1914 - Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer
1548 - Sasbout Vosmeer, Dutch Catholic theologist/apostole
1599 - Johannes Berchmans, Dutch Jesuit/saint
1615 - Innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700)
1916 - Corinne Boggs, political administrator
1960 - Adam Clayton, Oxfordshire, rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow)
1700 - James Kent, composer
1960 - Joe Ranft, American animator (d. 2005)
1917 - Tessie O'Shea, England, actress (Entertainers)
1962 - Liane Tooth, Sydney NSW Australia, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1720 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)
1920 - Frans van der Elst, Flemish attorney/MP (Volksunie)
1964 - Will Clark, New Orleans LA, infielder (Texas Rangers)
1741 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790)
1744 - David Allan, Scottish painter
1966 - Tine Scheuer-Larsen, Denmark, tennis star
1967 - Colleen Rosensteel, S Greensburg PA, heavyweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1967 - Satu Huotari, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1967 - Andrs Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994)
1968 - Christopher Collett, NYC, actor (Manhattan Project)
1768 - Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant
1926 - RaulAlfonsn, Argentine pres (1983-89) (or 3/12/1927)
1969 - Kevin Kaminski, Churchbridge, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1970 - Tim Story, American film director
1929 - J D Slater, writer
1971 - Li Chen, Changsha China, tennis star (1995 Futures-Austin TX)
1929 - Walter Medio, race horse trainer
1929 - Will Eisma, composer
1930 - Doug Harvey, hockey star (3 time James Norris winner)
1832 - Alberto Randegger, composer
1931 - Marc Dessauvage, Flemish architect
1971 - Tracy Wells, actress (Heather-Mr Belvedere)
1971 - Annabeth Gish, American actress
1971 - Robert Lanham, American author and satirist
1860 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903)
1862 - Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer
1972 - Rickey Brady, NFL tight end (NO Saints)
1972 - Ryan McCoy, WLAF LB (London Monarchs)
1872 - Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist
1935 - Michael Walzer, American philosopher
1881 - Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer
1883 - Enrico Toselli, composer
1938 - Hans-Joachim Hespos, composer
1938 - Jean-Claude Risset, composer
1938 - Joseph Bellino, footballer (1960 Heisman Trophy)
1886 - Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist
1974 - Corinna Broiz, Garberville Colo, lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1887 - Carlos Isamitt, composer
1974 - Vampeta, Brazilian footballer
1942 - Dave Cutler, American software engineer
1976 - James Dewees, musician
1945 - Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Russian mathematician
1896 - Dorothy Aldis, writer
1897 - Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue)
1978 - Tom Danielson, American cyclist
1898 - Josie Sedgwick, TX, actress (Son of Oklahoma)
1978 - Kenny Watson, American football player
1979 - Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player
1900 - Bla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
1950 - Bernard Julien, cricketer (WI left-arm pace all-rounder mid-70's)
1950 - Danny Kirwan, London, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1980 - Lee Jung-hyun, South Korean pop singer and actress
1980 - Molly Stanton, American actress
1950 - Steve Hill, country vocalist (A Winning Hand)
1950 - William H Macy, Miami FL, actor (Homicide, Water Engine)
1950 - Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator
1983 - Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer
1984 - Rachael Bella, actress
1953 - Andy Bean, Lafayette Ga, PGA golfer (Western 1978, Kemper 1978)
1984 - Steve Darcis, Belgian tennis player
1954 - Robin Duke, Toronto Canada, comedienne (SNL, SCTV, Club Paradise)
1984 - Yuuka Nanri, Japanese seiyu
1911 - L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi writer/scientologist (Dianetics)
1912 - Ernst Hess, composer
1955 - Bruno Conti, Italian footballer
1912 - James Friell, political cartoonist
1957 - Steve Lake, American baseball player
1957 - John Hoeven, American politician, governor of North Dakota
1990 - Alec Medlock, American actor
1999 - Wiktoria Gasiewska, Polish actress
1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
1639 - Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
1781 - William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1809 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'tat.
1845 - Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its premire performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
1862 - American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 - American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
1881 - 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.)
1884 - The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
1897 - San Diego State University is founded.
1900 - Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
1920 - The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
1921 - Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
1925 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
1930 - The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
1933 - Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
1938 - World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
1938 - Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
1940 - The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
1943 - World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
1943 - The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krakw.
1954 - Battle of i?n Bin Ph?: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
1957 - Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
1962 - Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantnamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
1964 - American Kitty Genovese is murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
1979 - The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
1988 - The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
1991 - 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.
1992 - An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
1996 - Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 Primary School children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.
1997 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
1997 - The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
2005 - Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.
