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.
1531 – King Henry VIII is recognized as the supreme head of the Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury
1618 – Johann Kepler discovered the third Law of Planetary Motion.
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.
1722 – Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
1775 – Thomas Paine’s “African Slavery in America” was published. It was the first article in the United States calling for the emancipation of all slaves and the abolition of slavery
1777 – Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt
1782 – The Gnadenhutten massacre took place. About 90 Indians were killed by militiamen in Ohio in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
1853 – The first bronze statue of Andrew Jackson is unveiled in Washington, DC.
1862 – The Confederate ironclad “Merrimack” was launched.
1880 – U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes declared that the United States would have jurisdiction over any canal built across the isthmus of Panama.
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.
1908 – Collingwood Elementary (Cleveland) burns, kills 173 kids & 2 teachers
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.
1921 – Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato was assassinated while leaving the Parliament in Madrid.
1924 – Coal mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate UT
1929 – US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
1934 – Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
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.
1943 – Japanese forces attacked American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville. The battle lasted five days.
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.
1950 – Marshall Voroshilov of USSR announces they developed atomic bomb
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 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia
1958 – William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters
1959 – Groucho, Chico and Harpo made their final TV appearance together.
1963 – The Ba’ath Party comes to power in Syria in a Coup d’tat by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
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.
1971 – In the Fight of the Century, Joe Frazier triumphs over Muhammad Ali
1973 – Two bombs exploded near Trafalgar Square in Great Britain. 234 people were injured.
1978 – The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1979 – The first extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter’s satellite Io)
1982 – The U.S. accused the Soviets of killing 3,000 Afghans with poison gas.
1983 – House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR
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.
1991 – Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists & 2 American soldiers it captured
1993 – Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
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.
2005 – In norther Chechnya, Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov was killed during a raid by Russian forces.
2013 – North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea
2017 – Aboriginal DNA study by University of Adelaide shows Aboriginal population dates back 50,000 years from one migration
2018 – 5 million Spanish women mark International Women’s Day by striking over gender inequality and sexual discrimination
2021 – US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says COVID-9 pandemic has had an “extremely unfair” effect on income and economic opportunities for women
2022 – Florida Senate passes controversial “Parental Rights in Education bill, known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, restricting teachers from discussing gender identity
2023 – 171 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world’s oceans, increasing from 16 trillion in 2005, estimate scientists from Gyres Institute
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
