1971 – In the Fight of the Century, Joe Frazier triumphs over Muhammad Ali, Ali had been stripped of his World Heavyweight Champion title in 1967 for refusing to serve in the armed forces. As he was still undefeated, Frazier had to beat him to be recognized as the world champion.
1531 – Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury
1618 – Johann Kepler discovered the third Law of Planetary Motion.
1702 – James II’s daughter Anne Stuart becomes Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland following the death of William III
1711 – Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder
1782 – The Gnadenhutten massacre took place. About 90 Indians were killed by militiamen in Ohio in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces capture the city of Jaffa from the Ottoman Empire in Palestine, after a 5 day siege
1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded, The NYSE at 11 Wall Street in New York City is the world’s largest stock exchange.
1844 – King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway
1853 – The first bronze statue of Andrew Jackson is unveiled in Washington, DC.
1862 – The Confederate ironclad “Merrimack” was launched.
1867 – British North America Act is passed in the House of Commons, serves as Canada’s constitution for more than 100 years
1880 – U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes declared that the United States would have jurisdiction over any canal built across the isthmus of Panama.
1884 – Susan B. Anthony addresses U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, 16 years after legislators’ 1st introduced a federal women’s suffrage amendment.
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.
1907 – The British House of Commons turned down a women’s suffrage bill.
1909 – Pope Pius X lifted the church ban on interfaith marriages in Hungary.
1910 – The King of Spain authorized women to attend universities.
1911 – British Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Gray declared that Britain would not support France in the event of a military conflict.
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 – US Senate introduces the Cloture Rule, requiring a two-thirds majority to end debate, at the urging of Woodrow Wilson
1921 – Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato was assassinated while leaving the Parliament in Madrid.
1941 – Martial law was proclaimed in Holland in order to extinguish any anti-Nazi protests
1942 – During World War II, Japanese forces captured Rangoon, Burma.
1945 – Phyllis Mae Daley received a commission in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. She later became the first African-American nurse to serve duty in World War II.
1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools was unconstitutional.
1953 – A census bureau report indicated that 239,000 farmers had quit farming over the last 2 years.
1954 – France and Vietnam opened talks in Paris on a treaty to form the state of Indochina.
1957 – The International Boxing Club was ruled a monopoly putting it in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law.
1958 – William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters
1959 – Groucho, Chico and Harpo made their final TV appearance together.
1965 – The U.S. landed about 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam. They were the first U.S. combat troops to land in Vietnam.
1966 – Australia announced that it would triple the number of troops in Vietnam.
1968 – Bill Graham’s New York rock venue Fillmore East opens in Manhattan
1970 – The Nixon administration discloses the deaths of 27 Americans in Laos.
1971 – In the Fight of the Century, Joe Frazier triumphs over Muhammad Ali, Ali had been stripped of his World Heavyweight Champion title in 1967 for refusing to serve in the armed forces. As he was still undefeated, Frazier had to beat him to be recognized as the world champion.
1973 – Two bombs exploded near Trafalgar Square in Great Britain. 234 people were injured.
1978 – The first episode of the radio comedy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is broadcast
1979 – The compact disc is presented to the public
1982 – The U.S. accused the Soviets of killing 3,000 Afghans with poison gas.
1983 – President Reagan 1st known use of term “Evil Empire” (about the USSR) in speech in Florida
1985 – Thomas Creighton dies after having three heart transplants in a 46-hour period.
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.
1986 – Four French television crewmembers were abducted in west Beirut. All four were eventually released.
1989 – In Lhasa, Tibet, martial law was declared after three days of protest against Chinese rule.
1993 – Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
1999 – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Timothy McVeigh for the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
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.
2001 – The U.S. House of Representatives voted for an across-the-board tax cut of nearly $1 trillion over the next decade.
2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq’s Governing Council after the invasion and occupation by American-led forces
2005 – In northern Chechnya, Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov was killed during a raid by Russian forces.
2012 – Greece secures debt-restructuring deal with private lenders
2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries
2018 – 5 million Spanish women mark International Women’s Day by striking over gender inequality and sexual discrimination
2018 – US President Donald Trump authorizes tariffs on steel and aluminum, excluding Canada and Mexico
2020 – Italy announces it is locking down northern region of Lombardy, including Milan, with 16 million people, as COVID-19 cases reach 5,800 with 233 deaths
2022 – Florida Senate passes controversial “Parental Rights in Education bill, known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, restricting teachers from discussing gender identity
2022 – President Joe Biden announces the US is banning Russian oil imports with UK phasing out imports by the end of the year
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
