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Historical Events

02 Mar 1127
Assassination of Charles the Good Count of Flanders
02 Mar 1458
Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia
02 Mar 1675
Prince William III installed as governor of Overijssel
02 Mar 1717
The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England
02 Mar 1776
Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
02 Mar 1789
Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances
02 Mar 1791
Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris
02 Mar 1807
US Congress bans the slave trade within the US effective January 1 1808
02 Mar 1808
The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society a former Scottish learned society was held in Edinburgh.
02 Mar 1815
Signing of Kandyan treaty by British invaders and Sri Lankan King
02 Mar 1817
1st Evangelical church building dedicated New Berlin Pennsylvania
02 Mar 1824
Interstate commerce comes under federal control
02 Mar 1829
New England Asylum for the Blind 1st in US incorporated Boston
02 Mar 1831
John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission
02 Mar 1842
4th Grand National Tom Olliver aboard Gaylad wins by 4 lengths from Seventy Four
02 Mar 1853
Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory
02 Mar 1853
15th Grand National Tom Oliver aboard Peter Simple wins his third GN Steeplechase
02 Mar 1858
Frederick Cook of New Orleans patents a cotton-bale metallic tie
02 Mar 1859
21st Grand National Chris Green aboard Half Caste wins by only a short neck from Jean Du Quesne
02 Mar 1861
Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant Washington
02 Mar 1861
US creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah territories
02 Mar 1865
British newspaper Morning Chronicle begins publishing
02 Mar 1865
Freedmans Bureau founded for Black Education
02 Mar 1865
Conferate General Earlys army is defeated at the battle of Waynesboro Virginia during American Civil War
02 Mar 1865
Second Taranaki War The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
02 Mar 1866
1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated Conn
02 Mar 1867
US Congress creates the Department of Education
02 Mar 1874
National Association of Professional Baseball Players officially adopts the batters box decide any player betting on his own team will be expelled any player betting on any other team to forfeit his pay
02 Mar 1887
American Trotting Association organized in Detroit
02 Mar 1888
The Convention of Constantinople signed guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace
02 Mar 1890
Norwegian speed skater Oskar Fredriksen sets inaugural 5000m world record of 919.8 in Stockholm Sweden
02 Mar 1893
1st US federal railroad legislation passed required safety features
02 Mar 1896
Best 9-wicket haul in cricket history George Lohmann takes 9-28 as England beats South Africa by an innings and 197 runs in 2nd Test at Johannesburg
02 Mar 1898
Chasing winning target of 275 Australian cricket batsman Joe Darling bashes 160 in 171 minutes with 30 fours to lead Australia to a 6-wicket 5th Test win over England in Sydney complete 4-1 series rout
02 Mar 1899
President McKinley signs bill creating Mt Rainier National Park (5th in US)
02 Mar 1901
United States Congress passes the Platt amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops
02 Mar 1904
Gabriele dAnnunzios La figlia di Iorio premieres in Milan
02 Mar 1907
General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal
02 Mar 1907
Georges Feydeaus La Puce lOreille premieres in Paris
02 Mar 1909
Great Britain France Germany & Italy asks Serbia to set no territorial demands
02 Mar 1910
2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington 118 die
02 Mar 1915
British vice admiral Sackville Hamilton Carden begins bombardment of Dardanelles forts
02 Mar 1915
Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine
02 Mar 1917
Jones Act Puerto Rico territory created US citizenship granted
02 Mar 1919
1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin
02 Mar 1920
Karel Capks Loupeznik premieres in Prague
02 Mar 1922
WBAP-AM Fort Worth Texas begins broadcasting
02 Mar 1922
WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions
02 Mar 1925
Japans House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage
02 Mar 1925
Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted
02 Mar 1925
SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament
02 Mar 1929
US Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
02 Mar 1930
1st US indoor glider flight St Louis Terminal Building
02 Mar 1932
Australian golf trick-shot artist Joe Kirkwood posts an incredible 83 using only his putter over 18 holes at Belleaire Florida round includes 6 pars and 1 birdie
02 Mar 1933
Sanriku earthquake of 8.4 and tsunami hit Japan countrys most powerful earthquake in 180 years
02 Mar 1934
Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train Omaha
02 Mar 1938
Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles California)
02 Mar 1938
Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union
02 Mar 1939
Massachusetts Legislature votes to ratify the US Bill of Rights - 147 years late
02 Mar 1940
The first televised intercollegiate track meet is seen in NYC on W2XBS NYU wins the meet presented live from Madison Square Garden
02 Mar 1940
Beaten by a nose in both the 1937 and 1938 Santa Anita Handicaps Seabiscuit finally wins the Big Cap in his final race retires the leading money-winning horse in the world
02 Mar 1941
World War II First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
