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March 1

1260: Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquers Damascus.

1692: Salem Witch Hunt begins, as Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba, an enslaved woman from the Barbados, [and eventually resulted in the executions of 19 innocent women and men] are charged with the illegal practice of witchcraft.

1854: SS “City of Glasgow” leaves Liverpool harbour, with approximately 480 passengers and crew; she was never seen again.

1896: Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity, while trying to prove his erroneous theory, that phosphorescent uranium salts absorb sunlight, and reemit it as X-rays.

1932: In a crime that captured the attention of the entire nation, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the 20-month-old son, of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh [and wife Anne], is kidnapped from the family’s new mansion in Hopewell, New Jersey. He was killed, the night of the kidnapping, and was found less than a mile from home, on May 12.

1936: After five years of construction, the ‘Boulder’ [now ‘Hoover’] Dam, on the Colorado River, at the Arizona–Nevada border, was completed; it is the highest concrete arch dam in the United States.

1947: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is formed.

1954: US explodes ‘Castle Bravo’, a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb, at Bikini Atoll, which accidentally became the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US

1961: President John F. Kennedy issues Executive Order #10924, establishing the Peace Corps, as a new agency, within the Department of State.

1972: Club of Rome publishes report "The Limits to Growth".
https://www.clubofrome.org/publicati...its-to-growth/
http://www.donellameadows.org/wp-con...an-version.pdf

1974: Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides.

1977: US extends territorial waters to 200 miles.

1995: Yahoo! is incorporated. The company was founded in January 1994, as Jerry's guide to the World Wide Web, by Jerry Yang and David Filo.

2002: U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan, as US special operations forces infiltrate the Shahi-Kot Valley, in Eastern Afghanistan.

2016: Gene for grey hair (IRF4) discovery announced, by Scientists from University College London, in "Nature Communications".
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10815

2020: First known COVID-19 case identified in New York, a health care worker, returning from Iran.

2022: Pioneering Xerox PARC computer researcher, David Boggs, has died at 71. He was best known for co-inventing the Ethernet PC connection standard, used to link PCs in close proximity to other computers, printers and the internet — over both wired and wireless connections.
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March 3

1284: ‘Statute of Rhuddlan’ incorporated the Principality of Wales into England.

1627: Dutch privateer, Piet Heyn, attacks and conquers 22 Portuguese ships, in Bay of Salvador, Brazil.

1776: American commodore, Esek Hopkins, occupies Nassau, Bahamas.

1789: First whale harpooned in the Pacific Ocean, by English ship “Emilia”, off the coast of South America.

1820:
The US Congress passes the ‘Missouri Compromise’, a bill that temporarily resolves the first serious political clash, between slavery and antislavery interests, in U.S. history, by granting Missouri statehood, as a slave state, under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited, in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase, north of the 36th parallel. In addition, Maine, formerly part of Massachusetts, was admitted as a free state, thus preserving the balance between Northern and Southern senators.

1847: Alexander Graham Bell, whose foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone (1876), and the refinement of the phonograph (1886), was born in Edinburgh.

1861: The Russian emperor, Alexander II, issued the ‘Emancipation Manifesto’, which declared the freeing of the serfs, and granting them the full rights of free citizens.

1865: Opening of the ‘Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation’, the founding member of the ‘HSBC’ Group.

1879: United States Geological Survey created.

1885: American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates.

1899: George Dewey becomes 1st, in US, to hold the rank of Admiral of the Navy.

1900: US Steel Corporation organizes.

1910: John D. Rockefeller Jr. [only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller] announces his retirement, from managing his businesses, so that he can be devoted, full time, to being a philanthropist [Rockefeller Foundation].

1915: ‘US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ (NACA) created, the predecessor of NASA.

1921: University of Toronto's, Dr. Banting & Dr. Best, announce discovery of insulin.

1931: "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem, by congressional resolution; lyrics by Francis Scott Key in 1814, set to John Stafford Smith's 18th century tune, "The Anacreontic Song".
1931: Cab Calloway records "Minnie the Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller).

1955: Elvis Presley makes his 1st TV appearance, on a broadcast of radio show "Louisiana Hayride".

1956: Elvis Presley's 1st hit, in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel".

1980: 1st nuclear submarine, USS “Nautilus”, is decommissioned.

1991: LAPD officers beat Rodney King. Despite a videotape of the beating, the policemen were acquitted in 1992, causing large-scale rioting, which killed 63 people, and caused over $1 billion in damages, in the city.

2005: Steve Fossett became the first person to complete a solo, nonstop, circumnavigation of the globe, without refueling, when he landed, in Kansas, a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi, completed in 67 hours, and 2 minutes.

