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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:35 am
February 28th 1844 – A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:35 am
February 28th 1849 – Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 21 days after leaving New York Harbor.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:36 am
February 28th 1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:36 am
February 28th 1861 – Colorado is organized as a United States territory.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:36 am
February 28th 1870 – The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:36 am
February 28th 1883 – The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:36 am
February 28th 1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:36 am
February 28th 1897 – Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:37 am
February 28th 1900 – The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:37 am
February 28th 1914 – The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:37 am
February 28th 1922 – The United Kingdom accepts the independence of Egypt.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:37 am
February 28th 1928 – C.V. Raman discovered Raman effect.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:37 am
February 28th 1933 – Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:38 am
February 28th 1935 – DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents Nylon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:38 am
February 28th 1939 – The first issue of Serbian weekly magazine Politikin zabavnik is published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:38 am
February 28th 1939 – The erroneous word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:38 am
February 28th 1940 – Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:39 am
February 28th 1942 – The heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30) is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:39 am
February 28th 1947 – 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:39 am
February 28th 1953 – James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April Nature (pub. April 2).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:39 am
February 28th 1958 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains the worst school bus accident in U.S. history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:39 am
February 28th 1972 – Sino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:40 am
February 28th 1974 – After seven years, the United States and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:40 am
February 28th 1975 – A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:40 am
February 28th 1985 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:40 am
February 28th 1986 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:40 am
February 28th 1991 – The first Gulf War ends.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:41 am
February 28th 1993 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:41 am
February 28th 1995 – Denver International Airport officially opens in Denver, Colorado to replace Stapleton International Airport
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:41 am
February 28th 1997 – The North Hollywood shootout takes place.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:41 am
February 28th 1998 – First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:41 am
February 28th 1998 – Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:42 am
February 28th 2001 – The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:42 am
February 28th 2001 – Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:42 am
February 28th 2004 – Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:42 am
February 28th 2005 – Lebanon's pro-Syrian prime minister, Omar Karami, resigns amid large anti-Syria street demonstrations in Beirut.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:42 am
February 28th 2005 – A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/10 at 1:42 am
February 28th 2007 – Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:34 am
March 1st 752 BC – Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:34 am
March 1st 86 BC – Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:34 am
March 1st 286 – Roman Emperor Diocletian raises Maximian to the rank of Caesar.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:34 am
March 1st 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesares, thus beginning the Tetrarchy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:34 am
March 1st 317 – Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:34 am
March 1st 1457 – The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:35 am
March 1st 1562 – 23 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:35 am
March 1st 1565 – The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:35 am
March 1st 1593 – The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:36 am
March 1st 1628 – Writs are issued in February by Charles I of England mandating that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:36 am
March 1st 1633 – Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:36 am
March 1st 1642 – Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in the USA.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:37 am
March 1st 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:37 am
March 1st 1700 – Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian Calendar on this date in 1753.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:37 am
March 1st 1781 – The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:37 am
March 1st 1790 – The first United States census is authorized.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:38 am
March 1st 1803 – Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:38 am
March 1st 1805 – Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:38 am
March 1st 1811 – Leaders of the Mameluke dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:38 am
March 1st 1815 – Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:38 am
March 1st 1836 – A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:39 am
March 1st 1840 – Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:39 am
March 1st 1845 – President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:39 am
March 1st 1847 – The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:40 am
March 1st 1852 – Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:40 am
March 1st 1854 – German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:40 am
March 1st 1867 – Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:41 am
March 1st 1870 – Marshal F.S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the War of the Triple Alliance.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:43 am
March 1st 1872 – Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:43 am
March 1st 1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:44 am
March 1st 1886 – The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:44 am
March 1st 1893 – Nikola Tesla makes the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:44 am
March 1st 1896 – Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo–Ethiopian War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:44 am
March 1st 1896 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:44 am
March 1st 1910 – The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:45 am
March 1st 1912 – Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:45 am
March 1st 1914 – The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:45 am
March 1st 1917 – U.S. government releases the plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:45 am
March 1st 1919 – March 1st Movement begins in Korea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:45 am
March 1st 1932 – The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:45 am
March 1st 1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:46 am
March 1st 1936 – A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:46 am
March 1st 1939 – Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump exploded at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:46 am
March 1st 1939 – Trans-Canada Air Lines (forerunner of Air Canada) begins transcontinental operations (between Vancouver and Montreal).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:46 am
March 1st 1941 – World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:46 am
March 1st 1941 – W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S..
