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1316 Robert II, the Steward, King of Scotland (1371-90) 1409 John II, French duke of Alen‡on/co-fighter of Jeanne d'arc 1459 Adrian VI, [Adriaan F Boeyens], Netherlands, Pope (1522-23) 1481 Franz von Sickingen, German knight 1545 Thomas Bodley, England, diplomat/scholar 1760 Camille Desmoulins, France, journalist/pamphleteer/revolution leader 1769 DeWitt Clinton, (Gov/Sen-NY) 1793 Sam[uel] Houston, president of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) 1810 Leo XIII, [Vincenzo G Pecci], 256th pope (1878-1903) 1817 J nos Arany, Hungary, epic poet (Toldi, Death of King Buda) 1824 Bedrich Smetana, Bohemian, composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau) 1824 Henry Beebee Carrington, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1912 1828 Jefferson Columbus Davis, Bvt Mjr General (Union Army), died in 1879 1829 Carl Schurz, Major General (Union volunteers)journalist 1844 Hermanus J A M Schaepman, clergyman/Dutch politician 1862 John Jay Chapman, US advocate/poet/writer (Learning & Other Essays) 1876 G”sta Forsell, Swedish radiologist 1876 Pius XII, [Euhenio MGG Pacelli], 260th Pope (1939-58) 1894 Renat Veremans, Flemish composer/conductor 19-- Nelson Ned, Brazil, spanish singer (Mi Manera de Amor) 19-- Paul Mones, Newark NJ, actor (Renegades) 1900 Kurt Weill, Dessau, Germany, composer/Brecht collaborator (Mahogany) 1902 Edward Uhler Condon, atomic scientist (Manhattan Project) 1904 Dr Seuss, [Theodor Geisel] kid's book author (Horton Hears a Who!) 1905 Marc Blitzstein, Phila Pa, composer (Cradle Will Rock) 1908 Jan Brasser, resistance fighter (Witte Ko) 1909 Mel Ott, 1st NLer to hit 500 HRs, hall of famer (NY Giants) 1913 Godfried [Jan Arnold] Bomans, writer (Pieter Bas) 1913 Marjorie Weaver, Tennessee, actress (Young Mr Lincoln) 1913 Mort Cooper, baseball player (NL MVP 1942) 1916 Anne Vondeling, Dutch politician (PvdA) 1917 Jim Konstanty, baseball player (NL MVP 1950) 1919 Jennifer Jones, [Phyllis Isley], Okla, actress (Farewell to Arms) 1923 Robert H Michel, (Rep-R-IL, 1957- ) 1924 Albert TLCA Bird, lecture artist 1930 Jan van Noor, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA) 1930 John Cullum, Knoxville, actor (Hamlet, Hawaii, Northern Exposure) 1930 John Von Norwegian, farmer/CDA-Second-Member of parliament 1931 Duane F Graveline, Newport Vt, astronaut 1931 Mikhail S Gorbachev, Soviet sec-gen (1985-91) 1931 Tom Wolfe, journalist/author (Right Stuff) 1934 Bernard Rands, Sheffield, England, composer (Wildtrack) 1935 Al Waxman, Toronto Canada, actor (Cagney & Lacey, Meatballs 3, Spasms) 1938 Donald Schwall, baseball player (1961 AL rookie of year) 1938 Simon Estes, Centerville Iowa, bass/baritone(Wonton, Don Carlos) 1939 Barbara Luna, NYC, actress (5 Weeks in a Balloon, Gentle Savage) 1939 Gerard Van Tongeren, singer (Buffoons) 1942 John Irving, US, short-story writer (World According to Garp) 1942 Lou Rode, US pop musician/composer: Sally can't dance 1943 Rosa DeLauro, (Rep-D-Connecticut) 1944 Lou Reed, [Louis Firbank], vocalist/guitarist (Walk on the Wild Side) 1945 Gordon Thompson, Ottawa Canada, actor (Adam Carrington-Dynasty) 1945 Joy Garrett, actress (Jo-Days of Our Lives) 1946 Brian J Donnelly, (Rep-D-MA, 1979- ) 1949 Eddie Money, [Mahoney] singer/guitarist (Take Me Home Tonight) 195- Molly Cheek, Bronxville NY, actress (Garry Shandling Show) 1950 Karen Carpenter, New Haven Ct, vocalist/drummer (We Only Just Begun) 1950 Matthew Laurance, actor (Duet) 1950 Mitchel Laurance, actor (LA Law, Not Necessarily the News) 1951 Cassie Yates, Macon Ga, actress (Osterman Weekend, Dynasty) 1952 Laraine Newman, LA Calif, comedienne, actress (Saturday Night Live) 1953 William Simmons, sax/keyboardist (Midnight Star-No Parking) 1955 Dale Bosworth, TV host (America's Most Wanted) 1955 Dale Bozzio, Boston, vocalist (Missing Persons-Destination Unknown) 1955 Jay Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie) 1959 Andrew Farriss, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt) 1962 Jon Bon Jovi, Sayreville NJ, rocker (Bon Jovi-Give Love a Bad Name) 1963 Suzette Charles, NJ, replaced Vanessa Williams as Miss America 1966 Stevie Rachelle, rock vocalist (Tuff-What Comes Around Goes Around) 1978 Zulma Gilliot, daughter of Gerda Havertong Back to GREGSITE Passings for March 02986 Lotharius, King of France (954-86), dies 1122 Floris II, de Vette, count of Holland, dies 1127 Charles, the Good, Count of Vlanderen, dies 1333 Wladyslaw IV Lokietek, [de Korte] the Great, duke/king of Poland, dies 1772 Robert J Pothier, French lawyer, dies 1797 Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies 1840 Heinrich Olbers, discoverer of comets & asteroids, dies 1855 Nicholas Pavlovitsj, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies 1867 French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect, dies 1887 August W Eichler, German botanist, dies 1895 Ismail Pasja, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64 1930 David H Lawrence, British poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies 1939 Howard Carter, British archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut) 1943 Alexandre E J Yersin, Swiss/Fr bacteriologist (bacteria plague), dies 1950 M Joseph V d'arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76 1957 Harry E Soref, padlock inventor dies at 70 1972 Bill Lawrence, news anchor (ABC), dies at 56 1973 Cleo Noel, US ambassador to Sudan, is assassinated 1974 Barbara Ruick, actress/singer (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 41 1979 Richard Sykes, British ambassador is assassinated in Holland 1981 Janear Hines, actress (Roberta-Julia), dies at 30 1982 Philip K[indred] Dick, author (Hugo-1963, Dr Futurity), dies at 53 1984 Louis Basile, actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48 1985 John B Kelly Jr, chairman US Olympic Committee, dies at 57 1985 Michael Redgrave, actor/writer dies at 77 of Parkinson's disease 1991 Clark Mollenhoff, US journalist (Pulitzer Prize) 1991 Freek Zoetmulder, publisher Austrian Encyclopedia/neo-nazi, dies 1991 Serge Gainsbourg, [Ginzburg], Russ/French singer, dies 1993 Paul D Zimmerman, US screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54 Back to GREGSITE Holidays for March 02[Burma] Peasant's Day [Ethiopia] Battle of Aduwa Day (1896) [Morocco] Independence Day (1956) [Texas 1836, Morocco 1956] Independence Day [Guam] Discovery Day (1st Monday in March) Back to GREGSITE Interest events for March 02[Bah '¡] Beginning of month of 'Al (19 days of fasting) 672 [Ang] Commemoration of Chad, Bishop of Lichfield 1788 [Luth] Commemoration of Charles Wesley 1791 [Luth] Commemoration of John Wesley 1996 [Ang, RC] Ember Day 1999 [Jewish] Purim (feast of Lot) (Adar 14, 5759 AM) Back to GREGSITE Special events for March 02Save Your Vision Week, begins [Vermont] Town Meeting Day 1498 Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island 1776 Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston 1789 Pennsylvania forbids theatre performances 1799 Congress standardizes US weights & measures 1807 Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808 1817 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn 1819 Territory of Arkansas organized 1825 1st grand opera in US sung in English, NYC 1829 New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston 1831 John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission 1836 Texas declares independence from Mexico 1853 Territory of Washington organized 1858 Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie 1861 Congress creates Dakota & Nevada Territories 1861 Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington 1865 At Waynesborough, Gen Early's army is defeated 1865 Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865 1866 1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Conn 1867 1st Reconstruction act passed by Congress 1867 Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico 1867 Howard University established 1867 Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead 1867 US Congress creates the Department of Education 1868 University of Illinois opens 1876 Rutherford B Hayes elected president 1887 American Trotting Association organized in Detroit 1890 Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 5 km (9:19) 1893 1st federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features 1896 Battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italians 1899 Pres McKinley signs bill creating Mt Rainier Natl Park (5th in US) 1901 Hawaii's 1st telegraph company opens 1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in NYC 1904 "Offical Playing Rules of Professional Base Ball Clubs" adopted 1907 General Botha named premier of Transvaal 1909 Gr Brit, France, Germ & It asks Serbia to set no territorial demands 1910 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die 1915 Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine 1917 Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted 1919 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin 1922 WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting 1922 WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions 1925 Japans House