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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1.3.492 | St. Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 1.3.492 | St. Gelasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 1.3.705 | John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 1.3.743 | Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited |
| 1.3.918 | Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht |
| 1.3.1260 | "Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus" |
| 1.3.1382 | French Maillotin uprises against taxes |
| 1.3.1420 | Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten |
| 1.3.1434 | Jacoba of Bavaria marries Frank van Borselen |
| 1.3.1562 | Blood bath at Vassy: Gen de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder |
| 1.3.1565 | Spanish occupier Estacio de Sa founds Rio de Janeiro |
| 1.3.1587 | English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower |
| 1.3.1591 | Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV |
| 1.3.1634 | Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians |
| 1.3.1642 | Georgeana (York) Maine became the 1st incorporated American city |
| 1.3.1692 | "Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem, Massachusetts)" |
| 1.3.1711 | """The Spectator"" begins publishing (London)" |
| 1.3.1780 | Pennsylvania becomes 1st U.S. state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only) |
| 1.3.1781 | Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation |
| 1.3.1784 | "E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain" |
| 1.3.1785 | Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized |
| 1.3.1790 | 1st U.S. census authorized |
| 1.3.1792 | U.S. Presidential Succession Act passed |
| 1.3.1796 | 1st National Meeting in the Hague |
| 1.3.1803 | Ohio becomes 17th state |
| 1.3.1809 | Embargo Act of 1807 repealed and Non-Intercourse Act signed |
| 1.3.1811 | Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500 |
| 1.3.1811 | French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel |
| 1.3.1815 | Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law |
| 1.3.1845 | President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas |
| 1.3.1847 | Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state) |
| 1.3.1854 | SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor and is never seen again |
| 1.3.1859 | Present seal of San Francisco adopted (its 2nd) |
| 1.3.1864 | Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built) |
| 1.3.1864 | Rebecca Lee (U.S.) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree |
| 1.3.1866 | Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana |
| 1.3.1867 | "Howard University, Washington D.C., chartered" |
| 1.3.1867 | Most of Nebraska becomes 37th U.S. state (expanded later) |
| 1.3.1869 | Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time |
| 1.3.1871 | J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia |
| 1.3.1872 | Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park |
| 1.3.1875 | "Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883" |
| 1.3.1876 | "Guernsey Cattle Club forms in Farmington, Connecticut" |
| 1.3.1879 | Library of Hawaii founded |
| 1.3.1880 | Pennsylvania is 1st American state to abolish slavery |
| 1.3.1890 | 1st U.S. edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published |
| 1.3.1893 | "Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the U.S. rank of ambassador" |
| 1.3.1896 | "Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians" |
| 1.3.1904 | England regains cricket Ashes taking a 3-1 series lead vs. Australia |
| 1.3.1909 | "1st U.S. university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota" |
| 1.3.1910 | 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in U.S. history |
| 1.3.1912 | Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane |
| 1.3.1912 | "Isabella Goodwin, 1st U.S. woman detective, appointed, New York City" |
| 1.3.1913 | "1st state law requiring bonding of officers and state employees, ND" |
| 1.3.1913 | "Federal income tax takes effect, 16th amendment" |
| 1.3.1914 | Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum |
| 1.3.1916 | Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic |
| 1.3.1917 | 1st federal land bank chartered |
| 1.3.1919 | Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin |
| 1.3.1920 | "Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Adm Horthy" |
| 1.3.1921 | Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England |
| 1.3.1921 | Rwanda ceded to England |
| 1.3.1921 | Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia |
| 1.3.1923 | Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker |
| 1.3.1924 | Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted |
| 1.3.1927 | Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank |
| 1.3.1928 | "Paul Whiteman and orchestra record ""Ol' Man River"" for Victor Records" |
| 1.3.1932 | "Charles Lindbergh, Jr. (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey; found dead May 12" |
| 1.3.1933 | "Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks" |
| 1.3.1934 | Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria |
| 1.3.1934 | Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1.3.1937 | 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut) |
| 1.3.1937 | Governer Wouters inaugurates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles |
| 1.3.1937 | U.S. Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day |
| 1.3.1940 | "12th Academy Awards - ""Gone with the Wind,"" R Donat and V Leigh win" |
| 1.3.1940 | "Richard Wright's novel ""Native Son"" is published" |
| 1.3.1941 | "1st U.S. commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tennessee" |
| 1.3.1941 | """Captain America"" appears in a comic book" |
| 1.3.1941 | Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commissioner |
| 1.3.1941 | German troops invade Bulgaria |
| 1.3.1941 | Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp |
| 1.3.1942 | "3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, U.S. suffers a major naval defeat" |
| 1.3.1942 | Baseball decides that players in milt can't play when on furlough |
| 1.3.1942 | "J. Milton Cage Jr's ""Imaginary Landscape No 3,"" premieres in Chicago" |
| 1.3.1942 | Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java |
| 1.3.1942 | Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews |
| 1.3.1942 | Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia |
| 1.3.1943 | Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided |
| 1.3.1944 | Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns |
| 1.3.1944 | U-358 sinks in Atlantic |
| 1.3.1945 | British 43rd Division under Gen Essame occupies Xanten |
| 1.3.1945 | Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi |
| 1.3.1945 | Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander |
| 1.3.1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt announces success of Yalta Conference |
| 1.3.1945 | U.S. infantry regiment captures Monchengladbach |
| 1.3.1946 | "British Government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years" |
| 1.3.1946 | Panama accepts its new constitution |
| 1.3.1947 | International Monetary Fund begins operation |
| 1.3.1949 | Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ |
| 1.3.1949 | "The Browns, owners of Sportsman's Park, move to evict the Cardinals" |
| 1.3.1950 | Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa |
| 1.3.1950 | Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London) |
| 1.3.1950 | U.S.S.R. issues golden rubles |
| 1.3.1952 | Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns |
| 1.3.1952 | "Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain" |
| 1.3.1953 | Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
| 1.3.1953 | "KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.3.1953 | "KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins" |
| 1.3.1953 | WJZ-AM in New York City becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission |
| 1.3.1953 | "WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.3.1954 | 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in U.S. House of Representatives injuring 5 representatives |
| 1.3.1954 | "In spring training, Ted Williams breaks his collarbone" |
| 1.3.1954 | "Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die" |
| 1.3.1954 | Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War |
| 1.3.1954 | U.S. explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll |
| 1.3.1955 | "Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48" |
| 1.3.1955 | "KFAR (now KATN) TV channel 2 in Fairbanks, AK (ABC/NBC) 1st broadcast" |
| 1.3.1955 | Pakistan vs. India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw |
| 1.3.1957 | Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor |
| 1.3.1957 | "KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper, WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.3.1957 | """Ziegfeld Follies of 1957"" opens at Winter Garden New York City for 123 performances" |
| 1.3.1958 | "Gary Sobers 365* vs. Pak, 614 min, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara" |
| 1.3.1958 | "Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260" |
| 1.3.1958 | West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 decl vs. Pakistan |
| 1.3.1959 | Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years |
| 1.3.1959 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament |
| 1.3.1961 | Cellist Jacqueline du President debut in Wigmore Hall |
| 1.3.1961 | President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp |
| 1.3.1962 | American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay New York killing 95 |
| 1.3.1962 | K-Mart opens |
| 1.3.1962 | U.S. / British nuclear test experiment in Nevada |
| 1.3.1962 | Uganda became a self-governing country |
| 1.3.1963 | "200,000 French mine workers strike" |
| 1.3.1965 | Australia suspends champ swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-yrs for misconduct |
| 1.3.1965 | "Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec)" |
| 1.3.1965 | "WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.3.1966 | Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria |
| 1.3.1966 | Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus) |
| 1.3.1967 | Dominica and St. Lucia gain independence from Britain |
| 1.3.1967 | "House of Representatives expels Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (307 to 116)" |
| 1.3.1967 | Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London |
| 1.3.1967 | "WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore, MD (IND) 1st broadcast" |
| 1.3.1968 | "NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return" |
| 1.3.1968 | Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands |
| 1.3.1968 | Singers Johnny Cash (36) and June Carter (38) wed |
| 1.3.1968 | Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect |
| 1.3.1969 | After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts |
| 1.3.1969 | Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium |
| 1.3.1969 | New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires |
| 1.3.1969 | """Red, White, and Maddox"" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 41 performances" |
| 1.3.1970 | Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater |
| 1.3.1970 | "Charles Manson's album ""Lie"" is released" |
| 1.3.1970 | Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election |
| 1.3.1970 | White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain |
| 1.3.1971 | Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington D.C. |
| 1.3.1971 | Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM |
| 1.3.1972 | "Club of Rome publishes report ""Boundaries on the Growth""" |
| 1.3.1972 | "David Rabe's ""Sticks and Bones,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 1.3.1972 | "KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma, LA (IND) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.3.1972 | "Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points" |
| 1.3.1973 | Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens |
| 1.3.1973 | Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race |
| 1.3.1974 | George Harrison announces his concert tour of U.S. in November |
| 1.3.1974 | Ian and Greg Chappell make 264 partnership vs. NZ cricket at Wellington |
| 1.3.1974 | Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides |
| 1.3.1975 | "17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win" |
| 1.3.1975 | "Eagles' ""Best of My Love"" reaches #1" |
| 1.3.1977 | Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards |
| 1.3.1977 | U.S. extends territorial waters to 200 miles |
| 1.3.1978 | Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery |
| 1.3.1978 | """Timbuktu!"" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 243 performances" |
| 1.3.1979 | """Sweeney Todd"" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 557 performances" |
| 1.3.1980 | "CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established" |
| 1.3.1980 | Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater |
| 1.3.1980 | Patti Smith and MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit |
| 1.3.1980 | Snow falls in Florida |
| 1.3.1981 | "Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison" |
| 1.3.1981 | Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic |
| 1.3.1981 | """Sophisticated Ladies"" opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 767 performances" |
| 1.3.1982 | 5 dies as ski lift malfunctions a Luz-Ardiden in Pyrenees |
| 1.3.1982 | 5th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 1.3.1982 | New York Times raises it's price from 25 cents to 30 cents |
| 1.3.1982 | "Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data" |
| 1.3.1983 | Tamara McKinney becomes 1st U.S. woman skier to win the World Cup |
| 1.3.1983 | "Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people" |
| 1.3.1984 | Landsat 5 and ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit |
| 1.3.1984 | "U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. #3931 Batten, #4529 Webern, #4530 Smoluchowski, #4818 Elgar, #5502 Brashear and #5943 Lovi" |
| 1.3.1985 | Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center |
| 1.3.1985 | Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks |
| 1.3.1985 | Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter |
| 1.3.1987 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| 1.3.1988 | "Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA" |
| 1.3.1988 | Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran |
| 1.3.1988 | Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile |
| 1.3.1988 | "Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist" |
| 1.3.1989 | Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981 |
| 1.3.1989 | Comet du Toit at perihelion |
| 1.3.1989 | Julianne Philips and Bruce Springsteen divorce |
| 1.3.1990 | Benin nullifies its constitution |
| 1.3.1990 | Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay |
| 1.3.1991 | U.S. Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens |
| 1.3.1992 | Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record (1:01.40) |
| 1.3.1992 | """Little Hotel on the Side"" closes at Belasco New York City after 41 performances" |
| 1.3.1992 | Nelson Diebel swims 100m freestyle U.S. record (54.48 secs) |
| 1.3.1992 | """Visit"" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances" |
| 1.3.1993 | "Authorities in Waco, Texas negotiate with Branch Davidians" |
| 1.3.1993 | George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of New York Yankees |
| 1.3.1993 | "New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks" |
| 1.3.1994 | "36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton wins" |
| 1.3.1994 | Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland |
| 1.3.1994 | Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution |
| 1.3.1995 | "37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Philadelipha, Sheryl Crow" |
| 1.3.1995 | Belgium ends military conscript |
| 1.3.1995 | Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland |
| 1.3.1995 | Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay |
| 1.3.1995 | Part of Houston begins using new area code 261 |
| 1.3.1995 | "Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns" |
| 1.3.1996 | "Lenny Wilkens, winningest coach in NBA, coaches his 1,000th victory" |
| 1.3.1996 | New toll-free 888 area code introduced |
| 1.3.1997 | 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV |
| 1.3.1997 | """Mandy Patinkin in Concert,"" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City" |
| 1.3.1998 | """Art,"" opens at Royale Theater New York City" |
| 1.3.1998 | Australian Ladies Masters Golf |
| 2.3.871 | Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army |
| 2.3.1121 | Dirk VI becomes count of Holland |
| 2.3.1458 | Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia |
| 2.3.1498 | Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island |
| 2.3.1629 | English king Charles I leaces house of commons |
| 2.3.1675 | Prince William III installed as governor of Overijssel |
| 2.3.1725 | "Georg F Handels opera ""Giulio Cesare in Egitto,"" premieres in London" |
| 2.3.1776 | Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston |
| 2.3.1789 | Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances |
| 2.3.1799 | Congress standardizes U.S. weights and measures |
| 2.3.1807 | "Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808" |
| 2.3.1817 | "1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn" |
| 2.3.1819 | Territory of Arkansas organized |
| 2.3.1819 | U.S. passed its 1st immigration law |
| 2.3.1824 | Interstate commerce comes under federal control |
| 2.3.1825 | "1st grand opera in U.S. sung in English, New York City" |
| 2.3.1829 | "New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in U.S., incorporated, Boston" |
| 2.3.1831 | John Frazee becomes 1st U.S. sculptor to receive a federal commission |
| 2.3.1836 | Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico |
| 2.3.1853 | Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory |
| 2.3.1855 | Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia |
| 2.3.1858 | "Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie" |
| 2.3.1861 | "Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington" |
| 2.3.1861 | U.S. creates Dakota and Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska and Utah territories |
| 2.3.1863 | "Congress authorizes track width of 4'8"" for Union Pacific Railroad" |
| 2.3.1865 | "British newspaper ""Morning Chronicle"" begins publishing" |
| 2.3.1865 | "Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865" |
| 2.3.1865 | General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough |
| 2.3.1866 | "1st U.S. company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Connecticut" |
| 2.3.1867 | Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico |
| 2.3.1867 | Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act |
| 2.3.1867 | "Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead" |
| 2.3.1867 | U.S. Congress creates the Department of Education |
| 2.3.1868 | University of Illinois opens |
| 2.3.1874 | Baseball batter's box is officially adopted |
| 2.3.1877 | "Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory" |
| 2.3.1887 | American Trotting Association organized in Detroit |
| 2.3.1889 | Kansas passes 1st U.S. antitrust |
| 2.3.1890 | Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19) |
| 2.3.1893 | 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features |
| 2.3.1896 | "Battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italians" |
| 2.3.1896 | George Lohmann takes 9-28 vs. South Africa at Johannesburg |
| 2.3.1898 | Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England |
