Category: Worldwide History for Today

March 28th Today in Worldwide History

Today’s Important Historical Events

364 Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor

1854 Great Britain and France declare war on Russia, expanding the Crimean War

1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to the Nationalists headed by Francisco Franco

1946 Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.

Today’s Historical Events

37 Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known as Caligula (which means “little soldier’s boots”), accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate

193 Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.

364 Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor

519 Pope Hormisdas reunites the Eastern and Western church, ending the Acacian schism in a ceremony in the cathedral of Constantinople

1535 Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed in Friesland

1556 Origin of Fasli Era (India)

1556 Philip II of Spain is formally crowned King of Spain

1566 Foundation stone laid for the new city of La Valletta in Malta by Knights Hospitaller Grand Master Jean de Valette

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1935 Influential Nazi Propaganda film “Triumph of the Will” released showing Nuremberg rallies, commissioned by Adolf Hitler and directed by Leni Riefenstahl

1948 2nd Tony Awards: “Mister Roberts” (Play); Henry Fonda (Actor) and Joshua Logan (Director) win

1953 KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting

1954 WKAQ TV channel 2 in San Juan, PR (TM) begins broadcasting

1969 Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece

1971 Last original edition of “The Ed Sullivan Show” broadcasts on CBS-TV

1977 49th Academy Awards: “Rocky”, Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win

1979 Frank Lazarus & Dick Vosburgh’s stage musical comedy “A Day in Hollywood/A Night in Ukraine” premieres at the Mayfair Theatre, London, England

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1859 1st performance of Johannes Brahms‘ 1st Serenade for orchestra

1896 Umberto Giordano’s opera “Andrea Chenier” premieres at La Scala, Milan with Giuseppe Borgatti singing the title role

1930 1st performance of Walter Piston‘s Suite for orchestra (Boston)

1953 “New Faces (of 1952)” closes at Royale Theater NYC after 365 performances

1953 7th Tony Awards: “The Crucible” (Outstanding Play) & “Wonderful Town” (Outstanding Musical) win

1954 8th Tony Awards: “Teahouse of the August Moon” (Best Play) & “Kismet” (Best Musical) win

1964 Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London unveils figures of The Beatles; they later appear on the Sgt. Pepper album cover

1967 “Sherry!” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 65 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1879 41st Grand National: Garry Moore aboard 5/1 chance The Liberator wins by 2 lengths from Jackal

1884 46th Grand National: Ted Wilson aboard 10/1 shot Voluptuary wins by 4 lengths from Frigate

1890 52nd Grand National: Arthur Nightingall wins aboard 4/1 favourite Ilex

1891 1st world weightlifting championship won by Edward Lawrence in London, England

1919 78th Grand National: Ernie Piggott wins aboard Poethlyn; shortest price winner in history at 11-4

1922 Stanley Cup Final, Mutual Street Arena, Toronto, ON: Toronto St Patricks (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 5-1 for a 3-2 series win

1924 83rd Grand National: Bob Trudgill wins aboard 25/1 shot Master Robert; last GN from a general riding start, now-familiar ‘tape’ introduced the following year.

1933 1st SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Mississippi State, 46-27

March 27th Today in Worldwide History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1513 Spaniard Juan Ponce de León and his expedition first sight Florida

1625 Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland ascends the English throne

1914 1st successful non-direct blood transfusion is performed by Dr. Albert Hustin in Brussels

1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier as well as First Secretary of the Communist Party

1977 583 die in aviation’s worst ever disaster when two Boeing 747s collide at Tenerife airport in Spain

Today’s Historical Events

196 BC Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.

1003 Peace deal signed between Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor and the pagan Wends (Slavs)

1309 Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.

1329 Pope John XXII issues his ‘In Agro Dominico’ condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.

1351 Battle of the Thirty: 30 English and 30 Breton knights and squires square off using swords, maces, lances and daggers – considered one of the most chivalrous battles in history

1513 Spaniard Juan Ponce de León and his expedition first sight Florida

1599 English nobleman Robert Devereux becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

1613 The first English child born in Canada at Cuper’s Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1931 Charlie Chaplin receives France’s distinguished Legion of Honor

1943 Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio

1950 WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, Kentucky (CBS) begins broadcasting

1951 Frank Sinatra records “I’m a Fool to Want You”

1952 “Singin’ in the Rain”, musical comedy directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in NYC

1955 Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse, episode “The Chivington Raid”)

1955 WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence, Rhode Island (ABC) begins broadcasting

1957 29th Academy Awards: “Around World in 80 Days”, Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner win

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1808 Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “Die Schopfung” premieres in Vienna

1910 Fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, killed 312

1945 Ella Fitzgerald and Delta Rhythm Boys record the Harold Arlen-Yip Harburg-Billy Rose song “It’s Only a Paper Moon”

1948 Just 11 days after being released from prison, Billie Holiday plays in front of a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall

1950 Jazz pianist Erroll Garner‘s solo concert (Cleveland, Ohio)

1955 9th Tony Awards: “The Desperate Hours” (play) & “The Pajama Game” (musical) win

1971 David Heneker and John Taylor’s musical “Charlie Girl” close at the Adelphi Theatre, London, after 2,202 performances

1973 Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding and LSD possession

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1871 First international rugby union match – Scotland beats England, 1-0 at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh

1873 35th Grand National: J. M. Richardson wins aboard 20/1 shot Disturbance by 6 lengths from Rhyshworth

1885 47th Grand National: Jockey Ted Wilson wins his second consecutive GN aboard 10/3 favourite Roquefort

1896 58th Grand National: Former owner David Campbell wins aboard 40/1 outsider The Soarer

1903 65th Grand National: Percy Woodland aboard 13/2 chance Drumcree wins by 3 lengths from Detail

1908 70th Grand National: Henry Bletsoe wins aboard American 66/1 outsider Rubio

1914 76th Grand National: Bill Smith aboard Sunloch wins by 8 lengths from Trianon III

1925 84th Grand National: Major John Wilson wins aboard 100/9 shot Double Chance; first year a tape, known then as a ‘gate’, used at the start line

Witchcraft Symbols, Terms and Definitions – Seax Wica

Seax Wica

From thoughtcatalog.com

Seax Wica is one tradition of Wicca. The symbol of this tradition, also called the the Seax Wica, refers to the moon, the sun, and the eight Wiccan holidays (like Samhain, winter solstice, autumn equinox).

Represents: the moon, the sun, the seasons, the Seax Wica tradition.

Used in rituals for: the Seax Wica tradition.

