On This Day (March 3)

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1585 – The Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy, a theatre designed by the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, was inaugurated.
1706 - Johann Pachelbel, German composer died. (b. 1653) (Canon in D - Listen)
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Nicholas and the Continental Marines successfully landed on New Providence and captured Nassau in the Bahamas.
1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor born. (d. 1922) (An eminent scientist, inventor and innovator, most often associated with the invention of the telephone.)

Alexander Graham Bell

1878 – The signing of the Treaty of San Stefano established Bulgaria as an autonomous principality in the Ottoman Empire.
1931 – "The Star-Spangled Banner", originally a poem written by American author Francis Scott Key after watching the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812, officially became the national anthem of the United States.
1938 - Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1958 – Nuri as-Said became the Prime Minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
1997 – The Sky Tower in Auckland, the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 metres (1,080 ft), opened.

On This Day (March 2)

1836 – Texas Revolution: At a convention in Washington-on-the-Brazos, the Mexican state of Texas adopted a declaration of independence from Mexico, establishing the Republic of Texas.
1865 – Second Taranaki War: Protestant missionary Carl Sylvius Völkner died at the hands of Hauhau militants in Opotiki for working as an agent for George Grey, Governor-General of New Zealand.
1904 - Dr. Seuss, American author born. (d. 1991) (“The Cat in the Hat”, “Green Eggs and Ham”, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”)
1931 - Tom Wolfe, American author born. (“The Bonfire of the Vanities”)
1943 – World War II: Australian and American air forces attacked and destroyed a large convoy of the Japanese Navy at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the Bismarck Sea north of the island of Papua New Guinea.
1970 – Rhodesia formally broke its links with the British crown and declared itself a republic.
1978 – Aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 28, Czech Vladimír Remek became the first person not from the Soviet Union or the United States to go into space.


On This Day (March 1)

1445 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter born. (d. 1510)

Primavera

1565 – Portuguese knight Estácio de Sá founded the city of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (St Sebastian of the January River) in honour of King Sebastian I.
1810 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French composer and pianist born. (d. 1849) (“Minute Waltz” – Listen )
1872 – Yellowstone National Park, one of the first national parks in the world, was established.
1896 – Ethiopia won the decisive Battle of Adwa over Italy, ending the First Italo-Abyssinian War.
1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
1919 – Korea under Japanese rule: The Samil Movement began with numerous peaceful protests in Korea, but was brutally suppressed by the Japanese police and army.
1932 - The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
1954 – The 15-megaton hydrogen bomb Castle Bravo was detonated (pictured) on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in one of the worst cases of radioactive contamination ever caused by nuclear testing.