On This Day

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February 29th

Since there's no February 29 this year to put those events on that day so here they are:
February 29, 2004 76th Academy Awards-Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King sweeps all eleven nominations, including Best Picture, Sean Penn and Charlize Theron win lead acting awards
February 29, 2000 At least 700 died in flooding in Mozambique
February 29, 1996 Kenya defeat West Indies (all out 93) in Cricket World Cup
February 29, 1992 Dawn Coe wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
February 29, 1992 Professional Spring Football League begins
February 29, 1988 KWK-FM in St. Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG
February 29, 1988 Mark Greatbatch scores 107* vs. England on Test Cricket debut
February 29, 1988 New York City Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs
February 29, 1988 Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WW II deportations
February 29, 1984 Canadian PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down
February 29, 1980 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHL player to score 800 career goals
February 29, 1980 Michael Bracey ends 59 h 55 m trapped in an elevator, England
February 29, 1972 Hank Aaron becomes 1st baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year
February 29, 1972 Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party
February 29, 1968 1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
February 29, 1968 Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy
February 29, 1968 Howard Hanson's 6th Symphony, premieres
February 29, 1968 U.S. end regular flights with nuclear bombs
February 29, 1968 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
February 29, 1968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks
February 29, 1964 "Rugantino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 28 performances
February 29, 1964 Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 m
February 29, 1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson reveals U.S. secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter
February 29, 1964 North Carolina high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime
February 29, 1960 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts
February 29, 1960 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago
February 29, 1960 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec
February 29, 1960 John F. Kennedy makes missile gap the presidential campaign issue
February 29, 1960 KRET TV channel 23 in Richardson, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting
February 29, 1956 Islamic Republic forms in Pakistan
February 29, 1956 President Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term
February 29, 1952 Ice Dance Championship at Paris France won by Westwood and Demmy GRB
February 29, 1952 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Ria Falk and Paul Falk of GER
February 29, 1952 Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Paris won by Jacqueline du Bief of FRA
February 29, 1952 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button USA
February 29, 1948 Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died
February 29, 1944 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death
February 29, 1944 U.S. troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands
February 29, 1940 45 U boats sunk this month (170,000 ton)
February 29, 1940 Frederic from G and S "Pirates of Penzance" finally released by pirate
February 29, 1940 "Gone with the Wind," wins 8 Oscars
February 29, 1940 Hattie McDaniel becomes 1st black woman to win an Oscar
February 29, 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs 2nd neutrality act
February 29, 1932 Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland
February 29, 1908 Dutch scientists produce solid helium
February 29, 1904 Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal
February 29, 1892 Britian and U.S. sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea
February 29, 1880 Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland and Italy completed
February 29, 1868 1st British government of Disraeli forms
February 29, 1856 Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease
February 29, 1848 Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland
February 29, 1836 Giacomo Meyerbeers opera "Les Huguenots," premieres in Paris
February 29, 1832 Charles Darwin visits jungle near Bahia Brazil
February 29, 1816 Dutch King Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna
February 29, 1796 Jay's Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences with England
February 29, 1784 Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille
February 29, 1720 Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden resigns
February 29, 1704 French and Indians attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, kill 50, abduct 100
February 29, 1692 Sarah Good and Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem
February 29, 1504 Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians

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March 1rst

March 1, 2005 The Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for people who committed crimes before age 18
March 1, 1998 "Art," opens at Royale Theater New York City
March 1, 1998 Australian Ladies Masters Golf
March 1, 1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert," opens at Lyceum Theater New York City
March 1, 1997 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV
March 1, 1996 Lenny Wilkens, winningest coach in NBA, coaches his 1,000th victory
March 1, 1996 New toll-free 888 area code introduced
March 1, 1995 Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay
March 1, 1995 Part of Houston begins using new area code 261
March 1, 1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns
March 1, 1994 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton wins
March 1, 1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco New York City after 41 performances
March 1, 1992 "Visit" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances
March 1, 1992 Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record (1:01.40)
March 1, 1992 Nelson Diebel swims 100m freestyle U.S. record (54.48 secs)
March 1, 1991 U.S. Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens
March 1, 1990 Benin nullifies its constitution
March 1, 1990 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay
March 1, 1989 Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981
March 1, 1989 Comet du Toit at perihelion
March 1, 1989 Julianne Philips and Bruce Springsteen divorce
March 1, 1988 Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA
March 1, 1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
March 1, 1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
March 1, 1985 Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks
March 1, 1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
March 1, 1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. #3931 Batten, #4529 Webern, #4530 Smoluchowski, #4818 Elgar, #5502 Brashear and #5943 Lovi
March 1, 1983 Tamara McKinney becomes 1st U.S. woman skier to win the World Cup
March 1, 1983 Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people
March 1, 1982 5 dies as ski lift malfunctions a Luz-Ardiden in Pyrenees
March 1, 1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
March 1, 1981 "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 767 performances
March 1, 1981 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
March 1, 1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established
March 1, 1980 Snow falls in Florida
March 1, 1979 "Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 557 performances
March 1, 1978 Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery
March 1, 1977 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards
March 1, 1977 U.S. extends territorial waters to 200 miles
March 1, 1975 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win
March 1, 1975 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1
March 1, 1974 George Harrison announces his concert tour of U.S. in November
March 1, 1974 Ian and Greg Chappell make 264 partnership vs. NZ cricket at Wellington
March 1, 1974 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides
March 1, 1973 Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens
March 1, 1973 Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race
March 1, 1972 KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
March 1, 1972 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points
March 1, 1971 Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington D.C.
March 1, 1970 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skater
March 1, 1970 Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released
March 1, 1970 Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
March 1, 1970 White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain
March 1, 1969 "Red, White, and Maddox" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 41 performances
March 1, 1969 New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires
March 1, 1968 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return
March 1, 1967 Dominica and St. Lucia gain independence from Britain
March 1, 1966 Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria
March 1, 1966 Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)
March 1, 1965 WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting
March 1, 1963 200,000 French mine workers strike
March 1, 1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay New York killing 95
March 1, 1962 K-Mart opens
March 1, 1962 U.S. / British nuclear test experiment in Nevada
March 1, 1962 Uganda became a self-governing country
March 1, 1961 Cellist Jacqueline du President debut in Wigmore Hall
March 1, 1961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp
March 1, 1959 Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years
March 1, 1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Golden Triangle Festival Golf Tournament
March 1, 1958 Gary Sobers 365* vs. Pak, 614 min, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara
March 1, 1958 Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260
March 1, 1958 West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 decl vs. Pakistan
March 1, 1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor
March 1, 1955 Pakistan vs. India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw
March 1, 1954 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in U.S. House of Representatives injuring 5 representatives
March 1, 1954 In spring training, Ted Williams breaks his collarbone
March 1, 1953 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
March 1, 1953 WJZ-AM in New York City becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission
March 1, 1953 WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting
March 1, 1952 Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns
March 1, 1952 Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain
March 1, 1950 U.S.S.R. issues golden rubles
March 1, 1949 Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ
March 1, 1949 The Browns, owners of Sportsman's Park, move to evict the Cardinals
March 1, 1947 International Monetary Fund begins operation
March 1, 1946 British Government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years
March 1, 1946 Panama accepts its new constitution
March 1, 1945 British 43rd Division under Gen Essame occupies Xanten
March 1, 1945 U.S. infantry regiment captures Monchengladbach
March 1, 1944 Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns
March 1, 1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic
March 1, 1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
March 1, 1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, U.S. suffers a major naval defeat
March 1, 1942 Baseball decides that players in milt can't play when on furlough
March 1, 1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp
March 1, 1940 12th Academy Awards - "Gone with the Wind," R Donat and V Leigh win
March 1, 1940 Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published
March 1, 1937 U.S. Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day
March 1, 1934 Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria
March 1, 1933 Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks
March 1, 1932 Charles Lindbergh, Jr. (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey; found dead May 12
March 1, 1928 Paul Whiteman and orchestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records
March 1, 1927 Bank of Italy becomes a National Bank
March 1, 1924 Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted
March 1, 1923 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker
March 1, 1921 Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England
March 1, 1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia
March 1, 1920 Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Adm Horthy
March 1, 1919 Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin
March 1, 1917 1st federal land bank chartered
March 1, 1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic
March 1, 1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum
March 1, 1913 1st state law requiring bonding of officers and state employees, ND
March 1, 1913 Federal income tax takes effect, 16th amendment
March 1, 1912 Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane
March 1, 1912 Isabella Goodwin, 1st U.S. woman detective, appointed, New York City
March 1, 1910 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in U.S. history
March 1, 1909 1st U.S. university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota
March 1, 1904 England regains cricket Ashes taking a 3-1 series lead vs. Australia

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March 2nd

March 2, 1997 Gail Graham wins LPGA Alpine Australian Ladies Masters
March 2, 1997 Nick Faldo wins Nissan Golf Open
March 2, 1997 Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia)
March 2, 1996 Copeland swimming pool re-opened by Gladiator
March 2, 1995 Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed
March 2, 1995 Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches
March 2, 1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't
March 2, 1993 Claudette Colbert, suffers a stroke at 89
March 2, 1993 Salman Rushdie divorces Marianne Wiggins
March 2, 1992 Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (2:25.35)
March 2, 1991 Deb Richard wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
March 2, 1990 Greyhound Bus goes on strike
March 2, 1989 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000
March 2, 1988 Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP
March 2, 1986 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita
March 2, 1985 U.S. approves screening test for AIDS
March 2, 1984 Iran offensive against Iraq fails
March 2, 1984 John Long (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
March 2, 1983 Final episode of M*A*S*H; 125,000,000 viewers
March 2, 1983 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
March 2, 1982 60th hat trick in Islander history - Bryan Trottier
March 2, 1981 Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists
March 2, 1981 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Washington D.C.
March 2, 1980 3rd Islander scoreless tie-Penguins in Pitts
March 2, 1978 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV
March 2, 1978 Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
March 2, 1977 Libya amends constitution
March 2, 1976 "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 766 performances
March 2, 1976 Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest
March 2, 1974 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly, Bette Midler wins
March 2, 1973 "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
March 2, 1972 Jean-Bedel Bokassa appoints himself President for life of Cent African Rep
March 2, 1972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby
March 2, 1970 American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747
March 2, 1969 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde
March 2, 1968 Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler and Ford (GRB)
March 2, 1967 9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night, Michele wins
March 2, 1967 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 2, 1966 215,000 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam
March 2, 1965 "Sound Of Music" opens
March 2, 1965 Montcalm Community College in Sidney Mich, founded
March 2, 1964 Beatles begin filming "Hard Days Night," Harrison meets Patti Boyd
March 2, 1962 John F. Kennedy announces U.S. will resume above ground nuclear testing
March 2, 1961 "13 Daughters" opens at 54th St. Theater New York City for 28 performances
March 2, 1958 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
March 2, 1956 Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France
March 2, 1955 King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father
March 2, 1955 William Inge's "Bus Stop," premieres in New York City
March 2, 1952 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
March 2, 1951 1st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-94 at Boston
March 2, 1949 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct)
March 2, 1949 Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth, Tx, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hrs
March 2, 1946 Dutch troops land on East Bali
March 2, 1946 Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam
March 2, 1946 Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA
March 2, 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
March 2, 1945 King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government
March 2, 1944 Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy
March 2, 1943 Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, U.S. and Australia win
March 2, 1942 14th Academy Awards - "How Green was My Valley," Cooper and Fontaine win
March 2, 1942 Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon
March 2, 1940 Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland
March 2, 1939 Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII
March 2, 1939 Massachusetts Legislature vote to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 years late
March 2, 1938 Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union
March 2, 1937 Mexico nationalizes oil
March 2, 1936 Bradman scores 369 in 253 mins, SA vs. Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes
March 2, 1934 Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha
March 2, 1933 "King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy New York City
March 2, 1933 Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan
March 2, 1930 1st U.S. indoor glider flight, St. Louis Terminal Building
March 2, 1929 Congress creates Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
March 2, 1927 Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)
March 2, 1925 Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament
March 2, 1923 Time magazine debuts
March 2, 1922 WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
March 2, 1922 WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions
March 2, 1920 Karel Capek's "Loupeznik," premieres in Prague
March 2, 1919 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin
March 2, 1918 New York Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers and immediately trades him to Philadelphia A's
March 2, 1917 Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, U.S. citizenship granted
March 2, 1915 British vice adm Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts March 2, 1910 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die
March 2, 1909 Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy asks Serbia to set no territorial demands
March 2, 1907 General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal
March 2, 1907 Georges Feydeaus' "La Puce l'Oreille," premieres in Paris
March 2, 1904 "Official Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" adopted
March 2, 1904 Gabriele d'Annunzio's "La figlia di Iorio," premieres in Milan
March 2, 1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York City
March 2, 1902 Jimmy Collins, leaves Boston Beaneaters (NL) club to manage AL's new Boston Somersets
March 2, 1901 Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens

