March 8......

March 8 is the 67th (68th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 298 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

● 1586 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch chief legal advisor

● 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.

● 1658 - Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark

● 1698 - The first meeting convened of the British group which later formed the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK).

● 1702 - Very unexpectedly, Anne Stuart, the sister of the childless Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland and Ireland after the death of William III of Orange.

● 1706 - Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established

● 1711 - Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder

● 1711 - In this date's edition of "The Spectator," English essayist Joseph Addison wrote: 'To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.'

● 1722 - Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia

● 1740 - Colonial revivalist Gilbert Tennent, 37, preached his famous sermon, "The Danger of An Unconverted Ministry." The message, assaulting opponents of the Great Awakening, contributed to the first schism within the American Presbyterian Church between the Old Side and New Side. (In 1758 the two divisions were reunited.)

● 1746 - Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen

● 1754 - Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain

● 1766 - Willem V (18) becomes Governor of United Provinces

● 1782 - Glikhikan, a Delaware warrior, was murdered and scalped by "white savages" under Col. D. Williamson.

● 1782 - Gnadenhütten massacre: Almost 100 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio had their skulls crushed with mallets by Pennsylvanian militiamen.

● 1801 - British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt

● 1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.

● 1838 - US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes)

● 1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, the United States Supreme Court justice, was born.

● 1844 - King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway.

● 1853 - The first bronze statue of Andrew Jackson is unveiled in Washington, DC.

● 1854 - US Commodore Matthew C Perry's 2nd trip to Japan

● 1855 - 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls

● 1861 - St Augustine FL surrenders to Union armies

● 1862 - Captain Nathaniel Gordon becomes last pirate to be hung in U.S.

● 1862 - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal

● 1862 - Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads VA: CSS Virginia, Jamestown & Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress & Monitor

● 1862 - American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.

● 1865 - Battle of Kingston NC (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks)

● 1880 - U.S. President Rutherford B. Hays declared that the United States would have jurisdiction over any canal built across the isthmus of Panama.

● 1874 - Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States, died in Buffalo, N.Y., at age 74.

● 1884 - Susan B. Anthony testifies before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote.

● 1887 - Everett Horton, Connecticut, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes

● 1887 - Death of Henry Ward Beecher, 73, American clergyman and social reformer. His last words were: 'Going out into life" that is dying.'

● 1894 - New York passes 1st state dog license law

● 1896 - Volunteers of America forms (New York NY)

● 1899 - Frankfurter Fußball-Club Victoria von 1899, prequel for Eintracht Frankfurt is founded

● 1904 - The Bundestag in Germany lifted the ban on the Jesuit order of priests.

● 1905 - In Russia, it was reported that the peasant revolt was spreading to Georgia.

● 1906 - U.S. troops occupying the Philippines attack the stronghold of an "unruly" band of hill Moros, mowing the stubborn tribespeople down with a combination of artillery fire and infantry assaults. All the Moros -- men, women and children -- were wiped out, whereupon Pres. Theodore Roosevelt congratulated the Americans for "a brilliant feat of arms wherein you...upheld the honor of the American flag." Eight years ago, in 1898, philosopher William James and other prominent U.S. intellectuals formed the Anti-Imperialist League to educate the public on the horrors of U.S. policy in the Philippines. Despite the group's efforts, however, there is no great public outcry, and U.S. domination of the Philippines continues.

● 1907 - The British House of Commons turned down a women's suffrage bill.

● 1908 - Thousands of workers in the NY needle trades (primarily women) demonstrate and begin a strike for higher wages, shorter workday and an end to child labor. Becomes the basis for International Women's Day.

● 1908 - Collingwood Elementary (Cleveland) burns, kills 173 kids & 2 teachers

● 1908 - Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, New York

● 1909 - Pope Pius X lifted the church ban on interfaith marriages in Hungary.

● 1910 - The King of Spain authorized women to attend universities.

