1790 – US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency.
1820 – Future Mormon church leader Joseph Smith has his “First Vision” in a wooded area of New York, according to Mormon scholars.
1845 – Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of Band-Aid.
1910 – US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick.
1930 – Congress appropriates $50,000 for inter-American highway.
1937 – Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb’s advice and replaces his 40 oz bat with a 36 oz one.
1937 – Spinach growers of Crystal City, Texas, erect statue of Popeye.
1942 – Explosion of 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton, Pennsylvania, kills 21.
1945 – Allies led by US Marine Corps secure island of Jima from Imperial Japanese Army, after 18,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed.
1952 – 14th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St. Johns, 80-63; first tournament to have a true “final four” format.
1953 – Dr. Joseph Salk announces vaccine to prevent polo.
1955 – “Ballad of Davy Crockett” becomes the #1 record in US.
1969 – Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV.
1977 – Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson.
1979 – OPEC makes full 14.5% oil price increase for 1979 effective on April 1.
1994 – Bonnie Blair skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26)
1999 – A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
2006 – PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Canadian Stephen Ames shoots a final round 67 to complete biggest win of his career by 6 strokes from Retief Goosen of South Africa.
2016 – US primary elections: Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders wins Washington, Hawaii and Alaska.
2018 – Porn star Stormy Daniels claims she had an affair with Donald Trump in an interview with CBS’s 60 minutes and was later threatened to keep quiet.
2019 – Michelle Obama’s biography “Becoming” sells over 10 million copies according to its publisher Bertelsmann.