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The re-building of the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem was completed |
| 320: |
Death of the Forty Martyrs |
| 418: |
Jews are excluded from public offices & dignities in the Roman Empire |
| 1040: |
Death of Harold Harefoot |
| 1098: |
Baldwin becomes Prince of Edessa (1st Crusade) |
| 1208: |
Pope Innocent III calls for a Crusade against the Albegensians |
| 1302: |
Dante threatened with burning should he return to Florence |
| 1452: |
Ferdinand II of Aragon, unifier of Spain |
| 1496: |
Columbus leaves Hispanola to return to Spain |
| 1528: |
Balthasar Hubmaier, one of the foremost leaders of the Austrian Anabaptists, was burned at the stake as a heretic in Vienna |
| 1535: |
Tomas de Berlanga, Bishop of Panama, discovers the Galapagos Islands |
| 1538: |
Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth |
| 1549: |
Execution of Thomas Seymour |
| 1566: |
Darley discharges the Scots Parliament |
| 1566: |
Moray and his allies enter Edinburgh |
| 1616: |
Vincent Fettmilch, leader of massacres of Jews, is hanged |
| 1628: |
Marcello Malpighi, discoverer of capillary circulation born |
| 1629: |
Charles I, King of England, dissolves his third Parliament, again |
| 1640: |
Founding of Gardiner's Island, first English settlement in New York |
| 1661: |
Cardinal Jules Mazarin dies. He was a French statesman and advisor to the mother of King Louis XIV |
| 1669: |
Sir John Denham, English poet, dies at about 54 |
| 1785: |
Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin |
| 1824: |
Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Churchill, who fought at Wilson's Creek, Red River, born |
| 1832: |
Muzio Clementi died at the age of 80. Clementi's piano pieces are seldom played in professional recitals but every piano student knows his work |
| 1849: |
An Illinois attorney applied for a patent for an inflatable airbag to lift grounded boats off sandbars and shoals. The inventor, Abe Lincoln, was too busy with politics to pursue the invention |
| 1862: |
The U.S. Treasury issued the first American paper money, in denominations from $5 to $1,000 |
| 1870: |
Ignaz Moscheles, a famous piano teacher during the early Romantic era, died, he was 75 |
| 1876: |
The first telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell |
| 1880: |
The Salvation Army of England sends group to U.S. to begin welfare and religious activity here |
| 1885: |
Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina born |
| 1888: |
Actor Barry Fitzgerald born |
| 1892: |
French composer Arthur Honegger born |
| 1900: |
Sherman Billingsley, owner of New York's Stork Club born |
| 1903: |
Jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke born |
| 1904: |
Poet Margaret Fishback born |
| 1922: |
Pamela Mason born |
| 1933: |
Talk show host Ralph Emery born |
| 1933: |
Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields was making a movie when it struck and the cameras kept running) |
| 1936: |
Oedipus, an opera by Georges Enescu, was sung in Paris. Enescu scarcely noticed. He was so upset at failing to hold a woman's attention that he destroyed his fiddle a Guarneri |
| 1940: |
Actor Chuck Norris born |
| 1940: |
Playwright David Rabe born |
| 1940: |
Singer Dean Torrence (Jan and Dean) born |
| 1945: |
Katherine Houghton born |
| 1947: |
Newspaper columnist Bob Greene born |
| 1947: |
Rock musician Tom Scholz (Boston) born |
| 1947: |
Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell born |
| 1948: |
First civilian to exceed speed of sound -- H. H. Houver at Edwards Air Force Base, CA |
| 1948: |
the body of the anti-Communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, was found in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague |
| 1949: |
Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington DC of treason. (She served 12 years in prison.) |
| 1957: |
Actress Shannon Tweed born |
| 1958: |
Actress Sharon Stone born |
| 1960: |
Rock musician Gail Greenwood (Belly) born |
| 1963: |
Rock musician Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam) born |
| 1964: |
Prince Edward of England born |
| 1964: |
Actress Jasmine Guy born |
| 1964: |
Songwriter Neneh Cherry born |
| 1966: |
Actor Stephen Mailer born |
| 1966: |
Singer Edie Brickell born |
| 1969: |
James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was sentenced to 99 years in prison |
| 1971: |
Country singer Daryle Singletary born |
| 1977: |
Olympic gold-medal gymnast Shannon Miller born |
| 1978: |
Soyuz 28 returns to Earth |
| 1985: |
Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13 months, died at age 73 |
| 1987: |
The Vatican condemned human artificial fertilization or generation of human life outside the womb and said all reproduction must result from the "act of conjugal love." |
| 1988: |
New York Congressman Jack Kemp dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination |
| 1988: |
Pop singer Andy Gibb dies in Oxford, England, at age 30 of heart inflammation |
| 1988: |
The Chinese army occupies Lhasa, capital of Tibet, after major demonstrations by Tibetans |
| 1989: |
One day after the Senate rejected the defense secretary nomination of John Tower, President Bush announced he would nominate Wyoming Congressman Dick Cheney, who was later confirmed |