| 2.3.1899 | President McKinley signs bill creating Mt. Rainier National Park (5th in U.S.) |
| 2.3.1901 | Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens |
| 2.3.1902 | "Jimmy Collins, leaves Boston Beaneaters (NL) club to manage AL's new Boston Somersets" |
| 2.3.1903 | "Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York City" |
| 2.3.1904 | "Gabriele d'Annunzio's ""La figlia di Iorio,"" premieres in Milan" |
| 2.3.1904 | """Official Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs"" adopted" |
| 2.3.1907 | General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal |
| 2.3.1907 | "Georges Feydeaus' ""La Puce l'Oreille,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 2.3.1909 | "Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy asks Serbia to set no territorial demands" |
| 2.3.1910 | "2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die" |
| 2.3.1915 | British vice adm Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts |
| 2.3.1915 | Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine |
| 2.3.1917 | "Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, U.S. citizenship granted" |
| 2.3.1918 | New York Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers and immediately trades him to Philadelphia A's |
| 2.3.1919 | 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin |
| 2.3.1920 | "Karel Capek's ""Loupeznik,"" premieres in Prague" |
| 2.3.1922 | "WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting" |
| 2.3.1922 | WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions |
| 2.3.1923 | Time magazine debuts |
| 2.3.1925 | Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament |
| 2.3.1925 | Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage |
| 2.3.1925 | Nationwide road numbering system and U.S. shield marker adopted |
| 2.3.1925 | SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament |
| 2.3.1927 | "Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)" |
| 2.3.1929 | Chicago Black Hawks shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game |
| 2.3.1929 | Congress creates Court of Customs and Patent Appeals |
| 2.3.1930 | "1st U.S. indoor glider flight, St. Louis Terminal Building" |
| 2.3.1933 | """King Kong,"" premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy New York City" |
| 2.3.1933 | Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan |
| 2.3.1934 | "Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha" |
| 2.3.1936 | "Bradman scores 369 in 253 mins, SA vs. Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes" |
| 2.3.1937 | Mexico nationalizes oil |
| 2.3.1938 | "Landslides and floods cause over 200 deaths in Los Angeles, California" |
| 2.3.1938 | Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union |
| 2.3.1939 | Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII |
| 2.3.1939 | Massachusetts Legislature vote to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 years late |
| 2.3.1940 | "1st intercollegiate track meet telecast, MSG, New York City" |
| 2.3.1940 | Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland |
| 2.3.1942 | "14th Academy Awards - ""How Green was My Valley,"" Cooper and Fontaine win" |
| 2.3.1942 | Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon |
| 2.3.1943 | 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp |
| 2.3.1943 | "Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, U.S. and Australia win" |
| 2.3.1944 | "16th Academy Awards - ""Casablanca,"" Jennifer Jones and Paul Lukas win" |
| 2.3.1944 | Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy |
| 2.3.1945 | 8th Air Force bombs Dresden |
| 2.3.1945 | King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government |
| 2.3.1946 | Dutch troops land on East Bali |
| 2.3.1946 | Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam |
| 2.3.1946 | "Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA" |
| 2.3.1949 | "1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct)" |
| 2.3.1949 | "Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth, Tx, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hrs" |
| 2.3.1951 | 1st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-94 at Boston |
| 2.3.1952 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
| 2.3.1955 | King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father |
| 2.3.1955 | "William Inge's ""Bus Stop,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 2.3.1956 | "Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France" |
| 2.3.1958 | 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days |
| 2.3.1958 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| 2.3.1958 | Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic |
| 2.3.1961 | """13 Daughters"" opens at 54th St. Theater New York City for 28 performances" |
| 2.3.1962 | John F. Kennedy announces U.S. will resume above ground nuclear testing |
| 2.3.1962 | Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game |
| 2.3.1964 | "Beatles begin filming ""Hard Days Night,"" Harrison meets Patti Boyd" |
| 2.3.1965 | "Montcalm Community College in Sidney Mich, founded" |
| 2.3.1965 | """Sound Of Music"" opens" |
| 2.3.1966 | "215,000 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam" |
| 2.3.1967 | "9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night, Michele wins" |
| 2.3.1967 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 2.3.1968 | Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler and Ford (GRB) |
| 2.3.1968 | Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Belousova and Protopopov (U.S.S.R.) |
| 2.3.1968 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT) |
| 2.3.1968 | U.S.S.R. launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit |
| 2.3.1968 | "USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world" |
| 2.3.1968 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (U.S.) |
| 2.3.1969 | 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde |
| 2.3.1969 | Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die) |
| 2.3.1969 | Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 14th Symphony |
| 2.3.1969 | Phil Esposito becomes 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a season |
| 2.3.1970 | American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747 |
| 2.3.1970 | Rhodesia becomes independent republic |
| 2.3.1970 | Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years |
| 2.3.1972 | Jean-Bedel Bokassa appoints himself President for life of Cent African Rep |
| 2.3.1972 | Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby |
| 2.3.1973 | """Black September"" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum" |
| 2.3.1974 | "16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly, Bette Midler wins" |
| 2.3.1974 | 1st class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents |
| 2.3.1974 | Grand jury concludes President Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up |
| 2.3.1974 | "Greg Chappell makes 247* vs. NZ, 410 minutes, 29 fours 1 six" |
| 2.3.1976 | Bob Lurie becomes CEO of San Francisco Giants |
| 2.3.1976 | """Bubbling Brown Sugar"" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 766 performances" |
| 2.3.1976 | "Holgate, Kemp and Lopez' musical premieres in New York City" |
| 2.3.1976 | Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest |
| 2.3.1977 | 1st time Jay Leno appears on Tonight Show with host Johnny Carson |
| 2.3.1977 | Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award |
| 2.3.1977 | Libya amends constitution |
| 2.3.1978 | "1st broadcast of ""Dallas"" on CBS TV" |
| 2.3.1978 | Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6 |
| 2.3.1980 | 3rd Islander scoreless tie-Penguins in Pitts |
| 2.3.1980 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic |
| 2.3.1980 | Mike Bratz (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games |
| 2.3.1981 | Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists |
| 2.3.1981 | Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Washington D.C. |
| 2.3.1982 | 60th hat trick in Islander history - Bryan Trottier |
| 2.3.1982 | "Terror group ""The Illuminated Path"" frees 260 prisoners in Peru" |
| 2.3.1983 | Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips and Sony introduced |
| 2.3.1983 | "Final episode of M*A*S*H; 125,000,000 viewers" |
| 2.3.1983 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 2.3.1984 | Iran offensive against Iraq fails |
| 2.3.1984 | John Long (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
| 2.3.1985 | U.S. approves screening test for AIDS |
| 2.3.1986 | 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita |
| 2.3.1986 | Mary Beth Zimmerman wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational |
| 2.3.1986 | Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to U.S. |
| 2.3.1988 | "30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley" |
| 2.3.1988 | Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP |
| 2.3.1989 | 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000 |
| 2.3.1989 | "Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil" |
| 2.3.1989 | "Madonna's ""Like a Prayer"" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial" |
| 2.3.1989 | NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers win 22nd straight home game |
| 2.3.1989 | New York Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez |
| 2.3.1990 | Greyhound Bus goes on strike |
| 2.3.1990 | Mark Tewsksbury swims world record 50m backstroke (25.06 sec) |
| 2.3.1991 | """Aspects of Love"" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 377 performances" |
| 2.3.1991 | Deb Richard wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| 2.3.1991 | "Del Ballard, Jr. throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history" |
| 2.3.1991 | """La Bete"" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 24 performances" |
| 2.3.1991 | "North Carolina State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assists" |
| 2.3.1991 | U.N. votes in favor of U.S. resolutions for cease fire with Iraq |
| 2.3.1992 | Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (2:25.35) |
| 2.3.1993 | "Claudette Colbert, suffers a stroke at 89" |
| 2.3.1993 | Salman Rushdie divorces Marianne Wiggins |
| 2.3.1994 | "Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't" |
| 2.3.1994 | "Miami begins a latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefan" |
| 2.3.1994 | "William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), casts his 18,401 and last consecutive vote" |
| 2.3.1995 | British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC |
| 2.3.1995 | "Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed" |
| 2.3.1995 | """Smokey Joe's Cafe,"" opens at Virginia Theater New York City" |
| 2.3.1995 | "Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches" |
| 2.3.1996 | Copeland swimming pool re-opened by Gladiator |
| 2.3.1996 | "Tendulkar scores 137 for Ind vs. SL in Cricket World Cup, but still lose" |
| 2.3.1997 | Gail Graham wins LPGA Alpine Australian Ladies Masters |
| 2.3.1997 | Nick Faldo wins Nissan Golf Open |
| 2.3.1997 | Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple Computer |
| 2.3.1997 | Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia) |
| 3.3.78 | Origin of Saka Era (India) |
| 3.3.468 | St. Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius |
| 3.3.493 | Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker |
| 3.3.1409 | Austrian civil war ends |
| 3.3.1431 | Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV |
| 3.3.1627 | Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil |
| 3.3.1634 | 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole) |
| 3.3.1638 | Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden |
| 3.3.1746 | Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness |
| 3.3.1776 | US commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas |
| 3.3.1791 | 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits and carriages) |
| 3.3.1791 | Congress establishes U.S. Mint |
| 3.3.1794 | 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D |
| 3.3.1794 | Richard Allen founded AME Church |
| 3.3.1801 | "1st U.S. Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia" |
| 3.3.1803 | "1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins" |
| 3.3.1805 | Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms |
| 3.3.1812 | U.S. passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims) |
| 3.3.1813 | Office of surgeon general of the U.S. Army forms |
| 3.3.1815 | US declares war on Algiers for taking U.S. prisoners and demanding tribute |
| 3.3.1817 | Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi |
| 3.3.1820 | "Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri" |
| 3.3.1835 | Congress authorizes a U.S. mint at New Orleans Louisiana |
| 3.3.1837 | Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9 |
| 3.3.1837 | US president Andrew Jackson and Congress recognizes Republic of Texas |
| 3.3.1838 | "Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario Canada" |
| 3.3.1842 | "1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd ""Scottish"" Symphony" |
| 3.3.1842 | 1st U.S. child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass) |
| 3.3.1843 | "Congress appropriates $30,000 ""to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs"" by the US" |
| 3.3.1845 | "1st time, U.S. Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto" |
| 3.3.1845 | Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery |
| 3.3.1845 | Florida becomes 27th state |
| 3.3.1847 | Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps |
| 3.3.1849 | US Department of the Interior established by Congress |
| 3.3.1849 | Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin |
| 3.3.1849 | "Home Department (Interior Department), forms" |
| 3.3.1849 | Minnesota Territory is organizes |
| 3.3.1849 | Territory of Minnesota organizes |
| 3.3.1851 | Congress authorizes smallest U.S. silver coin (3 cent piece) |
| 3.3.1853 | Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress |
| 3.3.1853 | U.S. Assay Office in New York City authorized |
| 3.3.1855 | "Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use" |
| 3.3.1855 | Congress authorizes registered mail |
| 3.3.1861 | Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom |
| 3.3.1862 | Battle of New Madrid MO-captured by Union forces |
| 3.3.1862 | General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid |
| 3.3.1863 | 1st U.S. wartime military conscription bill enacted |
| 3.3.1863 | Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences |
| 3.3.1863 | "Congress authorizes a U.S. mint at Carson City, Nevada" |
| 3.3.1863 | Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia |
| 3.3.1863 | Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired |
| 3.3.1863 | Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress |
| 3.3.1863 | Idaho Territory forms |
| 3.3.1863 | Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences |
| 3.3.1865 | "Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established" |
| 3.3.1865 | Freedmen's Bureau is created to help destitute free blacks |
| 3.3.1869 | University of South Carolina opens to all races |
| 3.3.1871 | Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent |
| 3.3.1871 | Congress establishes the civil service system |
| 3.3.1873 | Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps |
| 3.3.1873 | "U.S. Congress and government raise own salary, retroactively" |
| 3.3.1875 | 1st recorded hockey game (Montreal) |
| 3.3.1875 | "Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years" |
| 3.3.1875 | "Georges Bizet's opera ""Carmen"" premieres (Paris)" |
| 3.3.1877 | Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as the 19th president |
| 3.3.1878 | Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano) |
| 3.3.1879 | 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood) |
| 3.3.1879 | U.S. Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior |
| 3.3.1882 | New York Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings |
| 3.3.1883 | Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in U.S. navy |
| 3.3.1885 | 1st U.S. state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission |
| 3.3.1885 | American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates |
| 3.3.1885 | Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed government) |
| 3.3.1885 | U.S. Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail |
| 3.3.1887 | American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa |
| 3.3.1887 | Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller |
| 3.3.1891 | Congress creates U.S. Courts of Appeal |
| 3.3.1891 | Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Department) created |
| 3.3.1892 | "1st cattle tuberculosis test in U.S. made, Villa Nova, Penn" |
| 3.3.1893 | Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized |
| 3.3.1893 | "Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture" |
| 3.3.1894 | "1st Greek-language publication in U.S. begins, ""NY Atlantis""" |
| 3.3.1894 | 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns |
| 3.3.1899 | Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar |
| 3.3.1899 | George Dewey becomes 1st in U.S. with rank of Admiral of the Navy |
| 3.3.1900 | U.S. Steel Corporation organizes |
| 3.3.1901 | "Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce" |
| 3.3.1903 | North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses |
| 3.3.1905 | U.S. Forest Service forms |
| 3.3.1906 | Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France |
| 3.3.1909 | "Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montreal Wanderers, 8-3" |
| 3.3.1911 | "1st U.S. federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri" |
| 3.3.1913 | Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington D.C. |
| 3.3.1915 | Natl Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created |
| 3.3.1917 | Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations |
| 3.3.1917 | Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar |
| 3.3.1917 | "Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (OS)" |
| 3.3.1918 | "Richard Goring's ""Seeschlacht,"" premieres in Berlin" |
| 3.3.1918 | "Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria and Russia sign" |
| 3.3.1919 | "1st international air mail service from U.S., Seattle-Victoria, British Columbia" |
| 3.3.1919 | Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike |
| 3.3.1920 | Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs |
| 3.3.1921 | Toronto's Dr. Banting and Dr. Best announce discovery of insulin |
| 3.3.1922 | Italian fascists occupy Fiume and Rijeka |
| 3.3.1922 | WWJ-AM in Detroit Michigan begins radio transmissions |
| 3.3.1923 | "U.S. Senate rejects membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague" |
| 3.3.1924 | German and Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed |
| 3.3.1924 | "Sean O'Casey's ""Juno and the Paycock,"" premieres in Dublin" |
| 3.3.1926 | "International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Florida)" |
| 3.3.1931 | "Cab Calloway records ""Minnie Moocher"" (Jazz's 1st million seller)" |
| 3.3.1931 | """Star Spangled Banner"" officially becomes U.S. national anthem" |
| 3.3.1933 | German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested |
| 3.3.1933 | Mount Rushmore dedicated |
| 3.3.1933 | "New York City premiere of ""King Kong""" |
| 3.3.1934 | John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol |
| 3.3.1935 | "Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms" |
| 3.3.1936 | Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test vs. South Africa |
| 3.3.1937 | Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down |
| 3.3.1938 | "American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)" |
| 3.3.1940 | "Artie Shaw records ""Frenesi"" on RCA Victor label" |
| 3.3.1941 | Netherlands NSB-leader Mussert visits Goring in Berlin |
