493 – Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy
1855 – Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1945 – Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens
1950 – Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera “Consul” opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances
1962 – Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season
1981 – “Broadway Follies” opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
1987 – NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney’s last Test Cricket
1997 – Pitts Penguins’ Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran
2008 – Wales beats France, 29-12 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to complete a Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship with a 19th Triple Crown
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 14th March 2019
1858 – Ellen G. White receives a vision while attending a funeral service in Lovett’s Grove, near Bowling Green, Ohio
1864 – Gioacchino Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” premieres in Paris
1875 – Smetana’s “Vysehrad” premieres
1941 – Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1954 – NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak
1958 – Recording Industry Association of American created
1976 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1993 – Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
1995 – 1st time 13 people in space
2018 – Brazilian human rights politician Marielle Franco is murdered in Rio, prompting mass protests
Historical Events for 13th March 2019
1911 – Ivan Caryll’s musical “Pink Lady” premieres in NYC
1920 – After the German government is forced to cut its army to 10,000 men, military groups plot an unsuccessful coup – a revolt ended by a general strike
1960 – Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1967 – Robert Anderson’s “You Know I Can’t Hear You …” premieres in NYC
1969 – Apollo 9 returns to Earth
1984 – WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
1985 – Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko in Moscow
1987 – Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS)
1995 – Anti-fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms
2013 – The European Parliament rejects a European Union budget for the first time
Historical Events for 12th March 2019
1900 – President Steyn of Orange Free state flees from Bloemfontein
1917 – Stalin, Kamenev and Muranov arrive in Petrograd (St Petersburg)
1940 – Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty in Moscow, surrendering to Russia and ceding 11% of their pre-WWII territory, ending the “Winter War”
1945 – NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment
1959 – Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
1962 – Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
1972 – NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1973 – Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In last airs on NBC-TV
1996 – Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
2000 – 41st SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Arkansas beats Auburn, 75-67
Historical Events for 11th March 2019
1812 – Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
1851 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” premieres in Venice
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)
1954 – US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
1963 – US Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara orders the adoption by the US military of the M16 assault rifle, originally designed as the AR-15 by Eugene Stoner
1968 – Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 12nd string quartet
1974 – Mount Etna in Sicily erupted
1990 – 31st SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Ole Miss, 70-51
2009 – Winnenden school shooting – 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.
2014 – Refugees from Syria pour into the Kingdom of Jordan
Historical Events for 10th March 2019
1535 – Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers the Galapagos Islands
1629 – King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he recalls it 11 years later
1791 – John Stone of Concord, Massachusetts, patents a pile driver
1959 – Tennessee Williams’ “Sweet Bird of Youth” premieres in NYC
1975 – “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1990 – Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
1991 – 32nd SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Tennessee, 88-69
2002 – 49th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats NC State, 91-61
2007 – 21st Soul Train Music Awards: Jermaine Dupri, Jennifer Hudson win
2017 – South Korean judges uphold parliaments’ decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye
Historical Events for 9th March 2019
1230 – Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa
1496 – Jews are expelled from Carintha, Austria
1721 – British Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower
1864 – 26th Grand National: George Stevens wins his 3rd GN aboard 10/1 Emblematic; winning mare’s full sister Emblem the race winner the previous year
1923 – NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2
1929 – Marcel Pagnol’s “Marius” premieres in Paris
1932 – Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
1983 – Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
1989 – US Senate rejects President George H. W. Bush’s nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
2012 – Senior members of hacking group Lulz Sec are arrested, including one member of the FBI, in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland
Historical Events for 8th March 2019
1746 – Duke of Cumberland’s troops occupy Aberdeen
1867 – British North America Act is passed in the House of Commons, serves as Canada’s constitution for more than 100 years
1924 – Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate, Utah
1965 – First US combat forces arrive in Vietnam, on the beaches of Da Nang
1973 – Eisenhower Tunnel, world’s highest and US longest, opens
1978 – The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1981 – Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game
1987 – FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in California
1992 – Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
2017 – FC Barcelona in a great comeback become 1st team to overturn 4-0 deficit beating St-Germain 6-5 in return game to reach the Champions League quarter finals
Historical Events for 7th March 2019
1778 – Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
1827 – Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England, is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
1847 – US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
1865 – -10] Battles round Kinston NC
1923 – Carlos Gardel applies for Argentine citizenship
1950 – Ladies’ Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE
1978 – Canuck’s Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
1979 – 5th People’s Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds and Olivia Newton-John win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda, Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Burnett win (TV)
1981 – 28th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Maryland, 61-60
1985 – IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
Historical Events for 6th March 2019
1714 – Treaty of Rastatt signed by Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France ending War of Spanish Succession
1816 – Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck, Germany
1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society
1959 – 11th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr win
1961 – Dutch guilder revalued 4.74%
1964 – Boxing legend Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and changes his name to “Muhammad Ali”, calling his former title a “slave name”
1981 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1983 – In New Bedford, Massachusetts, woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table
1996 – 10th American Comedy Award: James Burrows
2000 – Long-time Boston Bruin defenseman Ray Bourque is traded to the Colorado Avalanche