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461 - St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland died.

1951 - Actor Kurt Russell is born.

1969 - Golda Meir became the Prime  Minister of Israel.

1993 - Actress Helen Hayes dies at the age of 92.

2003 - President George W. Bush gave Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave his country.

1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.

1965 - 3,500 American Marines land in South Vietnam.

1999 - Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio dies at age 84.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.

1926 - The first trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation.

1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker is born. ( d.2007 )

2003 - Almost every Broadway musical performance shut down because of a 4 day walk-out by Broadway musicians.

1475 - Italian artist Michelangelo is born. (d.1564)

1836 - The Alamo fell to Mexican forces after a 13 day siege.

1944 - The first American bombing raid on Berlin during WWII.

1981 - Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as anchorman of “The CBS Evening News.”

1770  - The Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers, taunted by colonist, killed five people. 

1905 - Russian troops retreat from Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.

1963 - Singer Patsy Cline died in a plane crash at age 30.

1982 - Comedian John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose at the age of 33.

2004 - Martha Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the government. 

1791 - Vermont is admitted as the 14th state.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as the 16th president.

1933 - The first woman to serve in the Cabinet. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins under President Roosevelt’s administration.

1989 - Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. announced plans to merge into the world’s largest media and entertainment conglomerate.

1863 - Arizona was organized as a territory.

1903 - The U.S signed an agreement to acquire a naval station in Guantanamo Bay.

1942 - The Voice of America went on the air for the first time.

1970 - National Public Radio is founded.

1981 - The engagement of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer is announced.

1836 - The siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas.

1945 - U.S Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima.

1965 - Comedian Stan Laurel died at age 74. 

1994 - Actress Dakota Fanning is born.

1732 - President George Washington is born. (d.1799)

1924 - President Coolidge becomes the first president to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.

1959- Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.

1969- The last time the Beatles were together for a recording session.

1975 - Actress Drew Barrymore is born.

1878 - The first telephone book is published in New Haven, Connecticut.

1885 - The Washington Monument is dedicated.

1925 - The New Yorker magazine debuted.

1972 - President Richard Nixon visits China.

1979 - Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt is born.

1902 - Photographer Ansel Adams is born. (d.1984)

1934 - Racer Bobby Unser is born.

1962 - John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth.

1967 - Musician Kurt Cobain is born. (d.1994)

1878 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison.

1942 - President Roosevelt signed an executive order giving military the authority to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans.

1945 - Marines landed on the island of Iwo Jima.

1986 - Soviet Union launches the “Mir” space station.

1885 - Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is first published.

1929 - The first Academy Awards are announced.

1930 - Pluto is discovered.

2001 - Dale Earnhardt is killed during the final lap of the Daytona 500.