1796 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s dramatic play “Egmont” premieres in Weimar
1865 – General Pickett moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Petersburg
1883 – 1st performance of Caesar Franck’s symphonic poem for orchestra “Le Chasseur Maudit” (The Accursed Huntsman) at the Salle Érard in Paris
1885 – Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate
1917 – The Danish West Indies are officially ceded to the US for $25 million and renamed the Virgin Islands
1923 – Occupying French soldiers fire on workers when surrounded at Krupp auto factory in Essen, Germany; 6 die, dozens wounded
1966 – USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
1972 – Final day of the rum ration in the Royal Canadian Navy
1985 – WrestleMania I, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Hulk Hogan and Mr T beat Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorf
1987 – 49th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse, 74-73; Hoosiers’ guard Keith Smart hits game-winner in final seconds, intercepts full court pass at the last second
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 30th March 2025
1916 – Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens (NHA) beat Portland Rosebuds (PCHA), 2-1 for a 3-2 series victory
1922 – KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions
1935 – Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hrs W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec
1939 – First flight of the Australian C.A.C. CA-16 Wirraway military aircraft
1961 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York
1970 – Columbia Records releases jazz artist Miles Davis’s influential double album “Bitches Brew”; it becomes his highest-charting title, wins a Grammy, and earns him his first gold record
1980 – Mark Medoff’s “Children of a Lesser God” premieres in NYC
1986 – PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: John Mahaffey wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Larry Mize
1991 – 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yanks-Orioles)
2013 – North Korea declares it is at a state of war with South Korea
Historical Events for 29th March 2025
1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returns Quebec to French control after the English seized it in 1629
1864 – Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia, Arkansas
1934 – Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist workers’ movement bankrupt
1960 – Darius Milhaud’s 9th Symphony, premieres by the Fort Lauderdale Symphony Orchestra and with conductor Mario di Bonaventura
1971 – 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
1981 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1998 – WrestleMania XIV, FleetCenter, Boston, MA: ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin’s wins his first WWF Heavyweight tile against Shawn Michaels
1999 – 61st NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Connecticut beats Duke, 77-74; Huskies’ first title in first title game
2013 – 23 people are killed by coordinated bombings on Shiite mosques in Iraq
2022 – BA.2 version of Omicron is now the dominant form of COVID-19 in America according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Historical Events for 28th March 2025
1854 – Great Britain and France declare war on Russia, expanding the Crimean War
1927 – Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St, NYC; designed with a modern Spanish exterior and French revival style interior by architect Herbert J. Krapp, it is largest of 3 theater and hotel development cuilt by Irving Chanin
1949 – English astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term “Big Bang” in a BBC radio talk while actually arguing for the alternative “steady-state” theory
1953 – 107th Grand National: Bryan Marshall wins aboard Irish 8-year old Early Mist; first of 3 consecutive GN victories for trainer Vincent O’Brien
1959 – 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet’s government and installs Panchen Lama
1977 – 39th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Marquette beats North Carolina, 67-59; Warriors’ first title; coach Al McGuire retires
1985 – STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad
1990 – US President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal
2007 – Sri Lankan cricket fast bowler Lasith Malinga produces unprecedented sequence of 4 wickets in 4 balls, as South Africa scrambles to a 1-wicket Super 8’s ICC World Cup win in Guyana
2019 – European parliament bans single-use plastics, including cutlery and straws by 2021
Historical Events for 27th March 2025
1003 – Peace deal is signed between Holy Roman Emperor Henry II and the pagan Wends (Slavs)
1855 – Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1884 – First long-distance telephone call, Boston to New York
1944 – Children’s Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
1945 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine
1961 – Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
1982 – Carol Hall’s musical “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” closes at the 46th Street Theatre, NYC, after 1577 performances and 2 Tony Award wins
1994 – Ice Pairs Championship at Chiba won by Shishkova/Vadim Naumov (RUS)
2019 – US Special Council Robert S. Mueller writes a letter to US Attorney William Barr regarding Barr’s summary of the Mueller Report stating Barr’s letter “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the findings. “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”
