1910 – Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin Dutchmen (ON), 7-3
1933 – FDR conducts his 1st “fireside chat”
1951 – Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1962 – Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
1964 – S. N. Behrman’s play “But for Whom Charlie” premieres in NYC
1980 – NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin
1984 – British National Union of Mine Workers headed by Arthur Scargill supports regional strikes, calls for national action
1987 – Ice Pairs World Championship at Cincinnati won by Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
1995 – 42nd ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #7 Wake Forest beats #4 North Carolina, 82-80 (OT)
2008 – Streaming service Hulu launches for public access in the United States
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 11th March 2023
1513 – Giovanni de’ Medici chosen Pope Leo X
1865 – General William T. Sherman’s Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina
1869 – The West first learns of the Giant Panda via French missionary Armand David who receives a skin from a hunter
1912 – Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
1914 – Rupert Brooke’s poems “The Dead” and “The Soldier” are published in The Times Literary Supplement
1944 – Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
1965 – Indonesia President Sukarno signs the ‘Supersemar’ order, giving army commander Lt. Gen. Suharto authority to do whatever he “deemed necessary” to restore order
1978 – Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
1980 – Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Aust v Pak cricket draw
1990 – 31st SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Ole Miss, 70-51
Historical Events for 10th March 2023
1535 – Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers the Galapagos Islands
1934 – US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis
1973 – 20th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Maryland, 76-74
1979 – Eubie Blake, a 92-year old ragtime piano player and composer, and Gregory Hines are musical guest on Saturday Night Live
1983 – Former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Walter Alston is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1984 – 25th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Auburn, 51-49
1991 – 32nd SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Tennessee, 88-69
1992 – Sandra Seuser, Katrin Schreiter, Annet Hesselbarth and Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22)
1993 – Physician David Gunn shot and killed by anti-abortionist Michael Frederick Griffin in Pensacola, Florida, first anti-abortion murder of a doctor in the US
2001 – 22nd Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament: Boston College beats Pittsburgh, 79-57
Historical Events for 9th March 2023
1741 – British fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
1914 – Hendrikus Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
1923 – Amsterdam taxi strike ends
1959 – Barbie makes her debut at the American Toy Fair in New York. Over a billion have been sold worldwide since.
1959 – The Coasters’ single “Charlie Brown” peaks at #2 on the Billboard Top 100
1963 – Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez
1986 – Gilbert Perreault of the Buffalo Sabres becomes the 12th NHLer to score 500 career goals, in a 4-3 win over New Jersey Devils
1989 – Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec)
1994 – IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London’s Heathrow Airport
1996 – NASA space shuttle STS-75 (Columbia 19) lands
Historical Events for 8th March 2023
1862 – Confederate ironclad “Merrimack” launched
1896 – Volunteers of America forms (NYC)
1917 – US Senate introduces the Cloture Rule, requiring a two-thirds majority to end debate, at the urging of Woodrow Wilson
1973 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 – Paul and Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis
1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France
1975 – Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg, Manitoba
1977 – Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia
1986 – Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley’s Comet at 109,800 km
2018 – 5 million Spanish women mark International Women’s Day by striking over gender inequality and sexual discrimination
Historical Events for 7th March 2023
1138 – Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
1621 – John Pieterszoon Coen’s troops land on Lontor, East Indies
1696 – English King William III departs Netherlands
1872 – -8°F (-22°C) in Boston, Massachusetts
1896 – W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s 14th and final comic opera together “The Grand Duke” premieres at the Savoy Theatre, London
1929 – First nonstop flight made from America to Asia across the Bering Strait (Nome to North Cape) by Noel Wien and Calvin Cripe for Wien Air Alaska
1951 – Lillian Hellman’s play “Autumn Garden” premieres on Broadway in NYC
1970 – Ladies’ Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
1981 – 28th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Maryland, 61-60
1994 – ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
Historical Events for 6th March 2023
1628 – Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict
1646 – Joseph Jenkes receives the 1st patent in North America for making scythes from the General Court of Massachusetts
1664 – King Louis XIV and Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant
1831 – Vincenzo Bellini’s opera “La Sonnambula” premieres at Teatro Carcano in Milan, Italy
1853 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “La Traviata” premieres at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
1915 – Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
1943 – Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
2018 – Pope Francis announces that murdered Salvadorean Archbishop Óscar Romero will be made a saint
2018 – “Highest overdose death rates ever recorded in the US”, 142,000 overdoses in 2016-17 period according to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2018 – American WWII aircraft carrier USS Lexington rediscovered in Australia’s Coral Sea, lost during 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea
Historical Events for 5th March 2023
1684 – Emperor Leopold I, Poland and Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz
1743 – 1st US religious journal, The Christian History, published in Boston
1746 – Jacobite troops leave Aberdeen
1845 – 7th Grand National: William Loft aboard outsider Cure-All wins in record time of 10 minutes, 47 seconds
1853 – Piano company Steinway and Sons founded by Heinrich Steinweg (later Henry Steinway) in New York City
1856 – Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads
1978 – “Hello, Dolly!” opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 performances
1989 – 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000
1995 – Graves of Tsar Nicholas II and family found in St Petersburg
2013 – Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro assumes the presidency after the death of Hugo Chávez
Historical Events for 4th March 2023
51 – Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth)
1238 – Battle of the Sit River: Mongol forces of Batu Khan overcome Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal near Yaroslavl in Russia, ending Russian resistance
1793 – French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands
1853 – Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands
1970 – NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
1972 – Abercorn Restaurant bombing: a bomb explodes in a crowded restaurant in Belfast, killing two civilians and wounding 130
1974 – Harold Wilson replaces resigning Edward Heath as British premier
1976 – John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
1979 – 200th episode of “All in the Family”
1983 – U.S. Public Health Service’s publishes its guidelines for blood donors and AIDS
Historical Events for 3rd March 2023
1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China
1869 – University of South Carolina opens to all races
1873 – US Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps
1920 – Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs
1936 – Clarence Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v South Africa
1945 – US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall
1985 – National Union of Mine Workers in Britain ends a 51 week strike
2015 – “Under the Dome” a documentary on pollution in China by Chai Jing has been viewed over 150 million times in 3 days on Tencent
2020 – Iran releases 54,000 people from prison to avoid spread of COVID-19 as country reports 77 deaths and 2,300 cases including two dozen MPs
2022 – Russian forces seize the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe