874 - The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople.
1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
1639 - Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
1781 - William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1881 - Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
1900 - Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
1920 - The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
1933 - Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
1940 - The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
1943 - The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
1957 - Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
1988 - The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
1997 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
2008 - Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
2013 - The Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was named as the new pontiff: his new name is Francesco I (Francis I).
Famous Birthdays
1615 - Pope Innocent XII
1741 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
1764 - Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1798 - Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States
1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction author and founder of Scientology
1940 - Candi Staton, singer
1948 - Robert S. Woods, actor
1960 - Adam Clayton, bassist
1975 - Chris Ashworth, actor
1984 - Rachael Bella, actress
1989 - Harry Melling, actor
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