# Today in History **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 10, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530 "2016-07-10T04:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 110
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2185 "2022-02-23T21:39:27Z")
**February 23, 1903:** President Theodore Roosevelt signed an agreement with Cuba to lease the area around Guantanamo Bay to the United States. and in **1945** , during War II, U. S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American flags; the second flag-raising was captured in the iconic Associated Press photograph. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2186 "2022-02-24T07:27:22Z")
**February 24, 1942** : An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all “persons of Japanese racial origin”. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2187 "2022-02-25T08:21:57Z")
**February 25, 1870** : Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2188 "2022-02-26T05:09:36Z")
**February 26, 1616** : Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2189 "2022-02-27T06:38:19Z")
February 27, 1943: The Smith Mining Disaster in Montana kills 75. > **[Ghostly site: the Smith Mine is a haunting legacy of a Montana tragedy](https://www.kbzk.com/news/local-news/ghostly-site-smith-mine-a-haunting-legacy-of-a-montana-tragedy)** > > Seventy-seven men were working deep underground inside slope #3 of the Smith Mine on that cold February morning when disaster struck. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2190 "2022-02-27T09:51:16Z")
**February 27, 1964** : The Government of Italy asks for help in keeping the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2191 "2022-02-28T12:24:25Z")
**February 28, 1939** : The erroneous word “dord” is discovered in the Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation. “D or d” is given as an abbreviation for density; it was misread as “dord”. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2192 "2022-03-01T12:04:25Z")
**March 1, 1873** : E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2193 "2022-03-02T09:04:31Z")
**March 2, 1877** : Just two days before the inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the November 7, 1876 Presidential election, even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2194 "2022-03-02T09:28:08Z")
**March 2, 1919** — Grand Canyon National Park was established. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2195 "2022-03-03T07:41:32Z")
**March 3, 1904** : Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison’s phonograph cylinder. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2196 "2022-03-04T05:05:10Z")
**March 4, 1966** : In an interview in the _London Evening Standard,_ John Lennon declares that The Beatles are “more popular than Jesus now”, and that rock music might outlast Christianity. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2197 "2022-03-05T07:45:02Z")
**March 5, 1981** : The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world. My first computer. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2198 "2022-03-05T16:03:14Z")
March 5, 1770: The Boston Massacre took place in which British soldiers shot and killed five colonists, including Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Patrick Carr, and Samuel Maverick, and wounded six others. (Side note: My 20th floor office window overlooked the site for 2 years.) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2199 "2022-03-06T05:03:20Z")
**March 6, 1869** : Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2200 "2022-03-06T06:05:22Z")
**March 6, 1836:** Following thirteen days of siege, a Mexican Army force estimated to be around 2000 men under the command of General Santa Anna attacked and finally overwhelmed the defenders of the Alamo mission complex at San Antonio de Béxar (now present-day San Antonio, Texas). _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2201 "2022-03-07T14:33:20Z")
**March 7, 1965** : Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2202 "2022-03-08T00:02:06Z")
March 7, 1936: Adolph Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/2203 "2022-03-08T08:46:39Z")
**March 8, 1979** : Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time. ---
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**March 9, 1841** : The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the _United States v. The Amistad_ case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530.md?page=111)