1857 – Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man
1919 – Stanley Cup Final, Seattle Ice Arena, Seattle, WA: With Montreal Canadiens (NHL) and Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) tied at 2-2-1, trophy not awarded due to worldwide flu epidemic
1931 – Jackie Mitchell becomes the second female (after Lizzie Arlington 1898) in organised baseball when she signs with the Chattanooga Lookouts Baseball Club
1933 – Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses
1933 – Scotland beats Ireland, 8-6 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown
1947 – 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat
1954 – WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 – World’s biggest glass oven used
1984 – 14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000
1992 – Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 31st March 2021
1885 – Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate
1906 – Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States is founded to set rules in amateur sports; becomes the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1910
1949 – Newfoundland becomes Canada’s 10th province
1955 – Merger of Chase National Bank (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) forms Chase Manhattan
1958 – USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, and urges US and Britain to do same
1972 – Final day of the rum ration in the Royal Canadian Navy
1996 – First time in MLB history, the regular season opens in March with Seattle Mariners beating Chicago White Sox, 3-2 in 12 innings at the Kingdome, Seattle
1996 – Radio Canada International’s final shortwave broadcast
1998 – Expansion clubs, Tampa Bay and Arizona both suffer bad losses in their MLB debuts; Devil Rays lose, 11-6 to the Detroit Tigers and the Diamondbacks fall, 9-2 to Colorado Rockies
2012 – Fiji Floods kill 2 people and force thousands to be evacuated
Historical Events for 30th March 2021
1870 – Florida territorial government established
1942 – SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki concentration camp
1945 – 289 anti-fascists murdered by nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund
1946 – 3rd Golden Globes: “The Lost Weekend”, Ray Milland, and Ingrid Bergman win
1968 – General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia
1972 – Northern Ireland’s Government and Parliament dissolved by the British Government and ‘direct rule’ from Westminster is introduced
1981 – “Chariots of Fire” directed by Hugh Hudson and starring Ben Cross and Ian Charleson premieres at a Royal Command Film Performance (Best Picture 1982)
1983 – Ray Cooney’s “Run for your Wives” premieres in London
1984 – World’s most valuable tip – New York police detective Robert Cunningham offers waitress Phyllis Penzo half of $1 lottery ticket, next day they win $6 million
1991 – PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller
Historical Events for 29th March 2021
1924 – Bavaria and Vatican reach accord
1930 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
1941 – 3rd NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Wisconsin beats Washington State, 39-34; Badgers’ forward John Kotz is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
1942 – Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city
1943 – Meat (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI’s), butter and cheese rationed in US during WW II
1961 – 23rd Amendment to the US Constitution ratified, allowing Washington, D.C. residents to vote in presidential elections
1971 – Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines
1982 – 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards: “Mommie Dearest” wins
2015 – WrestleMania XXXI, Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, CA (76,976): Seth Rollins beats Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns in impromptu triple threat match to capture WWE Heavyweight title
2019 – Joe Biden accused of an inappropriate kiss by fellow Democrat Lucy Flores
Historical Events for 28th March 2021
1879 – 41st Grand National: Garry Moore aboard 5/1 chance The Liberator wins by 2 lengths from Jackal
1924 – 83rd Grand National: Bob Trudgill wins aboard 25/1 shot Master Robert; last GN from a general riding start, now-familiar ‘tape’ introduced the following year.
1942 – 4th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Dartmouth, 53-38; Cardinal forward Howie Dallmar is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
1952 – US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1960 – Scotch whisky factory explodes burying 20 fire fighters in Glasgow, Scotland
1967 – “Sherry!” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 65 performances
1981 – Gabi Schonbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:21.70)
1981 – France performs nuclear test
1990 – Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient
1993 – Conservatives win French parliamentary election
Historical Events for 27th March 2021
1642 – The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office.
1868 – The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.
1933 – Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
1940 – Peter Fraser becomes Prime Minister of New Zealand after the death of his predecessor Michael Joeseph Savage from cancer
1945 – 7th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NYU, 49-44; Cowboys’ center Bob Kurland is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
1958 – Havana Hilton opens in Cuba, later HQ for Fidel Castro
1964 – Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
1994 – Ice Dance Championship at Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk and Platov (RUS)
2000 – Phillips explosion kills 1 and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas.
Historical Events for 26th March 2021
127 – Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy begins his observations of the heavens (until 141 AD)
685 – Cuthbert (later Saint Cuthbert) is consecrated Bishop of Lindisfarne by Archbishop Theodore at York
1820 – Future Mormon church leader Joseph Smith has his “First Vision” in a wooded area of New York, according to Mormon scholars
1821 – Franz Grillparzer’s “Das Goldene Vliess” premieres in Vienna
1872 – Thomas J. Martin, of Alabama, receives a U.S. patent for a pipe and valve fire extinguisher system t
1897 – 59th Grand National: Terry Kavanagh aboard 6/1 favourite Manifesto wins by 20 lengths from Filbert
1937 – William H. Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
1955 – 109th Grand National: Pat Taaffe wins aboard Quare Times at 100/9; third consecutive GN victory for trainer Vincent O’Brien
1973 – 35th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76; Bruins’ 7th straight title; future Hall of Fame center Bill Walton tournament MOP for 2nd consecutive year
1980 – Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
Historical Events for 25th March 2021
1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism
1905 – Confederate battle flags captured during the American Civil War are returned to South
1918 – Belarusian People’s Republic is established
1923 – British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
1936 – 200-inch mirror blank to build the Hale telescope leaves Corning New York for California (then largest telescopic mirror ever made)
1963 – KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1990 – 10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins
1997 – “Life After Death” 2nd studio album by The Notorious B.I.G. is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1997)
2013 – Golfer Tiger Woods returns to his world number one ranking
2016 – Suicide attack during a football match in Iskandariya, Iraq kills at least 32 people, ISIS claim responsibility
Historical Events for 24th March 2021
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
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