Historical Events
Welcome to Today In History for Monday, March 3, 2008.
| Historical Events on this Day in History … |
0078 – Origin of Saka Era (India)
0468 – St Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius
0493 – Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker
1409 – Austrian civil war ends
1431 – Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV
1627 – Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil
1634 – 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole)
1638 – Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden
1746 – Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness
1776 – US commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas
1791 – 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits and carriages)
1791 – Congress establishes US Mint
1794 – 1st performance of Joseph Haydn’s 101st Symphony in D
1794 – Richard Allen founded AME Church
1801 – 1st US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
1803 – 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins
1805 – Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
1812 – US passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims)
1813 – Office of surgeon general of the US army forms
1815 – US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners and demanding tribute
1817 – Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi
1820 – Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri
1835 – Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans Louisiana
1837 – US president Andrew Jackson and Congress recognizes Republic of Texas
1837 – Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
1838 – Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario Canada
1842 – 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)
1842 – 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s 3rd “Scottish” Symphony
1843 – Congress appropriates $30,000 “to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs” by the US
1845 – Florida becomes 27th state
1845 – Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery
1845 – 1st time, US Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto
1847 – Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps
1849 – Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin
1849 – Home Dept (Interior Dept), forms
1849 – Minnesota Territory is organizes
1849 – Territory of Minnesota organizes
1849 – US Department of the Interior established by Congress
1851 – Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3› piece)
1853 – Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress
1853 – US Assay Office in NYC authorized
1855 – Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
1855 – Congress authorizes registered mail
1861 – Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom [OS=Feb 19]
1862 – General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid
1862 – Battle of New Madrid MO-captured by Union forces
1863 – Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
1863 – Idaho Territory forms
1863 – Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress
1863 – Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired
1863 – Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia
1863 – Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City, Nevada
1863 – Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
1863 – 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted
1865 – Freedmen’s Bureau is created to help destitute free blacks
1865 – Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established
1869 – University of South Carolina opens to all races
1871 – Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent
1871 – Congress establishes the civil service system
1873 – US Congress and government raise own salary, retroactively
1873 – Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps
1875 – 1st recorded hockey game (Montreal)
1875 – Congress authorizes 20› coin, lasts only 3 years
1875 – Georges Bizet’s opera “Carmen” premieres (Paris)
1877 – Rutherford B Hayes is sworn in as the 19th president
1878 – Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)
1879 – US Geological Survey director authorized in Dept of the Interior
1879 – 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
1882 – NY Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
1883 – Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy
1885 – 1st US state (Calif) establishes a permanent forest commission
1885 – American Telephone and Telegraph (ATandT) incorporates
1885 – Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt)
1885 – US Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail
1887 – Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
1887 – American Protective Assn forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa
1891 – Congress creates US Courts of Appeal
1891 – Congress creates Office of Supt of Immigration (Treasury Dept)
1891 – Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created
1892 – 1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn
1893 – Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized
1893 – Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Dept of Agriculture
1894 – 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns
1894 – 1st Greek-language publication in US begins, “NY Atlantis”
1899 – Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar
1899 – George Dewey becomes 1st in US with rank of Admiral of the Navy
1900 – US Steel Corporation organizes
1901 – Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce
1903 – North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses
1905 – US Forest Service forms
1906 – Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France
1909 – Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montreal Wanderers, 8-3
1911 – 1st US federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri
1913 – Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC
1915 – Natl Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created
1917 – Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (OS)
1917 – Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar
1917 – Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations
1918 – Richard G”ring’s “Seeschlacht,” premieres in Berlin
1918 – Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria and Russia sign
1919 – 1st international air mail service from US, Seattle-Victoria, BC
1919 – Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
1920 – Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs
1921 – Toronto’s Dr Banting and Dr Best announce discovery of insulin
1922 – WWJ-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
1922 – Italian fascists occupy Fiume and Rijeka
1923 – Time magazine publishes 1st issue [or March 23]
1923 – US Senate rejects membership in Intl Court of Justice, The Hague
1924 – German and Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
1924 – Sean O’Casey’s “Juno and the Paycock,” premieres in Dublin
1926 – International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla)
1931 – Cab Calloway records “Minnie Moocher” (Jazz’s 1st million seller)
1931 – “Star Spangled Banner” officially becomes US national anthem
1933 – German presidential candidate Earnest Th„lmann (KPD) arrested
1933 – Mount Rushmore dedicated
1933 – NYC premiere of “King Kong”
1934 – John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
1935 – Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker’s party (RSAP), forms
1936 – Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v S Afr
1937 – Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down
