1665 – Boston’s First Baptist Church, one of the oldest Baptist churches in America, is founded [NS March 1]
1866 – 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec
1875 – California Rifle and Pistol Association founded
1906 – Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
1936 – Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16; longest game without a strikeout
1941 – Chemists Archer John Porter Martin and Richard L. M. Synge give the first demonstration of partition chromatography (separation of mixtures) at a meeting of the Biochemical Society held at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead
1959 – KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW)
1967 – 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors
1973 – Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1
1987 – Andy Van Slyke HRs off R McDowell in both ends of double header
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