| 1990: |
Haitian ruler Lt. General Prosper Avril resigned during a popular uprising against his military regime |
| 1991: |
Eight Arab governments endorsed President Bush's Middle East peace proposal calling for Israel to relinquish territory, and reiterated their desire for a peace conference |
| 1991: |
Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in Moscow, demanding that President Mikhail S. Gorbachev resign |
| 1992: |
Democrat Bill Clinton claimed front-runner status as he won a series of Southern landslides on Super Tuesday; President Bush swept all the Republican contests |
| 1993: |
Authorities announced the arrest of Nidal Ayyad, a second suspect in the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York |
| 1993: |
Dr. David Gunn was shot to death outside a Pensacola, Florida, abortion clinic |
| 1993: |
C. Northcote Parkinson, author of "Parkinson's Law," died in Canterbury, England, at age 83 |
| 1994: |
White House officials began testifying before a federal grand jury about the Whitewater controversy |
| 1994: |
Thousands of students demonstrated across France to demand the government withdraw a controversial law allowing employers to pay young people less than the minimum wage |
| 1995: |
The Labor Department reported the nation's unemployment rate for February dropped to 5.4 percent, down 0.3 percent from the month before |
| 1995: |
The Clinton administration released $3 billion to support Mexico's faltering economy |
| 1995: |
Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari fled to the United States |
| 1996: |
Hezbollah guerrillas launched a wave of bomb and rocket attacks on Israeli troops in south Lebanon |
| 1996: |
Secretary of State Warren Christopher, accusing China of "reckless" provocations against Taiwan, said on NBC that U.S. warships would move closer to Taiwan |
| 1997: |
The White House and the F-B-I clashed in a rare public quarrel after President Clinton said he should have been alerted when the bureau told national security officials that the Chinese government might be trying to influence US elections |
| 1998: |
US Air Force and Navy personnel in the Persian Gulf received their first vaccinations against anthrax |
| 1998: |
Indonesia's President Suharto was elected to his seventh term |
| 1998: |
Actor Lloyd Bridges died in Westwood, California, at age 85 |
| 1998: |
A Japanese regional governor barred a British freighter carrying nuclear waste from France from entering a port in his prefecture. The Pacific Swan, carrying 24 tons of nuclear waste, was left standing about a mile off the northern Japanese port of Mutsu-Ogawara, awaiting a disputed entry to be settled between Govenor Morio Kimura of Aomori Prefecture and the Tokyo central government |
| 1998: |
Former White House aide Kathleen Willey, who was allegedly fondled by President Clinton in 1993, answered questions before a grand jury investigating the White House sex scandal. Willey, spent most of the day testifying behind closed doors |
| 1998: |
Federal authorities announced that food stamps were issued to nearly 26,000 dead people in 1995-96. The General Accounting Office said in a report $8.5 million in food stamps were issued to 25,881 deceased people in the two-year period, based on a review after comparing food stamp rolls with death lists in the four most populous states, which account for one-third of the country's 20.4 million food stamp recipients |
| 1998: |
Some 22,000 hemophiliacs who were infected with hepatitis C through blood transfusions brought a multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit against Canada's federal and provincial governments and the Red Cross |
| 1999: |
During a visit to Guatemala, President Clinton acknowledged the U.S. role in Central America's "dark and painful period" of civil wars and repression |
| 2000: |
Pope John Paul the Second approved sainthood for Katharine Drexel, a Philadelphia socialite who had taken a vow of poverty and devoted her fortune to helping poor blacks and American Indians. (Drexel, who died in 1955, was canonized the following October.) |
| 2004: |
Six Flags sells 8 of its theme parks to private investors |
| 2005: |
Microsoft Considering Backport of WinFS to Windows XP |
| 2005: |
Bush calls Romania a special ally of the US |
| 2005: |
Flat tax boosts average Romanian salaries |
| 2005: |
Selgros Cash and Carry to open two new stores in Transylvania |
| 2005: |
US Pulls Out of Optional Protocol to Vienna Convention |
| 2005: |
Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa officially resigns |
| 2005: |
Blogshine Sunday pushes for government sunshine online |
| 2005: |
Colombia extradites guerrilla to the USA |
| 2005: |
Bolivian Congress refuse president's resignation |
| 2005: |
Bulgarian government says U.S. killed Bulgarian soldier in 'friendly fire' incident |
| 2005: |
United Nations passes Declaration on human cloning |
| 2006: |
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars |
| 2006: |
Mass unrest by the PCC started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152 people |
| 2006: |
Three charged following release of Cronulla riot wanted photographs |
| 2006: |
