1900<\/strong> – In South Africa, British Gen. Roberts took Bloemfontein.<\/p>\n 1901<\/strong> – Andrew Carnegie announced that he was retiring from business and that he would spend the rest of his days giving away his fortune. His net worth was estimated at $300 million.<\/p>\n 1902<\/strong> – In Poland, schools were shut down across the country when students refused to sing the Russian hymn “God Protect the Czar.”<\/p>\n 1902<\/strong> – Andrew Carnegie approved 40 applications from libraries for donations.<\/p>\n 1908<\/strong> – The people of Jerusalem saw an automobile for the first time. The owner was Charles Glidden of Boston.<\/p>\n 1911<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court approved corporate tax law.<\/p>\n 1915<\/strong> – The Germans repelled a British expeditionary force attack in France.<\/p>\n 1918<\/strong> – Women were scheduled to march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York due to a shortage of men due to wartime.<\/p>\n 1925<\/strong> – A law in Tennessee prohibited the teaching of evolution.<\/p>\n 1930<\/strong> – It was announced that the planet Pluto had been discovered by scientist Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – U.S. banks began to re-open after a “holiday” that had been declared by President Roosevelt.<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong> – Three-thousand-year-old archives were found in Jerusalem confirming some biblical history.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – The war between Russia and Finland ended with the signing of a treaty in Moscow.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – Adolf Hitler issued an edict calling for an invasion of the U.S.S.R.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps became the first woman colonel in the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> – Japanese forces ended their attack on the American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – Reports from Iran indicated that Soviet tanks units were stationed 20 miles from Tehran.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – Premier Tito seized wartime collaborator General Draja Mikhailovich in a cave in Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – Israel demanded $1.5 billion in German reparations for the cost of caring for war refugees.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – The comic strip “Dennis the Menace” appeared for the first time in newspapers across the country.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> – Jimmy Hoffa was arrested by the FBI on bribery charges.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – China invited Soviet President Khrushchev to visit Peking.<\/p>\n 1969<\/strong> – The Apollo 9 astronauts returned to Earth after the conclusion of a mission that included the successful testing of the Lunar Module.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – Cambodia ordered Hanoi and Viet Cong troops to leave.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – Digital Equipment Corp. introduced the PDP-11 minicomputer.<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> – “The Merv Griffin Show” debuted in syndication for Metromedia Television.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – The U.S. Senate voted 54-33 to restore the death penalty.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – An embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries was lifted.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – A jury in Winamac, IN, found Ford Motor Company innocent of reckless homicide in the deaths of three young women that had been riding in a Ford Pinto.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – The board of trustees off Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, chose I. King Jordan to be its first deaf president. The college is a liberal arts college for the hearing-impaired.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The U.S. lifted economic sanctions against Nicaragua.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – Exxon paid $1 billion in fines and for the clean-up of the Alaskan oil spill.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – The first United Nations World Summit on Social Development concluded in Copenhagen, Denmark.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Sister Nirmala was chosen by India’s Missionaries of Charity to succeed Mother Teresa as leader of the Catholic order.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – Fox aired “Celebrity Boxing.” Tonya Harding beat Paula Jones, Danny Bonaduce beat Barry Williams and Todd Bridges defeated Vanilla Ice.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – Japan sent a destroyer to the Sea of Japan amid reports that North Korea was planning to test an intermediate-range ballistic missile.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – A report in the journal “Nature” reported that scientists had found 350,000-year-old human footprints in Italy. 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