March 10......

March 10 is the 69th (70th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 296 days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 515 BC - The building of the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem was completed.

● 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet; end of First Punic War.

● 49 BC - Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and invaded Italy.

● 418 - Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire

● 483 - St Simplicius ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1496 - Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.

● 1526 - Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal

● 1528 - Martyrdom of Balthaser Hubmaier, 48, German reformer and chief writer for the Anabaptist movement. Arrested in Moravia, Hubmaier was later condemned at Vienna and burned at the stake.

● 1535 - Bishop Tomás de Berlanga discovers Galápagos Islands

● 1578 - Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir £20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion

● 1624 - England declares war on Spain

● 1629 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.

● 1656 - In the American colony of Virginia, suffrage was extended to all free men regardless of their religion.

● 1661 - French King Louis XIV ends office of premier

● 1681 - English Quaker William Penn, 26, received a charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of the colonial American territory known today as the state of Pennsylvania.

● 1734 - Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples

● 1735 - an agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia was signed near Ganja and the Russian troops were withdrawn from Baku.

● 1748 - [O.S.] Slave-ship Captain John Newton, 22, was converted to a saving Christian faith. Newton later became an Anglican clergyman, and (as the author of "Amazing Grace") a greatly respected hymnwriter as well.

● 1783 - Revolutionary War officers consider refusing to disband until certain "grievances" with Congress are settled, thus bringing the infant U.S. to the verge of civil war.

● 1785 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France. He succeeded Benjamin Franklin.

● 1789 - Franklin College founded (1787?)

● 1791 - John Stone, Concord MA, patents a pile driver

● 1791 - Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution's treatment of the clergy

● 1792 - John Stone patented the pile driver.

● 1801 - first census in Great Britain

● 1804 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.

● 1806 - The Dutch in Cape Town, South Africa surrendered to the British.

● 1814 - In France, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by a combined Allied Army at the battle of Laon.

● 1831 - The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.

● 1845 - Birth of Hallie Quinn Brown, women's rights activist.

● 1847 - 1st money minted in Hawaii

● 1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.

● 1849 - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US President to do so. The patent was for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders.

● 1861 - El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.

● 1862 - Great Britain & France recognizes independence of Zanzibar

● 1862 - US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)

● 1864 - Grant is named commander of the Union armies

● 1864 - American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.

● 1865 - Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, North Carolina

● 1874 - Purdue University (Indiana) admits its 1st student

● 1875 - Birth of pacifist activist Eleanor May Moores, Australia.

● 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

● 1880 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.

● 1880 - General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria

● 1891 - Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.

● 1893 - Ivory Coast becomes a French colony

● 1893 - New Mexico State University cancels its 1st graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before

● 1894 - New York Gov. Roswell P. Flower signed the nation's first dog-licensing law.

● 1896 - After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"

● 1900 - Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)

● 1902 - Second Boer War: The Boers of South Africa scored their last victory over the British, when they captured British General Methuen and 200 men.

● 1902 - U.S. Attorney General Philander Knox announced that a suit was being brought against Morgan and Harriman's Northern Securities Company. The suit was enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Northern Securities loss in court was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 14, 1904.

● 1902 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.

● 1902 - Tochangri, Turkey, is completely destroyed by an earthquake.

● 1903 - Clare Boothe Luce, the American playwright and politician, was born.

● 1903 - Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine

● 1903 - In New York's harbor, the disease-stricken ship Karmania was quarantined with six dead from cholera.

● 1905 - Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)

● 1906 - London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)

● 1906 - The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.

● 1909 - Britain extracted territorial concessions from Siam and Malaya.

● 1910 - China ends slavery

● 1912 - Yuan Shikai is sworn in as the second Provisional President of the Republic of China.

● 1913 - William Knox rolled the first perfect 300 game in tournament competition.

● 1913 - Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman dies, New York City.

● 1914 - Suffragettes in London damages painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez

● 1915 - British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle

● 1917 - Batangas was formally founded as one of the Philippines's earliest encomiendas.

● 1918 - Warner Bros. releases its first major film "Four Years in Germany"

● 1921 - Russia - Attack on Kronstadt, which had rebelled against Bolshevik absolutism.

● 1922 - Gandhi arrested for writing seditious articles. Satyagraha Ashram, Sabarmati, India.

