November 23rd 1890 – William III of the Netherlands died without a living male heir, allowing his ten-year-old daughter Wilhelmina to succeed him to the Dutch throne.

November 24th 1974 – The 3.2-million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis, nicknamed "Lucy" after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", was discovered in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia.

November 24th 1859 – On the Origin of Species by British naturalist Charles Darwin (pictured) was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.

November 24th 1966 - New York City experiences the smoggiest day in the city's history

1963  Lee Harvey Oswald JFK's assassinator shot dead by Jack Ruby

November 24th 1971 – After collecting a ransom payout of US$200,000, "D. B. Cooper" leaped out of the rear stairway of the airplane he had hijacked over the Pacific Northwest and disappeared.

November 24th 1971 – After collecting a ransom payout of US$200,000, "D. B. Cooper" leaped out of the rear stairway of the airplane he had hijacked over the Pacific Northwest and disappeared.
Was he ever found?

Was he ever found?


No.  I seem to remember some woman claiming to have known him and that he had died, but it still hasn't been proven.  Looks like he got away with it.

No.  I seem to remember some woman claiming to have known him and that he had died, but it still hasn't been proven.  Looks like he got away with it.
Has there been a TVM or movie made of this?

November 24th 1932 - In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.

1859 Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"

Has there been a TVM or movie made of this?


I think there was a "made for t.v." movie.

1963 1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald

I was watching with my mother, we saw it.

1966 400 die of respiratory failure & heart attack in killer NYC smog

I think there was a "made for t.v." movie.
I wanna see it!

November 25th 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces were defeated at the Battle of Chattanooga in Chattanooga, Tennessee, opening the door to the Union's invasion of the Deep South.

November 25 1984 – Band Aid, a supergroup consisting of over 30 leading pop musicians of Britain and Ireland, recorded the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in a Notting Hill studio to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

November 26th 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.

November 26th 2003 - Concorde makes its last ever flight over Bristol, England.

1793 Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France

1940 Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto

November 26th 1842 – The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, USA was founded by members of the Roman Catholic Congregation of Holy Cross.

November 27th 1895 – Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.

1957 Army withdraws from Little Rock AR, after Central HS integration

November 27th 1868 – American Indian Wars: George Armstrong Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry defeated Chief Black Kettle and the Cheyenne Indians on the Washeesha River near present-day Cheyenne, Oklahoma.

November 28th 1990 – After being elected as leader of the British Conservative Party one day earlier, John Major officially succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1942 Nearly 500 die in a fire that destroyed Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston MA. 

1943 FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at theran to map out strategy

November 28th 1919 - Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit as a British MP, although not the first to be elected - that was Countess Markiewicz

November 28th 1919 - Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit as a British MP, although not the first to be elected - that was Countess Markiewicz


...and an American at that  (Lady Astor)

...and an American at that  (Lady Astor)
Oh yes...

She is connrcted to the Astoria Hotel.

November 29th 1972 – Atari released Pong, often regarded as one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home console markets.

November 29th 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrated the phonograph his invention for recording and replaying sound, for the first time

1812  Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia

1944 John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery

November 30th 1993 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act into law, requiring purchasers of handguns to pass a background check.

November 30th 1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.

1782 Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence

1983 Radio Shack announces the Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)

December 1st 1990 – Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 metres (131 ft) beneath the English Channel seabed.

1913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pittsburgh)

1955 Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus

1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan)

December 1st 1959 – Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, banning military activity in Antarctica and setting the continent aside as a scientific preserve.

December 2nd 1942 – The Manhattan Project: Scientists led by Enrico Fermi initiated the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in the experimental nuclear reactor Chicago Pile-1.

December 2nd 1908 - Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two

December 3rd 1967 – Cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.

December 3rd 1818 - Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.

1979 11 trampled to death at Cincinnati Who concert

1984 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India

December 3rd 1982 - A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.

December 4th 1829 – The practice of sati was formally abolished in British India after years of campaigning by Ram Mohan Roy against the Hindu funeral custom of widows immolating themselves.

December 5th 1492 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

December 5th 1933 – Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States officially ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.

December 5th 1945 – Flight 19, a squadron of five Avenger TBM torpedo bombers of the U.S. Navy, disappeared in the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle.

December 5th 1952 - Great Smog of 1952: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.

1876 Daniel Stillson (Massachusetts) patents 1st practical pipe wrench

1879 1st automatic telephone switching system patented

1941 Sister Elizabeth Kenny new treatment for infantile paralysis approved

1978 European Union establishes EMS, European Monetary System

December 5th 1958 - The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.

