1922 – US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1940 – Peter Saur, fighting as Ray Steele, beats Bronko Nagurski in St Louis, to become National Wrestling Association Heavyweight Champion
1942 – 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee, Alabama
1950 – Ladies’ Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE
1953 – South African cricket opening batsman Jackie McGlew scores an unbeaten 255 in 1st Test win against New Zealand in Wellington
1970 – WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1975 – RCA releases “Young Americans”, David Bowie’s 9th studio album, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New York City; featuring appearances by John Lennon on two tracks, it peaks in the U.S. charts at No. 9, and No. 2 in the U.K.
1994 – Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia
1996 – 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
2019 – Thailand’s Constitutional Court dissolves opposition party Thai Raksa Chart, after it nominated the King’s sister as candidate for Prime Minister
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 6th March 2024
1853 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “La Traviata” premieres at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
1855 – Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to the poet Louise Colet
1906 – Heavy storm bursts dike, flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands
1909 – Dutch film distributor Jean Desmet opens his first permanent cinema, the Cinema Parisien in Rotterdam
1921 – Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
1923 – MLB St. Louis Cardinals announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms
1962 – US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression
1965 – The Temptations’ single “My Girl” reaches #1 on the Billboard Pop Chart; written and produced by the Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Ronald White
1982 – Susan Birmingham makes then world’s loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)
2018 – British health officials tells the country it’s time “to get on a diet” and urging manufacturers to reduce calories in foods
Historical Events for 5th March 2024
1179 – 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1713 – Handel’s “Jubilate” first performance in a public rehearsal at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
1821 – Monroe is 1st US President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sunday
1864 – 1st track meet between Oxford and Cambridge
1897 – American Negro Academy forms
1924 – Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games
1954 – “Girl in Pink Tights” opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 115 performances
1960 – The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase.
1981 – Ice Pairs Champ at Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva and I Lisovski (URS)
2012 – Tropical Storm Irina kills 65 in Madagascar
Historical Events for 4th March 2024
1793 – Washington’s 2nd inauguration as US President, shortest speech (133 words)
1881 – California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
1894 – Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
1901 – Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction US congressmen, ends
1910 – Avalanche at Bear Creek in Rogers Pass, British Columbia, kills 58 railway line workers – Canada’s worst avalanche disaster
1925 – US President Coolidge’s inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
1931 – West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
1933 – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss dissolves Austrian parliament
1947 – WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1995 – Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec)
Historical Events for 3rd March 2024
1845 – Florida becomes 27th state of the Union
1893 – US Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture
1931 – “The Star-Spangled Banner” officially becomes US national anthem by congressional resolution; lyrics by Francis Scott Key in 1814, set to John Stafford Smith’s 18th century tune “The Anacreontic Song”
1943 – Bethnal Green Tube disaster: 173 die in a stampede sheltering in an air raid, UK’s greatest loss of civilian life in WWII (details censored till January 20 1945)
1943 – Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Australian and American air forces devastate Japanese navy convoy
1950 – National-American Football League reverts to calling itself the NFL after 3 months
1959 – British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis
1978 – 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI v Australia)
1980 – Pierre Trudeau sworn in, for the second time, as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada
2004 – Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agreed to merge in a $11.2 billion deal forming InBev, the world’s largest brewer
Historical Events for 2nd March 2024
1865 – Freedman’s Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865
1888 – The Convention of Constantinople signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace
1934 – Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha
1939 – Massachusetts Legislature votes to ratify the US Bill of Rights – 147 years late
1986 – Edmonton’s Finnish right wing Jari Kurri scores 2 goals, including the overtime winner, to lead Oilers to a 2-1 win over Philadelphia; Kurri, 100 points for the 4th straight NHL season
1991 – “La Bete” closes at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC after 24 performances
1996 – Despite Sachin Tendulkar’s masterful 137 in India’s 3 for 272, Sri Lanka wins Cricket World Cup match in Delhi by 6 wickets; Sanath Jayasuriya 79, Hashan Tillakaratne 70no
2000 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet heads home after being told the UK would not extradite him on torture charges
2021 – Six books by Dr. Seuss will cease publication because of racist and insensitive imagery according to Dr. Seuss Enterprises
2023 – UN confirms it will ignore statements made by an Indian guru and now fugitive from the fictional country of the United States of Kailasa, made attending official UN events in Geneva
Historical Events for 1st March 2024
1872 – Yellowstone becomes the world’s 1st national park
1913 – 1First state law requiring bonding of officers and state employees, ND
1941 – Former University of Notre Dame star fullback Elmer Layden is named first Commissioner of the NFL
1953 – After an all-night movie and dinner session with his top advisers, Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
1966 – Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)
1991 – 37 year-old Pat Day becomes the 6th jockey in history whose mounts earned $100 million when he rides Wild Sierra to 2nd-place in the 1st race at Oaklawn Park, Arkansas
1992 – “Visit” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1993 – New expansion NHL team, owned in Anaheim, CA by Disney, receives its name, inspired by the 1992 Disney movie ‘The Mighty Ducks’
2003 – Legendary Mount St. Mary’s basketball head coach Jim Phelan wins final game of 49 year career as Mountaineers win 60-56 over Central Connecticut State; Phelan: 830 wins in NCAA record 1,354 games
2004 – Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.
Historical Events for 29th February 2024
1868 – 1st British government of Benjamin Disraeli forms
1892 – St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated
1952 – Ice Dance Championship at Paris France won by Westwood and Demmy of Great Britain
1952 – Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Ria Falk and Paul Falk of West Germany
1956 – MLB’s Cleveland Indians franchise is sold for nearly $4m; former player and the team’s general manager Hank Greenberg is part of the new ownership group
1968 – Howard Hanson’s 6th Symphony, premieres
1968 – Beatles’ “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” wins Grammy Award for Album of the Year, the first rock LP to do so
1984 – Swedish center Patrik Sundström scores a goal and adds 6 assists as Vancouver Canucks beat the Penguins 9-5 in Pittsburgh; just the 3rd player in NHL history to record 6 assists in a road game
1988 – New Zealand cricket batsman Mark Greatbatch scores an unbeaten 107 on debut to rescue a draw in 2nd Test v England at Eden Park, Auckland
2004 – 76th Academy Awards: “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” Sean Penn and Charlize Theron win
Historical Events for 28th February 2024
1700 – Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar
1759 – Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
1942 – World War II: German submarine U-578 torpedoes US Navy destroyer USS Jacob Jones (DD130) off Cape May, New Jersey, killing all but 11 of 113 man crew
1951 – French government of Pleven dissolves
1951 – Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates
1973 – Iraq and Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) reach an agreement on compensation for nationalization
1993 – Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m)
1994 – Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand gun in the USA, comes into effect
2004 – 24th Golden Raspberry Awards: “Gigli” wins
2013 – The brains of two rats successfully connected so that they share information
Historical Events for 27th February 2024
1925 – Adolf Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
1933 – Jean Genet’s play “Intermezzo” premieres in Paris
1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California
1942 – Battle of Java Sea began: 13 US warships sunk and 2 Japanese
1965 – Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray’s musical “High Spirits”, based on Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit”, closes at Alvin Theater, NYC, after 375 performances
1973 – White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3 year $750,000 contract
2002 – Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya
2019 – Doctors announce world’s second known case of semi-identical twins, a boy and girl from Brisbane, Australia
2019 – Actor Luke Perry (52) suffers a stroke in Los Angeles
2019 – First gun control legislation for 25 years passed by US House of Representatives, with new federal background checks