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What happened in history on this day: March 12?
On March 12 in ...
- 417 - Saint Innocent I dies, ending his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 604 - Gregory I, the Great Pope (590-604), dies at age 64.
- 1054 - Pope Leo IX escapes captivity and returns to Rome.
- 1088 - Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III.
- 1144 - Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II.
- 1209 - Djamal al-din Abu Mohammed Iljas Nizami Persian poet, dies.
- 1336 - Birth of Eduard Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern.
- 1350 - Orvieto city says it will behead and burn Jewish-Christian couples.
- 1365 - University of Vienna founded.
- 1471 - Dionysius the Carthusian/van Rijkel Dutch scholastic theologist, dies.
- 1479 - Birth of Giuliano de' Medici monarch of Florence.
- 1496 - Jews are expelled from Syria.
- 1496 - Johannes de Lapide [Johan Heynlin], German philosopher, dies.
- 1507 - Cesare Borgia cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at age 31.
- 1515 - Birth of Caspar Othmayr composer.
- 1570 - Jacob van den Eynden Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies.
- 1572 - Luís Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os Lusíados" in Portugal.
- 1594 - Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies.
- 1597 - England routes troops to Amiens.
- 1609 - Bermuda becomes an English colony.
- 1619 - Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia.
- 1622 - Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint.
- 1628 - John Bull thought to have composed British national anthem (God Save The King), dies.
- 1642 - Abel Tasman is first European in New Zealand.
- 1648 - Tirso de Molina Spanish author, dies at about age 63.
- 1664 - First naturalization act in American colonies.
- 1664 - New Jersey becomes a British colony.
- 1681 - French van Mieris the Elder, Dutch genre painter, dies at age 45.
- 1685 - Birth of George Berkeley Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne.
- 1689 - Former English King James II lands in Ireland.
- 1710 - Birth of Thomas Augustine Arne English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia).
- 1734 - Antonius Schultingh [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer, dies at age 74.
- 1737 - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy.
- 1753 - George Berkeley philosopher/bishop (Cloyne), dies on 68th birthday.
- 1755 - First steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine.
- 1758 - Birth of Leopold earl of Limburg Stirum Dutch General/politician [or March 22].
- 1773 - Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago.
- 1799 - Austria declares war on France.
- 1806 - Birth of Jane Means Appleton in Hampton, New Hampshire, USA; spouse of 14th US President Franklin Pierce.
- 1816 - Birth of David Stuart; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (dies 1868).
- 1818 - Birth of John Lorimar Worden; US Captain (Union Navy) (dies 1897).
- 1821 - Birth of Luitpold von Bayern; Prince-regent of Bayern.
- 1821 - Birth of John Abbott in Québec; third Canadian Prime Minister (Conservative, 1891-92).
- 1823 - Birth of William Flank Perry; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1901).
- 1824 - Birth of Gustav R Kirchoff in Prussia; physicist (spectral analysis).
- 1827 - Birth of John Robert Jones; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1901).
- 1827 - Birth of William Richard Terry; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1897).
- 1830 - Birth of William Felix Brantley; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1870).
- 1831 - Birth of Clement Studebaker; automobile pioneer (Studebaker).
- 1832 - Birth of Charles Boycott in Ireland; estate manager/caused boycotts.
- 1834 - Karl W Feuerbach, mathematician (circle of Feuerbach), dies at age 33.
- 1838 - Birth of William Perkin; inventor (first artificial dye).
- 1860 - US Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill; free land in West for colonists.
- 1862 - Birth of Jane Delano; US nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross).
- 1863 - Birth of Gabriele D'Annunzio in Italy; writer/military hero (The Intruder).
- 1868 - US Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax.
- 1868 - Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa.
- 1877 - Birth of Wilhelm Frick; German protector of Bohemia/Moravia.
- 1877 - Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony.
- 1880 - Birth of House Peters in Bristol, England; silent film actor (Kansas Territory).
- 1881 - Birth of Daniel Webster in Hoan, Wisconsin; American politician (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee).
- 1881 - Birth of Kemal Atatürk; first President of Republic of Turkey.
- 1881 - Birth of Väinö A Tanner; premier of Finland (1926-27).
- 1883 - Murrumgunarriman [Twopenny], cricket player (Aboriginal team 1868), dies.