2019: SpaceX's “Dragon” capsule successfully docks with the International Space Station, during its demonstration run.
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March 4

0051: Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).

1741: British fleet, under Rear Admiral of the Blue Sir Chaloner Ogle, reaches Cartagena de Indias (Colombia).

1774: First sighting of Orion nebula, by William Herschel.

1789: The first session of the U.S. Congress is held, in New York City, as the U.S. Constitution takes effect. However, of the 22 senators, and 59 representatives, called to represent the 11 states, who had ratified the document, only nine senators and 13 representatives showed up, to begin negotiations for its amendment. Fx. Muhlenberg 1st speaker. On September 25, 1789, after several months of debate, the first Congress of the United States adopted 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution [the Bill of Rights], and sent them to the states, for ratification. This action led to the eventual ratification of the Constitution, by the last of the 13 original colonies: North Carolina and Rhode Island.

1804: The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland's Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony's only significant convict uprising.

1824: The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), in 1858.

1870: On command of Louis Riel, Thomas Scott is executed, by a firing squad. Riel rejects all appeals and requests to intervene, in an attempt to demonstrate to the Canadian government that the Métis must be taken seriously. Scott’s execution led to Riel’s exile, and to Riel’s own execution for treason, in 1885.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia....e/thomas-scott

1899: Cyclone ‘Mahina’ sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave, that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.

1918: Just before breakfast, on the morning of March 4, Private Albert Gitchell, of the U.S. Army, reports to the hospital, at Fort Riley, Kansas, complaining of the cold-like symptoms of sore throat, fever and headache. Soon after, over 100 of his fellow soldiers had reported similar symptoms, marking what are believed to be the first cases in the historic influenza pandemic of 1918, later known as Spanish flu. The flu would eventually kill 675,000 Americans, and an estimated 20 million to 50 million people around the world.

1924: "Happy Birthday To You" published, by Claydon Sunny.

1936: 1st flight of the airship “Hindenburg”, at Friedrichshafen, Germany.

1943: Transport “#50" departs, with French Jews, to Maidanek/Sobibor.

1952: Ernest Hemingway completes his short novel, “The Old Man and the Sea”. He wrote his publisher the same day, saying he had finished the book, and that it was the best writing he had ever done. The critics agreed: The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, and became one of his bestselling works.

1960: French freighter "La Coubre" explodes, in Havana Cuba, killing 100.

1970: French submarine "Eurydice" explodes, off Cape Camarat, in the Mediterranean, all 57 crew lost.

1977: 1st ‘CRAY 1' supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico.

2009: International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant, for Sudanese President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, for war crimes, and crimes against humanity, in Darfur, becoming the first sitting head of state to be indicted.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/darfur/albashir

2012: Vladimir Putin wins Russian presidential election, amid allegations of voter fraud.
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/R42407.pdf

2020: New study confirms human-caused climate change did make the 2020 Australian bushfire season worse, published by World Weather Attribution.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-03-12...climate-change
https://nhess.copernicus.org/article...iscussion.html
2020: "Once in a century" winter in Moscow the hottest in 140 years, with average temperature 7.5 C (13.5 F), with virtually no snow.
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March 5

1496: English King Henry VII grants John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) a commission, to explore for new lands.

1558: Smoking tobacco introduced into Europe, by Spanish physician, Francisco Fernandes.

1574: William Oughtred, mathematician, and inventor of the slide rule, born.

1616: Astronomical work, 'De revolutionibus orbium coelestium', by Nicolaus Copernicus, placed on Catholic Forbidden index.

1798: Napoleon invaded Switzerland, and occupied Bern, ending the ancient ruling system of that country, the Confederation of the Thirteen Cantons.

1803: First newspaper, published in Australia, the ‘Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser’, by government printer, and ex-convict, George Howe.

1853: Piano company, Steinway & Sons, founded by Heinrich Steinweg [later Henry Steinway], in New York City.

1868: Stapler patented, in England, by C H Gould.

1872: George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake, for trains.

1904: Nikola Tesla describes the process of the ball lightning formation, in ‘Electrical World and Engineer’.

1912: Spanish steamer, "Principe de Asturias", sinks NE of Spain, 500 die.

1924: Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM.

1933: Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament [43.9% - 17.2M votes].

1946: In one of the most famous orations of the Cold War period, former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe, and declares, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.”, in a speach at Fulton, Missouri. Churchill’s speech is considered one of the opening volleys announcing the beginning of the Cold War.

1949: Cricket Legend Donald Bradman plays his last innings, in 1st-class cricket, gets 30.

1953: Joseph Stalin [Ioseb Dzhugashvili] dies, of a massive heart attack, at age 74, and was succeeded by Georgy Malenkov.

