- 1841 First continuous filibuster in the US Senate begins, as the Democratic minority attempt to run out the clock on a bill to establish a national bank, lasts until March 11
Tesla Explains Ball Lighting
1904 Nikola Tesla describes the process of the ball lightning formation in Electrical World and Engineer
- 1974 First performance in 3,000 years of world's oldest known song "Hymn to Nikkal" a 3,400 year old Hurrian hymn to moon god Nikkal from Ugarit in Syria, played at Berkeley University by Anne Kilmer and Richard Crocker [1]
- 1986 "Today" tabloid launches as Britain's first national color newspaper; it folds in 1995
- 1994 Largest milkshake made; 1,955 gallons of chocolate in Nelspruit, South Africa
Film & TV History
2015 Harrison Ford crash-lands his 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR aeroplane in California
- 2019 Bugatti announces the most expensive new car ever made - the La Voiture Noire costing €16.7 million (almost $19 million), only one will be made
Film & TV History
2019 Kylie Jenner is the world's youngest-ever billionaire at 21, according to Forbes
Event of Interest
2022 Explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, which sank in 1915, is rediscovered after 107 years in excellent condition in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica [1]
Firth Auctions Shirt
2024 Shirt worn by (a very wet) Colin Firth in 1995 BBC-TV adaption of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" sells for £20,000 ($32,000) at a charity auction in London [1]
- 2025 Manufacture of bone tools by ancient humans is pushed back a million years by the discovery of a 1.5 million year old cache of bone tools in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania [1]
