1567 – Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel
1851 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” premieres in Venice
1861 – Confederate convention in Montgomery adopts constitution (US Civil War)
1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain
1917 – 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
1927 – Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (NYC)
1956 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her 3rd Titleholders title by 1 stroke from Patty Berg
1974 – Mount Etna in Sicily erupted
1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
1994 – Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as President of Chile
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 10th March 2020
1624 – England declares war on Spain
1865 – Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads, NC
1902 – Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri
1934 – US Men’s Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1945 – Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombings, more than 100,000 people die, mostly civilians.
1948 – 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca
1969 – James Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder of Martin Luther King Jr
1972 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1990 – Ice Pairs Championship at Halifax won by Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS)
2017 – South Korean judges uphold parliaments’ decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye
Historical Events for 9th March 2020
1500 – Pedro Álvares Cabral departs Lisbon, Portugal at the head of a 13 ship expedition to India that will also claim Brazil for Portugal
1522 – Martin Luther begins preaching his “Invocavit Sermons” in the German city of Wittenberg, reminding citizens to trust God’s word rather than violence and thus helping bring to a close the revolutionary stage of the Reformation
1864 – Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
1947 – US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1949 – Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1961 – The Supremes release “I Want A Guy” and “Never Again”
1985 – 26th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Auburn beats Alabama, 53-49
1986 – 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
1986 – Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley’s Comet at 8,030 km
1988 – President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
Historical Events for 8th March 2020
1854 – US Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s second trip to Japan
1949 – WAGA TV channel 5 in Atlanta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 – Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)
1953 – WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 – Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita
1964 – Malcolm X resigns from the Nation of Islam
1966 – Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1967 – New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)
1986 – 7th Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament: St. John’s beats Syracuse, 70-69
1995 – Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
Historical Events for 7th March 2020
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US
1887 – North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
1896 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s last operette “Grand Duke” premieres in London
1918 – H Carroll and J McCarthy’s musical “Oh, Look!” premieres in NYC
1935 – Saar incorporated into Germany
1948 – The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again, ending Italian rule.
1970 – Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS)
1989 – Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)
1995 – NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
2016 – Peyton Manning announces his retirement from the Denver Broncos and the NFL
Historical Events for 6th March 2020
1665 – Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
1816 – Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck, Germany
1901 – In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.
1953 – Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR
1967 – 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Merle Haggard and Bonnie Guitar win
1976 – European Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden won by John Curry (Great Britain)
1989 – Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)
2013 – 9 people die after a plane crashes after being ensnared in power lines in Peru
2015 – NASA’s Dawn space probe enters orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres
2016 – Seventh Democratic presidential candidates debate hosted by CNN and held in Flint, Michigan
Historical Events for 5th March 2020
1856 – Covent Garden Opera House, London, destroyed in a fire
1915 – World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
1921 – The US warns Costa Rica and Panama to settle disputes peacefully
1944 – 1st performance of Walter Piston’s 2nd Symphony
1948 – US rocket flies record 4800 kph to 126km height
1978 – Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California
1979 – Iran resumes petroleum exports
1982 – Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data
2015 – -8th Islamic State militants ransack and destroy ancient cities of Nimrud, Hatra and Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq
2019 – Second-ever person “cured” of HIV after stem cell transplant treatment in London, England results published in “Nature”
Historical Events for 4th March 2020
1789 – US House of Representatives 1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
1793 – Washington’s 2nd inauguration as US President, shortest speech (133 words)
1865 – Abraham Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as US president
1909 – US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. announces plans for Poor People’s Campaign
1968 – Italian boxer Nino Benvenuti regains world middleweight title with a 15-round points decision over American champion Emile Griffith at Madison Square Garden, NY; last of famous trilogy of fights
1972 – Last train run between Penrith to Keswick, UK
1990 – US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space
1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU)
2012 – Munitions dump explosions kill at least 250 people in the Republic of Congo
Historical Events for 3rd March 2020
1851 – Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece)
1901 – US Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce
1938 – American Bowling Congress’ largest tournament (24,765 competitors)
1962 – British Antarctic Territory forms
1972 – Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia
1980 – 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus is decommissioned
1994 – “Philoktetes Variations” with Ron Vawter premieres in Brussels
1996 – Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final
2015 – “Under the Dome” a documentary on pollution in China by Chai Jing has been viewed over 150 million times in 3 days on Tencent
2016 – Eleventh Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by Fox, held in Detroit, Michigan
Historical Events for 2nd March 2020
1815 – Signing of Kandyan treaty by British invaders and Sri Lankan King
1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor
1907 – Georges Feydeaus’ “La Puce à l’Oreille” premieres in Paris
1945 – King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government
1968 – Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler and Ford of Great Britain
1974 – Grand jury concludes US President Richard Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up
1991 – NC State point guard Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAA Div I player to record 1,000 career assists in a 89-84 loss to Wake Forest
1994 – William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), casts his 18,401 and last consecutive vote
1995 – Joe Mullen becomes 2nd NHL player to appear in 300 NHL games with 3 different teams when he plays for the Penguins in a 6-3 loss in Buffalo; Pittsburgh 379, St. Louis 301, Calgary 345
2002 – 40-year old South African boxer ‘Baby Jake’ Matlala ends his 22-year career with a 7th-round TKO win over Columbia’s Juan Herrera to retain his WBU junior flyweight title in Johannesburg