Events364 -
Valentinian I is elevated as
Roman Emperor.870 - The
Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
1700 - Today is followed by
March 1 in
Sweden, thus creating the
Swedish calendar.
1710 - In the
Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under
Magnus Stenbock.
1784 -
John Wesley charters the
Methodist Church.
1787 - Charter granted establishing the institution now known as the
University of Pittsburgh.
1827 - The
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first
railroad in
America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
1838 -
Robert Nelson, leader of the
Patriotes, proclaim the independence of
Lower Canada (today
Québec)
1844 - A gun on
USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a
Potomac River cruise, killing two
United States Cabinet members and several others.
1849 - Regular
steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the
United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in
San Francisco Bay, 4 months 21 days after leaving
New York Harbor.
1850 - The
University of Utah opens in
Salt Lake City,
Utah.
1854 - The
Republican Party of the United States is organized in
Ripon, Wisconsin.
1861 -
Colorado is organized as a
United States territory.
1870 - The
Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan
Abd-ul-Aziz of the
Ottoman Empire.
1883 - The first
vaudeville theater opens in
Boston, Massachusetts.
1885 - The
American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in
New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
1897 -
Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch in
Madagascar, was deposed by a
French military force.
1900 - The
Second Boer War: The 118-day "
Siege of
Ladysmith" is lifted.
1922 - The
United Kingdom accepts the
independence of
Egypt.
1933 -
Gleichschaltung: The
Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in
Germany a day after the
Reichstag fire.
1935 -
Nylon is discovered by
Wallace Carothers.
1939 - The first issue of
Serbian weekly magazine
Politikin zabavnik was published.1939 - The word "
Dord" is discovered in the
Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
1940 -
Basketball is
televised for the first time (
Fordham University vs. the
University of Pittsburgh in
Madison Square Garden).
1942 - The heavy cruiser
USS Houston (CA-30) is sunk in the
Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed.
1947 -
228 Incident: In
Taiwan, civil disorder is put down at a loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
1953 -
James D. Watson and
Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of
DNA; formal announcement
April 25 following publication in April
Nature (pub.
April 2).
1960 - The
United States defeats
Czechoslovakia 9-4 in
ice hockey to win the gold medal at the
Winter Olympics in
Squaw Valley, California.
1972 -
Sino-American relations: The
United States and
People's Republic of China sign the
Shanghai Communiqué.
1974 - After seven years, the
United States and
Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations.
1975 - A major
tube train crash at
Moorgate station,
London kills 43 people.
1983 - The final episode of
M*A*S*H is broadcast in the
USA, becoming the most watched
television episode in history, with 106–125 million viewers in the U.S. (estimate varies by source).
1985 - The
Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a
mortar attack on the
Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at
Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
1986 -
Olof Palme,
Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in
Stockholm.
1991 - First
Gulf War ends.
1993 -
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the
Branch Davidian church in
Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader
David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
1997 - The
North Hollywood shootout takes place.
1998 -
Kosovo War:
Serbian police begin the offensive against the
Kosovo Liberation Army in
Kosovo.
2001 - The
Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the
Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the
Seattle,
Tacoma, and
Olympia area of the U.S. state of
Washington.2001 - Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the
Selby rail crash.
2002 - At least 55 are killed in
Ahmadabad,
India when
Hindus burn
Muslim homes.
2004 - Over 1 million
Taiwanese participating in the
228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the
228 Incident in
19472005 -
Lebanon's
pro-Syrian prime minister,
Omar Karami, resigns amid large anti-Syria street demonstrations in
Beirut.2005 - A
suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in
Al Hillah,
Iraq kills 127.
2007 -
Jupiter flyby of the
New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft.
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