1531 – Henry VIII recognised as supreme head of Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury
1702 – Anne became the last Stuart monarch of Great Britain, having earlier acquiesced to the Act of Settlement of 1701, which designated as her successors the Hanoverian descendants of King James I.
1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded
1867 – British North America Act is passed in the House of Commons, serves as Canada’s constitution for more than 100 years
1917 – Russian “February Revolution” begins in earnest with protests celebrating International Woman’s Day and riots in St Petersburg over food rations and conduct of the war.
1948 – US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional.
1957 – Following Israel’s withdrawal from occupied Egyptian territory, the Suez Canal is reopened to international traffic.
1973 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army undertakes its first operation in Great Britain, planting four car bombs in London; 10 members of PIRA are arrested at Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the country
1983 – House Foreign Affairs Com endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR
1986 – 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon
1987 – FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in California
1993 – Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion 2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq’s Governing Council after the invasion and occupation by American-led forces
2012 – Greece secures debt-restructuring deal with private lenders
2012 – Toyota recalls 700,000 vehicles over safety concerns
2013 – North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea
2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries
2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, loses contact with air traffic control less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur then veers off course and disappears.
2017 – Malta’s famous landmark the Azure Window collapses into the sea after a storm
2017 – Aboriginal DNA study by University of Adelaide shows Aboriginal population dates back 50,000 years from one migration
2018 – US President Donald Trump authorizes tariffs on steel and aluminium, excluding Canada and Mexico
2020 – Italy announces it is locking down northern region of Lombardy, including Milan, with 16 million people, as COVID-19 cases reach 5,800 with 233 deaths
2020 – America registers 521 cases of COVID-19 with 21 deaths across 33 states
Film: 1993 – the Music Television Network (MTV) airs the first episode of the animated series Beavis and Butthead, which will go on to become the network’s highest-rated series up to that point. 1996 -“Fargo” directed and written by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring Frances McDormand, William H. Macy and Steve Buscemi released in the US.
Music:
1902 – 1st performance of Jean Sibelius’ 2nd Symphony, his most popular, by the Helsinki Philharmonic Society.
Sports: 2019 – US national women’s soccer team sue for equal pay by filing a federal gender discrimination lawsuit against United States Soccer Federation