| 3.3.1942 | 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane |
| 3.3.1943 | Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die |
| 3.3.1943 | "F Ryerson and Cohn Claues' ""Harriet,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 3.3.1943 | U.S. defeats Japan and wins Battle of Bismark Sea |
| 3.3.1944 | 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony |
| 3.3.1945 | Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarters |
| 3.3.1945 | RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511 |
| 3.3.1945 | "Roermond/Venlo Neth, freed" |
| 3.3.1945 | U.S. 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall |
| 3.3.1945 | U.S. and Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor |
| 3.3.1946 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
| 3.3.1946 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
| 3.3.1950 | 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name |
| 3.3.1951 | Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts |
| 3.3.1952 | Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution |
| 3.3.1953 | "Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St. Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee" |
| 3.3.1953 | "Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed" |
| 3.3.1955 | Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance |
| 3.3.1956 | Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2) |
| 3.3.1956 | Indonesian government of Harahap resigns |
| 3.3.1956 | "Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY" |
| 3.3.1956 | Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne) |
| 3.3.1957 | "Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with ""Just as then""" |
| 3.3.1957 | Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Markham and Jones (GRB) |
| 3.3.1957 | Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner and Paul (CAN) |
| 3.3.1957 | Men's Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins (USA) |
| 3.3.1957 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| 3.3.1957 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss (U.S.) |
| 3.3.1958 | "KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast" |
| 3.3.1958 | Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq |
| 3.3.1959 | "1st U.S. probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched" |
| 3.3.1959 | "British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis" |
| 3.3.1959 | San Francisco Giant's rename their stadium Candlestick Park |
| 3.3.1960 | "9th largest snowfall in New York City history, 14.5""" |
| 3.3.1961 | King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco |
| 3.3.1962 | British Antarctic Territory forms |
| 3.3.1963 | Senegal adopts constitution |
| 3.3.1965 | "Temptations' ""My Girl"" reaches #1" |
| 3.3.1965 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 3.3.1965 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 3.3.1966 | "Buffalo Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)" |
| 3.3.1966 | "James Goldman's ""Lion in Winter,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 3.3.1966 | Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinee |
| 3.3.1966 | Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms |
| 3.3.1966 | "Twister hits Jackson, Mississippi; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die" |
| 3.3.1966 | "WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, Virginia (IND) begins broadcasting" |
| 3.3.1967 | Grenada gains partial independence from Britain |
| 3.3.1967 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 3.3.1967 | White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game) |
| 3.3.1968 | """Here's Where I Belong"" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City" |
| 3.3.1968 | "Jean Beliveau (Mont) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 pts" |
| 3.3.1968 | "Greece, Portugal and Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague" |
| 3.3.1969 | Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days) |
| 3.3.1971 | South African Broadcasting lifts its ban on the Beatles |
| 3.3.1971 | Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa |
| 3.3.1972 | "Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia" |
| 3.3.1973 | """Shelter"" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 31 performances" |
| 3.3.1973 | "White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000" |
| 3.3.1974 | Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4 |
| 3.3.1974 | George Foreman KOs Ken Norton |
| 3.3.1974 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| 3.3.1974 | """Sextet"" opens at Bijou Theater New York City for 9 performances" |
| 3.3.1974 | "World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die)" |
| 3.3.1975 | """Goodtime Charley"" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 104 performances" |
| 3.3.1975 | Linda McCartney is charged in U.S. with possession of marijuana |
| 3.3.1976 | Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia |
| 3.3.1977 | Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS) |
| 3.3.1977 | Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal |
| 3.3.1977 | Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms |
| 3.3.1977 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (U.S.S.R.) |
| 3.3.1977 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA) |
| 3.3.1978 | 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI vs. Australia) |
| 3.3.1978 | Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland |
| 3.3.1980 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 3.3.1981 | Isle's Mike Bossy 9th and final hat trick of season-4 goals |
| 3.3.1981 | New York Islanders and Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie |
| 3.3.1982 | Senate begins debate on expulsion of Sen Harrison Williams (D-NJ) |
| 3.3.1984 | New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6) |
| 3.3.1984 | Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1) |
| 3.3.1985 | Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic |
| 3.3.1985 | Bill (Willie) Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million |
| 3.3.1985 | """Moonlighting"" with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis, premieres" |
| 3.3.1985 | """My One and Only"" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 767 performances" |
| 3.3.1985 | National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike |
| 3.3.1987 | "Ray Dandridge, 3rd baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame" |
| 3.3.1989 | Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines |
| 3.3.1989 | "Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 years probation for Iran-Contra" |
| 3.3.1990 | "Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan 1st black), crowned 39th Miss USA" |
| 3.3.1991 | 25 die as United Airlines Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs |
| 3.3.1991 | """Big Love"" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 41 performances" |
| 3.3.1991 | "Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* vs. WI at Kingston" |
| 3.3.1991 | "Four Los Angeles Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video" |
| 3.3.1991 | Iraqi generals and Gen Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire |
| 3.3.1991 | Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the U.S.S.R. |
| 3.3.1991 | Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec) |
| 3.3.1991 | Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tome e Principal |
| 3.3.1991 | Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18 |
| 3.3.1991 | "United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25" |
| 3.3.1992 | "Charges are filed in Florida against New York Mets Darryl Boston, Vince Coleman and Dwight Gooden of rape (dropped in April)" |
| 3.3.1992 | "Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die" |
| 3.3.1992 | Mike Bossy's #22 is 2nd # retired by New York Islanders |
| 3.3.1993 | Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings) |
| 3.3.1994 | """Damn Yankees"" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 510 performances" |
| 3.3.1994 | IRS investigates Darryl Strawberry |
| 3.3.1994 | """Philoktetes Variations,"" with Ron Vawter, premieres in Brussels" |
| 3.3.1995 | Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorce |
| 3.3.1996 | 26th Easter Seal Telethon |
| 3.3.1996 | Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final |
| 3.3.1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville North Carolina on WRCQ 103.5 FM |
| 3.3.1998 | Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee |
| 4.3.1152 | Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king |
| 4.3.1461 | Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as king of England |
| 4.3.1540 | Protestant count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife |
| 4.3.1570 | King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students |
| 4.3.1590 | Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda |
| 4.3.1611 | George Abbot appointed archbishop of Canterbury |
| 4.3.1621 | "Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia" |
| 4.3.1665 | English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands |
| 4.3.1675 | John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England |
| 4.3.1681 | King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn |
| 4.3.1699 | Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany |
| 4.3.1741 | English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena |
| 4.3.1774 | 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel) |
| 4.3.1789 | "1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)" |
| 4.3.1791 | "1st Jewish member of U.S. Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office" |
| 4.3.1791 | President Washington calls the U.S. Senate into its 1st special session |
| 4.3.1791 | Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies) |
| 4.3.1792 | Oranges introduced to Hawaii |
| 4.3.1793 | French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Netherlands |
| 4.3.1793 | "Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)" |
| 4.3.1797 | John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of U.S. |
| 4.3.1798 | Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews |
| 4.3.1801 | Thomas Jefferson is the 1st president inaugurated in Washington D.C. |
| 4.3.1809 | Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes |
| 4.3.1825 | John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president |
| 4.3.1826 | "1st U.S. Railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachsetts" |
| 4.3.1829 | Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president |
| 4.3.1829 | Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball |
| 4.3.1830 | "V Bellini's opera ""I Capuleti e i Montecchi,"" premieres in Venice" |
| 4.3.1835 | HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion |
| 4.3.1837 | City of Chicago incorporates |
| 4.3.1837 | Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president |
| 4.3.1837 | Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American |
| 4.3.1841 | "Dion Boucicault's ""London Assurance,"" premieres in London" |
| 4.3.1841 | "Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison" |
| 4.3.1845 | James K. Polk inaugrated at 11th president |
| 4.3.1848 | Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution |
| 4.3.1849 | "U.S. had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (President pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd" |
| 4.3.1853 | Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands |
| 4.3.1853 | William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th U.S. VP |
| 4.3.1861 | "Confederate States adopt ""Stars and Bars"" flag" |
| 4.3.1861 | Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th president |
| 4.3.1861 | President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office |
| 4.3.1863 | "Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee" |
| 4.3.1863 | Territory of Idaho established |
| 4.3.1865 | "Confederate congress approves final design of ""official flag""" |
| 4.3.1865 | President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president |
| 4.3.1869 | Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president |
| 4.3.1876 | U.S. Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap |
| 4.3.1877 | "Tsjaikovski's incomplete ballet ""Zwanenmeer,"" premieres in Moscow" |
| 4.3.1880 | "New York Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S. H. Horgan" |
| 4.3.1881 | California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation |
| 4.3.1881 | "Holmes and Watson begin ""A Study in Scarlet,"" 1st case together" |
| 4.3.1881 | James A. Garfield inaugurated as 20th president |
| 4.3.1881 | South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire |
| 4.3.1883 | "John Gordon Cashmans begins ""Vicksburg Evening Post"" in Mississippi" |
| 4.3.1885 | "Gilbert and Sullivan's opera ""Mikado,"" premieres in London" |
| 4.3.1885 | Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War |
| 4.3.1889 | Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president |
| 4.3.1893 | "Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe" |
| 4.3.1893 | Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th U.S. president (2nd term) |
| 4.3.1894 | "Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed" |
| 4.3.1895 | "Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin" |
| 4.3.1897 | William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US |
| 4.3.1901 | 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer) |
| 4.3.1901 | President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president |
| 4.3.1901 | "Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends" |
| 4.3.1902 | "American Automobile Association, AAA, founded in Chicago" |
| 4.3.1905 | "Gerhart Hauptmann's ""Elga,"" premieres in Berlin" |
| 4.3.1908 | Collingwood Ohio primary school catches fire; 180 die |
| 4.3.1909 | "President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10"" snowstorm" |
| 4.3.1909 | U.S. prohibits interstate transportation of game birds |
| 4.3.1911 | Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes 1st socialist congressman in U.S. |
| 4.3.1913 | 1st U.S. law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed |
| 4.3.1913 | Department of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments |
| 4.3.1913 | "Gabriel Faure's opera ""Penelope,"" premieres in Monte Carlo" |
| 4.3.1913 | New York Yankees are 1st to train outside U.S. (Bermuda) |
| 4.3.1913 | Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president |
| 4.3.1917 | Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of Congress |
| 4.3.1918 | Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921) |
| 4.3.1920 | Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece |
| 4.3.1921 | Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas |
| 4.3.1923 | Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy) |
| 4.3.1924 | """Happy Birthday To You"" published by Claydon Sunny" |
| 4.3.1925 | President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations |
| 4.3.1925 | Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by U.S. |
| 4.3.1926 | De Geer government in Netherlands takes office |
| 4.3.1928 | """Bunion Run"" race from Los Angeles to New York City begins; It is won by Andy Payne" |
| 4.3.1929 | Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP |
| 4.3.1929 | Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president |
| 4.3.1930 | Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated |
| 4.3.1930 | Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman |
| 4.3.1931 | Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test |
| 4.3.1931 | "West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG" |
| 4.3.1933 | Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament |
| 4.3.1933 | "Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member" |
| 4.3.1933 | "Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugrated as 32nd president, pledges to pull U.S. out of Depression and says ""We have nothing to fear but fear itself.""" |
| 4.3.1933 | "Henderson, DeSylva and Brown's ""Strike Me Pink,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 4.3.1933 | Noordwijk soccer team forms |
| 4.3.1934 | Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson (SF) dedicated |
| 4.3.1936 | "1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany" |
| 4.3.1941 | 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague |
| 4.3.1941 | NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots |
| 4.3.1941 | Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler |
| 4.3.1943 | Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor |
| 4.3.1944 | 1st U.S. bombing of Berlin |
| 4.3.1944 | Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy |
| 4.3.1945 | Finland declares war on nazi-Germany |
| 4.3.1947 | "WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 4.3.1949 | Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister |
| 4.3.1949 | Piet Van de Pol (Neth) becomes world champion billiard player |
| 4.3.1949 | Security Council of United Nations recommends membership for Israel |
| 4.3.1954 | "J. E. Wilkins, appointed 1st Black U.S. sub-cabinet member" |
| 4.3.1955 | 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent |
| 4.3.1959 | U.S. Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes 2nd (U.S. 1st) artificial planet |
| 4.3.1960 | "French freighter ""La Coubre"" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100" |
| 4.3.1960 | Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz |
| 4.3.1961 | Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as sec-gen of NATO |
| 4.3.1962 | AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation |
| 4.3.1964 | Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering |
| 4.3.1965 | David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2 |
| 4.3.1966 | "Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die" |
| 4.3.1966 | "John Lennon, says ""We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus""" |
| 4.3.1966 | North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by British Petroleum |
| 4.3.1967 | Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler and Ford (GRB) |
| 4.3.1967 | Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova and Protopopov (U.S.S.R.) |
| 4.3.1967 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT) |
| 4.3.1967 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (U.S.) |
| 4.3.1968 | Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 4.3.1968 | "Martin Luther King, Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign" |
| 4.3.1968 | Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched |
| 4.3.1970 | "French submarine ""Eurydice"" explodes" |
| 4.3.1970 | Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game |
| 4.3.1970 | New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out |
| 4.3.1971 | """City Command"" kidnaps 4 U.S. military men at Ankara, Turkey" |
| 4.3.1972 | Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5) |
| 4.3.1972 | Last train run between Penrith to Keswick United Kingdom |
| 4.3.1972 | Libya and U.S.S.R. signs cooperation treaty |
| 4.3.1973 | "15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America" |
| 4.3.1974 | "David Hares' ""Knuckle,"" premieres in London" |
| 4.3.1974 | Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier |
| 4.3.1976 | "John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio" |
| 4.3.1976 | San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth |
| 4.3.1977 | "1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico" |
| 4.3.1977 | Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain |
| 4.3.1977 | "Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541" |
| 4.3.1978 | "Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue" |