02 Mar 1943
1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp
02 Mar 1944
Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocate 521 in Italy
02 Mar 1945
King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government
02 Mar 1946
Kingman Douglass becomes deputy director of CIA
02 Mar 1949
Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress) completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth Texas covering 23452-mis in 94 hrs
02 Mar 1951
1st NBA All-Star Game Boston Garden East beats West 111-94 MVP Ed Macauley Boston Celtics G
02 Mar 1955
King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father
02 Mar 1956
Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez declaring independence from France
02 Mar 1958
1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
02 Mar 1958
Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic
02 Mar 1961
13 Daughters opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 28 performances
02 Mar 1962
In Burma the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup
02 Mar 1963
10th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament Reynolds Coliseum Raleigh NC Duke beats Wake Forest 68-57
02 Mar 1964
Beatles begin filming A Hard Days Night Harrison meets Patti Boyd
02 Mar 1965
Montcalm Community College founded in Sidney Mich
02 Mar 1965
US Air Force begins Operation Rolling Thunder a three year sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam
02 Mar 1968
Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler & Ford of Great Britain
02 Mar 1968
Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Belousova & Protopopov of the Soviet Union
02 Mar 1968
Mens Figure Skating Champions in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer of Austria
02 Mar 1968
USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy biggest plane in the world with a cargo compartment 37m long
02 Mar 1968
USSR launches space probe Zond 4 fails to leave Earth orbit
02 Mar 1968
19 year-old American Peggy Fleming wins her 3rd consecutive World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva Switzerland announces her retirement turns professional and eventually goes into broadcasting
02 Mar 1970
White government of Rhodesia declares itself a republic
02 Mar 1970
Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years
02 Mar 1972
NASA launches its Pioneer 10 space probe to Jupiter
02 Mar 1972
American jockey Willie Shoemaker wins his record 555th stakes race aboard Royal Owl in the San Jacinto Stakes at Santa Anita Eddie Arcaro 554
02 Mar 1973
Black September terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
02 Mar 1974
1st class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents
02 Mar 1974
Australian cricket batsman Greg Chappell makes 247no in drawn 1st Test vs NZ in Wellington also hits 133 in 2nd innings brother Ian 145 and 121 also scores twin centuries
02 Mar 1976
Bubbling Brown Sugar opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 766 performances
02 Mar 1976
Holgate Kemp & Lopez musical premieres in NYC
02 Mar 1978
Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
02 Mar 1980
Phoenix point guard Mike Bratz ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games with a miss in the Suns 123-115 home win over the LA Lakers
02 Mar 1981
Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Washington D.C.
02 Mar 1982
Terror group The Illuminated Path frees 260 prisoners in Peru
02 Mar 1983
Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips & Sony introduced
02 Mar 1985
FDA in the US approves an ELISA screening test for AIDS antibody for all blood banks
02 Mar 1986
1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita
02 Mar 1986
Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US
02 Mar 1986
Qualifier Kenny Knox is the last player to score in the 80s (R3 80) and still win a PGA Tour event the Honda Classic at TPC Eagle Trace total 287 is highest winning score in PGA tournament history
02 Mar 1988
30th Grammy Awards Graceland Joshua Tree Jody Watley
02 Mar 1989
12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000
02 Mar 1989
Tanker Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii spills 117000 gallons of oil
02 Mar 1991
Aspects of Love closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 377 performances
02 Mar 1991
La Bete closes at Eugene ONeill Theater NYC after 24 performances
02 Mar 1991
Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history
02 Mar 1991
NC State point guard Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAA Div I player to record 1000 career assists in a 89-84 loss to Wake Forest
02 Mar 1991
UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq
02 Mar 1991
US Army controversially destroys a retreating Iraqi Republican Guard column at Rumaila Oil Field despite a ceasefire being observed
02 Mar 1992
Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (225.35)
02 Mar 1992
American swimmer Anita Hall breaks the 200m breaststroke world record twice in the one day at the US Swimming championships in Indianapolis wins final in 225.35
02 Mar 1993
Winnipeg Jets Finnish right wing Teemu Selnne breaks NHL record for goals by a rookie with a hat-trick in a 7-4 loss to the visiting Quebec Nordiques passes Mike Bossys mark of 52
02 Mar 1994
William Natcher (Rep-D-Ky) casts his 18401 & last consecutive vote
02 Mar 1994
Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted it is but he doesnt
02 Mar 1995
Smokey Joes Cafe opens at Virginia Theater NYC
02 Mar 1995
