Events
399 BC - The philosopher
Socrates sentenced to death.590 -
Khosrau II crowned as king of
Persia1637 -
Ferdinand III becomes
Holy Roman Emperor.
1764 - The city of
St. Louis, Missouri established.
1805 -
Harmony Society officially formed.
1852 -
Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children,
London, admits its first patient.
1862 -
American Civil War:
General Ulysses S. Grant attacks
Fort Donelson,
Tennessee.
1879 -
Women's rights:
American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female
attorneys to argue cases before the
Supreme Court of the United States.
1891 -
AIK was founded at Biblioteksgatan 8 in
Stockholm by
Isidor Behrens.
1898 -
Spanish-American War: The
USS Maine explodes and sinks in
Havana harbor in
Cuba, killing more than 260. This event leads the
United States to declare war on
Spain.
1903 -
Morris Michtom and his wife
Rose introduce the first
teddy bear in
America.
1906 - The
British Labour Party organized.
1933 - In
Miami, Florida,
Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate
President-elect
Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots
Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on
March 6,
1933.
1942 -
World War II: The
Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by
Japanese forces, the
British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000
Indian,
United Kingdom and
Australian soldiers become
prisoners of war, the largest surrender of
British-led military personnel in history. The
Sook Ching massacre begins.
1944 -
World War II: The assault on
Monte Cassino,
Italy begins.
1946 -
ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic
computer, unveiled at the
University of Pennsylvania.
1950 - The
Soviet Union and the
People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty.
1952 -
King George VI buried in
St. George's Chapel at
Windsor Castle.
1953 - Seventeen-year-old
Tenley Albright becomes the first
American to win the world
figure skating championship.
1961 -
Sabena Flight 548 crashes in
Belgium, killing 73, with the entire
US Figure Skating team, several coaches & family.
1965 - A new red-and-white
maple leaf design is adopted as the
flag of Canada, replacing the old
Canadian Red Ensign banner.
1970 - A
Dominican DC-9 crashes into the sea during takeoff from
Santo Domingo, killing 102.
1971 -
Decimalisation of
British coinage is completed on
Decimal Day.
1976 - The 1976
Constitution of Cuba is adopted by the national
referendum.
1980 -
Television One and
Television Two (formerly
South Pacific Television) under the newly formed
Television New Zealand goes to air for the first time.
1982 - The
drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of
Newfoundland, killing 84 rig workers.
1989 -
Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan: The
Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops had left
Afghanistan.
1991 - The
Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward
free-market systems, signed by the leaders of
Czechoslovakia,
Hungary and
Poland.
1994 -
Russia annexed
Tatarstan by integrating it into its so-called
federation, start of War of Independence and
War of Liberation1995 -
Hacking:
Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the
FBI and charged with breaking into some of the
United States' most
"secure" computer systems.
1996 - Mortar attack on the US Embassy in
Athens, Greece.1996 - At the
Xichang Satellite Launch Center in
China, a
Long March 3 rocket, carrying an
Intelsat 708, crashed into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
1998 -
Dale Earnhardt wins the
Daytona 500 after 20 years of disappointment.
1999 -
Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the
terrorist organization
Kurdistan Workers Party, is arrested in
Kenya by
Turkish agents.
2000 -
Indian Point II nuclear power plant in
New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.
2002 - At the
Tri-State Crematory in
La Fayette, Georgia, investigators find uncremated bodies disposed of in the woods and buildings on the crematorium's property. The discovery reveals one of the worst incidents of abuse in the
funeral service industry.
2003 -
Protests against the Iraq war occur in over 600 cities worldwide. Estimates from 8,000,000-30,000,000 people took part, making this the largest peace demonstration in history of the world.
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