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March 3rd

March 3, 2005 Steve Fossett flys the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer to a world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world
March 3, 2005 Garry Kasparov retires professionally from chess
March 3, 2002 Earthquake kills at least 150 100 miles north of Kabul, Afghanistan
March 3, 1998 Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee
March 3, 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville North Carolina on WRCQ 103.5 FM
March 3, 1996 26th Easter Seal Telethon
March 3, 1996 Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final
March 3, 1995 Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorce
March 3, 1994 IRS investigates Darryl Strawberry
March 3, 1993 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings)
March 3, 1992 Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die
Boston, Vince Coleman and Dwight Gooden of rape (dropped in April)
March 3, 1991 Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
March 3, 1991 United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
March 3, 1990 Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan 1st black), crowned 39th Miss USA
March 3, 1989 Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines
March 3, 1987 Ray Dandridge, 3rd baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame
March 3, 1985 "My One and Only" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 767 performances
March 3, 1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
March 3, 1984 New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6)
March 3, 1982 Senate begins debate on expulsion of Sen Harrison Williams (D-NJ)
March 3, 1981 Isle's Mike Bossy 9th and final hat trick of season-4 goals
March 3, 1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
March 3, 1978 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI vs. Australia)
March 3, 1978 Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland
March 3, 1977 Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS)
March 3, 1977 Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal
March 3, 1976 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia
March 3, 1975 "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 104 performances
March 3, 1975 Linda McCartney is charged in U.S. with possession of marijuana
March 3, 1974 "Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater New York City for 9 performances
March 3, 1973 "Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 31 performances
March 3, 1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia
March 3, 1971 South African Broadcasting lifts its ban on the Beatles
March 3, 1971 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa
March 3, 1969 Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
March 3, 1968 "Here's Where I Belong" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City
March 3, 1967 Grenada gains partial independence from Britain
March 3, 1967 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 3, 1967 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game)
March 3, 1966 WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, Virginia (IND) begins broadcasting
March 3, 1965 Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1
March 3, 1963 Senegal adopts constitution
March 3, 1962 British Antarctic Territory forms
March 3, 1961 King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco
March 3, 1960 9th largest snowfall in New York City history, 14.5"
March 3, 1959 1st U.S. probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched
March 3, 1959 British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis
March 3, 1958 Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq
March 3, 1957 Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then"
March 3, 1956 Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY
March 3, 1955 Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance
March 3, 1953 Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed
March 3, 1952 Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution
March 3, 1951 Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts
March 3, 1950 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name
March 3, 1946 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
March 3, 1945 Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarters
March 3, 1944 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony
March 3, 1943 U.S. defeats Japan and wins Battle of Bismark Sea
March 3, 1942 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
March 3, 1941 Netherlands NSB-leader Mussert visits Goring in Berlin
March 3, 1940 Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label
March 3, 1938 American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)
March 3, 1937 Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down
March 3, 1936 Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test vs. South Africa
March 3, 1935 Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms
March 3, 1934 John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
March 3, 1933 Mount Rushmore dedicated
March 3, 1933 New York City premiere of "King Kong"
March 3, 1931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes U.S. national anthem
March 3, 1926 International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Florida)
March 3, 1924 German and Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
March 3, 1923 U.S. Senate rejects membership in International Court of Justice, The Hague
March 3, 1922 Italian fascists occupy Fiume and Rijeka
March 3, 1922 WWJ-AM in Detroit Michigan begins radio transmissions
March 3, 1921 Toronto's Dr. Banting and Dr. Best announce discovery of insulin
March 3, 1920 Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs
March 3, 1919 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
March 3, 1918 Richard Goring's "Seeschlacht," premieres in Berlin
March 3, 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria and Russia sign
March 3, 1917 Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations
March 3, 1915 Natl Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created
March 3, 1913 Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington D.C.
March 3, 1911 1st U.S. federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri
March 3, 1909 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montreal Wanderers, 8-3
March 3, 1906 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France
March 3, 1905 U.S. Forest Service forms
March 3, 1903 North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses
March 3, 1901 Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce
March 3, 1900 U.S. Steel Corporation organizes

