This Day in History for 1st March

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 270

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
317 - Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares
492 - St Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
492 - St Gelasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
705 - John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope
743 - Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited
918 - Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht
1260 - Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus
1382 - French Maillotin uprises against taxes
1420 - Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten
1457 - The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.
1562 - Blood bath at Vassy: Gen de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder
1565 - Portuguese soldier Estácio de Sá founds the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1587 - English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1591 - Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV
1593 - The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.
1628 - Writs are issued in February by Charles I of England mandating that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
1633 - Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
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, MA)
1711 - "The Spectator" begins publishing (London)
1780 - Pennsylvania 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 500
1811 - French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel
1815 - Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law
1840 - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France.
1845 - President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas
1847 - Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)
1852 - Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
1854 - SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again
1854 - German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
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 degree
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
1873 - E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
1875 - Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Ct, 1883
1876 - Guernsey Cattle Club forms (Farmington Conn)
1878 - First winter ascent of Aneto
1879 - Library of Hawaii founded
1886 - The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
1890 - 1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published
1893 - Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassador
1896 - Battle of Adwa: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians in Ethopia
Physicist/Nobel Laureate Henri Becquerel 1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
1904 - England regains cricket Ashes taking a 3-1 series lead v Australia
1909 - 1st US university school of nursing established, Univ of Minn
1910 - 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in US history
1912 - Capt Albert Berry performs 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 Petroleum
1914 - The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
1916 - Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic
1917 - 1st federal land bank chartered
1917 - U.S. government releases the plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
1919 - Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin
1919 - March 1st Movement begins in Korea.
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 Great Britain
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 Records
1932 - Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in NJ; found dead May 12
1933 - Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks
1934 - Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria
1934 - Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1936 - The Hoover Dam is completed.
1936 - A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
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
1939 - Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump exploded at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
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, Tenn
1941 - Elmer Layden becomes 1st NFL commissioner
1941 - German troops invade Bulgaria