| 4.3.1979 | "200th episode of ""All in the Family""" |
| 4.3.1979 | """Grand Tour"" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 61 performances" |
| 4.3.1979 | Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
| 4.3.1979 | U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings |
| 4.3.1980 | 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy |
| 4.3.1980 | Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe |
| 4.3.1982 | 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy and D Potvin |
| 4.3.1982 | NASA launches Intelsat V |
| 4.3.1984 | Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational |
| 4.3.1984 | Pee Wee Reese and Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
| 4.3.1985 | STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled |
| 4.3.1985 | Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA |
| 4.3.1985 | "War veterans returned to the ""Bridge over the River Kwai""" |
| 4.3.1986 | Border completes twin Test tons (140 and 114*) vs. NZ |
| 4.3.1989 | Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline |
| 4.3.1989 | Eastern Airlines machinists strike |
| 4.3.1989 | Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m) |
| 4.3.1990 | 20th Easter Seal Telethon |
| 4.3.1990 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| 4.3.1990 | U.S. 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space |
| 4.3.1991 | Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of 1st American Bank |
| 4.3.1991 | "Iraq releases 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian POW" |
| 4.3.1993 | """Goodbye Girl"" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 188 performances" |
| 4.3.1993 | Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion |
| 4.3.1994 | 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center |
| 4.3.1994 | "Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit" |
| 4.3.1995 | 1st New York City Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years |
| 4.3.1995 | Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital |
| 4.3.1995 | "George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker" |
| 4.3.1995 | Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec) |
| 4.3.1995 | Replacement New York Yankees beat New York Mets 2-1 |
| 4.3.1997 | Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks |
| 4.3.1997 | Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU) |
| 4.3.1997 | President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research |
| 4.3.1997 | Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia) |
| 5.3.1179 | 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome |
| 5.3.1461 | Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses |
| 5.3.1496 | English king Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore |
| 5.3.1528 | Utrecht governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague |
| 5.3.1558 | Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes |
| 5.3.1579 | Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht |
| 5.3.1616 | "Copernicus' ""de Revolutionibus"" placed on Catholic Forbidden index" |
| 5.3.1623 | "1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia" |
| 5.3.1651 | South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm |
| 5.3.1684 | "Emperor Leopold I, Poland and Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz" |
| 5.3.1743 | "1st U.S. religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston" |
| 5.3.1746 | Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen |
| 5.3.1750 | "1st American Shakespearean production-""altered"" Richard III, New York City" |
| 5.3.1760 | Princess Carolina marries Gen Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg |
| 5.3.1766 | Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French |
| 5.3.1770 | Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a U.S. Senator (Mississippi) |
| 5.3.1770 | "Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom" |
| 5.3.1783 | King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno |
| 5.3.1795 | Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution |
| 5.3.1795 | Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France |
| 5.3.1807 | 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B |
| 5.3.1820 | Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays |
| 5.3.1821 | "Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun" |
| 5.3.1836 | Mexico attacks Alamo |
| 5.3.1836 | "Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber ""Texas"" model" |
| 5.3.1845 | "Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western U.S." |
| 5.3.1849 | Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th president |
| 5.3.1856 | Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire |
| 5.3.1856 | Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads |
| 5.3.1862 | Union troops under brig-general Wright occupy Fernandina Florida |
| 5.3.1864 | 1st track meet between Oxford and Cambridge |
| 5.3.1868 | "Arrigo Boito's opera ""Mefistofele,"" premieres in Milan" |
| 5.3.1868 | Stapler patented in England by C. H. Gould |
| 5.3.1868 | U.S. Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson |
| 5.3.1872 | "George Westinghouse, Jr. patents triple air brake for trains" |
| 5.3.1877 | Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as 19th U.S. president |
| 5.3.1894 | Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in U.S. |
| 5.3.1896 | Italian premier Crispi resigns |
| 5.3.1896 | "Italians governor of Eritrea, Gen Baldissera, reaches Massawa" |
| 5.3.1897 | American Negro Academy forms |
| 5.3.1899 | 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Concerto in D |
| 5.3.1900 | American Hall of Fame found |
| 5.3.1903 | Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn |
| 5.3.1907 | 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired |
| 5.3.1908 | "1st ascent of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica" |
| 5.3.1910 | "Ramon Inclan's ""La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon,"" premieres" |
| 5.3.1910 | "Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1" |
| 5.3.1912 | "Spanish steamer ""Principe de Asturias"" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die" |
| 5.3.1917 | 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released |
| 5.3.1919 | Louis Hirsch and Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in New York City |
| 5.3.1922 | """Nosferatu"" premieres in Berlin" |
| 5.3.1923 | 1st old age pension plans in U.S. established by Montana and Nevada |
| 5.3.1924 | King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief |
| 5.3.1924 | Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM |
| 5.3.1924 | "Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games" |
| 5.3.1927 | "1,000 U.S. Marines land in China to protect American property" |
| 5.3.1928 | "Karl Zuckmayer's ""Der Hauptmann von Kopenick,"" premieres in Berlin" |
| 5.3.1931 | Gandhi and British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact |
| 5.3.1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims 10-day bank holiday |
| 5.3.1933 | Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes) |
| 5.3.1934 | "Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Texas)" |
| 5.3.1935 | 1st premature baby health law in U.S. (Chicago) |
| 5.3.1936 | Spitfire makes it's 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton) |
| 5.3.1942 | Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia |
| 5.3.1942 | "Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia" |
| 5.3.1942 | Japanese troop march into Batavia |
| 5.3.1943 | Anti fascist strikes in Italy |
| 5.3.1943 | RAF bombs Essen Germany |
| 5.3.1944 | 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony |
| 5.3.1945 | "Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands" |
| 5.3.1945 | "Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Patch meet in Luneville" |
| 5.3.1945 | U.S. 7th Army Corps captures Cologne |
| 5.3.1945 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
| 5.3.1946 | "Winston Churchill's ""Iron Curtain"" speech (Fulton Missouri)" |
| 5.3.1948 | Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson |
| 5.3.1948 | U.S. rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height |
| 5.3.1949 | "Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30" |
| 5.3.1952 | "Terence Rattigan's ""Deep Blue Sea,"" premieres in London" |
| 5.3.1954 | """Girl in Pink Tights"" opens at Mark Hellinger New York City for 115 performances" |
| 5.3.1955 | "Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance on ""Louisiana Hayride"" show" |
| 5.3.1955 | "WBBJ TV channel 7 in Jackson, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.3.1956 | """King Kong,"" 1st televised" |
| 5.3.1956 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| 5.3.1957 | Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland |
| 5.3.1957 | Sgt Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvis Pelvin) |
| 5.3.1958 | Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit |
| 5.3.1958 | "KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast" |
| 5.3.1959 | Iran and U.S. sign economic / military treaty |
| 5.3.1960 | Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in U.S. Army |
| 5.3.1960 | Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny and Jones (GRB) |
| 5.3.1960 | Ice Pairs Championship at Vancouver won by Wagner and Paul (CAN) |
| 5.3.1960 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (FRA) |
| 5.3.1960 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Vanc won by Carol E Heiss (USA) |
| 5.3.1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 5.3.1963 | "Beatles record ""From Me to You"" and ""Thank You Girl""" |
| 5.3.1964 | "Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr, announces a baseball team is moving there" |
| 5.3.1964 | Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest |
| 5.3.1965 | 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony |
| 5.3.1965 | Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 5.3.1966 | "75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die" |
| 5.3.1966 | Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record |
| 5.3.1966 | "Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as exec director of Players' Association" |
| 5.3.1966 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 5.3.1967 | "WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.3.1968 | U.S. launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun |
| 5.3.1969 | Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris |
| 5.3.1969 | Gustav Heinemann elected president of West-Germany |
| 5.3.1969 | "Joe Orton's ""What the Butler Saw,"" premieres in London" |
| 5.3.1970 | Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St. New York City |
| 5.3.1970 | Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect |
| 5.3.1970 | SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St. in New York City |
| 5.3.1972 | Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves Communist Party |
| 5.3.1973 | Yankee pitchers Peterson and Kekich announce they swapped wives |
| 5.3.1974 | """Candide"" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 740 performances" |
| 5.3.1974 | Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot |
| 5.3.1976 | British pounds falls below $2 for 1st time |
| 5.3.1978 | """Hello, Dolly!"" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 152 performances" |
| 5.3.1978 | "Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California" |
| 5.3.1979 | "Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles)" |
| 5.3.1980 | Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49 |
| 5.3.1981 | """Bring Back Birdie"" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 4 performances" |
| 5.3.1981 | Ice Dance Championship at Hartford won by Jayne Torvill and C Dean (GRB) |
| 5.3.1981 | Ice Pairs Champ at Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva and I Lisovski (URS) |
| 5.3.1981 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Hartford won by Scott Hamilton (USA) |
| 5.3.1981 | U.S. government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer |
| 5.3.1982 | Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners |
| 5.3.1982 | Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands and sends back data from Venus |
| 5.3.1983 | Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian PM Malcolm Fraser (Cons) |
| 5.3.1983 | NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield |
| 5.3.1984 | Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene |
| 5.3.1984 | U.S. accuse Iraq of using poison gas |
| 5.3.1985 | New York Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons |
| 5.3.1986 | """Today"" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper)" |
| 5.3.1989 | "19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000" |
| 5.3.1989 | Blains McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266 |
| 5.3.1989 | Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 m indoor (8:33.82) |
| 5.3.1991 | Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait |
| 5.3.1991 | Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games |
| 5.3.1992 | Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks |
| 5.3.1993 | Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery |
| 5.3.1993 | "Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die" |
| 5.3.1993 | Former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi |
| 5.3.1993 | Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game |
| 5.3.1994 | Dottie Mochrie wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Championship |
| 5.3.1994 | "Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa)" |
| 5.3.1994 | PBA National Championship won by David Traber |
| 5.3.1994 | Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop |
| 5.3.1995 | 21st People's Choice Awards: Tim Allen wins |
| 5.3.1995 | Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election |
| 5.3.1995 | Graves of czar Nicholas and family found in St. Petersburg |
| 5.3.1995 | Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26) |
| 5.3.1996 | "Earl Weaver and Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame" |
| 5.3.1997 | "Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox and Willie Wells for Hall of Fame" |
| 6.3.1079 | Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar |
| 6.3.1205 | "Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King" |
| 6.3.1323 | Treaty of Paris |
| 6.3.1447 | Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V |
| 6.3.1460 | Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Is for W Africa |
| 6.3.1521 | Magellan discovers Guam |
| 6.3.1579 | Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht |
| 6.3.1590 | "Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda ""turfschip of Breda""" |
| 6.3.1628 | Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict |
| 6.3.1646 | "Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent" |
| 6.3.1664 | King Louis XIV and Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant |
| 6.3.1665 | Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing |
| 6.3.1714 | Peace of Rastatt - French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg |
| 6.3.1728 | Spain and England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo |
| 6.3.1775 | "1st Negro Mason in U.S. initiated, Boston" |
| 6.3.1799 | Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine |
| 6.3.1808 | "1st college orchestra in U.S. founded, at Harvard" |
| 6.3.1810 | Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in U.S. |
| 6.3.1816 | Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany |
| 6.3.1831 | "Bellini's opera ""La Sonnambula,"" premieres in Milan" |
| 6.3.1831 | Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy |
| 6.3.1831 | "Vincenzo Bellini's opera ""La Sonnambula,"" premieres in Milan" |
| 6.3.1834 | Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor |
| 6.3.1836 | "3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight" |
| 6.3.1836 | "HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia" |
| 6.3.1838 | "Franz Grillparzer's ""Weh dem, der Lugt,"" premieres in Vienna" |
| 6.3.1851 | "Dion Boucicault's ""Love in a Maze,"" premieres in London" |
| 6.3.1853 | "Giuseppe Verdi's Opera ""La Traviata,"" premieres in Venice" |
| 6.3.1855 | Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet |
| 6.3.1857 | Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens |
| 6.3.1861 | Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army |
| 6.3.1862 | "Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern)" |
| 6.3.1865 | "Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida" |
| 6.3.1865 | President Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Ball |
| 6.3.1882 | Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king |
| 6.3.1886 | "1st U.S. alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA" |
| 6.3.1886 | "1st U.S. nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, New York City" |
| 6.3.1895 | "England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2" |
| 6.3.1895 | J. T. Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 mins) England vs. Australia |
| 6.3.1896 | "1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his ""Horseless Carriage""" |
| 6.3.1899 | """Asprin"" patented by Felix Hoffmann" |
| 6.3.1902 | Census Bureau forms |
| 6.3.1906 | Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance |
| 6.3.1906 | "Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands" |
| 6.3.1906 | Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers |
| 6.3.1909 | "Gerhart Hauptmann's ""Griselda,"" premieres in Vienna" |
| 6.3.1915 | Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos |
| 6.3.1918 | "U.S. naval boat ""Cyclops"" disappears in Bermuda Triangle" |
| 6.3.1919 | "NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie" |
| 6.3.1921 | Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee |
| 6.3.1922 | "Babe Ruth signs 3 years at $52,000 a year New York Yankee contract" |
| 6.3.1922 | "GB Shaw's ""Back to Methusaleh III/IV,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 6.3.1923 | Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms |
| 6.3.1924 | British Labour government cuts military budget |
| 6.3.1926 | China asks for a seat in the Security council |
| 6.3.1929 | Turkey and Bulgaria sign friendship treaty |
| 6.3.1930 | Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food |
| 6.3.1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a nationwide bank holiday |
| 6.3.1933 | "Maxwell Anderson's ""Both your Houses,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 6.3.1933 | Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk) |
| 6.3.1934 | "Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif's ""Yellowjacket,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 6.3.1935 | "Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in Los Angeles" |
| 6.3.1936 | Belgium ends Locarno-pact |
| 6.3.1940 | "1st U.S. telecast from an airplane, New York City" |
| 6.3.1943 | "Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommels assault attack" |
| 6.3.1943 | Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers |
| 6.3.1944 | USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin |
| 6.3.1945 | 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm |
| 6.3.1945 | "Assassination attempt on Hohere, SS Police fuhrer Rauter" |
| 6.3.1945 | Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio |
| 6.3.1945 | Erich Honnecker andErich Hanke flee nazis |
| 6.3.1945 | "Federico Garcia Lorca's ""La Casa,"" premieres in Buenos Aires" |
| 6.3.1946 | France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation |
| 6.3.1947 | "XB-45, 1st U.S. 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, California" |
| 6.3.1950 | Silly Putty invented |
| 6.3.1951 | Belgium extends conscription to 24 months |
| 6.3.1953 | Malenkov becomes chairman of the U.S.S.R. |
