75no