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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 5th March 2019
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
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