● 1922 - State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg South Africa

● 1923 - Spain - Trade unionists Salvador Segui and Francesc Comes assassinated; their murders were financed by the governor of Catalonia.

● 1924 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York state law forbidding late-night work for women.

● 1926 - Run on Belgian banks

● 1926 - The first Book-of-the-Month-Club selection is produced.

● 1927 - Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slovenes

● 1927 - Prussia lifted its Nazi ban allowing Adolf Hitler to speak in public.

● 1931 - British Labour party removes fascist sir Oswald Mosley

● 1933 - Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics

● 1933 - An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 120 people.

● 1937 - English historian Arnold J. Toynbee wrote: 'In this really very brief period of less than 2,000 years Christianity has, in fact, produced greater spiritual effects in the world than have been produced in a comparable space of time by any other spiritual movement that we know of in history.'

● 1939 - Anarchist filmmaker and writer Armand Guerra, true name Jose Estivalis Calvo, dies. In the 20s, Guerra worked in Berlin, then capital of European cinema, and for the studios of the U.F.A. until his expulsion in 1932. In Spain, he did his first full-length film, during summer 1936, before going to the front to fight fascism with a camera. Exiled to Paris in Feb. 1939, and dies 20 days later of exhaustion.

● 1939 - 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India

● 1941 - Vichy France threatened to use its navy unless Britain allowed food to reach France.

● 1944 - The Irish refused to oust all Axis envoys and denied the accusation of spying on Allied troops.

● 1945 - Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine

● 1945 - Japan declares Vietnam Independence

● 1945 - Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army

● 1945 - US troops lands on Mindanao

● 1945 - During World War II, 300 U.S. B-29 bombers drop almost 2,000 tons of incendiaries on Tokyo, Japan, destroying large portions of the Japanese capital and killing 100,000 civilians. Early in the morning, the B-29s dropped their bombs of napalm and magnesium incendiaries over the packed residential districts along the Sumida River in eastern Tokyo. The conflagration quickly engulfed Tokyo's wooden residential structures, and the subsequent firestorm replaced oxygen with lethal gases, superheated the atmosphere, and caused hurricane-like winds that blew a wall of fire across the city. The majority of the 100,000 dead perished from carbon monoxide poisoning and the sudden lack of oxygen, but others died horrible deaths within the firestorm, such as those who attempted to find protection in the Sumida River, and were boiled alive, or those who were trampled to death in the rush to escape the burning city.

● 1946 - Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil

● 1947 - The Big Four met in Moscow to discuss the future of Germany.

● 1947 - Poland and Czechoslovakia signed a 20-year mutual aid pact.

● 1948 - Zelda Fitzgerald and eight other women killed in sanitarium fire in Asheville, North Carolina. Trapped on the third story, she dies at 48. Zelda's marriage to novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald was successful only while she subordinated her considerable artistic talents to Scott's. When Zelda demanded time and space to develop her dancing and writing, he accused her of egotism and insanity. After Scott put her in the hospital, Zelda's male psychiatrists declared her ambitions self-deceptions and the good doctors tried to re-educate her as a wife. But Zelda said she saw no difference between institutionalization and marriage, so her husband and doctors effectively imprisoned her.

● 1948 - The body of the anti-Communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, was found in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague.

● 1948 - 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Former president Herbert H. Hoover, Edwards AFB California

● 1948 - The Indian Union Muslim League is founded, by remnants of the old Muslim League.

● 1949 - Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, DC. Gillars was convicted of treason and served 12 years in prison.

● 1951 - Pres. Eisenhower states willingness to launch a first-strike nuclear attack.

● 1951 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.

● 1952 - Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.

● 1953 - North Korean gunners at Wonsan fired upon the USS Missouri. The ship responded by firing 998 rounds at the enemy position.

● 1956 - Riots erupt in Cyprus over Archbishop; Greek Cypriots demonstrate and strike after Britain arrests and deports Archbishop Makarios.

● 1958 - A B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on the town of Mars Bluffs, South Carolina. A 50-foot wide crater was dug, and six injured by conventional explosives incorporated in the weapon, but there was no atomic blast.

● 1959 - Tibet leads an unsuccessful uprising against ten years of Chinese occupation in Lhasa. Thousands massacred by the occupying Chinese army.