● 1910 - Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris France becomes 1st licensed female pilot

● 1911 - International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time.

● 1911 - British Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Gray declared that Britain would not support France in the event of a military conflict.

● 1913 - Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes

● 1915 - 1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned

● 1916 - US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime

● 1917 - Russia's "February Revolution" began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg. The revolution was called the "February Revolution" due to Russia's use of the Old Style calendar.

● 1917 - The United States Senate adopts the cloture rule in order to limit filibusters.

● 1918 - The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating pandemic.

● 1920 - Denmark & Cuba join the League of Nations

● 1921 - French troops occupied Dusseldorf.

● 1921 - Grigori Petrovitch Maximov, Russian anarcho-trade unionist, is imprisoned, along with the other members of the NABAT. Not released until autumn, following a hunger strike, when he is expelled from Russia with Voline.

● 1921 - Russia - The Communists begin an air raid on the peaceful population of Kronstadt. The Provisional Revolutionary Committee of Kronstadt appeals by radiotelegram to workers around the world to publicize their plight.

● 1921 - Spain - President Eduardo Dato assassinated in Madrid by metallurgists of the CNT, Luis Nicolau, Pedro Mateu, and Ramon Castenellas. Dato was in charge of anti-trade-union repression in Barcelona, responsible for several deaths; seven weeks previous, three imprisoned trade unionists were the first victims of the "law of escape" -- that is, being "set free" only to be shot down moments later.

● 1921 - The United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia was organized at Ebenezer, in South Australia. In 1966 the UELCA united with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia (ELCA) to form the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA).

● 1924 - Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah

● 1929 - US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia

● 1930 - William Howard Taft, the 27th president and a former chief justice of the United States, died in Washington, D.C., at age 72.

● 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India

● 1931 - Writer John McPhee born, Princeton, New Jersey.

● 1933 - Self-liquidating scrip money was issued for the first time at Franklin, IN.

● 1934 - Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars

● 1936 - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.

● 1941 - Martial law was proclaimed in Holland in order to extinguish any anti-Nazi protests.

● 1942 - World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.

● 1942 - World War II: Japan captures Rangoon, Burma.

● 1943 - 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg

● 1943 - Limited gambling legalized in Mexico

● 1943 - World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that will last five days.

● 1944 - US resumes bombing Berlin

● 1945 - 53 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers

● 1945 - International Women's Day is 1st observed

● 1945 - Phyllis Mae Daley received a commission in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. She later became the first African-American nurse to serve in active duty in World War II.

● 1946 - In New York City, the "Journal American" became the first commercial business to receive a helicopter license.

● 1946 - The French naval fleet arrived at Haiphong, Vietnam.

● 1947 - American suffragist Carrie Catt uhapman dies, New Rochelle, New York.

● 1948 - The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.

● 1950 - The Soviet Union claims to have an atomic bomb.

● 1950 - 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)

● 1951 - The Honeymoon Killers die in electric chair.

● 1952 - Antoine Pinay becomes Prime Minister of France.

● 1953 - Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years

● 1954 - France and Vietnam opened talks in Paris on a treaty to form the state of Indochina.

● 1955 - World Peace Council launches drive to ban all nuclear weapons.

● 1957 - Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships

● 1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test

● 1958 - William Faulkner says US schools degenerated to become babysitters

● 1959 - Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq

● 1961 - US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hours

● 1961 - Max Conrad circled the globe in a record time of eight days, 18 hours and 49 minutes in the Piper Aztec.

● 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1963 - Syrian Arab Republic Revolution Day: Military coup in Syria

● 1964 - Malcolm X announces split with Nation of Islam.

● 1965 - Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.

● 1966 - Australia announced that it would triple the number of troops in Vietnam.

● 1966 - A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.

● 1968 - Students demonstrate in Warsaw

● 1970 - About 70 Native American activists briefly occupy Fort Lawton as the federal government negotiates with the city of Seattle over how to use the surplus military land. Thirteen arrested. Eventually activists win donation of some of land for Daybreak Star Cultural Center.

