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
Category: Historical Events
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.
Historical Events for 12th March 2024
1857 – Desjardins Canal Train Disaster: Canadian Great Western passenger train crashes through rotting timber bridge over Desjardins Canal, near Hamilton, Ontario, killing 59 people
1939 – Pope Pius XII crowned 260th Supreme Pontiff in a ceremony at the Vatican
1940 – Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty in Moscow, surrendering to Russia and ceding 11% of their pre-WWII territory, ending the “Winter War”
1954 – 1st performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s opera “Moses und Aaron”, in a concert setting in Hamburg, Germany
1989 – 10th Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 88-79
1995 – Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
2005 – 26th Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats West Virginia, 68-59
2006 – 47th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Florida beats South Carolina, 49-47
2013 – The 2013 Papal conclave begins with no new Pope elected on the first day
2018 – British Prime Minister Theresa May says Russia was “highly likely” to have poisoned a Russian spy and his daughter on March 4 with nerve agent
Historical Events for 11th March 2024
1502 – Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty, crowned Shah of Persia (rules till 1524)
1829 – Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St Matthew Passion” is revived by Felix Mendelssohn, aged 20, conducting in Berlin, Germany
1848 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government
1924 – NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games
1978 – USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC
1982 – Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigns rather than face expulsion
1996 – Mark Waugh scores 110 v NZ for his third century of the World Cup
2004 – Terrorists explode simultaneous bombs on Madrid’s rail network ripping through a commuter train and rocking three stations, killing 190
2007 – 48th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Florida beats Arkansas, 77-56
2017 – At least 65 killed in landslide at rubbish dump near Addis Ababa, Ethopia
Historical Events for 10th March 2024
1535 – Spanish Bishop of Panama Tomés de Berlanga discovers the uninhabited Galapagos Islands after his ship drifts off course
1831 – The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria
1906 – 1st performance of Maurice Ravel’s “Sonatine” by pianist Paule de Lestang, in Lyon, France
1920 – NHL’s Quebec Bulldog Joe Malone scores 6 goals vs Ottawa Senators
1937 – Benny Goodman unofficially crowned the “King of Swing” at New York City’s Paramount Theater as his band plays before exuberant sell-out crowd filled with teenagers; unable to attend nightclub performances, kids dance in the aisles
1966 – 5 time American Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires from racing
1972 – General Lon Nol becomes President and Prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia
1977 – CBS’ premiere of “A Circle of Children”, starring Jane Alexander and based on the life and book about this by Mary Mac Cracken
1978 – “The Incredible Hulk”, starring Bill Bixby as David Banner, premieres on CBS
2002 – 49th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats NC State, 91-61
Historical Events for 9th March 2024
1745 – Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
1804 – Georges Cadoudal, Breton royalist who plotted to overthrow Napoleon in the Pichegru Conspiracy, arrested
1822 – Charles Graham of NY granted first US patent for artificial teeth
1858 – Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
1922 – KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions
1961 – The Supremes release singles “I Want a Guy” and “Never Again”
1978 – Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Pötzsch (East Germany)
1983 – Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
1991 – Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games
1994 – IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London’s Heathrow Airport
Historical Events for 8th March 2024
1862 – Confederate ironclad “Merrimack” launched
1913 – MLB Federal League organizes with 6 teams, including the Chicago Whales, who built and played at Weeghman Park (now Wrigley Field); League folded after 3 seasons
1916 – US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime
1939 – Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowan’s “Family Portrait” premieres
1944 – US resumes bombing Berlin
1966 – An IRA bomb destroys Nelson’s Column in Dublin
1966 – Lee Adams and Charles Strouse’s musical adaptation of Clifford Odet’s “Golden Boy”, starring Sammy Davis Jr. closes at Majestic Theater, NYC, after 569 performances
1966 – Baseball player, manager and coach Casey Stengel elected to Baseball Hall of Fame in a surprise ceremony
1971 – Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record)
2016 – Turner Classic Movies show several of Claire Trevor’s films to honor the 106th anniversary of her birth