March 13......

March 13 is the 72nd (73rd in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 293 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

● 483 - St. Felix becomes Pope.

● 874 - The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople.

● 607 - 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

● 1138 - German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned

● 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.

● 1325 - México-Tenochtitlan City is founded.

● 1519 - Cortez lands in México

● 1560 - Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli

● 1564 - Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels

● 1567 - Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger

● 1569 - Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots

● 1591 - Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai

● 1639 - Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard

● 1656 - Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam

● 1660 - A statute was passed limiting the sale of slaves in the colony of Virginia.

● 1677 - Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000

● 1687 - Father Eusebio Kino, 42, an Italian-born Jesuit in the service of Spain, began missionary labors in the American Southwest. In all, Kino established 25 Indian missions in the area now divided between northern Mexico and Arizona.

● 1735 - 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany

● 1759 - 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

● 1777 - The U.S. Congress ordered its European envoys to appeal to high-ranking foreign officers to send troops to reinforce the American army.

● 1781 - Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)

● 1804 - Birth of James W. Alexander, American Presbyterian clergyman and hymn writer. It was Alexander who, in 1830, rendered the English text of Paul Gerhardt's immortal German hymn, "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded."

● 1835 - Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing

● 1846 - Ballinglass Incident: eviction of 300 tenants at the village of Ballinglass in Ireland during the Irish Potato famine.

● 1852 - The New York "Lantern" newspaper published the first "Uncle Sam cartoon". It was drawn by Frank Henry Bellew.

● 1855 - Percival Lowell, the American astronomer who helped discover Pluto and believed that there was life on Mars, was born.

● 1858 - Birth of Maximilien Luce (1858-1941), Paris. Painter, engraver, anarchist. In 1894, Luce was imprisoned, indicted as a "dangerous anarchist" whose drawings were judged "inciting people to revolt." Luce produced a series of lithographs based on this prison experience, accompanied with text by Jules Valles.

● 1861 - Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers

● 1862 - American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.

● 1864 - First contingent of 14,030 Navajo reach Fort Sumner, New Mexico during the Long Walk of the Navajo, a 400-mile forced march in which thousands died.

● 1865 - American Civil War: The Confederate States of America reluctantly agrees to the use of African American troops.

● 1868 - Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial

● 1868 - Birth of Charles E. Cowman, American missionary pioneer. In 1901 he sailed to Japan with his wife Lettie (who later authored "Streams in the Desert"), where in 1910 they founded the Oriental Missionary Society.

● 1869 - Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law

● 1877 - Chester Greenwood patented the earmuff.

● 1881 - Russian nihilists assassinate Czar Alexander II with a bomb. Carried out by the group "Will of the People" which hopes to ignite a social revolution. Nikolai Kibaltchitch, Sofia Petrovskaïa, Nikolai Rissakov, Gavril Mikhanlov, Jehabov, are arrested and condemned to death. Hessa Hefmann is sent to Siberia. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)

● 1884 - The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins (ends on January 26, 1885).

● 1884 - US adopts Standard Time

● 1887 - Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs

● 1888 - Great Blizzard of 1888 rages

● 1894 - J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate

● 1895 - Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die

● 1897 - San Diego State University founded.

● 1900 - Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.

● 1900 - In France, length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law

● 1901 - Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, died in Indianapolis at age 67.

● 1901 - Andrew Carnegie announced that he was retiring from business and that he would spend the rest of his days giving away his fortune. His net worth was estimated at $300 million.

● 1902 - In Poland, schools were shut down across the country when students refused to sing the Russian hymn "God Protect the Czar."

● 1902 - Andrew Carnegie approved 40 applications from libraries for donations.

● 1904 - "The Christ of the Andes", a bronze statue of Christ located on the Argentina-Chile border, was formally dedicated.

● 1906 - Suffragist Susan B. Anthony died at age 86.

● 1908 - The people of Jerusalem saw an automobile for the first time. The owner was Charles Glidden of Boston.

● 1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court approved corporate tax law.

● 1913 - Kansas legislature approves censorship of motion pictures

● 1915 - The Germans repelled a British expeditionary force attack in France.

● 1918 - Women were scheduled to march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York due to a shortage of men due to wartime.

● 1918 - American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms

● 1920 - Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails

● 1921 - Mongolia, under Black Baron, declares its independence from China.

● 1923 - Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York NY)

● 1924 - German Republic day

● 1925 - Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signed legislation prohibiting the teaching of evolution within the state's public school system. (A celebrated violation of this law led to the famous July Scopes Monkey Trial.)

● 1928 - 450 die in St Franciso Valley Dam burst (California)

● 1930 - Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory

● 1933 - Great Depression: Banks in the United States begin to re-open after the Presidentially mandated "bank holiday".

