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Events from History on March 01

1260 : Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus
1382 : French Maillotin uprises against taxes
1420 : Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten
1434 : Jacoba of Bavaria marries Frank van Borselen
1562 : Blood bath at Vassy: Gen de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder
1565 : Spanish occupier Estacio de S founds Rio de Janeiro
1587 : English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Towe
1591 : Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV
1634 : Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians
1642 : Georgeana (York) Maine became the 1st incorporated American city
1692 : Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, & Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem
1711 : "The Spectator" begins publishing (London)
1780 : Penn becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only)
1781 : Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation
1784 : E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain
1785 : Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized
1790 : 1st US census authorized
1792 : US Presidential Succession Act passed
1796 : 1st National Meeting in the Hague
1803 : Ohio becomes 17th state
1809 : Embargo Act of 1807 repealed & Non-Intercourse Act signed
1811 : Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 50
1811 : French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands
1811 : Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel
1815 : Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law
1845 : President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas
1847 : Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the
1847 : death penalty (except for treason against the state)
1854 : SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again
1859 : Present seal of SF adopted (its 2nd)
1864 : Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
1864 : Rebecca Lee (US) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical deg
1866 : Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana
1867 : Howard University, Washington DC, chartered
1867 : Most of Nebraska becomes 37th US state (expanded later)
1869 : Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time
1871 : J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia
1872 : Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park
1875 : Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Ct, 1883
1876 : Guernsey Cattle Club forms (Farmington Conn)
1879 : Library of Hawaii founded
1880 : Pennsylvania is 1st American state to abolish slavery
1890 : 1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published
1893 : Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassado
1896 : Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians
1909 : 1st US university school of nursing established, Univ of Minn
1910 : 118 die. Worst snow slide in US history
1910 : 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range.
1912 : Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1912 : Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, NYC
1913 : 1st state law requiring bonding of officers & state employees, ND
1913 : Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment)
1914 : Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleu
1916 : Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic
1917 : 1st federal land bank chartered
1919 : Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin
1920 : Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Adm Horthy
1920 : Buriat ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
1921 : Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England
1921 : Rwanda ceded to England
1921 : Sailors revolt in Kronstadt Russia
1923 : Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker
1924 : Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted
1927 : Bank of Italy becomes a Natl Bank
1928 : Paul Whiteman & orchestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Recor
1932 : Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in NJ; found dead May
1933 : Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks
1934 : Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria
1937 : 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct)
1937 : Gov Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles
1937 : US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day
1940 : 12th Academy Awards - "Gone with the Wind," R Donat & V Leigh win
1940 : Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published
1941 : "Captain America" appears in a comic book
1941 : 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Te
1941 : Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commissioner
1941 : German troops invade Bulgaria
1941 : Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp
1942 : 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat
1942 : Baseball decides that players in milt can't play when on furlough
1942 : J Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3," premieres in Chica
1942 : Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java
1942 : Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews
1942 : Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
1943 : Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
1944 : Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns
1944 : U-358 sinks in Atlantic
1945 : British 43rd Division under Gen Essame occupies Xanten
1945 : Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi
1945 : FDR announces success of Yalta Conference
1945 : Fieldmarshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander
1945 : US infantry regiment captures M”nchengladbach
1946 : British Govt takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years
1946 : Panam accepts its new constitution
1947 : International Monetary Fund begins operation
1949 : The Browns, owners of Sportsman's Park, move to evict the Cardina
1950 : Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formo
1950 : Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London)
1950 : USSR issues golden rubles
1952 : Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns
1952 : Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain
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 : WJZ-AM in NYC becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmissio
1953 : WTAJ TV channel 10 in Altoona, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 : 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in US house of reps injuring 5 reps
1954 : In spring training, Ted Williams breaks his collarbone
1954 : Rebellion during visit of pres Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die
1954 : Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training
1954 : US explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
1954 : after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War
1955 : Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48
1955 : KFAR (now KATN) TV channel 2 in Fairbanks, AK (ABC/NBC) 1st broad
