1888 – Great blizzard of ’88 strikes northeastern United States.
1897 – A meteorite enters the earth’s atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
1917 – First National Hockey League championship game: Toronto Arenas beat Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in first of two game set. Second game was played March 13.
1927 – First armored commercial car hold-up in the United States in Pittsburgh.
1941 – Bronko Nagurski regains the World Wrestling title from Ray Steele in Minnesota after losing to him a year earlier.
1941 – President Franklin Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Bill, allowing the United States to provide material support to Great Britain’s war effort in return for future use of land for US military bases in England.
1953 – F.M. Adams is the first woman army doctor commissioned.
1956 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta Country Club: Louise Suggs wins her third Titleholders title by 1 shot over Patty Berg.
1957 – Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show “Twenty One” after winning $129,000. It later was revealed the show was fixed.
1958 – American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 feet on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. It creates crater 75 feet across. The bomb did not have a nuclear capsule.
1963 – US Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara orders the adoption by the military of the M16 assault rifle, originally designed as the AR-15 by Eugene Stoner.
1972 – 19th ACC Men’s Basketball tournament: North Carolina beats Maryland 73-64.
1982 – United States boycotts Libyan crude oil.
1986 – 187.27 million shares traded on New York Stock Exchange.
1990 – 16th People’s Choice Awards: Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep win for Dramatic Motion Pictures and Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad win for television.
1997 – Beatle Paul McCartney is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
2007 – 54th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #8 North Carolina beats NC State 89-80.
2018 – China’s National People’s Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, allowing Xi Jinping to be president for life.
2020 – 11-year bull market ends as the Dow Jones industrial average falls more than 20%, becoming a bear market.
2021 – Britain Prince William says the royal family is “very much not a racist family” in first public comments since interview by his brother Harry and wife Meghan.
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