Events Pre-1600 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius. 681 – The Third Council of Constantinople deposes patriarch Macarius I of Antioch. 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen is elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin. 1277 – The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of various philosophical and theological theses. 1573 – A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
1601–1900 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. 1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne. 1826 – Shrigley abduction: 15-year old Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future figure in the establishment of colonies in South Australia and New Zealand. 1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
1901–present 1902 – Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, defeat the British at the Battle of Tweebosch. 1921 – The short-lived socialist Labin Republic is proclaimed. 1931 – The Parliament House of Finland is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland. 1941 – World War II: Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace. 1945 – World War II: The American 9th Armored Division unexpectedly captures an intact bridge over the Rhine. 1951 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307 crashes in Lynnhurst, Minneapolis, killing 15 people. 1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces. 1951 – Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, outside a mosque in Tehran. 1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. 1965 – Aeroflot Flight 542 crashes in the Yermakovsky District, killing all 31 aboard. 1971 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka. 1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor. 1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. 2006 – The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India. 2007 – Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. 2007 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people. 2009 – Massereene Barracks shooting: The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles. 2021 – At least 108 die and 615 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea. 2024 – Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member. 2024 – Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust, the first time someone has been found guilty for causing a death on a movie set.
Births
Pre-1600 189 – Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor (died 211) 1556 – Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (died 1621)
1601–1900 1671 – Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw (died 1734) 1678 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Superga (died 1736) 1693 – Clement XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1769) 1715 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German soldier and poet (died 1759) 1730 – Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French soldier and politician (died 1807) 1765 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography (died 1833) 1785 – Alessandro Manzoni, Italian author and poet (died 1873) 1792 – John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1871) 1811 – Increase A. Lapham, American scientist (died 1875) 1837 – Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (died 1882) 1839 – Ludwig Mond, German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (died 1909) 1841 – William Rockhill Nelson, American businessman and publisher, founded The Kansas City Star (died 1915) 1843 – Marriott Henry Brosius, American senator (died 1901) 1849 – Luther Burbank, American botanist (died 1926) 1850 – Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 1921) 1850 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (died 1937) 1857 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940) 1858 – Cecilie Thoresen Krog, Norwegian women's rights pioneer (died 1911) 1872 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (died 1944) 1875 – Maurice Ravel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1937) 1885 – Milton Avery, American painter (died 1965) 1885 – John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, English admiral (died 1971) 1886 – Virginia Pearson, American actress (died 1958) 1886 – G. I. Taylor, English mathematician and physicist (died 1975) 1886 – Wilson Dallam Wallis, American anthropologist (died 1970) 1888 – William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-American journalist (died 1977) 1895 – Dorothy de Rothschild, English philanthropist and activist (died 1988)
1901–present 1902 – Heinz Rühmann, German actor (died 1994) 1903 – Maud Lewis, Canadian folk artist (died 1970) 1904 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (died 1969) 1904 – Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer and a principle architect of the Holocaust (died 1942) 1904 – Kurt Weitzmann, German-American historian and author (died 1993) 1908 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (died 1973) 1915 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 2000) 1917 – Janet Collins, American ballerina and choreographer (died 2003) 1917 – Betty Holberton, American engineer and programmer (died 2001) 1922 – Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician and academic (died 2004) 1922 – Peter Murphy, English footballer (died 1975) 1922 – Andy Phillip, American basketball player and coach (died 2001) 1925 – Richard Vernon, British actor (died 1997) 1927 – James Broderick, American actor and director (died 1982) 1929 – Dan Jacobson, South African-English author and critic (died 2014) 1930 – Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer and politician (died 2017) 1930 – Robert Trotter, Scottish actor and photographer (died 2013) 1933 – Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and accountant (died 1998) 1933 – Ed Bouchee, American baseball player (died 2013) 1934 – Nari Contractor, Indian cricketer 1934 – Gray Morrow, American illustrator and comic book artist (died 2002) 1934 – Willard Scott, American television personality and actor (died 2021) 1936 – Georges Perec, French author (died 1982) 1938 – David Baltimore, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025) 1938 – Janet Guthrie, American race car driver 1940 – Daniel J. Travanti, American actor 1942 – Michael Eisner, American businessman 1942 – Tammy Faye Messner, American evangelist, television personality, and talk show host (died 2007) 1943 – Billy MacMillan, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2023) 1943 – Chris White, English singer-songwriter and bass player 1944 – Ranulph Fiennes, English soldier and explorer 1944 – Townes Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1997) 1945 – Bob Herbert, American journalist 1945 – Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 2006) 1945 – Elizabeth Moon, American author 1946 – Matthew Fisher, English musician, songwriter, and producer 1946 – John Heard, American actor and producer (died 2017) 1946 – Peter Wolf, American singer-songwriter and musician 1947 – Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (died 2013) 1950 – Billy Joe DuPree, American football player 1950 – Franco Harris, American football player and businessman (died 2022) 1950 – J. R. Richard, American baseball player and minister (died 2021) 1952 – William Boyd, British author and screenwriter 1952 – Ernie Isley, American guitarist and songwriter 1952 – Viv Richards, Antiguan cricketer 1952 – Lynn Swann, American football player, sportscaster, and politician 1954 – Eva Brunne, Swedish bishop 1956 – Bryan Cranston, American actor, director, and producer 1956 – Andrea Levy, English author (died 2019) 1957 – Robert Harris, English journalist and author 1957 – Mark Richards, Australian surfer 1958 – Rick Bass, American author and environmentalist 1958 – Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2014) 1958 – Merv Neagle, Australian footballer and coach (died 2012) 1959 – Tom Lehman, American golfer 1959 – Donna Murphy, American actress and singer 1959 – Nick Searcy, American actor 1960 – Joe Carter, American baseball player 1960 – Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player and coach 1960 – Jim Spivey, American runner and coach 1961 – Mary Beth Evans, American actress 1962 – Taylor Dayne, American singer-songwriter and actress 1963 – Mike Eagles, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1963 – E. L. James, English author 1964 – Bret Easton Ellis, American author and screenwriter 1964 – Wanda Sykes, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter 1965 – Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer 1966 – Terry Carkner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1966 – Jeff Feagles, American football player 1967 – Zheng Haixia, Chinese basketball player and coach 1967 – Ruthie Henshall, English actress, singer, and dancer 1968 – Jeff Kent, American baseball player 1969 – Brian Jamieson 1970 – Rachel Weisz, English actress 1971 – Tal Banin, Israeli footballer and managerBob Wechsler (2008). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History 1971 – Peter Sarsgaard, American actor 1971 – Matthew Vaughn, English director and producer 1972 – Craig Polla-Mounter, Australian rugby league player 1973 – Jason Bright, Australian race car driver 1973 – Jay Duplass, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1973 – Sébastien Izambard, French tenor and producer 1974 – Jenna Fischer, American actress 1974 – Tobias Menzies, English actor 1974 – Facundo Sava, Argentine footballer and manager 1975 – Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress and model 1975 – T. J. Thyne, American actor 1977 – Paul Cattermole, English singer and actor (died 2023) 1977 – Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player and coach 1979 – Rodrigo Braña, Argentine footballer 1980 – Eric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player 1980 – Laura Prepon, American actress 1983 – Manucho, Angolan footballer 1984 – Steve Burtt Jr., American-Ukrainian basketball player 1984 – Mathieu Flamini, French footballer 1984 – Jacob Lillyman, Australian rugby league player 1984 – Brandon T. Jackson, American actor and comedian 1985 – Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer 1986 – Ryan Ciminelli, American bowler 1987 – Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player 1990 – Jeff Withey, American basketball player 1991 – Ian Clark, American basketball player 1992 – Bel Powley, English actress 1994 – Chase Kalisz, American swimmer 1994 – Jake Layman, American basketball player 1994 – Jordan Pickford, English footballer 1995 – Jerome Binnom-Williams, English footballer 1995 – Aboubakar Kamara, French footballer