1955 : Pakistan v India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw
1957 : "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 123 per
1957 : KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper, WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 : Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor
1958 : Gary Sobers 365* v Pak, 614 min, 38 fours, best Cricket before La
1958 : Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260
1959 : Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years
1961 : Cellist Jacqueline du Pr‚s debut in Wigmore Hall
1961 : President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp
1962 : American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay NY killin
1962 : K-Mart opens
1962 : US/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada
1962 : Uganda became a self-governing country
1963 : 200,000 French mine workers strike
1965 : Australia suspends champ swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-yrs for misco
1965 : Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec)
1965 : WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 : Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria
1966 : Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus
1967 : Dominica & St Lucia gain independence from Britain
1967 : House of Reps expels Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116)
1967 : Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London
1967 : WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore, MD (IND) 1st broadcas
1968 : NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return
1968 : Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting
1968 : Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands
1968 : Singers Johnny Cash (36) & June Carter (38) wed
1968 : Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect
1969 : "Red, White, & Maddox" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 41 perfs
1969 : After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts
1969 : Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditori
1969 : NY Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires
1969 : Pirate Radio 259 begins operation off the French coast
1970 : Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round ladies skat
1970 : Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released
1970 : End of US coml whale hunting
1970 : Kreisky's soc-democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
1970 : White govt of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain
1971 : Bomb attack on the Capitol in Wash DC
1971 : Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on
1972 : Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth"
1972 : David Rabe's "Sticks & Bones," premieres in NYC
1972 : KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
1973 : Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens
1973 : Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race
1974 : George Harrison announces his concert tour of US in November
1974 : Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides
1975 : 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win
1975 : Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1
1977 : Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards
1977 : US extends territorial waters to 200 miles
1978 : "Timbuktu!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 243 performan
1978 : Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery
1979 : "Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 557 performances
1980 : CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established
1980 : Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater
1980 : Patti Smith & MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit
1980 : Snow falls in Florida
1981 : "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 767 perfs
1981 : #3058 Delmary, #3075, #3135, #3472 Upgren, #3498, #3503, #3685, #
1981 : #3806 Tremaine, #4019 Klavetter, #4020 Dominique, #4111 Lamy,
1981 : #4275 Bogustafson, #4319, #4320, #4731, #4886, #4991, #5345, #566
1981 : #5760, #5939, #6224, #6225, #6365, #6947, #7157, #7158, #7159,
1981 : #7377, #7379, #7550, #7985, #7986, #8140, #8253 & #8252
1981 : Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike (he dies)
1981 : Irish Rep Army Bobby Sand begins hunger strike in Maze Prison
1982 : 5 dies as ski lift malfunctions a L£z-Ardiden in Pyrenees
1982 : 5th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1982 : NY Times raises it's price from 25› to 30›
1982 : Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
1983 : Tamara McKinney becomes 1st US woman skier to win the World Cup
1983 : Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people
1984 : #3931 Batten, #4529 Webern, #4530 Smoluchowski, #4818 Elgar,
1984 : #5502 Brashear & #5943 Lovi
1984 : Landsat 5 & ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit
1984 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 : Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
1985 : Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks
1985 : Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear win
1988 : Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA
1988 : Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran
1988 : Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile
1989 : Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 198
1989 : Comet du Toit at perihelion
1989 : Julianne Philips & Bruce Springsteen divorce
1990 : Benin nullifies its constitution
1990 : Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay
1991 : US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens
1992 : "Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco NYC after 41 perfs
1992 : "Visit" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 : #8288 & #8287
1992 : Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record (1:01.40)
1992 : Nelson Diebel swims 100m freestyle US record (54.48 secs)
1993 : Authorities in Waco, Texas negotiate with Branch Davidians
1993 : George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of NY Yankees
1994 : 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton wins
1994 : Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland
1994 : Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution
1995 : 37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Phila, Sheryl Cr
1995 : Belgium ends military conscript
1995 : Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
1995 : Julio Mar¡a Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay
1995 : Part of Houston begins using new area code 261
1995 : Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns
1996 : New toll-free 888 area code introduced
1996 : Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington & Shap En
1997 : "Mandy Patinkin in Concert," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC
1997 : 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV
1997 : Asteroid 1997 BQ Near-Earth Flyby (0.1819 AU)
1998 : "Art," opens at Royale Theater NYC

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