1755 – 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine.
1894 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1904 – Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund.
1912 – Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low.
1917 – A German submarine sinks and unarmed US merchant ship, the ‘Algonquin’ on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson gives executive order to arm US merchant ships.
1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people.
1933 – FDR conducts his 1st “fireside chat”
1945 – NY is first to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment.
1951 – Comic strip “Dennis the Menace,” 1st appears in the British comic magazine ‘The Beano’
1964 – 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Barbra Streisand wins 2.
1965 – “Woolly Bully” single release by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.
1970 – US lowers voting age from 21 to 18.
1980 – Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago.
1989 – 36th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #9 North Carolina beats #7 Duke, 77-74.
1992 – Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert held at Carnegie Hall, NYC; performers include: Sting, Elton John, James Taylor, Natalie Cole and Don Henley.
1998 – “The Sound of Music” opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC.
2006 – 53rd ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #1 Duke beats #7 Boston College, 78-76.
2008 – Streaming service Hulu launches for public access in the United States.
2018 – British Prime Minister Theresa May says Russia was “highly likely” to have poisoned a Russian spy and his daughter on March 4 with nerve agent.
2020 – US President Trump bans travel with 26 European countries, though not the UK, due to COVID-19 (UK and Ireland added a day later)
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