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.
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”.
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.
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.
February 27, 1943: The Smith Mining Disaster in Montana kills 75.
February 27, 1964: The Government of Italy asks for help in keeping the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
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”.
March 1, 1873: E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
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.
March 2, 1919 — Grand Canyon National Park was established.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
March 6, 1869: Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
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).
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March 7, 1965: Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
March 7, 1936: Adolph Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
March 8, 1979: Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
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.