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Events from History on March 02

1121 : Dirk VI becomes count of Holland
1458 : Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia
1498 : Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island
1629 : English king Charles I leaces house of commons
1675 : Prince William III installed as governor of Overijssel
1725 : Georg F H„ndels opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto," premieres in
1776 : Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
1789 : Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances
1799 : Congress standardizes US weights & measures
1807 : Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808
1817 : 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn
1819 : Territory of Arkansas organized
1819 : US passed its 1st immigration law
1824 : Interstate commerce comes under federal control
1825 : 1st grand opera in US sung in English, NYC
1829 : New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Bo
1831 : John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal comm
1836 : Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico
1853 : Territory of Washington organized after separating from Orego
1855 : Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia
1858 : Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic t
1861 : Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Wash
1861 : US creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska &
1863 : Congress authorizes track width of 4'8«" for Union Pacific RR
1865 : British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing
1865 : Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865
1865 : Gen Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough
1866 : 1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated
1867 : 1st Reconstruction act passed by Congress
1867 : Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico
1867 : Congress created the Department of Education
1867 : Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act
1867 : Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead
1867 : US Congress creates the Department of Education
1868 : University of Illinois opens
1874 : Baseball batter's box is officially adopted
1877 : Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Ti
1877 : winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of vict
1887 : American Trotting Association organized in Detroit
1889 : Kansas passes 1st US antitrust
1890 : Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19)
1893 : 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety feat
1896 : Battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italia
1896 : George Lohmann takes 9-28 v South Africa at Johannesburg
1898 : Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England
1899 : Pres McKinley signs bill creating Mt Rainier Natl Park (5th i
1901 : Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens
1902 : Jimmy Collins, leaves Boston Beaneaters (NL) club to manage A
1902 : new Boston Somersets
1903 : Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in NYC
1904 : "Official Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" adop
1904 : Gabriele d'Annunzio's "La figlia di Iorio," premieres in Mila
1907 : General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal
1907 : Georges Feydeaus' "La Puce … l'Oreille," premieres in Paris
1909 : Gr Brit, France, Germ & It asks Serbia to set no territorial
1910 : 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 di
1915 : British vice adm Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts
1915 : Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in
1917 : Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship gran
1918 : NY Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tig
1918 : immediately trades him to Phila A's
1919 : 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin
1920 : Karel Cap‚k's "Loupeznik," premieres in Prague
1922 : WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1922 : WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions
1923 : Time magazine debuts
1925 : Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament
1925 : Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage
1925 : Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted
1925 : SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament
1929 : Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
1930 : 1st US indoor glider flight, St Louis Terminal Building
1933 : "King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall & RKO Roxy NY
1933 : Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan
1934 : Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train,
1936 : Bradman scores 369 in 253 mins, SA v Tasmania, 46 fours 4 six
1937 : Mexico nationalizes oil
1938 : Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (LA Calif)
1938 : Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union
1939 : Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII
1939 : Mass Legislature votea to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 yea
1940 : 1st intercollegiate track meet telecast, MSG, NYC
1940 : Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland
1942 : 14th Academy Awards - "How Green was My Valley," Cooper & Fon
1942 : Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon
1943 : 1st transport from Westerbork Neth to Sobibor concentration c
1943 : Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, US & Australia win
1944 : 16th Academy Awards - "Casablanca," Jennifer Jones & Paul Luk
1944 : Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in I
1945 : 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1945 : King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist govt
1946 : Dutch troops land on East Bali
1946 : Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam
1946 : Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA
1949 : 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct)
1949 : Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonsto
1949 : the-world flight at Fort Worth, Tx, covering 23,452-mis in 94
