This Day in History
02 Mar 1127
Assassination of Charles the Good Count of Flanders
02 Mar 1458
Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia
02 Mar 1675
Prince William III installed as governor of Overijssel
02 Mar 1717
The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England
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Sheena Easton sets a Billboard chart record when Sugar Walls becomes a Top 10 R&B hit
The controversial Prince-penned song Sugar Walls reaches 9 on the Billboard charts.To be fair this same feat might have been achieved by Elvis Presley ha...
Pioneer 10 launched to Jupiter
Pioneer 10 the worlds first outer-planetary probe is launched from Cape Canaveral Florida on a mission to Jupiter the solar systems largest...
Congress abolishes the African slave trade
The U.S. Congress passes an act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United Statesfrom any ...
Dr. Seuss born
On this day in 1904 Theodor Geisel better known to the world as Dr. Seuss the author and illustrator of such beloved childrens books as The Ca...
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea
On this day U.S. and Australian land-based planes begin an offensive against a convoy of Japanese ships in the Bismarck Sea in the western Pacific.On March 1...
Puerto Ricans become U.S. citizens, are recruited for war effort
Barely a month before the United States enters World War I President Woodrow Wilson signs the Jones-Shafroth Act granting U.S. citizenship to the inhabitants ...
Kennedy proposes plan to end the war
Senator Robert Kennedy (D-New York) proposes a three-point plan to help end the war. The plan included suspension of the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam and the g...
First Rolling Thunder raid conducted
Operation Rolling Thunder begins with more than 100 United States Air Force jet bombers striking an ammunition depot at Xom Bang 10 miles inside North Vietnam....
Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points
On March 2 1962 Philadelphia Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points against the New York Knicks. It was the first time that a professional basketb...
Bush honors the Boston Red Sox
On this day in 2005 at a White House ceremony President George W. Bush congratulates the 2005 World Champion Boston Red Sox baseball team for winning their fi...
Sam Houston born
Samuel Houston the first president of the independent Republic of Texas is born in Rockbridge County Virginia.When Houston was 14 his father died and his mo...
John Irving is born
American writer John Irving is born in Exeter New Hampshire. Irving never met his real father and was raised by his mother and her second husband who taught R...
Grave robbers steal Charlie Chaplin’s body
In one of historys most famous cases of body-snatching two men steal the corpse of the revered film actor Sir Charles Chaplin from a cemetery in the Sw...
Train passengers suffocate
On this day in 1944 a train stops in a tunnel near Salerno Italy and more than 500 people on board suffocate and die. Occurring in the midst of World War II...
Congress passes the Jones Act
The Jones Act the last gasp of the Prohibition is passed by Congress. Since 1920 when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect the United States had banned...
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