December 6th 1768 – The first number out of 100 of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was published in Edinburgh, England

December 6th 1897 - London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs.

December 6th 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.

1849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland

1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland

1956 Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa

1988 Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown

December 6th 1877 - The first edition of the Washington Post is published

December 7th 1972 – The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the famous photograph known as "The Blue Marble" (pictured) as they left Earth.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg/100px-The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg

December 7th 1941 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, intending to neutralize the United States Pacific Fleet from influencing the war Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia.

1934 Wiley Post discovers the jet stream

December 8th 1980 – Former Beatle John Lennon was fatally shot in the entrance hallway of the Dakota apartments in New York City.

December 9th 1968 – The NLS, a computer collaboration system that was the first to employ the practical use of hypertext, the computer mouse, and other modern computing concepts, was publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco

December 9th 1960 - The first episode of Britain's longest running soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast.

December 10th 1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

December 10th 1898 – The Spanish-American War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, with Spain recognizing the independence of Cuba; and ceding Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico to the United States.

December 11th 1931 – The British Parliament enacted the Statute of Westminster, giving the option of complete legislative independence to the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.

December 12th 1531 – The Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe: According to traditional Catholic accounts, the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary miraculously appeared imprinted on the cloth of Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin's tilma during his last vision of her on the Hill of Tepeyac outside of modern-day Mexico City.

1979 Rhodesia becomes the independent nation of Zimbabwe

December 12th 1911 - Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.

December 13th 1769 – Dartmouth College in present-day Hanover, New Hampshire, USA was established by a Royal Charter from British King George III and became the last university founded in the Thirteen Colonies before the American Revolution.

December 13th 1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.

1964 In El Paso TX, LBJ & Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-México border

1990 President De Klerk of South Africa meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid

2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit

December 14th 1911 – Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first people to reach the South Pole.

December 14th 1972 - Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 17. This was the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century.

1825 Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins

1937 Japanese troops conquer/plunder Nanjing(The Rape of Nanking)

December 14th 1903 - The Wright Brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

December 15th 1791 – The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, collectively known as the United States Bill of Rights, were ratified.

December 16th 1773 – Boston Tea Party: To protest the British Tea Act, members of the Sons of Liberty dumped crates of tea bricks from three British East India Company ships into Boston Harbor.

1631 Mount Vesuvius, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages & kills 4,000

1689 English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution

1915 Albert Einstein publishes his "General Theory of Relativity"

1944 Battle of the Bulge begins in Belgium

1953 Charles E Yeager flies over 2,575 kph (1,650 mph) in Bell X-1A (first man to fly at nearly two and one-half times the speed of sound)

December 16th 1653 – The Protectorate: Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England

December 16th 1903 – In Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, Orville and Wilbur Wright aboard the Wright Flyer conducted the first successful flight of a powered fixed-wing aircraft.

December 18th 218 BC – The Carthaginian forces of Hannibal defeated the Roman Republic at the Battle of the Trebia, the first major battle of the Second Punic War, along the Trebbia River in present-day Italy.

1957 Shippingport Atomic Power Station, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity

December 18th 1987 – Programmer Larry Wall released the first version of the programming language Perl via the comp.sources.misc newsgroup.

December 19th 1843 – A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, a novella about the old and bitter miser Ebenezer Scrooge, was first published.

December 19th1972 – NASA astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt aboard Apollo 17 (insignia pictured) returned to Earth. No human has visited the Moon since.

1864 General Sherman takes Savannah

1933 Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, University of Pennsylvania

1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States

December 22nd 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea ended with the capture of Savannah, Georgia.

1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)

December 22nd 1809 - The Non-Intercourse Act, lifting the Embargo Act except for the United Kingdom and France, passes the U.S. Congress.

December 23rd 1888 – During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh stalked his friend French painter Paul Gauguin with a razor, and then afterwards infamously cut off the lower part of his own left ear and gave it to a prostitute.

December 23rd 1947 – The transistor, invented by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley, was first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

December 23rd 1620 – Construction of the Plymouth Colony, an English colonial venture in what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, began two days after the first landing party arrived at the site.

December 25th 1100 – Baldwin of Boulogne was crowned as the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

December 25th 1990 - The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.

December 26th 1898 – At the French Academy of Sciences, physicists Pierre and Marie Curie announced the discovery of a new element, naming it radium.

