Julius Caesar's Last Victory
45 BC In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda
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)
- 455 Roman senator Petronius Maximus proclaimed Emperor
- 1190 Crusades complete the massacre of Jews in York, England
- 1452 Battle of Los Alporchones: forces of Kingdoms of Castile and Murcia defeat Emirate of Granada near Lorca, part of the Spanish Reconquista
- 1537 French troops invade Flanders
- 1580 Prince William I of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
- 1600 The first recorded Saint Patrick's Day celebration in America is held in St. Augustine in Spanish Florida, with the first parade taking place in the same location in 1601, both organized by Catholic Irish vicar Ricardo Artur
- 1722 William IV Prince of Orange appointed mayor of Drente
- 1737 Charitable Irish Society of Boston organizes the first observance of Saint Patrick's Day in the Thirteen Colonies
- 1756 St. Patrick's Day is first celebrated in NYC at the Crown & Thistle Tavern
- 1757 Prince Mas Saïd of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java
- 1762 First Saint Patrick's Day parade is held in NYC
- 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)
- 1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
- 1778 Britain declares war on France, due to French alliance with US
- 1800 British warship HMS Queen Charlotte catches fire off the Tuscan Archipelago; 700 die
- 1804 Friedrich Schiller's play "Wilhelm Tell" premieres
- 1824 Britain & Netherlands sign a trade agreement
Grimaldi Bows Out
1829 Final performance by famous clown Joseph Grimaldi at a benefit performance at Sadler's Wells, London
- 1833 Phoenix Society forms (NY)
- 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
- 1845 Bristol man Henry Jones patents self-raising flour
- 1845 The rubber band is patented by Stephen Perry of London
- 1854 1st park land purchased by a US city in Worcester, Massachusetts
Japanese Embassy to the US
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
- 1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia with 211 causalities
- 1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
- 1870 Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary
- 1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized
- 1876 British high jump champion Marshall Jones Brooks clears 1.83m at Oxford, England for unofficial world record; thought to be first leap over 6'
- 1876 General Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux Indian camps
- 1877 Australia's English born all-rounder Billy Midwinter completes Test cricket's first 5-wicket haul, 5-78 in the first ever Test match v England in Melbourne
- 1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight at Otay, California
- 1886 Carrollton Massacre (Mississippi) 20 African Americans killed
- 1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574
- 1893 Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup (Stanley Cup): Montreal Hockey Club claim inaugural trophy after finishing top of final Amateur Hockey Association of Canada standings with a 7–1–0 record
- 1894 US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
Fitzsimmons vs Corbett
1897 British boxer Bob Fitzsimmons KOs American champion 'Gentleman' Jim Corbett in the 14th round to win the World Heavyweight title in Carson City, Nevada
1st Modern Submarine
1898 John Philip Holland achieves a successful test run for the first modern submarine off Staten Island, submerging for 1 hour and 40 minutes
- 1899 Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die
Isadora Duncan
1900 American modern dancer Isadora Duncan gives her first Europen performance in London, England [1]
- 1900 In South Africa, British troops relieve Mafeking, besieged by the Boers since 13 October, 1899
Van Gogh Paintings Shown
1901 At a show in Paris, 71 of Vincent van Gogh's paintings cause a sensation 11 years after his death
- 1901 Free-thinking Democratic League forms in Netherlands
Quantum Theory of Light
1905 Albert Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his quantum theory of light, a foundation of modern physics
- 1906 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: ECAHA playoff: Montreal Wanderers lose, 9-3 to Ottawa HC but win challenge series, 12-10 on aggregate
- 1906 The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
Burns vs Roche
1908 Canadian champion Tommy Burns KOs Irish challenger Jem Roche in 1:28s of the 1st round at the Theatre Royal, Dublin; then quickest world heavyweight boxing title fight
- 1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
- 1913 Uruguayan Air Force is founded
- 1917 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis, Missouri
- 1917 Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School
- 1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages
- 1921 Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic in London
Albert Anastasia Convicted
1921 NY gangster Albert Anastasia is convicted of murdering longshoreman George Turino
- 1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
- 1921 The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution
Lenin's Economic Policy
1921 Vladimir Lenin proclaims the New Economic Policy to help the country recover from Russian Civil War
- 1924 Diplomats are exchanged between Sweden and the USSR after Sweden recognizes the USSR (March 15)
- 1924 Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
- 1926 Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
- 1926 Spain & Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
- 1927 US government doesn't sign League of Nations disarmament treaty
GM Buys Opel
1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
- 1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
- 1930 Construction begins on the Empire State Building, the world's first skyscraper with over 100 stories, on 5th Avenue in New York City
Morenz Surpasses Denneny
1932 Montreal Canadiens center Howie Morenz registers his 334th career point with an assist in a 10-4 win v NY Americans; passes Cy Denneny as NHL leader for career points
Protocols of Rome
1934 Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, and Hungarian Prime Minister Gyula Gömbös sign Donau Pact (Protocols of Rome) guaranteeing Austrian independence
- 1935 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
1938 The Italian Air Force, in support of Francisco Franco, bombs Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War