2019 – British indie-rock duo “Her’s” – English guitarist-singer Stephen Fitzpatrick (24) and Norwegian bassist Audun Laading (25), and American manager Trevor Engelbrektson (37) killed in car crash in Arizona
Historical Events for 26th March 2025
631 – Suintila, King of the Visigoths is overthrown after a reign of ten years, by Sisenand, a noble from Septimania
1804 – Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1804 – Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase
1812 – Earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela, and kills an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people
1945 – De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34
1959 – Test debut for Pakistani cricketer Mushtaq Mohammad v West Indies, aged 15 years
1969 – “Marcus Welby, M.D.”, starring Robert Young and James Brolin debuts as a TV movie on ABC-TV, prior to becoming a weekly series
1976 – Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment
1997 – Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven’s Gate cult suicides in Rancho Santa Fe, California
2005 – “Doctor Who” returns to BBC TV after 16 years with the debut of Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose
Historical Events for 19th March 2025
1870 – Antônio Carlos Gomes’ opera “Il Guarany” premieres at La Scala Teatro in Milan, Kingdom of Italy
1910 – Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis, Adelaide: Rodney Heath wins his 2nd and last Australasian title; beats fellow Australian Horace Rice 6-4, 6-3, 6-2
1917 – US Supreme Court uphoelds 8-hr work day for railroad employees
1962 – Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal
1988 – Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15:25.25)
1988 – Two British Army corporals are attacked during a funeral procession, beaten and shot dead by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, North Ireland
1991 – St Louis Blues Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season
1995 – Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3:54.08)
1995 – Revival of Brien Friel’s stage drama “Translations”, starring Brian Dennehy, opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances
2005 – Wales beats Ireland, 32-20 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to win the Six Nations Rugby Championship and become the 1st team to complete a Grand Slam playing more games away than at home
Historical Events for 14th March 2025
1923 – US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes
1923 – German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP (Nazi party)
1923 – Allies accepts Vilnius taking East-Galicia in Poland
1925 – James F. Hanley, Joseph Meyer, and Buddy DeSylva’s musical “Big Boy”, starring Al Jolson, closes at the Winter Garden Theatre, NYC, after 56 performances
1945 – RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm
1971 – Australian Open Men’s Tennis: Ken Rosewall of Australia beats American defending champion Arthur Ashe 6-1, 7-5, 6-3; first man to win an Open era Grand Slam singles title without dropping a set
1991 – Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok and A Dmitriev
1991 – Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel and Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released
2004 – WrestleMania XX, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Chris Benoit wins Triple Threat title match with Triple H and Shawn Michaels
Historical Events for 13th March 2025
1634 – First meeting of what would become the Academie Francaise in Paris at the house of Valentin Conrart
1925 – NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
1945 – Nazi Sicherheitsdienst arrests Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
1965 – British guitarist Eric Clapton quits the Yardbirds due to the band moving away from traditional blues; Jeff Beck becomes his replacement
1972 – 7th Academy of Country Music Awards: Freddie Hart and Loretta Lynn win
1983 – Peter Stone’s musical “Woman of the Year” closes at Palace Theater, NYC, after 770 performances
1984 – Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
1992 – Martina Navratilova and Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
1995 – Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
2018 – National Geographic magazine admits its past coverage was racist in issue to mark 50 years since death of Martin Luther King Jr.
Historical Events for 12th March 2025
1849 – 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California
1903 – New York Highlanders (Yankees) baseball franchise is approved as a member of the American League
1926 – Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
1951 – Comic strip “Dennis the Menace,” 1st appears in the British comic magazine The Beano’
1989 – 36th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #9 North Carolina beats #7 Duke, 77-74
1993 – 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
2000 – 41st SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Arkansas beats Auburn, 75-67
2018 – Plane crash of Bangladeshi carrier at Kathmandu airport kills at least 49 after plane approaches runway from wrong end
2022 – Saudi Arabia executes 81 convicted criminals, the country’s largest known mass execution in modern times
2023 – Cyclone Freddy makes landfall for a second time in central Mozambique, Madagascar and Malawi, killing about 200 people and setting records as the longest-lasting cyclone in the southern hemisphere (formed Feb 6)