1875 – English FA Cup Final Replay, Kennington Oval, London: Royal Engineers beat Old Etonians, 2-0 after initial 1-1 draw
1910 – Barney Oldfield uses a Benz to break the existing records at Daytona Beach Road Course (131.25mph)
1916 – US and Canada sign migratory bird treaty
1937 – All but one senior fouls out of a scrimmage game between seniors and sophomores, but he holds on to win the game 35-32
1964 – Paul Hornung and Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension
1974 – Both Wales (12-16 v England) and France (6-19 v Scotland) lose their final round matches handing Ireland their 8th Five Nations Rugby Championship
1977 – US President Jimmy Carter pleads for a Palestinian homeland
2011 – U.S. Postal Service issues a set of five “Latin Music Legends” stamps, including one of Carlos Gardel
2012 – Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan
2013 – 34th Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament: Louisville beats Syracuse, 78-61
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 15th March 2020
221 – Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself Emperor of Shu-Han, claiming legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty
1562 – General Francois de Guise enters Paris
1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d’etat never takes place.
1812 – 1st Russian settlement in California at Russian River
1820 – Maine admitted as 23rd state of the Union
1926 – Belgium’s “black monday”, franc falls
1953 – West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1
1958 – KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her 4th Titleholders title by 1 stroke from Betsy Rawls
2018 – Pedestrian bridge in Miami, Florida, collapses onto 8-lane highway 5 days after it was built, killing 6
Historical Events for 14th March 2020
1908 – Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Toronto Professionals, 6-4
1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere
1941 – Xavier Cugat and orchestra record “Babalu”
1968 – CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn’t make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
1983 – OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
1986 – European Space Agency’s Giotto flies by Halley’s Comet (605 km)
1987 – NY Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl
1991 – Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok and A Dmitriev
1992 – Soviet newspaper “Pravda” suspends publication
1993 – 34th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats LSU, 82-65
Historical Events for 13th March 2020
1797 – Cherubini’s opera “Medée” premieres in Paris
1897 – San Diego State University is founded.
1912 – Stanley Cup, Quebec Skating Rink, Quebec City, Quebec: Quebec Bulldogs rout Moncton Victorias (NB), 8-0 for a 2-0 sweep of the challenge series
1922 – George Bernard Shaw’s “Back to Methusaleh V” premieres in NYC
1933 – Joseph Goebbels becomes Nazi Germany’s Minister of Information and Propaganda
1943 – Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6)
1960 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta CC: Fay Crocker of Uruguay wins by 7 strokes ahead of Kathy Cornelius
1985 – Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko in Moscow
2013 – 10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province, Afghanistan
2015 – Cyclone Pam causes widespread damage in Vanuatu and the South Pacific, including 15-16 deaths.
Historical Events for 12th March 2020
1849 – 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California
1868 – Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa (later renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho)
1894 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi
1894 – Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday and Friday
1908 – Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Winnipeg Maple Leafs, 9-3 for 2-0 sweep of challenge series
1950 – Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
1966 – Love’s 1st album released “Love”
1987 – Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)
1989 – Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1994 – Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
Historical Events for 11th March 2020
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
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