- 1884 - Mississippi establishes first US state college for women.
- 1888 - Second day of the Great Blizzard of 1888 in northeast US (400 die).
- 1888 - Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA), dies at age 76.
- 1889 - Battle at Metema (Gallabad) in which Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV is defeated.
- 1889 - Yohannes IV [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle.
- 1890 - Birth of Vaslav Nijinsky; Ukrainian/US ballet dancer (Petroesjka).
- 1894 - In Vicksburg, Mississippi, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
- 1896 - First movie shown in the Netherlands (Kalverstr 220).
- 1898 - Birth of Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Junior; Dutch actor (Sold Grandpa).
- 1900 - Birth of David Croll; Queen's Council senator.
- 1900 - President Steyn of Orange-Free State flees from Bloemfontein.
- 1901 - Ground is broken for Boston's first American League ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds).
- 1902 - John Peter Altgeld, German/US Governor of Illinois, dies at age 54.
- 1904 - First main line electric train in United Kingdom (Liverpool to Southport).
- 1904 - Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund.
- 1904 - Birth of Ken James; cricket wicketkeeper (New Zealand's first Test, later Northants).
- 1906 - Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast.
- 1908 - Birth of Inez Courtney in New York City, New York, USA; actress (13th Man, Crime Ring, Raven).
- 1908 - Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at age 61.
- 1910 - Birth of Roger L Stevens; producer (Giant).
- 1910 - Birth of Tony "Two-Ton" Galento in Orange, New Jersey, USA; boxer/actor (On the Waterfront).
- 1910 - Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3.
- 1911 - Birth of Gustavo Diaz Ordaz; President of Mexico.
- 1912 - Birth of James McKay; lord provost of Edinburgh.
- 1912 - Birth of Kylie Tennant; novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven).
- 1912 - Birth of Paul Weston AKA Paul Wetstein in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA; Orchestra leader, music arranger (Rudy Vallee's Fleischmann Hour radio show, Tommy Dorsey, Dinah Shore, Bob Crosby, Johnny Mercer's Music Shop radio show, Chesterfield Supper Club, Duffy's Tavern), TV musical director (Danny Kaye, Jonathan Winters, Jim Nabors Hour).
- 1912 - Captain Albert Berry performs first parachute jump from an airplane.
- 1912 - The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in Savannah, Georgia, in the United States, by Juliette Gordon Low.
- 1913 - Birth of Harold Butler; cricket player (England pace bowler late 1940s).
- 1913 - Foundation stone of the Australian capitol in Canberra is laid.
- 1914 - George Westinghouse, US engineer (Westinghouse Electric), dies at age 67.
- 1916 - French airship sinks British submarine D3.
- 1917 - Birth of Googie Withers in Karachi, India; actress (One of Our Aircraft is Missing).
- 1917 - Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets.
- 1917 - Birth of Leonard Chess in Poland; founder of the Chess record label (John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed).
- 1919 - Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany).
- 1919 - French forces occupy eastern Bánát, Hungary.
- 1921 - Birth of Giovanni Agnelli; CEO (Fiat Automakers).
- 1921 - Birth of Gordon MacRae in East Orange, New Jersey, USA; singer/actor (Railroad Hour radio show, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The Desert Song), host (Colgate Comedy Hour TV show).
- 1921 - Birth of Ralph Shapey in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; composer (Fantasy, Rituals).
- 1922 - Birth of Helen Parrish in Columbus, Georgia, USA; actress (Hour Glass, Show Business).
- 1922 - Birth of Jack Kerouac; Beat writer (Dharma Bums, On the Road, Mexico Blues) (dies 1969).
- 1922 - Birth of Lane Kirkland; union president (AFL-CIO).
- 1923 - Birth of Hjalmar Andersen in Norway; speed skater-1500/5000m/10,000m (Olympics-gold-1952).
- 1923 - Birth of Walter M Schirra Junior in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA; Captain US Navy/astronaut (Mercury 8, Gemini 6, Apollo 7).
- 1923 - In New York City, Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrates a method for putting sound on motion picture film, called "phonofilm".
- 1924 - Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies.
- 1925 - Birth of Harry [Maxwell] Harrison in United Kingdom; sci-fi author (Deathworld trilogy).
