1755 – Transylvania Land Company buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief.
1762 – 1st St. Patrick’s Day parade in NYC.
1845 – Bristol man Henry Jones patents self-rising flour.
1894 – US & China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US.
1898 – John Phillip Holland achieves successful test run for the first modern submarine off Staten Island, submerging for 1 hour 40 minutes.
1905 – Albert Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his Quantum Theory of Light, one of the foundations of modern physics.
1929 – General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel.
1942 – General Douglas MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander.
1953 – Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St. Louis Browns for $2.475M.
1958 – US Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape.
1961 – NY DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players.
1970 – US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
1978 – Reds don green uniforms for St. Patrick’s Day.
1987 – IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3.
1989 – Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St. Patrick Day Parade.
1991 – New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70%.
1995 – US approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co.
2001 – OPEC decides to cut output by 4% or 1 million barrels per day, effective April 1.
2008 – New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. David Peterson becomes acting NY State governor.
2012 – MESSENGER spacecraft begins its extended mission.
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