708 – Pope Constantine succeeds Pope Sisinnius as the 88th pope.
1865 – The SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras caught fire and sank. 400 people were killed.
1865 – During the American Civil War, Confederate forces captured Fort Stedman in Virginia.
1901 – 55 people died when a Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown, IA.
1901 – The Mercedes was introduced by Daimler at the five-day “Week of Nice” in Nice, France.
1905 – Rebel battle flags that were captured during the American Civil War were returned to the South.
1911 – In New York City, 146 women were killed in fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City. The owners of the company were indicted on manslaughter charges because some of the employees had been behind locked doors in the factory. The owners were later acquitted and in 1914 they were ordered to pay damages to each of the twenty-three families that had sued.
1913 – The Palace Theatre opened in New York City.
1941 – The first paprika mill was incorporated in Dollon, SC.
1947 – A coalmine explosion in Centralia, IL, killed 111 people.
1947 – John D. Rockefeller III presented a check for $8.5 million to the United Nations for the purchase of land for the site of the U.N. center.
1960 – Roy Orbison recorded “Only the Lonely.”
1963 – The Beach Boys released the album “Surfin’ U.S.A.”
1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. led a group of 25,000 to the state capital in Montgomery, AL.
1967 – The Who made its U.S. concert debut in New York.
1968 – The 58th and final episode of “The Monkees” TV show was aired.
1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
1970 – The Concorde made its first supersonic flight.
1971 – The Boston Patriots became the New England Patriots.
1982 – Wayne Gretzky became the first player in the NHL to score 200 points in a season.
1985 – Prince won an Oscar for Best Original Score for the soundtrack for the movie “Purple Rain.”
1988 – Robert E. Chambers Jr. pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin. The case was known as New York City’s “preppie murder case.”
1995 – Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) was rescued after a riptide carried him 250 feet offshore in New Zealand.
Sources: wikipedia, onthisday.com
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