1507: Cesare Borgia died while fighting alongside his brother, the king of Navarre in Spain.
1609: The Bermuda Islands became an English colony.
1664: New Jersey became a British colony. King Charles II granted land in the New World to his brother James (The Duke of York).
1755: In North Arlington, NJ, the steam engine was used for the first time.
1789: The U.S. Post Office was established.
1809: Britain signed a treaty with Persia forcing the French to leave the country.
1857: "Simon Boccanegra" by Verdi debuted in Venice.
1884: The State of Mississippi authorized the first state-supported college for women. It was called the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College.
1863: President Jefferson Davis delivered his State of the Confederacy address.
1879: The British Zulu War began.
1889: Almon B. Stowger applied for a patent for his automatic telephone system.
1894: Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time.
1903: The Czar of Russia issued a decree providing for nominal freedom of religion throughout his territory.
1904: After 30 years of drilling, the tunnel under the Hudson River was completed. The link was between Jersey City, NJ, and New York, NY.
1905: In Rome, Premier Giovanni Giolliwas forced out of office by continued civil strife.
1906: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations must yield incriminating evidence in anti-trust suits.
1909: The British Parliament increased naval appropriations for Britain.
1909: Three U.S. warships were ordered to Nicaragua to stem the conflict with El Salvador.
1911: Dr. Fletcher of Rockefeller Institute discovered the cause of infantile paralysis.
1912: The Girl Scout organization was founded. The original name was Girl Guides.
1923: Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrated phonofilm. It was his technique for putting sound on motion picture film.
1930: Ghandi began his 200-mile march to the sea that symbolized his defiance of British rule over India.
1933: President Paul von Hindenburg dropped the flag of the German Republic and ordered that the swastika and empire banner be flown side by side.
1933: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt presented his first presidential address to the nation. It was the first of the "Fireside Chats."
1935: Parimutuel betting became legal in the State of Nebraska.
1938: The "Anschluss" took place as German troops entered Austria.
1940: Finland surrendered to Russia ending the Russo-Finnish War.
1944: Britain barred all travel to Ireland.
1947: U.S. President Truman established the "Truman Doctrine" to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism.
1959: The U.S. House joined the U.S. Senate in approving the statehood of Hawaii.
1966: Bobby Hull, of the Chicago Blackhawks, became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 51 points in a single season.
1974: "Wonder Woman" debuted on ABC-TV. The show later went to CBS-TV.
1980: In Chicago, IL, a jury found John Wayne Gacy Jr. guilty of the murders of 33 men and boys.
1984: Lebanese President Gemayel opened the second meeting in five years calling for the end to nine-years of war.
1985: The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. began arms control talks in Geneva.
1985: Larry Bird, of the NBA’s Boston Celtics, scored a club-record 60 points against the Atlanta Hawks.
1985: Former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announced that he planned to drop Secret Service protection and hire his own bodyguards in an effort to lower the deficit by $3 million.
1987: "Les Miserables" opened on Broadway.
1989: Prime Minister Sadiq al Mahdi of Sudan formed a new cabinet to end civil war.
1989: About 2,500 veterans and supporters marched at the Art Institute of Chicago to demand that officials remove an American flag placed on the floor as part of an exhibit.
1992: Mauritius became a republic but remained a member of the British Commonwealth.
1993: In the U.S., the Pentagon called for the closure of 31 major military bases.
1993: Several bombs were set of in Bombay, India. About 300 were killed and hundreds more were injured.
1993: Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female U.S. attorney general.
1994: A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell of the Loch Ness monster was confirmed to be a hoax. The photo was taken of a toy submarine with a head and neck attached.
1994: The Church of England ordained its first women priests.
1997: Police in Los Angeles arrested Mikail Markhasev for the shooting of Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son, Ennis. Markhasev was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
1998: Astronomers cancelled a warning that a mile-wide asteroid might collide with Earth saying that calculations had been off by 600,000 miles.
1999: Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic became members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). All three countries were members of the former Warsaw Pact.
2002: In Houston, Andrea Yates was convicted of murdering her five children in the family bathtub.
2002: U.S. homeland security chief Tom Ridge unveiled a color-coded system for terror warnings.
2002: Conoco and Phillips Petroleum stockholders approved a proposed merger worth $15.6 billion.
2003: In Utah, Elizabeth Smart was reunited with her family nine months after she was abducted from her home. She had been taken on June 5, 2002, by a drifter that had previously worked at the Smart home.
2003: In Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro, Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was assassinated as he walked into government headquarters. Djindjic had helped to topple Slobodan Milosevic and had declared war on organized crime.
2003: The U.S. Air Force announced that it would resume reconnaissance flights off the coast of North Korea. The flights had stopped on March 2 after an encounter with four armed North Korean jets.
2004: In Spain, millions of people marched to protest train bombings in Madrid that killed 191 people the day before.
2009: It was announced that the Sear Tower in Chicago, IL, would be renamed Willis Tower.