March 26 Today in Worldwide History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1027 Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the Salian dynasty

1812 Earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela and kills an estimated 15,000–20,000 people

1871 Municipal elections bring revolutionaries to power in Paris to form Commune government

1909 In support of Mohammed Ali Shah’s coup d’etat against the constitutional government in Persia, a Russian military force invades northern Persia to relieve the siege of Tabriz

1942 First “Eichmann transport” to Auschwitz & Birkenau concentration camps

1953 Dr. Jonas Salk announces that he has successfully tested a vaccine to prevent Polio, clinical trials began the next year

1966 Large-scale anti-Vietnam War protests take place in the United States, including in New York, Washington, D.C. and Chicago

1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares its independence from Pakistan

Today’s Historical Events

127 Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy begins his observations of the heavens (until 141 AD)

685 Cuthbert (later Saint Cuthbert) is consecrated Bishop of Lindisfarne by Archbishop Theodore at York

1027 Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the Salian dynasty

1147 Jewish community in Cologne fasts to commemorate anti-Jewish violence

1484 William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop’s Fables

1526 King Francis I returns from Spanish captivity to France

1534 Lübeck accepts free Dutch ships into East Sea

1552 Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1938 NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson‘s 3rd Symphony

1953 “Ugetsu”, Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, starring Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyō and Kinuyo Tanaka, is released

1958 30th Academy Awards-“The Bridge on the River Kwai” wins Best Picture, Joanne Woodward & Alec Guinness win Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively

1964 Jule Styne and Bob Merrill‘s musical “Funny Girl”, starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, opens at Winter Garden Theater, New York City; runs for 1,348 performances

1969 “Marcus Welby, M.D.”, starring Robert Young and James Brolin debuts as a TV movie on ABC-TV, prior to becoming a weekly series

1970 Musical “Minnie’s Boys”, starring Shelley Winters as the mother of the Marx Brothers, and Drama Desk Award winner Lewis J. Stadlen as Groucho, opens at the Imperial Theater, New York City; runs for 80 performances

1971 “Cannon” starring William Conrad as a private detective premieres on CBS-TV; airs for 5 seasons

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1967 21st Tony Awards: “The Homecoming” (play) & “Cabaret” (musical) win

1970 Folk singer Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) pleads guilty to “taking immoral liberties” with a 14 year old girl and serves 3 months in prison; granted a presidential pardon in 1981

1972 “Only Fools Are Sad” closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 performances

1975 Ken Russell’s film “Tommy”, based on the rock opera by The Who, premieres in London; Roger Daltrey and Ann-Margret star, Tina Turner and Elton John are featured

1976 Wings release “Wings at the Speed of Sound” album

1977 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record “Less Than Zero”

1980 Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)

1982 Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder release the single “Ebony & Ivory” in the UK

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1874 36th Grand National: Mr. J. M. Richardson wins his second consecutive GN aboard French 5/1 favourite Reugny

1886 48th Grand National: Tommy Skelton wins aboard 25/1 chance Old Joe

1897 59th Grand National: Terry Kavanagh aboard 6/1 favourite Manifesto wins by 20 lengths from Filbert

1909 71st Grand National: Georges Parfrement wins aboard French 100/9 hope Lutteur III

1915 77th Grand National: legendary jockey Jack Anthony wins his second of 3 GN’s aboard 100/8 bet Ally Sloper

1915 Stanley Cup Final, Denman Arena, Vancouver, BC: Barney Stanley scores 5 goals as Vancouver Millionaires beat Ottawa Senators, 12-3 for a 3-0 sweep of first non-challenge series; Vancouver first PCHA champions

1917 Stanley Cup Final, Seattle Ice Arena, Seattle, WA: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 9-1 for a 3-1 series victory; first US team to win SC

1920 79th Grand National: legendary jockey Jack Anthony wins his record 3rd GN aboard 6/1 Troytown

March 25th Today in Worldwide History

Today’s Important Historical Events

31 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus

1436 Florentine Cathedral Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore with then the largest dome in the world by Filippo Brunelleschi with support from Cosimo de’ Medici, consecrated by Pope Eugene IV (begun 1296)

1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade throughout the British Empire; penalty of £120 per slave introduced for ship captains

1895 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)

(Side Note from Lady Carla Beltane: 1934 My Dad, Carl, was born)

Today’s Historical Events

1 Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word

31 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus

421 Friday at 12 PM – city of Venice founded

708 Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1150 Tichborne family of Hampshire England start tradition of giving gallon of flour to residents to keep deathbed promise

1199 King Richard I (the Lion Heart) of England, is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leads to his death on April 6

1305 Consecration of the Scrovegni Chapel (Arena Chapel) in Padua, Italy, with fresco masterpiece by Florentine painter Giotto

1306 Robert the Bruce crowned Robert I, King of Scots, having killed his rival John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1913 Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC) starring Ed Wynn

1943 Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio

1954 26th Academy Awards: “From Here to Eternity” best film, William Holden & Audrey Hepburn best actor, actress

1954 RCA manufactures 1st color TV set (12½” screen at $1,000)

1963 KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting

1968 KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, NV (PBS) begins broadcasting

1974 Barbra Streisand records the album “Butterfly”

1975 Linda Ronstadt releases cover of the Everly Brothers’ 1960 song “When Will I Be Loved” as a single; climbs to No. 2 in the charts

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1931 Hal Kemp & his orchestra record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis

1939 Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart

1946 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky‘s “Ebony Concerto”, by Woody Herman and His Thundering Herd, at Carnegie Hall, New York City

1951 5th Tony Awards: “Guys & Dolls” (musical) and “The Rose Tattoo” (play) win

1961 “13 Daughters” closes at 54th St Theater, NYC, after 28 performances

1961 “Gypsy” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 702 performances

1961 Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona

1962 “Family Affair” closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 65 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1876 Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland defeat Wales (4-0)

1881 43rd Grand National: Irish jockey Tommy Beasley wins his second consecutive GN aboard 11/2 co-favourite Woodbrook

1887 49th Grand National: Bill Daniels aboard 20/1 chance Gamecock wins by 3 lengths from Savoyard

1889 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town v England

1898 60th Grand National: John Gourley wins aboard 25/1 shot Drogheda

1904 66th Grand National: Arthur Birch wins aboard 25/1 New Zealand bred Moifaa; horse survives shipwreck off Ireland a year earlier

1907 Stanley Cup, Winnipeg Auditorium, Winnipeg, Manitoba: Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles, 6-5 but win on 2 game aggregate, 12-8

1916 Jess Willard fights Frank Moran to no decision in 10 for heavyweight boxing title in NYC

March 24th Today in Worldwide History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1603 Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns

1837 Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote

1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), and establishes germ theory

1976 Argentine President Isabel Martínez de Perón is deposed in a military coup headed by Jorge Rafael Videla

2020 China’s Hubei province, the original center of the COVID-19 outbreak eases restrictions on travel after a nearly two-month lockdown

2020 Indian PM Narendra Modi orders a 21 day lockdown for world’s second most populous country of 1.3 billion people to deal with COVID-19

Today’s Historical Events

1379 End of Gelderse war victory

1401 Timur attacks city of Damascus, second city of the Mameluke Empire. Though scholar and negotiator Ibn Khaldūn‘s life spared, the city is sacked and the Umayyad Mosque destroyed.

