1812 – Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
1851 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” premieres in Venice
1917 – 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
1954 – US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
1963 – US Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara orders the adoption by the US military of the M16 assault rifle, originally designed as the AR-15 by Eugene Stoner
1968 – Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 12nd string quartet
1974 – Mount Etna in Sicily erupted
1990 – 31st SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Ole Miss, 70-51
2009 – Winnenden school shooting – 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.
2014 – Refugees from Syria pour into the Kingdom of Jordan