1956: The U.S. Supreme Court affirms the ban on segregation in public schools, in ‘Brown vs. Board of Education’.

1960: Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army.
1960: Alberto Korda takes his iconic picture, titled ‘Guerrillero Heroico’, of revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.
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1963: Country and western singer, Patsy Cline, who was one of the classic performers of the genre, known for such ballads as I Fall to Pieces and Crazy, died in an airplane crash, at age 30.
1963: Hula Hoop, first marketed in 1958, is patented, by Arthur “Spud” Melin, of Wham-O.

1970: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty enters into force. Nuclear powers China, Russia, U.S., U.K., and France initiated the treaty, in 1968. It has since been ratified by 190 nations.

1981: The home computer ZX81 is launched.

1993: The former Canadian Olympic sprinter, Ben Johnson, is banned from athletics for life, after failing a drugs test, for a second time. Johnson had won the 100m, at the Seoul Olympics, in 1988, in a new world record time of 9.79 seconds, but was subsequently stripped of his medal, after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

1994: Largest milkshake made; 1,955 gallons of chocolate, in Nelspruit, South Africa.

2004: Martha Stewart is convicted of the felony of obstructing justice and lying about why she'd unloaded her Imclone Systems Inc. stock just before the price plummeted, because their application for the new drug, Erbitux, was denied.

2013: Willcom announces the world’s smallest mobile phone, weighing 32 grams.
2013: Venezuelan politician Hugo Chávez, who served (1999–2013) as the populist president of Venezuela, died, at age 58. He is succeeded by Nicolás Maduro.

2019: Major study into the MMR vaccine, involving over 650,000 children, in Denmark, confirms it does not increase the risk of autism.
2019: Kylie Jenner is the world's youngest-ever billionaire, at 21, according to Forbes.
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March 6

1475: Michelangelo Buonarroti, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance artists, is born, in the small village of Caprese, in the Republic of Florence.

1521: Portuguese navigator, Ferdinand Magellan, discovers Guam. It had been there all along, and was populated from about 2000 BCE, by Austronesian people, known today as the ‘Chamorus’; but nobody else had noticed it.

1810: Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation, in US.

1836: After 13 days of intermittent fighting, the Battle of the Alamo comes to a gruesome end, with nearly all, of the roughly 200 Texan defenders, dead. The final attack came before dawn, on March 6. Mexican troops breached the north wall, and flooded into the compound, awakening many of the Texans inside. The fighting lasted 90 minutes, some of it hand-to-hand combat. James Bowie and William Travis were killed, as was Davy Crockett, although reports differ, as to exactly how, and when. Several Texans reportedly surrendered, but Santa Anna ordered all prisoners be executed. Only a handful survived, mostly women and children. Historians estimate several hundred Mexicans died.

1857: U.S. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney announced the Dred Scott decision [Africans cannot be US citizens], making slavery legal in all U.S. territories,.

1869: At a meeting of the Russian Chemical Society, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table of the elements.

1899: The German company, Bayer, patents, & trademarks ‘aspirin’, developed by Felix Hoffmann or Arthur Eichengrun. Now the most common drug in household medicine cabinets, acetylsalicylic acid was originally made from a chemical found in the bark of willow trees.

1886: 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

1918: US naval boat, "Cyclops", disappears in Bermuda Triangle.

1924: The Egyptian government opened the mummy case of King Tutankhamen, ruler of Egypt, in the 14th century BCE, whose burial chamber had been discovered, in 1922, by renowned British archaeologist Howard Carter.

1950: ‘Silly Putty’ goes on sale, in the US.

1945: George Nissen, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, receives a patent for the first modern trampoline.

1953: Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin, as Soviet premier & chairman.

1957: Ghana emerged as a sovereign state, the first in Africa, from the former British colonies Gold Coast and Togoland. Kwame Nkrumah was the country's first leader.

1964: American boxer, Cassius Clay, took the name Muhammad Ali, which was given to him by his spiritual mentor, Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam.

1967: Muhammad Ali is ordered, by selective service, to be inducted.
1967: Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, caused an international uproar, when she defected to the west, the United States embassy, in New Delhi, and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen.

1978: ‘Hustler’ publisher, Larry Flynt, and his lawyer, shot by a militant white supremacist sniper, in Georgia, leaving Flynt crippled, and wheelchair bound.

1981: CBS Evening News anchor, Walter Cronkite, who was known as ‘the most trusted man in America’, signs off, with his trademark valediction, "And that's the way it is," for the final time.

1987: The “Herald of Free Enterprise”, a British ferry, leaving Zeebrugge, Belgium, capsizes, drowning 188 people.

