Year 874 Calendar » The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople.
Year 1138 Calendar » Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Antipope Victor IV (1138) named Victor IV, succeeding Antipope Anacletus II called Anacletus II.
Year 1591 Calendar » Battle of Tondibi: In Mali, Morocco or Moroccan forces of the Saadi Dynasty led by Judar Pasha defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one.
Year 1639 Calendar » Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard (clergyman) called John Harvard.
Year 1697 Calendar » Tayasal known as Nojpetén, capital of the Itza people e.g Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
Year 1862 Calendar » American Civil War: The United States U.S. Federal government of the United States federal government forbids all Union (American Civil War) Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and
Year 1865 Calendar » American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
Year 1881 Calendar » Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
Year 1884 Calendar » The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
Year 1900 Calendar » Second Boer War: United Kingdom or British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
Year 1920 Calendar » The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
Year 1921 Calendar » Mongolia is proclaimed an independent monarchy, ruled by Russian military officer Roman von Ungern-Sternberg as a dictator.
Year 1930 Calendar » The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
Year 1933 Calendar » Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President of the United States or President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
Year 1938 Calendar » World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
Year 1943 Calendar » The Holocaust: Nazi Germany known as German forces liquidate the Kraków Ghetto known as Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
Year 1954 Calendar » First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces under Vo Nguyen Giap unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the France named French to begin the Battle of Dien Bien Phu called Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War.
Year 1957 Calendar » Cuban student revolutionaries storm the Museum of the Revolution (Cuba) named presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of List of Presidents of Cuba named President Fulgencio Batista.
Year 1962 Calendar » Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and Presiden
Year 1963 Calendar » Police in Phoenix, Arizona arrest Ernesto Miranda and charge him with kidnap and rape. His conviction is ultimately set aside by the United States Supreme Court in 'Miranda v. Arizona'
Year 1969 Calendar » Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Apollo Lunar Module e.g Lunar Module.
Year 1985 Calendar » The Kenilworth Road riot takes place at an association football match at Kenilworth Road in Luton, England with disturbances before, during and after an F.A. Cup 6th Round tie between Luton Town F.C. and Millwall F.C..
Year 1988 Calendar » The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori, Aomori known as Aomori and Hakodate, Hokkaidō named Hakodate, Japan.
Year 1991 Calendar » The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
Year 1992 Calendar » An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter magnitude scale or Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
Year 1996 Calendar » Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 primary school children and one teacher are shot dead by spree killer Thomas Watt Hamilton who then commits suicide.
Year 1997 Calendar » The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
Year 2003 Calendar » Human evolution: The journal Nature (journal) e.g Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human had been found in Italy.
Year 2008 Calendar » Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
Year 2012 Calendar » At least 28 people are killed in a Sierre coach crash called bus crash in a motorway tunnel near the town of Sierre in the Switzerland e.g Swiss canton of Valais.
Year 2013 Calendar » Pope Francis is elected, in the 2013 papal conclave called papal conclave, as the List of popes named 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.