● 1971 - Members of the "Citizens Committee to Investigate the F.B.I." break into an F.B.I. office in suburban Philadelphia, and later publish files revealing the existence of the F.B.I.'s COINTELPRO program harassing domestic political dissidents.

● 1971 - The Union of Nova Scotia Indians, claiming immunity under Canada's Indian Act, announces it will no longer pay provincial taxes on Indian lands.

● 1971 - Post strike ends with pay deal; British postal workers go back to work after seven weeks on strike.

● 1972 - 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)

● 1972 - 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp

● 1972 - TWA jet explodes at Las Vegas airport; Bomb explodes in the cockpit of a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 at Las Vegas airport.

● 1973 - Two bombs exploded near Trafalgar Square in Great Britain. 234 people were injured.

● 1973 - Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest, opens. {This tunnel that is tiled with ceramic tiles looks very much like the world's longest urinal.}

● 1973 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.

● 1975 - Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba

● 1976 - 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China

● 1977 - Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond

● 1977 - Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter)

● 1979 - 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io)

● 1979 - China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam

● 1979 - Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale

● 1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1982 - The U.S. accused the Soviets of killing 3,000 Afghans with poison gas.

● 1982 - Cathedral occupied for fast for right to live in "white areas," Cape Town, South Africa.

● 1982 - Two U.S. high school boys with ambition to be mercenaries, arm themselves and attempt a military "coup d'etat" at their high school.

● 1983 - La Ragnatela (Spider's Web) Women's Peace Camp created at Comiso, Sicily, Italy, the first overseas site for U.S. cruise missiles.

● 1983 - House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR

● 1983 - Acting Pres. Reagan tells a national convention of evangelicals that the Soviet Union is "the focus of evil in the modern world...an evil empire." Says historian Henry Steele Commager - "It was the worst presidential speech in American history, and I've read them all."

● 1985 - Women from Eastern and Western Europe invite all citizens to sign petition for denuclearization.

● 1985 - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reported that 407,700 Americans were millionaires. That was more than double the total from just five years before.

● 1985 - A car-bombing in Beirut in front of the mosque kills 85 people and injures 175.

● 1986 - Four French television crewmembers were abducted in west Beirut. All four were eventually released.

● 1986 - Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km

● 1987 - FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in California

● 1987 - The Wampanoag tribe of Gay Head, Mass. gain federal recognition.

● 1988 - Ten arrested in police raid on Union of the Homeless tent city, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

● 1988 - In Fort Campbell, KY, 17 U.S. soldiers were killed when two Army helicopters collided in midair.

● 1989 - In Lhasa, Tibet, martial law was declared after three days of protest against Chinese rule.

● 1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 1st victim, Mario Orosco

● 1991 - Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists & 2 American soldiers it captured

● 1991 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1993 - Women's Strike Day in cities across Germany protests anti-abortion court ruling.

● 1994 - B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, at least 8 killed

● 1994 - Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces

● 1994 - Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47

● 1995 - -26ºF (-32.2ºC) in Bismarck ND

● 1995 - -44ºF (-42.2ºC) in Chosedacharad, Komi-district, on 67ºN

● 1995 - Costis Stephanopoulos becomes President of Greece

● 1995 - Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections

● 1999 - Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio died at age 84.

● 1999 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh.

● 1999 - The White House, under President Bill Clinton, directed the firing of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee from his job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The firing was a result of alleged security violations.

● 2000 - A collision between two Tokyo Metro trains kills 5 people.

● 2001 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted for an across-the-board tax cut of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade.

● 2004 - Abul Abbas, the Palestinian guerrilla leader who planned the hijacking of the Achille Lauro passenger ship, died while in U.S. custody in Baghdad, Iraq.

● 2004 - A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.

● 2005 - In norther Chechnya, Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov was killed during a raid by Russian forces.