1545 German Parliament opens in Worms

1550 France & England sign Peace of Boulogne

1603 Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns

1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun, officially establishing the Tokugawa Shogunate which would rule Japan until 1867

1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia

1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1932 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD)

1935 Major Bowes’ Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network

1939 “Wuthering Heights” film based on the Emily Brontë novel, directed by William Wyler and starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, premieres in Los Angeles

1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie “Sun Valley Serenade”, starring Sonja Henie and John Payne, for 20th Century Fox

1949 21st Academy Awards: “Hamlet”, Laurence Olivier & Jane Wyman win, Walter & John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win awards

1962 Emile Griffith beats Benny ” Kid” Paret by TKO in 12th round in welterweight boxing title fight at MSG, NYC; Paret dies 10 days later; first use of television slow motion replay

1973 Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA professional wrestling champ

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1721 Johann Sebastian Bach dedicates his Brandenburg Concertos to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt

1824 1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven‘s “Missa Solemnis” in St. Petersburg

1924 1st performance of Jean Sibelius‘ 7th Symphony in C at the Konsertföreningenin in Stockholm

1934 Dmitri Shostakovich‘s Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 premieres in Leningrad, USSR

1955 Tennessee Williams‘ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opens for 694 performances

1958 Elvis Presley joins the U.S. Army (serial number 53310761)

1962 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys

1975 New Orleans R&B piano player Professor Longhair with the Meters perform at record release party for Paul McCartney and Wings’ “Venus and Mars”, aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1876 38th Grand National: Joe Cannon aboard 25/1 chance Regal wins by a neck from Congress

1877 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers beat Oxford University, 2–1 (a.e.t.); Wanderers’ 4th title

1882 44th Grand National: Lord Manners aboard 10/1 shot Seaman wins in heavy snow and freezing conditions

1893 55th Grand National: Bill Dollery aboard 9/2 favourite Cloister wins by a massive 40 lengths from Aesop; owner Charles Duff fields 2 more winners 1912-13

1899 61st Grand National: George Williamson aboard 1897 winner Manifesto wins by 4 lengths from Ford Of Fyne

1911 73rd Grand National: legendary jockey Jack Anthony wins his first of 3 GN’s aboard 20/1 Glenside in torrential rain

1913 Dutch soccer forward Huug de Groot scores twice as Netherlands score first ever victory over England; 2-1 at HBS, The Hague

1922 81st Grand National: Lewis Rees aboard 100/9 chance Music Hall wins; only 5 out of 32 starters finish

March 22 Today in Worldwide History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1622 First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans in Jamestown Virginia, 347 killed

1765 Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on American colonists, organized by Prime Minister George Grenville

1784 The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand

1832 British Parliament, led by Charles Grey, passes the Reform Act, introducing wide-ranging changes to electoral system of England and Wales, increasing electorate from about 500,000 voters to 813,000

1954 Northland Center, the world’s largest shopping mall at the time, opens in Oakpark, Michigan

1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong

2018 US President Donald Trump imposes $60 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese imports

Today’s Historical Events

238 Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor

752 Stephen II elected Catholic Pope (or 23rd)

871 Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army

1349 Townspeople of Fulda, Germany massacre Jews, blaming them for the Black Death

1421 Battle of Baugé – French defeat English

1556 Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury

1565 Turkish Armada leaves Constantinople bound for the siege of Malta with about 193 ships

1594 French King Henry IV festival in Paris

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1895 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience

1928 Noël Coward‘s musical “This Year of Grace” premieres in London

1936 “The Great Ziegfeld” directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring William Powell and Luise Rainer premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1937

1941 James Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II

1944 American movie star Jimmy Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin

1956 Musical “Mr Wonderful” with Sammy Davis, Jr. and father Sammy Davis, Sr. opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances

1962 Musical “I Can Get It For You Wholesale” starring Barbra Streisand in her Broadway debut, opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 300 performances

1964 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1957 “All Shook Up” single released by Elvis Presley

1963 The Beatles release their 1st album, “Please Please Me”

1969 “Come Summer” closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances

1971 6th Academy of Country Music Awards: Merle Haggard and Lynn Anderson win

1972 Musical “The Selling of the President” opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 5 performances

1973 Joffrey Ballet revives Diaghilev’s “Parade” at The City Center, NYC

1975 “Dr Jazz” closes at Winter Garden Theater, NYC, after 5 performances

1975 “Letter for Queen Victoria” opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 18 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1894 Stanley Cup, Victoria Rink, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Hockey Club defeats Ottawa HC, 3-1 to win 3-team challenge tournament

1896 Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18 at the Panhellenic Games

1907 69th Grand National: Alf Newey wins aboard 8/1 chance Eremon

1929 88th Grand National: Robert W. H. Everett wins aboard 100/1 outsider Gregalach

1952 Wales wins Five Nations Rugby Championship, Grand Slam & Triple Crown with a 9-5 win over France at St. Helen’s Ground, Swansea

1958 20th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle, 84-72; Seattle’s future Hall of Fame small forward Elgin Baylor is named tournament MOP

1964 LPGA Western Open Women’s Golf, Scenic Hills CC: Carol Mann her 1st of 2 major titles by 2 shots from Ruth Jessen and Judy Kimball

1967 Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title

March 23 Today in Worldwide History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1490 1st dated edition of Maimonides “Mishneh Torah”, a code of Jewish religious law is published

1775 Patrick Henry proclaims “Give me liberty or give me death” in speech in favour of Virginian troops joining US Revolutionary war

1919 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party re-establishes a five-member Politburo which becomes the center of political power in the Soviet Union. Original members Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Krestinsky

1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers

1945 Battle of Okinawa: US Navy ships bomb the Japanese island of Okinawa in preparation for the Allied invasion; it would become the largest battle of the Pacific War in World War II

2019 Syrian Democratic Forces announce that the last Islamic State territory has been retaken raising flags in Baghuz, Syria and ending the five-year Islamic State “caliphate”

Today’s Historical Events

1026 Conrad II crowns himself King of Italy

1066 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet

1153 Treaty of Konstanz between Frederick I “Barbarossa” & Pope Eugene III

1174 Jocelin, abbot of Melrose, is elected bishop of Glasgow

1490 1st dated edition of Maimonides “Mishneh Torah”, a code of Jewish religious law is published

1534 Aragonese legal code formally recognised

1568 Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike

1579 Friesland joins Union of Utrecht

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1940 1st radio broadcast of “Truth or Consequences” on CBS

1950 22nd Academy Awards: “All The King’s Men”, Broderick Crawford and Olivia de Havilland win

1972 Geoge Harrison and Friends’ “The Concert for Bangladesh” concert film, directed by Saul Swimmer released in the US

1986 6th Golden Raspberry Awards: “Rambo: First Blood Part II” wins

1994 Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for NY governor

1997 “Mandy Patinkin in Concert” closes at Lyceum Theater NYC

1997 17th Golden Raspberry Awards: “Striptease” wins

1997 WrestleMania XIII, Rosemont Horizon, IL: Undertaker beats Sycho Sid for WWF Heavyweight title

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1743 George Frideric Handel‘s oratorio “Messiah” premieres at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London

1881 Gas lamp sets fire to Théâtre Municipal” opera house in Nice, France; 70 die, and building completely destroyed

1886 Tchaikovsky‘s “Manfred” symphony premieres in Moscow, Russia, conducted by Max Erdmannsdörfer

1896 Umberto Giordano’s opera “Andrea Chénier” premieres in Milan

1901 Australian opera star Dame Nellie Melba reveals secret of her now famous toast

1923 Frank Silver and Irving Conn publish their hit song “Yes, We Have No Bananas”

1933 Kroll Opera in Berlin opens

1939 1st performance of Béla Bartók’s 2nd Violin Concerto at the Concertgebow, Amsterdam with Zoltán Székely on violin and Willem Mengelberg conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1877 39th Grand National: Fred Hobson aboard 15/1 shot Austerlitz wins by 4 lengths from Congress