2014: Crimean parliament votes unanimously, to make the Crimea part of Russia.


2018: World's oldest message in a bottle, found in Western Australia, thrown from German ship “Paula”, 132 years ago (12 June 1886).
2018: American WWII aircraft carrier, USS “Lexington”, rediscovered in Australia's Coral Sea, lost during 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea.
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March 5 9, 1962: Ash Wednesday Storm, AKA the Great Atlantic Coastal Storm.

Hurricane Sandy is one of the worst storms to hit New Jersey. On Oct. 22, 2012, Sandy damaged 346,000 houses and killed 37 people. Before Sandy's devastation, the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962, also known as the Great Atlantic Coastal Storm, was the worst storm to hit New Jersey.

From March 5-9, 1962, the Ash Wednesday Storm battered the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. The storm was particularly bad, because it did not move for three days.
Most similar storms will move fast, impacting an area for a more isolated period. The Ash Wednesday Storm essentially stayed put, repeatedly flooding areas with five high tides.

New Jersey was the most impacted state, but other areas also flooded, and the Southeast received extreme snowfall.

Overall, the storm killed 40 people, injured over 1,000 more, destroyed 1,793 houses, and damaged another 16,782.

The storm started forming on March 4, 1962, when a large low-pressure area developed along a cold front near the southeast coast of the States. While this was happening, a large ridge was over Atlantic Canada, and an upper-level low was over the Ohio Valley.
The storm interacted with the ridge, which produced hurricane-force wind gusts along the mid-Atlantic coast. The storm also created a 970 km/h-long fetch of flow of winds from the Atlantic Ocean, which produced 9.1-metre-high waves.

The storm affected some southeastern and inland states, but the mid-Atlantic states and New England got the worst of it.

In Norfolk, Virginia, 2.5-metre tides flooded thousands of cars and damaged thousands of houses.

New York also received high waves and tides up to 6.1 metres, which washed away about 100 houses and flooded coastal roads.

In New Jersey, more specifically, along the Jersey Shore, wind gusts reached 117 km/h. High waves changed the state's coastline. Five areas in Long Beach Island flooded. Around 4,000 houses were destroyed and another 40,000 were severely damaged.

Atlantic City flooded, and about 2,000 stranded residents needed to be evacuated by army trucks and helicopters.

In New Jersey, there 14 fatalities and 12 missing people. President John F. Kennedy declared a disaster area for areas in New Jersey.
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Stalin (March 5, 1953) died of a stroke, not a heart attack.
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Stalin (March 5, 1953) died of a stroke, not a heart attack.
I stand corrected.

... or, maybe this is “The True Story of the Death of Stalin”. IDK.
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March 7

0161: Roman Emperor, Antoninus Pius, dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius, and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement, in the Roman Empire.

1274: Italian priest, philosopher, [Saint] Thomas Aquinas, dies.

1778: Captain James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay.

1792: English astronomer, Sir John Herschel, a successor to his father, Sir William Herschel, in the field of stellar and nebular observation and discovery, was born.

1799: The Royal Institution of Great Britain founded; dedicated to scientific research and education.

1835: HMS “Beagle” returns from Concepcion, to Valparaiso.

1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.

1900: The SS “Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse” becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.

1906: Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor.

1912: Roald Amundsen announces his discovery of the South Pole (located 14 December 1911).
1912: French aviator, Heri Seimet. flies non-stop, from London to Paris, in three hours.

1933: The board game, ‘Monopoly’, is invented.

1936: Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler, violates the Treaty of Versailles, and the Locarno Pact, by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone, along the Rhine River, in western Germany.

1946: Bikini Atoll islanders are evacuated, by the US government, to make way for a nuclear testing site.

1962: Ground-breaking report, "Smoking and Health", published by the British Royal College of Physicians, first major report to warn of the dangers of smoking.

1974: USS “Monitor", Union Ship sunk in 1862, during US Civil War, restored at Cape Hatteras.

1985: IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released.

1994: US Navy issues 1st permanent order, assigning women on combat ship.

1965: In Selma, Alabama, a 600-person civil rights demonstration [a planned march from Selma to Montgomery], led by John Lewis of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC], and Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference [SCLC], ends in violence, when marchers are attacked and beaten, by white state troopers, and sheriff’s deputies, at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The day's events became known as "Bloody Sunday." Dr. Martin Luther King completed the march to Montgomery, along with 25,000 demonstrators, on March 25, under the protection of the U.S. military, and the FBI. Lewis became a U.S. congressman, from Georgia, in 1986; he died in 2020.

1979: “Voyager 1" spacecraft reaches Jupiter.
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