- 1939 Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese breaks out during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
- 1942 Bełżec Concentration Camp opens with the transport of 30,000 Polish Jews from Lublin
MacArthur Supreme Commander
1942 US General Douglas MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
- 1943 Aldemarin (Ned) & Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed & sinks
- 1943 F. Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell" premieres in NYC
- 1943 Physician Willem J. Kolff performs the world's first 'hemodialysis' using his artificial kidney machine, however the treatment is unsuccessful and the patient dies, in the Netherlands
- 1944 Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts after months of volcanic unrest, destroying several towns near the volcano
- 1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
Belgian Constitutional Crisis
1950 Belgian government of Gaston Eyskens resigns due to constitutional crisis
- 1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
- 1951 New Dutch government of Willem Drees takes power
- 1951 Test cricket debut of great English fast bowler Brian Statham, England v NZ at Christchurch; goes on to play 70 Tests, 252 wickets @ 24.84
Veeck Offers to Sell Browns
1953 Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M
- 1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1953 WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1953 WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
Richard Asks for Calm After Riot
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.
- 1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
Magsaysay Plane Crash
1957 Presidential plane crashes on Mt. Manunggal in Cebu, Philippines killing 25 including Filipino President Ramon Magsaysay
- 1958 US Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
- 1959 Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations
- 1959 US nuclear submarine USS Skate becomes the first submarine to surface at the North Pole
CIA Forms Anti-Castro Army
1960 US President Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
- 1960 WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1961 New York City District Attorney arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
- 1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
- 1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung on Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese
- 1965 Beatles announce their second film is titled "8 Arms to Hold You"; later changed to "Help!"
- 1966 South Africa's government bans Defense & Aid Fund
- 1966 US submarine locates missing hydrogen bomb on the Mediterranean sea floor
- 1967 British harpist Sheila Bromberg plays with the string section for the Sgt. Pepper track "She's Leaving Home" and becomes the first female to perform on a Beatles recording
- 1968 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington, D.C. by US and 6 European nations
The Ed Sullivan Show
1968 Bee Gees make their US TV debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show," performing "To Love Somebody" and "Words"
PM Golda Meir
1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister, the first and only female to hold the office
- 1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers
- 1970 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
- 1971 Government of Trygve Bratteli takes office in Norway
Back off Boogaloo
1972 Ringo Starr releases single "Back off Boogaloo" in the UK
Iran Nationalizes its Oil
1973 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and a consortium of Western firms led by British Petroleum agree to the formal nationalization of Iran's oil industry in return for an assured 20-year supply of Iranian oil
- 1973 St. Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
- 1975 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92)
- 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
- 1976 Boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried in the US after being convicted of murder in 1967 (sentence is upheld but overturned 1985)
- 1976 Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76)
- 1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1977 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
- 1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
- 1978 Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day
- 1979 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR
- 1979 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner USA
- 1979 Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
- 1979 The Penmanshiel Tunnel in Berwickshire, Scotland, collapses during engineering works, killing two workers
- 1979 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne
- 1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
- 1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
- 1983 70th hat trick in NHL New York Islander franchise history, scored by Mike Bossy
World Ski Jump Record
1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
- 1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
- 1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
- 1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
- 1988 Then highest scoring NCAA basketball game to date; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115
- 1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St. Patrick Day Parade
- 1990 PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
- 1991 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty
- 1991 Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St. Patrick's Day parade
- 1991 John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire" premieres in NYC
- 1991 New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70%
- 1992 Islamic Jihad car bombing of Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 29 [1]
- 1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
De Klerk Wins Referendum
1992 South African President F. W. de Klerk wins a white only referendum
- 1992 South African referendum of white voters on an end to apartheid, over two-thirds vote for an end to the system
- 1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
- 1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
- 1994 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark
- 1995 British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
Gerry Adams at the White House
1995 Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams visits the White House in Washington, D.C.