1955 : King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father
1955 : William Inge's "Bus Stop," premieres in NYC
1956 : Morocco tears up the Treaty of F‚z, declares independence fro
1958 : 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 9
1958 : Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic
1961 : "13 Daughters" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 28 performanc
1962 : JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing
1964 : Beatles begin filming "Hard Days Night," Harrison meets Patti
1965 : "Sound Of Music" opens
1965 : Montcalm Community College in Sidney Mich, founded
1966 : 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam
1967 : 9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night, Michele wins
1967 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 : Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler & Ford (GRB)
1968 : Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Belousova & Protopopo
1968 : Men's Figure Skating Champions in Geneva won by Emmerich Danz
1968 : USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the worl
1968 : USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit
1968 : Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Geneva won by Peggy Fle
1969 : 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde
1969 : Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die)
1969 : Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 14th Symphony
1970 : American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747
1970 : Rhodesia becomes independent republic
1970 : Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after
1972 : Jean-B‚del Bokassa appoints himself pres for life of Cent Afr
1972 : Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby
1973 : "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
1974 : 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly, Bette Midler wins
1974 : 1st class postage raised to 10› from 8›
1974 : Grand jury concludes Pres Nixon is involved in Watergate cove
1974 : Greg Chappell makes 247* v NZ, 410 minutes, 29 fours 1 six
1976 : "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 766 perf
1976 : Bob Lurie becomes CEO of SF Giants
1976 : Holgate, Kemp & Lopez' musical premieres in NYC
1976 : Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest
1977 : 1st time Jay Leno appears on Tonight Show
1977 : Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award
1977 : Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno debuts with host Johnny Car
1977 : Libya amends constitution
1978 : 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV
1978 : Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
1980 : 3rd Islander scoreless tie-Penguins in Pitts
1981 : #2981 Chagall, #2990, #3000 Leonardo, #3122, #3207, #3252, #3
1981 : #3524, #3528, #3529, #3530, #3536, #3593, #3619, #3741, #3742
1981 : #4240 Grun, #4241, #4321, #4367 Meech, #4394, #4395,
1981 : #4432 McGraw-Hill, #4565, #4595, #4659 Roddenberry, #4815, #4
1981 : #4887, #4922, #4923 Clarke, #4924 Hiltner, #4966, #4990, #502
1981 : #5047, #5309, #5310, #5366, #5635 Cole, #5662, #5761, #5762,
1981 : #6080, #6081, #6169, #6226, #6227, #6284, #6285, #6468, #6579
1981 : #6625, #6626, #6688, #6689, #6761, #6762, #6816, #6948, #7005
1981 : #7007, #7048, #7273, #7378, #7454, #7455, #7511, #7551, #7552
1981 : #7861, #7862, #7917, #7918, #7919, #7987, #7988, #7989, #8069
1981 : #8254 & #8255
1981 : Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists
1981 : Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Wash DC
1982 : 60th hat trick in Islander history-Bryan Trottier
1982 : Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Pe
1983 : Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips & Sony introduc
1983 : Final episode of M*A*S*H; 125,000,000 viewers
1983 : USSR performs underground nuclear test
1984 : Iran offensive against Iraq fails
1985 : US approves screening test for AIDS
1986 : 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Ani
1986 : Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to
1988 : 30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley
1988 : Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP
1989 : 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon productio
1989 : Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons
1989 : Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commer
1989 : NY Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez
1990 : #6309 Elsschot, #6483 Nikolajvasil'ev, 6780 Borodin & #7285 S
1990 : Greyhound Bus goes on strike
1990 : Mark Tewsksbury swims world record 50m backstroke (25.06 sec)
1991 : "Aspects of Love" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 377
1991 : "La Bete" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 24 perfo
1991 : Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour his
1991 : NC State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assi
1991 : UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq
1991 : needing just 7 pins on his last roll to beat Pete Weber
1992 : Anita Hall swims female world record 200m freestyle (2:25.35)
1993 : Claudette Colbert, suffers a stroke at 89
1993 : Salman Rushdie divorces Marianne Wiggins
1994 : Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrende
1994 : Miami begins a latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefa
1994 : William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), casts his 18,401 & last consecut
1994 : taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't
1995 : "Smokey Joe's Cafe," opens at Virginia Theater NYC
1995 : British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings B
1995 : Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed
1995 : Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches
1996 : Tendulkar scores 137 for Ind v SL in Cricket World Cup, but s
1997 : Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5%
1997 : Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia)

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