Year 1788 Calendar » The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
Year 1820 Calendar » The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union (American Civil War) or Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state (United States) called free state, and make
Year 1834 Calendar » York, Upper Canada known as York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
Year 1836 Calendar » Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo Mission in San Antonio named Alamo are killed an
Year 1857 Calendar » The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the 'Dred Scott v. Sandford' case.
Year 1869 Calendar » Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
Year 1882 Calendar » The Kingdom of Serbia or Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
Year 1912 Calendar » Italy known as Italian forces became the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles dropped bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
Year 1921 Calendar » Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Comintern e.g Communist International.
Year 1930 Calendar » International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
Year 1943 Calendar » Norman Rockwell published 'Freedom from Want (painting) called Freedom from Want' in the 'The Saturday Evening Post' with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the 'Four Freedoms (Norman Rockwell) called Four Freedoms' series.
Year 1945 Calendar » World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops.
Year 1946 Calendar » Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
Year 1953 Calendar » Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and General secretary named First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Year 1957 Calendar » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan Africa called Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British
Year 1962 Calendar » Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
Year 1964 Calendar » Constantine II of Greece named Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
Year 1965 Calendar » Premier Thomas Playford IV or Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
Year 1968 Calendar » The first of the East L.A. walkouts take place at several high schools.
Year 1970 Calendar » An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
Year 1975 Calendar » 1975 Algiers Agreement named Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
Year 1975 » For the first time the Zapruder film of the John F. Kennedy assassination e.g assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
Year 1981 Calendar » After 19 years of presenting the 'CBS Evening News', Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
Year 1983 Calendar » The first United States Football League game is played.
Year 1987 Calendar » The British ferry MS known as Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
Year 1988 Calendar » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
Year 1990 Calendar » Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the Cross-America flight air speed record e.g transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
Year 1992 Calendar » The Michelangelo (virus) known as Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
Year 2008 Calendar » A 6 March 2008 Baghdad bombing named suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman Mercaz HaRav massacre named kills eight students in Jerusalem.