45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda
180 – Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius dies leaving his son Commodus aged 18 as sole emperor
432 – Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date)
1190 – Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
1756 – St. Patrick’s Day is first celebrated in NYC at the Crown & Thistle Tavern
1762 -The first St. Patrick’s Day parade was held in New York City.
1775 – Transylvania Land Company, headed by Richard Henderson, buys most of Kentucky through treaty signed with Cherokee chiefs at Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga River (later declared illegal)
1842 – Treaty of 1842: Wyandotte (Huron) Indian nation cedes 114,000 acres of land in Ohio and Michigan to US, in exchange for 148,000 acres west of the Mississippi
1860 – Six years after the forcible ending of Japan’s isolationist policy by US Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry, the Japanese Embassy arrives in San Francisco to sign a Treaty of Friendship
1876 – General Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux Indian camps
1894 – US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
1919 – Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages
1930 – Construction begins of the Empire State Building, the world’s 1st skyscraper of 100+ stories, on 5th Avenue in New York City
1942 – Gen. Douglas MacArthur became supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific theater during World War II.
1955 – After Maurice Richard is suspended for the remainder of the season, riots break out in Montreal. 37 people are injured and over 100 are arrested. The following morning, Richard goes on the radio to ask citizens to stop vandalizing the city.
1960 – US President Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1969 – Golda Meir becomes Israel’s first female Prime Minister – In her country, Meir was known as the “Iron Lady” long before British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher rose to power.
1976 – Boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter is retried in the US after being convicted of murder in 1967 (sentence is upheld but overturned 1985)
1976 – 4 Catholic civilians (including 2 children) are killed and twelve wounded when the Ulster Volunteer Force explode a car bomb at Hillcrest Bar, Dungannon
1991 – New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70%
1992 – Apartheid in South Africa comes to an end – In a referendum, 68.7% of white South Africans voted for an abolishment of racial segregation in the country.
1993 – 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
1995 – US approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
2000 – The 800+ deaths of members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult
2001 – OPEC decides to cut output by 4% or 1 million barrels per day, effective April 1
2003 – President Bush delivered an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein: leave Iraq within 48 hours or face an attack
2008 – New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. David Paterson becomes acting New York State governor.
2014 – The Republic of Crimea is declared
2019 – Facebook removes 1.5 million videos of the Christchurch mosque shootings in first 24 hrs after the attack, although only 1.2 million blocked at upload
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