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March 4th

March 4, 1997 Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks
March 4, 1997 Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)
March 4, 1995 Replacement New York Yankees beat New York Mets 2-1
March 4, 1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit
March 4, 1993 "Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 188 performances
March 4, 1991 Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of 1st American Bank
March 4, 1991 Iraq releases 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian POW
March 4, 1990 20th Easter Seal Telethon
March 4, 1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
March 4, 1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike
March 4, 1989 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
March 4, 1986 Border completes twin Test tons (140 and 114*) vs. NZ
March 4, 1985 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA
March 4, 1985 War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
March 4, 1984 Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
March 4, 1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy and D Potvin
March 4, 1982 NASA launches Intelsat V
March 4, 1980 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
March 4, 1979 200th episode of "All in the Family"
March 4, 1979 Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
March 4, 1979 U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
March 4, 1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
March 4, 1977 Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain
March 4, 1977 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541
March 4, 1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
March 4, 1974 David Hares' "Knuckle," premieres in London
March 4, 1974 Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier
March 4, 1973 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
March 4, 1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick United Kingdom
March 4, 1972 Libya and U.S.S.R. signs cooperation treaty
March 4, 1971 "City Command" kidnaps 4 U.S. military men at Ankara, Turkey
March 4, 1970 New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
March 4, 1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
March 4, 1967 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler and Ford (GRB)
March 4, 1967 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova and Protopopov (U.S.S.R.)
March 4, 1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die
March 4, 1965 David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2
March 4, 1964 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
March 4, 1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
March 4, 1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as sec-gen of NATO
March 4, 1960 French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
March 4, 1960 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
March 4, 1959 U.S. Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes 2nd (U.S. 1st) artificial planet
March 4, 1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
March 4, 1954 J. E. Wilkins, appointed 1st Black U.S. sub-cabinet member
March 4, 1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister
March 4, 1947 WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
March 4, 1945 Finland declares war on nazi-Germany
March 4, 1944 1st U.S. bombing of Berlin
March 4, 1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
March 4, 1943 Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor
March 4, 1941 Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler
March 4, 1936 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
March 4, 1934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson (SF) dedicated
March 4, 1933 Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament
March 4, 1933 Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member
March 4, 1933 Henderson, DeSylva and Brown's "Strike Me Pink," premieres in New York City

March 4, 1931 West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
March 4, 1930 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
March 4, 1929 Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP
March 4, 1929 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president
March 4, 1928 "Bunion Run" race from Los Angeles to New York City begins; It is won by Andy Payne
March 4, 1926 De Geer government in Netherlands takes office
March 4, 1925 Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by U.S.
March 4, 1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
March 4, 1923 Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy)
March 4, 1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
March 4, 1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
March 4, 1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)
March 4, 1917 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of Congress
March 4, 1913 1st U.S. law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
March 4, 1913 Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president
March 4, 1911 Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes 1st socialist congressman in U.S.
March 4, 1909 President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm
March 4, 1909 U.S. prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
March 4, 1908 Collingwood Ohio primary school catches fire; 180 die
March 4, 1905 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga," premieres in Berlin
March 4, 1902 American Automobile Association, AAA, founded in Chicago
March 4, 1901 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer)
March 4, 1901 President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president
March 4, 1901 Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends

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March 5th

March 5, 1997 Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox and Willie Wells for Hall of Fame
March 5, 1996 Earl Weaver and Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame
March 5, 1995 21st People's Choice Awards: Tim Allen wins
March 5, 1995 Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election
March 5, 1995 Graves of czar Nicholas and family found in St. Petersburg
March 5, 1995 Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26)
March 5, 1994 Dottie Mochrie wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Championship
March 5, 1994 Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa)
March 5, 1994 PBA National Championship won by David Traber
March 5, 1994 Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop
March 5, 1993 Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery
March 5, 1993 Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die
March 5, 1993 Former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi
March 5, 1993 Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game
March 5, 1992 Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks
March 5, 1991 Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait
March 5, 1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games
March 5, 1989 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000
March 5, 1989 Blains McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266
March 5, 1989 Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 m indoor (8:33.82)
March 5, 1986 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper)
March 5, 1985 New York Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons
March 5, 1984 Supreme Court (5-4 city may use public money for Nativity scene
March 5, 1984 U.S. accuse Iraq of using poison gas
March 5, 1983 Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian PM Malcolm Fraser (Cons)
March 5, 1983 NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield
March 5, 1982 Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners
March 5, 1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands and sends back data from Venus
March 5, 1981 "Bring Back Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 4 performances
March 5, 1981 Ice Dance Championship at Hartford won by Jayne Torvill and C Dean (GRB)
March 5, 1981 Ice Pairs Champ at Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva and I Lisovski (URS)
March 5, 1981 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Hartford won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
March 5, 1981 U.S. government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer
March 5, 1980 Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49
March 5, 1979 Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles)
March 5, 1978 "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 152 performances
March 5, 1978 Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California
March 5, 1976 British pounds falls below $2 for 1st time
March 5, 1974 "Candide" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 740 performances
March 5, 1974 Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot
March 5, 1973 Yankee pitchers Peterson and Kekich announce they swapped wives
March 5, 1972 Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves Communist Party
March 5, 1970 Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St. New York City
March 5, 1970 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect
March 5, 1970 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St. in New York City
March 5, 1969 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris
March 5, 1969 Gustav Heinemann elected president of West-Germany
March 5, 1969 Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw," premieres in London
March 5, 1968 U.S. launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun
March 5, 1967 WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
March 5, 1966 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die
March 5, 1966 Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record
March 5, 1966 Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as exec director of Players' Association
March 5, 1966 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 5, 1965 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony
March 5, 1965 Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
March 5, 1964 Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr, announces a baseball team is moving there
March 5, 1964 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest
March 5, 1963 Beatles record "From Me to You" and "Thank You Girl"
March 5, 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 5, 1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in U.S. Army
March 5, 1960 Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny and Jones (GRB)
March 5, 1960 Ice Pairs Championship at Vancouver won by Wagner and Paul (CAN)
March 5, 1960 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (FRA)
March 5, 1960 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Vanc won by Carol E Heiss (USA)
March 5, 1959 Iran and U.S. sign economic / military treaty
March 5, 1958 Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit
March 5, 1958 KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
March 5, 1957 Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland
March 5, 1957 Sgt Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvis Pelvin)
March 5, 1956 "King Kong," 1st televised
March 5, 1956 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
March 5, 1955 Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance on "Louisiana Hayride" show
March 5, 1955 WBBJ TV channel 7 in Jackson, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting
March 5, 1954 "Girl in Pink Tights" opens at Mark Hellinger New York City for 115 performances
March 5, 1952 Terence Rattigan's "Deep Blue Sea," premieres in London
March 5, 1949 Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30
March 5, 1948 Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson
March 5, 1948 U.S. rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height
March 5, 1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton Missouri)
March 5, 1945 Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands
March 5, 1945 Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Patch meet in Luneville
March 5, 1945 U.S. 7th Army Corps captures Cologne
March 5, 1945 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
March 5, 1944 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony
March 5, 1943 Anti fascist strikes in Italy
March 5, 1943 RAF bombs Essen Germany
March 5, 1942 Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
March 5, 1942 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia
March 5, 1942 Japanese troop march into Batavia
March 5, 1936 Spitfire makes it's 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton)
March 5, 1935 1st premature baby health law in U.S. (Chicago)
March 5, 1934 Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Texas)
March 5, 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims 10-day bank holiday
March 5, 1933 Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes)
March 5, 1931 Gandhi and British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact
March 5, 1928 Karl Zuckmayer's "Der Hauptmann von Kopenick," premieres in Berlin
March 5, 1927 1,000 U.S. Marines land in China to protect American property
March 5, 1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM
March 5, 1924 Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games
March 5, 1924 King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief
March 5, 1923 1st old age pension plans in U.S. established by Montana and Nevada
March 5, 1922 "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin
March 5, 1919 Louis Hirsch and Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in New York City
March 5, 1917 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released
March 5, 1912 Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die
March 5, 1910 Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon," premieres
March 5, 1910 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1
March 5, 1908 1st ascent of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica
March 5, 1907 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired
March 5, 1903 Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn
March 5, 1900 American Hall of Fame found
March 5, 1899 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Concerto in D
March 5, 1897 American Negro Academy forms
March 5, 1896 Italian premier Crispi resigns
March 5, 1896 Italians governor of Eritrea, Gen Baldissera, reaches Massawa
March 5, 1894 Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in U.S.
March 5, 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as 19th U.S. president
March 5, 1872 George Westinghouse, Jr. patents triple air brake for trains
March 5, 1868 Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele," premieres in Milan
March 5, 1868 Stapler patented in England by C. H. Gould
March 5, 1868 U.S. Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson
March 5, 1864 1st track meet between Oxford and Cambridge
March 5, 1862 Union troops under brig-general Wright occupy Fernandina Florida
March 5, 1856 Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire
March 5, 1856 Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads
March 5, 1849 Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th president
March 5, 1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western U.S.
March 5, 1836 Mexico attacks Alamo
March 5, 1836 Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model
March 5, 1821 Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun
March 5, 1820 Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
March 5, 1807 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B
March 5, 1795 Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution
March 5, 1795 Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France
March 5, 1783 King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno
March 5, 1770 Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a U.S. Senator (Mississippi)
March 5, 1770 Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom
March 5, 1766 Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French
March 5, 1760 Princess Carolina marries Gen Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg
March 5, 1750 1st American Shakespearean production-"altered" Richard III, New York City
March 5, 1746 Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen
March 5, 1743 1st U.S. religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston
March 5, 1684 Emperor Leopold I, Poland and Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz
March 5, 1651 South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm
March 5, 1623 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia
March 5, 1616 Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index
March 5, 1579 Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht
March 5, 1558 Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes
March 5, 1528 Utrecht governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague
March 5, 1496 English king Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore
March 5, 1461 Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses
March 5, 1179 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome

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March 6th

March 6, 2003 Air Algérie flight 6289 crashes at Tamanrasset Airport in Alegeria, killing 103
March 6, 1998 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace
March 6, 1998 Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Connecticut state lottery
March 6, 1996 10th American Comedy Award
March 6, 1996 2nd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
March 6, 1996 Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 vs. Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lanka score 5-398 in 50 overs in World Cup vs. Kenya
March 6, 1995 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield
March 6, 1995 American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets
March 6, 1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix Arizona on KEDJ 106.3/100.3 FM
March 6, 1994 Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec)
March 6, 1994 United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by 2 wickets to win ICC Trophy
March 6, 1992 Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine
March 6, 1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"
March 6, 1990 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
March 6, 1989 Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)
March 6, 1988 18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000
March 6, 1988 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers
March 6, 1988 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am
March 6, 1988 Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories)
March 6, 1988 Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament
March 6, 1987 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100
March 6, 1987 Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die
March 6, 1986 Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor," premieres in London
March 6, 1986 U.S.S.R.'s Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
March 6, 1985 Enos Slaughter and Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame
March 6, 1985 Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight
March 6, 1985 Mexican authorities find body of U.S. drug agent Enrique C. Salaazar
March 6, 1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King and I"
March 6, 1983 "On Your Toes" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 505 performances
March 6, 1983 Anne-Marie Palli wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
March 6, 1983 Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections
March 6, 1983 New Bedford, Mass woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table
March 6, 1983 U.S. Football League begins its 1st season
March 6, 1982 NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT)
March 6, 1982 Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)
March 6, 1981 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
March 6, 1981 Soyuz 39 returns to Earth
March 6, 1981 Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of CBS Evening News
March 6, 1981 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Hartford won by Denise Biellmann
March 6, 1980 Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time
March 6, 1980 Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th New York City
March 6, 1980 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)
March 6, 1978 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot and crippled by a sniper in Georgia
March 6, 1976 Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS)
March 6, 1976 Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina and Zaitsev (URS)
March 6, 1976 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (GRB)
March 6, 1976 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill
March 6, 1974 "Over Here" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 341 performances
March 6, 1974 An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo
March 6, 1974 Ian and Greg Chappell score cricket
March 6, 1973 In an exhibition game with the Pirates, Twins Larry Hisle becomes the 1st designated hitter (he hits 2 home runs and knocks in 7 RBIs)
March 6, 1972 Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner
March 6, 1972 Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes
March 6, 1971 Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, vs. West Indies at Port-of-Spain
March 6, 1970 Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK
March 6, 1967 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards
March 6, 1967 Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison
March 6, 1967 Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted
March 6, 1967 Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US
March 6, 1967 WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
March 6, 1966 Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)
March 6, 1965 "How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St. New York City after 1415 performances
March 6, 1965 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford
March 6, 1965 Bruce Taylor hits 105 for NZ vs. India in 1st Test Cricket innings
March 6, 1964 Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece
March 6, 1964 Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali
March 6, 1964 Liz Taylor's 4th divorce (Eddie Fisher)
March 6, 1964 Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:56.4)
March 6, 1962 St. Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals
March 6, 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 6, 1962 U.S. promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression
March 6, 1961 1st London minicabs introduced
March 6, 1961 Dutch Queen Juliana celebrates 12 year government jubilee
March 6, 1961 Dutch guilder revalued 4.74%
March 6, 1960 President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament
March 6, 1959 11st Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr
March 6, 1959 Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
March 6, 1957 Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from U.K.
March 6, 1955 Dutch premiere of Samuel Becketts' "Waiting for Godot"
March 6, 1955 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
March 6, 1953 Malenkov becomes chairman of the U.S.S.R.
March 6, 1951 Belgium extends conscription to 24 months
March 6, 1950 Silly Putty invented
March 6, 1947 XB-45, 1st U.S. 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, California
March 6, 1946 France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation
March 6, 1945 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm
March 6, 1945 Assassination attempt on Hohere, SS Police fuhrer Rauter
March 6, 1945 Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio
March 6, 1945 Erich Honnecker andErich Hanke flee nazis
March 6, 1945 Federico Garcia Lorca's "La Casa," premieres in Buenos Aires
March 6, 1944 USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin
March 6, 1943 Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommels assault attack
March 6, 1943 Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
March 6, 1940 1st U.S. telecast from an airplane, New York City
March 6, 1936 Belgium ends Locarno-pact
March 6, 1935 Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in Los Angeles
March 6, 1934 Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif's "Yellowjacket," premieres in New York City
March 6, 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a nationwide bank holiday
March 6, 1933 Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses," premieres in New York City
March 6, 1933 Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)
March 6, 1930 Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food
March 6, 1929 Turkey and Bulgaria sign friendship treaty
March 6, 1926 China asks for a seat in the Security council
March 6, 1924 British Labour government cuts military budget
March 6, 1923 Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms
March 6, 1922 Babe Ruth signs 3 years at $52,000 a year New York Yankee contract
March 6, 1922 GB Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV," premieres in New York City
March 6, 1921 Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
March 6, 1919 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie
March 6, 1918 U.S. naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle
March 6, 1915 Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
March 6, 1909 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premieres in Vienna
March 6, 1906 Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance
March 6, 1906 Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands
March 6, 1906 Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers
March 6, 1902 Census Bureau forms
March 6, 1899 "Asprin" patented by Felix Hoffmann
March 6, 1896 1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
March 6, 1895 England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2
March 6, 1895 J. T. Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 mins) England vs. Australia
March 6, 1886 1st U.S. alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA
March 6, 1886 1st U.S. nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, New York City
March 6, 1882 Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king
March 6, 1865 Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
March 6, 1865 President Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Ball
March 6, 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern)
March 6, 1861 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
March 6, 1857 Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens
March 6, 1855 Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet
March 6, 1853 Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata," premieres in Venice
March 6, 1851 Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze," premieres in London
March 6, 1838 Franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lugt," premieres in Vienna
March 6, 1836 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight
March 6, 1836 HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia
March 6, 1834 Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor
March 6, 1831 Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan
March 6, 1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy
March 6, 1831 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan
March 6, 1816 Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
March 6, 1810 Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in U.S.
March 6, 1808 1st college orchestra in U.S. founded, at Harvard
March 6, 1799 Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
March 6, 1775 1st Negro Mason in U.S. initiated, Boston
March 6, 1728 Spain and England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo
March 6, 1714 Peace of Rastatt - French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg
March 6, 1665 Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
March 6, 1664 King Louis XIV and Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant
March 6, 1646 Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent
March 6, 1628 Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict
March 6, 1590 Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"
March 6, 1579 Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht
March 6, 1521 Magellan discovers Guam
March 6, 1460 Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Is for W Africa
March 6, 1447 Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
March 6, 1323 Treaty of Paris
March 6, 1205 Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King
March 6, 1079 Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
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March 7th