- 1925 - Birth of Leo Esaki [Esaki Reona] in Japan; physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel Prize 1973).
- 1925 - Birth of Louison Bobet; French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55).
- 1925 - Birth of William G Whitehurst; American politician (Representative-Republican-Virginia).
- 1925 - British government of Stanley Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement.
- 1925 - Death of Sun Yat-sen at age 58 in China; first president of Republic of China (1912), founded Chinese Nationalist Party.
- 1926 - Birth of David Oliver Williams; trade unionist (COHSE).
- 1926 - Birth of George R Ariyoshi; American politician (Governor-Democrat-Hawaii).
- 1926 - Birth of Gudrun Ure; British actress (The Crow Road, Lady MacBeth, BBC Sorcerer).
- 1926 - Birth of Hildy Park in Washington, DC, USA; actress (To Tell the Truth).
- 1926 - Birth of John C[lellon] Holmes; US writer (Horn).
- 1926 - Birth of Ronald Alley; art gallery manager (Tate Gallery).
- 1926 - Denmark begins unilateral disarmament.
- 1926 - Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines, Belgium.
- 1927 - Birth of Mstislav Rostropovich in Baku, Russia; conductor/cellist (Cello Concerto).
- 1927 - Birth of Raul Alfonsin; President (Argentina).
- 1928 - Birth of Edward Albee in Washington DC, USA playwright (Virginia Woolfe, Zoo Story).
- 1928 - Birth of Phil Jones; principal (Trinity College of Music).
- 1928 - Birth of Roland Moyle; British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority).
- 1929 - Birth of Bernard Costello; American double sculls (Olympics-silver-1956).
- 1929 - Birth of Lupe Anguiano; Mexican-American civil rights activist.
- 1930 - Birth of Antony Acland; provost of Eton/British ambassador to US.
- 1930 - Birth of Scoey Mitchill in Newburgh, New York, USA; actor/comedian (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda, Match Game).
- 1930 - Mohandas Gandhi begins 200 mile (321 km) march protesting British salt tax.
- 1930 - Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (26.1 seconds).
- 1931 - Birth of Geoffrey de Bellaigue; director (Royal Collection).
- 1931 - Birth of William "Buckwheat" Thomas; actor (Little Rascals).
- 1932 - Birth of Andrew Young; US ambassador to United Nations (1977-79), Mayor (Democrat) of Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1932 - Ivar Kreuger, Swedish financier, is found shot dead in his Paris apartment, presumably a suicide. He is estimated to have spent US$400 million of investor money in 15 years.
- 1933 - U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt presents his first presidential address to the nation. CBS newsman Robert Trout calls it a "Fireside Chat".
- 1933 - Birth of Barbara Feldon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Agent 99 - Get Smart).
- 1934 - Acting President Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia.
- 1934 - Birth of Rudolph Agner; CEO (Consolidated Gold Fields).
- 1935 - Birth of Helga Pilarczyk; German soprano (Salome, Lulu).
- 1935 - Birth of John Gross; author (Age of Kipling, Dickens and 20th Century).
- 1935 - England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns and villages.
- 1936 - Birth of Anthony Loehnis; vice chairman (S G Warburg and Co).
- 1936 - Birth of Keith Slater; cricket player (one Test for Australia 1958-59 series).
- 1936 - Birth of Lloyd Dobbins in Newport News, Virginia, USA; newscaster (NBC News Overnight).
- 1936 - The Soviet Union and the Mongolian People's Republic sign a mutual assistance pact, allowing Russian troops to be posted at key locations. The Soviet Union commits to the defence of Mongolia from aggression.
- 1937 - Birth of Elizabeth Vaughan; opera soprano (Victor-Victoria).
- 1938 - German troops march into Austria, annexing the country.
- 1938 - Birth of Johnny Rutherford; auto racer (26 championship races).
- 1938 - Birth of Millie Perkins; actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for Five, Shooting).
- 1938 - Birth of Norman Hogg; British Member of Parliament.
- 1938 - Birth of Vijay Mehra; cricket player (Indian Test batsman from age 17).
- 1939 - Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies.
- 1940 - Birth of Al Jarreau in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; jazz singer ("Moonlighting").
- 1940 - Birth of Millie Perkins, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for Five, Shooting).
