363 – Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign that brings about his own death
1046 – Persian scholar Naser Khosrow begins the 7 year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama
1179 – 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1907 – 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired
1917 – US President Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term
1933 – FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
1952 – Terence Rattigan’s “Deep Blue Sea” premieres in London
1977 – 24th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Virginia, 75-69
1983 – Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats PM Malcolm Fraser (Liberal) to win Australian general election
2017 – US President Donald Trump in a tweet accusses former President Obama without offering any evidence of wiretapping Trump Towers during the presidential campaign
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 4th March 2019
1215 – King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III.
1790 – France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.
1798 – Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews
1863 – Battle of Thompson’s Station, TN
1885 – Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st US Democratic President since Civil War
1960 – French freighter “La Coubre” explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
1973 – 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
1974 – Harold Wilson replaces resigning Edward Heath as British premier
1997 – Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks
2001 – IRA detonates a bomb in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, injuring 11 people
Historical Events for 3rd March 2019
1431 – Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV
1845 – Florida becomes 27th state of the Union
1891 – The Penalty Spot Kick rule in Association Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the next season.
1942 – 1st combat flight for Canadian British-built Avro Lancaster bomber
1956 – Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
1959 – San Francisco Giants rename their stadium Candlestick Park
1985 – “My One and Only” closes at St James Theater NYC after 767 performances
1989 – Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 yrs probation for Iran-Contra
2002 – 33rd NAACP Image Awards: “Ali” wins Outstanding Motion Picture
2018 – “The Emoji Movie” named worst film in 2017 in Razzies awards
Historical Events for 2nd March 2019
1789 – Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances
1896 – Best 9-wicket haul in cricket history; George Lohmann takes 9-28 as England beats South Africa by an innings and 197 runs in 2nd Test at Johannesburg
1925 – SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament
1933 – Sanriku earthquake of 8.4 and tsunami hit Japan, country’s most powerful earthquake in 180 years
1940 – The first televised intercollegiate track meet is seen in NYC on W2XBS; NYU wins the meet presented live from Madison Square Garden
1972 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa appoints himself President for life of Central African Republic
1974 – Australian cricket batsman Greg Chappell makes 247no in drawn 1st Test vs NZ in Wellington; also hits 133 in 2nd innings; brother Ian 145 and 121 also scores twin centuries
1994 – Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn’t
1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter’s moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice
2012 – Tornadoes kill at least 27 people in the American states of Indiana and Kentucky
Historical Events for 1st March 2019
1593 – The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.
1864 – Rebecca Lee in the US becomes 1st African American woman to receive a medical degree
1867 – Howard University, Washington, D.C., chartered
1936 – Boulder (Hoover) Dam fully completed
1938 – Federal Trade Commission orders 8 manufacturers and the PGA of America to end their practice of golf ball price-fixing
1941 – German troops invade Bulgaria
1970 – Kreisky’s social democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
1984 – Landsat 5 and ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit
1996 – New toll-free 888 area code introduced in USA
2017 – Gustav Klimt’s painting “Bauerngarten” sells for $59.3m in London
Historical Events for 28th February 2019
1653 – -Mar 3] 3 Day Sea battle English beat Dutch
1844 – 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, and other high-ranking U.S. federal officials
1864 – -Mar 4th) Raid at Kilpatrick’s Richmond
1871 – 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections in US
1947 – Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan
1959 – Ice Dance Championship at Colo Springs USA won by Denny and Jones of Great Britain
1988 – XV Winter Olympic Games close in Calgary, Canada
2008 – Former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra is arrested on corruption charges upon returning to Thailand after months of exile.
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
2014 – Russia moves troops into the Crimea to protect its interests against Ukraine
Historical Events for 27th February 2019
1816 – Dutch regain Suriname from the French after the defeat of Napoleon
1872 – Charlotte Ray, 1st African American woman lawyer in USA, graduates from Howard University
1874 – Baseball 1st played in England at Lord’s Cricket Ground
1879 – Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
1912 – Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
1965 – Dutch Marijnen government resigns
1967 – Antigua and St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
1973 – Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius
1990 – Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
2018 – Barbra Streisand reveals she has cloned her dog twice
Historical Events for 26th February 2019
1893 – 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Mich
1938 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1940 – US Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, NY
1953 – 10th Golden Globes: “The Greatest Show on Earth”, Gary Cooper, and Shirley Booth win
1955 – 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith
1967 – Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1989 – Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career
1991 – Coalition planes bomb Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait during the Gulf War, killing hundreds and creating the so-called ‘Highway of Death’
2012 – 61st NBA All-Star Game, Amway Centre, Orlando, FL: West beats East, 152-149; MVP: Kevin Durant, OKC Thunder, F
2017 – 89th Academy Awards: Best Picture “Moonlight” (after mix-up), Best Director Damien Chazelle, Best Actor Casey Affleck, Best Actress Emma Stone
Historical Events for 25th February 2019
1643 – Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-indians
1751 – 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent)
1830 – Victor Hugo’s “Hernani” premieres in Paris
1921 – The Living Buddha, Hutuktu, is crowned King of Mongolia as the country declares independence from China
1969 – Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
1969 – Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
1986 – 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins
1995 – Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
2018 – XXIII Winter Olympic Games close in Pyeongchang, Korea; Norway wins a record 39 medals, 14 gold
2018 – 68th Berlin International Film Festival: Romanian film “Touch Me Not” wins the Golden Bear
Historical Events for 24th February 2019
1793 – French troops conquer Breda
1857 – LA Vineyard Society organized
1881 – China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
1894 – Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras
1918 – Estonia declares independence from Russia
1944 – Minister of War Juan Perón leads a coup in Argentina
1945 – Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree
1970 – 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
1987 – LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.