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0432 St Patrick, a bishop, sent to Ireland to convert
the druids
1737 First St Patrick's Day celebration in America
1755 Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000
from a Cherokee chief
1756 St Patrick's Day first celebrated in NYC
at Crown & Thistle Tavern
1762 First St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1776 British completed their evacuation of Boston following a successful siege
conducted by Patriots
1804 Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell"
premieres
1845 Bristol baker, Henry Jones, patents self-raising
flour
1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of
London
1854 First park land purchased by a US city, Worcester
MA
1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
1871 National Association of Professional BaseBall
players organized
1876 First record high jump over 6' (Marshall
Jones Brooks)
1898 First practical submarine first submerges,
New York NY (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckraker"
1912 Campfire Girls organization announced by
Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
1917 First exclusively women's bowling tournament
begins in St Louis
1927 US government doesn't sign league of Nations
disarmament treaty
1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer
Adam Opel
1942 General Douglas MacArthur arrives in Australia
to become supreme commander
1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
1952 "Wheel of Fortune" by Kay Starr
topped the charts
1956 "The Poor People of Paris" by Les
Baxter topped the charts
1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd
US), measures Earth shape
1958 "Tequila" by the Champs topped
the charts
1961 New York DA arrests professional gamblers
who implicate Seton Hall players
1962 "Hey! Baby" by Bruce Channel topped
the charts
1963 Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game
1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8
Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
1966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister
1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of Los Angeles
Dodgers
1970 US casts their first UN Security Council
veto regarding a crisis in Rhodesia
1973 "Killing Me Softly with His Song"
by Roberta Flack topped the charts
1979 "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor
topped the charts
1984 "Jump" by Van Halen topped the
charts
1988 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game:Loyola-Marymount
119, Wyoming 115
1990 "Escapade" by Janet Jackson topped
the charts
1991 USSR holds a referendum to determine if they
should stay together; 9 of 15 Soviet representatives officially approve new
union treaty
1995 US approves first chicken pox vaccine, Varivax
by Merck & Co
1997 CNN begins Spanish broadcasts