| 6.3.1955 | "Dutch premiere of Samuel Becketts' ""Waiting for Godot""" |
| 6.3.1955 | Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| 6.3.1957 | Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from U.K. |
| 6.3.1959 | "11st Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr" |
| 6.3.1959 | "Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)" |
| 6.3.1960 | President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament |
| 6.3.1961 | 1st London minicabs introduced |
| 6.3.1961 | Dutch guilder revalued 4.74% |
| 6.3.1961 | Dutch Queen Juliana celebrates 12 year government jubilee |
| 6.3.1962 | St. Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals |
| 6.3.1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 6.3.1962 | U.S. promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression |
| 6.3.1964 | Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece |
| 6.3.1964 | "Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali" |
| 6.3.1964 | Liz Taylor's 4th divorce (Eddie Fisher) |
| 6.3.1964 | Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:56.4) |
| 6.3.1965 | "1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford" |
| 6.3.1965 | Bruce Taylor hits 105 for NZ vs. India in 1st Test Cricket innings |
| 6.3.1965 | """How to Succeed in Business"" closes at 46th St. New York City after 1415 performances" |
| 6.3.1966 | "Barry Sadlers' ""Ballad of the Green Berets"" becomes #1 (13 weeks)" |
| 6.3.1967 | 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards |
| 6.3.1967 | Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison |
| 6.3.1967 | Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted |
| 6.3.1967 | Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US |
| 6.3.1967 | "WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 6.3.1970 | "Beatles release ""Let it Be"" in UK" |
| 6.3.1971 | "Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, vs. West Indies at Port-of-Spain" |
| 6.3.1972 | "Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner" |
| 6.3.1972 | Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes |
| 6.3.1973 | "In an exhibition game with the Pirates, Twins Larry Hisle becomes the 1st designated hitter (he hits 2 home runs and knocks in 7 RBIs)" |
| 6.3.1974 | "An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo" |
| 6.3.1974 | Ian and Greg Chappell score cricket |
| 6.3.1974 | """Over Here"" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 341 performances" |
| 6.3.1976 | Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS) |
| 6.3.1976 | Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina and Zaitsev (URS) |
| 6.3.1976 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (GRB) |
| 6.3.1976 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill |
| 6.3.1978 | Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot and crippled by a sniper in Georgia |
| 6.3.1980 | "French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)" |
| 6.3.1980 | "Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th New York City" |
| 6.3.1980 | Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time |
| 6.3.1981 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 6.3.1981 | Soyuz 39 returns to Earth |
| 6.3.1981 | Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of CBS Evening News |
| 6.3.1981 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Hartford won by Denise Biellmann |
| 6.3.1982 | NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT) |
| 6.3.1982 | Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB) |
| 6.3.1983 | Anne-Marie Palli wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic |
| 6.3.1983 | Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections |
| 6.3.1983 | "New Bedford, Mass woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table" |
| 6.3.1983 | """On Your Toes"" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 505 performances" |
| 6.3.1983 | U.S. Football League begins its 1st season |
| 6.3.1985 | Enos Slaughter and Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 6.3.1985 | Mexican authorities find body of U.S. drug agent Enrique C. Salaazar |
| 6.3.1985 | Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight |
| 6.3.1985 | "Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of ""King and I""" |
| 6.3.1986 | "Ken Ludwig's ""Lend me a Tenor,"" premieres in London" |
| 6.3.1986 | "U.S.S.R.'s Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km" |
| 6.3.1987 | "6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100" |
| 6.3.1987 | "Belgium ferry boat ""Herald of Free Enterprise"" capsizes/sinks; 192 die" |
| 6.3.1988 | "18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000" |
| 6.3.1988 | 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers |
| 6.3.1988 | Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am |
| 6.3.1988 | Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories) |
| 6.3.1988 | Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament |
| 6.3.1989 | Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985) |
| 6.3.1990 | "SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17" |
| 6.3.1991 | "Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that ""aggression is defeated. The war is over""" |
| 6.3.1992 | Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine |
| 6.3.1994 | Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec) |
| 6.3.1994 | United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by 2 wickets to win ICC Trophy |
| 6.3.1995 | 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield |
| 6.3.1995 | American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets |
| 6.3.1995 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix Arizona on KEDJ 106.3/100.3 FM |
| 6.3.1996 | 10th American Comedy Award |
| 6.3.1996 | 2nd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards |
| 6.3.1996 | Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 vs. Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lanka score 5-398 in 50 overs in World Cup vs. Kenya |
| 6.3.1998 | 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace |
| 6.3.1998 | "Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Connecticut state lottery" |
| 7.3.1138 | Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king |
| 7.3.1530 | "King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church" |
| 7.3.1560 | "Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, North Africa" |
| 7.3.1573 | Turkey and Venice signs peace treaty |
| 7.3.1621 | "John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies" |
| 7.3.1633 | Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg |
| 7.3.1644 | Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies |
| 7.3.1696 | English king Willem III departs Netherlands |
| 7.3.1774 | British close port of Boston to all commerce |
| 7.3.1778 | "Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay" |
| 7.3.1801 | Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law |
| 7.3.1808 | Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro |
| 7.3.1824 | "Meyerbeers opera ""Il Crociati in Egitto,"" premieres in Venice" |
| 7.3.1835 | HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso |
| 7.3.1843 | "1st Catholic governor in U.S., Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office" |
| 7.3.1847 | U.S. General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico |
| 7.3.1848 | "In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed" |
| 7.3.1850 | Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850 |
| 7.3.1851 | Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends |
| 7.3.1852 | Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law |
| 7.3.1854 | Charles Miller patents 1st U.S. sewing machine to stitch buttonholes |
| 7.3.1857 | "Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs" |
| 7.3.1862 | "Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch and McIntosh killed" |
| 7.3.1865 | Battles round Kinston North Carolina |
| 7.3.1870 | "Cincinnati Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest and East" |
| 7.3.1872 | "-8 degrees F in Boston, Massachusetts" |
| 7.3.1876 | Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone |
| 7.3.1876 | Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians |
| 7.3.1896 | "Gilbert and Sullivan's last operette ""Grand Duke,"" premieres in London" |
| 7.3.1900 | "Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees" |
| 7.3.1900 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games |
| 7.3.1902 | Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal |
| 7.3.1906 | "Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor" |
| 7.3.1908 | "Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, ""women are not physically fit to operate automobiles""" |
| 7.3.1911 | "U.S. sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border" |
| 7.3.1911 | "Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, California, patents coin-operated locker" |
| 7.3.1912 | Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole |
| 7.3.1914 | Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania |
| 7.3.1917 | "1st jazz record ""Dixie Jazz Band One Step,"" recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ" |
| 7.3.1918 | "H. Carroll and J. McCarthy's musical ""Oh, Look!,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 7.3.1918 | President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal |
| 7.3.1921 | Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt |
| 7.3.1922 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard |
| 7.3.1922 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger |
| 7.3.1925 | American Negro Congress organizes |
| 7.3.1926 | "1st transatlantic telephone call, London - New York" |
| 7.3.1927 | "Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan" |
| 7.3.1930 | Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball |
| 7.3.1932 | "Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4" |
| 7.3.1933 | "Game of ""Monopoly"" invented" |
| 7.3.1935 | Saar incorporated into Germany |
| 7.3.1936 | "Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland" |
| 7.3.1937 | "Bucharin, Jagoda and Rykov pushed out of CPSU in U.S.S.R." |
| 7.3.1939 | Glamour magazine begins publishing |
| 7.3.1939 | "Guy Lombardo and Royal Canadians 1st record ""Auld Lang Syne""" |
| 7.3.1940 | Mont Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home |
| 7.3.1940 | "Ray Steele beats B. Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ" |
| 7.3.1941 | "3rd largest snowfall in New York City history (18.1"")" |
| 7.3.1941 | "50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece" |
| 7.3.1941 | British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
| 7.3.1942 | 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta |
| 7.3.1942 | 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee |
| 7.3.1943 | Gen-major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia |
| 7.3.1944 | Japans begins offensive in Burma |
| 7.3.1945 | Cologne taken by allied armies |
| 7.3.1945 | "U.S. 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine" |
| 7.3.1945 | Yugoslavia government of Tito forms |
| 7.3.1946 | "Max Frisch' ""Santa Cruz,"" premieres in Zurich" |
| 7.3.1946 | """Three to Make Ready"" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 323 performances" |
| 7.3.1950 | Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy and P Kennedy (USA) |
| 7.3.1950 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE |
| 7.3.1950 | Men Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA) |
| 7.3.1951 | Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title |
| 7.3.1951 | "Lillian Hellman's ""Autumn Garden,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 7.3.1953 | Jackie McGlew scores 255* vs. NZ at Wellington |
| 7.3.1954 | Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
| 7.3.1954 | Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition |
| 7.3.1955 | "7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas and Loretta Young" |
| 7.3.1955 | Baseball Commish Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter |
| 7.3.1955 | "Mary Martin as ""Peter Pan"" televised" |
| 7.3.1958 | Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo |
| 7.3.1959 | 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow) |
| 7.3.1959 | """Bells Are Ringing"" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 925 performances" |
| 7.3.1959 | "West Indies all out 76 vs. Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34" |
| 7.3.1960 | Dutch Builders strike for CLA |
| 7.3.1962 | Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio |
| 7.3.1962 | "Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data)" |
| 7.3.1965 | Alabama state troopers and 600 black protestors clash in Selma |
| 7.3.1965 | Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after ton |
| 7.3.1965 | Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile |
| 7.3.1966 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 7.3.1966 | """Wait A Minim!"" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 457 performances" |
| 7.3.1967 | "Clark Gesner's musical ""You're a Good Man, premieres in New York City" |
| 7.3.1967 | "Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)" |
| 7.3.1969 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 7.3.1970 | Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS) |
| 7.3.1970 | Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina and Ulanov (URS) |
| 7.3.1970 | Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR) |
| 7.3.1970 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA) |
| 7.3.1970 | "WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 7.3.1971 | Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire |
| 7.3.1973 | Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory |
| 7.3.1973 | Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh |
| 7.3.1974 | 1st general striking in Ethiopia |
| 7.3.1974 | """Monitor"" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina" |
| 7.3.1975 | "Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate" |
| 7.3.1975 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 7.3.1976 | Morocco and Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria |
| 7.3.1977 | Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections |
| 7.3.1977 | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter |
| 7.3.1978 | Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped |
| 7.3.1978 | Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders |
| 7.3.1978 | Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb |
| 7.3.1979 | Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro and amateur umpires |
| 7.3.1979 | Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 7.3.1981 | "1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death" |
| 7.3.1981 | """Bring Back Birdie"" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 4 performances" |
| 7.3.1982 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic |
| 7.3.1982 | Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 sec) |
| 7.3.1982 | NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time |
| 7.3.1983 | "TNN, The Nashville Network, begins on Cable TV" |
| 7.3.1985 | IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 update released |
| 7.3.1986 | South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant and Limburg ends |
| 7.3.1986 | Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist |
| 7.3.1987 | "Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs" |
| 7.3.1987 | Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 7.3.1988 | "Howard Stern's 1st pay-per-view ""Underpants and Negligee Party""" |
| 7.3.1988 | "Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E. Sullivan Award" |
| 7.3.1989 | Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Rushdie's book |
| 7.3.1989 | "Partial eclipse of the Sun in Hawaii, North West North America, Greenland" |
| 7.3.1990 | 3 passengers killed and 162 injured as subway train derails in Philadelphia |
| 7.3.1990 | H. Wayne Huizenga buys Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30M |
| 7.3.1991 | Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait |
| 7.3.1992 | Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.78) |
| 7.3.1993 | 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises |
| 7.3.1993 | Different Strokes actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant |
| 7.3.1994 | 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins |
| 7.3.1994 | ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa |
| 7.3.1994 | Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia |
| 7.3.1994 | David Platt appointed captain of English football team |
| 7.3.1994 | U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship |
| 7.3.1995 | Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record) |
| 7.3.1995 | New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty |
| 7.3.1996 | 1st surface photos of Pluto by Hubble Space Telescope |
| 7.3.1996 | British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million pound order |
| 7.3.1996 | "Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists" |
| 7.3.1997 | 11th Soul Train Music Awards |
| 7.3.1997 | "5 sue Japanese PM Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life" |
| 7.3.1997 | "Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome and Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site" |
| 8.3.1418 | Jacoba van Bayern marries her cousin John IV van Brabant |
| 8.3.1586 | Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch chief legal advisor |
| 8.3.1658 | Peace of Roskilde between Sweden and Denmark |
| 8.3.1702 | England Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III |
| 8.3.1706 | Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established |
| 8.3.1711 | Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder |
| 8.3.1722 | Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia |
| 8.3.1746 | Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen |
| 8.3.1754 | Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain |
| 8.3.1766 | Willem V (18) becomes governor of United Provinces |
| 8.3.1782 | Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 indians |
| 8.3.1801 | "British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt" |
| 8.3.1813 | 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic |
| 8.3.1838 | U.S. Mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes) |
| 8.3.1854 | U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry's 2nd trip to Japan |
| 8.3.1855 | "1st train crosses 1st U.S. railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls" |
| 8.3.1858 | "Opera ""I Pagliacci"" is produced (Naples)" |
| 8.3.1861 | St. Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies |
| 8.3.1862 | Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal |
| 8.3.1862 | "Confederate ironclad ""Merrimack"" launched" |
| 8.3.1862 | "Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia CSS Virginia, Jamestown and Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress and Monitor" |
| 8.3.1865 | "Battle of Kingston, North Carolina (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks)" |
| 8.3.1884 | 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite |
| 8.3.1887 | "Everett Horton, Connecticut, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes" |
| 8.3.1894 | New York passes 1st state dog license law |
| 8.3.1896 | Volunteers of America forms (New York City) |
| 8.3.1898 | "Richard Straus' ""Don Quixote,"" premieres in Keulen" |
| 8.3.1900 | "NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville and Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee)" |
| 8.3.1902 | 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony |
| 8.3.1904 | Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match |
| 8.3.1906 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ont) in 2 games |