of Delegates accept universal male rights 1925 Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted 1925 SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament 1927 Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year) 1929 Chicago Black Hawks shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game 1929 Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals 1930 1st US indoor glider flight, St Louis Terminal Building 1934 Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha 1937 Mexico nationalizes oil 1938 Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (LA Calif) 1938 Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union 1939 Eugenio Pacelli chosen as pope Pius XII 1940 1st intercollegiate track meet telecast, MSG, NYC 1940 Finland: soviet army conquer Tuppura Island 1942 "Casablanca" wins 3 Oscars 1943 1st Westerbork transport to Sobibor concentration camp 1943 M Laugier discovers asteroids #1884 Skip & #2384 Schulhof 1943 Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, US & Australia win 1944 Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy 1945 King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist govt 1946 Dutch troop land on East-Bali 1949 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct) 1951 1st NBA all-star game 1955 King Norodom Sihanoek of Cambodia gives up to his father 1956 Morocco tears up the Treaty of F‚z, declares independence from France 1958 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed 1958 Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic 1962 Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game 1964 Beatles begin filming "A Hard Days Night", George Harrison meets Patti 1964 Miami begins a latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefan 1966 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam 1968 USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit 1969 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde 1969 Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die) 1969 Pirate Radio Station 295 (England/France) begins transmitting 1970 American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747 1972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby 1974 1st class postage raised to 10› from 8› 1976 Bob Lurie becomes CEO of SF Giants 1976 C-I Lagerkvist discovers asteroid #2274 Ehrsson 1976 Walt Disney World's 50-millionth guest 1977 1st time Jay Leno appears on Tonight Show 1977 Libya amends constitution 1978 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV 1978 Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6 1980 3rd Islander scoreless tie-Penguins in Pitts 1980 Mike Bratz (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games 1982 60th hat trick in Islander history-Bryan Trottier 1983 Final episode of M*A*S*H; 125,000,000 viewers 1984 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3390 1984 John Long (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games 1986 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita 1989 Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil 1989 Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premiers on worldwide Pepsi commercial 1989 NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers win 22nd straight home game 1989 NY Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez 1990 Greyhound Bus goes on strike 1991 UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq Back to GREGSITE Facts for March 0261st day of the year with 304 days left (Numerology = 5) 1891 9øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC 1972 72øF highest temperature for this date in NYC Back to GREGSITE Songs released on March 0203/02/44 --- Poinciana --- Crosby, Bing 03/02/44 --- Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me --- Herman, Woody 03/02/57 --- Come Go With Me --- Dell-Vikings 03/02/57 --- Round & Round --- Como, Perry 03/02/57 --- Party Doll --- Knox, Buddy 03/02/57 --- Butterfly --- Williams, Andy 03/02/63 --- South Street --- Orlons 03/02/68 --- Since You've Been Gone, (Sweet Sweet Bab --- Franklin, Aretha 03/02/68 --- Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde, The --- Fame, Georgie 03/02/68 --- Dance To The Music --- Sly & The Family Stone 03/02/74 --- Hooked On A Feeling --- Blue Swede 03/02/74 --- Bennie & The Jets --- John, Elton 03/02/85 --- Obsession --- Animotion 03/02/85 --- Nightshift --- Commodores 03/02/85 --- I'm On Fire --- Springsteen, Bruce 03/02/91 --- Rico Suave --- Gerardo 03/02/91 --- Sadness Part 1 --- Enigma 03/02/91 --- Rescue Me --- Madonna |
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