Wikipedia's Wales is considering a "stable" version |
| 2006: |
Daisuke Enomoto will be the fourth space tourist at the ISS |
| 2006: |
Czech pub food eating experiment resulted in lost weight, lower cholesterol |
| 2006: |
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Martian orbit |
| 2006: |
USA leaving Abu Ghraib |
| 2006: |
American hostage Tom Fox found dead in Iraq |
| 2006: |
Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal delayed further |
| 2006: |
Japanese Buddhist priest arrested for child prostitution |
| 2006: |
Global measles deaths plunge by 48% over past six years |
| 2006: |
Gale Norton resigns as U.S. Secretary of the Interior |
| 2007: |
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, addressing a meeting at which U.S. officials sat down with adversaries from Iran and Syria, urged Iraq's regional rivals on Saturday to stop supporting insurgents in the country |
| 2007: |
Osama bin Laden, if he's alive, celebrates his 50th birthday on Saturday, and his friends in the Taliban prayed for his long life |
| 2007: |
President Bush stuck to talk of trade and friendship on Saturday during a Latin American tour, ignoring provocations from ideological rival Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez |
| 2007: |
A woman posing as a nurse abducted a 3-day-old girl in need of medical attention from a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, on Saturday, police said. Baby Mychel Darthard-Dawodu's security bracelet was removed, the hospital administrator said. Police are hunting the suspected kidnapper -- a 5-foot-3-inch African-American woman seen on security cameras in pink nurse's scrubs with purple and blue flowers |
| 2007: |
U.S. ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad warned Saturday that all countries in the Middle East would "suffer badly" if Iraq disintegrated further into violence. His call for cooperation echoed that of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki who said carnage could spill across his nation's borders. The two were at an international conference to address security in Iraq that could include U.S. talks with Iran |
| 2007: |
New Zealand woman reports marijuana plants stolen |
| 2007: |
Bacterial outbreak forces closure of Toronto hospital neo-natal unit |
| 2007: |
Boy missing in Glynn County, Georgia |
| 2007: |
Eritrean minister warns of war over Ugandan troops in Somalia |
| 2007: |
United force replay against 'Boro in FA Cup |
| 2007: |
Taliban claim responsibility for kidnapping of Italian journalist |
| 2008: |
A suicide bomber blew himself up among U.S. soldiers in central Baghdad on Monday, killing five and wounding three in the worst single attack on U.S. forces in the Iraqi capital in nearly a year |
| 2008: |
When U.S. authorities raised a tall curtain of steel through this tiny Arizona border town to prevent people crossing illegally from Mexico, the smugglers on the south side were ready |
| 2008: |
NATO forces in Afghanistan have clashed more times with Taliban insurgents in the first two months of 2008 compared to last year, though fighting has occurred in fewer places, the alliance-led force said on Monday |
| 2008: |
U.S. military officials in Iraq told CNN that five U.S. soldiers on foot patrol in Baghdad were killed in a suicide attack today. The officials said four soldiers were killed in the initial blast and one died later of wounds. Also, three U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were wounded, they said |
| 2008: |
Sen. Barack Obama Monday focused on Mississippi, which holds primaries on Tuesday, while Sen. Hillary Clinton keep her eye on the next big prize on the Democratic calendar, Pennsylvania |
| 2008: |
Socialists win second term as Spain's ruling party |
| 2008: |
Tour de Taiwan Stage 1: A triple-crown honor for Kam-po Wong |
| 2008: |
Strong winds and heavy rain across southern UK |
| 2008: |
Malaysian opposition gains in elections, conquers four new state legislatures |
| 2008: |
National Hockey League news: March 10, 2008 |
| 2008: |
New York governor Spitzer tied to prostitution ring |
| 2008: |
Tour de Taiwan Stage 2: European & American cyclists rise up |
| 2009: |
The man accused of killing a minister at an Illinois church had marked the day of the attack as a "day of death" or "death day" in a planning book, a prosecutor said today. Authorities have charged Terry J. Sedlacek, 27, with first-degree murder in the killing of the Rev. Fred Winters |
| 2009: |
President Obama began to flesh out the details of one of his signature campaign promises Tuesday, outlining his plan for a major overhaul of the country's education system |
| 2009: |
The practice of dealing with your enemy has a name; it's called realism. And for the Obama administration -- in the Middle East and around the world -- it rules the day |
| 2009: |
North Korea warns airlines over satellite fears |
| 2009: |
Continuity IRA gunmen kill policeman in Northern Ireland |
| 2009: |
Community Television consortium urges Australian government to increase funding for channels |
| 2009: |
Pennsylvania cop on trial for allegedly murdering girlfriend's estranged husband |
| 2009: |
Philippine exports plunge to eight-year low |
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