1680 – Parliament of Breisach accepts French sovereignty over Elzas
1872 – Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
1896 – Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18 at the Panhellenic Games
1913 – Song Jiaoren, leader of the Chinese Kuomintang Party, shot at Shanghai Railway Station, dies 2 day later (thought orchestrated by Kuomintang President Yuan Shikai)
1933 – FDR makes wine and beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal
1978 – The Rutles mockumentary “All You Need is Cash” debuts on NBC television
1986 – Kania skates ladies’ world record 1500m (1:59.30)
1989 – US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate
1993 – Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS
2012 – Ireland returns to recession as GDP falls by 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2011 following a fall of 1.1% in the third quarter
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 21st March 2023
1681 – 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London
1917 – Loretta Walsh becomes US Navy’s 1st female Petty Officer
1931 – KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
1960 – Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa and outlaws ANC
1970 – 32nd NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Jacksonville, 80-69; Bruins’ 4th straight title under coach John Wooden
1990 – TV sitcom “Sydney” starring Valerie Bertinelli, Matthew Perry and Craig Bierko premieres on CBS-TV
1991 – UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
2000 – NSYNC release their 4th studio album “No Strings Attached” (2000 Billboard Album of the Year)
2004 – In Malaysia, the 11th Federal and State elections are held, returning the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional to power with an increased majority
2014 – Canadian freestyle skier (moguls) and two-time Olympic gold medalist Alexandre Bilodeau retires at 26
Historical Events for 20th March 2023
1627 – France and Spain sign accord for fighting protestantism
1774 – The British parliament passes first of the Intolerable Acts: the Boston Port Act, which closed Boston harbor until colonists would pay for damages following the Boston Tea Party
1868 – Jesse James Gang robs a bank in Russellville, Kentucky, of $14,000
1891 – 53rd Grand National: Irish jockey, trainer Harry Beasley wins aboard 4/1 Come Away
1900 – US Secretary of State John Hay announces that all nations to whom he sent notes calling for an ‘open door’ policy in China have essentially accepted his stand
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
1956 – USSR performs nuclear test
1977 – Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India
1994 – El Salvador’s 1st presidential election following 12-year-old civil war
2020 – After 20 years with the New England Patriots, six-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Tom Brady officially agrees to move to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on a 2-year $50m guaranteed deal
Historical Events for 19th March 2023
1880 – 42nd Grand National: Tommy Beasley aboard Irish 8/1 chance Empress wins by 2 lengths from defending champion The Liberator
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
1954 – US Men’s Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1955 – 17th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: San Francisco beats La Salle, 77-63; Dons’ future Hall of Fame center Bill Russell is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
1962 – “All American” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
1978 – PGA Tournament Players Championship, Sawgrass CC: Jack Nicklaus wins his 3rd TPC title, 1 stroke ahead of Lou Graham; 4th straight start for Nicklaus that ends with a top-2 finish
1989 – Wales beats England, 12-9 at Cardiff Arms Park to allow France to claim it’s 9th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship
1989 – Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
1994 – England beats Wales, 15-8 at Twickenham, London but the Welsh take the Five Nations Rugby Championship as title decided by using points difference for the first time
2004 – Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country’s presidential election on March 20.
Historical Events for 18th March 2023
1662 – First public bus service begins, promoted by Blaise Pascal, operates in Paris as the “Carosses a Cinq Sous” until 1675
1870 – 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland California)
1891 – Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone
1938 – NY 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women
1944 – Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
1950 – CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT championship
1965 – Poppin’ Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced
1990 – 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends
2011 – MESSENGER spacecraft enters Mercury’s orbit
2014 – US closes the Syrian embassy in Washington and expels all Syrian diplomats
Historical Events for 17th March 2023
1800 – British warship HMS Queen Charlotte catches fire off the Tuscan Archipelago; 700 die
1842 – Treaty of 1842: Wyandotte (Huron) Indian nation cedes 114,000 acres of land in Ohio and Michigan to US, in exchange for 148,000 acres west of the Mississippi
1897 – British boxer Bob Fitzsimmons KOs American champion ‘Gentleman’ Jim Corbett in the 14th round to win World Heavyweight title in Carson City, Nevada
1900 – American modern dancer Isadora Duncan gives her first Europen performance in London, England
1943 – Physician Willem J. Kolff performs the world’s first ‘hemodialysis’ using his artificial kidney machine, however the treatment is unsuccessful and the patient dies, in the Netherlands
1959 – Australia and USSR restore diplomatic relations
1960 – US President Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1961 – Jaguar head William Lyons debuts the first E-Type model at the Geneva International Motor Show, creating a sensation
1995 – Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams visits the White House in Washington, D.C.
2021 – America’s Cup, Auckland: Emirates Team New Zealand beats Italian yacht Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli by 46s in race 10 for a 7-3 series victory and retain the cup
Historical Events for 16th March 2023
1730 – Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
1861 – Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
1870 – Hiram R. Revels makes 1st official speech by an African American in the US Senate
1900 – Sir Arthur Evans rediscovers the bronze age city of Knossos in Crete, home of the legendary Minotaur
1934 – Academy Award gold statuette 1st called Oscar in print by Sidney Skolsky
1956 – US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1958 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta CC: Beverly Hanson wins by 5 strokes ahead of Betty Dodd
1984 – South Africa and Mozambique sign non attack treaty
2016 – US President Barack Obama nominates Merrick Garland as Supreme Court Justice
2021 – French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal win the Pritzker Prize for architecture
Historical Events for 15th March 2023
1562 – General Francois de Guise enters Paris
1729 – Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st American nun, takes her vows in New Orleans
1877 – Cricket’s inaugural Test match commences as Australia plays England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground; Australia wins by 45 runs in 4 days
1897 – 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
1937 – First American blood bank in a hospital is opened at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois
1949 – Cricket’s master batsman Don Bradman receives his knighthood from the Governor-General of Australia, the Rt Hon. WJ McKell at the investiture in Queen’s Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne
1949 – WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 – US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
1962 – Richard Rodgers’ musical drama “No Strings”, starring Diahann Carroll and Richard Kiley, opens at the 54th Street Theatre (later transferring to the Broadhurst), New York; runs for 580 performances and wins 3 Tony Awards
1994 – 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
Historical Events for 14th March 2023
1899 – Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Shamrocks beat Queens University, 6-2 to clinch trophy for CAHL
1909 – Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
1918 – 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched in San Francisco
1936 – Wales beats Ireland, 3-0 in Cardiff to clinch the Home Nations Rugby Championship with a 2-1-0 record
1958 – Recording Industry Association of American created
1973 – Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
1991 – English Court of Appeal frees “Birmingham 6” who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released
2004 – 45th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Florida, 89-73
2021 – 63rd Grammy Awards: Beyoncé breaks record for most Grammys won by a singer (28), Taylor Swift win Album of the Year and Billie Eilish Record of the Year
Historical Events for 13th March 2023
1900 – British troops occupy Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State (Boer War)
1963 – Two Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
1967 – Robert Anderson’s “You Know I Can’t Hear You …” premieres in NYC
1967 – Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death
1968 – Beatles release single “Lady Madonna” in the UK
1973 – “Irene” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
1980 – American speed skater Eric Heiden sets world record 1000m (1:13.60)
1994 – President Mangope of Bophuthatswana deposed
2013 – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis
2018 – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired via a tweet from President Donald Trump