BIRTHS

● 1286 - John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341)

● 1495 - Giovanni Rosso, Italian painter and decorator (d. 1540)

● 1514 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)

● 1560 - Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (d. 1613)

● 1659 - Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (d. 1738)

● 1712 - John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780)

● 1714 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)

● 1726 - Richard Howe, British admiral (d. 1799)

● 1746 - André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)

● 1748 - William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic

● 1783 - Hannah Van Buren, wife of American president Martin Van Buren (d. 1819)

● 1799 - Simon Cameron, U.S. Secretary of War (d. 1889)

● 1814 - Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878)

● 1822 - Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish inventor (d. 1882)

● 1827 - John Crerar, American railway industrialist (d. 1889)

● 1827 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)

● 1830 - João de Deus, Portuguese poet (d. 1896)

● 1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1935)

● 1856 - William Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (1912-29) (d. 1929)

● 1856 - Tom Roberts, Australian artist (d. 1931)

● 1857 - Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian opera composer (d. 1919)

● 1859 - Kenneth Grahame, English author (d. 1932)

● 1865 - Frederic Goudy, American type designer (d. 1947)

● 1872 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (d. 1918)

● 1879 - Otto Hahn, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

● 1886 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)

● 1899 - Elmer Keith, Firearms enthusiast and Author (d. 1984)

● 1902 - Louise Beavers, American actress (d. 1962)

● 1907 - Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)

● 1909 - Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)

● 1911 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (d. 2000)

● 1912 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)

● 1914 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)

● 1915 - Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (d. 1979)

● 1916 - John Seybold, American economist and computer typesetting pioneer (d. 2004)

● 1918 - Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)

● 1921 - Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer

● 1922 - Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and mangaka

● 1925 - Warren Bennis, American educator and author

● 1927 - Dick Hyman, American pianist, conductor, and composer

● 1928 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (d. 1990)

● 1930 - Bob Grim, baseball player (d. 1996)

● 1931 - John McPhee, American writer and professor

● 1931 - Neil Postman, American cultural critic

● 1936 - Sue Ane Langdon, Actress

● 1936 - Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1982)

● 1937 - Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (d. 1994)

● 1938 - Pete Dawkins, American football player

● 1939 - Jim Bouton, baseball player, author, and entrepreneur

● 1939 - Lidia Skoblikova, Russian skater

● 1939 - Robert Tear, Welsh tenor

● 1940 - Susan Clark, Canadian actress

● 1942 - Ann Packer, British athlete

● 1942 - Dick Allen, baseball player

● 1943 - Lynn Redgrave, English actress

● 1944 - Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer

● 1944 - Pepé Romero, Spanish guitarist

● 1945 - Jim Chapman, American politician

● 1945 - Micky Dolenz, American musician (The Monkees)

● 1945 - Anselm Kiefer, German painter

● 1946 - Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles, Poco)

● 1947 - Mike Allsup, American musician (Three Dog Night)

● 1947 - Carole Bayer Sager, American composer

● 1948 - Peggy March, Singer

● 1952 - George Felix Allen, Former U.S. Senator from Virginia

● 1953 - Bob Brozman, American musician

● 1954 - Cheryl Baker, British singer (Bucks Fizz)

● 1954 - David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer

● 1955 - Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 30 May 1981)

● 1956 - John Kapelos, Canadian actor

● 1957 - Clive Burr, British musician, former drummer for Iron Maiden

● 1957 - Cynthia Rothrock, American actress and martial artist

● 1958 - Gary Numan, British singer

● 1959 - Aidan Quinn, American actor

● 1960 - Jimmy Dormire, Country musician (Confederate Railroad)

● 1961 - Camryn Manheim, American actress (''The Practice,'' "Ghost Whisperer")

● 1961 - Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1963 - Kathy Ireland, American model and actress

● 1963 - Lorelei, American fetish model, photographer

● 1965 - Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer

● 1968 - Michael Bartels, German race car driver

● 1968 - Shawn Mullins, Rock singer (The Thorns)

