1888 Natural gas discovered in Kingsville Ontario,by well drillers

1894 G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 minutes

1897 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" (BG)

1902 Winnipeg Victorias sweep Toronto Wellingtons in 2 for the Stanley Cup

1907 Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes first Native American US senator

1907 Charles Curtis, the first Native American to become a U.S. senator, begins serving his term. (Twenty-two years later, Curtis resigned to become Vice President of the U.S. with President Herbert Hoover's administration.)

1908 US &Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo

1909 The first radio rescue at sea

1912 The Aermore Manufacturing Company, a Chicago concern, received a patent for the Aermore Exhaust Horn, a multiple-pipe horn powered by engine exhaust that played a chord like a church organ.

1916 Temp falls from 44ºF (7ºC) to -56ºF (49ºC) night of 23-24, Browning MT

1918 Stellarton, Nova Scotia a coal gas explosion kills eighty-eight men in the Allan Shaft at Stellarton

1920 Dutch government refuses to turn over ex-Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to the allies

1922 At Toronto General Hospital, 14-year-old Canadian Leonard Thompson became the first person to receive an insulin injection as treatment for diabetes.

1923 Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)

1924 Ramsey MacDonald forms first Labour government in Britain

1930 Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto

1930 George Washington Birthplace National Monument VA established

1932 El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers

1932 New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt announces his candidacy for U.S. President on the Democratic party ticket.

1933 20th amendment changes date of Presidential Inaugurations to 1/20

1935 Iroquois Falls Ontario the thermometer hits -60C, the lowest temperature ever recorded in Ontario.

1936 Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curaçao forms

1937 Karl Radek &16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge

1940 Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile

1941 German prisoner of war Franz von Werra escapes from a train and makes it back to Germany, only to die in action a year later; the only German POW to make a successful escape in Canada.

1941 Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center

1942 Japanese capture Rabaul, New Guinea

1942 Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain

1942 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army

1943 British 8th army marches into Tripoli

1943 Detroit Red Wings scores NHL record 8 goals in 1 period

1943 Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured

1945 Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation

1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes first director of CIA

1948 Bradman scores 201 in 272 minutes vs India, 21 fours 1 six

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