- 1940 - In Finland, Soviet forces breach the Mannerheim Line.
- 1940 - Finland and the Soviet Union conclude a peace treaty, the Treaty of Moscow. Finland retains independence but gives up the Karelian Isthmus, Viipuri, and a small band of land north of Lake Ladoga. The Soviets are granted a 30-year lease of Hangö for a naval base, and a right-of-way to Sweden.
- 1941 - German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands.
- 1942 - Birth of Bert Campaneris; baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).
- 1942 - Birth of Paul Kantner in San Francisco, California, USA; rock singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane - "White Rabbit", "Somebody To Love").
- 1942 - Birth of Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano; mobster (testified against Gotti).
- 1942 - British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal.
- 1943 - Soviet troops liberate Wjasma.
- 1945 - 30 Amsterdammers executed by German occupiers.
- 1945 - Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp.
- 1945 - Birth of Hans van Emden; Dutch guitarist (Les Baroques).
- 1945 - Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy.
- 1945 - New York is first to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment.
- 1945 - The British Empire celebrates its first British Empire Day.
- 1945 - USSR returns Transylvania to Romania.
- 1946 - Birth of Liza Minnelli in Hollywood, California, USA; singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret, Arrested Development).
- 1946 - Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland.
- 1946 - In Budapest, Hungary, former Premier Ferenc Szalasi and four former Ministers are hanged as war criminals.
- 1946 - In Paris, France, the High Court sentences former Vichy Government Minister Jacques Chevalier to twenty years hard labor and national unworthiness for life.
- 1947 - Belgian government of Huysmans resigns.
- 1947 - Birth of Jill O'Hara in Warren, Pennsylvania, USA; Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!).
- 1947 - US President Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism.
- 1947 - The DuMont TV network airs the first Movies For Small Fry children's program.
- 1948 - Birth of Dana Walden; rock keyboardist (Champaign).
- 1948 - Birth of James Taylor in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; vocalist/guitarist ("Up on the Roof").
- 1948 - Birth of Kent Conrad; American politician (Senator-Democrat-North Dakota).
- 1948 - Birth of Les Holroyd in Oldham, England; rocker (Barclay James Harvest).
- 1948 - Birth of Virginia Bottomley; British minister of state health/secretary (Heritage).
- 1949 - Birth of Bill Payne in Waco, Texas, USA; rock keyboardist (Little Feat - Time Loves a Hero).
- 1949 - Birth of David Mellor; Secretary of the British treasury/Member of Parliament.
- 1949 - Birth of Mary Alice Williams; news reporter (NBC-TV, CNN).
- 1949 - Birth of Mike Gibbons in Swansea, Wales; rock drummer (Badfinger).
- 1949 - Birth of Sara Lane in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Elizabeth Grainger - The Virginian).
- 1950 - Belgium votes (58 percent) for return of King Leopold III.
- 1950 - Birth of Jon Provost; actor (Timmy - Lassie).
- 1950 - L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at age 78.
- 1950 - Pope Pius XII issues encyclical On combating atheistic propaganda.
- 1951 - Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office.
- 1951 - Birth of Caren Kaye in New York City, New York, USA; actress (My Tutor, Bambi - Blansky's Beauties).
- 1951 - Communist troops driven out of Seoul, Korea.
- 1951 - The comic strip, Dennis the Menace, appears for the first time in 16 newspapers across the U.S.
- 1953 - Birth of Joanna Kerns; actress (Maggie - Growing Pains).
- 1953 - Birth of Labamba [Richard Rosenberg]; rocker (Asbury Jukes).
- 1955 - Death of Charlie Parker at age 34 of pneumonia and bleeding ulcer in New York City, New York, USA; jazz saxophonist, father of bebop-style jazz.
- 1956 - Birth of Dale Murphy in Portland, Oregon, USA; Atlanta Braves slugger (two time National League Most Valuable Player).
- 1956 - Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 500 for first time (500.24).
- 1956 - Birth of Steve Harris; heavy metal bassist (Iron Maiden - "Number of the Beast").
- 1957 - Birth of Jerry Levine in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; actor (Born on 4th of July, Will and Grace).
- 1957 - Birth of Marlon D Jackson in Gary, Indiana, USA; singer (Jackson 5 - "Maybe Tomorrow").
- 1957 - Birth of Steve Harris in London, England; hard rock bassist (Iron Maiden - "Number of the Beast", "Gypsy's Kiss").
- 1957 - German Democratic Republic accepts 22 Russian divisions.
- 1957 - Harry Dean, cricket player (England left-arm bowler in 3 Tests, 1912), dies.
- 1957 - Josephine Hull, actress (Harvey), dies at age 71.
- 1958 - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day".
- 1958 - Princess Ingeborg of Sweden dies at age 79.
- 1959 - Dutch Liberal Party wins second parliamentary elections.
- 1959 - US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood.
- 1960 - Birth of Courtney B Vance in Detroit, Michigan, USA; actor (Hamburger Hill, Law and Order: Criminal Intent).
- 1960 - Birth of Eldine Baptiste; cricket player (West Indies all-rounder early 1980s).
- 1961 - Belinda Lee, actress (Joseph and his Brethren), dies in car crash at age 25.
- 1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open.
- 1961 - Birth of Titus Welliver; actor (Deadwood, Brooklyn South).
- 1962 - Birth of Darryl Strawberry in Los Angeles, California, USA; right fielder (New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees).
- 1962 - Birth of Gunde Svan; Swedish long jumper (Olympics-gold-1984, 1988).
- 1962 - Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia.
- 1963 - Birth of Candy Costie in Seattle, Washington, USA; synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-1984).
- 1963 - Birth of Joaquim Carvalho Cruz in Brazil; 800 metre runner (Olympics-gold-1984).
- 1963 - Birth of Julia Campbell in Huntsville, Alabama, USA; actress (Opportunity Knocks, Still Standing, Martial Law, Herman's Head).
- 1964 - Birth of Tony Terry; rock producer (Tony Terry).
- 1964 - Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam.
- 1964 - The first legal lottery in the USA in the twentieth century is the New Hampshire Sweepstakes. Draws are held twice per year, at a cost of $3 per ticket. The lottery commission pays US$500,000 to the IRS as a ten percent wagering excise tax.
- 1965 - Birth of Fran Harris; WNBA guard (Houston Comets).
- 1965 - Birth of Randy Dixon; NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts).
- 1965 - Birth of Steve Finley in Union City, Tennessee, USA; outfielder (San Diego Padres).
- 1966 - Birth of Alecia Stephenson in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; softball shortstop (Olympics-1996).
- 1966 - Birth of Erich Fischer in Dinuba, California, USA; US Olympics water polo forward (Olympics-1992).
- 1966 - Birth of Grant Long; NBA forward (Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks).
- 1966 - Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record.
- 1966 - Estelita Rodriguez, actor (Golden Stallion, Susanna Pass), dies at age 37.
- 1966 - Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins).
- 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1967 - Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet.
- 1967 - Birth of Irvin Smith; Canadian Football League cornerback (Montreal Alouettes).
- 1967 - Birth of Rowelle Blenman; WLAF cornerback/safety (London Monarchs).
- 1967 - Indonesian congress deprives President Sukarno of authority.
- 1967 - Death of American Isaac Scott Hathaway, "the Dean of Negro Ceramics".
- 1968 - Birth of Merton Hanks; NFL safety (San Francisco 49ers).
- 1968 - Mauritius gains independence from Britain.
- 1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1969 - Birth of Graham Coxon; singer (Blur).
- 1969 - Birth of J P Izquierdo; Canadian Football League slot back (Calgary Stampeders).
- 1969 - Birth of Karen Snelgrove in London, Ontario, Canada; softball pitcher (Olympics-1996).
- 1969 - Birth of Muhammad Oliver; NFL cornerback/safety (Washington Redskins).
- 1969 - The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announces all but Record of the Year of the 11th Annual Grammy Awards at a private dinner.
- 1970 - Birth of Michael Bankston; NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals).
- 1970 - Birth of Rex Walters; NBA guard (Philadelphia 76ers, Miami Heat).
- 1970 - Birth of Rod Smith; NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers).
- 1971 - Birth of Greg Hansell in Bellflower, California, USA; pitcher (Minnesota Twins).
- 1971 - Birth of Isaiah Rider; NBA guard/forward (Minnesota Timberwolves, Portland Trail Blazers).
- 1971 - Birth of Raul Mondesi in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic; outfielder (Los Angeles Dodgers).
- 1971 - Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected President.
- 1971 - Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army.
- 1971 - Actor David Burns dies onstage of a heart attack at age 70 during a performance of 70 Girls 70 in Philadelphia.
- 1972 - Birth of Alisa Castillo; Miss Nevada-USA (1996).
- 1972 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open.
- 1972 - NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons.
- 1973 - Birth of Antonio Banks; cornerback (Minnesota Vikings).
- 1973 - Birth of Gabriel Mendez; Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-1996).
- 1973 - Birth of Keif Bryant; NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks).
- 1973 - Birth of Louis Laros; Dutch soccer player (Willem II, Vitesse).
- 1973 - Frankie "Fordham Flash" Frisch, baseball player, dies at age 74.
- 1973 - Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies at age 77.
- 1974 - Billy Fox, Protestant member of Dublin parliament, is assassinated.
- 1974 - Birth of Chris Carr; NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Minnesota Timberwolves).
- 1974 - Donna Manson disappears from Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington (Ted Bundy victim).
- 1974 - ABC-TV airs made-for-TV movie Wonder Woman starring Cathy Lee Crosby.
- 1975 - Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam.
- 1976 - South African troops leave Angola.
- 1976 - Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf announces his engagement to Silvia Renate Sommerlath of Federal Republic of Germany.
- 1977 - Chile's President Augusto Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party.
- 1977 - Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel.
- 1978 - Birth of Cristina Teuscher in New Rochelle, New York; 4 x 200 metre freestyle (Olympics-gold-1996).
- 1978 - Birth of Tara Mounse; ice hockey defenseman (USA, Olympics-1998).
- 1978 - Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 metre (1:14.99).
- 1978 - Death of John Cazale at age 41, American actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter) (born 1935).
- 1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic.
- 1979 - Birth of Pete Doherty; British singer and guitarist (The Libertines, Babyshambles).
- 1980 - New York Islanders third scoreless tie, versus Pittsburgh Penguins.
- 1980 - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1981 - Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial in Richmond, Virginia.
- 1981 - Soyuz T-4 carries two cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station.
- 1982 - First-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica versus Leeward Islands.
- 1982 - Elisabeth Zernike, Dutch writer (Course of Events), dies at age 90.
- 1982 - Birth of Samm Levine; actor (Freaks and Geeks).
- 1983 - Jevsei G Liberman, Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at age 85.
- 1983 - Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:01:09).
- 1984 - British ice dancing team, Torvill and Dean, become first skaters to receive nine perfect 6.0 scores in world championships.
- 1985 - Larry Bird scores Boston Celtics' record 60 points.
- 1986 - Birth of Danny Jones; British musician (McFly).
- 1986 - Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
- 1987 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average removes Owens-Illinois Glass and Inco from its index, replacing them with Coca-Cola and Boeing Company.
- 1987 - Les Miserables opens at Broadway/Imperial theater in New York City for 4000+ performances.
- 1987 - David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game.
- 1987 - US Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North.
- 1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 1987 - World Ice Dance Championship in Cincinnati won by Bestemianova and Bukin (USSR).
- 1987 - World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva and Grinkov (USSR).
- 1987 - World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic).
- 1987 - World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada).
- 1987 - Canadian government announces it would begin tracking down and persecuting war criminals in Canada from World War II.
- 1989 - Two cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA).
- 1989 - Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election.
- 1989 - Maurice Evans, English actor (Bewitched, MacBeth), dies at age 87 (born 1901).
- 1990 - Los Angeles Raiders announce they are returning to Oakland.
- 1991 - Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at age 92.
- 1991 - Death of Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1900).
- 1992 - Barbara Morrison, actress (Project Moonbase), dies of heart failure at age 84.
- 1992 - Hans G Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (Eric the Viking), dies at age 70.
- 1992 - Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies.
- 1992 - Salvo Lima, mayor (Palermo)/Member of Parliament (christian-democrat), murdered.
- 1992 - A tram-car crashes into a crowd of people at the tram-station at Vasaplatsen in Gothenburg, Sweden; 13 are killed and several injured.
- 1992 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1993 - Janet Reno is sworn-in as Attorney General of the United States.
- 1993 - Several bombs explode in Bombay, India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
- 1993 - Andreas J A I Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Leiderdorp), dies at age 62.
- 1993 - Syndicated TV show Entertainment Tonight airs its 3,000th show.
- 1993 - Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2.5 week speech.
- 1993 - Death of June Valli at age 64 of cancer; singer ("Crying in the Chapel", Your Hit Parade TV show, Stop The Music, The Ed Sullivan Show).
- 1993 - Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at age 83.
- 1993 - North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.
- 1993 - Wang Zhen, marxist/vice-premier of China (1988), dies.
- 1994 - Church of England ordains its first 33 women priests.
- 1994 - Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at age 59.
- 1994 - A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
- 1994 - Birth of Tyler Patrick Jones; actor (Ghost Whisperer, Summerland).
- 1995 - Congress party loses India national election.
- 1995 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship.
- 1995 - Lara scores 139 in ODI versus Australia at Port-of-Spain.
- 1995 - Letitia Vriesde runs South America indoor record 800 metre (2:00.35).
- 1995 - World Ice Dance Championship in Birmingham United Kingdom won by Oksana Gritshuk and Evgeny Platov (Russia).
- 1995 - World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham United Kingdom won by Radka Kovarikova and Rene Novotny (Czechoslovakia).
- 1995 - World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham United Kingdom won by Chen Lu (China).
- 1995 - World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham United Kingdom won by Elvis Stojko (Canada).
- 1996 - Gyula Kallai, Prime Minister of Hungary (1965-67), dies at age 85.
- 1996 - Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy.
- 1997 - Mikail Markhasev is arrested in Los Angeles, California and charged with shooting Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son, Ennis Cosby.
- 1998 - Death of Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (The Shop on Main Street) (born 1924).
- 1999 - Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic join NATO.
- 1999 - Birth of Kendall Applegate; actress (Desperate Housewives).
- 2002 - In Houston, Texas, Andrea Yates is found guilty of drowning her five children on June 20, 2001. She is later sentenced to life in prison.
- 2003 - Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is assassinated in Belgrade.
- 2003 - The World Health Organization issues a global alert on SARS.
- 2003 - British prime minister Tony Blair proposes an amendment to the possible 18th U.N. resolution, which would call for Iraq to meet certain benchmarks to prove that it was disarming. The amendment is immediately rejected by France, who promises to veto any new resolution.
- 2003 - Death of Lynne Thigpen at age 54 of a cerebral hemmorhage; American actress (Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, As the World Turns, The District).
- 2004 - Following the March 11 terrorist attacks in Madrid, millions of protesters take to the streets of Spanish cities against terrorism.
- 2006 - Historic cricket match between Australia in South Africa, 5th ODI of the series.
- 2007 - BBC journalist Alan Johnston disappears in Gaza City, Palestine.
- 2007 - Birth of Xan Windsor, Lord Culloden, son of Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster and Claire Windsor, Countess of Ulster.
- 2007 - Music group Van Halen is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- 2008 - Oil hits a record US$110 per barrel.
- 2008 - Death of Lazare Ponticelli, at age 110, France's last surviving veteran of World War I.
- 2009 - Swiss drugmaking company Roche Holding announces it will acquire the remaining 44 percent of American biotechnology company Genentech stock for US$46.8 billion.
- 2009 - Bernard Madoff, former Nasdaq stock market chairman, pleads guilty to eleven charges of running a US$171 billion worldwide Ponzi scheme, the biggest investment fraud in Wall Street history.
- 2011 - An explosion damages the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Sendai, Japan.
- 2015 - The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant becomes allies with fellow jihadist group Boko Haram, effectively annexing the group.
- 2017 - Death of Patrick Nève, Belgian racing driver (born 1949).
- 2018 - Flight BS211 crashes in Nepal, killing 51 on board.
- 2020 - Global stock markets crash due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the United States travel ban on the Schengen Area. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down over 2,300 points.
- 2021 - Death of Goodwill Zwelithini, king of the Zulu nation (born 1948).
- 2022 - Death of Traci Braxton at age 50 of esophageal cancer; singer (Braxton Family Values TV show).
- 2023 - Death of Dick Fosbury at age 76; American high-jumper (Olympic champion, inventor of Fosbury flop technique).
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