On this date:In 1702, England's Queen Anne acceded to the throne upon the death of King William III.
In 1782, the Gnadenhutten massacre took place as more than 90 Indians were slain by militiamen in Ohio in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
In 1841, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was born in Boston.
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| Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1900, when he was chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. He was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1902. (AP Photo) |
In 1874, the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore, died in Buffalo, N.Y., at age 74.
In 1917, Russia's "February Revolution" (so called because of the Old Style calendar being used by Russians at the time) began with rioting and strikes in Petrograd.
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| People crowd the street in front of the ruins of the Nikitsky Gate to the Imperial Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, shortly after the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in February 1917 (under the Old Style calendar used by Russia at the time). (AP Photo) |
In 1930, the 27th president of the United States, William Howard Taft, died in Washington at age 72.
In 1944, two days after an initial strike, U.S. heavy bombers resumed raiding Berlin.
In 1960, Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon were the victors of the New Hampshire presidential primary.
In 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 Marines were brought in to defend the U.S. air base at Da Nang.
AP photographer Eddie Adams reportsIn 1988, 17 soldiers were killed when two Army helicopters from Fort Campbell, Ky., collided in mid-flight.
In 1999, Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio died at age 84. President Bill Clinton began a tour of Central America with a visit to hurricane-battered Nicaragua. The Energy Department fired scientist Wen Ho Lee from his job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory because of alleged security violations. (Despite being under a cloud of suspicion, Lee was never charged with espionage. He eventually pleaded guilty to mishandling computer files; a judge apologized for Lee's treatment.)
In 2000, President Bill Clinton submitted to Congress legislation to establish permanent normal trade relations with China. (The U.S. and China signed a trade pact in Nov. 2000.) A letter carrier, two firefighters and a sheriff's deputy were shot to death in Memphis, Tenn., allegedly by the letter carrier's husband, Frederick Williams, who was also a firefighter. (Williams was later found not guilty by reason of insanity.)
In 2004, Iraq's Governing Council signed a landmark interim constitution. Todd Bertuzzi of the Vancouver Canucks slugged Colorado Avalanche forward Steve Moore during a game, leaving Moore with a broken neck, concussion and facial cuts. (Bertuzzi, who was suspended indefinitely from the NHL, later pleaded guilty to criminal assault; he received a conditional discharge and was sentenced to probation and community service.) Abul Abbas, the Palestinian guerrilla leader who'd planned the hijacking of the Achille Lauro passenger ship, died while in U.S. custody in Baghdad, Iraq; he was 56.
In 2005, President George W. Bush said authoritarian rule in the Middle East had begun to ease, and he insisted anew that Syria had to end its nearly three-decade occupation of Lebanon. Hundreds of thousands jammed a central Beirut square, chanting support for Syria in a thundering show of strength by the militant group Hezbollah. Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov was killed in northern Chechnya during a raid by Russian forces.
In 2008, President Bush vetoed a bill that would have banned the CIA from using simulated drowning and other coercive interrogation methods to gain information from suspected terrorists. Barack Obama captured the Wyoming Democratic caucuses.
In 2009, a pastor was gunned down during a Sunday sermon in a southwestern Illinois church; a judge later ruled the suspect in the shooting, Terry Sedlacek, was mentally unfit to stand trial in the killing of the Rev. Fred Winters at the First Baptist Church of Maryville. A suicide bomber struck a police academy in Baghdad, killing at least 30.
Today's Birthdays: Actress Sue Ane (correct) Langdon is 74. Baseball player-turned-author Jim Bouton is 71. Actress Lynn Redgrave is 67. Actor-director Micky Dolenz is 65.
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| Mick at the mic. |
March 8 In Entertainment
In 1962, The Beatles made their TV debut on the BBC program "Teenager's Turn." They performed a cover of Roy Orbison's "Dream Baby."
In 1970, Diana Ross performed her first solo concert after leaving The Supremes, in Framingham, Massachusetts.
In 1973, keyboardist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan of the Grateful Dead died at his apartment in Madera, Calif. He was 27. McKernan had been under a doctor's care for cirrhosis. Also in 1973, Paul McCartney was fined $240 for growing marijuana outside his farm in Scotland. McCartney claimed fans gave him the seeds and he didn't know what would grow from them.
In 1989, gospel-country singer Stuart Hamblen died after having a malignant brain tumor removed at a California hospital. [After it was removed. That's not a good sign for health care. — Ed.]
In 1992, actress Annette Funicello revealed she had multiple sclerosis. [We are so glad we didn't get MS that we will express a sincere hope that Ms. Funicello is doing as well as possible. — Ed.]
In 1993, "Beavis and Butt-Head" premiered on MTV as a series. Previously, the characters were shown on MTV's "Liquid Television" program.
In 2004, actor Robert Pastorelli was found dead in his Hollywood Hills, Calif., home; he was 49.
In 2009, country singer Hank Locklin died in Brewton, Ala. at age 91.
Thought for Today: "In every person, even in such as appear most reckless, there is an inherent desire to attain balance." — Jakob Wassermann, German author (1873-1934).
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