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Today in History ~ March 2
Events1458 - Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia
1498 - Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island
1629 - English king Charles I leaves house of commons
1725 - Georg F Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto," premieres in London
1776 - Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston from Dorchester Heights
1789 - Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances
1807 - US Congress passes an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States...from any foreign kingdom, place, or country." Banning slave trade effective January 1, 1808. [H]
1819 - US passed its 1st immigration law
1836 - Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico [H]
1853 - Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory
1858 - Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie
1861 - US creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah
1865 - Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865
1865 - Gen Early's army is thrashed by Yankees at Waynesborough
1866 - 1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Conn
1867 - Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico
1867 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead
1877 - Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory [H]
1893 - 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features
1899 - Pres McKinley signs bill creating Mt Rainier Natl Park (5th in US)
1899 - President McKinley signed a measure creating the rank of Navy admiral for George Dewey.
1903 - Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in NYC
1904 - Gabriele d'Annunzio's "La figlia di Iorio," premieres in Milan
1907 - General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal
1907 - Georges Feydeaus' "La Puce de l'Oreille," premieres in Paris
1910 - 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die
1915 - Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine
1917 - Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship.
1919 - 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin
1920 - Karel Capek's "Loupeznik," premieres in Prague
1923 - Time magazine debuts
1933 - "King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall & RKO Roxy NYC
1933 - Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan
1934 - Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha
1937 - Mexico nationalizes oil
1938 - Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (LA Calif)
1938 - Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union
1939 - Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected Pope. He took the name Pius XII.
1939 - Mass. Legislature vote to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 years late
1943 - Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, US & Australia win
1944 - Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy
1945 - 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1946 - Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam
1949 - Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth, Tx, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hrs
1951 - The East beat the West, 111-94, in the first NBA All-Star Game.
1955 - William Inge's "Bus Stop," premieres in NYC
1956 - Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France
1965 - "Sound Of Music" opens
1966 - 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam
1969 - 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde
1969 - Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die)
1970 - American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747
1970 - Rhodesia becomes independent republic
1970 - Supreme Court ruled draft evaders cannot be penalized after 5 years
1973 - "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
1974 - Grand jury concludes Pres Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up
1976 - "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 766 performances
1977 - The U.S. House of Representatives adopted a strict code of ethics.
1982 - Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru
1983 - Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips & Sony introduced
1984 - Iran offensive against Iraq fails
1985 - US approves screening test for AIDS
1989 - Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil
1990 - Greyhound Bus goes on strike
1991 - The UN Security Council votes in favor of US resolutions, dictating allied demands that Iraq had to meet before a formal-cease fire was declared in the Persian Gulf War.
1991 - Iraq released CBS newsman Bob Simon and his crew, held captive for nearly six weeks.
1994 - Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't
2000 - Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet left Britain for his homeland, hours after he was ruled mentally unfit to stand trial on charges of human rights abuses.
2000 - A federal jury in Washington convicted Maria Hsia, a friend and political supporter of former Vice President Al Gore, for arranging more than $100,000 in illegal donations during the 1996 presidential campaign. Hsia was later sentenced to three months of home confinement.
Birthdays Today
1316 - Robert II, the Steward, King of Scotland (1371-90)
1555 - Ludovico Spontoni, composer
1759 - Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer
1760 - Camille Desmoulins, France, journalist/pamphleteer/revolution leader (guillotined with Danton in April, 1794)
1769 - DeWitt Clinton, (Gov/Sen-NY)
1793 - Sam[uel] Houston (fought for Texas' independence from Mexico; 1st and 3rd President of Republic of Texas(1836-38, 1841-44); U.S. Senator; Texas governor) [H]
1824 - Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau)
1829 - Carl Schurz, Major General (Union volunteers)journalist
1900 - Kurt J Weill, Dessau Germany, composer/Brecht collaborator (Mahogany)
1904 - Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) (Pulitzer Prize-winning author [1984]: The Cat in the Hat, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Green Eggs and Ham)
1909 - Mel Ott (baseball: consecutive batting record of walks in a row [7]: New York Giants, June 16-18, 1943)
1917 - Desi Arnaz (Desiderio Alberto Arnez y de Acha III) (bandleader, singer: Babalu; actor: I Love Lucy; married to Lucille Ball; co-owner of Desilu Productions; introduced 3-camera sitcom technique)
1919 - Jennifer Jones (Phyllis Isley) (Academy Award-winning actress: The Song of Bernadette [1943], Carrie, Love is a Many- Splendored Thing, The Towering Inferno)
1928 - Philip K Dick, writer
1930 - John Cullum (singer, actor: Ambition, Glory, Marie, The Sweet Country)
1931 - Mikhail S Gorbachev, Privolnoye USSR, Soviet sec-gen (1985-91)
1931 - Tom Wolfe, Richmond Va, journalist/author (Right Stuff)
1934 - Doug Watkins (jazz musician: bass: Pepper-Knepper Quintet, Hank Mobley Quartet, Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers)
1934 - Howard Cassady (football: Heisman Trophy winner: Ohio State [1955])
1938 - Simon Estes, Centerville Iowa, bass/baritone (Wotan, Don Carlos)
1939 - Paul Dino (singer)
1942 - John Irving, NH, writer (World According to Garp)
1944 - Lou Reed (Firbank) (singer, songwriter, guitarist: group: Velvet Underground; solo: Walk on the Wild Side, Charley's Girl; I Love You Suzanne; appeared in Paul Simon film: One Trick Pony)
1950 - Karen Carpenter (drummer, singer: Grammy Award-winning group: The Carpenters: Best New Artist, Group w/Vocal: Close to You [1970], We've Only Just Begun, Top of the World, Please Mr. Postman)
1952 - Laraine Newman (comedienne, actress: Saturday Night Live)
1955 - Jay Osmond (singer: group: The Osmond Brothers)
1956 - John Cowsill (singer: group: The Cowsills: The Rain, The Park and Other Things, We Can Fly, Hair, Indian Lake)
1962 - Jon Bon Jovi (John Bongiovi) (singer, musician, songwriter: You Give Love a Bad Name, Living on a Prayer)
Famous deaths
1758 - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker, buried at 78
1855 - Czar Nicholas I Died, Succeeded by Alexander II
1895 - Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64
1930 - David H Lawrence, poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44
1939 - Howard Carter, Brit archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), dies at 65
1985 - Michael Redgrave, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips), dies at 77 of Parkinson's
1991 - Clark Mollenhoff, US journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies
1991 - James "Cool Papa" Bell, Negro baseball league great, dies at 87
2002 - William Berg, best known for his Donald Duck cartoons and "Scamp" comic strip, dies at 84 of pneumonia
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