Today In History...

Today In History...

   In  461 St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, dies in Saul.

   In 1776 British forces evacuate Boston during the Revolutionary War.

   In 1870 The Massachusetts legislature authorizes the incorporation of

           Wellesley Female Seminary.

   In 1894 The United States and China sign a treaty aimed at preventing

           Chinese laborers from entering the U.S.

   In 1898 John Holland designs the first successful submarine.

   In 1899 The first news film is shot of a fire in New York's Windsor Hotel.

   In 1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York, NY.

   In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt first uses the term "muckrake" in a

           speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington.

   In 1910 The Camp Fire Girls organization is formed.

   In 1941 The National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, DC.

   In 1942 General Douglas MacArthur arrives in Australia to become Supreme

           Commander of Allied Forces in the southwest Pacfic theatre during

           World War II.

   In 1950 Scientists at the University Of California create a new radioactive

           element, which they name "californium."

   In 1958 The U.S. Navy launches the Vanguard I satellite.

   In 1966 A U.S. midget submarine locates a missing hydrogen bomb which had

           fallen off an American bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain.

   In 1969 Golda Meir becomes prime minister of Israel.

   In 1970 The U.S. casts its first veto in U.N. Security Council.

   In 1982 4 Dutch television crew members are shot and killed in El Salvador.

   In 1983 Cardinal Terence Cooke declines to receive Michael Flannery, the

           grand marshal of New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade, because of

           Flannery's support for the Irish Republican Army.

   In 1984 Two men are convicted in Fall River, MA, of raping a young woman on

           a barroom pool table as onlookers joked and cheered.

   In 1986 Prosecutors in Sweden said a man in custody had probably

           assassinated Prime Minister Olaf Palme (however, the suspect was

           cleared a month later).

   In 1988 3 people are killed when a man armed with guns and grenades attacks

           an IRA graveside service in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

   In 1988 Planeloads of U.S. soldiers arrive at Palmerola Air Base in Honduras

           in a show of strength ordered by President Ronald Reagan.

   In 1989 The Senate unanimously confirms Wyoming Congressman Dick Cheney to

           be secretary of defense following the failed nomination of former

           Texas Senator John Tower.

   In 1990 The president of Lithuania rejects a deadline set by Moscow for

           renouncing the republic's independence.

   In 1991 Allied commanders from the Gulf War hold a second round of

           cease-fire talks with Iraqi officers.

   In 1991 Millions of people vote in a landmark referendum on whether to

           preserve the splintering Soviet Union.

   In 1992 Illinois Senator Alan Dixon is defeated in his primary re-election

           bid by Carol Mosely-Braun, who went on to become the first black

           woman in the U.S. Senate.

   In 1992 28 people are killed in a truck bombing of the Israeli embassy in

           Buenos Aires, Argentina.

   In 1993 Helen Hayes, the "First Lady of American Theater," dies at age 92.

   In 1995 The federal government approves the nation's first chicken pox

           vaccine, Varivax.

   In 1996 In Dunblane, Scotland, Queen Elizabeth II arrives with flowers and

           sympathy as residents paused in silence to mourn 16 murdered

           children and their teacher.

   In 1997 After 12 years of civil war, leftists in El Salvador win control of

           capital in a mayoral election.

   In 1997 Anthony Lake asks President Clinton to withdraw his nomination to be

           CIA director, saying the partisan confirmation process had "gone

           haywire."

   In 1998 Washington Mutual agrees to buy H.F. Ahmanson & Co. for $9.9

           billion, creating nation's seventh-largest banking company.

   In 2001 OPEC reduces it official output by 4 percent, or 1 million barrels

           of oil a day, in an effort to halt a recent slide in oil prices.

   In 2003 Edging to the brink of war, President Bush gives Saddam Hussein 48

           hours to leave his country and told Americans that military

           confrontation will ultimately make them safer.

   In 2016 St. Patrick's Day.