2008 - Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
1548 - Sasbout Vosmeer, Dutch Catholic theologist/apostole
1599 - Johannes Berchmans, Dutch Jesuit/saint
1615 - Innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700)
1916 - Corinne Boggs, political administrator
1960 - Adam Clayton, Oxfordshire, rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow)
1700 - James Kent, composer
1960 - Joe Ranft, American animator (d. 2005)
1917 - Tessie O'Shea, England, actress (Entertainers)
1962 - Liane Tooth, Sydney NSW Australia, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1720 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)
1920 - Frans van der Elst, Flemish attorney/MP (Volksunie)
1964 - Will Clark, New Orleans LA, infielder (Texas Rangers)
1741 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1790)
1744 - David Allan, Scottish painter
1966 - Tine Scheuer-Larsen, Denmark, tennis star
1967 - Colleen Rosensteel, S Greensburg PA, heavyweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1967 - Satu Huotari, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1967 - Andrs Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994)
1968 - Christopher Collett, NYC, actor (Manhattan Project)
1768 - Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant
1926 - RaulAlfonsn, Argentine pres (1983-89) (or 3/12/1927)
1969 - Kevin Kaminski, Churchbridge, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1970 - Tim Story, American film director
1929 - J D Slater, writer
1971 - Li Chen, Changsha China, tennis star (1995 Futures-Austin TX)
1929 - Walter Medio, race horse trainer
1929 - Will Eisma, composer
1930 - Doug Harvey, hockey star (3 time James Norris winner)
1832 - Alberto Randegger, composer
1931 - Marc Dessauvage, Flemish architect
1971 - Tracy Wells, actress (Heather-Mr Belvedere)
1971 - Annabeth Gish, American actress
1971 - Robert Lanham, American author and satirist
1860 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903)
1862 - Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer
1972 - Rickey Brady, NFL tight end (NO Saints)
1972 - Ryan McCoy, WLAF LB (London Monarchs)
1872 - Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist
1935 - Michael Walzer, American philosopher
1881 - Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer
1883 - Enrico Toselli, composer
1938 - Hans-Joachim Hespos, composer
1938 - Jean-Claude Risset, composer
1938 - Joseph Bellino, footballer (1960 Heisman Trophy)
1886 - Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist
1974 - Corinna Broiz, Garberville Colo, lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1887 - Carlos Isamitt, composer
1974 - Vampeta, Brazilian footballer
1942 - Dave Cutler, American software engineer
1976 - James Dewees, musician
1945 - Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Russian mathematician
1896 - Dorothy Aldis, writer
1897 - Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue)
1978 - Tom Danielson, American cyclist
1898 - Josie Sedgwick, TX, actress (Son of Oklahoma)
1978 - Kenny Watson, American football player
1979 - Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player
1900 - Bla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
1950 - Bernard Julien, cricketer (WI left-arm pace all-rounder mid-70's)
1950 - Danny Kirwan, London, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1980 - Lee Jung-hyun, South Korean pop singer and actress
1980 - Molly Stanton, American actress
1950 - Steve Hill, country vocalist (A Winning Hand)
1950 - William H Macy, Miami FL, actor (Homicide, Water Engine)
1950 - Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator
1983 - Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer
1984 - Rachael Bella, actress
1953 - Andy Bean, Lafayette Ga, PGA golfer (Western 1978, Kemper 1978)
1984 - Steve Darcis, Belgian tennis player
1954 - Robin Duke, Toronto Canada, comedienne (SNL, SCTV, Club Paradise)
1984 - Yuuka Nanri, Japanese seiyu
1911 - L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi writer/scientologist (Dianetics)
1912 - Ernst Hess, composer
1955 - Bruno Conti, Italian footballer
1912 - James Friell, political cartoonist
1957 - Steve Lake, American baseball player
1957 - John Hoeven, American politician, governor of North Dakota
1990 - Alec Medlock, American actor
1999 - Wiktoria Gasiewska, Polish actress
1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
1639 - Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
1781 - William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1809 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'tat.
1845 - Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its premire performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
1862 - American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 - American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
1881 - 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.)
1884 - The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
1897 - San Diego State University is founded.
1900 - Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
1920 - The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
1921 - Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
1925 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
1930 - The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
1933 - Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
1938 - World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
1938 - Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
1940 - The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
1943 - World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
1943 - The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krakw.
1954 - Battle of i?n Bin Ph?: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
1957 - Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
1962 - Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantnamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
1964 - American Kitty Genovese is murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
1979 - The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
1988 - The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
1991 - 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.
1992 - An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
1996 - Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 Primary School children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.
1997 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
1997 - The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
2005 - Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.
2008 - Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
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