| 8.3.1908 | "Collingwood Elementary (Cleve) burns, kills 173 kids and 2 teachers" |
| 8.3.1908 | "Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, New York" |
| 8.3.1910 | Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot |
| 8.3.1911 | 1st International Woman's Day |
| 8.3.1913 | Federal League organizes with 6 teams |
| 8.3.1913 | Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect income taxes |
| 8.3.1915 | "1st U.S. Navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned" |
| 8.3.1916 | "U.S. invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime" |
| 8.3.1917 | Russian revolution breaks out in Petrograd |
| 8.3.1920 | Denmark and Cuba join the League of Nations |
| 8.3.1924 | Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah |
| 8.3.1927 | Pan American Airlines incorporates |
| 8.3.1929 | U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia |
| 8.3.1930 | "Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts ""No one will ever be paid more than Ruth""" |
| 8.3.1930 | Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India |
| 8.3.1934 | Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars |
| 8.3.1939 | "Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowan's ""Family Portrait,"" premieres" |
| 8.3.1941 | "1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)" |
| 8.3.1942 | Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma |
| 8.3.1942 | "KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies" |
| 8.3.1943 | 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg |
| 8.3.1943 | Limited gambling legalized in Mexico |
| 8.3.1943 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
| 8.3.1943 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Arthur Vaughn |
| 8.3.1944 | U.S. resumes bombing Berlin |
| 8.3.1945 | 53 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers |
| 8.3.1945 | International Women's Day is 1st observed |
| 8.3.1945 | """Kiss Me Kate"" opens in Britain" |
| 8.3.1945 | Phyllis M. Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as U.S. Navy ensign |
| 8.3.1946 | 1st helicopter licensed for commercial use (New York City) |
| 8.3.1948 | Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional |
| 8.3.1949 | "WAGeorgia TV channel 5 in Atlanta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 8.3.1949 | "WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting" |
| 8.3.1950 | 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters) |
| 8.3.1950 | Marshall Voroshilov of U.S.S.R. announces they developed atomic bomb |
| 8.3.1951 | International Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel) |
| 8.3.1952 | Antoine Pinay forms French government |
| 8.3.1952 | Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis |
| 8.3.1953 | "Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years" |
| 8.3.1953 | "KSWO TV channel 7 in Lawton, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 8.3.1953 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| 8.3.1953 | """Two's Company"" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 90 performances" |
| 8.3.1953 | "WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 8.3.1957 | 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston |
| 8.3.1957 | Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships |
| 8.3.1957 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| 8.3.1958 | Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita |
| 8.3.1958 | William Faulkner says U.S. school degenerated to become babysitters |
| 8.3.1959 | "Groucho, Chico and Harpo's final TV appearance together" |
| 8.3.1959 | "KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson, Arizona (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 8.3.1959 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| 8.3.1959 | Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq |
| 8.3.1960 | """Greenwillow"" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 95 performances" |
| 8.3.1961 | "Jean Kerr's ""Mary, Mary,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 8.3.1961 | U.S. nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs |
| 8.3.1962 | "Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform ""Dream Baby"" on BBC)" |
| 8.3.1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 8.3.1963 | Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria |
| 8.3.1964 | Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement |
| 8.3.1965 | "1st U.S. combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)" |
| 8.3.1966 | An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin |
| 8.3.1966 | Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame |
| 8.3.1966 | """Golden Boy"" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 569 performances" |
| 8.3.1967 | "New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)" |
| 8.3.1968 | "6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Maryland)" |
| 8.3.1968 | Fillmore East opens |
| 8.3.1968 | Students demonstrate in Warsaw |
| 8.3.1969 | Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo |
| 8.3.1970 | "WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 8.3.1971 | "Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title" |
| 8.3.1971 | Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record) |
| 8.3.1971 | "Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's ""Star Spangled Banner""" |
| 8.3.1972 | 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa) |
| 8.3.1972 | 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp |
| 8.3.1973 | "Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/U.S. longest, opens" |
| 8.3.1973 | Paul and Linda McCartney are fined 100 pounds for growing cannabis |
| 8.3.1973 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 8.3.1974 | Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris |
| 8.3.1975 | Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba |
| 8.3.1976 | "1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China" |
| 8.3.1977 | Henry L. Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond |
| 8.3.1977 | Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter) |
| 8.3.1979 | "1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Io, a satellite of Jupiter" |
| 8.3.1979 | 5th People's Choice Awards |
| 8.3.1979 | China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam |
| 8.3.1979 | Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale |
| 8.3.1980 | "Greg Chappell 235 and Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad" |
| 8.3.1980 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 8.3.1981 | Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game |
| 8.3.1981 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic |
| 8.3.1981 | """Shakespeare's Cabaret"" closes at Bijou Theater New York City after 54 performances" |
| 8.3.1983 | House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with U.S.S.R. |
| 8.3.1983 | IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0 |
| 8.3.1983 | "President Reagan calls the U.S.S.R. an ""Evil Empire""" |
| 8.3.1985 | Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS) |
| 8.3.1986 | 4 French TV crew members are abducted in Beirut Lebanon |
| 8.3.1986 | "Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km" |
| 8.3.1986 | Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million |
| 8.3.1987 | "17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425" |
| 8.3.1987 | David Hookes (306*) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for S Aust |
| 8.3.1987 | "FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr. in California" |
| 8.3.1987 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic |
| 8.3.1987 | Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor |
| 8.3.1989 | """Heidi Chronicles"" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 621 performances" |
| 8.3.1989 | Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 secs) |
| 8.3.1991 | "17th People's Choice Awards: Julia Roberts, Bill Cosby, Pretty Woman" |
| 8.3.1991 | Harry Hamlin and Nicollette Sheridan wed |
| 8.3.1991 | "Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured" |
| 8.3.1991 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 8.3.1992 | 22nd Easter Seal Telethon |
| 8.3.1992 | Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
| 8.3.1993 | Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion |
| 8.3.1993 | Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder |
| 8.3.1994 | 20th People's Choice Awards |
| 8.3.1994 | "B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, at least 8 killed" |
| 8.3.1994 | Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces |
| 8.3.1994 | "Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47" |
| 8.3.1995 | "-26 degrees F (-32.2 degrees C) in Bismarck, North Dakota" |
| 8.3.1995 | Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece |
| 8.3.1995 | Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections |
| 9.3.1452 | Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III RC-German emperor |
| 9.3.1496 | Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria |
| 9.3.1497 | "Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation," |
| 9.3.1500 | Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India |
| 9.3.1522 | Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit |
| 9.3.1551 | Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne |
| 9.3.1562 | Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) |
| 9.3.1617 | Sweden and Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa |
| 9.3.1640 | "Pierre Corneilles ""Horace,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 9.3.1642 | English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis Neth |
| 9.3.1697 | Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe |
| 9.3.1701 | "France, Cologne and Bavaria sign alliance" |
| 9.3.1721 | English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower |
| 9.3.1741 | English fleet under Admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena |
| 9.3.1745 | Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston |
| 9.3.1796 | Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais |
| 9.3.1798 | Dr. George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the U.S. navy |
| 9.3.1820 | James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House |
| 9.3.1820 | Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die |
| 9.3.1822 | Charles Graham of New York patents artificial teeth |
| 9.3.1839 | Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours |
| 9.3.1841 | U.S. Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident) |
| 9.3.1842 | "Giuseppe Verdi's opera ""Nabucco,"" premieres in Milan" |
| 9.3.1844 | "Giuseppe Verdi's opera ""Hernani,"" premieres in Venice" |
| 9.3.1849 | "Carl Nikolais opera ""Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor,"" premieres" |
| 9.3.1858 | Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox |
| 9.3.1860 | 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington |
| 9.3.1861 | "Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000" |
| 9.3.1862 | """Monitor"" (Union) and ""Merrimack"" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads" |
| 9.3.1864 | Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army |
| 9.3.1868 | "The opera ""Hamlet"" premieres in Paris" |
| 9.3.1873 | Royal Canadian Mounted Police founded |
| 9.3.1882 | False teeth patented |
| 9.3.1889 | Battle at Gallabat (Metema): Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV |
| 9.3.1889 | Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in U.S. |
| 9.3.1893 | Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs |
| 9.3.1895 | "Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ont) loses to Montreal AAA, 5-1" |
| 9.3.1897 | "Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot" |
| 9.3.1897 | "Indian, fans start calling the team Indians (in 1915 becomes official)" |
| 9.3.1897 | Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony (Berlin) |
| 9.3.1902 | Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna |
| 9.3.1904 | Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal |
| 9.3.1907 | "1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana" |
| 9.3.1907 | "Lady Gregory's ""Rising of the Moon,"" premieres in Dublin" |
| 9.3.1914 | Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co |
| 9.3.1914 | "U.S. Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands ""Cubanisation of Mexico""" |
| 9.3.1916 | "General Fransisco ""Poncho"" Villa invades U.S. (17 killed)" |
| 9.3.1916 | Germany declares war against Portugal |
| 9.3.1916 | "Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12" |
| 9.3.1918 | Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party |
| 9.3.1918 | Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda |
| 9.3.1918 | Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens |
| 9.3.1922 | "Eugene O'Neill's ""Hairy Ape,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 9.3.1922 | KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions |
| 9.3.1923 | Amsterdam taxi strike ended |
| 9.3.1923 | "Elmer Rice's ""Adding Machine,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 9.3.1923 | "NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2" |
| 9.3.1924 | South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka) |
| 9.3.1926 | Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle |
| 9.3.1929 | "Marcel Pagnol's ""Marius,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 9.3.1932 | Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland |
| 9.3.1932 | Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria |
| 9.3.1933 | "Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin" |
| 9.3.1933 | "Congress is called into special session by FDR, and began its ""100 days""" |
| 9.3.1936 | Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player |
| 9.3.1942 | Construction of the Alaska Highway began |
| 9.3.1943 | Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown |
| 9.3.1943 | Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps |
| 9.3.1945 | "334 U.S. B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb" |
| 9.3.1945 | "Japanese proclaim ""independence"" of Indo-China" |
| 9.3.1946 | Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang |
| 9.3.1946 | "Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses" |
| 9.3.1947 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill |
| 9.3.1947 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
| 9.3.1948 | Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia |
| 9.3.1949 | "Brigadier Gen Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA" |
| 9.3.1949 | England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes |
| 9.3.1950 | "Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in New York City" |
| 9.3.1952 | Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title |
| 9.3.1953 | Josef Stalin buried in Moscow |
| 9.3.1954 | 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) New York City (Castro Decorators) |
| 9.3.1954 | Edward R. Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now) |
| 9.3.1954 | "WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester, NH (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 9.3.1956 | Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested and exiled to Seychelles |
| 9.3.1956 | Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England |
| 9.3.1957 | "8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska" |
| 9.3.1958 | "George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season" |
| 9.3.1959 | 1st known radar contact is made with Venus |
| 9.3.1959 | "Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold" |
| 9.3.1959 | """Juno"" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 16 performances" |
| 9.3.1961 | "1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9" |
| 9.3.1961 | "Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72" |
| 9.3.1961 | "Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka, a dog, into orbit" |
| 9.3.1961 | "Supremes release ""I Want A Guy"" and ""Never Again""" |
| 9.3.1962 | Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians |
| 9.3.1962 | U.S. advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight |
| 9.3.1963 | "Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez" |
| 9.3.1964 | 1st Ford Mustang produced |
| 9.3.1964 | Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Okla |
| 9.3.1964 | "Supreme Court issues New York Times vs. Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages" |
| 9.3.1966 | Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board |
| 9.3.1967 | "Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West" |
| 9.3.1968 | "10th Grammy Awards: Up Up and Away, Sgt Pepper's wins 4" |
| 9.3.1971 | J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI vs. India at Port-of-Spain |
| 9.3.1972 | "Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary" |
| 9.3.1974 | "Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended" |
| 9.3.1975 | """Lieutenant"" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 9 performances" |
| 9.3.1976 | 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy |
| 9.3.1976 | Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0 |
| 9.3.1977 | "Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche" |
| 9.3.1977 | "Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington D.C., siege ended Mar 11th" |
| 9.3.1978 | Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk and Karponosov |
| 9.3.1978 | Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina and Zaitsev (URS) |
| 9.3.1978 | Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (GDR) |
| 9.3.1978 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA) |
| 9.3.1979 | Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters |
| 9.3.1979 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 9.3.1980 | "Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured" |
| 9.3.1980 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament |
| 9.3.1981 | Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News |
| 9.3.1983 | "Caryl Churchill's ""Fen,"" premieres in London" |
| 9.3.1983 | Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana |
| 9.3.1984 | Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections |
| 9.3.1984 | "John Lennon releases ""Borrowed Time""" |
| 9.3.1984 | Philadelphia 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record |
| 9.3.1984 | Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 9.3.1985 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR) |
| 9.3.1985 | Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) and Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed |
| 9.3.1986 | "16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000" |
| 9.3.1986 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| 9.3.1986 | NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts |
| 9.3.1986 | "Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km" |
| 9.3.1987 | Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion |
| 9.3.1988 | President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp |
| 9.3.1989 | Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy |
| 9.3.1989 | Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec) |
| 9.3.1989 | Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary |
| 9.3.1989 | Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court |
| 9.3.1989 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 9.3.1990 | Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general |
| 9.3.1991 | 5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg |
| 9.3.1991 | Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games |
| 9.3.1991 | """Les Miserables,"" opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane" |
| 9.3.1991 | U.S. 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit |
| 9.3.1993 | 19th People's Choice Awards |