● 1960 - USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing

● 1964 - US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany

● 1964 - The Ford Mustang is first produced by the Ford Motor Company.

● 1966 - Holland - Provos smoke bomb the Royal wedding.

● 1966 - North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley

● 1966 - France withdrew from NATO's military command to protest U.S. dominance of the alliance and asked NATO to move its headquarters from Paris.

● 1968 - César Chavez breaks his fast at a Mass in Delano's public park with 4,000 supporters at his side, including Sen. Robert Kennedy.

● 1968 - Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington New Zealand (200 killed)

● 1969 - James Earl Ray plead guilty in Memphis, TN, to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ray later repudiated the guilty plea and maintained his innocence until his death in April of 1998.

● 1970 - Vietnam War: Capt. Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes.

● 1971 - Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18

● 1972 - Stephen Mac Say dies. French anarchistic militant, professor, beekeeper.

● 1972 - 1st black US political convention opens (Gary IN)

● 1972 - General Lon Nol becomes President & prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia

● 1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1973 - British officials shot dead in Bermuda; The British governor and his assistant have been assassinated in Bermuda, a British-dependent territory in the North Atlantic.

● 1973 - Morocco adopts constitution

● 1974 - Pennsylvania Crime Commission finds police corruption in Philadelphia "ongoing, widespread, systematic, and occurring at all levels of the Police Department." It also accuses Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo of trying to block its investigation.

● 1974 - Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election

● 1975 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.

● 1977 - Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.

● 1978 - Soyuz 28 returns to Earth

● 1980 - ''Scarsdale Diet'' author Dr. Herman Tarnower was shot to death in Purchase, N.Y. (His lover, Jean Harris, was convicted of murder and served nearly 12 years in prison.) {Her defense was that the gun went off accidentally, three times.}

● 1980 - Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, lent his support to the militants holding American hostages in Tehran.

● 1982 - The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.

● 1982 - Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.

● 1985 - Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13 months, died at age 73. His death was announced on March 11th. Politburo member Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed him.

● 1985 - French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)

● 1986 - Five hundred thousand people demonstrate against affiliation with NATO. Madrid, Spain.

● 1986 - Protesters block unloading of South African ship in San Francisco to protest apartheid.

● 1987 - United Nations Human Rights Commission recognizes conscientious objection to military service as a human right.

● 1987 - The Holy See condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood, along with test-tube babies and artificial insemination.

● 1988 - Pop singer Andy Gibb died at age 30 of heart inflammation.

● 1988 - Avalanche hits royal ski party; The Prince of Wales narrowly avoids death on the ski slopes of Switzerland in an avalanche which kills one of his closest friends.

● 1990 - Observer 'spy' sentenced to die; A court in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, imposes the death sentence on The Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft.

● 1990 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1990 - In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.

● 1991 - Gulf War: Operation Phase Echo - 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.

● 1993 - Authorities announced the arrest of Nidal Ayyad, a second suspect in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York.

● 1993 - Dr. David Gunn was shot to death outside a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic.

● 1994 - 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral

● 1994 - White House officials began testifying before a federal grand jury about the Whitewater controversy.

● 1995 - U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher told Yasser Arafat that he must do more to curb Palestinian terrorists.

● 1995 - Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed

● 1996 - NYC Mayor Guiliani visits Israel

● 1996 - The "Summit of Peacemakers" takes place in Egypt.

● 1998 - American troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the first vaccinations against anthrax.

● 2000 - The NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5048.62, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.

● 2002 - Israeli helicopters destroyed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's office in Gaza City, hours after 11 Israelis were killed in a suicide bombing in a cafe across the street from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's residence in Jerusalem.

● 2002 - The Associated Press reported that the Pentagon informed the U.S. Congress in January that it was making contingency plans for the possible use of nuclear weapons against countries that threaten the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction, including Iraq and North Korea.

● 2003 - North Korea test-fired a short-range missile. The event was one of several in a patter of unusual military maneuvers.

● 2004 - Teenage sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was sentenced in Chesapeake, Va., to life in prison.

● 2005 - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral in Mosul, Iraq, killing at least 47 people.