- 1995 US approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
- 1996 ICC Men's Cricket ODI World Cup, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan: Sri Lanka upsets Australia by 7 wickets for their first title; Player of the Match: Aravinda de Silva (SL) 107 no (124), 3/42 & 2 catches
- 1997 CNN begin Spanish broadcasts
- 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 British Cabinet Minister Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for the war with Iraq
- 2004 Unrest in Kosovo results in more than 22 killed, 200 wounded, and the destruction of 35 Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis.
- 2008 Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York resigns after scandal involving a high-end prostitute; David Paterson becomes acting governor
- 2008 The popular online game for children, Fantage, is launched
- 2012 Bolton Wanderer footballer Fabrice Muamba collapses and is rushed to hospital during a live football match against Tottenham Hotspur
- 2012 MESSENGER spacecraft begins its extended mission
- 2013 10 people are killed by a car bombing in Basra, Iraq
Francis' First Angelus Prayer
2013 Pope Francis delivers his first Angelus prayer and blessing
Lewis Ranked #1
2013 Stacy Lewis wins the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup and becomes the number one ranked woman golfer in the world
- 2013 Toyo Ito wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Chandelier
2014 Sia releases her single "Chandelier" with a music video featuring Maddie Ziegler
- 2014 The Republic of Crimea is declared
- 2015 Kraft recalls 6.5 million boxes of its iconic "macaroni & cheese" in US, Puerto Rico, and some Caribbean and South American countries, due to potential metal contamination
- 2016 Archaeologists announce the discovery of an 2,500 year old iron age warrior king burial ground, with 75 graves in Pocklington, Northern England
Operation Car Wash
2016 Brazilian federal judge blocks swearing-in of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Chief of Staff to President Dilma Rousseff, as part of "Car Wash" controversy
Beauty and the Beast
2017 Live-action remake "Beauty and the Beast" directed by Bill Condon and starring Emma Watson opens
- 2018 Africa's only female head of state, Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim confirms she is resigning amid an expenses scandal
- 2018 China's National People's Congress appoints Wang Qishan as vice-president
- 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
- 2019 Flash flooding and a landslides kills at least 73 and injures about 60 in Sentani and Jayapura, Papua, eastern Indonesia
- 2019 US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announces her presidential bid
- 2019 Zimbabwe declares a state of emergency after Cyclone Idai tears through eastern Zimbabwe killing at least 259
- 2020 Chad begins repaying a $100 million debt to Angola with cattle, as more than 1,000 cows arrive in Luanda
- 2020 European Union announces a 30-day ban on entering its 26 countries for almost all travelers as it struggles to contain COVID-19
- 2020 Golden Raspberry Film Awards (Razzies): Musical "Cats" wins six awards including worst film
- 2020 UEFA announces the postponement of its flagship national team football competition, UEFA EURO 2020, due to be played in June / July due to the COVID-19 emergency
America's Cup
2021 America's Cup, Auckland: Emirates Team New Zealand beats Italian yacht Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli by 46s in race 10 for a 7-3 series victory and retain the cup
- 2022 Claude Giroux, NHL Philadelphia Flyers longest-serving captain, becomes only 2nd player in franchise history to play 1,000th game for the team, joining Bobby Clarke
Nigerian Energy Crisis
2022 Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari apologies for recent fuel shortages and power outages, including the failure of the national electricity grid and an increase in adulterated fuel [1]
- 2024 "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV" documentary detailing the toxic nature of some Nickelodeon shows, especially under Dan Schneider during the 1990s, early 2000s, premieres
Putin's Rigged Election
2024 After suppressing and murdering opponents, President Vladimir Putin claims a post-Soviet record election victory, with 87.8% of the vote. The six year term will make him Russia's longest-serving leader in over 200 years. [1]
- 2024 Rio de Janeiro posts record heat index of 62.3 C (144.1 F) - i.e. taking into account humidity, highest in Brazil in a decade (actual temperature 42 C) [1]
- 2024 WPL Cricket Final, Arun Jaitley Stadium, New Delhi: Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Delhi Capitals by 8 wickets; Player of the match: Sophie Molineux (RCB) 3/20