British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC
02 Mar 1995
Joe Mullen becomes 2nd NHL player to appear in 300 NHL games with 3 different teams when he plays for the Penguins in a 6-3 loss in Buffalo Pittsburgh 379 St. Louis 301 Calgary 345
02 Mar 1997
Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple
02 Mar 1997
Australians Greg Blewett (214) and Steve Waugh (160) bat for the entire 3rd day of the 1st cricket Test against South Africa in Johannesburg set up Australian innings and 196 run victory
02 Mar 1997
Canadian Elvis Stojko hits the first quad-triple combination jump in the history of figure-skating competition to win the Championship Series final in Hamilton Ontario
02 Mar 1997
Michael Andretti wins at Homestead in a Swift chassis marking the first Champ Car victory in an American-built chassis since 1983 first-ever Champ Car start for the Swift
02 Mar 1998
Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiters moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice
02 Mar 1842
4th Grand National Tom Olliver aboard 71 Gaylad wins by 4 lengths from Seventy Four
02 Mar 1853
15th Grand National Tom Oliver aboard Peter Simple wins his third GN Steeplechase and the stallions second oldest horse to win event at 15
02 Mar 1859
21st Grand National Chris Green aboard 71 Half Caste wins by only a short neck from Jean Du Quesne
02 Mar 1904
Stanley Cup Montreal Arena Westmount Quebec Montreal Wanderers and Ottawa HC tie 5-5 Montreal disqualified for refusing to play second game in Ottawa
02 Mar 1920
Karel apek Loupeznik premieres in Prague
02 Mar 1959
Ceremony to mark the start of construction of the Sydney Opera House at Bennelong Point Sydney
02 Mar 1966
After suffering a hairline fracture of his right hind foot 5-time US Horse of the Year Kelso is immediately retired racings all-time leading money winner with lifetime earnings of 1977896
02 Mar 1986
The first million dollar purse for a handicap race is won by British bred 5-year old Greinton with Laffit Pincay Jr. aboard taking out the 1359500 Santa Anita Handicap
02 Mar 1988
The flaming basketball is adopted as NBA franchise Miami Heats official logo from over 13000 entries Mark Henderson submits the winning entry
02 Mar 1972
American jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his record 555th stakes race aboard Royal Owl in the San Jacinto Stakes at Santa Anita Eddie Arcaro 554
02 Mar 1997
Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal acquires 5% of Apple
02 Mar 1776
American troops begin shelling the British in Boston
02 Mar 1657
Great Fire of Meireki destroys 60-70% of the Japanese capital city of Edo killing an estimated 100000 people
02 Mar 1895
US Congress renames the Office of Immigration as the Bureau of Immigration
02 Mar 1961
Eaton Magoons musical 13 Daughters starring Don Ameche and Sylvia Syms opens at 54th St Theater NYC runs for 28 performances
02 Mar 1972
NASA launches its Pioneer 10 space probe to Jupiter NASAs first mission to the outer planets
02 Mar 1976
Musical revue featuring song from the Harlem Renaissance Bubbling Brown Sugar opens at ANTA Theater NYC runs for 766 performances
02 Mar 1994
American politician William Natcher (Rep-D-Ky) casts his 18401 & last consecutive vote
02 Mar 1699
French Canadian explorer Pierre Le Moyne dIberville is the first European to discover the mouth of the Mississippi river [1]
02 Mar 1922
WLW-AM in Cincinnati Ohio begins radio transmissions
02 Mar 1956
French-Moroccan Agreement signed in Paris rescinds the Treaty of Fez declaring independence of Morocco from France
02 Mar 1989
GreenLeft (GroenLinks) political party forms from merger of four left-wing parties the Communist Party the Pacifist Socialist Party the Political Party of Radicals and the Evangelical Peoples Party in the Netherlands
02 Mar 1458
Hussite George of Podbrady chosen as the 16th King of Bohemia
02 Mar 1866
1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated in Connecticut
02 Mar 1888
The Convention of Constantinople is signed guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace
02 Mar 1970
American Airlines begins their first service using a Boeing 747 between New Yorks JFK International Airport and Los Angeles International
02 Mar 1992
American swimmer Anita Nall breaks the 200m breaststroke world record twice in the one day at the US Swimming championships in Indianapolis wins final in 225.35
02 Mar 2000
St. Louis Blues become just the 2nd team in NHL history to win 10 straight games on the road with a 5-2 victory in Atlanta tie mark set by Buffalo 1983-84
02 Mar 2002
40-year old South African boxer Baby Jake Matlala ends his 22-year career with a 7th-round TKO win over Columbias Juan Herrera to retain his WBU junior flyweight title in Johannesburg
02 Mar 2002
US invasion of Afghanistan US conventional forces first deployed as part of Operation Anaconda
02 Mar 2003
Americas Cup Auckland Swiss yacht Alinghi beats Team New Zealand by 0.44s to sweep series 5-0 Alinghis Russell Coutts wins last 14 Americas Cup races hes competed in as skipper most in history
02 Mar 1825
First grand opera in the US sung in English NYC
02 Mar 1867
Howard University is chartered by General Oliver O. Howard in Washington D.C.
02 Mar 1867
Reconstruction of the South begins with the First Reconstruction Act passed by Congress and Black voter registration begins
02 Mar 1955
High school honors student Claudette Colvin (15) arrested in Montgomery Alabama for refusing to move from her seat to the back of the bus juvenile court later finds her guilty of assault and places her on indefinite probation [1]