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 279

40 - Martial, Latin poet (d. 102)
772 - Po Tjiu-i, Chinese poet/governor of Hang-tsjow
1432 - Isabel of Coimbra, queen of Portugal (d. 1455)
1445 - Sandro Botticelli, Florentine Renaissance painter (Birth of Venus), probable date of birth
1456 - Wladyslaw Jagiello, king of Bohemia/Hungary (1471/90-1516)
1494 - Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter
1528 - Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, [the Generous], duke of Bavaria
1547 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628)
1597 - Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652)
1607 - Giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer
1610 - Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian
1610 - John Pell, English mathematician (d. 1685)
1630 - Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter, baptized
1657 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (d. 1740)
1683 - Caroline of Ansbach, wife of George II of Great Britain (d. 1737)
1690 - Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer
1703 - Dieudonne Raick, composer
1709 - Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer
1711 - Peregrinus Pogl, composer
1732 - William Cushing, 2nd Chief Justice of the United States. (d. 1810)
1734 - Pieter Valck[x], South Netherland sculptor
1760 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French revolutionary (d. 1794)
1771 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer
1779 - Jacob Gottfried Weber, composer
1780 - Leonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-general of Neth Indies (1826-30)
1788 - Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician
1799 - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer
1807 - Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1898)
Composer Frederic Chopin (1810) 1810 - Frederic Chopin, Poland, composer/pianist (Concert in F Minor) [NS]
1811 - Robert Christie Buchanan, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1878
1812 - Augustus Pugin, English-born architect (d. 1852)
1817 - Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor (d. 1882)
1820 - George Davis, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1896
1820 - Richard Redhead, composer
1821 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Catholic bishop (d. 1896)
1822 - Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1822 - Charles Champion Gilbert, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 - John Thomas, composer
1828 - James Fleming Fagan, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
1828 - Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright
1831 - Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1832 - Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer
1835 - Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade)
1837 - Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie)
1837 - William Dean Howells, US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic)
1838 - Gabriele dell' Addolorata, [Francesco Possenti], Italian priest
1841 - Blanche Kelso Bruce, Virginia, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881)
1841 - Romualdo Marenco, composer
1842 - Nicholaos Gysis, Greek painter (d. 1901)
1848 - Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US, sculptor/designer (1907 $20 gold piece)
1852 - Theophile Delcasse, French statesman
1856 - Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw)
1858 - Georg Simmel, German philosopher/sociologist
1863 - Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (d. 1930)
1865 - Gerard Vissering, Dutch banker/president (Bank of Java)
1865 - Abe Iso, Japanese politician (d. 1949)
1871 - Ben Harney, American composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938)
1874 - Jean de Merode, [Marie-Louise B Courtenay], Princess of Neth
1876 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian IOC president (d. 1942)
1878 - Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer
1880 - Julian Myrick, promoter of junior tennis
1880 - Lytton Strachey, biographer/critic (Benson Medal 1923)
1882 - Ida Moore, Altoona Ks, actress (Mr Music, Ma & Pa Kettle at Waikiki)
1883 - Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great (Yale)
1885 - Lionel Atwill, English/US actor (Mystery of the Wax Museum)
1886 - Oskar Kokoschka, Russia/Austrian/British, painter (Erasmus Prize 1960)
1888 - Ewart Astill, English cricketer (d. 1948)
1889 - Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (d. 1960)
1890 - Jan Duiker, Dutch architect (Zonnestral)
1892 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa)
1893 - Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy)
1893 - Mercedes de Acosta, American socialite (d. 1968)
1895 - G B "Duke" Keats, hockey hall of fame (elected 1958)
1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Athens Greece, conductor/composer
1896 - Moriz Seeler, German writer and producer (d. 1942)
1899 - Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (d. 1972)
1900 - Edna Swithenbank Manley, Jamaican sculptor, wife of PM
1900 - Yorgos Seferis, [Seferi dis], Greek diplomat/poet (Strofi)
1900 - Donald Keith Falkner, singer
1903 - Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, Iowa, jazz cornetist (In a Mist)
1904 - Glenn Miller, bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood)
1904 - Paul Hartman, SF California, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction)
1905 - Pol le Roy, Flemish author/novelist/writer (Stroom)
1905 - Doris Hare, Welsh actress (d. 2000)
1907 - Lois Moran, Pitts, actress (Mom-Waterfront)
1909 - Richard de Guide, composer
1909 - Robert Selby Taylor, bishop
1909 - Terence De Marney, England, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo)
1910 - David Niven, London UK, actor (Casino Royale, The Pink Panther)
Nobel Prize Winning Chemist Archer John Porter Martin (1910) 1910 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1911 - Harry Golombek, chess grandmaster
1912 - Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, archbishop of Toronto (d. 2003)
1913 - Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photogrpaher/collector
1914 - Archibald J Gumede, S Afr ANC member/chairman (UDF)
1914 - Ralph Waldo Ellison, US writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Cast)
1914 - Harry Caray, American sportscaster (d. 1998)
1917 - Dinah Shore, Winchester Tenn, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet)
1917 - Robert Lowell, poet/pacifist (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean)
1918 - Roger Delgado, London, actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June)
1918 - Gladys Noon Spellman, American politician (d. 1988)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 4

1434 - Jacqueline, Countess of Haintaut formally marries Frank van Borssele 2 years after first secretly marrying him
1968 - Singer-songwriter and actress June Carter (38) weds singer-songwriter Johnny Cash (36) at a church in Franklin, Kentucky
1987 - "The Last Picture Show" actress Cybill Shepherd (37) weds Dr. Bruce Oppenheim (38) in San Fernando Valley
2003 - "The Silence of the Lambs" actor Anthony Hopkins (65) weds actress-producer Stella Arroyave (47) in Malibu, California

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 4 of 4

1989 - Julianne Philips & Bruce Springsteen divorce
1989 - "Baywatch" actor David Hasselhoff (37) divorces actress Catherine Hickland (33) after nearly 5 years of marriage
2002 - "12 Angry Men" actor Edward James Olmos (55) divorces "Sopranos" actress Lorraine Bracco (47) after 8 years of marriage
2005 - Former Full House actor John Stamos (41) divorces X-Men actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (31) after 5 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 120

589 - Saint David, Patron Saint of Wales (b. 500)
965 - Leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies
986 - King Lothair of France (b. 941)
1131 - Stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies
1233 - Count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)
1244 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
1383 - Amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49
1510 - Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier, explorer and 1st Viceroy of India dies at Table Bay, Africa at about 59
1535 - Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia), dies
1546 - George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b 1513)
1619 - Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53
1633 - George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39
1643 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer/organist, dies at 59
1661 - Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)
1693 - Benedict Schultheiss, composer, dies at 39
1697 - Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626)
1706 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (b. 1632)
1734 - Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
1757 - Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)
1768 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
1771 - Isfrid Kayser, composer, dies at 58
1773 - Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian, dies at 63
1773 - Luigi Vanvitelli, [Louis van Wittel], Italian architect, dies at 72
1777 - Georg Christoph Wagenzeil, Austria (court) composer/pianist, dies at 62
1788 - Orazio Mei, composer, dies at 56
1792 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
1797 - Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36
1804 - Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63
1817 - Luigi Gatti, composer, dies at 77
1826 - J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59
1841 - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (b. 1764)
1859 - Josef Theodor Krov, composer, dies at 61
1862 - Peter Barlow, English mathematician (b. 1776)
1865 - Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70
1869 - Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, Fr poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78
1870 - Francisco S Lopez, Pres of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43
1875 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
1879 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
1884 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
1892 - Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60
1896 - Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 - Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 - Vittorio Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1898 - George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825)
1899 - Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian MP, dies at 90
1906 - José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1833)
1911 - Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58
1912 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
1914 - Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer, dies at 47
1914 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
1918 - Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer, dies at 64
1920 - Joseph Trumpeldor, killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack
1920 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (b. 1842)
1921 - Nicholas Petrovic Njegos, King of Montenegro (1910-18), dies at 79
1922 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
1924 - Louise MA, princess of Belgium, dies at 66
1926 - Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58
1928 - Albert Herbert Brewer, composer, dies at 62
1928 - Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer, dies at 77
1929 - Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
1932 - Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46
1932 - Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
1933 - Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
1938 - G D'Annunzio, writer, dies at 74
1938 - Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74
1940 - Josef Swickard, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 73
1940 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
1942 - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain (b. 1882)
1944 - ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz
1947 - J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed
1952 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (b. 1873)
1953 - Anton GO Ridder Van Rappard, painter/lithographer/etcher, dies
1958 - Giacomo Balla, Italian painter, dies at 86
1962 - Roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at 70
1963 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1893)
1963 - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
1964 - Sergius Kagen, composer, dies at 54
1965 - Boleslav Vomacka, composer, dies at 77
1966 - Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
1968 - G v d Vring, writer, dies
1968 - Georg von der Vring, German painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78
1970 - Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59
1970 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
1972 - Victor Babin, composer, dies at 63
1974 - Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53
1974 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
1976 - Jean Martinon, French conductor/composer, dies at 66
1979 - Dolores Costello, actress (Noah's Ark, Expensive Women), dies at 73
1979 - Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at 75
1980 - John Jacob Niles, composer, dies at 87
1980 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
1980 - Wilhelmina, high-fashion model and owner of model agency (b. 1940)
Actor Jackie Coogan (1984) 1984 - Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69
1985 - Eugene List, US concert pianist, dies at 66
1988 - Jean Le Poulain, actor (Divine), dies at 63
1988 - Joe Besser, comedian (3's Stooges, Abbott & Costello), dies at 80
1989 - Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host, dies at 64
1989 - Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/dir (Bluejackets), dies at 72
1990 - Claude Spaak, Belgian dramatist, dies
1991 - Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81