| 9.3.1993 | 7th Soul Train Music Awards |
| 9.3.1993 | Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak |
| 9.3.1993 | Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs |
| 9.3.1994 | IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport |
| 9.3.1995 | Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays |
| 9.3.1995 | Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record) |
| 9.3.1995 | "President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns" |
| 9.3.1996 | Javed Miandad's last international in Pak's WC QF loss to India |
| 9.3.1996 | Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) vs. England in WC QF |
| 9.3.1996 | "STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands" |
| 9.3.1997 | Senior Golf Slam |
| 9.3.1997 | Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open |
| 10.3.418 | Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire |
| 10.3.1526 | Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal |
| 10.3.1535 | Bishop Tomas de Berlanga discovers Galapagos Islands |
| 10.3.1578 | "Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir 20,000 pounds to aid Dutch rebellion" |
| 10.3.1624 | England declares war on Spain |
| 10.3.1629 | King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later |
| 10.3.1661 | French King Louis XIV ends office of premier |
| 10.3.1681 | "English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania" |
| 10.3.1734 | Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples |
| 10.3.1789 | Franklin College founded |
| 10.3.1791 | "John Stone, Concord, Massachusetts, patents a pile driver" |
| 10.3.1791 | Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy |
| 10.3.1847 | 1st money minted in Hawaii |
| 10.3.1849 | Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only U.S. president to do so |
| 10.3.1862 | Great Britain and France recognizes independence of Zanzibar |
| 10.3.1862 | "U.S. issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1000)" |
| 10.3.1864 | Grant is named commander of the Union armies |
| 10.3.1864 | Red River campaign LA |
| 10.3.1865 | "Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, North Carolina" |
| 10.3.1874 | Purdue University (Indiana) admits it's 1st student |
| 10.3.1876 | 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson) |
| 10.3.1880 | General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria |
| 10.3.1880 | Salvation Army of England sets up U.S. welfare and religious activity |
| 10.3.1888 | "1st performance of Cesar Franck's ""Psyche""" |
| 10.3.1888 | HW Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds |
| 10.3.1893 | Ivory Coast becomes a French colony |
| 10.3.1893 | "New Mexico State University cancels it's 1st graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed and killed the night before" |
| 10.3.1896 | Bronx acquires O'Brien Square |
| 10.3.1896 | Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18 |
| 10.3.1900 | "Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs. British army)" |
| 10.3.1902 | Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri |
| 10.3.1903 | "Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine" |
| 10.3.1903 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Montreal AAA in 2 games |
| 10.3.1905 | Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang) |
| 10.3.1906 | "1st performance of Maurice Ravel's ""Sonatine""" |
| 10.3.1906 | "Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France" |
| 10.3.1906 | London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line) |
| 10.3.1909 | Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title |
| 10.3.1910 | China ends slavery |
| 10.3.1910 | "Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing" |
| 10.3.1913 | Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney (NS) Millionaires in 2 games |
| 10.3.1913 | "William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300" |
| 10.3.1914 | Suffragettes in London damages painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez |
| 10.3.1915 | British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle |
| 10.3.1920 | NHL's Quebec Bulldog Jim Malone scores 6 goals vs Ottawa Senators |
| 10.3.1922 | KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions |
| 10.3.1922 | "State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg, South Africa" |
| 10.3.1925 | "Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran" |
| 10.3.1926 | Run on Belgian banks |
| 10.3.1927 | "Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian and Slovenes" |
| 10.3.1927 | Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches |
| 10.3.1931 | British Labour party removes fascist Sir Oswald Mosley |
| 10.3.1933 | "Major earthquake in Long Beach, California" |
| 10.3.1933 | Nevada becomes 1st U.S. state to regulate narcotics |
| 10.3.1934 | Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games) |
| 10.3.1934 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis |
| 10.3.1934 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
| 10.3.1939 | 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India |
| 10.3.1940 | "1st U.S. opera telecast, W2XBS, New York City, I Pagliacci" |
| 10.3.1941 | "Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets" |
| 10.3.1945 | Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine |
| 10.3.1945 | Japan declares Vietnam Independence |
| 10.3.1945 | Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army |
| 10.3.1945 | Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombing |
| 10.3.1945 | U.S. troops lands on Mindanao |
| 10.3.1946 | Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil |
| 10.3.1948 | "1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca" |
| 10.3.1949 | Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949 |
| 10.3.1951 | FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner |
| 10.3.1951 | """Where's Charley?"" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 56 performances" |
| 10.3.1952 | Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba |
| 10.3.1956 | General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios |
| 10.3.1956 | "Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph)" |
| 10.3.1957 | Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy |
| 10.3.1959 | Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet |
| 10.3.1959 | "Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck" |
| 10.3.1959 | "Tennessee Williams' ""Sweet Bird of Youth,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 10.3.1960 | U.S.S.R. agrees to stop nuclear testing |
| 10.3.1962 | "Due to it's no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel and move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida" |
| 10.3.1963 | Pete Rose debuts with hits in his 2 1st at bats in spring training |
| 10.3.1963 | Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 70 points vs. Syracuse |
| 10.3.1964 | U.S. reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany |
| 10.3.1965 | "Dutch Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged" |
| 10.3.1966 | "5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires" |
| 10.3.1966 | Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg |
| 10.3.1966 | North Vietnamese capture U.S. Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley |
| 10.3.1968 | "Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington, New Zealand (200 killed)" |
| 10.3.1969 | "James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King, Jr." |
| 10.3.1970 | "Barbra Streisand records ""The Singer"" and ""I Can Do It""" |
| 10.3.1970 | South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia |
| 10.3.1971 | Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18 |
| 10.3.1972 | "1st black U.S. political convention opens in Gary, Indiana" |
| 10.3.1972 | Gen Lon Nol becomes President and prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia |
| 10.3.1972 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 10.3.1973 | BPAA U.S. Open by Mike McGrath |
| 10.3.1973 | Morocco adopts constitution |
| 10.3.1974 | Carol Mann wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic |
| 10.3.1974 | Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election |
| 10.3.1974 | "Lawrence Rowe completes 302 vs. Eng Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six" |
| 10.3.1974 | """Sextet"" closes at Bijou Theater New York City after 9 performances" |
| 10.3.1975 | Dog spectacles patented in England |
| 10.3.1975 | """Rocky Horror Show"" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 45 performances" |
| 10.3.1977 | Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO |
| 10.3.1978 | Soyuz 28 returns to Earth |
| 10.3.1980 | Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show |
| 10.3.1982 | President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya |
| 10.3.1982 | Salim Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL) |
| 10.3.1982 | Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun |
| 10.3.1982 | Travis Jackson and Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame |
| 10.3.1983 | "Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame" |
| 10.3.1984 | Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page |
| 10.3.1985 | Bonnie Lauer wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational |
| 10.3.1985 | Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games |
| 10.3.1985 | French socialists lose election (National Front 9%) |
| 10.3.1985 | Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova and O Vasiliev (URS) |
| 10.3.1985 | "India beat Pakistan to win ""World Championship of Cricket""" |
| 10.3.1985 | Mens Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (URS) |
| 10.3.1986 | "Ernie Lombardi, NL MVP in 1938, and Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame" |
| 10.3.1987 | Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization and embryo transfer |
| 10.3.1988 | "Avalanche at Klosters, a Swiss Ski resort, nearly kills Prince Charles" |
| 10.3.1988 | New York Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night |
| 10.3.1990 | 4th American Comedy Award: When Harry Met Sally |
| 10.3.1990 | Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova and Ponomarenko (URS) |
| 10.3.1990 | Ice Pairs Championship at Halifax won by Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS) |
| 10.3.1990 | Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA) |
| 10.3.1990 | Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti |
| 10.3.1990 | Mens Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (CAN) |
| 10.3.1990 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 10.3.1991 | Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs |
| 10.3.1991 | Laura Davies wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
| 10.3.1991 | Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup |
| 10.3.1991 | Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec) |
| 10.3.1991 | Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05) |
| 10.3.1992 | 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole and Color Me Badd win |
| 10.3.1992 | Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22) |
| 10.3.1994 | 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral |
| 10.3.1995 | "Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed" |
| 10.3.1995 | "Chiel Meijering's ""St. Louis Blues,"" premieres in Arnhem" |
| 10.3.1995 | Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64 |
| 10.3.1996 | "22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks wins" |
| 10.3.1996 | New York City Mayor Guiliani visits Israel |
| 10.3.1998 | 4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards |
| 11.3.417 | Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome |
| 11.3.537 | Goths lay siege to Rome |
| 11.3.843 | Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople |
| 11.3.1302 | "Romeo and Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare" |
| 11.3.1502 | Tebriz] shah Ismail I of Persia crowned |
| 11.3.1513 | Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X |
| 11.3.1563 | League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II |
| 11.3.1567 | Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel |
| 11.3.1597 | Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France |
| 11.3.1598 | Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille |
| 11.3.1649 | Treaty of Rueil destroys 1st Fronde-uprising |
| 11.3.1665 | NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights |
| 11.3.1669 | "Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000" |
| 11.3.1702 | "1st English daily newspaper ""Daily Courant,"" publishes" |
| 11.3.1779 | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time) |
| 11.3.1789 | Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington D.C. |
| 11.3.1791 | "Samuel Mulliken, Philadelphia, is 1st to obtain more than 1 U.S. patent" |
| 11.3.1794 | Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens |
| 11.3.1795 | Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols |
| 11.3.1810 | Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise |
| 11.3.1812 | Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews |
| 11.3.1823 | "1st normal school in U.S. opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt" |
| 11.3.1824 | U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| 11.3.1835 | "HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile" |
| 11.3.1850 | Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school) |
| 11.3.1851 | "Giuseppe Verdi's opera ""Rigoletto,"" premieres in Venice" |
| 11.3.1861 | "Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution" |
| 11.3.1862 | Gen Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief |
| 11.3.1864 | "Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee" |
| 11.3.1865 | "Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina" |
| 11.3.1867 | "Giuseppe Verdi's opera ""Don Carlos,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 11.3.1867 | Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano) |
| 11.3.1882 | Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton New Jersey |
| 11.3.1888 | Great blizzard of '88 strikes the North East U.S. |
| 11.3.1892 | "1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachuetts)" |
| 11.3.1895 | "Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed" |
| 11.3.1901 | "Cincinnati Enquirer reports Balt mgr John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant" |
| 11.3.1904 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games |
| 11.3.1905 | "Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles, 2 games to 1" |
| 11.3.1910 | "Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 vs. SAfr), his only Test hit wicket" |
| 11.3.1912 | "1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-min periods, formerly played in 30-min halfs, Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep" |
| 11.3.1917 | "1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)" |
| 11.3.1917 | British troops occupy Baghdad |
| 11.3.1918 | Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia |
| 11.3.1918 | Save the Redwoods League founded |
| 11.3.1919 | "General strike in Germany, crushed" |
| 11.3.1922 | "Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in 2 games" |
| 11.3.1924 | 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins |
| 11.3.1924 | "Eden Phillpotts' ""Farmer's Wife,"" premieres in London" |
| 11.3.1924 | NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games |
| 11.3.1926 | Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein |
| 11.3.1927 | "1st armored commercial car hold-up in U.S., Pittsburgh" |
| 11.3.1927 | 1st golden gloves tournament |
| 11.3.1927 | Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (New York City) |
| 11.3.1928 | Netherlands and Belgium tie 1-1 (soccer match in Amsterdam) |
| 11.3.1930 | President and Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington |
| 11.3.1934 | "Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer" |
| 11.3.1935 | Bank of Canada opens |
| 11.3.1935 | "Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe" |
| 11.3.1938 | Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country |
| 11.3.1941 | "Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minn, to become wrestling champ" |
| 11.3.1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Bill to lend money to Britain |
| 11.3.1942 | 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp |
| 11.3.1942 | General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia |
| 11.3.1942 | Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra |
| 11.3.1943 | Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands |
| 11.3.1944 | Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested |
| 11.3.1945 | Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death |
| 11.3.1945 | "1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs" |
| 11.3.1948 | Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed |
| 11.3.1948 | Reginald Weit became the 1st black to play in the U.S. Tennis Open |
| 11.3.1948 | "WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, MD (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 11.3.1953 | 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams) |
| 11.3.1953 | "American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches" |
| 11.3.1954 | U.S. Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics |
| 11.3.1956 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 11.3.1958 | "Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show ""21""" |
| 11.3.1958 | "Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets" |
| 11.3.1959 | """Raisin in the Sun,"" 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens" |
| 11.3.1959 | "Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with ""A Little Bit""" |
| 11.3.1960 | Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth and Venus |
| 11.3.1961 | "Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks and Maple Leafs (20 each)" |
| 11.3.1963 | Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain |
| 11.3.1965 | Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto |
| 11.3.1966 | Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out |
| 11.3.1967 | Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne) |
| 11.3.1968 | Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting |
| 11.3.1968 | Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet |
| 11.3.1968 | "Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for "" Dock of the Bay""" |
| 11.3.1970 | "12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills and Nash, Peggy Lee win" |
| 11.3.1970 | Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation |
| 11.3.1972 | """Inner City"" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 97 performances" |
| 11.3.1973 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic |
| 11.3.1974 | Mount Etna in Sicily erupted |
| 11.3.1974 | Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album |
| 11.3.1975 | Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails |
| 11.3.1975 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 11.3.1977 | Moslems hold 130 hostages in Washington D.C. |
| 11.3.1978 | "Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed" |
| 11.3.1978 | USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC |
| 11.3.1979 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic |
| 11.3.1979 | Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game |
| 11.3.1980 | Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Aust vs. Pak cricket draw |
| 11.3.1981 | "Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins" |
| 11.3.1981 | Johnny Mize and Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 11.3.1982 | Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname |
| 11.3.1982 | Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion |
| 11.3.1982 | Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington D.C. |
