| 2013 | Representatives from the U.S., China, Germany, France, Russia and the U.K., discuss Iran's nuclear program with Iranian officials |
| 2013 | Scientists in Illinois, announce they've developed stretchable batteries that can power a new generation of flexible electronics |
| 2012 | New Corporation announces its launch of 'The Sun on Sunday' to replace 'News of the World' which shut down due to a phone hacking controversy |
| 2012 | Senegalese voters go to the polls for Senegal's presidential election, which has been marked by controversy and violence |
| 2011 | After winning a Liberal Party of British Columbia ballot, Canadian politician Christy Clark becomes the second woman to be Premier of British Columbia |
| 2011 | In Hollywood, California, the 83rd Academy Awards are held at the Kodak Theater, celebrating the best films of 2010 |
| 2010 | Suicide bombers carry out a number of attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing at least 17 people |
| 2009 | Former Serbian President Milan Mulutinovic is acquitted of war crimes during the Kosovo War |
| 1998 | Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial |
| 1998 | Steven M. Gluckstern completes sale of New York Islanders |
| 1998 | Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09) |
| 1997 | 39th Grammy Awards: Change the World Babyface, Beck and LeAnn Rimes wins |
| 1995 | London finance house of Barings collapse after losses in Singapore by trader Nick Leeson |
| 1994 | Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm |
| 1994 | St. Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1 |
| 1993 | 2nd tallest building in world, New York City World Trade Center bombed, 7 die |
| 1993 | 9th Soap Opera Digest Awards |
| 1993 | Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123 |
| 1992 | "Search and Destroy" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 46 performances |
| 1991 | Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons vs. New Zealand (119 and 102) |
| 1991 | Bill Veeck and Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1991 | Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital |
| 1991 | New York - New Jersey Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together |
| 1990 | U.S.S.R. agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991 |
| 1989 | "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 634 performances |
| 1989 | Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am |
| 1989 | Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa) |
| 1989 | New York Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster |
| 1989 | California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs |
| 1988 | Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000m (1:17.65) |
| 1987 | 1st release of Beatles compact discs |
| 1987 | NASA launches GEOS-H |
| 1987 | NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record |
| 1987 | Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair |
| 1987 | U.S.S.R. resumes nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1987 | Washington blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record |
| 1986 | Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16) |
| 1985 | 27th Grammy Awards: Whats Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper wins |
| 1984 | Last U.S. Marines in multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon left Beirut |
| 1984 | Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse |
| 1984 | Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called New York City, "Hymietown" |
| 1984 | Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate |
| 1983 | Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 37 weeks |
| 1982 | Test Cricket debut of Martin Crowe, vs. Australia Wellington, run out 9 |
| 1981 | 3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since Aug 1980 are released |
| 1981 | 84 penalties (406 minutes) assessed for a brawl between NHL Minnesota and Boston |
| 1981 | French Train Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run |
| 1980 | Egypt and Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time |
| 1980 | Miltary coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname |
| 1980 | R Hadlee scores Test Cricket century vs. Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft |
| 1979 | Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US |
| 1978 | Ira Levin's "Deathtrap," premieres in New York City |
| 1978 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
| 1977 | 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747) |
| 1976 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1975 | "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore New York City for 75 performances |
| 1975 | 1st televised kidney transplant on the Today Show |
| 1974 | Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris |
| 1973 | Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m |
| 1972 | Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, kills 125 |
| 1970 | "Georgy" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| 1970 | Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album |
| 1968 | Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1967 | Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St. Paul, to become NWA champ |
| 1966 | KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell, New Mexico (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | Dutch Government of Marijnen falls |
| 1965 | West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania |
| 1962 | Arthur Kopit's "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad..." premieres in New York City |
| 1962 | U.S. Supreme Court disallows race separation on public transportation |
| 1962 | Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs. New York |
| 1960 | Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia |
| 1960 | USA's David Jenkins wins Olympic Gold for men's figure skating |
| 1960 | Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ |
| 1956 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
| 1956 | Writers Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge |
| 1955 | "Peter Pan" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 149 performances |
