Events
45 BC - In his last victory,
Julius Caesar defeats the
Pompeian forces of
Titus Labienus and
Pompey the Younger in the
Battle of Munda.
180 -
Marcus Aurelius dies.
Commodus is now the only emperor.624 -
Muhammad wins a key victory over his
Meccan adversaries in the
Battle of Badr.
1337 -
Edward, the Black Prince is made
Duke of Cornwall, the first
Duchy made in
England.1577 - The Cathay Company is formed to send
Martin Frobisher back to the
New World for more
gold.
1756 -
St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in
New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
1776 -
American Revolution:
British forces evacuate
Boston, Massachusetts after
George Washington and
Henry Knox place
artillery overlooking the city.
1805 - The
Italian Republic, with
Napoleon as president, becomes the
Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
1845 - The
rubber band is
patented.
1861 - The
Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) is proclaimed.
1886 - Carrollton Massacre: 20
African Americans are killed in
Mississippi.
1891 - The British
steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of
Gibraltar, killing 574.
1901 - A showing of 71
Vincent van Gogh paintings in
Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
1906 - The
Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at
Miami University in
Oxford, Ohio.
1910 -
Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (now
Camp Fire USA) (formally announced in
1912).
1913 - The
Uruguayan Air Force is founded.
1917 -
Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at
New York University Law School.
1921 - The
Second Republic of Poland adopts the
March Constitution.
1931 -
Nevada legalizes
gambling.
1939 -
Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): The
Battle of Nanchang between the
Kuomintang and the
Japanese breaks out.
1941 - In
Washington, DC, the
National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1942 -
Holocaust: The first
Jews from the
Lviv Ghetto (western
Ukraine) are gassed at the
Belzec death camp (eastern
Poland).
1945 - The strategically important captured railway
Bridge at Remagen, having sped the end of WW-II, but ironically no longer taking artillery fire, collapses ten days into the battle rendering the
lodgement on the Germany bank of the
Rhine dependent entirely on
pontoon bridges.
1948 -
Benelux,
France, and the
United Kingdom sign the
Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the
NATO Agreement.
1950 -
University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "
Californium".
1958 - The
United States launches the
Vanguard 1 satellite.
1959 -
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th
Dalai Lama, flees
Tibet for
India.
1960 -
President Eisenhower signs the
National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the
Bay of Pigs Invasion.
1966 - Off the coast of
Spain in the
Mediterranean, the
Alvin submarine finds a missing
American hydrogen bomb.
1969 -
Golda Meir becomes the first female
Prime Minister of Israel.
1970 -
My Lai massacre: The
United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
1973 - The
Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph
Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former
prisoner of war being reunited with his family.
1979 - The
Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
1985 -
Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", commits his first two
murders in
Los Angeles,
California murder spree.
1988 - A
Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner,
Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the
Venezuelan border killing 143.
1992 - A suicide car-bomb kills 29 and injures 242 at the
Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
2003 - British Cabinet Minister
Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for
war with Iraq.
2004 - Massive
unrest in Kosovo results in more than 22 killed, 200 wounded, and the destruction of 35
Serb Orthodox shrines in
Kosovo and two
mosques in
Belgrade and
Nis.
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