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:47 am
March 1st 1943 – World War II: Battle of Bismarck Sea begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:47 am
March 1st 1946 – The Bank of England is nationalised.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:48 am
March 1st 1947 – The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:48 am
March 1st 1950 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:48 am
March 1st 1953 – Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:48 am
March 1st 1954 – Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:48 am
March 1st 1954 – Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:49 am
March 1st 1956 – The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:49 am
March 1st 1956 – Formation of the National People's Army
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:49 am
March 1st 1958 – Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:49 am
March 1st 1958 – Turkish passenger ship Uskudar capsized and sank at Izmit Bay, Kocaeli, Turkey, killing at least 300.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:49 am
March 1st 1961 – President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:49 am
March 1st 1961 – Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:50 am
March 1st 1962 – American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:50 am
March 1st 1964 – Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahas that destroy half of the town Coñaripe.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:50 am
March 1st 1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:50 am
March 1st 1966 – The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:51 am
March 1st 1971 – A bomb explodes in a men's room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:51 am
March 1st 1971 – Pakistani President Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:51 am
March 1st 1972 – The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:51 am
March 1st 1973 – Black September terrorists storm the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan resulting in the 1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:51 am
March 1st 1974 – Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:52 am
March 1st 1975 – Colour television transmissions begin in Australia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:52 am
March 1st 1981 – Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:52 am
March 1st 1989 – The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:52 am
March 1st 1990 – Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:52 am
March 1st 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Yugoslavia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:52 am
March 1st 1995 – Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:53 am
March 1st 2000 – The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:53 am
March 1st 2000 – Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:53 am
March 1st 2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:53 am
March 1st 2002 – The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 miles) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (9.5 tons).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:53 am
March 1st 2002 – The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro (€).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:53 am
March 1st 2003 – Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:53 am
March 1st 2003 – The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:54 am
March 1st 2004 – Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:54 am
March 1st 2005 – Death penalty for juveniles revoked in United States of America.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:54 am
March 1st 2006 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:54 am
March 1st 2007 – Tornadoes swarm across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:54 am
March 1st 2007 – "Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 2:54 am
March 1st 2008 – The Armenian police clashed with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections 2008 killing at least 10 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/10 at 3:55 pm
March 1st 1692 The Salem Witch Trials in the Massachusetts colony officially began with the conviction of Rev. Samuel Parris' West Indian slave, Tituba, for witchcraft.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/10 at 2:32 am
March 2nd 986 – Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/10 at 2:32 am
March 2nd 1127 – Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/10 at 2:32 am
March 2nd 1717 – The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/10 at 2:32 am
March 2nd 1791 – Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/10 at 2:32 am
March 2nd 1807 – The U.S. Congress passes an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/10 at 2:32 am
March 2nd 1808 – The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/10 at 2:33 am
March 2nd 1815 – Signing of Kandyan treaty by British invaders and Sri Lankan King.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/10 at 2:33 am
March 2nd 1836 – Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/10 at 2:33 am
March 2nd 1842 – The Grand National steeplechase at Aintree near Liverpool England is won by Gaylad, ridden by Tom Olliver.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/10 at 2:33 am
March 2nd 1855 – Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/10 at 2:33 am
March 2nd 1861 – The Nevada Territory and Dakota Territory are organized as political divisions of the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/10 at 2:33 am
March 2nd 1861 – Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia: Tsar Alexander II signs the emancipation reform into law, abolishing Russian serfdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/10 at 2:35 am
March 2nd 1863 – The U.S. Congress authorizes track width of 4 ft 81⁄2 in (1,435 mm) for Union Pacific Railroad
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March 2nd 1865 – East Cape War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
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March 2nd 1867 – The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act
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March 2nd 1877 – U.S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
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March 2nd 1888 – The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
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March 2nd 1896 – Ethiopia defeats Italy in the Battle of Adwa, marking the first victory of an African nation over a colonial power
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March 2nd 1899 – In the state of Washington, USA, Mount Rainier National Park is established.
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March 2nd 1901 – The U.S. Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
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March 2nd 1903 – In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
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March 2nd 1917 – The enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
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March 2nd 1917 – (Old Style) – Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Michael II of Russia.
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March 2nd 1919 – The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
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March 2nd 1933 – The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
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March 2nd 1937 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a surprise collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
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March 2nd 1939 – Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
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March 2nd 1941 – World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
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March 2nd 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
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March 2nd 1946 – Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
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March 2nd 1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
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March 2nd 1949 – The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Conn..