December 27th 1904 – Scottish author and dramatist J. M. Barrie's stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, about a mischievous little boy who can fly, premiered in London.

December 28th 1948 – The Douglas DC-3 airliner NC16002, en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida, USA, inexplicably disappeared in the area known as the Bermuda Triangle.

December 28th 1879 – The Tay Rail Bridge, spanning the Firth of Tay in Scotland between Dundee and the Wormit, collapsed during a violent storm while a train was passing over it, killing all on board.

December 29th 1845 – The Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States, with much of the territory becoming the state of Texas.

December 29th 1851 - The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.

1940 Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WWII)

December 30th 1896 – Philippine Revolution: Nationalist José Rizal was executed by a firing squad in Manila after Spanish authorities convicted him of rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy.

December 30th 1965 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.

December 31st 1775 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Quebec, British forces repulsed an attack by the Continental Army to capture Quebec City and enlist French Canadian support.

0870 Skirmish at Englefield: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army

1783 Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern states

1946 President Truman officially proclaims end of WWII

December 31st 1999 – Boris Yeltsin, the first democratically elected President of Russia, resigned and named Vladimir Putin as Acting President.

January 1st 1818 – Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a novel by Mary Shelley, was first published in London.

January 1st 1999 – The euro, the official currency of the European Union's Eurozone, was introduced.

1863 Emancipation Proclamation (ending slavery) issued by Lincoln

1973 West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)

1993 12 member European Economic Community set up vast free trade zone

1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect

January 2nd 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.

January 2nd 1959 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon, was launched by the Vostok rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR.

January 3rd 1959 – The Alaska Territory, an organized incorporated territory of the United States, became the 49th state of the union, and the first U.S. state outside of the 48 contiguous states.

January 4th 1854 – Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang discovered the McDonald Islands, an uninhabited, barren island located in the Southern Ocean about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica.

January 5th 1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.

January 6th 1838 – Samuel Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail successfully tested the electrical telegraph for the first time at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey, USA.

January 6th 1974 - In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.

Jan. 13, 2005: Erin (Quirk) joined Inthe00's as a member! :)

Jan. 13, 2005: Erin (Quirk) joined Inthe00's as a member! :)


Me too me too!!! 8)

Me too me too!!! 8)


Jan. 13, 2005: Erin (Quirk) joined Inthe00's as a member! :)



So happy 4 year anniversary of membership to you both!!


I'm fast approaching 5 years of membership.

15 years ago, the Los Angeles area was hit by a magnitude 6.7 earthquake, centered in Northridge, which killed 60 or 70 people and caused widespread damage. My family and I were displaced from our mobile home.

14 years ago, the city of Kobe, Japan, was hit by a much worse earthquake (7.2), which killed even more people and caused a lot more damage than the one from a year earlier.

January 18th 1535 – Conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes, present-day Lima, Peru, as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish Crown.

January 19th 1935 – In Chicago, Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs, a new style of men's undergarment.

January 19th 1953 - 68% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.

January 20th 1990 – The Soviet Red Army violently cracked down on Azeri pro-independence demonstrations in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR.

January 20th 1892 – The first official basketball game was played at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.

January 20th 1961 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy is inaugurated as the youngest man, and first ever Roman Catholic, to become elected President of the United States.

Today history is being made.



Cat

January 21st 1948 – The Flag of Quebec, featuring a white cross and four fleurs-de-lis on a blue field, was adopted and flown for the first time over the Quebec Parliament Building in Quebec City.

1973 Roe vs Wade US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions

January 22nd 1919 – The Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic signed the Act Zluky in Kiev, an agreement aimed at creating a unified Ukrainian state, although both governments retained their own separate armies, administrations and government structure.

January 22nd 1984 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, was introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial.

January 23rd 1719 – Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI established Liechtenstein, the only principality in the Holy Roman Empire still remaining today.

January 23rd 1941 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.

1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma CA

1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma CA


That's right; it was a major event in my home state. :) 8)

That's right; it was a major event in my home state. :) 8)
Dere's gold in dem hills!

January 26th 1950 – Indian independence movement: India officially became a republic under a new constitution, with Rajendra Prasad as its first president.

January 27th 1888 – Two weeks after a group of over thirty explorers and scientists met in Washington, D.C. to organize "a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge," the National Geographic Society, publisher of the National Geographic Magazine, was incorporated.

January 28th 1855 – A train on the Panama Railway made the world's first transcontinental crossing, a 48-mile (77 km) trip from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean across the Isthmus of Panama.

January 28th 1986 – The NASA Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission, killing all seven crew members.

:\'(

January 29th 2002 – In his State of the Union Address, U.S. President George W. Bush described governments he accused of sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction as an "axis of evil", specifically naming Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.

January 30th 1649 – English Civil War: King Charles I was beheaded for high treason in front of the Banqueting House in London, followed by the abolition of the monarchy and the declaration of the Commonwealth of England in the same year.

January 30th 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, connecting the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, one of the world's first modern suspension bridges, opened.

Feb. 3rd 1959 (50 years ago)-the day the music died.  :\'( :\'( :\'(
Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, & the Big Bopper all die in a plane crash.  :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(



http://www.fiftiesweb.com/crash.htm



Cat

Feb. 3rd 1959 (50 years ago)-the day the music died.  :\'( :\'( :\'(
Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, & the Big Bopper all die in a plane crash.  :\'( :\'( :\'( :\'(



http://www.fiftiesweb.com/crash.htm



Cat

A sad day for the music industry indeed. :\'(

Also noted right here: http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=28991.msg1879801#msg1879801 (the 50 years ago thread)

1787 Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails

1861 Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery AL, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi & South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy

1943 Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents

1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists

1955 US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO

1964 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)

February 12th: The 200th birthday of Charles Darwin.

200th Birthday of Abraham Lincoln

200th Birthday of Abraham Lincoln
So Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day?

Yes, I was surprised to see that myself.  Two men who changed the face of the world. 

Yes, I was surprised to see that myself.  Two men who changed the face of the world. 
Evolution and devolution?

Febuary 12th 1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States, was founded to work on behalf of the rights of African Americans.

Febuary 12th 1818 – Led by General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile formally proclaimed its independence from Spain.

February 13th 1880 – American inventor Thomas Edison observed the Edison Effect, which later formed the basis of vacuum tube diodes designed by English electrical engineer John Ambrose Fleming.

February 13th 1692 – Over seventy members of the Clan MacDonald of Glen Coe, Scotland were massacred early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king William III.

February 16th 1918 – The Council of Lithuania signed the Act of Independence of Lithuania, proclaiming the restoration of an independent Lithuania governed by democratic principles, despite the presence of German troops in the country during World War I.

February 16th 1968 - In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.

February 17th 1801 – The U.S. House of Representatives elected Thomas Jefferson as President and Aaron Burr as Vice President, resolving an electoral tie in the 1800 U.S. presidential election.

February 17th 1600 – Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, best-known as a proponent of heliocentrism and the infinity of the universe, was burned at the stake as a heretic by the Roman Inquisition.

February 17th 1936 – The Phantom, one of the first modern comic book superheroes with the hallmark skintight costume and a mask with no visible pupils, made his first appearance in a daily newspaper comic strip.

February 18th 1932 – The Empire of Japan established Manchukuo, a puppet state in northeastern China during the Sino-Japanese War.

February 18th 1930 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.

February 19th 1986 – The space station Mir of the Soviet space program was launched, establishing the first long-term research station in space.

February 21st 1804 – Built by Cornish inventor Richard Trevithick, the first self-propelled steam engine or locomotive first ran in Wales.

February 21st 1893 - Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patents for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and for a "Stop Device"

Febraury 22nd 2006 – At least six men staged Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53,116,760 in bank notes from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

February 22nd 1819 – Under the terms of the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sold Florida and other North American territory to the United States for about US$5 million.

1989 UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"

February 23rd 1909 – The Silver Dart was flown off the ice of Baddeck Bay, a sub-basin of Bras d'Or Lake on Cape Breton Island, making it the first controlled powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.

February 23rd 1820 – British authorities arrested the conspirators of the Cato Street Conspiracy, an attempt to murder Prime Minister Lord Liverpool  and all the British cabinet ministers.

1898 In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus

February 23rd 1945 – American photographer Joe Rosenthal took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II, an image that was later reproduced as the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial.

February 25th 1836 – American inventor and industrialist Samuel Colt received a patent for a "revolving gun", later known as a revolver.

February 25th 1570 – Pope Pius V issued the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis to excommunicate Queen Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England.

February 25th 1986 – Corazon Aquino was inaugurated as the first female President of the Philippines after Ferdinand Marcos fled the nation after twenty years of rule because of the People Power Revolution.

February 26th 1991 – British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb, the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor.

February 26th 1870 - In New York City, a demonstration of the first pneumatic subway opens to the public.