1878 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers beat Royal Engineers, 3–1; Wanderers’ back-to-back and 5th title overall

1888 50th Grand National: George Mawson aboard 40/1 outsider Playfair easily wins by 10 lengths from Frigate

1923 82nd Grand National: Capt. Tuppy Bennett wins aboard 13-year-old 100/6 shot Sergeant Murphy; first US bred horse to win race

1930 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson

1930 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner

1934 93rd Grand National: Gerry Wilson wins aboard 8/1 Golden Miller in race record 9:20.04; becomes only horse to win both UK’s premier steeplechases with Cheltenham Gold Cup victory 1934

1938 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis frees 74 St Louis Cardinals minor league players from their contracts

March 20 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms

1800 Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London

1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule

1900 US Secretary of State John Hay announces that all nations to whom he sent notes calling for an ‘open door’ policy in China have essentially accepted his stand

1933 Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed

2016 Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 3 day tour

Today’s Historical Events

141 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet

1345 Saturn, Jupiter and Mars-conjunction: thought “cause of plague epidemic”

1525 Paris’ parliament begins pursuit of Protestants

1569 Duke of Alva leads “tenth penning” in Les Ponts de Cé

1598 Governor of Brittany, Philippe Emmanuel the Duke of Mercœur submits to French King Henry IV at Angers

1600 The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden

1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms

1616 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1948 1st live televised symphony performances: Eugene Ormandy leads Philadelphia Orchestra on CBS, followed 90 minutes later by Arturo Toscanini leading the NBC Orchestra on NBC

1948 20th Academy Awards: “Gentleman’s Agreement”, Loretta Young, Ronald Colman win

1952 24th Academy Awards: “An American in Paris”, Humphrey Bogart & Vivien Leigh win

1955 KXTV TV channel 10 in Sacramento, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1967 The Supremes release single “The Happening”

1967 WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting

1973 NBC TV premiere of pilot episode of “Police Story”, based on Los Angeles Police Dept. Joseph Wambaugh’s writings

1987 Soap opera “Capitol” final episode

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1885 Yiddish theater opens in NY with Goldfaden operetta

1888 The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta staged in Moscow, Russia.

1954 “King & I” closes at St James Theater NYC after 1246 performances

1965 10th Eurovision Song Contest: France Gall of Luxembourg wins singing “Poupee de cire, poupee de son” written by Serge Gainsbourg in Naples

1982 Joan Jett & Blackhearts’ “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” goes #1 for 7 weeks

1990 Singer Gloria Estefan fractures her spine when a truck hits her tour bus near Scranton, Pennsylvania

1991 Michael Jackson signs $65M deal with Sony Records to produce 6 albums

1994 “Cyrano – The Musical” closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1891 53rd Grand National: Irish jockey, trainer Harry Beasley wins aboard 4/1 Come Away

1892 54th Grand National: Capt. Roddy Owen wins aboard 20/1 chance Father O’Flynn

1911 National Squash Tennis Association forms (NYC)

1914 1st international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven

1920 Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis, Adelaide: Pat O’Hara Wood beats fellow Australian Ronald Thomas 6-3, 4-6, 6-8, 6-1, 6-3

1920 US Men’s Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger

1934 American all-round female super athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias pitches a hitless inning for Philadelphia A’s in their exhibition pre-season baseball game against Brooklyn Dodgers

1937 England beats Scotland, 6-3 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to clinch the Home Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown

March 19 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1279 A Mongolian victory at the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China

1644 200 members of Peking imperial family and court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor

1863 Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, and medicines then valued over $1,000,000. Wreck discovered exactly 102 years later by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.

1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations’ covenant (maintaining isolation policy)

1932 The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened in Sydney, Australia

2003 Airstrikes by an American and British-led coalition signal the beginning of the Invasion of Iraq, without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion

Today’s Historical Events

1227 Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX

1279 A Mongolian victory at the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China

1452 Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Nicholas V in Rome

1524 Giovanni de Varrazano, a Florentine explorer in the service of King Francis I of France, lands around area of Carolinas

1540 Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a “heretic”

1563 Peace of Amboise: Rights for Huguenots

1571 Spanish troops occupy Manila

1628 Massachusetts Bay Colony granted land by England

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1928 “Amos & Andy” debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago)

1953 25th Academy Awards: “Greatest Show on Earth”, Gary Cooper & Shirley Booth win (1st time televised)

1964 Sean Connery‘s 1st day of shooting on James Bond film “Goldfinger”

1977 Last episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” premieres on CBS, with a group hug searching for a box tissues, then singing “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary”

1979 US House of Representatives begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN

1981 -21] Emmy 8th Daytime Awards – Susan Lucci loses for 2nd time

1984 American sitcom “Kate & Allie” premieres on CBS TV starring Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin

2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, directed by Zack Synder and starring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill, first premieres in Mexico City

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1859 Opera “Faust” by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris

1864 Opera “Mireille” premieres in Paris

1870 The opera “Guarany” premieres in Milan

1906 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari‘s “Quattro Rusteghi” premieres in Munich

1917 Victor Herbert and Harry Blossom’s operetta “Eileen”, loosely based on a novel by Herbert’s grandfather, premieres at Shubert Theater, New York City

1941 Jimmy Dorsey & orchestra record “Green Eyes” & “Maria Elena”

1944 British composer Michael Tippett’s oratorio “A Child of Our Time” premieres at the Adelphi Theatre, London, England

1959 George Weiss, Bo Goldman, and Glenn Paxton musical “First Impressions”, adapted from Jane Austen‘s “Pride and Prejudice”, starring Polly Bergen; Farley Granger, and Hermione Gingold, opens at Alvin Theater, NYC; runs for 84 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1880 42nd Grand National: Tommy Beasley aboard Irish 8/1 chance Empress wins by 2 lengths from defending champion The Liberator

1892 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket England v South Africa (Cape Town)

1914 Stanley Cup, Arena Gardens, Toronto ON: Toronto HC (NHA) defeat Victoria Aristocrats (PCHA), 2-1 for a 3-0 series sweep; final series of the “challenge” era

1915 VI Summer (Modern) Olympic Games: IOC President Pierre de Coubertin writes to Associated Press indicating 1916 Berlin Games won’t take place because of WWI

1932 England beats Scotland, 16-3 at Twickenham, London to force a 3-way share with Wales and Ireland of renewed Home Nations Rugby Championship; France expelled, alleged professionalism

1937 96th Grand National: With King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in attendance, aptly-named Royal Mail ridden by jockey Evan Williams wins at odds of 100/6; estimated crowd, 300,000

1938 NHL Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Americans combine to score 8 goals in just under 5 minutes; Toronto wins game 8-5

March 9th Today in Worldwide History

Today’s Important Historical Events

141 BC Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne of the Han Dynasty in China and rules for 54 years

1522 Martin Luther begins preaching his “Invocavit Sermons” in the German city of Wittenberg, reminding citizens to trust God’s word rather than violence and thus helping bring to a close the revolutionary stage of the Reformation

