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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 1st March 2020
1803 – Ohio becomes 17th state of the Union
1847 – Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)
1878 – First winter ascent of Aneto, highest mountain in the Pyrenees
1941 – German troops invade Bulgaria
1950 – USSR issues golden roubles
1953 – WFBG TV (later WTAJ) channel 10 in Altoona, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 – Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years
1969 – Tuesdee Testa becomes the first female jockey to win a race at a major American Thoroughbred track when she takes out the 3rd race at Santa Anita Park aboard Buz On
1978 – Charlie Chaplin’s coffin and remains are stolen from a Swiss cemetery in an extortion plot
1982 – NY Times raises its price from 25 cents to 30 cents
Historical Events for 29th February 2020
1768 – Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski joins the Bar Confederation to defend the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth against Russian influence
1796 – Jay’s Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences with England
1868 – 1st British government of Benjamin Disraeli forms
1932 – Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland
1940 – 12th Academy Awards: “Gone with the Wind” wins eight Oscars, Robert Donat and Vivien Leigh also win
1964 – Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser records the fastest 100m freestyle of her brilliant career; smashes her own world record 58.9s in Sydney; goes on to win her 3rd straight gold in the event at the Tokyo Olympics
1968 – Howard Hanson’s 6th Symphony, premieres
1976 – American driver Richard Petty wins the only Winston Cup race run on Leap Day, taking the Carolina 500 at Rockingham by 2 laps over Darrell Waltrip
1988 – KWK-FM in St Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG
1996 – Serb forces withdraw from Sarajevo, ending the siege after 1,425 days, the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare
Historical Events for 28th February 2020
1728 – George Frideric Handel’s opera “Siroe, re di Persia” premieres in London
1849 – 11th Grand National: Tom Cunningham wins aboard 20/1 Peter Simple; 2nd consecutive year there are 3 equine fatalities during the race
1933 – German President Paul von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion
1940 – Richard Wright’s “Native Son” published
1989 – Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA
1991 – “Speed of Darkness” opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 36 performances
1995 – The US Pentagon announces that it monitored Iranian installation of surface-to-air Hawk missiles in the Strait of Hormuz
2004 – 24th Golden Raspberry Awards: “Gigli” wins
2012 – 54th Daytona 500: Rain affected race stopped for 2 hours because of fuel on track; Matt Kenseth leads for final 34 laps to win
2013 – The brains of two rats successfully connected so that they share information
Historical Events for 27th February 2020
1813 – 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
1861 – Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland in Castle Square, Warsaw
1901 – A General Committee of National Liberal Federation meets and adopts a resolution deploring the continuation of the war in South Africa and condemning the British Government’s insistence on unconditional surrender by the Boers
1935 – 7th Academy Awards: “It Happened One Night”, Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert win
1945 – Battle of US 94 Infantry
1957 – Mao’s famous speech to the Supreme State Conference “On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People” expounding Maoist ideals
1965 – “High Spirits” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances
1968 – CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite delivers a scathing editorial on America’s chances of winning the Vietnam War
1990 – “Hold On” single released by Wilson Phillips (Billboard Song of the Year 1990)
2010 – Central Chile is hit with an 8.8 magnitude earthquake.
Historical Events for 26th February 2020
1616 – Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in heliocentrism, which states the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun
1732 – 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, St Joseph’s, Philadelphia
1887 – George Lohmann took 1st 8-wkt haul in test cricket, 8-35 at SCG
1919 – Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine
1950 – Leonard Bernstein’s “Age of Anxiety” premieres in NYC
1954 – 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Mass
1967 – Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1983 – Shortwave pirate Radio USA (Wellsville, NY) begins transmission
1985 – 27th Grammy Awards: Whats Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper wins
2001 – The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.