1917 – The USA is the first nation to recognize the new government of Russia
1927 – Federico Garcia Lorca’s first play “El Maleficio” (The Butterfly’s Evil Spell) premieres in Madrid
1944 – American movie star James Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin
1957 – “All Shook Up” single released by Elvis Presley
1958 – 20th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle, 84-72; Seattle’s future Hall of Fame small forward Elgin Baylor is named tournament MOP
1968 – Student riot in Nanterre near Paris
1986 – Ice Pairs World Championship at Geneva won by Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
1991 – Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginaa, seizing drugs
2021 – World’s largest painting “The Journey of Humanity” by British artist Sacha Jafri sells in Dubai for $62m to raise funds for children’s charities
2023 – Microsoft founder Bill Gates says development of artificial intelligence (AI) is the most important technological advance since the graphical user interface (GUI) in 1980
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 21st March 2024
1864 – Battle at Henderson’s Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
1961 – The Beatles’ first appearance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool
1962 – Philadelphia Phillies retire pitcher Robin Roberts’ # 36
1973 – Montreal Canadiens’ left wing Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHL player to score 500 goals
1982 – Movie “Annie” directed by John Huston, starring Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney and Carol Burnett premieres
1997 – Ice Dance Championship in Lausanne, Switzerland won by Oksana Grishuk and Evgeny Platov (Rus)
2018 – English TV presenter Ant McPartlin charged with drink driving following an accident in London
2019 – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces a ban on military-style semiautomatic weapons, 6 days after the Christchurch terrorist attack
2019 – Former Brazilian President Michel Temer is arrested in São Paulo as part of a large corruption investigation
2022 – Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador inaugurates Felipe Angeles International Airport to serve Mexico City
Historical Events for 20th March 2024
1648 – King Charles I of England first tries to escape captivity at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight by climbing out a window – but gets stuck
1819 – London’s famous Burlington Arcade opens, the world’s 1st shopping arcade
1911 – Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634 Broadway NYC
1934 – American all-round female super athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias pitches a hitless inning for Philadelphia A’s in their exhibition pre-season baseball game against Brooklyn Dodgers
1940 – Paul Reynoud becomes French premier
1947 – 180 tonne blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic
1957 – Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it
1996 – UK admits humans can catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease)
2019 – Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts calls the state’s flooding “the most widespread destruction we have ever seen in our state’s history”
2022 – Intense fighting in Ukrainian city of Mariupol continues as Russian forces encircle the city, trapping 300,000 people
Historical Events for 19th March 2024
1571 – Spanish troops occupy Manila
1799 – Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” (“Die Schöpfung”) fisrt public performance premieres at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria
1917 – US Supreme Court uphoelds 8-hr work day for railroad employees
1938 – Scotland beats England, 21-16 at Twickenham, London to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup
1942 – Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago
1945 – Adolf Hitler issues “Nero Decree” to destroy all German factories
1965 – Rembrandt’s “Titus” sells for then record 7,770,000 guilders
1978 – 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb
1989 – Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1997 – Ice Pairs won by Mandy Woetzel and Ingo Steuer (GER)
Historical Events for 18th March 2024
1766 – Britain repeals the Stamp Act, which had caused outrage in colonial America and helped lead to the American Revolution
1877 – US President Rutherford B. Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington, D.C.
1909 – Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast
1933 – US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1939 – England beats Scotland, 9-6 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to force a share of the Home Nations Rugby Championship with Wales and Ireland
1950 – “Touch and Go” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances
1959 – Boston Celtic’s Bill Sharman begins record of 56 straight free-throws
1968 – WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1977 – The Clash release their first recording “White Riot”
1996 – 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT’s Swimathon ’96
Historical Events for 17th March 2024
1778 – Britain declares war on France, due to French alliance with US
1845 – Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London
1868 – Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
1894 – US and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
1921 – Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
1924 – Netherlands and USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
1960 – US President Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1989 – “Chu Chem” opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
1995 – Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams visits the White House in Washington, D.C.
2016 – Brazilian federal judge blocks swearing-in of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Chief of Staff to President Dilma Rousseff, as part of “Car Wash” controversy
Historical Events for 16th March 2024
1850 – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” published by Ticknor, Reed and Fields in Boston
1896 – Gustav Mahler’ conducts premiere of his “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen” (Songs of a Wayfarer), leading the Berlin Philharmonic and Dutch baritone Anton Sistermans as soloist
1946 – “Would-Be Gentleman” closes at Booth Theater NYC after 77 performances
1949 – KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1971 – Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets with British PM Edward Heath to discuss the security situation in Northern Ireland
1976 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson announces his resignation
1978 – Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed
1988 – Chemical attack on Kurdish town of Halabja by Iraqi forces kills 5000 civilians – largest ever chemical weapons attack
2012 – Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan
2013 – 24 Pakistani Army soldiers are killed in Rawalpindi after their bus falls down a ravine
Historical Events for 15th March 2024
1887 – 1st salaried fish and game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
1917 – Nicholas II, the last Russian Tsar abdicates and nominates his brother Grand Duke Michael to succeed him [OS Mar 2]
1922 – 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
1926 – Belgium’s “black monday”, franc falls
1949 – WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 – “Body Beautiful” musical closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
1959 – WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1978 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1986 – Scotland (10-9 v Ireland) and France (29-10 v England) win their final round matches to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with 3-1 records
1994 – Experts from AL certify the Cleveland Indians Jacobs Field is properly lit
Historical Events for 14th March 2024
1369 – Battle of Montiel: Peter of Castile (Peter the Cruel) with support from England is defeated by an alliance between the French and his half-brother Henry II of Castile
1845 – -5.3°F (-20.7°C) in Groningen, Netherlands
1900 – Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Gregor Mendel’s laws of heredity and genetics
1935 – 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars in San Francisco
1960 – 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield, California
1967 – JFK’s body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
1980 – Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova and Shakhrai (USSR)
1986 – European Space Agency’s Giotto flies by Halley’s Comet (605 km)
1994 – Mexican banker and billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
2018 – NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered
Historical Events for 13th March 2024
1564 – Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
1915 – Brooklyn Robins manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit
1970 – Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
1975 – Bernard Slade’s stage comedy “Same Time, Next Year”, starring Ellen Burstyn and Charles Grodin, opens at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, NYC; later transfers to the Ambassador Theatre, and runs for a total of 1,453 performances
1980 – Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1982 – ABC TV crime drama “T.J. Hooker” premieres, starring William Shatner
1988 – 29th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Georgia, 62-57
1988 – 35th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Duke beats North Carolina, 65-61
1994 – Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
2005 – Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.