1616 Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo

1848 Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto"

1936 Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"

1954 Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records

February 26th 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from Elba, an island off the coast of Italy where he had been exiled after the signing of the Treaty of Fontainebleau one year earlier.

16th Anniversary of the very first WTC bombings.

February 27th 1940 – American biochemists Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered the radioactive isotope carbon-14, which today is used extensively as the basis of the radiocarbon dating method to date archaeological, geological, and hydrogeological samples.

1813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted

1814 Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres

1922 Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote

February 27th 1797 - The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes.

February 28th 1986 – Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated by a lone gunman in Stockholm while walking home from a movie theatre with his wife Lisbet Palme.

February 28th 1935 – Working with polyamides to developing a new viable fiber for the chemical company DuPont, American chemist Wallace Carothers invented nylon.

February 28th 1939 - The erroneous word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.

March 1st 1954 – The 15-megaton hydrogen bomb Castle Bravo was detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in one of the worst cases of radioactive contamination ever caused by nuclear testing.

March 1st 1872 – Yellowstone National Park, located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, one of the first national parks in the world, was established.

March 2nd 1836 – Texas Revolution: At a convention in Washington-on-the-Brazos, the Mexican state of Texas adopted a declaration of independence from Mexico, establishing the Republic of Texas.

March 2nd 1791 – French inventor Claude Chappe and his brothers first demonstrated the semaphore line, a signaling system of conveying information by means of visual signals, using towers with pivoting shutters, also known as blades or paddles.

1829 New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston

March 2nd 1867 - The United States Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act

March 3rd 1875 – French composer Georges Bizet's opera Carmen based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, premiered at the Opéra Comique in Paris.

March 3rd 1875 – French composer Georges Bizet's opera Carmen based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, premiered at the Opéra Comique in Paris.

Same day as...

March 3rd 1875 – The first recorded organized indoor ice hockey game was played at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal by James George Aylwin Creighton and McGill University students.

March 3rd 1931 – "The Star-Spangled Banner", originally a poem written by American author Francis Scott Key after watching the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812, officially became the national anthem of the United States.

1842 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Massachusetts)

1861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom

1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates

1978 Charlie Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland

1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike

March 4th 1890 – The Forth Railway Bridge, a railway bridge connecting Edinburgh to Fife over the Firth of Forth, opened, becoming an internationally recognised Scottish landmark.

March 4th 1681 – King Charles II of England granted Quaker William Penn a charter for the Pennsylvania Colony.

1793 President Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)

1797 John Adams inaugurated as 2nd President of US

1801 Thomas Jefferson inaugurated as 3rd President of US

1809 Madison becomes 1st President inaugurated in American-made clothes

1825 John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th President

1829 Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th President

1837 Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th President

1841 Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison

1845 James K Polk inaugrated as 11th President

1861 Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President; 1st time US has 5 former Presidents living

1865 President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as President

1869 Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th President

1881 James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th President

1885 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War

1889 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd President

1893 Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US President (2nd term)

1897 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th President of US

1901 President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as President

1909 President Taft inaugrated as 27th President during 10" snowstorm

1913 Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th President

1925 President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations

1929 - Herbert Hoover was inaugurated as the 31st President.

1933 - FDR was inaugurated for his first term as the 32nd President, and this would be the last time that a president would be inaugurated on March 4th, thanks to the 20th Amendment. Beginning in 1937, a president's new term would begin on January 20th.

March 4th 2009 - Gordon Brown becomes the United Kingdom's fifth Prime Minister to address a joint session of the United States Congress.

March 5th 1946 – The term "Iron Curtain", describing the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas during the Cold War, was popularized by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, USA.

March 5th 1850 – The Britannia Bridge a tubular bridge of wrought iron rectangular box-section spans crossing the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, opened.

March 5th 1770 – The pelting of British soldiers with snowballs soon escalated into a riot in Boston, Massachusetts, leaving at least five civilians dead.

1461 Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses

March 5th 1958 - Explorer 2 spacecraft launches and fails to reach Earth orbit.

March 6th 1899 – The German chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer registered Aspirin as a trademark.

March 6th 1987 – In the worst maritime disaster involving a British registered ship in peacetime since 1919, the ferry M/S Herald of Free Enterprise capsized while leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium, killing 193 on board.

1857 Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens

1930 Brooklyn's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food

1998 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace
                     
            (why's that?)

1998 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace
                      
             (why's that?)

British flag being the Union Flag formerly the Union Jack?

British flag being the Union Flag formerly the Union Jack?


I guess.