Today in History

SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013

Today is Saturday, March 2, the 61st day of 2013. There are 304 days left in the year. 1855 ― Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia  1919 ― First congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin 1923 ― TIME magazine debuts 1927 ― Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year) 1946 ― Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam 1962 ― Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game 1964 ― Beatles begin filming “A Hard Day's Night”; George Harrison meets Patti Boyd 1965 ― “Sound of Music” opens 1983 ― Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips & Sony introduced 1983 ― Final episode of “MASH”; 125,000,000 viewers 

Mar 1, 2013

FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013

Today is Friday, March 1, the 60th day of 2013. There are 305 days left in the year.1B.C. ― Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome 1912 ― Albert Berry makes first parachute jump from an airplane 1919 ― Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin 1934 ― Henry Pu Yi crowned Emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria 1940 ― 12th Academy Awards: “Gone with the Wind,” Robert Donat & Vivien Leigh win 1946 ― British government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years 1947 ― International Monetary Fund began operations 1954 ― U.S. explodes 15-megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll 1978 ― Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery 1988 ― Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist 

Feb 28, 2013

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Today is Thursday, February 28, the 59th day of 2013. There are 306 days left in the year.1066 ― Westminster Abbey opens1646 ― Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church 1692 ― Salem witch hunt begins 1749 ― First edition of Henry Fielding’s “Tom Jones” published 1933 ― Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD) 1935 ― Nylon discovered by Dr. Wallace H. Carothers 1943 ― “Porgy & Bess” opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan 1947 ― Anti-Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan 1986 ― European Economic Community sign “Special Act” for Europe free trade 1991 ― “Les Miserables” opens at Theatre Carre, Amsterdam   

Feb 27, 2013

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Today is Wednesday, February 27, the 58th day of 2013. There are 307 days left in the year.1814 ― Ludwig von Beethoven’s 8th Symphony in F, premieres 1861 ― Warsaw Massacre; Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russian rule of Poland 1879 ― Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener) 1922 ― Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote 1933 ― German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire (set by Nazis, blamed on communists) 1950 ― General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 1974 ― "People" magazine begins sales 1976 ― Final meeting between Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon 1988 ― Katarina Witt (GDR) wins second consecutive Olympics figure skating 1992 ― Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years

Feb 26, 2013

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Today is Tuesday, February 26, the 57th day of 2013. There are 308 days left in the year.1815 ― Napoleon and 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France 1848 ― Marx & Engels publish “The Communist Manifesto” 1907 ― Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP) 1930 ― First red and green traffic lights installed (Manhattan, NYC) 1936 ― Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche’s “Volkswagen” 1936 ― Military coup in Japan 1952 ― P.M. Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own atomic bomb 1970 ― Beatles release “Beatles Again” aka “Hey Jude” album 1983 ― Michael Jackson’s “Thriller" album goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 37 weeks 1995 ― London finance house of Barings collapse after losses in Singapore by trader Nick Leeson 

Feb 25, 2013

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Today is Monday, February 25, the 56th day of 2013. There are 309 days left in the year.1803 ― 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states 1910 ― Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies 1919 ― League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty 1923 ― Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark 1956 ― Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference 1964 ― Cassius Clay, a 7-1 underdog, TKOs champion Sonny Liston in the 7th round to win the world heavyweight championship 1971 ― “Oh! Calcutta!” opens at Belasco Theater, NYC, for 1,316 performances 1986 ― Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines; former Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos flees in defeat 1988 ― South Korea adopts constitution1998 ― Switzerland’s first legal brothel opens in Zurich

Feb 24, 2013

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Today is Saturday, February 23, the 54th day of 2013. There are 311 days left in the year.303 ― Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians 1455 ― Johannes Gutenberg prints first book, the Bible (estimated date) 1804 ― Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII 1861 ― President-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C. to take office 1886 ― London Times publishes world's first classified ad 1898 ― In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his “J'accuse” letter accusing government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus 1905 ― Rotary Club International established by four men in Chicago 1919 ― Benito Mussolini founds the Facist party of Italy 1968 ― Wilt Chamberlain becomes first NBAer to score 25,000 points1997 ― Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named “Dolly”

Feb 22, 2013

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Today is Friday, February 22, the 53rd day of 2013. There are 312 days left in the year.57 B.C. ― Origin of Vikrama Samvat Era (India) 1630 ― Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving 1774 ― English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright 1854 ― First meeting of the Republican Party, Michigan 1900 ― Hawaii became a U.S. territory1907 ― First cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London 1956 ― Elvis Presley’s first hit in Billboard’s top 10 “Heartbreak Hotel” 1973 ― Israeli fighter planes shoot down a civilian Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727, killing 108 1973 ― U.S. and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington, D.C. 1989 ― U.K. physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a “deliberate fraud” 

Feb 21, 2013

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Today is Thursday, February 21, the 52nd day of 2013. There are 313 days left in the year.1431 ― England begins trial against Joan of Arc 1613 ― Michael Romanov, son of the Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar 1764 ― John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for “Essay on Women” 1804 ― First locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for first time, in Wales 1842 ― First known sewing machine patented in U.S., John Greenough, Washington, D.C. 1916 ― Battle of Verdun (WWI) begins (1 million casualties) 1964 ― U.K. flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to U.S. 1970 ― Jackson 5 make TV debut on “American Bandstand” 1972 ― Richard Nixon becomes first U.S. president to visit China 1989 ― U.S. bust Chinese heroin ring, capture record 820-lbs heroin ($1 billion street value) 

Feb 20, 2013

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Today is Wednesday, February 20, the 51st day of 2013. There are 314 days left in the year.1725 ― Ten sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for bounty 1811 ― Austria declares bankruptcy 1816 ― Rossini's opera “The Barber of Seville” premieres in Rome 1831 ― Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow1869 ― Tennessee Governor W. C. Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis 1938 ― U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says P.M. Chamberlain appeased Germany 1944 ― Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers 1949 ― First International Pancake Race held (Liberal, Kans.)1994 ― Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals 1998 ― U.S. movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)

Feb 19, 2013

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