1776 Adam Smith publishes the influential economics book “The Wealth of Nations”

1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party

1933 US Congress is called into special session by President Franklin D Roosevelt, beginning its “100 days”

1961 Soviet flight Sputnik 9 carries and returns from orbit a dog named Chernushka (Blackie), frogs and a guinea pig

Today’s Historical Events

141 BC Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne of the Han Dynasty in China and rules for 54 years

590 Bahram Chobin is crowned as King Barham VI of Persia

1009 First known written mention of Lithuania, in the annals of Quedlinburg

1230 Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa

1276 Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City

1496 Jews are expelled from Carintha, Austria

1497 Nicolaus Copernicus‘ 1st recorded astronomical observation

1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral departs Lisbon, Portugal at the head of a 13 ship expedition to India that will also claim Brazil for Portugal

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1933 “42nd Street” a musical film revolving around rehearsals for a Broadway show, directed by Lloyd Bacon, with choreography by Busby Berkeley, and songs by Harry Warren and by Al Dubin, premieres at the Strand, NYC; later adapted as a stage musical

1954 1st local color TV commercial WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) NYC (Castro Decorators)

1954 WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester, NH (ABC) begins broadcasting

1961 The Supremes release singles “I Want A Guy” and “Never Again”

1979 “The Passage”, directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Anthony Quinn, is released in the United States

1981 7th People’s Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood, Jane Fonda & Goldie Hawn win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda & Carol Burnett win (TV)

1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1842 Giuseppe Verdi‘s opera “Nabucco” premieres in Milan

1844 Giuseppe Verdi‘s opera “Hernani” premieres in Venice

1849 Carl Nikolais opera “Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor” premieres

1868 The opera “Hamlet” by Ambroise Thomas premieres in Paris

1897 Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler‘s 3rd Symphony, in Berlin, Germany

1930 Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht‘s satirical opera “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” premieres in Leipzig, Germany

1959 “Juno” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 16 performances

1959 The Coasters’ single “Charlie Brown” peaks at #2 on the Billboard Top 100

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1864 26th Grand National: George Stevens wins his 3rd GN aboard 10/1 Emblematic; winning mare’s full sister Emblem the race winner the previous year

1870 32nd Grand National: George Stevens wins consecutive GN’s aboard 7/2 favourite The Colonel; his 5th and final GN victory

1895 Stanley Cup, Victoria Rink, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Victorias clinches trophy as Montreal HC beats Queens University (Kingston, Ontario), 5-1

1897 Cleveland Indians fans start calling the team “Indians” (in 1915 becomes official)

1897 MLB Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot

1904 Brandon’s Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal

1908 Italian football club Inter Milan founded as Foot-Ball Club Internazionale

1923 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2

March 8 Today in Worldwide History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1531 Henry VIII recognised as supreme head of Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury

1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded

1867 British North America Act is passed in the House of Commons, serves as Canada’s constitution for more than 100 years

1917 Russian “February Revolution” begins in earnest with protests celebrating International Woman’s Day and riots in St Petersburg over food rations and conduct of the war [OS=Feb 23]

1948 US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional

1973 The Provisional Irish Republican Army undertakes its first operation in Great Britain, planting four car bombs in London; 10 members of PIRA are arrested at Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the country

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries

Today’s Historical Events

1531 Henry VIII recognised as supreme head of Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury

1586 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch chief legal advisor

1658 Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark

1702 James II’s daughter Anne Stuart becomes Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland following the death of William III

1706 Vienna’s Wiener Stadtbank established

1711 Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder

1722 Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia

1746 Duke of Cumberland’s troops occupy Aberdeen

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1949 WAGA TV channel 5 in Atlanta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1953 KSWO TV channel 7 in Lawton, Oklahoma (ABC) begins broadcasting

1953 Vernon Duke, Ogden Nash and Sammy Cahn’s musical revue “Two’s Company”, starring Bette Davis, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, closes at Alvin Theater, NYC; runs for, after 90 performances

1953 WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown, Ohio (NBC) begins broadcasting

1959 KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting

1970 WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting

1980 6th People’s Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds & Jane Fonda win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda & Carol Burnett win (TV)

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1813 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic

1884 1st performance of Edward MacDowell’s 2nd Piano Suite

1902 1st performance of Jean Sibelius‘ 2nd Symphony, his most popular, by the Helsinki Philharmonic Society

1957 1st performance of David Diamond’s 6th Symphony in Boston

1960 “Greenwillow” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances

1962 The Beatles (with Pete Best) BBC radio debut – a cover of Roy Orbison’s “Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)” , recorded the previous evening on stage at the Playhouse Theatre in Manchester

1966 “Golden Boy” closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 569 performances

1973 Paul & Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1865 27th Grand National: Captain Henry Coventry wins aboard French outsider Alcibiade at 100/7

1900 NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville & Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee)

1904 Australian cricket spin bowler Hugh Trumble dismisses England batsmen Bernard Bosanquet, Plum Warner and Dick Lilley for his second Test hat-trick in 5th Test victory in Melbourne; Trumble’s final Test

1906 Stanley Cup, Dey’s Arena, Ottawa, ON: Ottawa HC beats Smiths Falls (ON), 8-2 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series

1913 MLB Federal League organizes with 6 teams, including the Chicago Whales, who built and played at Weeghman Park (now Wrigley Field); League folded after 3 seasons

1930 Baseball slugger Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for a then huge $160,000 with NY Yankees; GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts “No one will ever be paid more than Ruth”

1931 Australian Championships Men’s Tennis: Jack Crawford wins 1st of 4 Australian titles; beats fellow Australian Harry Hopman 6-4, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1

1931 Australian Championships Women’s Tennis: In an all-Australian final Coral McInnes Buttsworth beats Marjorie Cox Crawford 1-6, 6-3, 6-4

March 7th Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

161 Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire

1530 English King Henry VIII‘s divorce request is denied by the Pope

1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US

1912 Roald Amundsen announces his discovery of the South Pole (located 14 December 1911)

1936 Adolf Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the Rhineland

Today’s Historical Events

161 Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire

321 Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire

1138 Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king

1277 Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris

1530 English King Henry VIII‘s divorce request is denied by the Pope

1560 Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, North Africa

1573 Turkey & Venice sign peace treaty

1621 John Pieterszoon Coen’s troops land on Lontor, East Indies

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1946 18th Academy Awards: “The Lost Weekend” Ray Milland & Joan Crawford win

1955 7th Emmy Awards: “Make Room for Daddy”, Danny Thomas & Loretta Young win

1955 Musical “Peter Pan”, starring Mary Martin broadcast live on NBC as part of “Producers’ Showcase” series; attracts a then record 65 million viewers

1968 The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in color on television

1970 WXOW TV channel 19 in La Crosse, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting

1975 “Mirror”, Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, starring Margarita Terekhova and Ignat Daniltsev, is released

1979 5th People’s Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds & Olivia Newton-John win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda, Mary Tyler Moore & Carol Burnett win (TV)

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1824 Giacomo Meyerbeers opera “Il Crociati in Egitto” (The Crusader in Egypt) premieres at La Fenice in Venice with famous castrato Giovanni Battista Velluti singing

1896 W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan‘s 14th and final comic opera together “The Grand Duke” premieres at the Savoy Theatre, London

1917 1st jazz record released on a 78 by Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company (“Dixie Jazz Band One Step,” one side “Livery Stable Blues” other)