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March 2nd 1953 – The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
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March 2nd 1955 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit.
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March 2nd 1956 – Morocco declares its independence from France.
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March 2nd 1962 – In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
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March 2nd 1962 – Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
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March 2nd 1969 – In Toulouse, France the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
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March 2nd 1969 – Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
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March 2nd 1970 – Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
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March 2nd 1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
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March 2nd 1978 – Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
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March 2nd 1989 – Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
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March 2nd 1990 – Nelson Mandela elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
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March 2nd 1991 – Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.
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March 2nd 1992 – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.
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March 2nd 1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
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March 2nd 2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
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March 2nd 2003 – The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics is held at Chung Cheng University.
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March 2nd 2004 – Voters in the U.S. state of Georgia vote on a referendum concerning its Confederacy-derived flag.
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March 2nd 2004 – War in Iraq: Al Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
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March 2nd 2008 – Riots in Yerevan, Armenia concerning the Armenian presidential election, 2008 come to a fatal end, with police forces clashing with civilians in their peaceful protest, resulting in 8 deaths.
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March 3rd 1284 – The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
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March 3rd 1575 – Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
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March 3rd 1585 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
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March 3rd 1776 – The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
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March 3rd 1803 – Colégio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello.
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March 3rd 1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
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March 3rd 1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
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March 3rd 1845 – For the first time the U.S. Congress passes legislation overriding a presidential veto.
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March 3rd 1849 – The United States Department of the Interior is established.
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March 3rd 1849 – The U.S. Congress passes the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of gold coins.
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March 3rd 1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
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March 3rd 1861 – Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
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March 3rd 1865 – The U.S. Congress authorizes the formation of the Freedmen's Bureau.
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March 3rd 1865 – Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
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March 3rd 1873 – Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
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March 3rd 1875 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra Comique of Paris.
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March 3rd 1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
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March 3rd 1877 – Rutherford B. Hayes is privately inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (his public inauguration coming on March 5).
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March 3rd 1878 – Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire.
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March 3rd 1879 – The United States Geological Survey is created.
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March 3rd 1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
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March 3rd 1891 – The Penalty Kick rule in Association Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the next season.
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March 3rd 1904 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
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March 3rd 1905 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma.
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March 3rd 1910 – Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote full time to being a philanthropist.
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March 3rd 1915 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
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March 3rd 1918 – Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
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March 3rd 1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.
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March 3rd 1924 – The 1400-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
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March 3rd 1924 – The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
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March 3rd 1931 – The United States officially adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
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March 3rd 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
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March 3rd 1939 – In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
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March 3rd 1940 – Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, Sweden.
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March 3rd 1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia killing more than 100 people.
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March 3rd 1943 – World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
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March 3rd 1944 – The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
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March 3rd 1945 – World War II: American and Filipino troops take Manila in the Philippines.
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March 3rd 1953 – A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan killing 11.
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March 3rd 1958 – Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
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March 3rd 1961 – Hassan II becomes King of Morocco.
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March 3rd 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
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March 3rd 1971 – Beginning of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and India's official entry to the Bangladesh Liberation War in support of Mukti Bahini.
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March 3rd 1972 – Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
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March 3rd 1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
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March 3rd 1976 – 5 workers are killed by the police in a demonstration in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
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March 3rd 1980 – The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken.
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March 3rd 1985 – Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
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March 3rd 1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
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March 3rd 1991 – In two concurring referendums: 74 % of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, in Estonia – 83 %.
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March 3rd 1991 – United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
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March 3rd 1992 – The nation of Bosnia is established.
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March 3rd 1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
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March 3rd 2002 – Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
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March 3rd 2004 – Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agree to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that forms InBev, the world's largest brewer.
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March 3rd 2005 – Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
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March 3rd 2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
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March 3rd 2009 – The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by terrorists while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for a Test match against Pakistan.
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March 3rd 2009 – The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.
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March 4th 51 – Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
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March 4th 303 or 304 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
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March 4th 852 – Croatian Duke Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
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March 4th 932 – Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
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March 4th 1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
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March 4th 1215 – King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III.
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March 4th 1238 – The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
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March 4th 1351 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
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March 4th 1386 – Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
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March 4th 1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is March 4th deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
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March 4th 1492 – King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England.
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March 4th 1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
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March 4th 1519 – Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
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March 4th 1570 – King Philip II of Spain bans foreign Dutch students.