March 7, 1997 11th Soul Train Music Awards
March 7, 1997 Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome and Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site
March 7, 1997 5 sue Japanese PM Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life
March 7, 1996 1st surface photos of Pluto by Hubble Space Telescope
March 7, 1996 British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million pound order
March 7, 1996 Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists
March 7, 1995 Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record)
March 7, 1995 New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
March 7, 1994 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins
March 7, 1994 Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia
March 7, 1994 David Platt appointed captain of English football team
March 7, 1994 U.S. Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
March 7, 1994 ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
March 7, 1993 23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises
March 7, 1993 Different Strokes actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant
March 7, 1992 Nicole Stevenson swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.78)
March 7, 1991 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
March 7, 1990 3 passengers killed and 162 injured as subway train derails in Philadelphia
March 7, 1990 H. Wayne Huizenga buys Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30M
March 7, 1989 Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Rushdie's book
March 7, 1989 Partial eclipse of the Sun in Hawaii, North West North America, Greenland
March 7, 1988 Howard Stern's 1st pay-per-view "Underpants and Negligee Party"
March 7, 1988 Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E. Sullivan Award
March 7, 1987 Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs
March 7, 1987 Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
March 7, 1986 South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant and Limburg ends
March 7, 1986 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
March 7, 1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 update released
March 7, 1983 TNN, The Nashville Network, begins on Cable TV
March 7, 1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic
March 7, 1982 Jarmilla Kratochvilova run world record 400 m indoor (49.59 sec)
March 7, 1982 NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time
March 7, 1981 "Bring Back Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 4 performances
March 7, 1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
March 7, 1979 Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro and amateur umpires
March 7, 1979 Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
March 7, 1978 Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped
March 7, 1978 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders
March 7, 1978 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb
March 7, 1977 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
March 7, 1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter
March 7, 1976 Morocco and Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria
March 7, 1975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
March 7, 1975 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 7, 1974 "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina
March 7, 1974 1st general striking in Ethiopia
March 7, 1973 Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
March 7, 1973 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh
March 7, 1971 Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire
March 7, 1970 Ice Dance Championship at Ljubljana won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS)
March 7, 1970 Ice Pairs Championship at Ljubljana won by Rodnina and Ulanov (URS)
March 7, 1970 Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Ljubljana won by Gabriele Seyfert (GDR)
March 7, 1970 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Ljubljana won by Tim Wood (USA)
March 7, 1970 WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting
March 7, 1969 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
March 7, 1967 Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, premieres in New York City
March 7, 1967 Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)
March 7, 1966 "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 457 performances
March 7, 1966 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 7, 1965 Alabama state troopers and 600 black protestors clash in Selma
March 7, 1965 Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after ton
March 7, 1965 Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile
March 7, 1962 Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
March 7, 1962 Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data)
March 7, 1960 Dutch Builders strike for CLA
March 7, 1959 "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 925 performances
March 7, 1959 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
March 7, 1959 West Indies all out 76 vs. Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34
March 7, 1958 Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo
March 7, 1955 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas and Loretta Young
March 7, 1955 Baseball Commish Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter
March 7, 1955 Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
March 7, 1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
March 7, 1954 Russia wins title in their 1st international ice hockey competition
March 7, 1953 Jackie McGlew scores 255* vs. NZ at Wellington
March 7, 1951 Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title
March 7, 1951 Lillian Hellman's "Autumn Garden," premieres in New York City
March 7, 1950 Ice Pairs Championship at London won by K Kennedy and P Kennedy (USA)
March 7, 1950 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in London won by Alena Vrzanova CZE
March 7, 1950 Men Figure Skating Championship in London won by Richard Button (USA)
March 7, 1946 "Three to Make Ready" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 323 performances
March 7, 1946 Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz," premieres in Zurich
March 7, 1945 Cologne taken by allied armies
March 7, 1945 U.S. 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine
March 7, 1945 Yugoslavia government of Tito forms
March 7, 1944 Japans begins offensive in Burma
March 7, 1943 Gen-major Patton arrives in Djebel Kouif Tunisia
March 7, 1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta
March 7, 1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
March 7, 1941 3rd largest snowfall in New York City history (18.1")
March 7, 1941 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
March 7, 1941 British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
March 7, 1940 Mont Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home
March 7, 1940 Ray Steele beats B. Nagurski in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ
March 7, 1939 Glamour magazine begins publishing
March 7, 1939 Guy Lombardo and Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"
March 7, 1937 Bucharin, Jagoda and Rykov pushed out of CPSU in U.S.S.R.
March 7, 1936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland
March 7, 1935 Saar incorporated into Germany
March 7, 1933 Game of "Monopoly" invented
March 7, 1932 Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4
March 7, 1930 Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball
March 7, 1927 Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
March 7, 1926 1st transatlantic telephone call, London - New York
March 7, 1925 American Negro Congress organizes
March 7, 1922 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
March 7, 1922 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
March 7, 1921 Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt
March 7, 1918 H. Carroll and J. McCarthy's musical "Oh, Look!," premieres in New York City
March 7, 1918 President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal
March 7, 1917 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ
March 7, 1914 Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania
March 7, 1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
March 7, 1911 U.S. sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
March 7, 1911 Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, California, patents coin-operated locker
March 7, 1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
March 7, 1906 Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
March 7, 1902 Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal
March 7, 1900 Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees
March 7, 1900 Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games
March 7, 1896 Gilbert and Sullivan's last operette "Grand Duke," premieres in London
March 7, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
March 7, 1876 Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
March 7, 1872 -8 degrees F in Boston, Massachusetts
March 7, 1870 Cincinnati Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest and East
March 7, 1865 Battles round Kinston North Carolina
March 7, 1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch and McIntosh killed
March 7, 1857 Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
March 7, 1854 Charles Miller patents 1st U.S. sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
March 7, 1852 Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
March 7, 1851 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
March 7, 1850 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
March 7, 1848 In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
March 7, 1847 U.S. General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
March 7, 1843 1st Catholic governor in U.S., Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
March 7, 1835 HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso
March 7, 1824 Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto," premieres in Venice
March 7, 1808 Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
March 7, 1801 Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
March 7, 1778 Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
March 7, 1774 British close port of Boston to all commerce
March 7, 1696 English king Willem III departs Netherlands
March 7, 1644 Massachusetts establishes 1st 2-chamber legislature in colonies
March 7, 1633 Prince Frederik Henry appoints himself viceroy of Limburg
March 7, 1621 John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies
March 7, 1573 Turkey and Venice signs peace treaty
March 7, 1560 Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, North Africa
March 7, 1530 King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church
March 7, 1138 Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king

Thank You ...