● 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

BIRTHS

● 1415 - Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462)

● 1452 - Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516)

● 1503 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1564)

● 1536 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1572)

● 1538 - Thomas Howard Norfolk, English nobleman executed by Queen Elizabeth I (d. 1572)

● 1606 - Edmund Waller, English poet (d. 1687)

● 1628 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d. 1694)

● 1709 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (d. 1746)

● 1749 - Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian librettist (d. 1838)

● 1769 - Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist and tunnel builder (d. 1840)

● 1772 - Friedrich von Schlegel, German aesthetician (d. 1829)

● 1776 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1810)

● 1788 - Joseph von Eichendorff, German writer (d. 1857)

● 1810 - Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886)

● 1842 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (d. 1912)

● 1844 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist (d. 1908)

● 1845 - Alexander III of Russia, Russian emperor (1881-84) (d. 1894)

● 1847 - Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragist (d. 1934)

● 1858 - Henry W. Fowler, English lexicographer and philologist (d. 1933)

● 1867 - Hector Guimard, French architect and furniture designer (d. 1942)

● 1867 - Lillian Wald, American nurse; founded Henry St. Settlement in New York (d. 1940)

● 1880 - Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)

● 1887 - Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972)

● 1888 - Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (d. 1966)

● 1891 - Sam Jaffe, American actor (d. 1984)

● 1892 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (d. 1955)

● 1892 - Gregory La Cava, American director (d. 1952)

● 1903 - Clare Boothe Luce, American playwright and politician (d. 1987)

● 1903 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (d. 1931)

● 1905 - Richard Haydn, English actor (d. 1985)

● 1915 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist (d. 1978)

● 1915 - Sir Charles Groves, English conductor (d. 1992)

● 1919 - Marion Hutton, American singer (d. 1987)

● 1923 - Val Logsdon Fitch, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1925 - Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (d. 2005)

● 1928 - James Earl Ray, American assassin (d. 1998)

● 1930 - Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist

● 1933 - Ralph Emery, Talk show host

● 1936 - Sepp Blatter, Swiss hockey and football official

● 1938 - Norman Blake, Bluegrass musician

● 1940 - Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist (''Walker, Texas Ranger'')

● 1940 - David Rabe, Writer-producer

● 1940 - Dean Torrence, Singer (Jan and Dean)

● 1941 - Joe Viterelli, American actor (d. 2004)

● 1945 - Katharine Houghton, Actress

● 1946 - Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (d. 1993)

● 1946 - Mike Hollands, Australian animator

● 1947 - Kim Campbell, 19th Prime Minister of Canada

● 1947 - Paul Condon, Baron Condon, former Commissioner of The Metropolitain Police

● 1947 - Bob Greene, American journalist

● 1947 - Tom Scholz, American songwriter (Boston)

● 1952 - Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe politician

● 1953 - Paul Haggis, Canadian film director (''Crash'')

● 1956 - Mitchell Lichtenstein, American actor; son of Roy Lichtenstein

● 1957 - Shannon Tweed, Actress

● 1957 - Marlon Jackson, American singer

● 1957 - Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist

● 1958 - Steve Howe, baseball player (d. 2006)

● 1958 - Sharon Stone, American actress

● 1960 - Anne MacKenzie, journalist and broadcaster

● 1960 - Gail Greenwood, Rock musician (L7)

● 1961 - Laurel Clark, physician and astronaut (d. 2003)

● 1961 - Mitch Gaylord, American gymnast

● 1961 - Bobby Petrino, American football coach

● 1963 - Jeff Ament, American musician (Pearl Jam)

● 1963 - Rick Rubin, Music producer

● 1964 - Neneh Cherry, Swedish musician

● 1964 - Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex

● 1964 - David Faber, analyst for CNBC

● 1964 - Jasmine Guy, American actress

● 1965 - Rod Woodson, American football player

● 1966 - Stephen Mailer, Actor

● 1966 - Edie Brickell, American singer

● 1966 - Mike Timlin, baseball player

● 1967 - Paget Brewster, Actress

● 1971 - Daryle Singletary, Country singer

● 1971 - Timbaland, American rapper

● 1972 - Takashi Fujii, Japanese television performer

● 1972 - Matt Kenseth, American race car driver

● 1972 - Paraskevi Tsiamita, Greek triple jumper

● 1973 - Eva Herzigova, Czech model

● 1973 - Chris Sutton, English footballer

● 1973 - Mauricio Taricco, Argentine footballer

● 1973 - John LeCompt, American guitarist

● 1974 - Cristian de la Fuente, Actor

● 1976 - Bree Turner, Actress

● 1976 - Shannon Miller, Olympic gold-medal gymnast

● 1976 - Robin Thicke, Singer

● 1976 - Sean D'Anconia, Canadian visual artist

● 1977 - Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer

● 1977 - Shannon Miller, American gymnast

● 1977 - Colin Murray, British radio DJ

● 1977 - Bree Turner, American dancer and actress

● 1977 - Matt Rubano, American musician (Taking Back Sunday)

