1991

President Bush declared that "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated," and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight.

February 28th
 

1759 ~ Pope Clement XIII allowed Bible to be translated into various languages.

1827 ~ First commercial railroad in U.S., Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered.

1901 ~ Birthday of Linus Pauling, Chemist & Peace Worker (Nobel Prize 1954 & 1962).

1915 ~ Birthday of Zero Mostel, Actor.

1942 ~ Birthday of Brian Jones, The Rolling Stones.

1979 ~ Mr. Ed, talking horse died (This only makes sense to Americans).

1983 ~ Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs; record 125 million watch.

1986 ~ Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated in Stockholm.

1991 ~ President George Bush announces a ceasefire in the Gulf after Iraq accepts all 12 UN resolutions.

February 29th
 

1504 ~ Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians. This will be reprised by Hergé in “Prisoners Of The Sun”, a Tintin adventure.

1692 ~ Warrant issued for Sarah good & Tituba, accused of witchcraft, Salem, Massachusetts.

1792 ~ Birthday of Gioacchino Rossini, Composer

1860 ~ Birthday of Herman Hollerith, Inventor (Electric Tabulating Machine).

1904 ~ Birthday of Jimmy Dorsey, Big Band Leader.

1940 ~ Frederic from G & S "Pirates Of Penzance" finally released from apprenticeship.

1968 ~ First Pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge.

1980 ~ Gordie Howe becomes first NHL player to score 800 career goals.

1984 ~ Pierre Trudeau, announced his resignation after more than 15 years as Canadian PM.

1988 ~ Nazi document implicates former UN General Secretary Kurt Waldheim in WW II deportations.

On March 1, 1932, the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J.

March 1st
 

1260 ~ Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, took Damascus.

1810 ~ Birthday of Frédéric Chopin, Composer & Pianist.

1904 ~ England regains cricket Ashes from Australia.

1904 ~ Birthday of Glenn Miller, Big Band Leader.

1909 ~ Birthday of David Niven, Actor.

1927 ~ Birthday of Harry Belafonte, Singer & Actor.

1950 ~ Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for espionage.

1954 ~ U.S. detonated 20 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini atoll.

1974 ~ Watergate grand jury indicted 7 presidential aides.

1981 ~ Bobby Sands, IRA member, began 65-day hunger strike. He died from his efforts.

March 2nd
 

1824 ~ Birthday of Bedrich Smetana, Composer (The Moldau, The Bartered Bride).

1836 ~ Republic of Texas declared independence from Mexico.

1904 ~ Birthday of Dr. Seuss [Theodor Geisel], Author.

1931 ~ Birthday of Mikhail S Gorbachev, Soviet Leader.

1946 ~ Ho Chi Minh elected President of Vietnam.

1956 ~ Morocco gained independence from France.

1969 ~ Concord flew for the first time.

1970 ~ Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia, declared Rhodesia a republic.

1983 ~ Final episode of M*A*S*H; 125 million viewers.

2001 ~ The Taliban began the destruction of ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan.

March 3rd
 

1634 ~ First tavern in Boston opened.

1794 ~ First performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D.

1845 ~ Birthday of Georg Cantor, Mathematician.

1847 ~ Birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor.

1875 ~ Georges Bizet's opera ‘Carmen’ debuted in Paris.

1917 ~ Nicholas II, last Russian Tsar, abdicated.

1931 ~ The "Star-Spangled Banner" adopted as the U.S. national anthem.

1956 ~ Morocco gained its independence.

1978 ~ The remains of Charlie Chaplin were stolen from his grave.

1985 ~ NUM decides to return to work with no resolution on over pit closures. Arthur Scargill announced “We face not an employer but a government aided and abetted by the judiciary, the police and you people in the media …”.

March 4th
 

1678 ~ Birthday of Antonio Vivaldi, Composer.

1681 ~ King Charles II granted William Penn royal charter for what would become Pennsylvania.

1748 ~ Birthday of Casimir Pulaski, General.

1789 ~ The Constitution of the United States went into effect.

1835 ~ Birthday of Giovanni Schiaparelli, Astronomer.

1885 ~ Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado", premieres in London.

1888 ~ Birthday of Knute Rockne, Football Coach.

1966 ~ John Lennon, said "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus".

1975 ~ Silent film comic Charlie Chaplin knighted.

1997 ~ President Clinton banned federally funded human cloning research.

On March 4, 1933, the start of President Roosevelt's first administration brought with it the first woman to serve in the Cabinet: Labor Secretary Frances Perkins.

March 5th
 

1512 ~ Birthday of Gerardus Mercator, Cartographer.

1623 ~ The first temperance law in the colonies was enacted in Virginia. I would have expected it in New England.

1845 ~ The U.S. Congress appropriated $30,000 to ship camels to the western U.S. Just think – the “Ghan” could have been running from Sacramento to San Antonio!

1846 ~ First track meet between Oxford and Cambridge.

1898 ~ Birthday of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer.

1908 ~ Birthday of Rex Harrison, Actor.

1924 ~ Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp. became IBM.

1931 ~ Birthday of Barry Tuckwell, Hornist

1946 ~ Winston Churchill's gave his "Iron Curtain" speech.

1976 ~ British £1 fell below $2 for first time.

March 6th
 

1475 ~ Birthday of Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni), one of the most inspired creators in the history of art.

1619 ~ Birthday of Cyrano de Bergerac, Satirist, and Dramatist.

1836 ~ The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Alamo fell.

1836 ~ HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard reached King George's Sound, Australia.

1853 ~ Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata" opera opened in Venice.

1926 ~ Birthday of Alan Greenspan, Economist.

1944 ~ Birthday of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Singer.

1957 ~ The former British colonies of Togoland and the Gold Coast united to form independent Ghana.

1960 ~ Switzerland granted women the right to vote in municipal elections.

1992 ~ The computer virus "Michelangelo" fizzled out.

March 7th
 

1274 ~ Death of St. Thomas Aquinas, Philosopher, Theologian.

1844 ~ Birthday of Anthony Comstock, Social Reformer.

1875 ~ Birthday of Maurice Ravel, Composer,

1876 ~ Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone.

1896 ~ Gilbert & Sullivan's last operetta "The Grand Duke," premiered in London.

1902 ~ Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal.

1906 ~ Finland granted women the right to vote.

1933 ~ The board game “Monopoly” invented.

1936 ~ Adolf Hitler broke Treaty of Versailles, sent troops to Rhineland.

1939 ~ Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians recorded "Auld Lang Syne".

It was on this day in 1933 that Charles Darrow created the game we know as Monopoly.

0322 BC - Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, died.

1774 - The British closed the port of Boston to all commerce.

1799 - In Palestine, Napoleon captured Jaffa and his men massacred more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners.

1848 - In Hawaii, the Great Mahele was signed.

1849 - The Austrian Reichstag was dissolved.

March 8th
 

1714 ~ Birthday of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Composer

1859 ~ Birthday of Kenneth Grahame, Author of “The Wind In The Willows”.

1930 ~ Mahatma Gandhi began civil disobedience campaign in India.

1934 ~ Edwin Hubble photo showed as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars.

1942 ~ Japanese forces captured Rangoon, Burma.

1943 ~ Birthday of Lynn Redgrave, Actress.

1965 ~ First U.S. combat forces arrived in Vietnam.

1971 ~ Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali for the World Heavyweight Boxing title.

1979 ~ Volcanoes on Io discovered y Voyager 1.

1983 ~ President Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "Evil Empire".