Today in History
8th March
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Millard Fillmore
"Flying does not rely so much on strength, as on physical and mental
co-ordination"
Elise Deroche, self-styled Baroness Raymonde de Laroche 1910
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| 1418 Jacoba van Bayern marries her cousin John IV van Brabant | ||
| 1586 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch chief legal advisor | ||
| 1658 Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark | ||
| 1702 England Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III | ||
| 1706 Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established |
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| 1711 Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder | ||
| 1722 Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia | ||
| 1746 Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen | ||
| 1748 Willem V Batavus, prince of Orange-Nassau was born | ||
| 1754 Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain | ||
| 1766 Willem V (18) becomes governor of United Provinces | ||
| 1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 indians | ||
| 1801 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt | ||
| 1801 In the Napoleonic Wars, the British under Sir Ralph Abercromby took Aboukir Bay from defending French forces. More than 1,100 British died, including Abercromby. | ||
| 1813 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic | ||
| 1838 US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes) | Ruggiero Leoncavallo |
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| 1844 Charles XIV John, king of Sweden and Norway, died and was succeeded by his son Oscar I. | ||
| 1849 In the United States, Thomas Ewing of Ohio was appointed by President Zachary Taylor as the first Secretary of the Interior Department. | ||
| 1854 US Commodore Matthew C Perry's 2nd trip to Japan | ||
| 1855 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls | ||
| 1857 Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (I pagliacci/Zaza) was born | ||
| 1858 Opera "I Pagliacci" is produced (Naples) | ||
| 1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal | ||
| 1862 Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched | ||
| 1862 In the American Civil War, the Confederate frigate Merrimac under Captain Buchanan sank the Federal ship Cumberland in the Battle of Hampton Roads in Virginia. | ||
| 1874 Millard Fillmore, 13th president of the United States, died. He was only the second vice president to succeed on the death of the incumbent president. | ||
| 1879 Otto Hahn, German Nobel prize winner for chemistry (1944) and co-discoverer of nuclear fission, born. | ||
| 1889 John Ericsson, Swedish-born U.S. ship designer and inventor of the first successful screw propeller, died. | ||
| 1910 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot | ||
| 1910 The Royal Aero Club issued the first British pilot's license to J.T.C Moore Brabazon |
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| 1911 1st International Woman's Day | ||
| 1917 Riots and strikes in St. Petersburg, Russia, marked the start of the February Revolution. | ||
| 1920 Denmark & Cuba join the League of Nations | ||
| 1921 Following Germany's failure to pay reparations from World War I, French troops occupied Duesseldorf and other towns in the Ruhr. | ||
| 1921 Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato was assassinated by anarchists near his home in Madrid. | ||
| 1924 Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah | ||
| 1927 Pan American Airlines incorporates | ||
| 1929 US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia | ||
| 1930 William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United States (1909-13), died. He was the first president to become Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. | ||
| 1930 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India | Millard Fillmore |
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| 1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars | ||
| 1942 Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma | ||
| 1942 In World War II, the Japanese marched into Rangoon the day after it was evacuated by British forces. | ||
| 1943 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg | ||
| 1943 Limited gambling legalized in Mexico | ||
| 1944 US resumes bombing Berlin | ||
| 1945 Phyllis M Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as US Navy ensign | ||
| 1948 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools violated the constitution. | ||
| 1950 Marshall Voroshilov of USSR announces they developed atomic bomb | ||
| 1950 The Soviet Union claimed to be in possession of the atomic bomb. | ||
| 1951 Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel) | ||
| 1952 Antoine Pinay forms French government |
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| 1952 Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis | ||
| 1957 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston | ||
| 1957 Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships | ||
| 1959 Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq | ||
| 1961 Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor, died. He was founder of several British orchestras including the London Philharmonic. He was best known for his interpretations of Mozart and Sibelius. | ||
| 1963 Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria | ||
| 1963 A group of officers led by Col. Ziad Hariri overthrew the Syrian government and established a National Council of Revolution. | ||
| 1964 Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement | ||
| 1965 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines) | ||
| 1966 An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin | ||
| 1966 Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame | ||
| 1968 Fillmore East opens | ||
| 1968 Students demonstrate in Warsaw | ||
| 1972 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa) | ||
| 1973 Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest, opens | ||
| 1974 Charles the Gaulle Airport opens in Paris | ||
| 1975 Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba | ||
| 1976 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China | ||
| 1979 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io) | ||
| 1979 China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam | ||
| 1983 House Foreign Affairs Com endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR | ||
| 1983 Pres Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire" | ||
| 1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder | ||
| 1994 B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, at least 8 killed | ||
| 1994 Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47 | ||
| 1995 Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece | ||
| 1995 Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections | ||
C.H. OSTFELD INC.