● 1977 - Robin Thicke, American singer

● 1978 - Ben Burnley, singer

● 1981 - Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer

● 1981 - Efthimios Kouloucheris, Greek footballer

● 1982 - Timo Glock, German racing car driver

● 1982 - Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress

● 1983 - Carrie Underwood, American singer ("American Idol")

● 1983 - Reena Virk, Canadian murder victim (d. 1997)

● 1984 - Ben May, English footballer

● 1984 - Olivia Wilde, American actress

● 1985 - Lassana Diarra, French footballer

● 1985 - Casey Dienel, American singer-songwriter

● 1985 - Kim Leclerc, Canadian politician

● 1992 - Emily Osment, American actress (''Spy Kids'' movies)

DEATHS

● 1291 - Arghun, Persian ruler

● 1510 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)

● 1513 - John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b. 1443)

● 1549 - Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat

● 1584 - Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)

● 1585 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (b. 1517)

● 1588 - Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (b. 1533)

● 1669 - John Denham, English poet (b. 1615)

● 1670 - Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)

● 1776 - Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)

● 1776 - Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (b. 1701)

● 1792 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713)

● 1832 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (b. 1752)

● 1861 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814)

● 1872 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (b. 1805)

● 1895 - Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (b. 1826)

● 1910 - Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna (b. 1844)

● 1913 - Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)

● 1937 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884)

● 1940 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)

● 1942 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)

● 1948 - Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1886)

● 1950 - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)

● 1951 - Kijūrō Shidehara, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1872)

● 1966 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

● 1967 - Yiorgos Batis, Greek composer and musician (b. 1885)

● 1973 - Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (b. 1897)

● 1984 - June Marlowe, American actress (b. 1903)

● 1985 - Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)

● 1985 - Bob Nieman, baseball player (b. 1927)

● 1986 - Ray Milland, British actor (b. 1905)

● 1988 - Andy Gibb, English-born singer (b. 1958)

● 1994 - Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright (assassinated) (b. 1929)

● 1996 - Ross Hunter, American film producer (b. 1920)

● 1997 - La Vern Baker, American singer (b. 1929)

● 1998 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)

● 2001 - Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and far right activist (b. 1958)

● 2003 - Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer (b. 1950)

● 2004 - Dave Blood, American musician

● 2005 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (b. 1936)

● 2005 - Danny Joe Brown, American singer (Molly Hatchet) (b. 1951)

● 2006 - Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● 40 Holy Martyrs of Sebaste, Armenia
● St. Alexander
● St. Anastasia the Patrician
● St. Attalas
● St. Blankaard
● St. Codratus of Corinth
● St. Droctoveus
● St. Emilian
● St. Himelin
● St. John Ogilvie, Scottish Jesuit
● St. Kessag
● St. Macharius (d. 335)
● St. Sedna
● St. Victor

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 27 (Civil Date: March 10)
● St. Procopius the confessor of Decapolis.
● St. Titus, presbyter of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Thalalaeus, hermit of Syria.
● Martyr Gelasius the Actor of Heliopolis.
● St. Stephen, monk of Constantinople.
● St. Titus the Soldier, of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Pitirim, Bishop of Tambov.

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Nesius.
● Saints Asclepius and James of Syria, monks.
● St. Timothy of Caesarea, monk.
● Repose of Archimandrite Photius of the Novgorod Yuriev Monastery (1838).
● Repose of Monk Anthony of Valaam (1848).

● Doctors Day - (Venezuela).

● Tibetan national Uprising day

● Dominica, St Lucia : Independence Day (1967)

● Laos : Teachers' Day

● World : World Culture Day (leap years)

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Memphis TN: Cotton Carnival (held for 5 days) - ( Tuesday )
● New Mexico: Arbor Day - ( Friday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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