● 1933 - Josef Göbbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda

● 1935 - Three-thousand-year-old archives were found in Jerusalem confirming some biblical history.

● 1935 - Driving tests introduced in Great Britain

● 1938 - Defense attorney Clarence S. Darrow died at age 80.

● 1938 - After having invaded the previous day, German army takes over Austria and applies anti-Jewish laws.

● 1940 - Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische

● 1941 - A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)

● 1941 - Adolf Hitler issued an edict calling for an invasion of the U.S.S.R.

● 1942 - Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army

● 1943 - New crematoriums open in Auschwitz. Ribbon-cutting ceremony features bunting, a band, a weenie roast...

● 1943 - Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight

● 1943 - World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.

● 1943 - Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.

● 1944 - USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government

● 1945 - Pax Christi founded, France.

● 1945 - Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands

● 1945 - Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman

● 1946 - Reports from Iran indicated that Soviet tanks units were stationed 20 miles from Tehran.

● 1946 - Premier Tito seized wartime collaborator General Draja Mikhailovich in a cave in Yugoslavia.

● 1950 - General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)

● 1951 - 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms

● 1951 - Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany

● 1954 - Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu

● 1955 - Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal

● 1957 - Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba

● 1957 - The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery.

● 1958 - Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia

● 1961 - Labor organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is elected chair of the National Committee of the Communist Party, U.S.A. In 1953, Flynn declined a federal judge's offer to deport her and 12 others to the Soviet Union on conspiracy charges (quote) - "We have no desire to enjoy the fruits of socialism in a land where we did not work for it." Instead, Flynn and the others received three-year jail sentences and fines of 6,000 dollars apiece.

● 1961 - Five Britons accused of spying for Moscow; Three men and two women go on trial at the Old Bailey charged with plotting to pass secrets to the Russians.

● 1961 - JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress

● 1961 - Landslide in USSR, kills 145

● 1961 - Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender

● 1962 - Wing Luke becomes the first non-white to be elected to the Seattle City Council, and the highest Asian-American elected official in the continental U.S.

● 1962 - Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty

● 1962 - Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the USA, proposes a document, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks in Guantanamo Bay to Secretary of Defense Robert Mcnamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.

● 1963 - China invited Soviet President Khrushchev to visit Peking.

● 1963 - 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska

● 1963 - Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations

● 1964 - Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack

● 1964 - A young woman, Kitty Genovese is murdered in front of multiple witnesses who all fail to help her, in an incident which shocks the world and prompts investigation into the Bystander effect.

● 1967 - United Farm Workers (UFW) wins a contract with the Christian Brothers Winery.

● 1967 - Congo sentences ex-premier Moïse Tsjombe to death

● 1967 - Protest over student suspensions; Hundreds of students at the London School of Economics are staging a sit-in over disciplinary action taken against two union officials.

● 1968 - Clouds of nerve gas drift outside the Army's Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, poisoning 6,400 sheep in nearby Skull Valley.

● 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.

● 1970 - Conservative victory in first teen election; Tom King trebles the Tory majority in the first by-election in which 18-year-olds can vote.

● 1970 - A group calling itself "Revolutionary Force 9" takes credit for three bombings in New York City. The “New York Times” notes a "possible connection to the Beatles song `Revolution 9.'"

● 1970 - Cambodia ordered Hanoi and Viet Cong troops to leave.

● 1970 - 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam

● 1970 - Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer

● 1970 - San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike

● 1973 - Syria adopts constitution

● 1974 - The U.S. Senate voted 54-33 to restore the death penalty.

● 1974 - An embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries was lifted.

● 1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris France

● 1978 - Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house

● 1979 - European Monetary System is established, ECU created

● 1979 - The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.

● 1980 - Members of Iroquois and Lakota request European Parliament's support to gain international recognition for their rights.

● 1980 - A jury in Winamac, IN, found Ford Motor Company innocent of reckless homicide in the deaths of three young women that had been riding in a Ford Pinto.

● 1981 - Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca

● 1983 - El Salvador - Marianela García Vilas, founder of the Human Rights Commission, assassinated.

● 1983 - Nkomo flees Zimbabwe 'death threats'; The Zimbabwe opposition leader flies into London as his country appears to be on the brink of civil war.

● 1984 - Acting Pres. Reagan agrees to cleanup South Pacific's Bikini Atoll of nuclear contamination so Bikinians can return, over 30 years after above- ground nuclear tests forced them out of their lands.

● 1985 - Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)

● 1986 - Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir

● 1986 - Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet

● 1986 - Microsoft has its Initial public offering.

● 1987 - John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering

● 1988 - Five hundred Palestinian police resign in protest of Israeli policies in occupied territory.

● 1988 - I. King Jordan becomes the first Deaf president of Gallaudet University after the Deaf President Now demonstrations.

