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Today in History ~ March 8
Events1702 - England Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III
1706 - Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established
1722 - Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
1746 - Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen
1782 - Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 Indians
1813 - 1st concert of Royal Philharmonic
1854 - U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry made his second landing in Japan. Within a month, he concluded a treaty with the Japanese.
1855 - 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
1861 - St Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies
1862 - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal
1862 - Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) launched; engages and destroys USS Cumberland and USS Congress at Hampton Roads, VA
1865 - Battle of Kingston, NC (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks)
1884 - 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite
1887 - Everett Horton, CT, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes
1893 - Emmet Dalton goes to prison [H]
1894 - NY passes 1st state dog license law
1898 - Richard Straus' "Don Quixote," premieres in Keulen
1902 - 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony
1908 - Collingwood Elementary (Cleve) burns, kills 173 kids & 2 teachers
1913 - Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes
1916 - US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this "to end corrupt Menocal regime"
1917 - Russia's "February Revolution" (so called because of the Old Style calendar being used by Russians at the time) began with rioting and strikes in the Russian army garrison at Petrograd (now) St. Petersburg. [H]
1921 - After Germany failed to make its first war reparation payment, French troops occupied Dusseldorf and other towns on the Ruhr River in Germany's industrial heartland.
1924 - Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah
1930 - Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
1934 - Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
1942 - Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
1943 - 335 allied bombers attack Nuremberg
1944 - US resumes bombing Berlin
1945 - "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain
1945 - 53 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers
1946 - 1st helicopter licensed for coml use (NYC)
1948 - Supreme Court rules religous instructions in pub schools unconstitutional
1950 - Marshall Voroshilov of USSR announces they developed atomic bomb
1951 - Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)
1953 - Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years
1957 - Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships [H]
1958 - William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters
1959 - Groucho, Chico & Harpo's final TV appearance together
1961 - Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary," premieres in NYC
1961 - US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from SC in a record under seas journey of 66 days 22 hrs
1964 - Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement
1965 - 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines) at Danang, joining some 23,000 Americans who had been serving as military advisors to South Vietnam for several years.
1966 - "Golden Boy" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 569 performances
1966 - An IRA bomb destroys Nelson Column in Dublin
1968 - Students demonstrate in Warsaw
1971 - Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner"
1972 - 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
1974 - Charles the Gaulle Airport opens in Paris
1979 - China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
1983 - IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0
1983 - Pres Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire"
1986 - Four French television crew members were abducted in west Beirut; a caller claimed Islamic Jihad was responsible. (All four were eventually released.)
1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 1st victim, Mario Orosco
1990 - Colombia's M-19 leftist guerrilla group surrendered its arms, ending 16 years of insurrection.
1991 - Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists & 2 American soldiers it captured
1992 - President George H.W. Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton headed toward "Super Tuesday" claiming big boosts from weekend victories.
1992 - Ninety people were killed when a ferry carrying pilgrims to a Buddhist shrine collided with an oil tanker in the Gulf of Thailand.
1994 - Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces
1996 - China fired three missiles into the sea off Taiwan. The United States responded by beefing up its naval presence in the region
1996 - Wall Street plummeted in a major sell-off triggered by seemingly good economic news _ a drop in the nation's unemployment rate and the biggest jobs gain in more than a decade. (Investors apparently worried that a stronger economy would mean no more interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve.)
1997 - President Clinton, in keeping with his push for private businesses and churches to hire off welfare rolls, ordered federal agencies to do the same.
1999 - The U.S. Dept. of Energy fired a Chinese-born computer scientist from the Los Alamos (N.M.) National Laboratory as the investigation continued into how China had managed to steal U.S. nuclear secrets.
2000 - President Clinton submitted to Congress legislation to establish permanent normal trade relations with China.
2000 - A letter carrier, two firefighters and a sheriff's deputy were shot to death in Memphis, Tenn., allegedly by the letter carrier's husband, who was also a firefighter.
2001 - The Republican-controlled House voted for an across-the-board tax cut of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade, handing President Bush a major victory only 48 days into his term.
2001 - Scott Waddle, the embattled commander of the Navy submarine that collided with a Japanese fishing vessel off Hawaii, offered a tearful apology to the families of some of the victims.
Birthdays Today
1495 - Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint/founder (Brothers of Mercy)
1607 - Johann Rist, composer
1714 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of JS Bach
1783 - Hannah Van Buren (U.S. First Lady, wife of Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the U.S.)
1787 - Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery
1839 - James Mason Crafts, US chemist (Friedel-Crafts-synthesis)
1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. the "Great Dissenter,"(jurist: Member of the Supreme Court of the U.S.(1902-32); writer: The Common Law) was born in Boston.