● 1969 - Andrea Parker, American actress, ballet dancer

● 1970 - Jason Elam, American football player

● 1972 - Angie Hart, Australian pop singer

● 1972 - Fergal O'Brien, Irish snooker player

● 1972 - Georgios Georgiadis, Greek footballer

● 1973 - Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer (The Gathering)

● 1973 - Boris Kodjoe, Austrian model

● 1973 - Kurt Mollekens, Belgian racing car driver

● 1975 - Fardeen Khan, Indian Actor

● 1975 - Peggy Zina, Greek singer

● 1976 - Hines Ward, American football player

● 1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor

● 1976 - Juan Encarnacion, baseball player

● 1976 - Gaz Coombes, English singer (Supergrass)

● 1977 - James Van Der Beek, American actor (''Dawson's Creek'')

● 1977 - Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer

● 1979 - Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane)

● 1979 - Nick Zano, American actor

● 1981 - Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer

● 1982 - Nicoleta Onel, Romanian gymnast

● 1982 - Nicolas Armindo, race car driver

● 1982 - Leonidas Kabantais, Greek footballer

● 1983 - Charles Coventry, Zimbabwean crickete

● 1991 - Devon Werkheiser, American actor

● 1992 - Charlie Ray, American actress

● 1993 - Joseph Schneider, All-American goalie and soon to be cretin alumni

DEATHS

● 1126 - Urraca of Castile (b. 1082)

● 1144 - Pope Celestine II

● 1202 - Sverre of Norway

● 1223 - Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish chronicler (b. 1161)

● 1641 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b. 1587)

● 1674 - Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)

● 1702 - William III of England (b. 1650)

● 1731 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)

● 1757 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701)

● 1771 - Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688)

● 1844 - Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)

● 1869 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (b. 1803)

● 1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)

● 1887 - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)

● 1887 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (b. 1820)

● 1889 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor (b. 1803)

● 1923 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)

● 1923 - Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (b. 1835)

● 1930 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States (b. 1857)

● 1941 - Sherwood Anderson, American author, (b. 1876)

● 1942 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (b. 1888)

● 1961 - Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879)

● 1971 - Harold Lloyd, American actor (b. 1893)

● 1972 - Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (b. 1899)

● 1973 - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (b. 1945)

● 1975 - George Stevens, American director (b. 1904)

● 1976 - Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908)

● 1983 - William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)

● 1985 - Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)

● 1988 - Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer (b. 1961)

● 1988 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)

● 1993 - Billy Eckstine, American musician (b. 1914)

● 1998 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)

● 1999 - Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)

● 1999 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)

● 1999 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinean writer (b.1914)

● 2001 - Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)

● 2003 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)

● 2003 - Karen Morley, American actress (b. 1909)

● 2004 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)

● 2005 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen leader (b. 1951)

● 2005 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Arian and Companions
● St. Beoadh
● St. Cyrillus of Africa
● St. Duthac
● St. Humfried of Terwaan
● St. Philemon (d. 305)
● St. John of God, confessor
● St. Julian of Toledo
● St. Rhian
● St. Senan
● St. Quintilis
● St. Ogmund
● St. Veremundus
● St. Vincent Kadlubek

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 25 (Civil Date: March 8)
● St. Tarasius, Archbishop of Constantinople.
● Hieromartyr Reginus, Bishop of the isle of Skopelos.
● St. Polycarp.
● Martyr Anthony.
● Saints Erasmus and Paphnutius, monks.
● Martyrs Alexander and Hypatius at Marcionopolis.

● Greek Calendar
● St. Theodore, fool-for-Christ.
● St. Marcellus, Bishop of Apamea in Syria.

● Albania, Romania - Mother's Day.

● International Women's Day (United Nations)

● China, Cuba, Mauritania, Mongolia, USSR : International Women's Day

● Egypt, Libya, Syria : Syrian Revolution Day (1963)

● 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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