● 1989 - Tibet demonstrations against Chinese rule.

● 1989 - Germany - Neo-Nazis win 6% of the vote in Hesse, Frankfurt.

● 1989 - FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US

● 1989 - US space shuttle STS-29 launched

● 1990 - The U.S. lifted economic sanctions against Nicaragua.

● 1990 - Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada

● 1991 - The United States Justice Department announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

● 1992 - In eastern Turkey, an earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500.

● 1992 - FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)

● 1993 - Janet Reno becomes first woman to be appointed U.S. Attorney General. Incineration at Waco soon follows.

● 1993 - The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Québec.

● 1994 - 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FPÖ

● 1994 - Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)

● 1994 - President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed

● 1995 - Anti fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms

● 1995 - Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators

● 1995 - The first United Nations World Summit on Social Development concluded in Copenhagen, Denmark.

● 1996 - Mississippi lawmakers took away a commendation to Glen Ballard, who produced Alanis Morisseette's "Jagged Little Pill" LP. Some of the lawmakers were offended by the lyrics of "You Oughta Know."

● 1996 - Licensed gun enthusiast shoots dead 16 children and their teacher, Dunblane Primary School, Dunblane, Scotland.

● 1997 - Five hundred people detained around the country in protests as former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet is made "Senator-for-Life." The move also gave Pinochet permanent immunity within Chile (where he has now returned, following his prosecution in Europe) from prosecution for the thousands of people butchered under his regime.

● 1997 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.

● 1997 - In Phoenix, Arizona, USA, the Phoenix Lights, one of the most widely witnessed UFO sightings, take place.

● 1998 - Sgt. Maj. Gene McKinney, at one time the U.S. Army's top enlisted man, was acquitted of pressuring military women for sex. He was convicted of trying to persuade the chief accuser to lie. He was reprimanded and had his rank reduced.

● 2003 - Japan sent a destroyer to the Sea of Japan amid reports that North Korea was planning to test an intermediate-range ballistic missile.

● 2003 - A report in the journal "Nature" reported that scientists had found 350,000-year-old human footprints in Italy. The 56 prints were made by three early, upright-walking humans that were descending the side of a volcano.

● 2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints have been found in Italy.

● 2006 - Earthquake struck Salta, Argentina

● 2006 - Six men in London are hospitalized during trials of the drug TGN1412, raising concerns about testing on humans.

BIRTHS

● 1372 - Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407)

● 1594 - Montdory, French actor (d. 1653)

● 1615 - Pope Innocent XII (d. 1700)

● 1683 - John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (d. 1744)

● 1700 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (d. 1768)

● 1719 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (d. 1797)

● 1720 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)

● 1733 - Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister (d. 1804)

● 1741 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790)

● 1763 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (d. 1815)

● 1764 - Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1830-34) (d. 1845)

● 1781 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect (d. 1841)

● 1784 - Jean Moufot, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1842)

● 1798 - Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (d. 1853)

● 1815 - James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (d. 1911)

● 1855 - Percival Lowell, American astronomer (d. 1916)

● 1860 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903)

● 1864 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941)

● 1870 - William Glackens, American artist (d. 1938)

● 1870 - Albert Meyer, member of the Swiss Federal Council in the 1930s (d. 1953)

● 1884 - Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist (d. 1941)

● 1886 - Albert Stevens, American army officer, balloonist and aerial photographer (d. 1949)

● 1892 - Janet Flanner, American writer and Paris correspondent for The New Yorker (d. 1978)

● 1899 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)

● 1899 - Jan Lechoń, Polish poet

● 1900 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)

● 1900 - Giorgos Seferis, Greek-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

● 1908 - Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2002)

● 1910 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)

● 1910 - Sammy Kaye, American musician (d. 1987)

● 1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, American author (d. 1986)

● 1913 - William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (1981-87) (d. 1987)

● 1913 - Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer

● 1914 - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (d. 1943)

● 1914 - W.O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (d. 1998)

● 1921 - Al Jaffee, American cartoonist

● 1925 - Roy Haynes, Jazz drummer

● 1926 - Raúl Alfonsín, President of Argentina

● 1926 - Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)

● 1927 - Robert Denning, interior designer (d. 2005)

● 1929 - Peter Breck, American actor

● 1930 - Rosalind Elias, Opera singer

● 1930 - Jan Howard, American singer

● 1930 - Liz Anderson, American singer

● 1933 - Mike Stoller, American songwriter

● 1934 - Barry Hughart, American author

● 1935 - Michael Walzer, American philosopher

● 1935 - Leslie Parrish, American actress

● 1938 - Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002)

● 1939 - Neil Sedaka, American singer and songwriter

● 1942 - Dave Cutler, American software engineer

● 1942 - Scatman John, American singer (d. 1999)

