THIS DAY IN HISTORY…
FEBRUARY
3rd, 1953
Rock singers Buddy Holly, Ruchie Valens and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash
6th, 1935
Monopoly first went on sale
6th, 1971
Astronaut Alan Shepard hits three golf balls on the moon
8th, 1910
The Boy Scouts were founded
9th, 1964
The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show
9th, 1870
US Congress authorizes the National Weather Bureau
10th, 1942
Glenn Miller receives the first ever gold record for selling over a million copies of “The Chattanooga Choo Choo”
10th, 1763
France cedes Canada to England, ending the the French and Indian War
11th, 1809
Robert Fulton patents the steamboat
11th, 1945
The Yalta Agreement is signed by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
12th, 1870
Women in the Utah Territory win the right to vote
14th, 1929
The Saint Valentine’s Dat Massacre occured where mobsters dressed as ploiceman gunned seven members of a rival gang
15th, 1842
The Post Office uses adhesive postage for the first time
16th, 1937
Nylon is patented but won’t be used for several decades
16th, 1948
NBC TV begins it’s first nightly newscast
18th, 1885
Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is published
18th, 1930
A ninth plant is discovered in the solar system and is named Pluto
19th, 1913
A prize is inserted into a Crackerjack Box for the first time
20th, 1962
John Glenn becomes the first astronaut to orbit the earth
21th, 1972
President Nixon becomes the first president to visit China
22th, 1879
Frank Woolworth opens the first Five Cent Store in Uitca, NY
23rd, 1874
Walter Wingfield patents the game of lawn tennis
23rd, 1896
The Tootsie Roll rolls into stores in America
23rd, 1945
US Marines raise the flag on Iwo Jima
25th, 1836
Samuel Colt is granted a patent for the revolver
26th, 1993
A bomb explodes in the basement of the World Trade Center, killing 6 people
28th, 1692
The Salem Witch Hunts begin
28th, 1983
The final episode of Mash is aired
29th, 1872
Yellowstone becomes the first national park
MARCH
1st, 1872
Yellowstone becomes the first national park in US
2nd, 1836
Texas declares its independence from Mexico
3rd, 1931
The Star Spangled Banner becomes our National Anthem
4th, 1789
The Constitution of the United States of America goes into effect
4th, 1930
Mrs. Charles Fahning of Buffalo, NY is recognized as the first woman to bowl a perfect 300 game
5th, 1770
The Boston Massacre occurs
6th, 1950
Silly putty is invented
6th, 1981
Walter Cronkite signs off as achorman of the CBS Evening News
7th, 1876
Alexander Graham Bell invents patents the telephone
7th, 1933
Mononoly game board is invented
8th, 1999
Baseball great Joe DiMaggio dies
10th, 1862
US government issues paper money for the first time
11th, 1888
The Blizzard of 1888 begins
12th, 1912
The Girl Scouts are founded
12th, 1942
Baseball great Joe DiMaggio gets a $6250 raise with his new contract
13th, 1868
US Senate begins impeachment trial of President Andrew Jackson
13th, 1877
Earmuffs are patented
13th, 1639
Havard University is named after clergyman John Havard
14th, 1794
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
15th, 44 BC
“The Ides of March” Julius Ceasar is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus
16th, 1926
Professor Robert Goddard launches first liquid fuel rocket
17th
St Patrick’s Day celebration
17th, 1845
Rubber band is invented
18th, 1965
Soviet Union cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov becomes first person to walk in space
19th, 1918
Congress approves Daylight Savings Time
20th, 1852
Harriet Beacher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin
21st, 1963
Infamous Alcatraz prison is closed
23rd, 1775
Patrick Henry declares “Give me liberty or give me death”
24th, 1882
German scientist Robert Koch annouces his discovery that bacillus causes tuberculosis
24th, 1958
Elvis Presly joins the Army
25th, 1957
The European Economic Community is established by the Treat of Rome
26th, 1827
Ludwig von Beethoven dies in Vienna, Austria
26th, 1885
The Eastman Dry Plate and Chemical Company manufactures the first motion picture film
27th, 1964
Earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter Scale hits near Anchorage, Alaska
28th, 1797
Nathaniel Briggs patents the washing machine
28th, 1939
The city of Madrid falls to forces of Francisco Franco, ending the Spanish Civil War
28th, 1979
Nuclear power plant melt down at Three Mile Island occurs
29th, 1848
Ice jams stop the flow of water over the Niagara Falls
29th, 1886
Coca Cola is invented
30th, 1870
The 15th Admendment goes into effect giving the right to vote to black men
30th, 1964
Jeopardy debuts on television
31th, 1889
The Eiffel Tower opens in Paris, France
Novermber
1st
England releases the first 1st adhesive postage stamp, 1840
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, one of Italian artist Michelangelo’s finest works, is exhibited to the public for the first time, 1512
2nd
The Sprice Goose flies for the first and last time, piloted by Howard Hughes, 1947
3rd
Christopher Columbus discovers “St Iago”, later renamed Jamaica, 1494
Order is given to bomb Pearl Harbor by secret order in 34 days, 1941
4th
Manhattan Island is sold by Indians in exchange for $24 in cloth & buttons, 1626
5th
Mexican forces under Benito Juarez defeated French troops in the Battle of Puebla and is now celebrated as Cinco de Mayo, 1862
Alan Shepard rides “Freedom 7″ to becomes 1st American in space, 1961
6th
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