| 11.3.1983 | Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki Finland won by Torvill and Dean (GRB) |
| 11.3.1983 | Ice Pairs Championship at Helsinki won by Valova and Vasiliev (URS) |
| 11.3.1983 | Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA) |
| 11.3.1983 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA) |
| 11.3.1984 | Chris Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic |
| 11.3.1985 | Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader |
| 11.3.1986 | "1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC" |
| 11.3.1986 | 12th People's Choice Awards |
| 11.3.1986 | 187.27 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 11.3.1986 | "Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons" |
| 11.3.1986 | Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km |
| 11.3.1986 | NFL adopts instant replay rule |
| 11.3.1987 | "Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point" |
| 11.3.1988 | Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire |
| 11.3.1990 | 16th People's Choice Awards |
| 11.3.1990 | Lithuania declares it's Independence |
| 11.3.1990 | Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International |
| 11.3.1991 | Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records |
| 11.3.1991 | "John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award" |
| 11.3.1991 | Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked first |
| 11.3.1993 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN |
| 11.3.1994 | Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile |
| 11.3.1995 | "-36.8 degrees F (-38.2 degrees C) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67 degrees N" |
| 11.3.1995 | President Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament |
| 11.3.1995 | "Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in U.S." |
| 11.3.1995 | Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m |
| 11.3.1996 | "Chris Harris scores 130 in losing NZ side vs. Australia, World Cup" |
| 11.3.1996 | Mark Waugh scores 110 vs. NZ for his third century of the World Cup |
| 11.3.1997 | 3rd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards |
| 11.3.1997 | "Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space" |
| 11.3.1997 | Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen |
| 11.3.1997 | San Francisco Giant J. T. Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch |
| 12.3.1000 | "Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III" |
| 12.3.1054 | Pope Leo IX escapes captivity and returns to Rome |
| 12.3.1144 | "Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II" |
| 12.3.1350 | Orvieto city says it will behead and burn Jewish-Christian couples |
| 12.3.1365 | University of Vienna founded |
| 12.3.1496 | Jews are expelled from Syria |
| 12.3.1572 | "Luis Vaz de Camoes publishes ""Os Lusiados"" in Portugal" |
| 12.3.1587 | English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower |
| 12.3.1594 | Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies |
| 12.3.1597 | England routes troops to Amiens |
| 12.3.1609 | Bermuda becomes an English colony |
| 12.3.1619 | Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia |
| 12.3.1622 | Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint |
| 12.3.1642 | Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand |
| 12.3.1664 | 1st naturalization act in American colonies |
| 12.3.1664 | New Jersey becomes a British colony |
| 12.3.1689 | Former English King James II lands in Ireland |
| 12.3.1737 | "Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy" |
| 12.3.1755 | "1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine" |
| 12.3.1773 | Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago |
| 12.3.1789 | U.S. Post Office established |
| 12.3.1799 | Austria declares war on France |
| 12.3.1848 | 2nd republic established in France |
| 12.3.1849 | 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California |
| 12.3.1850 | 1st U.S. $20 gold piece issued |
| 12.3.1857 | "Giuseppe Verdi's opera ""Simon Boccanegra,"" premieres in Venice" |
| 12.3.1860 | Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists |
| 12.3.1865 | "Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri" |
| 12.3.1867 | Last French troops leave Mexico |
| 12.3.1868 | Britain annexed Basutoland in Africa |
| 12.3.1868 | Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax |
| 12.3.1868 | Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa |
| 12.3.1877 | British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa |
| 12.3.1877 | Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony |
| 12.3.1884 | Mississippi establishes 1st U.S. state college for women |
| 12.3.1888 | 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE U.S. (400 die) |
| 12.3.1889 | "Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated" |
| 12.3.1889 | "Start of South Africa's 1st Test, vs. England, Port Elizabeth" |
| 12.3.1894 | Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday and Friday |
| 12.3.1896 | 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220) |
| 12.3.1897 | "Vincent d'Indy's opera ""Fervaal,"" premieres in Brussel" |
| 12.3.1900 | President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein |
| 12.3.1901 | Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds) |
| 12.3.1903 | New York Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of AL |
| 12.3.1904 | 1st main line electric train in U.K. (Liverpool to Southport) |
| 12.3.1904 | Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund |
| 12.3.1906 | Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast |
| 12.3.1908 | Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers sweep Win Maple Leafs in 2 games |
| 12.3.1910 | "Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3" |
| 12.3.1912 | Capt Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane |
| 12.3.1912 | "Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low" |
| 12.3.1912 | Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th St. New York City |
| 12.3.1913 | Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid |
| 12.3.1916 | French airship sinks British submarine D3 |
| 12.3.1917 | Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets |
| 12.3.1917 | "Stalin, Kamenev and Muranov arrives in St. Petersburg" |
| 12.3.1919 | Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany) |
| 12.3.1919 | "George Bernard Shaw's ""Augustus Does His Bit,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 12.3.1925 | British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement |
| 12.3.1926 | Denmark begins unilateral disarmament |
| 12.3.1926 | Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium |
| 12.3.1930 | Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax |
| 12.3.1930 | Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1) |
| 12.3.1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt conducts his 1st fireside chat |
| 12.3.1934 | Acting President Constantine Pats commits coup in Tallinn Estonia |
| 12.3.1934 | Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail |
| 12.3.1934 | "Paul Hindemith's ""Mathis der Maler,"" premieres in Berlin" |
| 12.3.1935 | England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns and villages |
| 12.3.1938 | Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss) |
| 12.3.1939 | Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies |
| 12.3.1940 | "Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus" |
| 12.3.1941 | German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands |
| 12.3.1942 | British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal |
| 12.3.1943 | Soviet troops liberate Wjasma |
| 12.3.1945 | 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers |
| 12.3.1945 | British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day |
| 12.3.1945 | Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy |
| 12.3.1945 | New York is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment |
| 12.3.1945 | U.S.S.R. returns Transylvania to Romania |
| 12.3.1946 | Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland |
| 12.3.1947 | Belgian government of Huysmans resigns |
| 12.3.1947 | """Chocolate Soldier"" opens at Century Theater New York City for 69 performances" |
| 12.3.1947 | President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism |
| 12.3.1948 | -5 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March |
| 12.3.1950 | Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III |
| 12.3.1950 | "Pope Pius XII encyclical ""On combating atheistic propaganda""" |
| 12.3.1951 | Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office |
| 12.3.1951 | Communist troops driven out of Seoul |
| 12.3.1954 | "1st performance of Arnold Schonberg's ""Moses und Aaron""" |
| 12.3.1956 | Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24) |
| 12.3.1957 | German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions |
| 12.3.1958 | "British Empire Day is renamed ""Commonwealth Day""" |
| 12.3.1959 | Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections |
| 12.3.1959 | U.S. House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood |
| 12.3.1961 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open |
| 12.3.1962 | Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia |
| 12.3.1963 | "Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold" |
| 12.3.1963 | "Bob Dylan cancels ""Ed Sullivan Show"" television appearance" |
| 12.3.1964 | "6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine and Roses, Striesand wins 2" |
| 12.3.1964 | Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years |
| 12.3.1964 | Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam |
| 12.3.1964 | "SN Behrmann's ""But for Whom Charlie,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 12.3.1964 | "WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 12.3.1966 | "Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record" |
| 12.3.1966 | "Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)" |
| 12.3.1966 | "Love's 1st album released ""Love""" |
| 12.3.1966 | Pioneer Plaza dedicated |
| 12.3.1966 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 12.3.1967 | Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet |
| 12.3.1967 | Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority |
| 12.3.1968 | Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 12.3.1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 12.3.1969 | "11th Grammy Awards: Mrs. Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins" |
| 12.3.1969 | 120 joints found at George and Patti Harrison's home |
| 12.3.1969 | Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London |
| 12.3.1970 | U.S. lowers voting age from 21 to 18 |
| 12.3.1971 | Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias |
| 12.3.1971 | Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president |
| 12.3.1971 | Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army |
| 12.3.1972 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open |
| 12.3.1972 | NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons |
| 12.3.1975 | Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam |
| 12.3.1976 | South African troops leave Angola |
| 12.3.1977 | Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party |
| 12.3.1977 | Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel |
| 12.3.1978 | Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99) |
| 12.3.1978 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic |
| 12.3.1980 | Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago |
| 12.3.1980 | "New York Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin" |
| 12.3.1981 | Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station |
| 12.3.1981 | "Stephen Sondheim's musical ""Marry Me a Little,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 12.3.1981 | "Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, Virginia" |
| 12.3.1982 | "1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica vs. Leeward Islands" |
| 12.3.1982 | "PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on ""Nightline""" |
| 12.3.1983 | Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49) |
| 12.3.1984 | "British ice dancing team, Torvill and Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships" |
| 12.3.1984 | National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike |
| 12.3.1985 | Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points |
| 12.3.1986 | 210.25 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 12.3.1986 | "Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race" |
| 12.3.1987 | David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game |
| 12.3.1987 | Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North |
| 12.3.1987 | Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS) |
| 12.3.1987 | """Les Miserables"" opens at Broadway/Imperial New York City for 4000+ performances" |
| 12.3.1987 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (CAN) |
| 12.3.1987 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 12.3.1989 | 15th People's Choice Awards |
| 12.3.1989 | 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found in Philadelphia |
| 12.3.1989 | Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election |
| 12.3.1990 | Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland |
| 12.3.1991 | 5th Soul Train Music Awards |
| 12.3.1993 | 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay |
| 12.3.1993 | Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney |
| 12.3.1993 | "Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show" |
| 12.3.1993 | Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2 week speech |
| 12.3.1994 | Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests |
| 12.3.1995 | Congress party loses India national election |
| 12.3.1995 | Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship |
| 12.3.1995 | Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham U.K. won by Gritshuk and Platov (RUS) |
| 12.3.1995 | Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova and Rene Novotny |
| 12.3.1995 | Lara scores 139 in ODI vs. Australia at Port-of-Spain |
| 12.3.1995 | Letitia Vriesde runs S Amer indoor record 800m (2:00.35) |
| 12.3.1995 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (CAN) |
| 12.3.1995 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (CHN) |
| 12.3.1996 | Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy |
| 12.3.1998 | """Sound of Music,"" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City" |
| 13.3.483 | St. Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 13.3.607 | 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
| 13.3.1138 | German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned |
| 13.3.1519 | Cortez lands in Mexico |
| 13.3.1560 | "Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli" |
| 13.3.1564 | Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels |
| 13.3.1567 | Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger |
| 13.3.1569 | "Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots" |
| 13.3.1591 | Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai |
| 13.3.1634 | Academe Franeaise opens |
| 13.3.1639 | Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard |
| 13.3.1656 | Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam |
| 13.3.1677 | "Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000" |
| 13.3.1735 | "1st U.S. Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany" |
| 13.3.1759 | 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
| 13.3.1772 | "Gotthold Lessing's ""Emilia Calotti,"" premieres in Brunswick" |
| 13.3.1781 | "Sir William Herschel sees ""comet"" (really discovered Uranus)" |
| 13.3.1790 | "John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia" |
| 13.3.1797 | "Cherubini's opera ""Medee,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 13.3.1835 | Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing |
| 13.3.1846 | "Friedrich Hebbel's ""Maria Magdalena,"" premieres in Konigsberg" |
| 13.3.1852 | Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly |
| 13.3.1861 | Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers |
| 13.3.1865 | US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service |
| 13.3.1868 | Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial |
| 13.3.1878 | Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match |
| 13.3.1884 | Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins |
| 13.3.1884 | U.S. adopts Standard Time |
| 13.3.1887 | Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs |
| 13.3.1888 | Great Blizzard of 1888 rages |
| 13.3.1894 | J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate |
| 13.3.1895 | "Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die" |
| 13.3.1900 | "British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state" |
| 13.3.1904 | Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated |
| 13.3.1911 | "Ivan Caryll's musical ""Pink Lady,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 13.3.1911 | "Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont), 7-4" |
| 13.3.1912 | Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games |
| 13.3.1913 | Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures |
| 13.3.1915 | "Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit" |
| 13.3.1918 | "1st NHL championship: Mont Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set" |
| 13.3.1918 | American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms |
| 13.3.1920 | Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails |
| 13.3.1921 | Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China |
| 13.3.1922 | "George Bernard Shaws ""Back to Methusaleh V,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 13.3.1922 | "NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St. Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games" |
| 13.3.1922 | WRR-AM in Dallas Texas begins radio transmissions |
| 13.3.1923 | Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York City) |
| 13.3.1924 | German Republic day |
| 13.3.1925 | NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games |
| 13.3.1925 | Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution |
| 13.3.1928 | 450 die in St. Francisquito Valley Dam burst (Calif) |
| 13.3.1928 | "Rudolph Friml's musical ""Three Musketeers,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 13.3.1929 | "Bradman scores 123 Aust vs. England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton" |
| 13.3.1930 | Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory |
| 13.3.1933 | Josef Gobbels becomes German minister of Information and Propaganda |
| 13.3.1935 | Driving tests introduced in Great Britain |
| 13.3.1938 | Anschlu?-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany |
| 13.3.1940 | "Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische" |
| 13.3.1941 | A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand) |
| 13.3.1942 | "Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in U.S. army" |
| 13.3.1943 | Baseball approves official ball (with cork and balata) |
| 13.3.1943 | Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight |
| 13.3.1943 | Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6) |
| 13.3.1944 | U.S.S.R. recognizes Italian Badoglio government |
| 13.3.1945 | Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands |
| 13.3.1945 | Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman |
| 13.3.1947 | "19th Academy Awards - ""Best Years of Lives,"" De Havilland, March win" |
| 13.3.1947 | """Brigadoon"" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 581 performances" |
| 13.3.1948 | 10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42 |
| 13.3.1949 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman |
| 13.3.1949 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |