3 days after St. Valentine was beheaded.

Madame Butterfly premieres at the La Scala

• 364 – Roman Emperor Jovian dies after a reign of eight months. He is found dead in his tent at Tyana (Asia Minor) en route back toConstantinople in suspicious circumstances.

1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.

1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of Bayezid I, becomes Sultan with the support of Mircea I of Wallachia.

1500 – Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, Denmark, in the Battle of Hemmingstedt.

1600 – The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive, for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome.

1621 – Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of the English Plymouth Colony in North America.

1753 – In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.

1801 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr, Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.

1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: The Battle of Mormant.

1819 – The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time.

1838 – Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.

1854 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.

1859 – Cochinchina Campaign: The French Navy captured the Citadel of Saigon, a fortress that was manned by 1,000 Nguyễn dynasty soldiers, en route to conqueringSaigon and other regions of southern Viet Nam.

1863 – A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.

1864 – American Civil War: The  H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.

1865 – American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.

1871 – The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.

1904 – Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.

1913 – The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.

1919 – The Ukrainian People's Republic asks Entente and the US for help fighting the Bolsheviks.

1933 – Newsweek magazine is first published.

1944 – World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok begins: The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.

1944 – World War II: Operation Hailstone begins: U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.

1949 – Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel.

1959 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.

1964 – In Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.

1964 – Gabonese president Léon M'ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.

1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions.Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.

1968 – In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.

1972 – Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.

1974 – Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.

1978 – The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30.

1979 – The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.

1980 – First winter ascent of Mount Everest by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy.

1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian troops massacre more than 20 Azerbaijani civilians during the Capture of Garadaghly.

1995 – The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a ceasefire brokered by the UN.

1996 – In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.

1996 – NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.

1996 – The 8.2 Mw Biak earthquake shakes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami follwed, leaving one-hundred sixty-six people dead or missing and 423 injured.

2003 – The London congestion charge is introduced.

2006 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.

2008 – Kosovo declares independence as the Republic of Kosovo.

2011 – Libyan protests begin. In Bahrain, security forces launched a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama, the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday.

2015 – Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti.

American Revolution

1776

Lord Dunmore dispatches note of “inexpressible mortification”

Automotive

2001

Dale Earnhardt killed in crash

Civil War

1817

Lewis Armistead born

Cold War

1964

United States punishes nations for trading with Cuba

Crime

2003

Arsonist sets fire in South Korean subway

2011

Green River serial killer pleads guilty to 49th murder

Disaster

1965

Avalanche kills 26 in British Columbia

General Interest

1856

Know-Nothings convene in Philadelphia

1930

Pluto discovered

1948

De Valera resigns

Aug 21... the one and only 

Too lazy to search

7 march

 

1988 Gibraltar IRA Gang Shot 7th March, 1988 : IRA gang who were reported to have planted a 500lb car bomb near the British Governor's residence shot dead in Gibraltar. 

1965 U.S.A. Civil Rights March Alabama 7th March, 1965 : Troopers with night sticks, shotguns and tear-gas grenades violently confronted 600 civil rights marchers during an attempted 50-mile march from Selma to the Alabama state capitol Montgomery.   

1969 Israel Golda Meir 7th March, 1969 : Israel elects Golda Meir, to become the first female prime minister of Israel. 

1876 U.S.A. Patent For The Telephone 7th March, 1876 : Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention the telephone. 

1908 U.S.A. Settlers 7th March, 1908 : Settlers had already visited the Nechaco Valley, which is located in British, Columbia, Canada. These families were expected to settle in this area beginning in May. The Nechaco Valley area was currently being surveyed for use of crop production. Furthermore, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad resumed. 

1932 U.S.A. The Communist Party of America 7th March, 1932 : The Communist Party of America had hosted a “March on Hunger” which was held on this day. This march began in Downtown Detroit, Michigan to the Ford Motor Plant at the River Rouge. Thousands of people were gathered in this area in order to take a stand against this company’s labor records. This march which started peaceful had turned into a violent affair. 
 

1936 Germany Treaty of Versailles 7th March, 1936: Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. 1936 80th Birthday Print

1939 U.S.A. Auld Lang Syne 7th March, 1939 : Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians record the New Year's Eve favorite "Auld Lang Syne." The recording is still played at parties and celebrations all over the country to usher in the new year. 

1960 U.S.A. Jack Paar 7th March, 1960 : After a month’s absence, Jack Paar had re-appeared as the host on The Tonight Show. He had walked off in protest against censorship before returning to his position as host of this production. He had made a joke about a “water closet” (European bathroom), which most likely would have been considered mild according to the standards set today. 

1961 U.S.A. President Dwight D. Eisenhower 7th March, 1961: The Senate authorized President Kennedy to restore the rank of five-star general to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. 

1962 U.S.A. Great West Saddler 7th March, 1962 : Reech Taylor was a national trust solicitor who had petitioned (requested) bondholders of Brandon Packers permission to use company funds to go to court. Taylor’s mission was to reclaim an excess of $200,000 that was paid out to “Great West Saddlery” and other companies. Permission was granted by company bondholders, in order to regain this sum of money, which was reported to have been taken wrongfully (misappropriated, stolen). Bondholders agreed to the court proceedings, even though it would cost approximately $35,000. Incidentally, two men (Hugh Paton and Hubert Cox) related to the case described above were currently appealing a case in which they were found guilty of $460,000. Paton and Cox were said to have stolen this money while they owned Great West. 

1964 U.S.A. Frank Sinatra, Jr. Kidnapping 7th March, 1964 : A U.S. Judge had sent the Frank Sinatra, Jr. Kidnapping case to the jury the night before this date (reported on this day). So far, no evidence had directly linked Sinatra, Jr. to this charge. It was suspected that this whole case was a publicity hoax conjured up in order to make a profit. 

 

1964 U.S.A. Prisoner Break Out 7th March, 1964 : A report dated today (March 7, 1964 ) revealed that seven prisoners had broke out of the Dallas County Jail. One of the seven escaped convicts had taken a hostage. The hostage was freed and the prisoner who had committed the kidnapping was put back behind bars. Within two hours, four others were caught and also put back into custody. Two others had been put into Bedlam, a facility that was usually referred to at the time as an “insane asylum”. 

Too lazy to search. Day after March 6th events

Too lazy to search aswell :/

March 8th events

Came here for interesting facts as I'm too lazy to post.

• 1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.

This day, March 21, 1804, the Napoleonic Code was approved in France.

This day, March 21, 1871, Henry Morton Stanley began his search for Dr. Livingstone.

This day, March 21, 1963, Alcatraz closed its doors.

1935 Persia is renamed Iran.

• 1873 – A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.

1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.

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1945 Dachau concentration camp was liberated.

1945 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun married.

1945 The German army in Italy surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.

2004 National World War 2 Memorial opens in Washington D.C.

1862 Union Army captures New Orleans during the American Civil War.

1986 Roger Clemens becomes the only person in baseball to strike out 20 players in a 9 inning game. He did it again 10 years later.

2011 Prince William and Kate Middleton marry.

1991 A cyclone kills 135,000 in Bangladesh.

1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orleans.

1992 Rodney King trial verdict announced. Rioting in L.A. follows.

1946 Twenty-eight former Japanese leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.

1990 The destruction of the Berlin Wall begins.

Golden Gate Bridge opens- May 27, 1937

Why is this thread pinned xD

Because its fun:

 

• Elizabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in a hot air baloon untethered. Flight lasts 45 minutes, covers 4 km and reaches 1500 estimated meters altitude.
• Following Louisiana Territory's  admittance as a U.S State, its renamed to Missouri Territory.
• 1919 is a historic day for women rights. Suffrage granted to women by the passing of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• World War II: Rome falls to the allies. First ever Axis capital to fall.
• Gyanendra, King of Nepal, succeeds to the throne after the brutal royal massacre.

Good enough?