| 1955 | 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith |
| 1954 | 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Massachusetts |
| 1954 | Michigan rep Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock and roll) records |
| 1953 | Allen W. Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA |
| 1952 | Netherlands-Indonesian Unity conference |
| 1952 | Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb |
| 1951 | 22nd amendment to Constitution is ratified |
| 1951 | Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia |
| 1950 | Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety," premieres in New York City |
| 1949 | USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight |
| 1946 | 2 killed and 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia, Tennessee |
| 1945 | Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th U.S. Air Force |
| 1944 | 1st female U.S. Navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed |
| 1943 | German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia |
| 1942 | German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb |
| 1942 | Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies |
| 1942 | WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same" |
| 1942 | Werner Heisenberger informs nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen" |
| 1941 | 2 fighters unable to continued slugfest, referee declares double KO |
| 1941 | Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized, California |
| 1941 | Utrecht and Zaandam strike against raid on Jews |
| 1941 | Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory |
| 1940 | U.S. Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, New York |
| 1938 | 1st passenger ship equipped with radar |
| 1938 | Rie Van Veen swims world record 200m free style (2:24.6) |
| 1938 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer |
| 1938 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
| 1937 | C Isherwood/WH Auden's "Ascent of F6," premieres in London |
| 1936 | Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen" |
| 1936 | Military coup in Japan |
| 1935 | Germany begin Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering |
| 1935 | New York Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves |
| 1935 | RADAR-Radio Detection and Ranging 1st demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt) |
| 1933 | Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field |
| 1933 | Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell |
| 1930 | "Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater |
| 1930 | 1st red and green traffic lights installed (Manhattan New York City) |
| 1930 | West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England |
| 1929 | President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park |
| 1926 | Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street |
| 1925 | Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government |
| 1924 | Trial against Hitler in Munich begins |
| 1923 | Italian nationalist and fascists merge (blue-shirts and black-shirts) |
| 1919 | Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine |
| 1919 | Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona |
| 1918 | Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse and burn, killing 604 |
| 1917 | 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands) |
| 1916 | Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930 |
| 1916 | Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract |
| 1916 | Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia |
| 1914 | New York Museum of Science and Industry incorporated |
| 1912 | Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01) |
| 1907 | Royal Oil and Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP) |
| 1907 | U.S. Congress raised their own salaries to $7,500 |
| 1895 | Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine |
| 1893 | 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Michigan |
| 1893 | Einar Halvorsen skates world record 500m (48 sec) |
| 1891 | 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park |
| 1891 | Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler," premieres in Oslo |
| 1887 | George Lohmann took 1st 8-wkt haul in Test Crickets, 8-35 at SCG |
| 1885 | Congress of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium and Nigeria to England |
| 1884 | British and Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II |
| 1881 | Natal: British troops under General-major Colley occupy Majuba Hill |
| 1881 | SS Ceylon begins 1st round-the-world cruise from Liverpool |
| 1870 | 1st New York City subway line opens (pneumatic powered) |
| 1869 | 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states |
| 1869 | Franz Schubert's "4th Tragic," premieres |
| 1866 | New York Legislature forms New York City Metropolitan Board of Health |
| 1863 | Lincoln signs National Currency Act |
| 1862 | Battle of Woodburn, Kentucky |
| 1859 | Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins |
| 1852 | British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die |
| 1848 | 2nd French Republic proclaimed |
| 1848 | Marx and Engels publish "Communist Manifesto" |
| 1839 | Jem Mason on Lottery wins 1st Grand National Steeplechase (Britain) |
| 1834 | 1st U.S. interstate crime compact (New York - New Jersey) ratified |
| 1832 | Polish constitution abolished/replaced by Czar Nicholas I |
| 1815 | Napoleon and 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France |
| 1804 | Vice-Admiral William Bligh ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad |
| 1773 | Construction authorized for Walnut St. jail in Philadelphia |
| 1732 | 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, Philadelphia |
| 1732 | Mass celebrated for 1st time at St. Joseph's Church in Philadelphia |
| 1616 | Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo |
| 1590 | Mauritius of Nassaus sails to Breda |
| 1534 | Pope Paul II affirms George van Egmond as bishop of Utrecht |
| 1531 | Earthquake in Lisbon Spain, kills 20,000-30,000 |
| 1266 | Battle of Benevento |
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