1918 H Carroll & J McCarthy’s musical “Oh, Look!” premieres in NYC

1923 Carlos Gardel applies for Argentine citizenship

1946 “Three to Make Ready” opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 323 performances

1959 “Bells Are Ringing” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 925 performances

1962 The Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1855 17th Grand National: John Hanlon wins aboard Irish horse Wanderer at 25/1

1857 Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs

1860 22nd Grand National: Tommy Pickernell wins aboard Irish horse Anatis at 5/1

1866 28th Grand National: 1852 winner Alec Goodman wins his second GN aboard Irish 40/1 outsider Salamander

1870 Cincinnati Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest & East

1922 US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard

1922 US Men’s Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger

1930 Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball

March 6 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events1479 Treaty of Alcaçovas: Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa
1836 Battle of the Alamo: After 13 days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett
1857 Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Court rules Africans cannot be US citizens
1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society
1899 “Aspirin” (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer

Today’s Historical Events
1079 Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
1323 Treaty of Paris – Flemish relinquish claims over the County of Zeeland
1447 Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
1454 Thirteen Years’ War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland, and the Polish king agrees to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
1479 Treaty of Alcaçovas: Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam
1579 Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht
1590 Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Nassau captures heavily protected city of Breda using a small assault force hidden in a peat barge

Today’s Historical Events
1851 Dion Boucicault‘s play “Love in a Maze” premieres in London
1909 Dutch film distributor Jean Desmet opens his first permanent cinema, the Cinema Parisien in Rotterdam
1959 11th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr win
1967 WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1978 Brian Clark’s stage drama “Whose Life is it Anyway?” starring Tom Conti and Jane Asher, and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, opens at the Mermaid Theatre, London
1980 Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 1st time
1981 Walter Cronkite signs off as anchorman of “CBS Evening News”
1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of “The King & I”

Today’s Historical Events in Music
1808 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1831 Vincenzo Bellini’s opera “La Sonnambula” premieres at Teatro Carcano in Milan, Italy
1853 Giuseppe Verdi‘s opera “La Traviata” premieres at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
1965 Frank Loesser’s musical “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”, starring Robert Morse and Rudy Vallée, closes at 46th Street Theatre, NYC, after 1415 performances, 7 Tony Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize
1965 The Temptations’ single “My Girl” reaches #1 on the Billboard Pop Chart; written and produced by the Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Ronald White
1967 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Merle Haggard and Bonnie Guitar win
1970 Beatles release single “Let it Be” in UK
1974 “Over Here!” musical written by Richard & Robert Sherman opens at Shubert Theater, NYC for 341 performances (top-grossing production 1974)

Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1858 20th Grand National: William Archer wins aboard outsider Little Charley at 100/6
1867 29th Grand National: John Page wins aboard Irish 16/1 shot Cortolvin; trainer Harry Lamplugh’s second GN victory
1895 England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2; Jack Brown hits the fastest 50 in test cricket in 28 mins
1906 Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance
1919 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie
1922 Babe Ruth signs 3 year contract with NY Yankees at $52,000 a year
1923 MLB St. Louis Cardinals announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms

1945 George Nissen of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, receives a patent for the first modern trampoline

March 5th Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

363 Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign that brings about his own death

1046 Persian scholar Naser Khosrow begins the 7 year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama

1496 English King Henry VII grants John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) a commission to explore for new lands

1770 Boston Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die; later held up as early black martyr. Massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings.

1946 Winston Churchill‘s “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, Missouri, popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe

Today’s Historical Events

363 Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign that brings about his own death

1046 Persian scholar Naser Khosrow begins the 7 year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama

1179 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome

1496 English King Henry VII grants John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) a commission to explore for new lands

1528 Utrecht governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague

1558 Smoking tobacco introduced into Europe by Spanish physician Francisco Fernandes

1579 Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht

1616 Astronomical work ‘de Revolutionibus’ by Nicolaus Copernicus placed on Catholic Forbidden index

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1936 8th Academy Awards: “Mutiny on the Bounty”, Victor McLaglen & Bette Davis wins

1953 6th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs): “The Sound Barrier” Best Film

1955 WBBJ TV channel 7 in Jackson, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting

1956 “King Kong” 1st televised

1956 Capitol Records releases “Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!”, the tenth album by American singer Frank Sinatra: upbeat collection of pop tunes with jazz arrangements by Nelson Riddle became the first album ever to top the new UK Albums Chart

1958 KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast

1959 16th Golden Globes: “The Defiant Ones”, David Niven, & Susan Hayward win

1962 19th Golden Globes: “The Guns of Navarone”, Maximilian Schell, & Geraldine Page win

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1807 1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven‘s 4th Symphony in B

1853 Piano company Steinway & Sons founded by Heinrich Steinweg (later Henry Steinway) in New York City

1856 Covent Garden Opera House, London, destroyed in a fire

1868 Arrigo Boito’s opera “Mefistofele” premieres in Milan

1899 1st performance of Edward MacDowell’s 2nd Concerto in D

1907 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired

1919 Louis Hirsch & Harold Atteridge’s musical premieres in NYC

1942 World première of Dmitri Shostakovich‘ 7th Symphony in Kuybyshev, Russia

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1840 2nd Grand National: Bartholomew Bretherton wins aboard 16/1 Jerry; a then smallest field of 13

1845 7th Grand National: William Loft aboard outsider Cure-All wins in record time of 10 minutes, 47 seconds

1910 Stanley Cup, Dey’s Arena, Ottawa, ON: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1

1949 Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30

1955 2nd ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Duke, 87-77

1960 7th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Wake Forest, 63-59

1960 Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny & Jones (GRB)

1960 Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (FRA)

March 4th Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1238 Battle of the Sit River: Mongol forces of Batu Khan overcome Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal near Yaroslavl in Russia, ending Russian resistance

1801 Thomas Jefferson is the first US President to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.

1861 Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th US President

1902 American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago

1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as 32nd US President, pledges to pull US out of the Depression, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”

1936 1st flight of the airship Hindenburg at Friedrichshafen, Germany

2009 International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur becoming the first sitting head of state to be indicted

Today’s Historical Events

51 Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth)

306 Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia

852 Croatian Duke Trpimir I issued a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources

938 Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, the patron saint of the Czech state

1152 Frederick I Barbarossa elected Holy Roman Emperor

1215 King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III

1238 Battle of the Sit River: Mongol forces of Batu Khan overcome Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal near Yaroslavl in Russia, ending Russian resistance

1351 Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1841 Dion Boucicault‘s stage comedy “London Assurance” opens at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London

1922 1st vampire film “Nosferatu”, an un-authorized adaptation of Bram Stoker‘s Dracula, premieres at the Berlin Zoological Garden, Germany

1937 9th Academy Awards: “The Great Ziegfeld”, Paul Muni & Luise Rainer wins

1943 15th Academy Awards: “Mrs. Miniver”, James Cagney & Greer Garson win

1947 WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting

1965 David Attenborough becomes the new controller of BBC2

1976 2nd People’s Choice Awards: John Wayne & Katharine Hepburn win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Carol Burnett win (TV)

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1830 Vincenzo Bellini’s opera “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” premieres at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
1877 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Swan Lake” has its world premiere, performed by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow

1895 Gustav Mahler conducts the premiere of his incomplete 2nd Symphony (“Resurrection”) in Berlin, Germany, with the Berlin Philharmonic; complete version debuts in December
1913 Gabriel Faure’s opera “Pénélope”, based on Homer’s “The Odyssey”, premieres at the Salle Garnie, in Monte Carlo, Monaco
1966 John Lennon says “We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus”
1968 3rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Glen Campbell and Lynn Anderson win
1973 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
1977 Roger Sessions’ 6th Symphony premieres (in fully completed form) in New York City with José Serebrier conducting the Juilliard Orchestra

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1846 8th Grand National: William Taylor aboard outsider Pioneer wins by 3 lengths from Culverthorpe

1857 19th Grand National: Charlie Boyce wins aboard Emigrant at 10/1

1868 30th Grand National: George Ede victorious aboard Irish 9/1 shot The Lamb; horse wins second GN in 1871

1903 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal HC beats Winnipeg Victorias, 4-1 for a 2-1 challenge series victory

1913 NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda)

1927 Babe Ruth becomes the highest-paid player in MLB history when he signs 3-year, $70,000 per season contract with the New York Yankees

1931 Don Bradman is bowled for a rare first ball duck by Herman Griffith (4-50) on the last day of 5th cricket Test vs West Indies in Sydney; Windies win by 31 runs but lose series to Australia, 4-1

1933 Noordwijk soccer team forms

March 3 Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1575 Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi

1857 Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China

1861 Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs and granting them the full rights of free citizens [O.S. Feb 19]

1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller

1917 1st major strike of the Russian “February Revolution” starts at the giant Putilov factory in Petrograd [OS=Feb 18]

1921 Toronto’s Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin

1939 Mahatma Gandhi begins a fast in Mumbai (Bombay) to protest against autocratic rule in India

1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Australian and American air forces devastate Japanese navy convoy

1991 Los Angeles police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King, the beating is famously captured on amateur video and later leads to riots when the police officers are acquitted

Today’s Historical Events

78 Origin of Saka Era (India)

468 St Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius

473 Glycerius appointed a puppet Emperor of the Western Empire by Burgundian king and patrician Gundobad (deposed 474)

493 Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker

1284 Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England

1409 Austrian civil war ends

1431 Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV

1575 Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1958 KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast

1966 WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, VA (IND) begins broadcasting

1975 1st People’s Choice Awards: John Wayne & Barbra Streisand win (Motion Pictures) and Alan Alda, Telly Savalas & Mary Tyler Moore win (TV)

1985 “Moonlighting” with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis premieres on ABC TV in the US

1990 Carole Gist (20) is the 1st African American to be crowned Miss USA in Wichita, Kansas

2002 33rd NAACP Image Awards: “Ali” wins Outstanding Motion Picture

2005 American rapper 50 Cent releases his album “The Massacre” (2005 Billboard Album of the Year, Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album 2006)

2006 37th NAACP Image Awards: “Crash” wins Outstanding Motion Picture

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1794 1st performance of Joseph Haydn’s 101st Symphony in D (“The Clock”) at the Hanover Rooms, in London, England

1842 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn‘s 3rd (“Scottish”) Symphony in Leipzig Gewandhaus

1875 Georges Bizet‘s last and greatest opera “Carmen” premieres at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, France

1931 “The Star-Spangled Banner” officially becomes US national anthem by congressional resolution; lyrics by Francis Scott Key in 1814, set to John Stafford Smith’s 18th century tune “The Anacreontic Song”

1931 Cab Calloway records “Minnie the Moocher” (Jazz’s 1st million seller)

1940 American bandleader Artie Shaw records “Frenesi” on RCA Victor label

1944 Premiere performance of US Army Corporal Samuel Barber‘s 2nd Symphony by the Boston Symphony, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky in Boston, Massachusetts

1955 Elvis Presley makes his 1st TV appearance on a broadcast of radio show “Louisiana Hayride”

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1841 3rd Grand National: Horatio Powell wins aboard 14/1 Charity; first mare to win the race

1847 9th Grand National: Denny Wynne wins aboard 10/1 Mathew; regarded as the first Irish-trained horse to win the race

1852 14th Grand National: Alec Goodman wins first of 2 GN victories (1866) aboard Miss Mowbray

1869 31st Grand National: George Stevens wins his 4th GN aboard 100/7 outsider The Colonel; repeats with back-to-back victories the following year

1883 In the series decider England beats Scotland, 2 tries to 1 at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh to win the inaugural Home Nations Rugby Championship with an undefeated record

1904 England cricket all-rounder Bernard Bosanquet takes 6 for 51 as tourists dismiss Australia for 171 in the 4th Test in Sydney to regain the Ashes; take an unassailable, 3-1 series lead

1920 Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs

1950 National-American Football League reverts to calling itself the NFL after 3 months

March 2nd Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1791 Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris

1796 Napoléon Bonaparte is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French Army in Italy

1807 US Congress bans the slave trade within the US, effective January 1, 1808

1888 The Convention of Constantinople signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace

1946 Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam

1956 Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declaring independence from France

1970 White government of Rhodesia declares itself a republic

2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: US conventional forces first deployed as part of Operation Anaconda

Today’s Historical Events

986 Louis V becomes King of the Franks.

1121 Dirk VI becomes count of Holland

1127 Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders

1458 Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia

1498 Vasco da Gama‘s fleet visits Mozambique Island

1629 English King Charles I dissolves Parliament against opposition, imprisoning 9 members of parliament

1657 Great Fire of Meireki destroys 60-70% of the Japanese capital city of Edo, killing an estimated 100,000 people

1675 Prince William III installed as governor of Overijssel

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1933 “King Kong” film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Fay Wray premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy in NYC

1940 The first televised intercollegiate track meet is seen in NYC on W2XBS; NYU wins the meet presented live from Madison Square Garden

1942 14th Academy Awards: “How Green was My Valley”, Gary Cooper, and Joan Fontaine win

1944 16th Academy Awards: “Casablanca”, Jennifer Jones & Paul Lukas win

1964 Beatles begin filming “A Hard Day’s Night”, George Harrison meets future wife Pattie Boyd

1965 One of the most popular musical films of all time, “The Sound of Music”, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, premieres (Academy Awards Best Picture – 1966)

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1789 Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances

1825 1st grand opera in US sung in English, NYC

1956 “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” single cover released by Elvis Presley

1959 Ceremony to mark the start of construction of the Sydney Opera House at Bennelong Point, Sydney

1961 Eaton Magoon’s musical “13 Daughters”, starring Don Ameche and Sylvia Syms, opens at 54th St Theater, NYC; runs for 28 performances

1969 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 14th Symphony

1970 Reprise Records releases “Ladies of the Canyon”, Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell‘s 3rd studio album

1974 16th Grammy Awards: Roberta Flack Best Record – “Killing Me Softly”, Stevie Wonder Best Album – “Innervisions”

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1842 4th Grand National: Tom Olliver aboard 7/1 Gaylad wins by 4 lengths from Seventy Four

1853 15th Grand National: Tom Oliver aboard Peter Simple wins his third GN Steeplechase and the stallion’s second; oldest horse to win event at 15