1938 – American Bowling Congress’ largest tournament (24,765 competitors)
1940 – Artie Shaw records “Frenesi” on RCA Victor label
1941 – Neth NSB-leader Mussert visits G”ring in Berlin
1942 – 1st combat flight for Canada’s Avro Lancaster military plane
1943 – US defeats Japan and wins Battle of Bismark Sea
1943 – F Ryerson and Cohn Claues’ “Harriet,” premieres in NYC
1943 – Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die
1944 – 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber’s 2nd Symphony
1945 – Churchill visits Montgomery’s headquarter
1945 – RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511
1945 – Roermond/Venlo Neth, freed
1945 – US and Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor
1945 – US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall
1946 – US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1946 – US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1950 – 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name
1951 – Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts
1952 – Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution
1953 – Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed
1953 – Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee
1955 – Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance
1956 – Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY
1956 – Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
1956 – Indonesian govt of Harahap resigns
1956 – Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2)
1957 – Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Colo Spr won by Carol Heiss (US)
1957 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1957 – Men’s Figure Skating Champ in Colo Springs won by David Jenkins (USA)
1957 – Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner and Paul (CAN)
1957 – Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Spr won by Markham and Jones (GRB)
1957 – Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with “Just as then”
1958 – KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
1958 – Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq
1959 – SF Giant’s rename their stadium Candlestick Park
1959 – Brit govt arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis
1959 – 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched
1960 – 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5″)
1961 – King Hassan II’s ascends to throne of Morocco
1962 – British Antarctic Territory forms
1963 – Senegal adopts constitution
1965 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 – Temptations’ “My Girl” reaches #1
1966 – Buffalo Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)
1966 – James Goldman’s “Lion in Winter,” premieres in NYC
1966 – Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guin‚e
1966 – Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms
1966 – Twister hits Jackson Miss; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die
1966 – WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 – White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game)
1967 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 – Grenada gains partial independence from Britain
1968 – “Here’s Where I Belong” opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC
1968 – Greece, Portugal and Spain’s embassies bombed in the Hague
1968 – Jean Beliveau (Mont) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 pts
1969 – Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
1971 – Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa
1971 – South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles
1972 – Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia
1973 – “Shelter” closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 31 performances
1973 – White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000
1974 – World’s worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die)
1974 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1974 – George Foreman KOs Ken Norton
1974 – Despite Billy Harris’ hat trick Islanders lose 3-4
1974 – “Sextet” opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 9 performances
1975 – “Goodtime Charley” opens at Palace Theater NYC for 104 performances
1975 – Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana
1976 – Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia
1977 – Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
1977 – Men’s Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
1977 – Libyan Socialist Arabs People’s Republic forms
1977 – Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal
1977 – Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS)
1978 – 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI v Australia)
1978 – Charles Chaplin’s remains are stolen in Switzerland
1980 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1981 – NY Islanders and Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie
1981 – Isle’s Mike Bossy 9th and final hat trick of season-4 goals
1982 – Senate begins debate on expulsion of Sen Harrison Williams (D-NJ)
1984 – NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6)
1984 – Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1)
1985 – Willie Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million
1985 – National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
1985 – Bill Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million
1985 – Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
1985 – “My One and Only” closes at St James Theater NYC after 767 performances
1985 – “Moonlighting” with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis, premieres
1987 – Ray Dandridge, 3rd baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame
1989 – Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines
1989 – Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 yrs probation for Iran-Contra
1990 – Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan 1st black), crowned 39th Miss USA
1991 – United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
1991 – Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
1991 – Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tom‚ e Principal
1991 – Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec)
1991 – Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR
1991 – LA Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video
1991 – Iraqi generals and Gen Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire
1991 – Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* v WI at Kingston
1991 – 4 LA cops beat Rodney King, it is video taped
1991 – 25 die as United Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs
1991 – “Big Love” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 41 performances
1992 – Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die
1992 – Mike Bossy’s #22 is 2nd # retired by NY Islanders
1992 – Pres Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to
1992 – Charges are filed in Florida against NY Mets Darryl Boston, Vince Coleman and Dwight Gooden of rape (dropped in April)
1993 – Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings)
1994 – “Damn Yankees” opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 510 performances
1994 – “Philoktetes Variations,” with Ron Vawter, premieres in Brussels
1994 – IRS investigates Darryl Strawberry
1995 – Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorce
1996 – 26th Easter Seal Telethon
1996 – Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final
1997 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville NC on WRCQ 103.5 FM
1998 – Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee
