Historical Events
1929 – Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
1973 – St. Patrick’s Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
2008 – Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York resigns after scandal involving a high-end prostitute; David Paterson becomes acting governor
2013 – Toyo Ito wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize
2018 – China’s National People’s Congress appoints Wang Qishan as vice-president
Famous Birthdays
1877 – Albert Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1918)
1880 – Guillermo Uribe Holguin, Colombian composer, born in Bogotá, Colombia (d. 1971)
1881 – Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Less bror Harris), born in Trondheim, Norway (d. 1947)
1931 – Lorraine Ellison, American soul singer (“Stay with Me”; “Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)”), and songwriter, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1983)
1987 – Rob Kardashian, American television personality and only son of Robert Kardashian and Kris Jenner (Keeping Up with the Kardashians), born in Los Angeles, California
Famous Deaths
1801 – Juan de Sesé y Balaguer, Aragonese composer, dies at 64
1910 – Joaquin Valverde Durán, Spanish composer, dies at 64
1956 – Irene Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935) and daughter of Marie Curie, dies of leukemia at 58
1992 – George Lovi, American columnist (Sky and Telescope’s “Ramblings”), dies
2025 – John A. Hemingway, Irish Royal Air Force pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain during World War Ⅱ, dies at 105