1859 21st Grand National: Chris Green aboard 7/1 Half Caste wins by only a short neck from Jean Du Quesne

1874 National Association of Professional Baseball Players officially adopts the batter’s box; decide any player betting on his own team will be expelled; any player betting on any other team to forfeit his pay

1890 Norwegian speed skater Oskar Fredriksen sets inaugural 5,000m world record of 9:19.8 in Stockholm, Sweden

1896 Best 9-wicket haul in cricket history; George Lohmann takes 9-28 as England beats South Africa by an innings and 197 runs in 2nd Test at Johannesburg

1898 Chasing winning target of 275, Australian cricket batsman Joe Darling bashes 160 in 171 minutes with 30 fours to lead Australia to a 6-wicket 5th Test win over England in Sydney; complete 4-1 series rout

1904 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers and Ottawa HC tie, 5-5; Montreal disqualified for refusing to play second game in Ottawa

April 1st Today in Worldwide History

Today’s Important Historical Events

527 Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne

1748 Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered by Spaniard Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre

1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & George Gamow

1974 Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran

1976 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs’ parents house in Cupertino, California

2001 Netherlands becomes the first country in the world to make same-sex marriage legal

(Lady Beltane’s dad crossed the veil)

Today’s Historical Events

374 Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth

527 Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne

705 Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI

1064 Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik

1318 Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English.

1340 Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.

1504 English guilds/corp goes under state control

1515 Portuguese fleet under Afonso de Albuquerque captures the Persian fortress of Ormuz, renaming it the Fort of Our Lady of the Conception

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1930 “The Blue Angel” starring Marlene Dietrich in her breakthrough role premieres in Germany

1947 Shin Takarajima (New Treasure Island) by Osamu Tezuka published, first manga cartoon in tankōbon form

1953 KXMC TV channel 13 in Minot, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting

1954 WQED TV channel 13 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting

1955 WTVT TV channel 13 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (CBS) 1st broadcast

1956 KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting

1957 WYES-TV channel 12 in New Orleans, Louisiana (PBS) begins broadcasting

1958 KVIQ TV channel 6 in Eureka, CA (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1822 Italian composer Luigi Cherubini becomes director of the Conservatoire de Paris music college, holds position for nearly 20 years

1956 10th Tony Awards: “The Diary of Anne Frank” (play) & “Damn Yankees” (musical) win

1964 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years

1966 “Hold On, I’m Comin'” single released by Sam & Dave

1970 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release hoax they are having dual sex change operations

1972 30,000 attend Mar Y Sol rock concert, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico

1973 John Lennon and Yoko Ono form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence

1990 It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2 feet of nude dancers

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1888 Students from Rotterdam, Netherlands establish a cricket club called Rotterdamsche Cricket & Football Club Sparta which evolves into Sparta Rotterdam

1919 Stanley Cup Final, Seattle Ice Arena, Seattle, WA: With Montreal Canadiens (NHL) & Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) tied at 2-2-1, trophy not awarded due to worldwide flu epidemic

1920 Stanley Cup Final, Mutual Street Arena, Toronto, ON: Jack Darragh scores a hat-trick as Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA), 6-1 for a 3-2 series win

1926 Montreal Maroons’ Clint Benedict becomes first NHL goalie to record 3 straight playoff shutouts, in a 3-0 win against the visiting Victoria Cougars in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Championship series

1930 American golfer Bobby Jones starts his Grand Slam season by winning the Southeastern Open by 13 strokes over Horton Smith at the Forest Hills-Ricker Golf Course in Atlanta, Georgia

1930 Chicago Cubs catcher Leo Hartnett breaks the altitude record for a catch by gloving a baseball dropped from the Goodyear blimp 800 feet over Los Angeles, California

1931 Jackie Mitchell becomes the second female (after Lizzie Arlington 1898) in organised baseball when she signs with the Chattanooga Lookouts Baseball Club

1933 England cricket batsman Wally Hammond smashes 34 fours, 10 sixes in a Test record unbeaten 336 in the drawn 2nd Test against New Zealand in Auckland

March 1st Today in History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1642 Georgeana (York) in Maine becomes the 1st incorporated American city

1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for newborns only)

1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)

1869 US Postage stamps showing scenes issued for 1st time. These pictorials showed a post horse and rider, a locomotive, a shield, an eagle and a ship, the Adriatic.

1872 Yellowstone becomes the world’s 1st national park

1954 US explodes Castle Bravo, a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll, which accidentally became the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US

Today’s Historical Events

752 BC Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women

86 BC Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus

293 Roman emperor Maximianus introduces tetrarchy (rule of four people) elevating Galerius and Constantius Chlorus to Caesar

317 Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius the younger, son of Emperor Licinius, raised to rank of Caesar

492 Gelasius I elected Catholic Pope; in office until his d eath in 496

492 St Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope

705 John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope

743 The Roman Council at Estinnes decrees that Christian slaves may not be owned by Jews, fearing that the slaves may convert to Judaism

Today’s Historical Events in Flim and TV

1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)

1928 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra record “Ol’ Man River” for Victor Records featuring Bing Crosby

1941 Captain America created by cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby is first published by Timely Comics (premiere issue released on December 20, 1940)

1953 After an all-night movie and dinner session with his top advisers, Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.

1953 KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting

1953 KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins

1953 WFBG TV (later WTAJ) channel 10 in Altoona, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1953 WJZ-AM in NYC becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1956 “Crazy Arms” single released by Ray Price – his 1st no.1 (Billboard Song of the Year 1956)

1957 “Ziegfeld Follies of 1957” opens at Winter Garden NYC for 123 performances

1961 Cellist Jacqueline du Prés debut in Wigmore Hall

1968 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice‘s musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” first performed as a 15-minute pop cantata at Colet Court School in London

1969 “Red, White, & Maddox” closes at Cort Theater NYC after 41 performances

1969 After 88 weeks, the Beatles’ album “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” drops off the charts

1969 Jim Morrison allegedly exposes himself on stage at the Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami, Florida

1973 Pink Floyd release their album “Dark Side of the Moon”, since sold over 45 million copies

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1843 5th Grand National: Tom Olliver aboard 12/1 Vanguard wins; first year race run as a handicap

1848 10th Grand National: Capt. Josey Little aboard 12/1 Chandler wins; race marred by fatal falls of 3 competitors

1854 16th Grand National: John Tasker wins aboard race favourite Bourton at 4/1

1903 Major League Baseball Rules Committee rule that pitcher’s mound must not be more than 15 inches higher than the baselines or home plate

1910 National Baseball Commission prohibits giving mementos to players on winning World Series teams; decision later reversed, making way for traditional winners’ watches, rings, and stickpins

1919 Future Hockey Hall of Fame center Newsy Lalonde sets a playoff record with 5 goals in the Canadiens’ 6-3 win over Ottawa in NHL Championship Game 3 in Montreal

1921 Spin bowler Arthur Mailey takes 5 for 119 (record 36 wickets for series) to lead Australia to a 9 wicket 5th Test win over England in Sydney; first ever, 5-0 Ashes cricket series win for Australia

1934 Italian boxer Primo Carnera beats American challenger Tommy Loughran by unanimous points decision at Madison Square Garden, NYC for the NYSAC and NBA heavyweight titles