1857 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (I Pagliacci/Zaza)
1859 - Scottish children's writer Kenneth Grahame, author of "The Wind in the Willows,"
1865 - Frederick William Goudy, US, printer/type designer
1876 - Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer (Il dottore Antonio)
1879 - Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium)
1886 - Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950)
1888 - Stuart Chase (writer: Men and Machines, Power of Words)
1891 - Sam Jaffe, NYC, actor (Gunga Din, Dr Zorba-Ben Casey)
1908 or 1909 or 1911 - Claire Trevor (Wemlinger) (actress: Key Largo, Stagecoach, Marjorie Morningstar, The Stripper)
1909 - Anthony Donato, composer
1911 - Alan Hovhaness, Somerville Mass, composer (Lousadzak, Ukiyo)
1918 - Alan Hale, Jr. (actor: Gilligan's Island, Johnny Dangerously)
1922 - Carl Furillo, Brooklyn Dodger (NL Batting Champ 1953)
1923 - Cyd Charisse (Tula Finklea) (dancer: Grand Hotel, Singin' in the Rain; actress: Silk Stockings, Party Girl, Deep in My Heart)
1924 - Sean McClory (actor: Charade, Fools of Fortune)
1927 - Dick Hyman (pianist: Moritat; music director for Arthur Godfrey)
1928 - Mendy Rudolph (sportscaster, referee)
1936 - Gabor Szabo, Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle)
1938 - Lew DeWitt (singer: group: The Statler Brothers: Flowers on the Wall, Bed of Roses)
1939 - Jim Bouton (baseball: New York Yankees pitcher; broadcaster: WABC-TV, WCBS-TV; writer: Ball Four)
1939 - Robert Tear, Barry Wales, tenor (Welsh Natl Opera 1970)
1940 - Sue Langdon (Lookoff) (actress: Frankie and Johnny, A Guide for the Married Man, Roustabout, Zapped!)
1942 - Dick "Don't Call Me Richie" Allen (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies FB, Chicago White Sox 1B: Baseball Writer's Award 1972])
1943 - Lynn Redgrave (actress: Georgy Girl, House Calls, Chicken Soup, Centennial, Rehearsal for Murder)
1944 - Susan Clark (actress: Night Moves, The Apple Dumpling Gang, Airport '75)
1945 - Keith Jarrett, pianist/composer
1945 - Mickey Dolenz (singer, drummer: group: The Monkees: I'm a Believer, Last Train to Clarksville; actor: Circus Boy)
1946 - Randy Meisner (singer: base: group: The Eagles: Take it Easy, Best of My Love, Take it to the Limit)
1948 - Little Peggy March (Margaret Battavio) (singer: I Will Follow Him)
1949 - Frank Sanders (hockey)
1953 - Jim Rice (baseball) (Boston Red Sox: American League MVP [1978])
Famous deaths
0883 - Albumasar, [Ahmad Aboe M Gafar al-Balkhi], Arabic astronomer, dies
1144 - Celestine II, [Guido], Italian Pope (1143-44), dies in battle
1466 - Francesco Sforza ("Il Sforza del Destino"), Italian condottiere/duke of Milan, dies at 64
1661 - Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58
1702 - William III, Dutch King of England (1689-1702), dies at 51
1709 - William Cowper/Cooper, English anatomist, dies at about 62
1828 - Johann Anton Sulzer, composer, dies at 75
1862 - Nat Gordon, last pirate, hanged in NYC for stealing 1,000 slaves
1869 - Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65
1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies at 74 in Buffalo, N.Y.
1889 - Jens/John Ericsson, Swed/US, engineer (fire extinguisher), dies at 85
1917 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78
1930 - William Howard Taft, 27th US pres (1909-13)/Chief Justice, dies at 72
1961 - Thomas Beecham, English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 81
1971 - Harold Lloyd, US comic/actor (Why Worry), dies of cancer at 77
1975 - George Stevens, US director (Swing Time, Gunga Din), dies at 70
1983 - William T Walton, English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at 80
1985 - Thomas Creighton, US heart patient (3 implants in 46 hrs), dies at 33
1993 - Billy Eckstine, jazz singer (Fools Rush In), dies at 78 of stroke
1998, James McDougal, a former business partner of then Gov. Bill Clinton, died while serving a prison sentence in Texas. He had been convicted in connection with the Whitewater scandal.
1999 - Baseball great Joe DiMaggio died at age 84.
2001 - Dame Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet, died in London at age 102.
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