Ohio became the 17th U.S. state, 1803.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American sculptor, born 1848.
Nebraska became the 37th U.S. state, 1867.
Sam Houston, American political leader, born 1793.
Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer, born 1824.
Carl Schurz, American political leader, born 1829.
Hina-Matsuri (Doll Festival, also known as Girls' Day), Japan.
Missouri Compromise passed by U.S. Congress, 1820.
George Pullman, American inventor and businessman, born 1831.
William Penn received grant of Pennsylvania, 1681.
The first Congress under the U.S. Constitution met, 1789. This date was used as Inauguration Day until 1937.
Vermont became the 14th U.S. state, 1791.
Gerardus Mercator, Flemish geographer, born 1512.
British soldiers fired on rioters in the Boston Massacre, 1770.
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer, born 1887.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist, born 1475.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet, born 1806.
Mexican general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna captured the Alamo, 1836.
Luther Burbank, American horticulturist, born 1849.
Tomas Masaryk, cofounder of Czechoslovakia, born 1850.
Maurice Ravel, French composer, born 1875.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, born 1841.


Naval battle between Monitor and Merrimack, American Civil War, 1862.


Arthur Honegger, French composer, born 1892.


Torquato Tasso, Italian poet, born 1544.


William Mackenzie, Canadian politician, born 1795.
Sir John J. C. Abbott, prime minister of Canada, born 1821.
Clement Studebaker, American manufacturer, born 1831.
Joseph Priestley, English chemist, born 1733.
Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss author, born 1781.

Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, 1794.
Johann Strauss, Sr., Austrian composer, born 1804.
Albert Einstein, German American physicist, born 1879.

Julius Caesar assassinated, 44 B.C.
Andrew Jackson, seventh U.S. president, born 1767.
Maine became the 23rd U.S. state, 1820.
James Madison, fourth U.S. president, born 1751.
Georg S. Ohm, German physicist, born 1787.
United States Military Academy founded at West Point, New York, in 1802.
St. Patrick's Day.
The British evacuated Boston, American Revolution, 1776.

John C. Calhoun, American statesman, born 1782.
Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th U.S. president, born 1837.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer, born 1844.
David Livingstone, British explorer, born 1813.
William Jennings Bryan, American political leader, born 1860.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge opened in Australia, 1932.
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian poet and dramatist, born 1828.
Tunisia became independent, 1956.

Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer, born 1685.
Benito Juarez, Mexican political leader, born 1806.
Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer, born 1839.
Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter, born 1599.
Randolph Caldecott, English illustrator, born 1846.
Robert Millikan, American physicist, born 1868.
Pierre Laplace, French astronomer and mathematician, born 1749.
According to tradition, American political leader Patrick Henry declared \"Give me liberty, or give me death!\" 1775.
Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and Nobel Prize winner in literature, born 1881.

William Morris, English poet and artist, born 1834.


Colonists sent by Lord Baltimore (Cecilius Calvert) landed in Maryland, 1634.
British Parliament abolished the slave trade, 1807.
Greece declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire, 1821.
A. E. Housman, English poet, born 1859.
Robert Frost, American poet, born 1874.
James Conant, American educator, born 1893.
Louis XVII of France, born 1785.
Wilhelm Roentgen, German physicist, born 1845.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect, born in Germany in 1886.
Aristide Briand, French statesman, born 1862.


John Tyler, 10th U.S. president, born 1790.
Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the British North America Act, 1867.
Cy Young, American baseball player, born 1867.
Francisco Goya, Spanish painter, born 1746.
Treaty of Paris ended the Crimean War, 1856.
United States purchased Alaska from Russia, 1867.
Rene Descartes, French philosopher, born 1596.
Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer, born 1732.
Commodore Matthew C. Perry negotiated the first treaty between the United States and Japan, 1854.