● 1945 - Michael Martin Murphey, American musician

● 1945 - Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician

● 1946 - Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (d. 1976)

● 1947 - Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist

● 1949 - Julia Migenes, American soprano

● 1950 - William H. Macy, American actor

● 1951 - Fred Berry, American actor and dancer (d. 2003)

● 1952 - Wolfgang Rihm, German composer

● 1953 - Deborah Raffin, Actress

● 1954 - Robin Duke, Comedian

● 1955 - Glenne Headly, Actress

● 1955 - Bruno Conti, Italian footballer

● 1956 - Dana Delany, Actress (''China Beach'')

● 1957 - John Hoeven, Governor of North Dakota

● 1957 - Steve Lake, baseball player

● 1960 - Adam Clayton, English bassist (U2)

● 1960 - Joe Ranft, Pixar animator (d. 2005)

● 1960 - Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist

● 1962 - Terrence Blanchard, Jazz trumpeter

● 1963 - Fito Páez, Argentine musician and songwriter.

● 1964 - Will Clark, baseball player

● 1967 - Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994)

● 1968 - Christopher Collet, Actor

● 1968 - Akira Nogami, Japanese professional wrestler

● 1970 - Tim Story, American film director

● 1971 - Tracy Wells, Actress

● 1971 - Annabeth Gish, American actress

● 1971 - Robert Lanham, American author and satirist

● 1972 - Khujo, Rapper (Goodie Mob)

● 1972 - Trent Dilfer, Football player

● 1972 - Common, American rapper

● 1973 - Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer

● 1973 - Bobby Jackson, American basketballer

● 1973 - David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed)

● 1974 - Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player

● 1975 - Glenn Lewis, R&B singer

● 1976 - Danny Masterson, American actor (''That 70s Show'')

● 1977 - Ed Sloan, American musician, member of Crossfade

● 1977 - Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer

● 1978 - Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian dancer

● 1979 - Johan Santana, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player

● 1979 - Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)

● 1980 - Lee Jung-hyun, South Korean pop singer and actress

● 1981 - Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player

● 1983 - Mallory R. Evans, American writer and artist

● 1983 - Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer

● 1984 - Nanri Yuuka, Japanese seiyū

● 1984 - Pieter Custers, Dutch athlete

● 1985 - Emile Hirsch, American actor

● 1986 - Natalie Albino, American musicians (Nina Sky)

● 1986 - Nicole Albino, American musicians (Nina Sky)

● 1986 - Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol

● 1987 - Marco Andretti, American racecar driver (grandson of Mario Andretti)

● 1989 - Harry Melling, British actor

DEATHS

● 1271 - Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235)

● 1395 - John Barbour, Scottish poet

● 1516 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)

● 1569 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French Huguenot general (b. 1530)

● 1573 - Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman

● 1604 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)

● 1619 - Richard Burbage, English actor (b. 1567)

● 1711 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)

● 1778 - Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)

● 1803 - William Emes, English landscape architect (b. 1729 or 1730)

● 1808 - King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)

● 1842 - Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (b. 1761)

● 1854 - Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle, French statesman (b. 1773)

● 1879 - Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (b. 1818)

● 1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818)

● 1884 - Leland Stanford, Jr., American railroad magnate (b. 1868)

● 1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)

● 1906 - Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage activist (b. 1820)

● 1911 - John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1844)

● 1918 - César Cui, Russian composer (b. 1835)

● 1925 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909)

● 1938 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)

● 1938 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857)

● 1943 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)

● 1949 - Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)

● 1955 - King Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906)

● 1965 - Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)

● 1965 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882)

● 1972 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941)

● 1975 - Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

● 1983 - Louison Bobet, French cyclist (b. 1925)

● 1988 - John Holmes, American actor (b. 1944)

● 1990 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (b. 1903)

● 1991 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)

● 1995 - Leon Day, American baseball player (b. 1916)

● 1996 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (b. 1941)

● 1998 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)

● 1998 - Hans von Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911)

● 1999 - Garson Kanin, American writer and director (b. 1912)

● 2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)

● 2004 - Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)

● 2006 - Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)

● 2006 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (b. 1942)

● 2006 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Catholic Church:
● St. Agnellus of Pisa
● St. Ansovinus
● St. Eufrasia
● St. Gerald
● St. Heldrad
● St. Kevoca
● St. Leticia
● St. Macedonius
● St. Mochoemoc
● St. Modesta
● St. Nicephorus
● St. Ramirus and Companions
● Sts. Roderic and Salomon
● St. Sabinus
● St. Theusetas
● St. Urpasian
● Bl. Agnello of Pisa

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 30 (Civil Date: March 13)
● St. Nicephorus

● Christian:
● St. Ansovinus

● Cuba : Attack on the Presidential Palace

● Liberia : Decoration Day

● US : Good Samaritan Involvement Day

● 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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