1877 – The family with samurai antecedents who responded to the Saigo army in Ōita Nakatsu rebels.
1940 – Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)
1945 – 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine
1955 – Merger of Chase National Bank (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) forms Chase Manhattan
1969 – George Harrison and Pattie Boyd are fined £250 each for illegal drugs
1988 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for her novel “Beloved”
1994 – Actor James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking ex-girlfriend Tina Sinatra
1995 – Second time in tennis history, world #1 and #2 ranked players play in the same Davis Cup team; Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi score victories in US quarter-final win against Italy in Palermo
1995 – Federal judge Sonia Sotomayor of US District Court in NYC issues an injunction against Major League Baseball owners in move that effectively ends 232-day strike
2012 – Fiji Floods kill 2 people and force thousands to be evacuated
Month: March 2024
Historical Events for 30th March 2024
1822 – Congress combines East and West Florida into Florida Territory
1865 – -4] Battle at 5 Forks, Virginia
1910 – Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi
1923 – Zeta Phi Beta Sorority formed at Howard U in 1920 incorporates
1939 – Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph
1963 – 117th Grand National: 19-year old jockey Pat Buckley aboard 66/1 outsider Ayala wins by 3/4 of a length from Carrickbeg
1972 – North Vietnam launches a major conventional offensive against South Vietnam
1972 – Revival of Stephen Sondheim’s musical-comedy “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”, starring Phil Silvers, opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, NYC; runs for 156 performances and wins 2 Tony Awards
2008 – WrestleMania XXIV, Florida Citrus Bowl, Orlando, FL: Kane defeats Chavo Guerrero; Randy Orton beats Triple H and John Cena in a title Triple Threat match; The Undertaker downs Edge
2022 – State memorial service held for Australian cricketing great Shane Warne at Melbourne Cricket Ground, attended by 50,000
Historical Events for 29th March 2024
1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway
1852 – Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day
1867 – US Congress first approves building of Lincoln Memorial
1912 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott, storm-bound in a tent near the South Pole, makes last entry in his diary “the end cannot be far”
1960 – Darius Milhaud’s 9th Symphony, premieres
1982 – 54th Academy Awards: “Chariots of Fire”, Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn win
1992 – Ice Dance Championship in Oakland, California won by Klimova and Ponomarenko (CIS)
1993 – Actress Elizabeth Taylor presented with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her AIDS/HIV activism at 65th Academy Awards
1996 – NY Yankees beats NY Mets 7-3 in an exhibition game
2015 – WrestleMania XXXI, Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, CA (76,976): Seth Rollins beats Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns in impromptu triple threat match to capture WWE Heavyweight title
Historical Events for 28th March 2024
1860 – First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins in New Zealand
1957 – 1st National Curling Championship held
1979 – British government of Prime Minister Jim Callaghan (Labour Party) falls
1982 – JN Duartes’ Christian Democrats win elections in El Salvador
1990 – Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 pts in a game
1997 – “City” soap opera’s final episode on ABC-TV
2009 – The first cases of H1N1 swine flu in the United States occur in two people in California
2014 – Russia increases the price of gas to Ukraine by 80%
2019 – European parliament bans single-use plastics, including cutlery and straws by 2021
2022 – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs so called “Don’t Say Gay” bill limiting LGBTQ classroom instruction
Historical Events for 27th March 2024
1668 – English King Charles II grants Royal Charter giving control of Bombay, India to the English East India Company
1936 – 95th Grand National: Fulke Walwyn scores back-to-back GN victories aboard Reynoldstown at 10/1
1953 – 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut, Ohio
1964 – The Great Alaska Earthquake (9.2 magnitude) and resulting tsunami kill 139 people in the largest US earthquake and second largest ever recorded
1972 – Ulster Vanguard organise industrial strike against the imposition of direct rule on Northern Ireland by Westminster
1972 – Venera 8 launches to explore Venus
1991 – New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky
1994 – Nabisco Dinah Shore Women’s Golf, Mission Hills CC: Donna Andrews wins her only major title by 1 over British runner-up Laura Davies; Andrews birdies final hole while Davies makes bogey.
2019 – US Special Council Robert S. Mueller writes a letter to US Attorney William Barr regarding Barr’s summary of the Mueller Report stating Barr’s letter “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the findings. “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”
2023 – At least 40 people are killed and 28 injured in a fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez on the Mexican US border, amid large numbers of migrants gathering on the Mexican border
Historical Events for 26th March 2024
1808 – Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII
1845 – Joseph Francis from NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat
1845 – Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of band-aid
1903 – American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
1910 – William H. Lewis appointed US Assistant Attorney General
1951 – United States Air Force flag officially adopted by President Harry S. Truman
1956 – Red Buttons stars as an angel on TV anthology series “Studio One” episode “Tale of St. Emergency”
1970 – Folk singer Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary) pleads guilty to “taking immoral liberties” with a 14-year-old girl and serves 3 months in prison; granted a presidential pardon in 1981
1970 – The Police (Northern Ireland) Act becomes law; the act provides for the disarmament of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the establishment of an RUC reserve force
2018 – US, European Union and Ukraine expel more than 100 Russian diplomats in response to Russian use of nerve gas in UK
Historical Events for 25th March 2024
1305 – Consecration of the Scrovegni Chapel (Arena Chapel) in Padua, Italy, with fresco masterpiece by Florentine painter Giotto
1581 – Portuguese Cortes (King’s Court) calls Philip II King of Portugal, further legitimatizing his rule
1865 – SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire and sinks, killing 400
1900 – US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis
1972 – “Selling of the President” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 performances
1979 – Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova retains her WTA Tour Championship with a 6–3, 3–6, 6–2 win over American teenager Tracey Austin in NYC
1986 – Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA)
1988 – “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas is released
2003 – Capitol/Nashville Records releases “Rules of Travel”, the tenth studio album by singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash; produced by husband John Leventhal, it includes a duet with her father Johnny Cash
2020 – Spain’s death toll from COVID-19 overtakes China’s at 3,434 to become then second worldwide behind Italy with 7,503 deaths with a worldwide toll of 20,836
Historical Events for 24th March 2024
1877 – University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat
1972 – Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
1980 – Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks on the LP “Rarites”
1981 – Bombay beat Delhi by innings and 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy
1982 – US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1987 – 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win
1990 – Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec)
1996 – MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way
1997 – 69th Academy Awards: “The English Patient”, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win
2015 – Germanwings flight on route between Barcelona and Düsseldorf crashes in the French Alps killing all 150 on board
Historical Events for 23rd March 2024
1752 – Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, dies 2 days later
1861 – London’s 1st tramcars, designed by Mr Train of NY, begins operating
1931 – Indian independence fighters Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged after conducting an assassination and a bombing. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
1933 – Kroll Opera in Berlin opens
1950 – “Great to Be Alive” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 performances
1980 – PGA Tournament Players Championship, Sawgrass Country Club (Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida): Lee Trevino wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Ben Crenshaw
1981 – US Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men
1988 – Geffen Records releases “Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm”, Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell’s 13th studio album
2019 – More than 130 Fulani people killed in Ogossagou, Mali, in attack by Dogon hunters, prompting government ban on the hunters
2023 – Canada records record population growth (+2.7%), adding 1 million people in 2022, mostly through immigration
Historical Events for 22nd March 2024
1917 – The USA is the first nation to recognize the new government of Russia
1927 – Federico Garcia Lorca’s first play “El Maleficio” (The Butterfly’s Evil Spell) premieres in Madrid
1944 – American movie star James Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin
1957 – “All Shook Up” single released by Elvis Presley
1958 – 20th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle, 84-72; Seattle’s future Hall of Fame small forward Elgin Baylor is named tournament MOP
1968 – Student riot in Nanterre near Paris
1986 – Ice Pairs World Championship at Geneva won by Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
1991 – Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginaa, seizing drugs
2021 – World’s largest painting “The Journey of Humanity” by British artist Sacha Jafri sells in Dubai for $62m to raise funds for children’s charities
2023 – Microsoft founder Bill Gates says development of artificial intelligence (AI) is the most important technological advance since the graphical user interface (GUI) in 1980