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March 8th

March 8, 1995 -26 degrees F (-32.2 degrees C) in Bismarck, North Dakota
March 8, 1995 Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece
March 8, 1995 Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
March 8, 1994 20th People's Choice Awards
March 8, 1994 Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47
March 8, 1993 Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion
March 8, 1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
March 8, 1992 22nd Easter Seal Telethon
March 8, 1992 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
March 8, 1991 17th People's Choice Awards: Julia Roberts, Bill Cosby, Pretty Woman
March 8, 1989 "Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 621 performances
March 8, 1989 Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 secs)
March 8, 1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
March 8, 1987 Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor
March 8, 1986 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
March 8, 1985 Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS)
March 8, 1983 House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with U.S.S.R.
March 8, 1983 IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0
March 8, 1983 President Reagan calls the U.S.S.R. an "Evil Empire"
March 8, 1981 "Shakespeare's Cabaret" closes at Bijou Theater New York City after 54 performances
March 8, 1981 Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game
March 8, 1981 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
March 8, 1980 Greg Chappell 235 and Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad
March 8, 1980 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 8, 1979 5th People's Choice Awards
March 8, 1979 China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
March 8, 1976 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China
March 8, 1975 Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba
March 8, 1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris
March 8, 1973 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 8, 1972 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)
March 8, 1972 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
March 8, 1971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title
March 8, 1970 WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting
March 8, 1969 Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo
March 8, 1968 Fillmore East opens
March 8, 1968 Students demonstrate in Warsaw
March 8, 1967 New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)
March 8, 1966 An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin
March 8, 1966 Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
March 8, 1965 1st U.S. combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)
March 8, 1964 Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement
March 8, 1963 Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria
March 8, 1962 Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC)
March 8, 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 8, 1961 Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary," premieres in New York City
March 8, 1961 U.S. nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs
March 8, 1960 "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 95 performances
March 8, 1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
March 8, 1959 Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq
March 8, 1958 Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita
March 8, 1958 William Faulkner says U.S. school degenerated to become babysitters
March 8, 1957 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test
March 8, 1953 "Two's Company" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 90 performances
March 8, 1953 Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years
March 8, 1952 Antoine Pinay forms French government
March 8, 1952 Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis
March 8, 1951 International Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)
March 8, 1950 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)
March 8, 1949 WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
March 8, 1948 Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional
March 8, 1946 1st helicopter licensed for commercial use (New York City)
March 8, 1945 "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain
March 8, 1944 U.S. resumes bombing Berlin
March 8, 1943 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg
March 8, 1942 Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
March 8, 1941 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)
March 8, 1939 Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowan's "Family Portrait," premieres
March 8, 1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
March 8, 1930 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
March 8, 1929 U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
March 8, 1927 Pan American Airlines incorporates
March 8, 1924 Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah
March 8, 1920 Denmark and Cuba join the League of Nations
March 8, 1917 Russian revolution breaks out in Petrograd
March 8, 1916 U.S. invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime
March 8, 1915 1st U.S. Navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned
March 8, 1913 Federal League organizes with 6 teams
March 8, 1913 Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect income taxes
March 8, 1911 1st International Woman's Day
March 8, 1910 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot
March 8, 1908 Collingwood Elementary (Cleve) burns, kills 173 kids and 2 teachers
March 8, 1906 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ont) in 2 games
March 8, 1904 Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match
March 8, 1902 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony
March 8, 1900 NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville and Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee)

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March 9th

March 9, 1997 Senior Golf Slam
March 9, 1997 Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open
March 9, 1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands
March 9, 1995 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
March 9, 1995 Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
March 9, 1995 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
March 9, 1994 IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
March 9, 1993 Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
March 9, 1991 "Les Miserables," opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane
March 9, 1991 U.S. 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
March 9, 1990 Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general
March 9, 1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
March 9, 1989 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec)
March 9, 1989 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 9, 1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
March 9, 1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
March 9, 1986 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
March 9, 1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
March 9, 1985 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
March 9, 1984 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
March 9, 1984 Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
March 9, 1983 Caryl Churchill's "Fen," premieres in London
March 9, 1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
March 9, 1980 Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
March 9, 1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament
March 9, 1979 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
March 9, 1978 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (GDR)
March 9, 1978 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA)
March 9, 1977 Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington D.C., siege ended Mar 11th
March 9, 1976 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
March 9, 1976 Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0
March 9, 1975 "Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 9 performances
March 9, 1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
March 9, 1972 Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary
March 9, 1971 J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI vs. India at Port-of-Spain
March 9, 1968 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up and Away, Sgt Pepper's wins 4
March 9, 1967 Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West
March 9, 1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board
March 9, 1964 1st Ford Mustang produced
March 9, 1963 Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez
March 9, 1962 Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
March 9, 1962 U.S. advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
March 9, 1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
March 9, 1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka, a dog, into orbit
March 9, 1961 Supremes release "I Want A Guy" and "Never Again"
March 9, 1959 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
March 9, 1958 George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season
March 9, 1957 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska
March 9, 1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested and exiled to Seychelles
March 9, 1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
March 9, 1954 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) New York City (Castro Decorators)
March 9, 1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
March 9, 1952 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title
March 9, 1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in New York City
March 9, 1949 Brigadier Gen Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
March 9, 1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
March 9, 1947 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
March 9, 1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang
March 9, 1945 Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China
March 9, 1943 Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown
March 9, 1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began
March 9, 1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player
March 9, 1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin
March 9, 1933 Congress is called into special session by FDR, and began its "100 days"
March 9, 1932 Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland
March 9, 1932 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
March 9, 1929 Marcel Pagnol's "Marius," premieres in Paris
March 9, 1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle
March 9, 1924 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
March 9, 1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended
March 9, 1923 Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine," premieres in New York City
March 9, 1923 NHL Championship: Mont Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2
March 9, 1922 Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape," premieres in New York City
March 9, 1922 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions
March 9, 1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
March 9, 1918 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
March 9, 1918 Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens
March 9, 1916 General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades U.S. (17 killed)
March 9, 1916 Germany declares war against Portugal
March 9, 1916 Pancho Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM, killing 12
March 9, 1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
March 9, 1914 U.S. Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
March 9, 1907 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
March 9, 1907 Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon," premieres in Dublin
March 9, 1904 Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal
March 9, 1902 Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna